Media Overload: Why We Need Less, Not More Content · Dataetisk Tænkehandletank
Much of the AI hype revolves around accelerating production in areas where needs are already...
AI can now create a replica of your personality
A two-hour interview is enough to accurately capture your values and preferences, according to new research from Stanford and Google DeepMind.
They Said It Couldn’t Be Done
A Blog post by Pierre-Carl Langlais on Hugging Face
Archival Images of AI Playbook
Guidelines, tools, techniques, and image-making briefs to help you craft your own images of AI.
We Need To Rewild The Internet | NOEMA
"Our online spaces are not ecosystems, though tech firms love that word. They’re plantations; highly concentrated and controlled environments, closer kin to the industrial farming of the cattle feedlot or battery chicken farms that madden the creatures trapped within."
Our online spaces are not ecosystems, though tech firms love that word. They’re plantations; highly concentrated and controlled environments, closer kin to the industrial farming of the cattle feedlot or battery chicken farms that madden the creatures trapped within.
The ChatGPT secret: is that text message from your friend, your lover – or a robot?
People are turning to chatbots to solve all their life problems, and they like its answers. But are they on a very slippery slope?
Australia is connected to the world by cables no thicker than a garden hose – and at risk from sharks, accidents and sabotage
Last month two Baltic Sea cables were damaged and experts say Australia’s cables are not immune from threats. How worried should we be?
The Climate-Driven Diaspora Is Here
In 2025, extreme weather will drive more people from their homes. Governments have no plan. Where will they be welcome?
AI is making Philippine call center work more efficient, for better and worse
BPO workers say AI tools are monitoring their calls, assisting them with customers, and scoring their performance.
‘What many of us feel’: why ‘enshittification’ is Macquarie Dictionary’s word of the year
The committee’s honourable mentions went to ‘right to disconnect’ and ‘rawdogging’
Tree of Life | Atmos
The tree of life connects us all. Now, more than ever, we must draw strength from its roots, reground, and push forward to protect it.
The images of Spain’s floods weren’t created by AI. The trouble is, people think they were
The rapid growth of ‘AI slop’ – content created by artificial tools – is starting to warp our perception of what is, or could be, real
Introducing our grid-aware websites project - Green Web Foundation
AI agents are easily fooled by malicious pop-ups
AI agents click on malicious popups that human users would easily avoid.
AI Confessions: A Guide from Both Sides of the Prompt - Part 1
When an AI Writes Its Own Manual (And Its Human Handler Wants to Make You Laugh)
Concerned about your data use? Here is the carbon footprint of an average day of emails, WhatsApps and more
Vast datacentres are being built worldwide, amid growing concerns about the environmental costs. So should we all be considering a data diet – if not complete digital sobriety?
Can AI influence how you feel about someone without you knowing?
A new study suggests that AI can be used to covertly manipulate how you feel about someone when engaging over video
When Search Met AI: A Silicon Valley Romance Gone Wrong
You know that couple everyone thought was perfect? Well, the drama just escalated - enter SearchGPT
What happens inside LLMs when they hallucinate?
A study shows that the activation patterns of LLMs can indicate when they are making errors.
I Took a ‘Decision Holiday’ and Put A.I. in Charge of My Life
I thought it would make me put glue on pizza, but instead it entertained my children and got me to finally paint my office. How could it transform our daily lives?
The environmental campaigners fighting against data centres
A growing global movement is seeing people object to data centres in their locality.
Should you feel guilty about using AI?
Your AI-powered iPhone comes with a questionable carbon footprint.
Technology Myths and Urban Legends
When users don’t clearly understand how systems function, they develop unique (and often incorrect) theories to explain their experiences.
DeepMind and Hugging Face release SynthID to watermark LLM-generated text
SynthID makes subtle changes to LLM-generated text to create a statistical signature while preserving the quality of the output.
Accelerators Maximize Efficiency in User Interfaces
Alternate methods for accomplishing frequent actions in user interfaces support expert users by speeding up their interactions, without hindering novice users.
Can Nature’s Own Sounds Help Heal the Earth? | Atmos
As the world’s natural habitats degrade, scientists are playing natural sounds to ecosystems to bring them back to life.
Corporations using ‘ineffectual’ carbon offsets are slowing path to ‘real zero’, more than 60 climate scientists say
Pledge signed by scientists from nine countries reflects concerns that offsets generated from forest-related projects may not have reduced emissions
real zero pledge
Unbounded: A Generative Infinite Game of Character Life Simulation
Researchers say an AI-powered transcription tool used in hospitals invents things no one ever said
Whisper is a popular transcription tool powered by artificial intelligence, but it has a major flaw. It makes things up that were never said.
Everything I built with Claude Artifacts this week
I’m a huge fan of Claude’s Artifacts feature, which lets you prompt Claude to create an interactive Single Page App (using HTML, CSS and JavaScript) and then view the result …