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Niche retro gaming brand Blaze Entertainment, creator of the handheld Evercade, today revealed a remaster of Duke Nukem 1 and 2 for its platform, but some fans were more concerned with the quality of the remaster's cover art. As Twitter users quickly pointed out, the Duke Nukem 1+2 Remastered art posted by the Evercade account was obviously AI-generated.Blaze has since deleted the tweets, but other Twitter users have re-shared the image in question. It displays all the hallmarks of AI-generated art, from…

The AI hype cycle has birthed innumerable boosters. An unlikely member of this group is Silicon Valley billionaire Tom Siebel.Since selling his first company to Oracle Corp. in 2006, Siebel started C3.ai Inc., an ostensibly cutting-edge software firm that helps customers crunch and analyze huge amounts of data. The 70-year-old founder has become a regular on the business press circuit and posited that C3's new generative artificial intelligence product will “change the nature of the human-computer interface” and its…

CNN’s town hall with former President Trump drew 3.1 million viewers on Wednesday, but network executives faced a tsunami of criticism for giving the Republican candidate a platform to spread lies.The audience counted by Nielsen in preliminary numbers was the largest for CNN since the network’s coverage of the July hearings over the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. While Trump’s appearance delivered a strong number for CNN, it was the size of a typical audience for Tucker Carlson on Fox News before he was fired…

Snapchat is being criticized for its AI chatbot, My AI, with confusion emerging over location data Mixed reactions have received Snapchat’s introduction of its own AI chatbot, with some condemning its prominence on the social media platform. The same technology that is being included in Microsoft’s Bing search engine, OpenAI’s GPT, powers it. Only paying members can delete the My AI feature, which is permanently pinned to the top of users’ conversation streams. Online criticism has resulted from this, and there is now…

Lil Nas X has faced criticism over a tweet asking about “gays in Africa” not long after Uganda’s parliament pased an anti-LGBTQ+ bill that criminalizes homosexuality.On Wednesday, the rapper shared a tweet in which he asked about the LGBTQ+ community in the continent. “Where do the gays be in Africa I wanna come there,” he tweeted while in Brazil for a performance. Image via TwitterSome fans called out the timing of the tweet, which came just a day after Uganda’s parliament passed the new anti-LGBTQ+ bill, which outlaws…

Members of Rise and Resist participate in their weekly "Truth Tuesday" protest at News Corp headquarters on February 21, 2023 in New York City. Michael M. Santiago | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesMore revelations from Fox Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch's testimony, as well as evidence gathered from Fox executives and TV hosts in the months following the 2020 election, came to light on Tuesday as part of Dominion Voting Systems' $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit.Hundreds of pages of gathered evidence from both sides –…

Actor Alec Baldwin departs his home, as he will be charged with involuntary manslaughter for the fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of the movie "Rust", in New York, January 31, 2023.David Dee Delgado | ReutersIt's been just over a month since New Mexico authorities charged Alec Baldwin with manslaughter for the fatal shooting of a crew member on the set of the film "Rust," and already the prosecution has come under harsh criticism and scrutiny.First, there's the question of whether the case's…

According to rumors, Elon Musk is looking for people to help him create a sizable language model that will be less constrained and politically correct than OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Users have provided examples of how ChatGPT appears to be more biased towards the political left, and Twitter chief Elon Musk has criticized the AI chatbot for being “woke” (a common abuse of the term). One illustration: the bot will gladly create a favorable poem for former president Joseph Biden but will not do the same for former president Donald…

The big win for “Everything Everywhere All at Once” at the Screen Actors Guild Awards was a watershed moment for Asian representation — but for some, it was also a reminder of Mark Wahlberg’s history of anti-Asian violence.The predominately Asian cast of A24’s “Everything Everywhere All at Once” won the prize for cast in a motion picture Sunday night. While star James Hong celebrated inclusion in Hollywood, some viewers took issue with the presenter, Wahlberg. “Good for Mark Wahlberg, standing on a stage with all those…

The British publisher of Roald Dahl’s children’s books will release the classic versions of his stories along with updated editions rewritten in an effort to make them more acceptable to contemporary readers. Seventeen of Mr. Dahl’s best-known books will be released in their unaltered form later this year as “The Roald Dahl Classic Collection,” Penguin Random House said Friday.  Those books, published under the company’s Penguin logo, will be…