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OpenAI Scored a Legal Win Over Progressive Publishers—but the Fight’s Not Finished
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
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?
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
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
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
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
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
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
In R. C. Sherriff’s novel The Hopkins Manuscript, readers are transported to a world 800 years after a cataclysmic event ...
Marc Andreessen Once Called Online Safety Teams an Enemy. He Still Wants Walled Gardens for Kids
In his polarizing “Techno-Optimist Manifesto” last year, venture capitalist Marc Andreessen listed a number of enemies to technological progress. Among ...
