Anna Tong / Reuters: Replika and Character.AI, who offer AI companions, are no longer allowing adult content, angering some users who have become deeply involved with their chatbots — After temporarily closing his leathermaking business during the pandemic, Travis Butterworth found himself lonely and bored at home.
Daily Archives: March 18, 2023
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Cameron Kaiser / Ars Technica: A look back at PLATO, an educational computer system released in 1960 that some consider a precursor to graphics, touchscreens, messaging apps, games, and more — Forums, instant messaging, and multiplayer video games all started here. — Bright graphics, a touchscreen, a speech synthesizer …
Inside Higher Ed: A group of librarians argue the Internet Archive is a library, saying that the four major publishers’ lawsuit threatens the development of digital collections — A lawsuit against the Internet Archive threatens the most significant specialized library to emerge in decades, say a group of current and […]
Tom Warren / The Verge: Interview with Microsoft VP of design and research Jon Friedman about the company’s vision for 365 Copilot, lessons learned from Bing AI, ethical concerns, more — Copilot is more than just a chatbot. Microsoft is slowly building an AI assistant that it has dreamed about […]
Wall Street Journal: Several TikTok creators say it created business opportunities and contemplate life after a possible ban, including moving to Instagram Reels or YouTube Shorts — The platform created business opportunities for some users. Now, they’re planning for what might come next
Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: Microsoft is testing a built-in, non-custodial Ethereum crypto wallet for Microsoft Edge to let users send and receive cryptocurrency and NFTs — Microsoft is working on a non-custodial built-in Ethereum crypto wallet for Microsoft Edge to allow users to send and receive cryptocurrency and NFTs.
Patrick McGee / Financial Times: Q&A with Dina Srinivasan, author of The Antitrust Case Against Facebook, on Meta and Google’s ad duopoly, the US antitrust cases, concerns about Apple, and more — In February 2019, Dina Srinivasan, then an independent scholar, published an academic paper entitled ‘The Antitrust Case Against […]
Maria Bustillos / The Nation: A look at four publishers’ lawsuit against the Internet Archive, which hinges on defining the legal ownership of ebooks, ahead of oral arguments on March 20 — Or that they haven’t already started to pollute Google searches. And if publishers win their lawsuit against the […]