All of these new products and features are impressive, but we're a long way from computers thinking for themselves.

Anatomy of an AI System - The Amazon Echo as an anatomical map of human labor, data and planetary resources. By Kate Crawford and Vladan Joler (2018)

German artist Boris Eldagsen says entry to Sony world photography awards was designed to provoke debate

How did trolling about ChatGPT become the new “learn to code”?

Recent moves establish important guidelines for how copyright applies to works created with artificial intelligence.

A German stock photographer tried to get his photos removed from the AI-training LAION dataset. Lawyers replied that he owes $979 for making an unjustified copyright claim.

The music industry has navigated the choppy waters of royalties and ownership well before AI-generated music gained buzz. And not just because of sampling.

"Suno’s training data includes essentially all music files of reasonable quality that are accessible on the open internet."

Synthetic images showing curiously handsome versions of Jesus Christ are flooding the internet.

Despite the growing profusion of AI image generators, they all had remarkably similar responses when The Post directed them to portray a beautiful woman.

Once a vibrant platform for artists, DeviantArt is now buckling under the weight of bots and greed—and spurning the creative community that made it great.

“The problem with AI is the people who use AI. They don't respect the written word,” the founder of Bards and Sages said.

It’s a common response to rebut concerns about generative AI, and you may land here if you’ve made that argument in a comment thread or social media.

It's afraid.

The blogging platform Medium is facing an influx of AI-generated content. CEO Tony Stubblebine says it “doesn’t matter” as long as nobody reads it.

The EU AI Act and emerging practice flip copyright’s default opt-in regime to an opt-out one. What effects is this likely to have on the balance of power between rights holders and reuse?

Ted Chiang on how artificial intelligence still isn’t as intelligent as it is perceived to be and how its profound limitations should temper our fears about it replacing real art-making.

The danger of accepting an industry's terms for itself

How AI innovation is powered by underpaid workers in foreign countries.

Proving you're a human on a web flooded with generative AI content

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

Large language models are full of security vulnerabilities, yet they’re being embedded into tech products on a vast scale.

AI is not “some mysterious, magical, autonomous being,” one critic said.

Either way, experts think OpenAI should be less opaque about its AI model architecture.

How generative AI and AI art is affecting artists.

AI can be kind of useful, but I'm not sure that a "kind of useful" tool justifies the harm.

Study finds that while AI can be great, it also struggles due to training limitations

There’s blood in the water. Angry developers, users, and regulatory bodies are circling React and Single-Page-App web development, snapping big chunks out of their sides. The smell of blood just brings more and more critics.

Forget AI. Google just created a version of its search engine free of the extra junk it has added over the past decade-plus. You just need one URL parameter.

Facebook is the zombie internet, where a mix of bots, humans, and accounts that were once humans but aren’t anymore interact to form a disastrous website where there is little social connection at all.

Some publications are already using text and image generators. Here's how WIRED will—and won't—use the technology.

The risks inherent in the technology, plus the speed of its take-up, demonstrate why it’s so vital that we keep track of it, writes the Guardian’s head of editorial innovation, Chris Moran

Notre charte déontologique vis-à-vis des IA génératives et des contenus synthétiques.

The news and data giant has — with a relatively small team — built a generative AI that it says outperforms the competition on its own specific information needs.

Concerns over implicit bias in machine-learning software raised important questions about how New York Times comment moderators can leverage this powerful tool, while also mitigating the risks.

Publishers are uncertain about the impact that AI-driven chatbots, like ChatGPT from OpenAI, have on the industry. While they may offer customized experiences and data-based insights, publishers acknowledge that this technology has limitations.

Please don’t embarrass us, robots.

Have you been curious to learn about the most valuable sports franchises in the world? Would you prefer this information to come in the form of a ranked list that is both disordered and incorrect? Are you easily spooked by the noise of a vacuum cleaner, or unfamiliar people walking by your house?

The eight papers bringing the suit are all owned by investment giant Alden Global Capital.

Major news outlets have begun criticizing OpenAI and its ChatGPT software, saying the lab is using their articles to train its artificial intelligence tool without paying them.

The nontransparent nature of the licensing agreements could spell bad news for smaller newsrooms.

