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What Happens When you Roleplay with ChatGPT
A conversation with Mingqian Zheng, Jiaxin Pei, and David Jurgens

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Meet the People Taking The Markup Reporting Off the Page and Into Real Life
Covering technology is really about covering people, the choices they make, and the choices being made for them

Have you heard about “news mirages”? It’s not news, it’s just sand.
Hi, everyone—Nabiha and Sisi here to discuss something that's been on our minds lately. We’re sadly all too aware of …

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How Elon Musk Is Trying To Make Web Scraping Dangerous Again
A massive civil suit from Musk’s X Corp. threatens to make web scraping legally perilous again. The ACLU’s Esha Bhandari explains what’s going on.

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On Conflict and Connection
Mirna El Helbawi’s eSIM campaign, in her own words

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‘Unmasking AI’ and the Fight for Algorithmic Justice
A conversation with Dr. Joy Buolamwini

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Meet Nightshade—A Tool Empowering Artists to Fight Back Against AI
A newly released research paper outlines a tool artists can use to make their work act like “poison” if it is ingested by an AI image generator

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I Went to the Real ‘Cop Con.’ Here’s The Tech Police Are Testing.
Nearly 700 vendors showcased police tech from tracking devices disguised as Newport cigarettes to window-breaking drones

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How to Use Reported Crime Data to Actually Prevent Crime
Ask why crimes happen where they do

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Face Scanning and the Freedom to "Be Stupid In Public": A Conversation with Kashmir Hill
The longtime privacy journalist on how investigating Clearview AI helped her appreciate facial recognition—and envision a chaotic future
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