“I found people in serious relationships with AI partners and planned a weekend getaway for them at a remote Airbnb. We barely survived.”
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What Happens After A.I. Destroys College Writing?
“The demise of the English paper will end a long intellectual tradition, but it’s also an opportunity to reëxamine the purpose of higher education.”
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What’s Happening to Reading?
“For many people, A.I. may be bringing the age of traditional text to an end.”
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They Asked an A.I. Chatbot Questions. The Answers Sent Them Spiraling.
“Generative A.I. chatbots are going down conspiratorial rabbit holes and endorsing wild, mystical belief systems. For some people, conversations with the technology can deeply distort reality.”
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Conversations With Claude
“What a psychotherapist learned during his chats with a large language model.”
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Teachers Are Not OK
“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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Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College
“ChatGPT has unraveled the entire academic project.”
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How Creativity Became the Reigning Value of Our Time
“In a new book, Samuel Franklin excavates the surprisingly recent history of an idea, an ideal, and an ideology.”
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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.”