The Washington Post is launching a new AI chatbot called Climate Answers that answers questions about climate using the outlet’s archive of reporting.

Paying a freelancer on Fiverr to create a plagiarizing ChatGPT-powered news site revealed an industry of middlemen and services trying to game Google Search.

The publisher says the AI search startup stole its content without credit or compensation.

We reached out to longtime tech journalist and newsroom leader Julia Angwin for her thoughts on the future of AI and the news.

Publishers including The Atlantic are signing deals with the AI giant. Where does this lead?

Last year, Hoodline began filling its site with AI-generated articles, and Zachary Chen, chief executive of Hoodline parent company Impress3, defended the practice.

Awarded investigative stories are increasingly relying on machine learning, whether covering Chicago police negligence or Israeli weapons in Gaza

These tools are cool, if you use them carefully.

After announcing earlier this year a pivot to quizzes co-written by AI, BuzzFeed seems to have widened its purview to include articles.

Generative AI like Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, and DALL-E 2 can be fun to play with. There's also the potential for this technology to be used as an information weapon.

The pope didn’t actually wear that great jacket, but a lot of people were ready to believe he did.

A really common misconception about ChatGPT is that it can access URLs. I’ve seen many different examples of people pasting in a URL and asking for a summary, or asking …

TL;DR ChatGPT claims we offer an API to turn a mobile phone number into the location of the phone. We do not.

The buzzy new AI tool can quickly create entire news organizations out of thin air. Should we be freaking out?

The way AI models structure text may have something to do with it, according to the study authors.

The evolution of persuasive technologies (PT) has reached a new frontier with the advent of Artificial Intelligence (AI). This article explores AI’s power of hy

Recently, there has been considerable interest in large language models: machine learning systems which produce human-like text and dialogue. Applications of these systems have been plagued by persistent inaccuracies in their output; these are often called “AI hallucinations”. We argue that these falsehoods, and the overall activity of large language models, is better understood as bullshit in the sense explored by Frankfurt (On Bullshit, Princeton, 2005): the models are in an important way indifferent to the truth of their outputs. We distinguish two ways in which the models can be said to be bullshitters, and argue that they clearly meet at least one of these definitions. We further argue that describing AI misrepresentations as bullshit is both a more useful and more accurate way of predicting and discussing the behaviour of these systems.

Thousands of Dubliners showed up for the city’s much-anticipated Halloween parade on Thursday evening. They lined the streets from Parnell Street to Christchurch Cathedral, waiting for the promised three-hour parade that would “[transform] Dublin into a lively tapestry of costumes, artistic performances, and cultural festivities.” A likely story. There was no parade, and never was […]

Generative AI threatens journalism, education, and creativity by spreading misinformation, displacing jobs, and eroding quality.

Whisper is a popular transcription tool powered by artificial intelligence, but it has a major flaw. It makes things up that were never said.

The bot network supported Republican candidates in states like Ohio and Pennsylvania and boosted North Carolina’s Republican-led voter identification law.

For one German reporter, the statistical underpinnings of a large language model meant his many bylines were wrongly warped into a lengthy rap sheet.

Wordfreq shuts down because "I don’t think anyone has reliable information about post-2021 language usage by humans.”

A Google Search for “Hieronymus Bosch” returned an AI-generated version of The Garden of Earthly Delights pulled from an AI slop blog.

Posed questions about Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump, top AI models generated misleading information 30 percent of the time.

Ana Navarro-Cardenas used ChatGPT to make an erroneous claim about presidential pardons. It turns out that just scratches the surface of what Gen AI gets wrong.

Today I used ChatGPT to get some help making a browser plugin. I posted my queries, then watched as the code and text spilled down the screen. This is the part of large language-models that I dig! As…

On average, a ChatGPT query needs nearly 10 times as much electricity to process as a Google search. In that difference lies a coming sea change in how the US, Europe, and the world at large will consume power — and how much that will cost. 

New artificial intelligence data centers are coming online so fast that the electricity demand is straining global power grids and threatening clean energy goals.

The tech giant, which has seen its planet-warming emissions rise because of artificial intelligence, has stopped buying cheap offsets behind the neutrality claim. The company now aims to reach net-zero carbon by 2030.

