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The Case for Regulating Platform Design
Focusing on Section 230 protection for user-generated content is detracting from the real threat: apps’ negligent design choices. Thanks for listenin…
3 years, 7 months ago
Get Ready to Meet the ChatGPT Clones
The technology behind OpenAI’s viral chatbot is set to become widely replicated, unleashing a tidal wave of bots. Thanks for listening to WIRED. Talk…
3 years, 7 months ago
Amazon’s HQ2 Aimed to Show Tech Can Boost Cities. Now It’s on Pause
Arlington, Virginia, won a US-wide contest to host Amazon’s second headquarters. More than half of the giant project is now indefinitely delayed. Tha…
3 years, 7 months ago
Immersive Video Games Are Coming to a Theater Near You
The founder of Tough Mudder’s next venture is the Interactive Gamebox, affectionately called "a theme park in a box." Thanks for listening to WIRED. …
3 years, 7 months ago
China’s ChatGPT Black Market Is Thriving
A booming illicit market for OpenAI’s chatbot shows the huge potential, and risks, for Chinese generative AI. Thanks for listening to WIRED. Talk to …
3 years, 7 months ago
Startups Want to Cash In on the US Student Debt Crisis
Companies like SoFi and Chipper offer to help people manage their college loans. But they’re not likely to fix the flawed economics of education. Tha…
3 years, 7 months ago
Welcome to the Museum of the Future AI Apocalypse
The new Misalignment Museum in San Francisco is a memorial to an imagined future in which artificial general intelligence kills most of humanity. Tha…
3 years, 7 months ago
Help, My Therapist Is Also an Influencer!
Counselors have moved from beside the chaise lounge and into users’ TikTok feeds, fueling debates about client privacy and the mental health professi…
3 years, 7 months ago
The Mountain Village in the Path of India’s Electric Dreams
The country has discovered enough lithium to electrify every vehicle on its roads, but the massive deposit has tensions running high. Thanks for list…
3 years, 7 months ago
Face Recognition Software Led to His Arrest. It Was Dead Wrong
Alonzo Sawyer’s misidentification by algorithm made him a suspect for a crime police now say was committed by someone else—feeding debate over regula…
3 years, 7 months ago