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OnlyFans Models Are Using AI Impersonators to Keep Up With Their DMs

OnlyFans Models Are Using AI Impersonators to Keep Up With Their DMs

Mickey Vernon

One of the more persistent concerns in the age of AI is that the robots will take our jobs. The ...

OpenAI Scored a Legal Win Over Progressive Publishers—but the Fight’s Not Finished

OpenAI Scored a Legal Win Over Progressive Publishers—but the Fight’s Not Finished

Mickey Vernon

Topic, who also represents The Intercept in a similar DMCA case against OpenAI, as well as the nonprofit newsroom the ...

AI Slop Is Flooding Medium

AI Slop Is Flooding Medium

Mickey Vernon

Some Medium writers and editors do applaud the platform’s approach to AI. Eric Pierce, who founded Medium’s largest pop culture ...

Social Media Tells You Who You Are. What if It’s Totally Wrong?

Social Media Tells You Who You Are. What if It’s Totally Wrong?

Mickey Vernon

A few years ago I wrote about how, when planning my wedding, I’d signaled to the Pinterest app that I ...

Amazon Dreams of AI Agents That Do the Shopping for You

Amazon Dreams of AI Agents That Do the Shopping for You

Mickey Vernon

But Salakhutdinov says that having a wealth of information about how users go about common and important tasks like shopping ...

Hacking Generative AI for Fun and Profit

Hacking Generative AI for Fun and Profit

Mickey Vernon

You hardly need ChatGPT to generate a list of reasons why generative artificial intelligence is often less than awesome. The ...

Everything You See Is a Computational Process, If You Know How to Look

Everything You See Is a Computational Process, If You Know How to Look

Albert Wagner

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In the movie Oppenheimer, Niels Bohr challenges the physicist early in his ...

AI’s Energy Demands Are Out of Control. Welcome to the Internet’s Hyper-Consumption Era

AI’s Energy Demands Are Out of Control. Welcome to the Internet’s Hyper-Consumption Era

Albert Wagner

Right now, generative artificial intelligence is impossible to ignore online. An AI-generated summary may randomly appear at the top of ...

AI Can’t Replace Teaching, but It Can Make It Better

AI Can’t Replace Teaching, but It Can Make It Better

Mickey Vernon

Khanmigo doesn’t answer student questions directly, but starts with questions of its own, such as asking whether the student has ...

My Memories Are Just Meta’s Training Data Now

My Memories Are Just Meta’s Training Data Now

Mickey Vernon

In R. C. Sherriff’s novel The Hopkins Manuscript, readers are transported to a world 800 years after a cataclysmic event ...

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