Separating AI actuality from hyped-up fiction isn’t at all times straightforward. That’s why we’ve created the AI Hype Index—a easy, at-a-glance abstract of every little thing you want to know in regards to the state of the trade.
Greater than 70 international locations 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 numerous AI slop: buff Trump, Elon as ultra-Chad, California as catastrophic wasteland. Whereas some fear that growth of enormous language fashions is slowing down, you wouldn’t realize it from the regular drumbeat of recent merchandise, options, and providers rolling out from itty-bitty startups and big incumbents alike. So what’s for actual and what’s simply a number of hallucinatory nonsense?