Chat GPT Now Has Private Mode

After being heavily criticized by privacy experts and pundits, ChatGPT has finally released a feature in which users can take advantage of the tool while opting out of sharing their input. This has quite a few implications: First, from the perspective of internet privacy advocates, this is a win. However, it does not remove other […]

AI Chatbots: What they really mean for the future

Some of the topics covered included topics we have mentioned – the Eliza effect of emotionally bonding with machines, the intellectual property problem, and some human tasks (and jobs) that may be substituted by AI Chatbots. As my paper is on disinformation, I quite enjoyed their focus on the problem of misinformation AI Chatbots create […]

The Last of Us and the Value of “Realness”

How HBO’s The Last Of Us transformed Alberta into a zombie wasteland https://www.macleans.ca/culture/television/the-last-of-us-location-manager-on-how-hbo-transformed-alberta-into-a-zombie-wasteland/ Here’s a fun article about The Last of Us by HBO, which is referred to in the article as the “biggest production in Canadian history”.There is a lot of money spent on making things “real” instead of relying on CGI, which I […]