How to Check If Something Online Was Written by AI

Check a Detection Engine Theres plenty of debate about whether or not AI text detection works. OpenAIsays not, andmost reportingon the matter says these AI detectors arent to be trusted. These detectors seem to have a better success rate at spotting human writing than AI writing. Can you trust what you read online?Image:Fatos Bytyqi/Unsplash Certain touches of originality, humor, and humanity are often missing (as are personal anecdotes). News from the future, delivered to your present....

December 22, 2023 · 1 min · 156 words · Michael Reese

Jedi SurvivorWas the Best ofStar WarsWe Got This Year

As a standalone piece of Star Wars, Jedi Survivor proudly stands on its own two feet. Star Wars tells a lot of stories about Jedi, but Geras is one of its most fascinating. Want more io9 news? Screenshot: James Whitbrook/Respawn News from the future, delivered to your present. Screenshot: James Whitbrook/Respawn Screenshot: James Whitbrook/Respawn Screenshot: James Whitbrook/Respawn

December 22, 2023 · 1 min · 57 words · Christian Kim

NASA’s Detonation Engine Revs Up for 4 Minutes in Breakthrough Test

The RDRE enables a huge leap in design efficiency, Teasley said. For more spaceflight in your life, follow us onX(formerly Twitter) and bookmark Gizmodos dedicatedSpaceflight page. News from the future, delivered to your present. The Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine combustor during a 251-second hot fire test in fall 2023.Photo: NASA

December 22, 2023 · 1 min · 50 words · Aaron Rodgers

Rings Around Uranus, Leather Made of Human Skin, and More Top Science News of the Week

The weeks top three stories on the science beat all made me a little uncomfortable, to be honest. Then there was the 2,400-year-old leather than turned out to be made of human skin. And dont get me started on the puns I had to edit out of the Uranus rings article. Image:NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI/ Image:M. Daragan/ Image: Artiom Photo (Shutterstock) / Photo: Alena Ozerova (Shutterstock) / Photo: NASA / Photo:Utrecht University/ Photo: KRISTIN ELISABET GUNNARSDOTTIR/AFP (Getty Images) / Photo: SpaceX / Illustration: ASA/JPL-Caltech...

December 22, 2023 · 1 min · 92 words · Yesenia Mitchell

Theme Park News From Disney, Universal Studios, and More Fan-tastical Destinations

If youre wanting something on the even spookier side, Warner Bros. Escape It will let you live Halloween everyday while Pennywise chases you around. Universal Studios is decked out forGrinchmasand setting its sights on New Years Eve celebrations. Photo: Disney Parks In NYC, Sleep No More begins its final shows and end-of-year festivities. Heres the latest news from theme parks and immersive experiences. News from the future, delivered to your present....

December 22, 2023 · 1 min · 71 words · Anna Jimenez

What to Know About the Google Play Store Ruling, the Apple Watch Ban, and More

The recent Google Play Store ruling could bebad news for Android phone users. Meanwhile, you only have a couple more days to buy a newApple Watch before the ban kicks in. Catch up on the biggest product news of the week in our roundup. Photo: Florence Ion / Gizmodo / Photo: Florence Ion / Gizmodo / Photo: Kyle Barr / Gizmodo / Photo: Kafka Ibram (Shutterstock) / Photo: Carmen Whitehead (Shutterstock) / Image: Florence Ion / Gizmodo / Image: Volkswagen / Image: Gizmodo / Image: Andrew Liszewski...

December 22, 2023 · 1 min · 110 words · Brian Gomez

An Influential AI Dataset Contains Thousands of Suspected Child Sexual Abuse Images

It reads, in part: LAION has a zero tolerance policy for illegal content. We work with organizations likeIWFand others to continually monitor and validate links in the publicly available LAION datasets. Gizmodo reached out to Stability AI for comment and will update this story if it responds. Image: Ryan DeBerardinis (Shutterstock) News from the future, delivered to your present. You May Also Like Two banks say Amazon has paused negotiations on some international data centers....

December 21, 2023 · 1 min · 113 words · Wendy Howard

Anxious and Joyless? You Might Just Be Sleep Deprived

In total, they looked at 154 studies that collectively involved 5,175 people. Peoples emotional states were assessed before and after these experiments. People tended to experience less of positive emotions like joy and contentment post-sleep deprivation, for instance. Image: PrinceOfLove (Shutterstock) They also tended to experience an increased heart rate and other signs of anxiety. We also found that sleep loss increased anxiety symptoms and blunted arousal in response to emotional stimuli....

December 21, 2023 · 1 min · 125 words · David Day

Aquaman and the Lost KingdomHas Its Moments, But Mostly Fizzles

That mix of positive and negativeis a great representation ofAquaman and the Lost Kingdom. Its a movie that tries to be everything at the expense of being anything. At times its goofy and exciting. A crop of the poster for Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom.Image: Warner Bros. At other times its serious and stoic. Its not altogether terrible but more often than not, it feels like a slog. Unfortunately, that gets forgotten rather quickly....

December 21, 2023 · 2 min · 242 words · Shannon Goodwin

Behold the Mega Lake: Earth’s Largest Lake in History Lands in Guinness Book of Records

The largest lake in Earths history is now in the Guinness Book of World Records. The Paratethysor Lake Paratethys, if you willand contained 10 times more water than all of Earths modern lakes. In other words, its long overdue for its place in the Guinness Book. Cliffs on the Black Sea are a reminder of the old scale of the Paratethys.Photo:Utrecht University At its height, the Paratethys stretched from Austria in the west to Turkmenistan in the east....

December 21, 2023 · 1 min · 151 words · Jill Bailey

California Could Solve Its Water Woes by Flooding Its Best Farmland

This story was originally published byGristand co-published withFresnoland. The land of the Central Valley works hard. There is one exception to this law of productivity. Photo: Mario Tama (Getty Images) Now those plants have returned. I have a different way of looking at the ground. The restored floodplain solves both problems at once. It also provides a haven for migratory birds and other species that have faced the threat of extinction....

December 21, 2023 · 3 min · 464 words · William Larsen

Djimon Hounsou Explains WhyRebel MoonIs a Unique Franchise Starter

Few actors in the entire world are morequalified to talk about franchisesthan Djimon Hounsou. Hes worked with Marvel. Hes worked with DC. Djimon Hounsou as Captain Titus in Rebel Moon.Image: Netflix Hes been in the Fast and Furious, Quiet Place, and Kingsman. His latest trip takes him to Rebel Moon,a two-part sci-fi epic from director Zack Snyder and Netflix. The thing thats unique about Rebel Moon is the story. Hounsou with his cast members....

December 21, 2023 · 2 min · 387 words · Alexandria Torres

Finally, a Telescope Named ‘Einstein’ Is Heading to Space

Hubble, Chandra, Spitzer, and Webb. The Einstein Probe was built in collaboration with ESA and the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics. The release did not state when in January the launch would be attempted. An artist’s impression of the Einstein Probe in space.Illustration:Chinese Academy of Sciences In three 96-minute orbits of Earth, the probe can image almost the entire night sky. Einstein will launch on a Long March rocket from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in south-central China....

December 21, 2023 · 1 min · 100 words · Joseph Williams MD