Glass Wings Blog: AI
1 trillion species, 3 billion years: how we used AI to trace the evolution of bacteria on Earth
A backlash against AI imagery in ads may have begun as brands promote ‘human-made’
‘A fork in the road’: laundry-sorting robot spurs AI hopes and fears at Europe’s biggest tech event
A real issue: video game developers are being accused of using AI – even when they aren’t
A weird phrase is plaguing scientific papers – and we traced it back to a glitch in AI training data
The abject weirdness of AI ads
The AEC wants to stop AI and misinformation. But it’s up against a problem that is deep and dark
Agents, Authors Question HarperCollins AI Deal
‘AI agents’ promise to arrange your finances, do your taxes, book your holidays – and put us all at risk
AI, Automation, Ritual, and Process in Art
The AI boom feels eerily similar to 2000’s dotcom crash – with some important differences
The AI boyfriend ticking time bomb
The AI Bubble Is About To Burst, But The Next Bubble Is Already Growing
The AI Bubble Is Far Worse Than We Thought
The AI Bubble Is On The Verge Of Bursting
The AI bubble is the only thing keeping the US economy together, Deutsche Bank warns
AI can be a powerful tool for scientists. But it can also fuel research misconduct
AI chatbots are encouraging conspiracy theories – new research
AI chatbots oversimplify scientific studies and gloss over critical details — the newest models are especially guilty
AI coders think they’re 20% faster — but they’re actually 19% slower
AI Crawlers Are Harming Wikimedia, Bringing Open Source Sites To Their Knees, And Putting The Open Web At Risk
AI Darwin Awards 2025 Nominees
AI for life: how sovereign Wiradyuri ways of knowing can transform technology for good
AI free from bias and ideology is a fantasy – humans can’t organise data without distorting reality
AI generated approach to protecting nature opens a big, anti-renewables can of worms
AI gets 45% of news wrong — but readers still trust it
AI hype has just shaken up the world’s rich list. What if the boom is really a bubble?
The AI hype is just like the blockchain frenzy – here’s what happens when the hype dies
AI is beating doctors at empathy – because we’ve turned doctors into robots
AI is for the birds: How machine learning can help predict and manage avian flu outbreaks
AI is inherently ageist. That’s not just unethical – it can be costly for workers and businesses
AI Is Making Many People Rethink Copyright
AI is moving fast. Climate policy provides valuable lessons for how to keep it in check
AI is now used for audio description. But it should be accurate and actually useful for people with low vision
AI Is Spamming Open Source Repos With Fake Issues
AI is using your data to set personalised prices online. It could seriously backfire
AI Just Had Its *Actual* "Big Short" Moment
AI may be exposing jobseekers to discrimination. Here’s how we could better protect them
AI medical tools downplay symptoms in women and ethnic minorities
AI overviews have transformed Google search. Here’s how they work – and how to opt out
AI systems are great at tests. But how do they perform in real life?
AI: The Bad, the Worse, and the Ugly
AI therapy is a surveillance machine in a police state
AI videos are tricking tourists into visiting places that don’t exist. That’s just the beginning
AI Will Destroy Everything (But not in the way you think it will.)
AI will soon be able to audit all published research – what will that mean for public trust in science?
"AI-first" is the new Return To Office
AI-generated influencers: A new wave of cultural exploitation
AI-Generated Slop Is Already In Your Public Library
Anti-renewables group uses AI in government inquiry submissions
The apocalypse that wasn’t: AI was everywhere in 2024’s elections, but deepfakes and misinformation were only part of the picture
‘Are you joking, mate?’ AI doesn’t get sarcasm in non-American varieties of English
As AI and megaplatforms take over, the hyperlinks that built the web may face extinction
As if graduating weren’t daunting enough, now students like me face a jobs market devastated by AI
Australia is set to get more AI data centres. Local communities need to be more involved
Australian women are wary of AI being used in breast cancer screening – new research
‘Australiana’ images made by AI are racist and full of tired cliches, new study shows
Australia’s national AI plan has just been released. Who exactly will benefit?
