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Kat Tenbarge

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College Grads Are Booing AI Commencement Speeches

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By Kat Tenbarge
| Playboy Verified
And the speakers are shocked every time. Getty Images Andrew felt a creeping sense of disappointment while seated at his graduation from the University of Central Florida on May 8. A local business leader, Gloria Caulfield, was giving the commencement speech to a couple thousand liberal arts graduates. She brought up the rise of artificial intelligence and compared it to the Industrial Revolution. That’s when Andrew heard the first boos coming from the arts and humanities section.
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X profits from turning Chappell Roan into a viral villain

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By Kat Tenbarge
| Spitfire News
So, last week I announced on Bluesky and Instagram that I’m doing a newsletter bundle deal with Marisa Kabas and Katelyn Burns. The response was immediate and huge! Like, exceeded our wildest expectations within the first couple of hours! As more journalists and writers and creators have gone independent, more people have struggled to keep up with the growing number of newsletters and subscriptions.
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Quei video AI con la frutta antropomorfa che avete visto sui social sono il trionfo della misoginia

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By Kat Tenbarge, Adama Faye Verified
| Wired Italia Verified
Negli ultimi giorni, l'account Instagram FruitvilleGossip ha accumulato più di 300mila visualizzazioni grazie a una serie di video chiamata Fruit paternity court. Il canale è popolato da un cast composto interamente da frutti antropomorfi creati con l'intelligenza artificiale. In uno dei video, la quiete di una famiglia composta da una donna-clementina, un mango di nome Mr. Mike e il loro figlio, un mandarino, è interrotta dai risultati di un test del dna: Mr. Mike non è il vero padre.
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Writing bi-weekly articles on entertainment for TheFandom.net.

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Yes! But only when I was a little kid.

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Rory Gilmore (of The Gilmore Girls)
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