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NaNoWriMo Organizers Said It Was Classist and Ableist to Condemn AI. All Hell Broke Loose

Morris, another member of NaNo’s writers board, first learned of the statement early Monday morning from a Facebook friend’s post. She immediately took action, publicly severing her ties...

His Galaxy Wolf Art Kept Getting Ripped Off. So He Sued—and Bought a Home

“With every one shop that I got to take down, another 10 popped up out of nowhere,” Jödicke says. “I almost wanted to give up on my...

Worried About AI Killing Art? This App Offers a Refuge—If Its Founder Can Keep the Lights On

At the moment we’re having this conversation, how many people have Cara accounts?Now we’re at nearly 900,000 users. But it’s been stressful. Yesterday or the day before—I’m losing...

The Uncanny Rise of the World’s First AI Beauty Pageant

What makes an AI pageant different, Friedman asserts, is that Fanvue’s contestants are products of their creators. “They’re drawing on all these stereotypes that we have about what...

AI-Generated Spoofs of ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ Are Flooding Instagram and TikTok

The blending of the real and unreal could explain why some faux-Drag Race followers get so passionate about what they’re seeing on their feeds. Michael says he “lives...

The Kate Middleton Photo’s Most Glaring Photoshop Mistakes

Kate Middleton, the Princess of Wales, needs to brush up on her Photoshop skills, apparently.Over the weekend, the royal family released the first image of Middleton since her...

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NYC proposes 5 percent raise for rideshare drivers in a bid to appease Uber and Lyft

New York City's Taxi and Limousine Commission (TLC) have settled on new minimum-wage rules for rideshare drivers, Bloomberg reports. Drivers will receive a...

Remedy is trying to fix FBC: Firebreak in response to middling reviews and player feedback

Remedy has shared its plans to improve FBC: Firebreak, the new multiplayer Control spinoff, following a string of less-than-stellar reviews that criticized the...

‘Wall-E With a Gun’: Midjourney Generates Videos of Disney Characters Amid Massive Copyright Lawsuit

Midjourney’s new AI-generated video tool will produce animated clips featuring copyrighted characters from Disney and Universal, WIRED has found—including video of the beloved...

A shark scientist reflects on Jaws at 50

A shark strikes ...

Seriously, What Is ‘Superintelligence’?

Michael Calore: Yeah.Katie Drummond: We need to do more reporting on this. I think that the compensation of people in Silicon Valley is...