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The biggest AI flops of 2024
From chatbots dishing out illegal advice to dodgy AI-generated search results, take a look back over the year’s top AI failures.
This low-stakes way of creating AI slop means it can now be found in pretty much every corner of the internet, from the newsletters in your inbox and books sold on Amazon to ads and articles across the web and shonky pictures on your social media feeds. The more emotionally evocative these pictures are ( wounded veterans, crying children, a signal of support in the Israel-Palestine conflict), the more likely they are to be shared, resulting in higher engagement and ad revenue for their savvy creators. While Microsoft quickly closed the system’s loopholes, the incident shined a light on the platforms’ poor content-moderation policies, after posts containing the images circulated widely and remained live for days.
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