Is “enshittification” real, or are we just refusing to take accountability for our own screen time? I sat down with NYC-based cyber ethnographer, designer, and NYU professor Ruby Thelot to debate his ...

Smutstep, Pokémon Waymo swattings, foodie calls, the Cornell 7 merch economy, LinkedIn selfies, TikTok's hot dog bandit, ...

Every year, hundreds of technologists, rationalists, AI researchers, startup founders and prediction market obsessives gather in Berkeley for an event called Manifest. Officially, it’s a conference ...

In 2017, Facebook’s AI research division and Georgia Tech published a paper titled “Deal or No Deal? End-to-End Learning for Negotiation Dialogues.” In it, they described how they trained AI chatbots ...

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There is a particular kind of video that has plagued my timeline for the last eighteen months. It could best be described as AI slop, but it’s not quite AI slop. A human created it and often these ...

Are we living through the dawn of permanent, personalized surveillance? Kylie Jenner is the face of Meta’s new AI smart glasses and suddenly, influencers are declaring a “hot surveillance summer,” ...

Today, a new Pew Research Center survey was released that found that nearly six-in-ten U.S. adults (56%) support banning anyone under the age of 16 from using social media sites aka total and complete ...

Happy Friday and happy Juneteenth! For this week’s Free Speech Friday, Hasan Piker joined me for a wide-ranging conversation about online censorship, government surveillance, digital ID laws, Section ...

Happy Friday! I’m starting a Free Speech Friday livestream in about 15 min on my livestreaming channel, so join in. Tomorrow I’m heading to London for a week then Berlin. In London I’m hoping to meet ...

In the past year, OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Meta have launched an aggressive PR campaign to rebrand artificial intelligence for women, especially mothers and teen girls. Famous celebrity women ...

Everyone is celebrating the ruling against Meta and Google in the landmark “social media addiction” trial, but they shouldn’t be. In this latest episode of my Free Speech Friday series, journalist Kat ...