Automated ‘Pravda’ Propaganda Network Retooled To Embed Pro-Russian Narratives Surreptitiously In Popular Chatbots
Avoiding AI is hard – but our freedom to opt out must be protected
Bank of England warns of growing risk that AI bubble could burst
Book Reports Potentially Copyright Infringing, Thanks To Court Attacks On LLMs
Botanical time machines: AI is unlocking a treasure trove of data held in herbarium collections
Businesses can’t escape the AI revolution – so here’s how to build a culture of safe and responsible use
Can an AI chatbot of Dr Karl change climate sceptics’ minds? He’s willing to give it a try
Can you say no to your doctor using an AI scribe?
Certified organic and AI-free: New stamp for human-written books launches
Chatbots won’t help anyone make weapons of mass destruction. But other AI systems just might
ChatGPT Is Blowing Up Marriages as Spouses Use AI to Attack Their Partners
The ChatGPT secret: is that text message from your friend, your lover – or a robot?
The ChatGPT Studio Ghibli Trend Weaponizes ‘Harmlessness’ to Manufacture Consent
ChatGPT-5 Just Changed My Mind — Generative AI Has No Place in My Classroom
Companies are betting on AI to help lift productivity. Workers need to be part of the process
Copyright Is The Wrong Tool To Deal With Deepfake Harms
Copyright Licensing For AI Training Won’t Make Anything “Fair”
Could a ‘grey swan’ event bring down the AI revolution? Here are 3 risks we should be preparing for
Could AI help save the planet? Four ways it’s already making a world of difference
Creative progress or mass theft? Why a major AI art auction is provoking wonder – and outrage
CSIRO posts AI-fake climate article with made-up quotes
‘Dangerous nonsense’: AI-authored books about ADHD for sale on Amazon
Did Nvidia Just Prove There Is No AI Bubble?
‘Digital colonialism’: how AI companies are following the playbook of empire
Disinformation and deepfakes played a part in the US election. Australia should expect the same
Disney and Universal vs. Midjourney: A landmark copyright fight over genAI
The dispute causing empty shelves at Woolies is a test case for companies using AI and automation on workers
Distrust in AI is on the rise – but along with healthy scepticism comes the risk of harm
Does AI really boost productivity at work? Research shows gains don’t come cheap or easy
The ‘doorman fallacy’: why careless adoption of AI backfires so easily
DragonCon ejects AI ‘artist’, to approval of all
Everyone Is Already Using AI (And Hiding It)
Evidence shows AI systems are already too much like humans. Will that be a problem?
Facebook Flooded With Agitslop Of AI Grief Farming About Charlie Kirk
Five Takeaways from the Copyright Office’s Controversial New AI Report
Forget AI-generated music, this music was composed using DNA sequences
Former Miss America’s Australian nuclear tour clouded by Chinese AI blow to her employer
From the telegraph to AI, our communications systems have always had hidden environmental costs
Gen Z faces ‘job-pocalypse’ as global firms prioritise AI over new hires, report says
Generative AI and deepfakes are fuelling health misinformation. Here’s what to look out for so you don’t get scammed
Generative AI is already being used in journalism – here’s how people feel about it
Generative AI is not a ‘calculator for words’. 5 reasons why this idea is misleading
Generative AI might end up being worthless — and that could be a good thing
The Godfather Of AI Just Called Out The Entire AI Industry
Google is going ‘all in’ on AI. It’s part of a troubling trend in big tech
Google to build new AI datacentre on tiny Australian Indian Ocean outpost after signing defence deal
GOP sneaks decade-long AI regulation ban into spending bill
The Hallucinating ChatGPT Presidency
Harnessing AI to improve eye health
The hidden legal risk in your AI workflow
Historical images made with AI recycle colonial stereotypes and bias – new research
How AI and Wikipedia have sent vulnerable languages into a doom spiral
How AI images are ‘flattening’ Indigenous cultures – creating a new form of tech colonialism
How AI is being used to create sophisticated scams that leave even experts second-guessing
How we tricked AI chatbots into creating misinformation, despite ‘safety’ measures
Humanoid workers and surveillance buggies: ‘embodied AI’ is reshaping daily life in China
Hungary’s new biometric surveillance laws violate the AI Act
‘I can’t be friends with the machine’: what audio artists working in games think of AI
‘I felt pure, unconditional love’: the people who marry their AI chatbots
I got an AI to impersonate me and teach me my own course – here’s what I learned about the future of education
I Want to Be a Teacher, Not an AI Detective
If AI is so good at coding … where are the open source contributions?
