Study author warns of implications for elections and says ‘malicious actors’ are probably using LLM tools already Artificial intelligence can do just as well as humans, if not better, when it comes to persuading others in a debate, and not just because it cannot shout, a study has found. Experts say the results are concerning, …
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More and more people are hooked on watching animals in real time. Now researchers say it could even improve your mood, help you relax and give you better sleep In 2012 Dianne Hoffman, a retired consultant, became a peeping Tom. For five hours a day she watched the antics of a couple, Harriet and Ozzie, …
The lure of a limitless digital jukebox was great, but as the algorithm increasingly served up music I didn’t enjoy, I’ve taken back control of my listening When most people were comparing how many times they had listened to Sabrina Carpenter, Charli xcx and Fontaines DC on Spotify Wrapped last December, I had to make …
Songwriter says he thinks it is a ‘criminal offence’ to let tech firms use protected work without permission Sir Elton John has called the UK government “absolute losers” over proposals to let tech firms use copyright-protected work without permission. The singer and songwriter said it was a “criminal offence” to change copyright law in favour …
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Features launching later this year to include live captions, braille reader improvements and accessibility ‘nutrition labels’ in the app store Apple has announced a broad range of new accessibility features for iOS focused on people with vision or hearing impairments, with the company downplaying the notion that the price of Apple hardware means accessibility comes …
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Pleasance theatre, LondonJamie Sykes’ queasily entertaining play dramatises the contemptible views found in ‘incel’ forums – but also elicits sympathy for its characters, whose loathing is directed inwards as well as out Three men are gathered in an online forum to speak of women as bitches and “Beckys”. These are “incels”, who boast a coded …
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Grok doubted 6 million death toll, days after peddling conspiracy theory of ‘white genocide’ in South Africa Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence chatbot Grok has blamed a “programming error” to explain why it said it was “sceptical” of the historical consensus that 6 million Jews were murdered during the Holocaust, days after the AI came under …
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Leon Emirali has created digital versions of all UK MPs, including a Wes Streeting avatar who is unabashedly frank about who the next PM should be If you are one of the few people on the planet who fancies a chat with Keir Starmer, then there’s a new AI model for you. A former chief …
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Smartphone Nation by Dr Kaitlyn Regehr vows to help us take control. But can her methods beat the algorithms? Can you count the number of times you’ve looked at your phone today? Or how often you’ve opened it to do one thing to find yourself doing something else entirely? If you’re anything like me, you’ll …
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Latest twist in a contest between iPhone maker and Epic Games over payments for hit game on Apple devices Epic Games says Fortnite is now unavailable on iPhones and iPads globally because Apple blocked a bid to release the popular video game in the App Store in the US and Europe. “Apple has blocked our …
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