A Chinese family sparked controversy online for using an AI-powered digital clone of a deceased man to communicate with his mother via video link.
Source: Oddity Central – Collecting Oddities
France’s weather forecasting service believes its temperature sensors were manipulated to produce abnormal values and help gamblers win Polymarket bets.
An Uzbek man was arrested and eventually deported from Russia after leaving an online review for a women’s leather skirt.
Men in Russia are voluntarily mutilating their ears to get the so-called ‘cauliflower’ look associated with MMA fighters to instill fear in others.
A South Korean man could spend up to five years behind bars for creating a realistic image of a wolf prowling through the streets of Daejeon, a city in central South Korea.
South Africa recently withdrew its national policy on artificial intelligence after it was discovered that part of its content had been written by AI, using fictional sources.
Bixonimania, a made-up eye condition created to prove that large language models (LLMs) could be easily deceived, ended up tricking human researchers as well. Do you spend a lot of time in front of a computer? Do your eyes get sore and itchy after a while? Do they get a reddish pink if you rub […]