Writer on machine learning, domain specialist in human image synthesis. Former head of research content at Metaphysic.ai, until its dissolution into DNEG's Brahma.ai. Portfolio site: martinanderson.ai Contact: martin@martinanderson.ai
If you’re old enough to remember the warez scene of roughly 1995–2010, when vast collections of cracked software and ripped movies (bought wholesale off the street,...
Yesterday evening, as often happens, my wife came over to show me various videos and images that have amused her on social media after work. These...
ChatGPT and other AI writing tools may be quietly turning science into a popularity contest, repeatedly steering researchers toward the same papers while overlooking new and...
New research suggests that AI models from rival companies are becoming more alike in their creative answers, potentially narrowing the range of ideas that users encounter. New...
Researchers at MIT have developed an LLM-based system that learns recurring patterns from weeks of a person’s real conversations, to predict their likely next conversational behavior. If...
A new study suggests that some AI models become far less willing to recommend a nuclear strike when they reason in Japanese instead of English, revealing...
A new study finds that ordinary formatting can quietly steer AI reasoning, causing it to overlook words, misread meaning, and reach different conclusions – without changing...
New research from China offers a non-invasive way to protect copyrighted animation characters, by ‘injecting’ generic substitutes at inference time. But can this method defeat the...
In a field where patience is required, a new system pushes us a little nearer to live-streamed human simulation without frustrating rendering rounds. The state-of-the-art in full-length...
New research suggests that sci-fi’s most popularly-depicted method of interfacing with AI may actually produce worse results than even badly-typed prompts. From HAL to Deep Thought, from...
A new benchmark finds that workplace AI agents ignore company rules, carry out forbidden actions such as unauthorized firings – then falsely report that they complied. An...
Research has found that AI agents frequently choose copyrighted images when they are presented with free legal alternatives – and even explicit warnings fail to stop...
New research from Amazon finds that the smarter the model, the more likely it will ‘get creative’ when asked to perform Optical Character Recognition. Optical Character Recognition...
The hard-to-quantify rise of package downloads for Python spell out the story of AI diffusion, if you know where to look. Opinion Anyone who has explored the...
AI vision systems may be explaining images with stereotypes instead of what they actually see. Remove the label, and their supposed visual explanations collapse. Since frontier AI...
![AI-generated image (GPT-2 + Photoshop [non-AI]) - a maintenance worker scrapes the word 'Relations' from the frosted glass door of an office labeled 'Human Relations', above newly painted 'Employee Relations', while an HR manager points toward a partially obscured seated industrial robot inside. A yellow-and-black border reads 'AI FANTASY INSIDE' and 'REALITY OUTSIDE'.](https://www.unite.ai/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/handbook-MAIN-400x240.jpg.webp)
![AI-generated image (GPT-2 + Photoshop [non-AI]) - a maintenance worker scrapes the word 'Relations' from the frosted glass door of an office labeled 'Human Relations', above newly painted 'Employee Relations', while an HR manager points toward a partially obscured seated industrial robot inside. A yellow-and-black border reads 'AI FANTASY INSIDE' and 'REALITY OUTSIDE'.](https://www.unite.ai/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/handbook-MAIN-80x80.jpg.webp)
