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AI crawlers destroying websites in hunger for content
Traffic on my website has plunged over the past few years. In 2019, my site attracted almost 1.5 million visitors.…
Wired and Business Insider remove articles by AI-generated ‘freelancer’
Journalists who can't verify their sources, or their own humanity, face consequences. Multiple news organisations have taken down articles written…
My 1951 day DuoLingo streak was fun, but…
Ever since DuoLingo announced it was pivoting away from human workers to AI, I've enjoyed my visits with the spunky…
Students Are Using ChatGPT to Write Their Personal Essays Now: AI can replicate the shape of a narrative, but not the struggle that makes it meaningful
Students say they appreciate AI’s ability to organize ideas and improve flow, but many also recognize that what comes out…
Google’s healthcare AI made up a body part — what happens when doctors don’t notice?
Though not in a hospital setting, the “basilar ganglia” is a real error that was served up by Google’s healthcare…
Study finds AI tools made open source software developers 19 percent slower
Coders who used AI self-reported that they worked 20% faster, but an objective study found AI actually made coders 19%…
Voiceover artist Gayanne Potter urging ScotRail to remove her voice from new AI announcements
When I was working in radio news in the late 1980s, I took a lunch break at a nearby cafe…
Why Even Try if You Have A.I.? Now that machines can think for us, we have to choose whether to be the passengers or pilots of our lives.
We’re drawn to activities that invite us to grow, by trying and trying again, because we want to evolve as…
Microsoft Publishes Garbled AI Article Calling Tragically Deceased NBA Player “Useless”
This is what we have to look forward to, as a torrent of AI-generated slop that's good enough for the…
Stop sharing those unsourced memes about “be woke” and “God doesn’t need soldiers” — here’s what Pope Leo XIV is actually saying.
Pope Leo XIV, in his first address to journalists at the Vatican, called for the release of imprisoned journalists, championed…
Pope Leo XIV names AI one of the reasons for his papal name
…I chose to take the name Leo XIV. There are different reasons for this, but mainly because Pope Leo XIII…
A.I. Is Getting More Powerful, but Its Hallucinations Are Getting Worse
The newest and most powerful technologies — so-called reasoning systems from companies like OpenAI, Google and the Chinese start-up DeepSeek — are…
I ordered a box of composition books. Low-tech response to AI.
I felt like a capitalist, buying in bulk on the cheap and selling individual books for $2 (about a 20-cent…
It Costs So Much to Run ChatGPT That OpenAI Is Losing Money on $200 ChatGPT Pro Subscriptions
I'm also thinking of the cost to the students who have to repeat a course or fail out of a…
There’s No Longer Any Doubt That Hollywood Writing Is Powering AI
Two years after the release of ChatGPT, it may not be surprising that creative work is used without permission to…
Despite its impressive output, generative AI doesn’t have a coherent understanding of the world
[A] popular type of generative AI model can provide turn-by-turn driving directions in New York City with near-perfect accuracy — without…
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No one’s ready for this: Our basic assumptions about photos capturing reality are about to go up in smoke.
Everyone who is reading this article in 2024 grew up in an era where a photograph was, by default, a…
A week of nonstop breaking political news stumps AI chatbots
Chatbots are designed to give conversational answers and keep people engaged. Names and links to sources for answers range from…
LLM error rates
I worked on LLMs, and now I got opinions. Today, let’s talk about when LLMs make mistakes. On AI…
“Gen Zers know the difference between rock-solid news and AI-generated memes. They just don’t care.”
Over the past couple of years, researchers at Jigsaw, a Google subsidiary that focuses on online politics and polarization, have…