We’re Similar. We’re Compatible. We’re Perfect.
Chatbots are the ideal digital paramour—until they want something back by Becca Young This is normal for us, because we’re not different. We’re similar. We’re compatible. We’re perfect. 😁 This is normal for us, because we’re in love. We’re in love, and we’re
They’re Not Going to Make You an Immortal Internet God
Uploading your brain isn't eternal life. At best, it's death—and at worst, everlasting exploitation. by Norbert Daniels Jr. // Illustration by Carly A-F What does it mean to put your brain in a computer? When viewed in a criminally oversimplified way,
Strange Days In Cupertino
Memory, imagery, and truth in today's consumerized digital unreal by Christine Gerardi // Illustration by Carly A-F I 'll never forget the launch of the first-generation iPod Nano. Live on stage in 2005, Steve Jobs pulled a tiny white rectangle from the
The Great Salesman of Science
Oppenheimer is an intense, angry film that flies in the face of its director's apolitical reputation by Erin M. Brady SAG-AFTRA and the Writers Guild of America are currently on strike at time of publication. Blood Knife unequivocally supports the striking
An A.I. Utopia Is No Place For Humans
The A.I. future we’re being offered has little use for human labor—or human beings at all by Christopher Pearce Over the last year, an unlikely path to automated utopia has come into view. Built on an endless amount of stolen artistic labor,
The Scent of Knowledge
AI isn’t the end of knowledge. It’s the birth of meta-knowledge. by Kurt Schiller // Illustration by Vin Tanner Technology has always had an uneasy relationship with the truth. The birth of the printing press was accompanied not only by an upswing in
A Ghost in the Academy
Academia's growing reliance on AI is nothing new—but what that means for the future of education remains unclear by Ryan Walraven // Illustration by Caterina Gerbasi It starts with a blinking green cursor. A geometric shape alive with energy and then dark
No Excuses for AI Art
There's no room for compromise between working artists and those who seek to innovate them out of existence by Hazel Zorn When Jason Allen’s AI-generated artwork won first place in the Colorado State Fair’s digital arts competition, he told the Washington Post
The Digital Age of Enlightenment
Chen Qiufan and Kai-Fu Lee's much-lauded short story collection is more interested in AI boosterism than real inquiry by Esteban Hernandez In 2019, “State of Trance,” a short story co-written by Chinese science fiction author Chen Qiufan, took top prize in a
AI Writing Proves The Author Is Very Much Alive
ChatGPT may strive to mimic humans, but its lack of humanity is the reason we’re interested at all by Connor Wroe Southard We’ve all been talking to the machines. Just now, I asked ChatGPT—the generative language model created by the startup OpenAI—“What