Powering artificial intelligence models takes a lot of energy. A new analysis demonstrates just how big the problem could become

Google is bringing AI answers to a billion people this year, but generative AI requires much more energy than traditional keyword searches

Big tech is playing its part in reaching net zero targets, but its vast new datacentres are run at huge cost to the environment, says economics professor Mariana Mazzucato

A global rush for the next wave of generative artificial intelligence is increasing public scrutiny on Big Tech's expanding water footprint.

Miranda Gabbott asks, by choosing AI industry-driven growth today, will urban planners in Spain jeopardize their water tomorrow?

The immense and quickly advancing computing requirements of AI models could lead to the industry discarding the e-waste equivalent of more than 10 billion

Constellation to invest $1.6 billion to restart dormant reactor as data-center power demand surges.

Silicon Valley is helping to accelerate the climate crisis in at least 3 major ways

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A conversation with Chat GPT can consume a bottle of water. So why is big tech setting up AI in some of the world’s driest countries?

Miranda Gabbott asks, by choosing AI industry-driven growth today, will urban planners in Spain jeopardize their water tomorrow?

There’s a strong link between proximity to AI data centers and higher levels of distorted power in residential areas

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We are delighted to announce the public release of Stable Diffusion and the launch of DreamStudio Lite.

We’ve trained a model called ChatGPT which interacts in a conversational way. The dialogue format makes it possible for ChatGPT to answer followup questions, admit its mistakes, challenge incorrect premises, and reject inappropriate requests.

Run open-source machine learning models with a cloud API

Get your newsroom ready to incorporate technologies that include artificial intelligence to support and grow all aspects of your news operation.

As part of its ongoing efforts to help local newsrooms integrate automation and artificial intelligence technology, The Associated Press will tackle five AI projects stretching from Michigan to Puerto Rico.

Have you ever toyed with generative AI models like ChatGPT, GPT-3, or DALL-E and wondered whether they could actually help you do some newswork? The technology is poised to disrupt many aspects of…

The epidemic It's everywhere on dev.to, and it's everywhere else, too. I'm tired of it. AI...

Some publications are already using text and image generators. Here's how WIRED will—and won't—use the technology.

If we stay on the current trajectory, it's utterly plausible that AI language tools will begin to blend into our daily workflows, similar to how Google and Google Translate have.

When The New York Times paywall launched , its meter count was the same for all users. Since then, The Times has transformed into a data-driven digital company, and its paywall is now successfully using a causal machine learning model called the Dynamic Meter to set personalized meter limits, making for a smarter paywall.

To create a more comprehensive personalization algorithm, The New York Times built a machine-learning model that relates article text to reader-selected interests.

What if AI could scan the world for events and information and send an alert when something looked interesting? This could accelerate reporting and guide journalists’ limited attention in a world of…

Jeremy Gilbert, Director of Strategic Initiatives at The Washington Post, discusses the implementation artificial intelligence tools in the newsroom, allowing human journalists to put their time into more significant reporting.

Scattered errors and hallucinated data make it an exploratory tool, not a shortcut to analysis

The Future of Quizzing Has Arrived!

Decrypt launches a real-time feed of human and AI-generated breaking news summaries from around the web.

Posted on Tuesday 7 Feb 2023. 1,208 words, 14 links. By Matt Webb.

That's a bit of a Reach

While some freelancers are losing their gigs to ChatGPT, clients are being spammed with AI-written content on freelancing platforms. The result: increasing mistrust between clients and freelancers and mounting trouble for the platforms themselves.

An analysis of a chatbot data set by The Washington Post reveals the proprietary, personal, and often offensive websites that go into an AI’s training data.

Until recently, Brett Schickler never imagined he could be a published author, though he had dreamed about it. But after learning about the ChatGPT artificial intelligence program, Schickler figured an opportunity had landed in his lap.

The noted speculative-fiction writer Ted Chiang on OpenAI’s chatbot ChatGPT, which, he says, does little more than paraphrase what’s already on the Internet.

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In which ChatGPT and I invent a fictional language spoken by slime-people

Unless you have been living under a rock, you have heard of this new ChatGPT assistant made by OpenAI. Did you know, that you can run a whole virtual machine inside of ChatGPT?