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Many baby boomers see AI as a revolutionary tool, while young people see it as taking away their agency.

Yearning for the ten-fingered hands and deformed horse glitches of old AI image models? You're experiencing nostalgia compression.

Resistance to tech is brewing among digital natives

“The point of the paper is to formally show that we anthropomorphise too readily."

The demise of the English paper will end a long intellectual tradition, but it’s also an opportunity to reëxamine the purpose of higher educ

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