Sports team member calls out friend for utilizing AI to write an entire memorial eulogy for someone close to their club, friend fails to see the moral issue: ‘[He] went on to say I was being disrespectful’

AI-generated images and texts are becoming increasingly difficult to distinguish from human-made digital and textual assets. As a writer, I am compelled to acknowledge that AI-generated content, in terms of both creative writing and personal writing, is treading the line of unethical. Aside from the fact that artificial intelligence will never match a human writer’s …
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From ‘Bot’ to ‘Bro’: How ChatGPT became a source of companionship in an era of increasingly unavoidable loneliness

It’s therapeutic to talk to someone about your problems, but that means you either need a heart-to-heart conversation with a friend or you’ve got to pay a professional to sit down and listen to your rants. In the modern world, it seems like the latter is more plausible.  Social media has made people oddly antisocial …
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Social Media Has Turned Into a Slop Factory, And I Hate That Nobody Cares

We have spent the past three years hearing that AI was going to revolutionize all of our lives, completely changing the trajectory of the future of each and every industry. While there is no doubt that AI has and will continue to bring positive changes to various aspects of our lives, it has yet to …
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Tech bro claims that AI will eradicate social drinking in 5 years, gets roasted by the internet: ‘Does everyone working in AI just not understand human beings?»

Is there any kind of nerd more insufferable than the artificial intelligence nerd? There’s no doubt that the technology we have seen develop at a rapid pace over the past couple of years has already changed the trajectory of the human race, but people aren’t necessarily going to change with it in the way some …
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‘How did people from the late 1900s to early 2000s graduate’: Lazy Gen Z college student brags about using AI for every assignment, gets dragged by the internet

Most of us college graduates know all too well that a university education doesn’t come cheap. Call me old-fashioned, but for me, this was an incentive to actually attempt to learn something. Don’t get me wrong, I wasn’t always the most studious undergraduate. Nonetheless, when the time came for me to be handed that fancy …
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’45 year mortgages’: 20+ Wild predictions for the future that sound pretty plausible

Nobody has a crystal ball (except maybe the creators of The Simpsons). But it sure is fun to make guesses about what might come to pass. I remember doing that a lot when I was graduating high school- trying to guess what would become of myself and my classmates. Would Josh grow up to be …
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Job posting demands 10 years experience using Generative AI, despite ChatGPT coming out less than 2 years ago: ‘Ideal candidate will have good time-travelling skills’

It’s a truth universally acknowledged that job applications often ask for more than they need. They want to appeal to smart, qualified candidates and do so by setting their expectations to the moon and hoping that someone who is realistically qualified still applies despite the requests for years and years of experience. I don’t like …
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Weekly Internet Roundup: Ad Spam on X, Kate Middleton Disappearance Rumors, and the Willy Wonka Immersive Experience

It’s been a wild time.

Weekly Internet Roundup: Will Smith’s AI Spaghetti, Breakdancing Dads, and 50 Part TikTok Dramas

Also, chocolate-covered strawberries take over TikTok.

‘Stop measuring us and let us be’: Coffee shop checks employee productivity with AI, prompts horror from the internet

Hospitality work has never been a profession for the weak, but it looks like technology is about to make it a whole lot more difficult. In a just world, the radical developments we have seen in AI would be helping us all to grind less — however, a recent viral video seems to prove that …
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