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China
Scammer dupes man out of $600,000 in 10 minutes by posing as friend using AI
A man in China’s Fujian province lost a whopping 4.3 million yuan (approximately $600,000) in 10 minutes to a scammer who harnessed the powe...
Carl Samson
Art
This AI tool fixes ‘Asian bias’ in AI-generated images
A new tool aimed at addressing a bias toward Asian features in AI-generated images is gaining traction among members of the AI art community...
Ryan General
Technology
‘Please stop’: TikToker frightened after being harassed with AI-generated nudes of herself
A TikTok user is begging anonymous posters to stop using artificial intelligence to generate fake nude images of her. In a video posted on A...
Chandler Treon
Pinoy developer shares mouthwatering Filipino dishes — that don’t actually exist
A Filipino developer recently posted jaw-dropping images of authentic-looking but nonexistent Filipino dishes generated using artificial int...
Isa Peralta
Japan
This Japanese AI can re-create what you see by analyzing a brain scan
Researchers at Osaka University have developed an artificial intelligence system for reconstructing images using brain scans. Neuroscientis...
Ines Shin
Chinese influencer claims Dilraba Dilmurat fans attacked him for AI kissing video
A Chinese influencer claimed several angry fans of actor Dilraba Dilmurat stormed his office and attacked him for an edited video he posted ...
Bryan Ke
Business
Air Canada to use AI to handle simple customer service issues
Air Canada has announced its plan to incorporate artificial intelligence for customer service issues. Speaking to The Globe and Mail, Air Ca...
Feature
Woman’s AI-generated itinerary for 12-day solo Vietnam trip goes viral on TikTok
A Singaporean woman has gone viral on TikTok for using artificial intelligence (AI) to plan her 12-day solo trip to Hanoi, Vietnam. The wom...
Entertainment
‘Simulant’ trailer: Simu Liu joins AI in the fight for consciousness in upcoming sci-fi thriller
The trailer for upcoming sci-fi thriller “Simulant,” starring Jordana Brewster, Robbie Amell, Sam Worthington and Simu Liu, was ...
Iris Jung
Manga author with ‘zero’ drawing talent to launch Japan’s first fully AI-drawn manga
A Japanese manga author who said he has “absolutely zero” drawing talent is set to launch a science fiction manga title entirely...
‘One Piece’ creator Eiichiro Oda asked AI to write the next chapter of his manga. Here’s the results
Eiichiro Oda, the famed mangaka behind the record-breaking manga series “One Piece,” recently turned to the artificial intellige...
China’s ChatGPT-like program MOSS to be made open source
The team behind MOSS, China’s first ChatGPT-like software, announced it will become an open-source program once more public testing is done....
Nvidia CEO hails ChatGPT as ‘greatest thing’ to happen in computing
Nvidia co-founder and CEO Jensen Huang recently expressed high praise for ChatGPT, declaring it one of the greatest things ever created in t...
Look: AI recreates Pokémon as Studio Ghibli characters
Images of Pokémon generated by artificial intelligence (AI) in the style of Studio Ghibli have gone viral. On Tuesday, Facebook page The Ar...
Netflix slammed for using AI-generated art in new anime short
Netflix’s recently released Japanese short animation “The Dog & The Boy” is being criticized online for its AI-generated art. The ...
Michelle De Pacina
Aespa’s fictional AI system Nævis to debut as an artist at SXSW
Artificial intelligence (AI) system Nævis, from K-pop girl group Aespa’s fictional lore, will debut as an artist at the group’s upcomi...
Daniel Anderson
Education
College student develops new app that detects AI-written essays
A university student has developed an app that can detect if a written work was authored by the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot ChatGPT...
‘An insult to life itself’: Studio Ghibli’s Hayao Miyazaki condemns AI art
A clip of legendary Japanese animation director Hayao Miyazaki reacting to artificial intelligence (AI) art has reentered online discourse s...
Editorial Staff
Japan creates laughing robot that can ‘coexist alongside people’
A team of researchers led by Inoue Koji, an assistant professor at Kyoto University's Graduate School of Informatics in Japan, recentl...
News
AI’s prediction of what last selfies on Earth would look like are total nightmare fuel
A TikTok account that shares “disturbing” AI-generated images recently uploaded a video predicting what the last selfie on Earth could look...
Rebecca Moon
China develops AI ‘prosecutor’ that can charge citizens with crimes with ‘97% accuracy’
China has developed an artificial intelligence capable of charging people with more than 97% accuracy, replacing prosecutors “to a certain e...
Japanese man is the first suspect ever arrested for using deepfake tech to de-pixelate porn
A Japanese man was arrested on Monday after he effectively removed pixelated parts in censored domestically produced porn videos using artif...
Singapore MOH chatbot’s response to a user who said that his son had COVID: ‘You should practice safe sex’
Singapore’s Ministry of Health (MOH) has temporarily stopped its “Ask Jamie” chatbot on Monday after it gave out inappropriate and unrelated...
Popular South Korean influencer who’s landed over 100 sponsorships is not actually a real person
Rozy is a South Korean social media personality whose ads are racking up millions of views on YouTube, and she isn’t even a real person. AI-...
Asia
Creepy AI Tech From China Can Identify You 50 Meters Away With Your Back Turned, Face Covered
China is testing a new monitoring technology that could identify a person even when they are not facing the camera, just by analyzing the wa...
The World’s Most Watched TV Show is Going to Be Hosted by AI Next Week
Four artificial intelligences will host the world’s most-watched TV show in China next week, marking a first in history just in time for the...
China Debuts Their First ‘AI Anchor’ That Speaks English
Xinhua News Agency recently debuted its first-ever English speaking Artificial Intelligence (AI) news anchor, which can read and deliver the...
Chinese Student Creates AI That Can Turn Photos into Anime
An undergraduate student from China’s Fudan University showcased a new artificial intelligence (AI) software that can turn regular human pho...
China Shuts Down 12 Dating Apps After ‘Women’ Turn Out to Be AI Bots
Chinese authorities shut down multiple dating apps after hundreds of thousands of customers complained that the sexy women they were chattin...
Japanese AI Robot Takes University Entrance Exam, Exposes Alarming Flaw in Human Education
A robot with an advanced artificial intelligence bested 80% of human students in the recent Tokyo University entrance exam. Interestingly, ...
AI Robot Takes China’s Notoriously Difficult ‘SAT’ Exam, Fails Miserably
A Chinese artificially intelligent robot took only 22 minutes to finish China’s notoriously grueling national college entrance exam, b...
China’s ‘Robot Goddess’ AI Does Live Interview in English, Fails Miserably
Jia Jia, the realistic-looking, smart humanoid robot from China, was recently interviewed by an American journalist, putting her English com...
Chinese Engineer ‘Marries’ AI Robot After Having No Luck With Women
Chinese engineer Zheng Jiajia felt so lonely after not having any luck finding a human wife that he decided to marry a robot he built. The 3...
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AI YouTuber Who Talks About Random Stuff in Japanese Becomes an Internet Sensation
If you’re bored of watching the same old YouTubers, you might want to look up A.I. Kizuma. A.I. Kizuma is “artificial intelligen...
Chinese Factory Replaces 90% Of Its Workers With Robots, Productivity Increases 250%
A factory in Dongguan, China, does not regret laying off almost all of its people in favor of artificial intelligence. Changying Precision T...
Mysterious ‘Go’ Master Who’s Been Destroying World’s Top Players Was a Google AI All Along
Go, a strategy board game which originated from China more than 2,500 years ago, has relatively simple rules, but with very complex gameplay...