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The dirty open secret behind why so many companies are trusting so much of their code to chatbots.
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Why breaking the grip of giant social media platforms may require a major step back into the web's early days.
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The creative, open web is being strangled by homogenized omni-platforms. Just look at the evolution of Substack.
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Sometimes, the biggest mistake is not letting things crash and burn.
The AI economy is here, but not in the way it's been advertised...
# longform
A eulogy for the wild, free, messy, organic, human internet.
Computer scientists are worried that thanks to ChatGPT, the next generation of large AI models may be in danger of never achieving liftoff.
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New study shows that far from dispelling misinformation, googling can actually make it sound more plausible and realistic. Why? For money, of course.
# politics
If you care about what else the platform you use to create and publish hosts, and start doing you research, what you'll find will usually be disturbing.
# longform
We were promised a utopian future. What we got was tech bros reinventing a lot of things we already had, but worse, more exploitative, and less safe.
How one hugely influential book fostered a business obsession, what it got wrong, and how its fans in the tech industry wrought havoc with it.