Futurism

Using AI to crank out everything imaginable, from your homework to emails to code, is great and all — until you have to own up to it.

Fearless embracers of AI are suddenly clutching at their pearls, after Anthropic

All is not well in the fourth estate.

On Tuesday, the publisher of Axios hit “post” on an article about how he basically uses AI to read for him now, instead of recruiting the moldering neurons in his brain.

“AI has become my reading buddy,” ...

The use of AI chatbots has invaded almost every profession.

From lawyers getting caught citing hallucinated cases and major consulting firms

For most people, the mental calculation to grab a meal from McDonald’s is pretty simple: it’s relatively cheap, fast, and goes down easy, even if it doesn’t always feel so good afterward. For McDonald’s, however, the question of how to keep a customer coming back is far more complicated — apparently requiring an expansive web of corporate surveillance.

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The public blowback to Meta’s contentious smart glasses continues to grow.

The popular camera-equipped accessories, which have earned the pejorative nickname of “pervert glasses,” are systematically being