Separating AI reality from hyped-up fiction isn’t at all times easy. That’s why we’ve created the AI Hype Index—a straightforward, at-a-glance summary of the whole lot you must know in regards to the state of the industry.
Greater than 70 countries went to the polls in 2024. The excellent news is that this 12 months of worldwide elections turned out to be largely free from any major deepfake campaigns or AI manipulation. As a substitute we saw a number of AI slop: buff Trump, Elon as ultra-Chad, California as catastrophic wasteland. While some worry that development of enormous language models is slowing down, you wouldn’t realize it from the regular drumbeat of recent products, features, and services rolling out from itty-bitty startups and big incumbents alike. So what’s for real and what’s just a whole lot of hallucinatory nonsense?