AI slop is flowing onto every major platform where people post online--and Medium is no exception. The 12-year-old publishing platform has undertaken a dizzying number of pivots over the years. It's finally on a financial upswing, having turned a monthly profit for the first time this summer. Medium CEO Tony Stubblebine and other executives at the company have described the platform as "a home for human writing." But there is evidence that robot bloggers are increasingly flocking to the platform, too.

When AI researcher Melanie Mitchell published Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans in 2019, she set out to clarify AI's impact. A few years later, ChatGPT set off a new AI boom--with a side effect that caught her off guard. An AI-generated imitation of her book appeared on Amazon, in an apparent scheme to profit off her work. It looks like another example of the ecommerce giant's ongoing problem with a glut of low-quality AI-generated ebooks. Mitchell learned that searching Amazon for her book surfaced not only her own tome but also another ebook with the same title, published last September.

China has developed a new drone that go function in air and water. ChatGPT was launched back in November 2022 by OpenAI and has been a big hit thus far – but not always for the right reasons. CLICK TO GET KURT'S CYBERGUY NEWSLETTER WITH QUICK TIPS, TECH REVIEWS, SECURITY ALERTS AND EASY HOW-TO'S TO MAKE YOU SMARTER Students have begun taking advantage of the AI model as well by using it to help them cheat on their homework. The AI-bot, as it is called, essentially does everything a student is supposed to do while developing critical thinking in a learning environment. Now, educators and experts behind anti-cheating software are doing their best to stop this from happening.