Saturday, May 16, 2026

China Arrests Man Over Release of ChatGPT-Generated Fake News

Today in that’s-probably-not-how-you-use-artificial-intelligence, a man in China has been arrested for reportedly using ChatGPT to create a fake story about a train crash, Reuters reports.  The perpetrator, identified only as a man from the Gansu province with the surname Hong, allegedly edited the news story generated by ChatGPT and then uploaded it to the Baidu-owned […]

CBC Returns to Twitter, Says It Will Resume Posting for Some of Its Accounts

CBC-Radio Canada announced on Tuesday that the network, on “a handful of Twitter accounts,” will resume activity after it left the platform less than a month ago when it received the “Government-funded Media” label. “Today, we will resume some activity on a handful of umbrella Twitter accounts, including @CBCNews, but we will significantly reduce our […]

Fox News Wants to Know Who’s Leaking Tucker Carlson’s Messages

Fox News has asked Dominion Voting Systems to look into whether they leaked internal messages from fired host Tucker Carlson that were used as evidence in the defamation lawsuit that was settled by the network for $787.5 million.  The messages contained racist and sexist remarks by Carlson, which multiple news outlets had reported. Fox News […]

Are Hard-Working Content-Farmers being replaced by AI?

And what effect could the monoculture they create have on our information supply? Our last episode kicked off with a tweet tweeted by Deep Dive recurring character Gurgavin, who yelled: We discussed this curious treatment of an assertion that IBM made to Bloomberg, and how its re-cycling through the media and content environment suits IBM […]

Republicans Aren’t Happy About the Current State of Oil Reserves

Republican lawmakers have asked the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to evaluate the Department of Energy’s (DOE) management of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) after the Biden administration conducted record sales of 250 million barrels from the facility last year.  Senator John Barrasso, ranking member of the Senate energy committee, and Representative Cathy McMorris Rodgers, head […]

Ron DeSantis vs. Disney: A Battle for Control in Florida

Welcome, folks, to another exciting episode of politicians chasing clout by fighting wokeness. Today, we’re zooming in on Florida, where Governor Ron DeSantis has been busy trying to shake up Mickey Mouses Club House. With a bizarre high stakes game of, let’s piss off the engine of our economy in the name of stopping kids […]

Amazon to Pay Some Customers Who Choose to Pick Up Their Orders

After decades of setting the standard for instant gratification in home deliveries, Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN) is offering to pay shoppers $10 to pick up their own orders. The e-commerce giant has been finding ways to cut costs after a slump in consumer demand. But the company has claimed that the promotion, which was launched in […]

Nikola Widens Losses In Q1 2023, Mulls Restructuring Plans

Nikola Corp (Nasdaq: NKLA) posted a larger quarterly loss on Tuesday and said it would halt production at its Coolidge, Arizona, factory to streamline the assembly line due to slow demand for its battery-powered trucks. The company announced it would increase its cost-cutting efforts and will only produce battery electric trucks on demand, sending its […]

Tucker Carlson Brings His Show To Twitter, And Elon Musk Says He Didn’t Sign A Deal

Tucker Carlson, former Fox News personality, has announced that he will bring a “new version” of his top-rated show to Twitter. “Starting soon, we’ll be bringing a new version of the show we’ve been doing for the last six-and-a-half years to Twitter,” Carlson announced. Carlson made the announcement in a Twitter video in which he railed […]

DiagnaMed Launches Division For Generative AI Healthcare Applications

FULL DISCLOSURE: This is sponsored content for DiagnaMed Holdings. A new division has been established by DiagnaMed Holdings (CSE: DMED) to focus on the development and commercialization of generative AI. Referred to as Health GenAI, the division is set to host a suite of products driven by GPT-4. The goal of Health GenAI is to support […]