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A new series focused on AI literacy outside the hype-doom binary. For the first installment, Reality Studies looks at questions of labor in the context of generative AI.

The eye doctor shined a bright light into my left eye as I realized, I have stopped thinking of the future. The day was hot, the air dry. I was slowly and surely going blind, from a progressive, incurable eye disease. On my way home, I could smell wildfire smoke. Shadows trailed the edges of... Read more »

AI developments that made us spin

The current mania over recent advances in artificial intelligence will eventually end in disillusionment, mature regret—and new monsters

The capacity of AI to generate content is overwhelming the web.