‘Dear David’ Is the Final Gasp of a Dying Internet

Dear David, the 2023 film adaptation of a 2017 viral Twitter thread by a BuzzFeed cartoonist,…

A New Tool Helps Artists Thwart AI—With a *************

Kudurru, the new tool from the creator of Have I Been Trained?, can help artists block…

Everybody’s Talking About the Wrong Sam Bankman-Fried Book

Going Infinite, Michael Lewis’ book about Sam Bankman-Fried, is out this week. But it's Zeke Faux's…

AI Watermarks Are No Match for Attackers

Researchers say that it's too easy to evade current methods of watermarking—or even to add fake…

AI Detection Startups Say Amazon Could Flag AI Books. It Doesn’t

Amazon has taken some steps to stem the tide of books written with artificial intelligence, but…

The Next Meme Stock? Owning a Slice of Your Favorite Song

Music royalty marketplaces are betting on the idea that fans will pay to own a part…

The Bizarre Cottage Industry of YouTube Obituary Pirates

If you Google someone who recently died, you might see a flood of near-identical videos of…

Unhinged Conspiracies, AI Doppelgangers, and the Fractured Reality of Naomi Klein

When the internet confused her with a Covid truther, the author journeyed down the rabbit hole…

Why This Award-Winning Piece of AI Art Can’t Be Copyrighted

Matthew Allen’s AI art won first prize at the Colorado State Fair. But the US government…

The Battle Over Books3 Could Change AI Forever

Copyright activists are on a mission to wipe a popular generative AI training set from the…