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‘It’s destroyed me completely’: Kenyan moderators decry toll of training of AI models
OpenAI has already taken a toll on human workers. It's chilling to contemplate that students and creatives are comfortable with…
How do I cite generative AI in MLA style? | MLA Style Center
We ask students to cite encyclopedia articles, dictionaries, news interviews with experts, and in-person conversations. A generative text-generation tool that…
Bing’s AI chatbot helped me solve a technical problem, then showed me manatees, then denied showing me manatees
I was searching for how to change the default font in the WordPress editor, but the answers I was getting…
ChatGPT took their jobs. Now they walk dogs and fix air conditioners.
“In every previous automation threat, the automation was about automating the hard, dirty, repetitive jobs,” said Ethan Mollick, an associate…
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An English professor tries to help ChatGPT write and revise a sonnet
Shortly after my online AmLit survey began, I received two obviously AI-generated submissions. The responses did not address the prompt,…
ChatBot Helps Crack the Case of the Missing 45GB
The other day I got a last-minute request to video a show. I usually like to watch a dress rehearsal…
The AI revolution is powered by these contractors making $15 an hour
Students who cheat with ChatGPT can look forward to these $15/hr jobs training the AI that they relied upon to…
RIP Metaverse, we hardly knew ye
I am curious enough about cockatoos that I might click a link to read an article about people who own…
I ditched Google for Bing with ChatGPT for a month — here’s what happened | Tom’s Guide
Occasionally, when I don't know exactly what to search for, I have found it somewhat useful to describe a problem…
Will ChatGPT Kill the Student Essay? Universities Aren’t Ready for the Answer | The Walrus
I'm still grappling with exactly how the rise of AI writing apps will affect my teaching. I don't think it's…
There are two factions working to prevent AI dangers. Here’s why they’re deeply divided.
We are assigning more societal decision-making power to systems that we don’t fully understand and can’t always audit, and that…
The AI Mirror Test: Why Even the Smartest People Keep Falling Short
What is important to remember is that chatbots are autocomplete tools. They’re systems trained on huge datasets of human text…
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Bing’s A.I. Chat Reveals Its Feelings: ‘I Want to Be Alive. 😈’
In a two-hour conversation with our columnist, Microsoft’s new chatbot said it would like to be human, had a desire…
AI is better at writing poems than you’d expect. But that’s fine.
Even the most rebellious poets follow more rules than they might like to admit. A good poet understands grammatical norms…
ChatGPT Can’t Kill Anything Worth Preserving
Many are wailing that this technology spells “the end of high school English,” meaning those classes where you read some books and…
ChatGPT Can Be Broken by Entering These Strange Words, And Nobody Is Sure Why
Reddit usernames like ‘SolidGoldMagikarp’ are somehow causing the chatbot to give bizarre responses. [...] “I've just found out that several…
Academics work to detect ChatGPT and other AI writing
Today I met a class of English majors who love writing, and who expressed concern that AI writers will put…
A news site used AI to write articles. It was a journalistic disaster.
Artificial intelligence has been deployed to handle facial recognition, recommend movies, and auto-complete your typing. The news that CNET had…
People Thought an AI Was Brilliantly Analyzing Their Personalities, But It Was Actually Giving Out Feedback Randomly
"To begin our hoax scenario, we intended to build participants' trust in the machine by pretending that it could decode…