Separating AI actuality from hyped-up fiction isn’t at all times simple. That’s why we’ve created the AI Hype Index—a easy, at-a-glance abstract of all the pieces you want to know in regards to the state of the trade.
Greater than 70 nations went to the polls in 2024. The excellent news is that this yr of worldwide elections turned out to be largely free from any main deepfake campaigns or AI manipulation. As an alternative we noticed a lot of AI slop: buff Trump, Elon as ultra-Chad, California as catastrophic wasteland. Whereas some fear that improvement of enormous language fashions is slowing down, you wouldn’t understand it from the regular drumbeat of recent merchandise, options, and companies rolling out from itty-bitty startups and big incumbents alike. So what’s for actual and what’s simply quite a lot of hallucinatory nonsense?
