Tag results for: digital culture
Reddit’s ‘Celebrity Number Six’ Win Was Almost a Catastrophe—Thanks to AI
Take, for example, the other recently solved internet mystery: The source of the song that became known as “Everyone Knows That.” After nearly three years of online investigative...
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...
