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The Eternal Allure of the Rabbit Hole
19+ min ago (16+ words) While researching a woman who went deep on the JFK assassination, I was pulled in, too....
The Seven-Headed Hydra at the End of Finance
1+ hour, 19+ min ago (4+ words) What has Space X become?...
How to Think About AI Before It's Too Late
19+ hour, 20+ min ago (1310+ words) The case against AI hype with Cory Doctorow...
America Is Headed Toward the Infinite Workweek
1+ day, 19+ hour ago (14+ words) The future of AI and jobs will be so much weirder than you think....
AI Is Taking Over Hospitals
2+ day, 19+ hour ago (101+ words) Doctors Are Worried About AI. They Use It Anyway. The Atlantic This is health care's Uber moment. Read: Drink whole milk, eat red meat, and use Chat GPT Read: The Chat GPT symptom spiral We'll soon find out. The health-care…...
Nothing on the Internet Is Secure Anymore
3+ day, 14+ hour ago (110+ words) The Atlantic AI is enabling a deluge of cyberattacks the likes of which we've never seen before. Late last month, I began to consider withdrawing some money from my savings account to buy gold. It's the first time I've ever…...
The Humanities Were Never Neutral
3+ day, 20+ hour ago (343+ words) Thank you to Tyler Austin Harper. Though certainly critical of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, his story hit upon a deeper problem facing the humanities: our culture's insistence on things of immediate "worth," and the Faustian bargain the humanities made in…...
This Is How America Loses the AI Race
4+ day, 10+ hour ago (19+ words) The Atlantic The White House is escalating its war against Anthropic....
Listening to All the Music AI Is Trained on Would Take Decades
5+ day, 21+ hour ago (220+ words) We obtained four datasets that reveal an astonishing number of songs. You can search for an artist in the datasets here: What the datasets illustrate, primarily, is the scale and variety of music easily available to AI developers. Companies often…...
AI Watchdog: Spotify Tracks Dataset
1+ week, 12+ hour ago (71+ words) The Atlantic Explore original journalism about this data set through AI Watchdog, The Atlantic's ongoing investigation into the generative-AI industry. A collection of 114, 000 music tracks ripped from Spotify. The data set was assembled by an unknown AI developer on Hugging…...