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You Keep Falling For Secret Ads
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I'm a Professional Writer Who Uses a Very Controversial Tool. It's Not As Scary As I Thought.
2+ week, 2+ day ago (1040+ words) Slate A. I. didn't write any part of this story. A. I. didn't outline it for me and didn't catch typos on a first draft, though I don't have any more of a moral issue with that practice than I do with using spellcheck....
Can Patreon Build a Better Internet?
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A Trendy Way to Break Your Social Media Addiction Costs $59. I Found a Clever Dupe.
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (309+ words) Slate This is One Thing, a column with tips on how to live. Like many of us, I have struggled with social media. After a day of working at Slate, I'd close my computer, only to reach for my phone....
TBD Tries" Vibe Coding
2+ mon, 5+ day ago (114+ words) No computer science degrees'just pure vibes and Claude. If you can't access your feeds, please contact customer support. Thanks! Check your phone for a link to. .. TBD Tries" Vibe Coding No computer science degrees'just pure vibes and Claude. Choose your…...
A New Kind of Scandal Is Growing Online. It's Ruining Careers'and Aimed at the Wrong Target.
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (1063+ words) A culture of callouts, paranoia, and fear may prevent the media from wrestling with much more uncomfortable questions. Over the past month, A. I. detection has been at the center of a series of controversies: Hachette pulled the horror novel Shy Girl…...
One of Silicon Valley's Hottest Companies Is Facing a Revolt'From Its Own Fans
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (769+ words) Slate Earlier this spring, Anthropic scored the marketing coup of a generation. The Pentagon wanted access to the full capabilities of the company's A. I. models, including the right to automate the death of human beings without a fellow member of the…...
One of the Internet's Most Iconic Websites Just Took a Bold Stand. The Rest Should Follow.
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (317+ words) Nitish Pahwa: How long have you been thinking about how to tackle A. I. across Wikipedia? But the burden kept increasing. We had to set up a new system to track all of the A. I. issues. Half of our administrative discussions were focused…...
The Price of Using Discord Might Be Your Driver's License
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (577+ words) Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Discord will soon be expanding teen. .. The megapopular digital messenger Discord is inspiring a lot of, well, discord this…...
Wikipedia Is The Most Human Place On The Internet
1+ mon, 4+ week ago (116+ words) While Wikipedia has long been seen as an infinite well of knowledge, it's kept alive by hundreds of thousands of dedicated human volunteers. Wikipedia Is The Most Human Place On The Internet The platform's AI ban is just the beginning....