Source: Oddity Central – Collecting Oddities
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.
An Uzbek man was arrested and eventually deported from Russia after leaving an online review for a women’s leather skirt.
At least two Chinese robotics companies have announced that their humanoid robots can now run at speeds of up to 10 meters per second.
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.
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 […]
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.
Men in Russia are voluntarily mutilating their ears to get the so-called ‘cauliflower’ look associated with MMA fighters to instill fear in others.