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Stop asking ChatGPT to rewrite your drafts. Try this prompt instead

You could go back for another editing pass, but ChatGPT is only a right-click away. Now, I’m not a fan of letting ChatGPT ...

How writing can help some people with autism find their voice

HEALTH AFFAIRS: More people need to know about methods that teach people with autism how to communicate, so that further research can be done on it. When I pick up my son Danny, who is 30 and on the ...

Major gas retailers accused in lawsuit of using secret AI software to jack up fuel prices

Eleven, Circle K, BP and others used Kalibrate software to inflate fuel prices by up to 30 cents, violating state laws in ...

Anthropic Accuses Alibaba of ‘Illicitly’ Accessing AI Models

Anthropic PBC accused Chinese technology giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. of waging a large-scale effort to “illicitly” ...

Distillation: The New U.S.–China AI Fight

America's powerful AI models are deemed national security assets, with China accused of stealing them through "distillation." ...

Gas stations accused of using AI to boost California prices

Using an AI tool from Kalibrate Fuel Systems Ltd, station owners inflated gasoline by as much as 22 cents a gallon and diesel by 33 cents, on top of already high prices caused by the US war with Iran, the lawsuit alleges.

Anthropic accuses Alibaba of illicitly extracting AI capabilities

The firm alleged that Alibaba used fraudulent accounts to access data from its Claude AI model.

New Castle man accused of using AI to create lewd videos showing child

Deputies in September received a tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children about online activity linked to Johnson's address.

California gas stations accused of using AI to inflate prices

BP, Circle K, 7-Eleven, Walmart, Marathon Petroleum and Albertsons are accused of violating antitrust law.

Why Does A.I. Write Like … That?

If only they were robotic! Instead, chatbots have developed a distinctive — and grating — voice. Credit...Illustration by Giacomo Gambineri Supported by By Sam Kriss In the quiet hum of our digital ...

Show HN: Videopython – local-first video processing, editing and AI workflows

I've been building videopython, a Python library for programmatic video editing, processing and AI workflows. Repo: https://github.com/BartWojtowicz/videopythonThe core idea is that edit is just a JSON / Pydantic plan. This plan can be validated against metadata of source video(s) via a dry run, then edit plan can be executed via streaming pipeline (many thanks to ffmpeg!) without holding frames in memory.Thanks to the JSON/Pydantic format of edit schema, you c

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Wrote Her First Children’s Book to Celebrate the ‘Ordinariness of Black Women’s Lives’

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has more or less conquered the adult literary world with her wide and varied body of work, which includes the novels Americanah, Purple Hibiscus, and Two Halves of a Yellow ...

Emily Ratajkowski’s viral essay may become her next book

Emily Ratajkowski’s reported next book could turn her viral confession into a sharper author statement on motherhood, desire, ...

The hobby that can rewire your brain and help you build resilience

Experts say resilience may be as ordinary as the journal entries people scribble, the emails they exchange, the task lists they create

Chrome browser taps AI for new ‘Help me write’ tool

"Help Me Write" uses AI to improve your writing online. One of the promises of generative AI is helping us communicate. Thanks to the power of large-language models, AI systems can suggest text for a ...

7 Best Apps for Assignment Writing Help in 2024-25

Whether you are a school, college or university student, you have to work hard to complete your assignments well. However, due to this tough and busy schedule, students mostly fail to get good grades on their assignments because they are not performing well. For those, assignment writing help is at your doorstep in the form…

Scholars raise the alarm over AI-driven plagiarism in research

'rendered': 'Scholars and researchers have expressed concern over the growing use of artificial intelligence tools in academic work, warning that it is fuelling a new wave of plagiarism and weakening ...

Inside college AI cheating wars: extreme surveillance, false accusations, jarring confusion

At many campuses, AI policy is left to individual instructors seeking to encourage its ethical use while preserving academic integrity, as the technology evolves faster than university rules.

AKTU rejects 80 PG theses over plagiarism, AI content: Students get three months to resubmit

Lucknow: Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Technical University (AKTU) has rejected 80 out of 1,360 postgraduate theses in the current academic session after detecting 20% to 50% plagiarism and use of AI-generated ...

How will Wake schools regulate AI? Students may have to report use to teachers

The new AI policy also says teachers shouldn't use AI detectors to scan student work due to their ‘technical unreliability.' ...