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The once-prophesized future where cheap, AI-generated trash content floods out the hard work of real humans is already here, and is already taking over Facebook.

Here’s how to turn off “automated content recognition,” the Shazam-like software on smart TVs that tracks what you’re watching

With a global increase in web searches of the term 'climate anxiety' this film is a timely exploration of the emotional effect of climate change through one individual’s remarkable true story.

New research is uncovering the hidden differences in how people experience the world. The consequences are unsettling

Have fun with drawing! Create yourself a creative playground we need a goal and rules. Here is why and how:

The burgeoning trust and safety industry promises to help tech companies navigate scrutiny and regulation. But these services bring problems of their own.

18th century German forest management explains why government websites make you want to pull your hair out

Limor Fried’s code is often a de facto standard, and now ChatGPT is using it

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ChatGPT is full of sensitive private information and spits out verbatim text from CNN, Goodreads, WordPress blogs, fandom wikis, Terms of Service agreements, Stack Overflow source code, Wikipedia pages, news blogs, random internet comments, and much more.

I thought about AI 'godmother' Fei-Fei Li this weekend, who was mysteriously missing from a New York Times list of AI pioneers.

This is the first time the carbon emissions caused by using an AI model for different tasks have been calculated.

Released earlier this month, OpenAI’s GPTs let anyone create custom chatbots. But some of the data they’re built on is easily exposed.

Viral allegations that Devternity founder Eduard Sizovs fabricated female speakers to boost diversity have caused several big-name speakers to publicly drop out of the conference.

Our minds have been colonised by capital. We'll need to undo that if we are to keep the planet habitable.

The cult sci-fi author on Mars, Musk — and how speculative fiction can offer real-life solutions to the climate crisis

Rue Yi and Ruby Thelot explore the nature and consequence of our diverging online spaces through the concept of Balkanization and Babelification

Instead of neat rows of monoculture, forest gardens combine fruit and nut trees, shrubs, herbs, vines and perennial vegetables together in one seemingly wild...

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has personally and repeatedly thwarted initiatives meant to improve the well-being of teens on Facebook and Instagram, at times directly overruling some of his most senior lieutenants, according to internal communications made public as part of an ongoing lawsuit against the company.

Scientists measured the brain activity of people trying to discern real from synthetic faces.

Efforts to curb climate change are failing. That’s partly due to the staggering contributions of the global elite.

A study by Microsoft and other institutions shows that adding emotional stimuli to prompts enhances LLMs like ChatGPT.

There’s an old short story called “Whose job is it?” that goes like this: This is a story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody, and Nobody. There was an important job to be done and Everybody was asked to do it. Everybody was sure Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. Somebody got angry about that, because it was Everybody's job. Everybody thought Anybody could do it but Nobody realised that Everybody wouldn't do it. It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have done. It used to be up on the wall in my secondary school many years ago. Its message of taking ownership and responsibility and not assuming others will do what you don’t want to do has stuck with me ever since. It’s rather like the famous advice to be the change you wish to see happen. Litter doesn’t clean itself up. Broken things don’t fix themselves. It might be up to you. The story seems to be a condensed version of a longer piece by Charles Osgood called "The Responsibility Poem," though I couldn't find an original source anywhere. Also see: For want of a nail, the story spine, the Accountability Ladder, RACI

Machine-learning generated data can help make smaller AI models nearly as capable as much larger ones.

The use of artificial intelligence appears to have a significant gender imbalance.

Combining these two approaches can build political bridges and allyship globally, while tackling systems of oppression at every level.