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Don't buy the AI hype

Mark Zuckerberg wants to you be lonely and miserable
That’s the only way he’ll profit from selling you AI friends
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DeepSeek shows the US failure to contain Chinese tech
Despite chip restrictions, Chinese AI threatens the foundation of the generative AI hype cycle
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Geoffrey Hinton’s misguided views on AI
He may have made important contributions to artificial intelligence, but that doesn’t mean he knows where it’s going
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Silicon Valley is sacrificing the climate for AI
Eric Schmidt is the latest tech executive to claim AI must be built regardless of the climate cost
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What comes after the AI crash?
The end of the boom won’t end generative AI’s harms
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Generative AI is a climate disaster
Tech companies are abandoning emissions pledges to chase AI market share
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Silicon Valley’s unlikely ally to defend generative AI
Anti-copyright activists fought the film and music industries. Now they’re fighting artists who want to stop generative AI.
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Apple hopes AI will make you buy a new iPhone
The company’s mundane features confirm the generative AI hype is rapidly waning
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Kara Swisher's story about Sam Altman is falling apart
The supposed hard-hitting journalist was peddling Altman’s narrative during his ouster from OpenAI
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Scarlett Johansson can’t escape tech exploitation
OpenAI grabbing her voice is just the latest scandal that demands a regulatory response
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AI hype is over. AI exhaustion is setting in.
Google and OpenAI’s latest showcases suggest the AI bubble’s days are numbered
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The digital revolution has failed
The benefits of the internet are eroding. The AI boom is only accelerating their demise.
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How artists are fighting generative AI
An interview with Karla Ortiz on how AI image generators are upending the careers of artists
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AI is fueling a data center boom. It must be stopped.
Silicon Valley believes more computation is essential for progress. But they ignore the resource burden and don’t care if the benefits materialize.
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Sam Altman's self-serving vision of the future
The OpenAI CEO expects the most marginalized to pay the price of his ambition
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"The act of writing is not typing"
An interview with John Lopez about AI and the writers' strike
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The religion of techno-optimism
Tech billionaires are using faith to solidify their power
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How Sam Altman plays into Microsoft's ambitions
The company wants to sell you cloud services to power all that AI garbage
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Generative AI closes off a better future
Ursula Le Guin said we must be able to imagine freedom. AI traps us in the past.
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Don't look into the Orb
Worldcoin is an exploitative crypto project with a new coat of AI paint
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The ChatGPT revolution is another tech fantasy
Generative AI will enrich investors and be deployed against everyone else
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"The digital age is cannibalizing us"
Hollywood actors join writers in strike against companies using tech to degrade their profession
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AI won't save the world
Marc Andreessen wants you to put your faith in AI — so he'll make a return on his investment
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How Hollywood used the digital transition against workers
The challenge facing striking workers goes much deeper than streaming and AI
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