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Discord Introducing 'AI' Stuff Nobody Asked For, Or Needs
10.3.2023
In a blog post published earlier today, Discord—a communications platform, and nothing more—announced plans to introduce what they call “AI” (but which should more accurately be called “machine learning”) to the service’s moderation, support and chat.Read more
Like Venezuela, Some Retailers in Argentina Are Now Pricing Items in Dollars
8.3.2023
Some retailers in Argentina are already pricing imported items in U.S. dollars, according to reports from local news outlets. The idea behind this would be to keep prices stable and avoid repricing articles each day, a practice that has already been adopted in other Latam countries like Venezuela...
An Exploration Of The Ways Our Cities Hate The Young & The Homeless
8.3.2023
“Exclusionary Design”, also known as “Hostile Architecture”, are the names given to the relatively modern concept of “an urban-design strategy that uses elements of the built environment to purposefully guide or restrict behaviour”. Specifically, it targets the homeless and the young.Read more
11 Best WooCommerce Themes for 2023
7.3.2023
Discover the best WooCommerce themes to help create an intuitive and seamless on-brand buying experience for your visitors
MrBeast Is Selling Chocolate Now, But His Fans Keep Having To Clean Up Messes
6.3.2023
Jimmy “MrBeast” Donaldson, the biggest YouTuber in the world, recently asked fans to do him a favor: patrol the shelves of their local big box retailer to make sure his Feastables chocolate bars weren’t a huge mess. Some appear to have happily enlisted in his effort, while others lampooned...
Pathfinder Developer Bans AI Art, Takes A Hard Stance
3.3.2023
Between games, art, and even journalism, a lot of industries are dealing with the rise of artificial intelligence removing the human element of creative works. As people have begun using AI and algorithms to create art rather than hiring workers to do it, companies are making hard stances about...
AI Comic Art Gets Copyright Revoked After Office Learns How AI Works
23.2.2023
The U.S. Copyright Office turned away an AI-generated piece of work last February, citing a prerequisite of human authorship. That hasn’t prevented AI enthusiasts from trying to legitimize glorified art theft. Last year, one creator tried to register a comic book with images that they generated...
Internet Says 'Same' After Seeing Joel In The Last Of Us Show Have Panic Attacks
22.2.2023
It ain’t easy traveling across the country with folks who don’t have it all together. With the burden of succumbing to brutal violence himself, witnessing harm against folks who don’t deserve it, and remembering the echoes of normal life, the TV version of Joel is revealing something we all knew...
12 Best Prebuilt Websites for WooCommerce and Retail
21.2.2023
BeTheme has everything you need to build a high-performing shop for your ecommerce or retail business. Check out 12 of the best prebuilt ecommerce websites that come with BeTheme
AI Forgeries Are Messing With The Sci-Fi World
20.2.2023
The award-winning Clarkesworld Magazine has helped launch the careers of science fiction writers for almost 20 years, regularly featuring work from Hugo Award nominees and winners like Elizabeth Bear, Peter Watts and Catherynne M. Valente. But right now, in quite the ironic situation, it finds...
Crypto Shilling Costs Yet Another Celebrity A Million Dollars
20.2.2023
Yet-to-collapse cryptocurrency, EMAX, has just gotten another celebrity in hot water. Short for EthereumMax, the bullshit scheme was promoted on Twitter by former NBA player Paul Pierce, except he rather forgot to say he was being paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for doing so. As reported...
AI Explain Why They're So Bad At Drawing Human Fingers
13.2.2023
No matter where you sit on the enormous and complex debate regarding AI models and their use of datasets to generate new images, artworks, writing and even movies, there’s one thing everyone can agree on: they’re damned creepy at drawing human hands. But why? Especially when AIs are so capable...
Oh No, ChatGPT AI Has Been Jailbroken To Be More Reckless
8.2.2023
If you’ve spent any time toying with or reading about ChatGPT, one of the internet’s latest obsessions and topic of contentious conversation concerning artificially intelligent software, then you know the service has specific restrictions on what it can and cannot say…until now. Some clever users...
This Japanese Candy Commercial Is Better Than Any Super Bowl Ad
8.2.2023
If the past 44 years of Super Bowl commercials are anything to go by, brevity is the soul of wit, especially when it comes to convincing football watchers to buy products and talk about them at the water cooler. Yet somehow, no bizarre celebrity-addled sportsball ad yet created can hold a candle...
Twitch's Popular AI-Powered Seinfeld Show Gets Banned For Transphobia
6.2.2023
In an unfortunate turn of events, the AI Seinfeld show that’s been all over Twitch has been hit with the ban hammer for some terribly transphobic “jokes.”Read more
Netflix’s AI Anime Gets Roasted For Crediting Artist As ‘Human’
1.2.2023
The anime community has been rife with controversy over AI-generated images. Today, Netflix joined the hot new trend of being ratioed online for terrible AI takes. The streaming platform not only produced a commercial project with AI, it tried to justify doing so by citing the “labor shortage”...
You Can Still Play Hi-Fi Rush If You Suck At Rhythm Games
31.1.2023
Do you have two left feet? Are you the family member no one wants to see on the dance floor during a wedding? Have you or a loved one been subject to a serious injury because you were trying to find the beat? If any of the above describes you, you might be rhythmically challenged and not have...
New AI Tech Gives Twitch Streamers Constant, Creepy Eye Contact
24.1.2023
Nvidia’s come up with new AI-powered tech that swaps out your real eyes for digital ones that will never stop looking at your webcam. It’s very creepy, and one more sign of how unnatural you have to act online to become a popular streamer in 2023.Read more
10+ Best Tools & Resources for Web Designers in 2023
24.1.2023
This article highlights the top tools and resources for web designers in 2023 to help improve productivity
War Thunder Players Are, Once Again, Posting Military Documents On Forums
20.1.2023
You may remember that one of the funniest stories of 2022 was the way that players of War Thunder—an arcadey online shooter featuring real military vehicles—just kept on posting military documents in the game’s forums. Not as acts of espionage, but to win arguments about specs.Read more