Imperi
Come nascono gli imperi, come comandano e come muoiono: i contratti cinesi, i dataset dell'AI e l'economia del fandom
China's worst film became a hit because everyone was recommending it as a joke
Niu Lai, a rudimentary animated film released on 5 August, had grossed seven thousand yuan in ten days, with screenings in front of about ten people. On 17 August it made 8.2 million in a single day.
Dressing to be invisible to AI
Makeup, prints and transparent masks designed so that a facial recognition system cannot extract the geometry of a face. They are not meant to hide you: they are meant to keep you visible to people and unreadable to machines. And they work for as long as few people wear them.
Sam Altman on Grindr wasn't an AI story
For a few hours we believed Sam Altman was on Grindr. Let's talk about it.
How Google Is Turning the Internet into a Place We No Longer Need to Visit
For thirty years, search engines told us where to go. With artificial intelligence, they're learning to give us directly what we were looking for. The problem is what happens to the Internet when we no longer need to click.
The Jason Arday case, or how much it costs to verify too late
The biography of the professor who didn't speak as a child was bought by everyone and checked only once checking it had become free.
It's impossible not to judge Ariana Grande's body
Those who insult her and those who claim to be worried end up doing the same thing. In physical life we judge constantly, but almost all those judgements die where they were born. Platforms have turned the possibility of thinking something into the apparent right to publish it.
Lost in the Middle
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