“AI, ChatGPT, and LLMs ‘have absolutely blown up what I try to accomplish with my teaching.'”
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Everyone Is Already Using AI (and Hiding It)
“We can say, ‘Do it in anime, make it PG-13.’ Three hours later, I’ll have the movie.”
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‘A Billion Streams and No Fans’: Inside a $10 Million AI Music Fraud Case
“A chart-topping jazz album! Loads of Spotify and Apple Music plays! Just one problem: The success might not be real.”
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North Korea Stole Your Job
“For years, North Korea has been secretly placing young IT workers inside Western companies. With AI, their schemes are now more devious—and effective—than ever.”
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AI Is Coming for Music, Too
“New diffusion AI models that make songs from scratch are complicating our definitions of authorship and human creativity.”
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The A.I. Romance Factory
“Genre fiction publisher Inkitt has influential backers and a vision for infinitely customizable A.I.-driven content. What would be left for the human creators?”
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Portrait of ChatGPT as a Young Artist: Vauhini Vara on Voice, Tech, and Using AI in Writing
“Sarah Viren talks to the author of ‘Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age.’”
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Your A.I. Lover Will Change You
“A future where many humans are in love with bots may not be far off. Should we regard them as training grounds for healthy relationships or as nihilistic traps?”
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Recommending notable stories by Kelley Engelbrecht, Sam Anderson, Lindsey Liles, Jeannette Cooperman, and Claire McNear.
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The Great AI Art Heist
“A lab at the University of Chicago is protecting artists from theft by a new adversary: the machines.”