This new litany of complaints feels like it will be a lot tougher for the tech behemoth to successfully battle.
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Many people on social media pushed back against the claim that Atwood’s famous, bestselling book has in any way been “banned.”
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Kolitz wraps up his article by stressing how this new type of addiction isn’t so far removed from the more culturally accepted forms of mindless scrolling.
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Reading great books might not immediately come to mind, but according to professor Shilo Brooks, it just might be a part of the answer.
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The book may not present neat answers to our problems, but it presents a vital picture of what it looks like to cherish life and hold onto to the inherent value of human life.
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If anything, these AI tech moguls are giving away their rather sordid conception of the human person.
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AI is a tool with certain potentials and limits across various fields, but basic anthropological confusion can do a lot of damage. What happens when AI programs cease to be seen as mere tools, meant to used in limited ways and used wisely, and are considered “persons?” It sounds silly to pose the question, but that’s where we are. Futurism writer Frank Landymore reports on an Ohio legislative measure to ban human-AI marital unions. The bill must be intended to be preventative, since AI bots and programs aren’t recognized as legal persons (yet), but it speaks to a cultural trend that, if undealt with, could blow out of proportion. Landymore writes, Popular chatbots are capable of being eerily lifelike, effortlessly Read More ›
Most Americans can’t fathom that an unsavory social media post could earn them a knock on their front door a day later. But that’s happening in Europe on a near daily basis.
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Free speech, the constitutional right most of us Americans take for granted, is dying in the United Kingdom.
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LLMs, while they seem to offer confident answers, cannot reflect on what they’re generating and so can’t wisely discern truth from falsehood.
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Shows like Kimmel’s and Colbert’s have long abandoned the usual attempts at humor, which has historically included taking jabs at both sides of the aisle.
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Kirk openly invited dialogue and debate among people with different views and backgrounds. He always fought for others’ right to speak their minds.
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Weiss had resigned over her frustrations with censorship and bullying in legacy media. Those who laugh last laugh best.
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As trust in legacy journalism erodes, more time and energy will get funneled into independent media and X isn’t playing fair here.
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Ted Gioia writes, books “offer an escape from the degraded digital domains, where duplicity is now dictated by the largest platforms with the richest owners.”
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Whatever one’s opinions regarding solutions for declining literacy rates, people can always start to brew change in their own lives and communities.
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One of the problems of AI-human “relationships” is that, by definition, we cannot relate to a computer, nor can a computer relate to us.
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If materialism is false, if there is at least something at work beyond the material realm, then stories just got interesting again.
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According to a report from Reuters, Meta, parent company of Facebook, has allowed its chatbot to flirt and have “sensual” conversations with children. Meta AI is now accessible on various Meta platforms, and age limits are essentially suggestions, not requirements. Anyone can lie about their age and create an account. Jeff Horwitz writes, These and other findings emerge from a Reuters review of the Meta document, which discusses the standards that guide its generative AI assistant, Meta AI, and chatbots available on Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram, the company’s social-media platforms. Meta confirmed the document’s authenticity, but said that after receiving questions earlier this month from Reuters, the company removed portions which stated it is permissible for chatbots to flirt and engage Read More ›
Media figures were quick to denounce Acosta’s choice to interview an AI system as if it were some kind of genuine embodiment of the young Oliver.
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