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- An Autistic Teenager Fell Hard for a Chatbot
My godson, Michael, is a playful, energetic 15-year-old, with a deep love of Star Wars, a wry smile, and an IQ in the low 70s. His learning disabilities and autism have made his journey a hard one. His parents, like so many others, sometimes rely on screens to reduce stress and keep him occupied. They monitor the apps and websites he uses, but things are not always as they initially appear. When Michael asked them to approve installing Linky AI, a quick review didn’t reveal anything alarming, just a cartoonish platform to pass the time. (Because he’s a minor, I’m not using his real name.)But soon, Michael was falling in love. Linky, which offers conversational chatbots, is crude—a dumbed-down ChatGPT, really—but to him, a bot he began talking with was lifelike enough. The app dresses up its rudimentary large language model with anime-style images of scantily clad women—and some of… ...[TheTopNews] Read More.3 days ago - Why Democrats’ Version of ‘Stop the Steal’ Isn’t Taking Off
A movement by some Democratic voters to investigate the results of the 2024 presidential election mirrors a push by Republicans in 2020. But it’s struggling. ...[TheTopNews] Read More.3 days ago - Apple urged to axe AI feature after false headline
Reporters Without Borders has called for Apple to remove Apple Intelligence. ...[TheTopNews] Read More.3 days ago - El Salvador scales back bitcoin bet to get $1.4bn IMF loanIn 2021, El Salvador became the first country in the world to make bitcoin acceptance mandatory. ...[TheTopNews] Read More.4 days ago
- They Really Mean ItGavin McInnes, a co-founder of the Proud Boys, was extremely upset with me. He started listing things that I should feel (ashamed and terrible about myself) and that he wished would happen to me (trouble sleeping at night). “You should,” he told me gravely and slowly, as though he were about to give me some very important advice, “slit your wrists.”The transgression I’d committed against him was being a journalist in his presence. I had just been introduced to McInnes at table 49 of the New York Young Republicans Club annual gala when he started laying into me. I hadn’t even had the chance to ask him any questions. Several minutes later, he got into an argument with a New York Times reporter, whose notebook he grabbed and surreptitiously passed to another guest before storming off.I hadn’t come to get yelled at (though had I anticipated this happening). I’d done… ...[TheTopNews] Read More.4 days ago
- Supreme Court to hear last gasp TikTok ban challengeThe US wants the app to be sold or banned because of what it says are links to the Chinese state. ...[TheTopNews] Read More.4 days ago
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