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If it were a “Black Mirror” episode it would be too on the nose. Renowned tech critic Cory Doctorow’s book “Enshittification” hasn’t even been out for a single day, and…
If anybody is thinking of making an AI version of the Catholic pope, please don’t. That’s the message from the newly-minted Holy Father himself, Pope Leo XIV, who emphatically slapped…
A legal hearing this week for Luigi Mangione, the alleged assassin of a health insurance CEO, attracted a motley crowd to a New York City courthouse: people dressed up as…
If you use TikTok or any other app designed to rot your brain, chances are you’ve encountered AI-generated ads for somehow even faker-seeming products. But the popular short-form video platform…
ChatGPT’s fans have developed intense attachments to some of the “personalities” exhibited by the company’s large language models (LLMs) — and as such, many were in a state of panic…
Amazon has just released two new e-readers in its Colorsoft series, adding to the Kindle Colorsoft Signature Edition that came out in October 2024. The new models include a more…
Amazon has just released two new e-readers in its Colorsoft series, adding to the Kindle Colorsoft Signature Edition that came out in October 2024. The new models include a more…
This week, Elon Musk unveiled Grok 4, which he called “the world’s most powerful AI assistant.” The optics were appalling; the same week, the older version of Grok repeatedly attacked Black…
The law requiring TikTok to either sell its US operations or face a ban has officially been in place since January. Despite that, TikTok has only been shut down in…
Readers were annoyed to discover something galling: evidence that an author used AI, right in the middle of a novel. The novel, titled “Darkhollow Academy : Year 2,” penned by…