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Landon Speers for The Atlantic Inside the Dirty, Dystopian World of AI Data Centers
The race to power AI is already remaking the physical world.
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Illustration by Stephan Dybus America Isn’t Ready for What AI Will Do to Jobs
Does anyone have a plan for what happens next?
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Illustration by Matteo Giuseppe Pani / The Atlantic The View From Inside the AI Bubble
Secret parties, lavish buffets, and talks of annihilation at one of the largest AI-research conferences
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Illustration by Ben Hickey The Age of Anti-Social Media Is Here
The social-media era is over. What’s coming will be much worse.
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Illustration by Matteo Giuseppe Pani Search Millions of YouTube Videos Used to Train Generative AI
Inside the data sets training new video-creating tools
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Illustration by Matteo Giuseppe Pani / The Atlantic AI Is Coming for YouTube Creators
At least 15 million videos have been snatched by tech companies.
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Illustration by Ben Hickey Sexting With Gemini
Why did Google’s supposedly teen-friendly chatbot say it wanted to tie me up?
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Illustration by The Atlantic Good Taste Is More Important Than Ever
In a world of limitless AI-generated choices, people need to know how to choose best.
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Illustration by Matteo Giuseppe Pani / The Atlantic The Unbelievable Scale of AI’s Pirated-Books Problem
Meta pirated millions of books to train its AI. Search through them here.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: Andriy Onufriyenko / … The False AI Energy Crisis
Donald Trump and AI executives alike have sounded the alarm about a looming AI-driven energy shortage. Both benefit from the concern.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty. Is This How Reddit Ends?
The site has become a reservoir of humanity on the web. Now it, too, is turning to AI.
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Illustration by The Atlantic The Nine AI Stories That Defined 2024
Read Atlantic coverage of uncharted territory for math, an army of voice clones, and more.
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Illustration by Pavel Popov McNeal
A play
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Illustration by Matteo Giuseppe Pani / The Atlantic There’s No Longer Any Doubt That Hollywood Writing Is Powering AI
Dialogue from these movies and TV shows has been used by companies such as Apple and Anthropic to train AI systems.
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Illustration by The Atlantic A Culture-War Test for AI
Do both candidates secretly agree on the technology?
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OK McCausland for The Atlantic The Playwright in the Age of AI
Ayad Akhtar’s new play, McNeal, starring Robert Downey Jr., subverts the idea that artificial intelligence threatens human ingenuity.
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Illustration by Rachel Levit Productivity Is a Drag. Work Is Divine.
The machines can have our chores, but we can’t afford to outsource creation.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: CSA Archive / … OpenAI’s Big Reset
With its new model, the company wants you to think ChatGPT is human.
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Illustration by Petra Péterffy. Source: Nicolas Maeterlinck / … Yuval Noah Harari’s Apocalyptic Vision
His warning of AI’s dangers is alarming, but does it help us avoid them?
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Illustration by Ben Kothe / The Atlantic Ted Chiang Is Wrong About AI Art
It’s real. But it isn’t revolutionary.
