I remember the first time I saw dinosaurs roar to life on the big screen like it was yesterday. I was eleven years old and as I walked into the theater with a bag of popcorn and a large Coke, I was overcome with excitement. I rushed to get a …
Read More »Aaron Paul Thinks AI Is Scarier Than Any 'Black Mirror' Episode
Aaron Paul‘s service isn’t so hot. After all, he’s currently in the wilds of Idaho for the summer, holed up in a little mountain town. “We have a cabin up in this place called McCall, so just going to kind of be floating the river, hanging out at the lake, …
Read More »'Black Mirror' Season Six Takes Aim at Netflix But Feels Stuck in the Past
This post contains spoilers for the sixth season of Black Mirror, which is streaming now on Netflix. “Joan Is Awful,” the first episode of the new season of Charlie Brooker’s sci-fi satire anthology series Black Mirror, stars Annie Murphy as the title character, a tech-company executive horrified to discover that …
Read More »Meet the Folks Lining Up for Elon Musk's Brain Implant
After years of delays, Neuralink Corp., a startup co-founded by Elon Musk and a small group of scientists in 2016, is set to begin human trials for an implantable brain chip that the tech CEO says will revolutionize humanity. And people are more than ready to lead the charge. “I …
Read More »Why Striking Hollywood Writers Fear an AI Future
For the first time since 2007, before streaming giants like Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, and HBO Max existed, members of the Writers Guild of America went on strike May 1 after failing to negotiate a deal with Hollywood studios. The Writers Guild of America (WGA) entered into contract discussions with the …
Read More »Reshaping Music Royalties: Technology and the Quest for Equitable Compensation
In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, music royalties have become an increasingly popular investment asset class. With streaming services dominating the market and accounting for 83 percent of the U.S. music industry’s revenue in 2022, according to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), the quest for fair artist compensation …
Read More »Saweetie Is Headlining a Super Bowl Concert (on Roblox)
If you asked Saweetie about this new performance, she’d probably say “I’m not bothering nobody, I just breathe and sh-t.” But some football fans are coming hard for the rapper after the NFL announced that she will take the virtual stage at a Super Bowl Concert on Roblox. On Tuesday, …
Read More »Instagram Co-Founders Create Artifact, a News App Not Afraid of Busting Fake News
Instagram co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger announced on Tuesday the launch of their new venture, Artifact. The app was touted as a tailored news feed powered by artificial intelligence, according to Platformer. The co-founders, who left Facebook in 2018 amid tensions with their parent company, shared the roll out …
Read More »Bestiality and Beyond: ChatGTP Works Because Underpaid Workers Read About Horrible Things
ChatGPT has been hailed as the future of AI text generators — and the end of high school writing assignments — for its ability to craft believable, oftentimes stylized human speech from prompts. The text AI works by drawing from examples of human language cataloged online. That includes the worst …
Read More »Nick Cave Slams AI Attempts at Nick Cave Songs
Nick Cave, the Bad Seeds frontman whose songs are tinged with a healthy dose of death, forlorn love, and religion, is no fan of ChatGPT‘s lyrical ambitions. The popular AI bot has drawn both praise and concern for its ability to generate conversational and nuanced text responses in simple, clean …
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