It will all end in flames
On a blustery spring Thursday, just after midterms, I went out for noodles with Alex and Eugene, two undergraduates at New York University, to talk about how they use artificial intelligence in their schoolwork. When I first met Alex, last year, he was interested in a career in the arts, and he devoted a lot of his free time to photo shoots with his friends. But he had recently decided on a...
Continue Reading on https://www.newyorker.com/Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Last week, two different federal judges in the Northern District of California made legal rulings that attempt to resolve one of the knottiest debates in the artificial intelligence world: whether it’s a copyright violation for Big Tech firms to use published books for...
Continue Reading on https://slate.com/Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. In the years since ChatGPT’s debut transformed Silicon Valley into an artificial intelligence hype factory, the internet’s most vibrant communities have puzzled over how to adapt to the ensuing deluge of A.I. slop, especially as autogenerated outputs become more...
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