What Did Dakota Johnson Actually Say?
“Even the AI hated it?” “The AI loved it,” said Tyrena. “That’s when we knew for sure that people were going to hate it.”
Dan Simmons • Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, Book 1)
Facing heat over allegedly telling kids to hurt themselves or their parents, Character.AI, a service for chatbots modeled after anyone from Billie Eilish to a fictional therapist, announced new guardrails for underage users yesterday.
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Victoria Turk • How AI reduces the world to stereotypes
Hobbs puts three issues on the agenda: photography, the western genre, and the absurd. Only her flushed face reveals evidence of nerves. She discusses the camera as a “violent tool” in the context of “visual pleasure and narrative cinema.” Then she delivers the heartfelt confession, “Thomas Mann said that all women are misogynists. I can identify t
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We Did the Math on AI’s Energy Footprint. Here’s the Story You Haven’t Heard.
James O'Donnelltechnologyreview.com
Like the Depp-Heard coverage, the forces that Sacasas describes can be deeply cynical and destructive. They’re also almost always exhausting for those of us consuming them.