MIT Technology Review December 31, 2024
From chatbots dishing out illegal advice to dodgy AI-generated search results, take a look back over the year’s biggest AI failures.
The past 12 months have been undeniably busy for those working in AI. There have been more successful product launches than we can count, and even Nobel Prizes. But it hasn’t always been smooth sailing.
AI is an unpredictable technology, and the increasing availability of generative models has led people to test their limits in new, weird, and sometimes harmful ways. These were some of 2024’s biggest AI misfires.
AI slop infiltrated almost every corner of the internet
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