ChatGPT and tools like it have made AI available to the masses. We can now get all sorts of responses back on almost any topic imaginable. These bots can come up with sonnets, code, philosophy, and mo

The maker of “Midsommar” may be known for horror, but he thought that film was comical. With his latest movie, “Beau Is Afraid,” the dark humor is more apparent. Send any friend a story As a subscribe

Research by: Sharon Ben-Moshe, Gil Gekker, Golan Cohen Introduction Due to ChatGPT , OpenAI’s release of the new interface for its Large Language Model (LLM), in the last few weeks there has been an e

Last year, I was asked to break GPT-4—to get it to output terrible things. I and other interdisciplinary researchers were given advance access and attempted to prompt GPT-4 to show biases, generate ha

There have been many discussions and research on how cybercriminals are leveraging the OpenAI platform, specifically ChatGPT, to generate malicious content such as phishing emails and malware. In Chec

A senior Russian security officer who defected last year has given rare insight into the paranoid lifestyle of Vladimir Putin , confirming details of a secret train network, identical offices in diffe

Guest Essay Noam Chomsky: The False Promise of ChatGPT March 8, 2023 Credit... By Ruru Kuo Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Anyone can read what y

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Ezra Klein The Imminent Danger of A.I. Is One We’re Not Talking About Feb. 26, 2023 Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Anyone can read what you shar

Hacking. Disinformation. Surveillance. CYBER is Motherboard's podcast and reporting on the dark underbelly of the internet. See More → As part of a test to see whether OpenAI’s latest version of GPT c

I. What a difference four months can make. If you had asked in November how I thought AI systems were progressing, I might have shrugged. Sure, by then OpenAI had released DALL-E, and I found myself e

Leslie Feist has a question. “So which one were you at?” she wonders. She’s referring to two concerts she played in Dublin last August. The gigs were as support for Arcade Fire, the big-hearted indie

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Three things of note to a particular slice of American culture occurred in recent weeks: On February 5th, the Grammy Awards, which were initially reluctant to embrace the genre of hip-hop, recognized

Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer; Photos: Getty Images The year is 2042. As the Buttigieg principate enters its second decade, all seems well in the North American Prefecture. The memorial for the Lo

It has only been a little under four months since ChatGPT came out, and yet I already feel super behind in publishing this story. I guess this is a testament to how quickly things are moving in AI tod

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TikTok and ByteDance employees regularly engage in “heating,” a manual push that ensures specific videos “achieve a certain number of video views,” according to six sources and documents reviewed by F

Here is how platforms die: First, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw bac

It’s a good time to be a search startup. When I spoke to Richard Socher, the CEO of You.com, last week he was buzzing: “Man, what an exciting day—looks like another record for us,” he exclaimed. “Neve

It’s one of the enduring injustices of the 21st century that Ratatouille , Pixar’s 2007 film about a culinary-minded rat who cooks like a world-class human chef, was not nominated for Best Picture. Bu

Microsoft is making a desperate play. Having spent billions on a search engine that no one uses , the company has sunk billions more into equipping it with the chatbot technology ChatGPT, on the theor

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When OpenAI launched ChatGPT, with zero fanfare, in late November 2022, the San Francisco–based artificial-intelligence company had few expectations. Certainly, nobody inside OpenAI was prepared for a

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This weekend, the Chicago-born, Los Angeles-based record label Numero Group will celebrate its twentieth anniversary with two nights of live shows at downtown L.A.’s Palace Theater. The fact that Nume

The influential rap trio’s catalog has long been absent from streaming services. Now its first six albums will be available, just weeks after the death of one of its members. Send any friend a story A

Rappers perform a tribute to hip-hop during the 65 th annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles on Feb. 5, 2023. Photo illustration by Slate. Photo by Valerie Macon/AFP via Getty Images. This week marks the

Feb 28, 2023 361 notes Often people say to me, “Kate, you’re an architecture critic! You must have an impeccably designed home full of wonderful design.” Haha, NO! However, I do think it’s entirely po

Photo: Llamasoft If it’s possible to be an institution and an outsider at the same time, then Jeff Minter is both. He is, perhaps, the last of the original lone gunmen in video games. As a self-taught

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Photo illustration by Slate. Images by Thinksock and AndreyPopov/iStock/Getty Images Plus. Few people are as knee-deep in our work-related anxieties and sticky office politics as Alison Green, who has

I was in my early 20s when I decided I wanted to write a novel. After a bookish childhood, I had followed an unremarkable middle-class trajectory: an English degree at a top university followed by an

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When Kyle Cornforth first walked into IDEO’s San Francisco offices in 2011, she felt she had entered a whole new world. At the time, Cornforth was a director at the Edible Schoolyard Project , a nonpr