Tech
Help, My Friend Wants To Sleep With A Married Man
The Eve 6 Guy, Max Collins, answers two very different letters about friends and friendship.
Max Collins
I Had AI Write My Instagram Captions, And My Friends Did A Wellness Check On Me
AI was perfectly decent at writing captions, but it made me question my own humanity.
Katie Notopoulos
Grindr Has Been Sued By A Teen Who Was Raped By Four Men He Met On The App
The lawsuit accuses Grindr of actively recruiting children to the gay hookup app. Grindr called the accusations “meritless and obviously homophobic.”
David Mack
Murderous Mexican Drug Cartels Are Thriving On Elon Musk’s Twitter
“Twitter shouldn’t provide a platform for Mexican cartel members to spread their hate and incite violence," an official for the organization behind a new report said.
Pranav Dixit
The Fantasy Of The Dream Job Is Gone
Layoffs at some of the country’s most prestigious companies are the latest sign that no one’s job is ever really safe.
Venessa Wong
This 18-Year-Old College Journalist Could Bring Down Stanford University’s President
Theo Baker recently became the youngest-ever recipient of the prestigious Polk Award.
Ellie Hall
The Untold Story Of Andrew Tate, The Internet’s Most Notorious Influencer
Tate, who stands accused of human trafficking, comes from a family of violent, competitive men and high-achieving women. Those who knew him in his younger years are asking, “What happened to Andrew?”
Tom Warren
Chuck E. Cheese Still Uses Floppy Disks To Make Its Rodent Mascot Dance — For Now
The retro tech is "quite elegant for what it does," the restaurant chain's floppy disk vendor said.
Katie Notopoulos
These Are The AI Trends That Keep Us Up At Night
Each month, BuzzFeed News will round up the biggest, weirdest developments in the rapidly expanding field of artificial intelligence.
Pranav Dixit
These Men's Rights Activists Literally Worship Elon Musk
Critics on Twitter called an Indian group's ceremony "cringe" and "embarrassing."
Pranav Dixit
Eli Lilly Reduced The Price Of Insulin To $35 Per Month, And This Guy Who Trolled The Company Can Take Some Credit
Writer Sean Morrow, pretending to be pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly, tweeted “insulin is free now” in November. Now it almost is.
Katie Notopoulos
People Are Thirsty For TikTok’s Hottest Ceramicists
“Sometimes my question is, Is the audience really there for your work? Or are they there for the video?”
Jessica Lucas
Voice Deepfakes Of Everyone From Joe Rogan To Joe Biden Are Taking Over Social Media
The clips are hilarious, though the implications of the tech “are pretty scary,” one creator said.
Chris Stokel-Walker
“This Is What Your Worlds Are Lacking”: Artists Are Using AI To Create Fat, Black Sci-Fi And Fantasy Characters
“Fat, Black people deserve to be main characters capable of anything.”
Cheyenne M. Davis
A Sci-Fi Magazine Stopped Letting Anyone Submit Stories After Being Flooded With AI-Written Content
“We were being buried,” Clarkesworld editor and publisher Neil Clarke said.
Pranav Dixit
Here’s What Happens When You Train An AI On Pauly Shore Movies
2dumb2destroy is a ChatGPT bot trained to be a doofus — and it’s fantastic.
Katie Notopoulos
TikTok’s Boob-Flashing Trend Is A Content Moderation Nightmare
It’s called the Foopah challenge, and it’s testing the limits of TikTok’s moderation system.
Chris Stokel-Walker
Here’s Why Andrew Tate May Have Chosen To Live In Romania, Where Sex Trafficking Has “Become A National Sport”
A representative for Tate dismissed theories as to why he based himself in the Eastern European country as “press speculation.”
Matei Rosca
Drama Between A Chimney Sweep And House Flippers Is Burning Up TikTok
“Nobody likes house flippers, and nobody likes it when you argue with a professional.”
Katie Notopoulos
Guinness World Records Is Giving The Shaft To The World’s Biggest Dick Pic
It’s a whopping 102,040,171,200,000 pixels, making it the largest digital image ever made, period. So why won’t Guinness recognize it?
Benjamin Piñeros
This Black Mom Invented Skin Tone Emojis, But Her Patent Attempts Have Been Shot Down Repeatedly
Now, Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee are trying to help her and other inventors from underrepresented backgrounds.
Pranav Dixit
Advice Column: I’m 27 And Have Never Been In A Committed Relationship
It’s a very special Valentine’s Day edition of the Eve 6 Guy’s Heart in a Blender column.
Max Collins
Harry Potter And The Controversial Video Game: Streamers Take Sides In The Fight Over “Hogwarts Legacy”
Can you separate the art from the artist? When it comes to author J.K. Rowling, the gaming world is fiercely divided.
Steven Asarch
Donald Trump Asked Twitter To Take Down This Chrissy Teigen Tweet
The revelation came during a congressional hearing on Twitter’s handling of the Hunter Biden laptop story.
Katie Notopoulos
The Search Engine Bing Will Start Using A Souped-Up Version Of ChatGPT’s AI
“Can you suggest a 3-course menu with a chocolate dessert?”
Katie Notopoulos
Google Just Heated Up The AI Wars By Announcing Its Own ChatGPT Rival
Bard will be available “in the coming weeks."
Pranav Dixit
The Twitch Community Has Been Rocked By A Deepfake Porn Scandal. “It Was Quite Horrifying,” One Victim Said.
“I was wishing for eye bleach,” streamer Sweet Anita told BuzzFeed News.
Steven Asarch
Logan Paul Has Been Hit With A Class Action Lawsuit Over His Allegedly Fraudulent CryptoZoo NFT Project
The action "is dramatically flawed and filed with the intention of generating headlines," Paul's legal rep told BuzzFeed News.
Tom Warren
RIP To The Best Bots On Twitter
“I’m not paying a dime to Elon lol.”
Katie Notopoulos
Inside Virtual Reality’s Booming Underground Sex Scene
Explicit content is banned on the popular VRChat platform, but that doesn’t stop users with Bluetooth-enabled toys from indulging in hourslong erotic role play.
Jessica Lucas
