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Social media doomers are thinking of what will replace big platforms as they fail. They may be jumping the gun on that...
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Video platforms are awash in AI slop. Now, it's coming for music and podcasting too, even though no one is excited about it...
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Our tech oligarchs want an "AGI." No one really knows what that actually means.
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More and more, people in power see us as disposable things or "NPCs." And how AI is being pitched to them is making it worse.
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Hi, it's us. We are the problem, says a study on how to fix social media.
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Scientists are fusing biology and electronics in new and promising ways.
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Companies are bragging about record-setting layoffs thanks to AI, promising investors astronomical profits. How? They haven't gotten that far yet.
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The AI economy is here, but not in the way it's been advertised...
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People are trusting AI more and more for life and career coaching. Too bad machines are just as bad at is as humans.
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Treating ChatGPT like your personal therapist can do a lot more harm than good.
# longform
A eulogy for the wild, free, messy, organic, human internet.
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Readers feel scammed. Authors are furious. But AI book slop continues to proliferate like a plague.
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A new Stanford study says AI startups' products work exactly backwards according to their customers. How did that happen?
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Chat bots keep telling right wing zealots what people really think of them, and they are not taking it well.
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The disturbing lessons from chat bots trained exclusively on right wing sources and social media platforms.