Daniel Zender
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AI DARK SIDE
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Save **EMBARGO: No electronic distribution, Web posting or street sales before Monday at 3 a.m. ET on Jan. 8, 2024. No exceptions for any reasons. EMBARGO set by source.** In the hands of anonymous internet users, A.I. tools can create waves of harassing and racist material. It’s already happening on the anonymous message board 4chan. (Daniel Zender/The New York Times) — FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY WITH NYT STORY SLUGGED AI DARK SIDE BY STUART A. THOMPSON FOR JAN.
Speech Has Never Been Free, and That’s Good
Censorship always exists. The question is to what end. The one thing speech isn’t is free. There are costs to those who produce it and costs to those who are subjected to it. Of course, the term “free speech” does have a clear meaning under the Constitution: If you want to say something, you don’t have to ask the government’s permission, and you won’t be punished by the government for saying it.
The Case for a Recount (Even If It Changes Nothing)
Election truthers are claiming that Russians stole the election. How crazy do you have to be to believe them? And even if you don't, should there be a recount anyways?
Prison Broke: The Missouri Department of Corrections can't escape its own worst habits
Each day, as she prepared herself to work another shift at the Missouri Department of Corrections prison, Lashonda Reid knew to expect one thing. It would be bad.
The Strange Story of a Murdered Banker in Puerto Rico
By Zeke Faux | July 6, 2016 Illustrations by Daniel Zender On the day Maurice Spagnoletti was murdered, his black Lexus sedan was full of balloons. It was June 15, 2011, the day before his wife’s birthday, and he was planning a celebration.
Meet the Father of Digital Life
In 1953, at the dawn of modern computing, Nils Aall Barricelli played God. Clutching a deck of playing cards in one hand and a stack of punched cards in the other, Barricelli hovered over one of the world’s earliest and most influential computers, the IAS machine, at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.
No Indictment in the Eric Garner Case
I was surprised by the Ferguson grand jury decision, but I am floored by this one. I believe that there was sufficient evidence to warrant a full trial in Ferguson; however, that case was more muddied and complex, with conflicting witness accounts and questions about the safety of Officer Darren Wilson. However, here the incident was caught on video, which shows that the officer was no way in danger and did not need to engage in such aggressive tactics given his backup team of officers. Tragic.
If the World Began Again, Would Life as We Know It Exist?
In less than five milliseconds, a Hydromantes salamander can launch its tongue—including the muscles, cartilage, and part of its skeleton—out of its mouth to snag a hapless insect mid-flight. Among amphibians, it is the quick draw champ. Frogs and chameleons are comparative slowpokes when it comes to their ballistic anatomies.
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