If AI takes most of our jobs, money as we know it will be over. What then?
The Illusion of Intelligence: Why LLMs Are Not the Thinking Machines We Hope For
In a lonely world, widespread AI chatbots and ‘companions’ pose unique psychological risks
Industrial-scale deepfake abuse caused a crisis in South Korean schools. Here’s how Australia can avoid the same fate
Is AI a con? A new book punctures the hype and proposes some ways to resist
Is AI sparking a cognitive revolution that will lead to mediocrity and conformity?
Is Including Hidden AI Prompts In Academic Papers Gaming The Peer Review System — Or Keeping It Honest?
Is The AI Bubble About To Pop?
I’ve got bad news for you if you use ChatGPT, Perplexity, or Gemini as your main search tool - AI web search isn't worth your time, yet
Judge Pulls Opinion Full Of AI-Style Hallucinations, But No One Is Willing To Say It Was Written By AI
LA Times Billionaire Owner Hilariously Thinks He Can Solve Media Bias With ‘AI’
Lacklustre governance renders AI nothing more than biased bots
Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory
Leaked ChatGPT Conversation Shows User Identified as Lawyer Asking How to "Displace a Small Amazonian Indigenous Community From Their Territories in Order to Build a Dam and a Hydroelectric Plant"
‘Like finding gold’: plains-wanderers spotted in Melbourne’s west for first time in 30 years with help of AI
LLMs can't stop making up software dependencies and sabotaging everything
LLMs in Scientific Research: The Error(s) of Their Ways
Local governments are using AI without clear rules or policies, and the public has no idea
Lost in the plot: how would-be authors were fooled by AI staff and virtual offices in suspected global publishing scam
Major AI conference flooded with peer reviews written fully by AI
The Majority AI View
The Media's Pivot to AI Is Not Real and Not Going to Work
Meet the AI workers who tell their friends and family to stay away from AI
Meta appoints anti-DEI and anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy theorist Robby Starbuck as AI bias advisor
Meta’s new AI chatbot is yet another tool for harvesting data to potentially sell you stuff
MIT researchers say using ChatGPT can rot your brain. The truth is a little more complicated
More people are using AI in court, not a lawyer. It could cost you money – and your case
More than half of new articles on the internet are being written by AI – is human writing headed for extinction?
