Tag: Tech
These Men’s Rights Activists Literally Worship Elon Musk
“It’s a big relief that Elon Musk is standing up for free speech and removing censorship,” Anil Murty, a cofounder of SIFF, told BuzzFeed News. (He declined to provide evidence that the group’s tweets were shadowbanned before Musk bought Twitter.) Musk, who has fired over 70% of the company’s employees…
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These Are The AI Trends That Keep Us Up At Night
The AI arms race begins. During the first week of February, Google announced Bard, its own ChatGPT rival, that it would build right into Google search. Bard got a fact wrong in the first promotional video Google shared for it, and the goof-up sent the company’s stock tumbling, causing it…
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Eli Lilly Reduced The Price Of Insulin To $35 Per Month. This Guy Tweeted It Into Existence (Sort Of).
But there is another possible reason Eli Lilly is making this change: Elon Musk’s bumbling of the Twitter Blue verification rollout, and one guy from Queens who decided to exploit it to troll Eli Lilly. In early November 2022, Twitter started offering verified checkmarks to paid $8-per-month Twitter Blue subscribers.…
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People Are Thirsty For TikTok’s Hottest Ceramicists
Blythe’s comment sections, in comparison, are tame — although he does get some seriously horny private messages. “I get very strange emails, where it’s like, ‘Could you massage my socked feet?’ or something like that,’” Blythe recounted. “I don’t know if they thought the socked part made the outrageous request…
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Voice Deepfakes Of Everyone From Joe Rogan To Joe Biden Are Taking Over Social Media
It takes around two hours for Pade to make each of the videos, which range from 30 seconds to one minute in length. He records gameplay and then generates the voices using AI. “I actually start with the TikTok or vertical video then I make the YouTube video after, and…
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“This Is What Your Worlds Are Lacking”: Artists Are Using AI To Create Fat, Black Sci-Fi And Fantasy Characters
He was hooked. “Sci-fi is kinda like my church,” said Smith, who is now age 47 and living in Philadelphia. “It’s spiritual and very much connected to who I am as a Black, queer person.” The problem with his church, however, is that there isn’t very much Black (or queer)…
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