
The AI Doomers Are Licking Their Wounds
How a relatively small subculture suddenly rose to prominence
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How a relatively small subculture suddenly rose to prominence

Karen Hao reports on the hypocrisy of the tech giant.

Artists have experimented with algorithms and randomness for more than a century.

Instructors across the country still seem to have no clue how to handle the technology.

MAGA memes are getting a makeover.

The image-makers are stuck in a pattern.

New search bots underscore familiar problems with the technology.

Tech firms have been spending historic amounts of money on AI—but will it pay off?

OpenAI just announced SearchGPT, but its demo got something wrong.

AI agents can automate complex tasks on behalf of human operators—with potentially disastrous consequences.