Critical Digital Media

How companies are gaming the chatbot internet

The artists talk process, slop, and why optimism and pessimism don’t quite cover it.

AI research tools are trained on a literature that is structured by an unequal distribution of attention. Does their use simply recreate the

The transition from small hunter-gatherer societies into complex civilizations gave rise to the first Axial Age. Today, the planetary polycr

Researchers show scammers are using AI-manipulated footage of celebrity interviews to trick users into sharing their personal data.

AI now makes it possible to communicate with the dead. But these digital avatars raise significant ethical questions about our relationship

A review of tens of thousands of admissions essays at a selective college show an increase in homogeneous language after AI tools became ava

Torizon Telecom takes retro game art to a new, literal level.

The 88-year-old Japanese physician swapped autopsies for popular science writing. In his best-seller, he argues that we have vast amounts of

Welcome to the agentic era

The first generation to truly grow up online, Generation Z and their cohort live in a social media ecosystem that blends facts and feelings.

“And so perfect parallel constructions fill the lecture halls, the take-home tests, the school newspapers, and perhaps even the idiom of stu

Al Warburton sees new world model architectures as AI’s teen goth phase.

Anthropic blames sci-fi for AI behavior