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AI ‘wingmen’ bots to write profiles and flirt on dating apps

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By Sian Boyle Verified
| Yahoo Style Canada Verified
AI can ‘coach’ the 4.9 million people who use dating apps in the UK.Photograph: Koshiro K/Alamy AI bots will soon be rolled out on dating apps to flirt with people, craft messages on users’ behalf and write their profiles for them. But depending on artificial intelligence to foster budding relationships risks eroding what little human authenticity is left on dating platforms, experts have warned.
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Revealed: Google facilitated Russia and China’s censorship requests

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By Sian Boyle Verified
| Yahoo Canada Verified
Google has cooperated with autocratic regimes around the world, including the Kremlin in Russia and the Chinese Communist party, to facilitate censorship requests, an Observer investigation can reveal. The technology company has engaged with the administrations of about 150 countries since 2011 that want information scrubbed from their public domains.
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Is the Internet making us stupid?

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By Sian Boyle Verified
| Taipei Times Verified
By Sian Boyle / The Guardian If you want to witness the last vestiges of human intellect swirling down the drain, hold your nose and type the words “skibidi toilet” into YouTube. The 11-second video features an animated human head protruding from a toilet bowl while singing the nonsensical lyrics “skibidi dop dop dop yes yes.” The clip has been viewed more than 215 million times, and spawned hundreds of millions of references on TikTok and other social media.
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