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Experts say online retailer has ethical responsibility to guard against chatbot-generated work on sensitive topics Amazon is selling books marketed at people seeking techniques to manage their ADHD that claim to offer expert advice yet appear to be authored by a chatbot such as ChatGPT. Amazon’s marketplace has been deluged with AI-produced works that are …

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Every day, members dig deep into their sick and twisted minds to unearth linguistic miracles. It’s both delightful and deranged Read more in the Internet wormhole series I remember exactly where I was when I found it. At uni. In a cavernous lecture hall. Slouched in a vaguely uncomfortable seat. Ping. A notification on Messenger. …

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Technology will soon be able to do everything we do – only better. How should we respond? Right now, most big AI labs have a team figuring out ways that rogue AIs might escape supervision, or secretly collude with each other against humans. But there’s a more mundane way we could lose control of civilisation: …

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Cryptocurrency mining facilities can blanket towns with ‘constant’ noise. They’re likely to get louder under Trump First came the dogs’ balding – leathery pink patches on otherwise glossy fur coats. The veterinarian told Shenice Copenhaver it was genetic. But it wasn’t long before one of the hairless puppies began stealing blankets to burrow beneath furniture …

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How to beat the scam, from setting up new passwords and telling your bank exactly what you are doing “Hi mum,” the first message starts, “I’ve lost my phone.” It carries on with a tale of woe: for some reason the sender has also been locked out of his or her bank account. Luckily a …

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Recording concerts has become a compulsion for many. I’m resolving to put my device away and just dance: I hope others follow I’m making a public vow, which I fear I may abandon the moment Lana Del Rey comes on stage at Wembley in July: to stop recording concerts on my phone. Last Sunday, producer …

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Residents – most of them SpaceX workers – in remote Texas community expected to approve plan to create new city Voters in a small patch of south Texas are casting their ballots on Saturday in an election that could give Elon Musk a town to call his own. The vote would officially create a new …

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After Google lost its first monopoly trial, government asks it to sell off units of its core internet ads business Google on Friday faced a demand by the US government to break up its hugely profitable ad technology business. The request came after a judge found the tech giant was commanding an illegal monopoly for …

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‘Digital nutritionist’ Kaitlyn Regehr says parents worrying about their children need first to look at their own usage Switching off the colours on your phone and spending half an hour a week pruning your algorithm can help consumers control and improve their online media diet, according to a professor turned “digital nutritionist”. These two measures, …

Switch your phone to greyscale and prune your algorithm, says UCL expert Read More »

Readers respond to a piece by John Harris on how we are increasingly leaving navigation to our phones John Harris’s observations on the implications of using unsuitable phone apps for navigation when walking in the wilds resonated with me (We now leave navigation to our phones. The result: more of us are getting hopelessly lost, …

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