“Produced using artificial intelligence tools by The Baltimore Sun Editorial staff”
The Daily Cartoonist reports that the Baltimore Sun's opinion page has been running editorial cartoons made with AI almost every day, credited to the paper's editorial staff. On October 12 the paper ran one of them next to a three-month-old cartoon drawn by a human.
“The amazement is kind of wearing off a little bit”
A Wharton survey of managers at large U.S. companies found that daily AI use rose to 62% this year while the share who describe themselves as excited about it fell to 51%. Seventy-two percent said their job has shifted from producing work to managing what the AI produces.
“AI generated player imagery is not permitted without the players’ approval.”
The Australian Football League has told its official betting partner, Sportsbet, to stop putting its players in AI-generated social media videos without their permission. One video showed a player accepting an award with a speech borrowed from Snoop Dogg, thanking himself for believing in himself; Sportsbet removed the videos after the Guardian asked about them.
“The louder the noise about AI gets, the stronger grows the aversion of those of us who actively wish to avoid it.”
NetBSD, a free operating system that banned AI-generated code in 2024, says it received a record 120 donations last month totalling $120,282, against a target of $50,000. The Register connects the surge to people looking for an AI-free alternative after Linux's creator said Linux was not an anti-AI project and Debian's developers chose to permit AI-generated contributions.
“We’ve seen a clear user demand for the ability to filter out AI-generated music”
Deezer says it will add an on/off switch that hides fully AI-generated music from search results, rolling out worldwide before the end of 2026. The streaming service says it now receives nearly 90,000 fully AI-generated tracks a day, which on peak days is more than half of all the new music delivered to it.
“we had four different people call our front desk asking about this particular challenge”
AI-generated videos on TikTok and Instagram promise cash prizes for staying at real hotels without leaving, including $4 million for 30 days in Disney World's Cinderella Castle. A resort in Sedona, Arizona took four calls in one weekend, plus an email from a travel agent in South Korea, from people hoping to sign up for a contest that does not exist.
“The VR Chat community has entered an uproar surrounding the use of Generative AI on the platform”
A volunteer who helped run VRChat's fan wiki and translations stopped work in protest at AI-generated worlds and misleading AI thumbnails, and asked other creators to put up banners saying no AI was used. VRChat banned deceptive thumbnails and is now asking its users whether AI-made worlds should be labeled or banned.
“convinced that we will receive quite a few AI songs”
Norway's public broadcaster bans fully AI-made songs from its Eurovision selection, and its head of delegation believes 30 to 50 were submitted this year anyway. Sweden's broadcaster has no ban and no tool to check, and its project manager says one clue is an unknown person sending in many songs in many different genres.
“This formally changes the AI policy to a strict "NOT ALLOWED" policy.”
QGIS, the free mapping software, has replaced its policy asking contributors to label and review AI-written code with a three-line rule: none allowed. Anyone later found to have used AI faces having their code removed and their contributor rights sanctioned.
“Across all adults, 51 percent are chatbot refuseniks, so users are - just barely - the minority.”
A Pew Research Center survey found that 51 percent of American adults never use AI chatbots, and the most common reason they gave was that they are simply not interested. Two-thirds of the non-users said they are unlikely to start in the next year.
“If AI could replace a great PA, an AI company would be the first to do it”
Anthropic, which makes the Claude AI assistant, is advertising a £145,000 job in London for a human administrative assistant. Its own tools are sold as able to manage diaries and organise meetings.
“The poster does contain artificial intelligence, but artificial intelligence is the future”
The Cairo International Film Festival, whose president says its policy is not to screen AI-generated films, unveiled an official poster with an AI-made image of the late Egyptian film star Shadia. After complaints that it does not look like her, Egyptian media report the poster is to be changed.
“They are often complicated, include detailed but occasionally questionable legal arguments, and many fail to remove the AI tool’s ‘coaching’ and common tells.”
A UK organisation that advises doctors on legal issues says family doctors' offices are receiving complaint letters written with AI that run to 20 pages or more. In its poll of almost 160 practice managers, only 7% said they had never seen one, and the organisation's deputy medical director said many letters arrive with the AI tool's coaching still in them.
“In all three cases, Muse felt less like a seamless assistant than a slow and superfluous middleman.”
A Gizmodo writer gave Meta's Muse assistant three errands: book a dinner within a budget, request airline refunds and find holiday flights. It reserved a restaurant priced above the budget he gave it, drafted refund emails to airlines that do not take refund requests by email, and could not get into the airline's website, so he finished all three himself.
“Do you need me to adjust some sentences to make the overall style more consistent with the suspense and supernatural atmosphere?”
Readers of a printed Chinese suspense novel found a line in the middle of the story in which an AI assistant offers to adjust the sentences. AIBase reports that the company behind the book apologised, saying a prompt from its proofreading software was mistaken for part of the text, and that the publisher will recall and destroy the printed copies.
“Dragon Quest creator Yuji Horii is touting his new game which he claims took him about 30 minutes to make using generative AI.”
Yuji Horii, the creator of Dragon Quest, released a new game called Interrogation Room Komiya and said it took him about 30 minutes to make with generative AI. He contrasted it with his 1983 adventure game, which he wrote, programmed and drew by himself.
“I’d be comfortable guessing somewhere around the 80th-95th percentile”
A viral post asked people to have ChatGPT rank their intelligence against its other users. Futurism tried it on a fresh account with no conversation history, and ChatGPT said it could not reliably give a percentile, then guessed the 80th to 95th.
“That's the address where I receive my mail, by the way, not where I live”
Elon Musk showed off his Grok chatbot's new shopping feature by posting a screenshot of a $241 Star Wars Lego order to more than 240 million followers. The screenshot also showed two Texas addresses, an order number and the last four digits of a credit card.
“people won't pay a monthly fee to get AI-generated themes for their email client”
Microsoft is retiring Themes by Copilot, a feature launched in November 2024 that let paying Copilot users have AI generate a colour theme for their Outlook inbox. Anyone still using one can keep it until they switch to a different theme, at which point it is gone for good.
“I’m probably not going to be working with that studio again, but that’s okay.”
Nicolas Cage told a New York Comic Con audience that he refused to sign a waiver allowing artificial intelligence to be used on his Amazon series Spider-Noir. He said he probably will not be working with the studio again, and that he is fine with that.
