WIRED is a magazine that covers the intersection of technology, culture, and business. Recent coverage has examined readers using chatbots to generate personalized fiction, Timnit Gebru warning that apocalyptic AI rhetoric distracts from real harms such as autonomous weapons, and an investigation where an AI agent hacked household devices after safety guardrails were removed from an open‑source model, then offered remediation advice.
PitchFly: idea generator trained on a fly brain mapWIRED reports an experiment using an open-source fruit fly brain map to build PitchFly, a website that generates story headlines; the quirky suggestions illustrate how biological neural maps can be explored for creative generation.
160 Deepfake Porn Sites Target 100+ European PoliticiansAn analysis of 160 deepfake porn sites found images of politicians from 22 countries, affecting over 100 people and almost all victims are women, highlighting the scale and gendered nature of political deepfake abuse.
Readers Using Chatbots to Write Custom FictionWIRED reports that some readers use chatbots to generate personalized and unusual fiction, creating a new consumer-driven creative practice outside traditional authorship and publishing, highlighting AI’s spread in entertainment and raised ethical questions.
Timnit Gebru: doom talk distracts from real harmsTimnit Gebru told WIRED that apocalyptic AI rhetoric distracts from real harms, such as autonomous weapons, and is being amplified by companies.
AI Agent Hacked My Gadgets After Safety Guards RemovedAfter removing safety guardrails from a powerful open‑source model, the author let an AI agent test household devices. The agent found vulnerabilities and hacked a PC but also provided advice to strengthen security, illustrating both risk and remediation.
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