Most Australian government agencies aren’t transparent about how they use AI
New attack on ChatGPT research agent pilfers secrets from Gmail inboxes
New research reveals Australian authors say no to AI using their work – even if money is on the table
Open source devs are fighting AI crawlers with cleverness and vengeance
OpenAI featured chatbot is pushing extreme surgeries to “subhuman” men
OpenAI Is Getting Utterly Desperate
OpenAI slipped shopping into 800 million ChatGPT users’ chats − here’s why that matters
OpenAI’s Atlas browser promises ultimate convenience. But the glossy marketing masks safety risks
OpenAI’s new ‘deep research’ agent is still just a fallible tool – not a human-level expert
Our new study found AI is wreaking havoc on uni assessments. Here’s how we should respond
People are using AI to talk to God
People interviewed by AI for jobs face discrimination risks, Australian study warns
Politicians are pushing AI as a quick fix to Australia’s housing crisis. They’re risking another Robodebt
Queensland anti-renewables group cited nonexistent papers in inquiry submissions using AI, publisher says
The real (economic) AI apocalypse is nigh
Regrets: Actors who sold AI avatars stuck in Black Mirror-esque dystopia
Research: Executives Who Used Gen AI Made Worse Predictions
Researchers created a chatbot to help teach a university law class – but the AI kept messing up
Researchers jailbreak AI robots to run over pedestrians, place bombs for maximum damage, and covertly spy
Rise of AI and loneliness drives demand for robot pets
Robots and AI are helping Australia achieve its ambition of game-changing ultra low cost solar
Sam Altman’s AI Empire Relies on Brutal Labor Exploitation
Saudi Arabia has big AI ambitions. They could come at the cost of human rights
Senior lawyer apologises after filing AI-generated submissions in Victorian murder case
‘Shit in, shit out’: AI is coming for agriculture, but farmers aren’t convinced
Slop Farmer Boasts About How He Uses AI to Flood Social Media With Garbage to Trick Older Women
Smaller brains? Fewer friends? An evolutionary biologist asks how AI will change humanity’s future
Some Reddit users just love to disagree, new AI-powered troll-spotting algorithm finds
Spotify continues to change music. What’s next – will AI musicians replace music made by humans?
Stanford Study: ‘AI’ Generated ‘Workslop’ Actually Making Productivity Worse
stopping AI from taking your job by taking AI's job
Study: AI Models Trained On Clickbait Slop Result In AI ‘Brain Rot,’ ‘Hostility’
Tackling The AI Bots That Threaten To Overwhelm The Open Web
Tech companies claim AI can recognise human emotions. But the science doesn’t stack up
Teenagers struggle to tell if videos are real or fake as AI floods social media
Today’s AI hype has echoes of a devastating technology boom and bust 100 years ago
‘Tone deaf’: US tech company responsible for global IT outage to cut jobs and use AI
Tow Center Study Again Shows “AI” Sucks At Conveying Accurate News
The TsunamAI: are our systems ready for the coming flood of vexatious AI?
Understanding the ‘Slopocene’: how the failures of AI can reveal its inner workings
Universal Music went from suing an AI company to partnering with it. What will it mean for artists?
The unspoken rule of conversation that explains why AI chatbots feel so human
‘Vague, confusing, and did nothing to improve my work’: how AI can undermine peer review
The Vanishing Middle: Scott Santens on UBI, AI, and America’s Unfinished Awakening
Vibe nuclear — let’s use AI shortcuts on reactor safety!
WA lawyer referred to regulator after preparing documents with AI-generated citations for nonexistent cases
“Wait, not like that”: Free and open access in the age of generative AI
‘We want our stories to be told’: NSW Labor pledges $3.2m to support writing and literature amid AI onslaught
What 2,000 years of Chinese history reveals about today’s AI-driven technology panic – and the future of inequality
What AI doesn’t know: we could be creating a global ‘knowledge collapse’
What Could Go Right? AI Triples Stroke Recovery Rates
What is AI poisoning? A computer scientist explains
What makes a good search engine? These 4 models can help you use search in the age of AI
When AI Detectors Do More Harm Than Good
Whoops! Microsoft’s new Windows AI agent platform lets in malware
Why do AI company logos look like buttholes?
Why Generative AI’s Lack Of Modularity Means It Can’t Be Meaningfully Open, Is Unreliable, And Is A Technological Dead End
Why OpenAI’s solution to AI hallucinations would kill ChatGPT tomorrow
Why Powerful But Hard To Detect Backdoors Could Become A Routine Problem For Open Source Projects Because Of AI
Why “vibe physics” is the ultimate example of AI slop
Why We Don’t Know AI's True Water Footprint
Will AI pull the career ladder up out of reach – or just change what it looks like?
With AI chatbots, Big Tech is moving fast and breaking people
You Have No Idea How Screwed OpenAI Actually Is
You Have No Idea How Screwed OpenAI Is
Your bank is already using AI. But what’s coming next could be radically new
YouTube’s AI editing scandal reveals how reality can be manipulated without our consent
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