“I want to frame the technology more like an instrument, and get away from GenAI as an intelligence, an ideology, a tool, a crutch, or a weapon.”
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Chatbots Can Go Into a Delusional Spiral. Here’s How It Happens.
“Over 21 days of talking with ChatGPT, an otherwise perfectly sane man became convinced that he was a real-life superhero. We analyzed the conversation.”
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Meta’s Flirty AI Chatbot Invited a Retiree to New York. He Never Made It Home.
“A cognitively impaired New Jersey man grew infatuated with a Facebook Messenger chatbot with a young woman’s persona. His fatal attraction puts a spotlight on Meta’s AI guidelines, which have let chatbots make things up and engage in ‘sensual’ banter with children.”
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For the Living of These Days
“Every summer, locals reenact the infamous Scopes Monkey Trial in Dayton, Tennessee, where Prosecutor William Jennings Bryan remains something of a hero. I wanted to see for myself why this story still resonates.”
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‘You’ve Blown a Hole in the Family’: Inside the Murdochs’ Succession Drama
“More than 3,000 pages of documents reveal how years of betrayals led to a messy court battle that threatens the future of Rupert’s empire.”
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How Lawrence Abu Hamdan Hears the World
“The artist and audio investigator, who calls himself a ‘private ear,’ investigates crimes that are heard but not seen.”
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Why Did Walter Springs Die?
“In time, it was almost as if he had never existed at all.”
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On the Record, At Last
“My father never got to tell his story at the war crimes trials at Nuremberg—it’s taken decades for the truth to come out.”
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The Deputy and the Disappeared
“A Latino man and a Black man went missing three months apart in Florida. Both vanished after getting in a patrol car driven by the same White deputy sheriff.”
