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AI’s Unquenchable Thirst: How AI is Guzzling up the Water Supply

Tech companies’ water use is skyrocketing and they’re falling behind on their attempts to reduce their water footprint.

AI’s Carbon Footprint: How AI is Killing Climate Goals

AI companies are not telling us the true carbon costs of building and using AI.

AI’s Power Grab: How AI is Hogging the Electric Grid

AI's demand for energy is so high that the AI companies’ clean energy purchases simply can’t keep up.

What’s Up With ChatGPT? The AI chatbot didn’t debunk known election misinformation

Proof News presented examples of debunked election misinformation to five leading consumer facing AI products.

Don’t Ask AI Which Rocks You Can Lick

And other performance issues when it comes to language models and geology

AI Models Generate Misinformation about Presidential Candidates

Posed questions about Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump, top AI models generated misleading information 30 percent of the time.

Meta Is Getting Rid of CrowdTangle — and Its Replacement Isn’t As Transparent or Accessible

The social media monitoring tool, which has been used to track misinformation, is set to disappear as elections take place worldwide

Lessons From Google’s AI Mistakes

Google’s new “AI Overview” feature reveals the flawed underbelly of AI

AI Watermarking Is Not Going to Save Us

A conversation with AI policy executive Irene Solaiman

The Multiple Faces of Claude AI: Different Answers, Same Model

It’s often hard to tell which version of an AI model you’re using — and what, if any, safety settings are in place

AI’s Unquenchable Thirst: How AI is Guzzling up the Water Supply

AI’s Carbon Footprint: How AI is Killing Climate Goals

AI’s Power Grab: How AI is Hogging the Electric Grid

Nvidia Scrapes YouTube, Eyes Netflix, Discovery to Train New Video Model

Apple, Nvidia, Anthropic Used Thousands of Swiped YouTube Videos to Train AI

Search the YouTube Videos Secretly Powering Generative AI

AI Models Falter Answering Election Questions in Spanish

AI Tools Make It Easy to Clone Someone’s Voice Without Consent

Leading AI Companies Fail to Address Problems With Inaccurate Election Information

AI Models Provide Inaccurate Information to Voters with Disabilities

Is AI Going to Replace Software Engineers?

TikTok Teacher Ernest Crim III Gives AI Models a “C” In Black History

How Proof is Reframing "Objectivity" in Journalism

Why News Needs an Ingredients Label

Why Julia Angwin Started Proof News

AI’s Unquenchable Thirst: How AI is Guzzling up the Water Supply

AI’s Carbon Footprint: How AI is Killing Climate Goals

AI’s Power Grab: How AI is Hogging the Electric Grid

What’s Up With ChatGPT? The AI chatbot didn’t debunk known election misinformation

Don’t Ask AI Which Rocks You Can Lick

AI Models Generate Misinformation about Presidential Candidates

Meta Is Getting Rid of CrowdTangle — and Its Replacement Isn’t As Transparent or Accessible

Lessons From Google’s AI Mistakes

AI Watermarking Is Not Going to Save Us

The Multiple Faces of Claude AI: Different Answers, Same Model