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Words Without Consequence
2+ hour, 5+ min ago (75+ words) Words Without Consequence'The Atlantic What does it mean to have speech without a speaker? This dynamic is already familiar in everyday use. A chatbot gets something wrong. When corrected, it apologizes and changes its answer. When corrected again, it apologizes…...
The Chatbots Appear to Be Organizing
1+ week, 3+ day ago (116+ words) The first signs of the apocalypse might look a little like Moltbook: a new social-media platform, launched last week, that is supposed to be populated exclusively by AI bots1.6 million of them and ... Moltbook is the chaotic future of the internet....
Move Over, ChatGPT
1+ mon, 20+ hour ago (1259+ words) Move Over, ChatGPT'The Atlantic Over the holidays, Alex Lieberman had an idea: What if he could create Spotify "Wrapped" for his text messages? Without writing a single line of code, Lieberman, a co-founder of the media outlet Morning Brew, created…...
Can We Save the Internet?
1+ mon, 6+ day ago (1959+ words) Grok's "digital undressing" crisis and a manifesto to build a better internet Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube It's like'it's just a weird thing. Perfect crime. I think we're going to look back on it and think of chatbots as…...
Is This the End of OpenAI’s Supremacy?
2+ mon, 5+ day ago (99+ words) For nearly three years, Marc Benioff, the CEO of Salesforce, was a ChatGPT devotee. Then, late last month, he abruptly converted to Google's chatbot, Gemini. "Holy shit," he wrote on X. "I've used ... The AI start-up is in trouble. For nearly…...
ChatGPT’s Self-Serving Optimism
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (212+ words) OpenAI's new guidelines ask its chatbot to celebrate "innovation,' contradicting its stated goal of objectivity'and raising questions about what objectivity even means. This summer, after hearing about an interview I'd done on artificial intelligence, a relative sent me an email....
When Chatbots Break Our Minds
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (1932+ words) How big a problem is "AI psychosis? Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube The Atlantic entered into a corporate partnership with OpenAI in 2024. Kashmir Hill: The way I've been thinking about kind of the delusion stuff is the way that…...
The World Still Hasn’t Made Sense of ChatGPT
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (262+ words) OpenAI's chaos machine turns three. This story is part of a series marking ChatGPT's third anniversary. Read Ian Bogost on how ChatGPT broke reality, or browse more AI coverage from The Atlantic. And people sure did use it'more than 1 million…...
The Earliest Days of The Atlantic Online
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (469+ words) The year 1995 was full of flash art and wild optimism about the internet....
What We Lose by Letting AI Speak for Us
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (399+ words) A new app promises to improve conversations but instead makes them worse. How do you cheat at a conversation? This could have been a Zen koan, in different times. In the unfortunate times we live in, it is the question…...