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How to Grease a Chatbot: E-Commerce Companies Seek a Backdoor Into AI Responses

By Chris Stokel-Walker · May 27, 2023 6:00 AM PDT · 5 comments
When Andy Wilson’s company received its first successful client referral through ChatGPT, he was shaken to his core. The founder and CEO of Logikcull, a San Francisco–based legal technology company, Wilson “had the exact same reaction to ChatGPT as I had to the internet browser in the early ’90s,” he said.... When Andy Wilson’s company received its first successful client referral through ChatGPT,...
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Tech’s Newest Side Hustle: Prompt Engineers Surf the AI Wave

By Chris Stokel-Walker · April 29, 2023 6:00 AM PDT · 1 comment
Bohdan Skitenko has been working in the design industry, producing 3D art and animation, for around five years. But it was when version four of generative AI image creator Midjourney was released in November 2022 that he began thinking about pivoting his career toward a more artificial intelligence–integrated one. “I realized that... Bohdan Skitenko has been working in the design industry, producing 3D art and animation, for...
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The Voice That Launched a Thousand Deepfakes: How One Viral Song Led to a Music Industry Reckoning

By Jessica Lucas · Feb. 24, 2023 11:00 AM PST
When Marc set out to clone the voice of Ariana Grande in January, he didn’t know it would infuriate hordes of his fellow Grande fans. Marc, who asked to remain anonymous to shield him from further online attacks, wasn’t looking to incite a stan riot. He just wanted to experiment with DiffSVC, an open-source software developed by... When Marc set out to clone the voice of Ariana Grande in January, he didn’t know it would...
My Week of Being Gaslit and Lied to by the New Bing
By Chris Stokel-Walker · Feb. 17, 2023 12:00 PM PST · 12 comments
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My Week of Being Gaslit and Lied to by the New Bing

By Chris Stokel-Walker · Feb. 17, 2023 12:00 PM PST · 12 comments
Like any tech reporter who spends too much time online, I’ve treated Microsoft’s Bing search engine with little more than disdain since its 2009 release. Initially mocked for its stale, staid, retro graphics (its early design included a logo in front of hot air balloons), Bing also gave lackluster search results that paled in... Like any tech reporter who spends too much time online, I’ve treated Microsoft’s Bing...
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Did a Bot Write This?: New Tools Are Already Taking Aim at AI-Generated Work

By Chris Stokel-Walker · Jan. 13, 2023 12:00 PM PST · 6 comments
If an artificial intelligence program were to engineer a human with the potential to destroy it—or at least slow its march to global domination—it might create Edward Tian. Tian, a 22-year-old Princeton University student, is a computer science major who specializes in natural-language processing. He’s a former researcher for... If an artificial intelligence program were to engineer a human with the potential to destroy...
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ChatGPT Is on Fire, and a Cottage Industry of Bot Builders Is Exploding Alongside It

By Chris Stokel-Walker · Dec. 16, 2022 10:00 AM PST · 3 comments
Joshua Browder wakes up most mornings wanting to empower the little guy. The entrepreneur, who has been deemed the “Robin Hood of the internet,” has helped people annul marriages, get out of parking tickets and file lawsuits against failed crypto platforms through DoNotPay, his robo lawyer startup. DoNotPay works by automating the... Joshua Browder wakes up most mornings wanting to empower the little guy. The entrepreneur, who...