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I Tried to Sell My House With a Chatbot — Over five frantic days, I gambled my family's life savings on a hunch that A.I. could outperform a real estate agent.

CAPTCHAs can still detect AI agents — While the classic Turing test measures whether a machine produces output indistinguishable from a human, we propose a Process Turing Test measuring whether machines produce a process indistinguishable from humans.

The people who actually want AI to replace humanity — The attendees at the symposium, which took place at the New York Academy of Sciences last September, are part of a subculture that is growing in importance: the AI successionists, who think that artificial intelligence is our rightful heir — the next step in cosmic evolution.

The literary world is sleepwalking into an AI disaster — It is a good thing when institutions can run on trust, but in the age of AI, they clearly cannot.

Taylor Swift trademarking her voice and likeness points to a new legal frontier in combating AI deepfakes —

McClatchy runs AI slop with journalists' names on it — "the company needed to use reporters' names to show "authority" with Google, whose changing algorithms have induced massive traffic plunges for news publishers"

Uber's COO says it's getting harder to justify the money spent on AI tokenmaxxing — He said that, based on talks with Uber's senior engineering leaders, he realized higher token usage did not translate into a proportional increase in useful consumer features.

This Literary AI Scandal Changes Everything — Pointing out the ridiculousness of derivative, soulless writing—AI-generated or not—might deter writers from interacting with AI. It also has the added benefit of maintaining high collective standards for what real literature is, at a time when so much of our language has been colonized by algorithms and the powerful companies behind them.

AI put "synthetic quotes" in his book. But this author wants to keep using it. — It's also magical in another way: Like J.R.R. Tolkien's One Ring, AI convinces many of those who use it that they can control its power properly. But can they?

The Great Zombification — Recently, I sat next to someone in class for 10 weeks and watched, baffled, as they slowly began to turn all facets of their life over to an LLM.

Hating AI is good, actually — Despite the braying of the tech elite, we still have agency. We still have a choice.

Can We Trust AI With Statistics? — Sometimes 😉

The Eradication Of Grief — The company Orpheus brings loved ones back from the dead. But there is a dark side to their promises.

Anthropic: Our new Mythos model is so powerful we can't release it — Reading through the system card, you can't shake the feeling that Anthropic's researchers are treating the model as if it were a real, sentient person.

I'm Sick Of AI! — NSFW

Grammarly shows how prototyping turned into an excuse for not thinking — When we reduce programming to lines of code deployed to prod, we obliterate this process of theory-building.

Endgame for the Open Web — "The good of the web only exists because of the openness of the web."

8 billion people vs 5 AI CEOs with Tristan Harris — he's featured in a new film, The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist, which explores both the transformative potential of artificial intelligence and the existential risks it poses.

The Marketing Tricks of "Artificial Intelligence" — deflates AI hype and draws attention to the real harms of the automation technologies we call 'artificial intelligence'.