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Illustration by Irene Suosalo Chatbots Are Primed to Warp Reality
A growing body of research shows how AI can subtly mislead users—and even implant false memories.
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Illustration by Matteo Giuseppe Pani OopsGPT
OpenAI just announced a new search tool. Its demo already got something wrong.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Apple. The iPhone Is Now an AI Trojan Horse
Generative AI has become truly inescapable.
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Illustration by Matteo Giuseppe Pani The Near Future of Deepfakes Just Got Way Clearer
India’s election was ripe for a crisis of AI misinformation. It didn’t happen.
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Illustration by The Atlantic This Is the Next Smartphone Evolution
OpenAI just killed Siri.
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Daniel Stier for The Atlantic ElevenLabs Is Building an Army of Voice Clones
A tiny start-up has made some of the most convincing AI voices. Are its creators ready for the chaos they’re unleashing?
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty. You Don’t Have to Type Anymore
Welcome to the golden age of voice dictation.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty. Things Get Strange When AI Starts Training Itself
What happens if AI becomes even less intelligible?
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: Heritage Images; Amy … Neal Stephenson’s Most Stunning Prediction
The sci-fi legend coined the term metaverse. But he was most prescient about our AI age.
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Illustration by Ben Kothe. Source: Gerard Julien / … The Rise of Techno-authoritarianism
Silicon Valley has its own ascendant political ideology. It’s past time we call it what it is.
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Illustration by The Atlantic ChatGPT’s FarmVille Moment
The immediate future of generative AI looks a bit like Facebook’s past.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty. The Flaw That Could Ruin Generative AI
A technical problem known as “memorization” is at the heart of recent lawsuits that pose a significant threat to generative-AI companies.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty. Plagiarism Is the Next ‘Fake News’
Something much simpler than generative AI is driving the new culture war.
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Matteo Giuseppe Pani; Source: Getty What If We Held ChatGPT to the Same Standard as Claudine Gay?
The problem with generative AI is plagiarism, not copyright.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty. The Last Frontier of Machine Translation
Don’t ask a bot to translate a book.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty. There Was Never Such a Thing as ‘Open’ AI
Transparency isn’t enough to democratize the technology.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty. The Year We Embraced Our Destruction
In 2023, fears about AI run amok commingled with memes about an allegedly deadly lemonade.
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Illustration by Ben Kothe / The Atlantic ChatGPT Is Turning the Internet Into Plumbing
What does life online look like filtered through a bot?
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty. AI Astrology Is Getting a Little Too Personal
Cryptic life guidance is one thing. Telling me to ditch my therapist is another.
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Illustration by Ben Kothe / The Atlantic Generative AI’s iPhone Moment
Google’s long-awaited Gemini model shows that the technology is losing its magic.
