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I Set A Trap To Catch Students Cheating With AI. The Result Was Deflating

My classes are generally small enough that I have time to get to know each student's writing. When a student…

2 weeks ago

AI Agents Are Terrible Freelance Workers

AI is getting better at rote tasks, but it still takes a human to do 97% of typical freelance tasks…

2 weeks ago

Everyone thinks AI is replacing factory workers, but Amazon’s layoffs show it’s coming for middle management first

Amazon announced Tuesday that it will cut roughly 14,000 corporate jobs, or about 4% of its white-collar workforce, as part…

1 month ago

The dawn of the post-literate society

The world of print is orderly, logical and rational. In books, knowledge is classified, comprehended, connected and put in its…

2 months ago

Is it okay to say clanker?

Clanker is a derogatory term used to insult AI and its products and services such as delivery robots, therapist chatbots…

2 months ago

‘Tentacles squelching wetly’: the human subtitle writers under threat from AI

Artificial intelligence is making steady advances into subtitling but, say its practitioners, it’s a vital service that needs a human…

2 months ago

Have you been “workslopped” by a bot?

If you have ever experienced this, you might recall the feeling of confusion after opening such a document, followed by…

2 months ago

Peer Review Paranoia: The system is built on trust between scholars. AI is undermining that.

From an essay that includes a reflection on discovering AI-fabricated quotes while peer-reviewing a scholarly essay for potential publication. (Academics…

2 months ago

I’m a High Schooler. AI Is Demolishing My Education.

AI has transformed my experience of education. I am a senior at a public high school in New York, and…

3 months ago

Humans are being hired to make AI slop look less sloppy

The illustrations clients bring to her are commonly littered with unclean lines and nonsensical text, and they look like a…

3 months ago

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.…

3 months ago

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…

4 months ago

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…

4 months ago

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…

4 months ago

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%…

5 months ago

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…

6 months ago

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…

7 months ago