Researchers at Cornell Tech have released a dataset extracted from more than 300,000 public Reddit communities, and a report detailing how Reddit communities are changing their policies to address a surge in AI-generated content. The team collected metadata and community rules from the online communities, known as subreddits, during two periods in July 2023 and November 2024. The researchers will present a paper with their findings at the Association of Computing Machinery's CHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems being held April 26 to May 1 in Yokohama, Japan. One of the researchers' most striking discoveries is the rapid increase in subreddits with rules governing AI use. According to the research, the number of subreddits with AI rules more than doubled in 16 months, from July 2023 to November 2024. "This is important because it demonstrates that AI concern is spreading in these communities.

The future is here -- and it looks like Nicolas Cage. Some online users are taking a new kind of artificial intelligence technology and using it to insert the hammy actor into films and TV shows he didn't actually star in -- basically into anything and everything they can imagine, from classic James Bond films to scenes from "Game of Thrones." Reddit users began posting about and running with the idea on Thursday after one wondered how long it would be before the AI technology, which has already been put to more unscrupulous uses, was used to create a "full Nic Cage movie." "That's actually a very very good idea," another Reddit user responded. While humorous, the clips point to the growing sophistication of the technology -- and its potential uses, both good and bad.

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