Inside the secret list of websites that make AI like ChatGPT sound smart
Kevin Schaul, Szu Yu Chen and Nitasha Tiku,
AI chatbots are all the rage on the internet right now, but how much do you know about how the tech is being trained? explains how text that’s mostly scraped from the internet is ingested and transformed into human-like speech, including training material from “proprietary, personal and often offensive websites.”
Why social media impostors pose a constant battle for stars
J. Clara Chan,
Being a celebrity in the social media age means playing a constant game of whack-a-mole fighting imposters. explains how paid verification has only increased the challenge and how companies like Social Imposter are enlisted to help.
How Cuba’s Street Network used spy tech to access pop culture
Yussef Cole and Emile Bokaer,
A story about how “a framework of murky legality, hacked-together hardware and mysterious actors,” something more akin to spies and espionage, is being used to access things like video games and in Cuba.