This Machine Exposes Privacy ViolationsThe thing that is agitating Libert is the same thing that has agitated him for over a decade, when, in 2012, as a grad student at the University of Pennsylvania, he began researching the ways the web tracks us.
AI trained on AI garbage spits out AI garbageAI models work by training on huge swaths of data from the internet. But as AI is increasingly being used to pump out web pages filled with junk content, that process is in danger of being undermined.
The Meet-Cute’s RevengeEarlier this year, Whitney Wolfe Herd, founder of the app giant Bumble and a cofounder of Tinder, offered a solution for the future of dating: AI.
AI Chatbots Have a Donald Trump ProblemThe main thing about chatbots is that they say things. You chat, and they chat back. Like most software interfaces, they’re designed to do what you ask. Unlike most software interfaces, they do so by speaking, often in a human voice.
How the American war on porn could change the way you use the internetPapers please: for millions of Americans, accessing online pornography now requires a government ID. It could have global implications for the future of the web. Pay a visit to the website Pornhub while in the state of Texas today and you may be disappointed.
Everyone Is Trying to Make This TikTok Go Viral—and It Never WillThe most-liked video in TikTok history shows a dark-haired woman making funny faces to her front-facing camera as she lip-syncs to a popular song.
Within minutes after Trump shooting, misinformation started flying. ‘Everyone is just speculating’WASHINGTON (AP) — Within minutes of the gunfire, the apparent attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump spawned a vast sea of claims — some outlandish, others contradictory — reflecting the frightening uncertainties of the moment as well as America’s fevered, polarized politic
The Central Park Boathouse Is Back, and It’s Perfectly FineI suppose there must have been a time when the Central Park Boathouse, a stately construction facing southwest across a spindle of the park’s serpentine lake, felt like a novel and forward-looking addition to the city’s attractions.
A City of Light and Shadows Is Redrawn for the OlympicsThere is a glorious folly to the Paris Olympics, the first in the city since 1924, as if France in its perennial revolutionary ardor took a century to ponder something unimaginable, the transformation of a great city into a stadium.
The Best DAW Software Recommended by WIRED’s Resident MusiciansWe're in the midst of the home recording revolution. Whether you’re a big-name artist like Billie Eilish or a small-time indie musician like me, you can spend just as much time working from home as you do in so-called “real," purpose-built studios when making pro-quality records.
ChatGPT for science: how to talk to your dataNow a growing number of companies are attempting to make that fiction a reality — sort of — using large language models (LLMs).
Accused of abuse — and back in the gymIt was the gardening gloves that made Sydney Freidin’s stomach turn. She was scrolling through social media when she saw a photo of them on the hands of her former coach, Artur Akopyan.
Biden Drops Out of Race, Scrambling the Campaign for the White HousePresident Biden on Sunday abruptly abandoned his campaign for a second term under intense pressure from fellow Democrats and threw his support to Vice President Kamala Harris to lead their party in a dramatic last-minute bid to stop former President Donald J. Trump from returning to the White House.
The $11 Billion Marketplace Enabling the Crypto Scam EconomyAs the crypto scam commonly known as “pig butchering” has exploded into a full-blown criminal industry that steals tens of billions of dollars a year, an entire ecosystem has formed around it.
How China Trapped Itself in America’s Fentanyl CrisisA mixture of unintended consequences and indifference has left China playing a significant role in America’s fentanyl crisis. This has become a point of heated contention between Beijing and Washington. U.S. politicians accuse China of deliberately stoking the U.S.