The Onion's plan to transform Alex Jones' Infowars platforms into parody sites are in limbo again. New legal filings by Jones ...
If OpenAI can accidentally train its flagship model to obsess over goblins, what other more subtle and potentially harmful ...
An author and freelance journalist has admitted to using AI to help him write a book review for The New York Times. Preston’s apology to The Guardian raises more questions than it resolves. The ...
My life has changed so much since my time as a Voices of Change fellow during the 2023 school year. As I wrote in my final essay of the fellowship, the beautiful, imperfect school I loved and helped ...
“Without Bernie Taupin, there wouldn’t have been any Elton John at all.” This is a comment Elton John made during his Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction in 1994. If we’re honest, with music, that’s ...
When technology reporter Alex Heath has a scoop, he sits down at his computer and speaks into a microphone. He’s not talking to a human colleague—Heath went independent on Substack last year—he’s ...
Dear Eric: Over the past two years, I have buried both of my parents. My place in the world going forward feels uncertain and untethered, but in reflecting on their lives and long, long marriage, I ...
This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s archives to contextualize the present. Sign up here. ChatGPT and food-delivery droids came to my campus at roughly the ...
Dr. Duckworth, a psychologist, is the author of “Grit” and the forthcoming book “Situated: Finding the People and Places That Bring Out Your Best.” There is a children’s story I used to read to my ...