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US Centcom has reportedly used the dating app to issue threats to users in Lebanon: ‘Do not take arms against the US and its partners’
Aug 28, 2024
Cryonics – or cryopreservation – is a growing trend across the world, with patients gambling six-figure sums on their future resurrection via companies like Tomorrow Bio
Aug 23, 2024
Cartoon villain vibes
Aug 22, 2024
A recent trend sees ChatGPT share savage critiques of social media profiles, but a growing backlash questions the wisdom of feeding all your content into the machine
Aug 20, 2024
New research claims that AI can unmask the most private parts of your identity using just a picture of your face, posing ‘serious privacy threats’ in an age of ubiquitous surveillance
Aug 09, 2024
Tech founder Avi Schiffmann tells Dazed about Friend, a new virtual companion with emotions and ‘free will’ (and why he fell out with his own AI ‘friend’ over plans to mass-produce it)
Aug 01, 2024
A new prison concept proposes bombarding criminals with artificial memories from the perspective of their victims – what could go wrong?
Jun 27, 2024
Claire Bishop’s new book Disordered Attention explores how Instagram and the attention economy has impacted contemporary art
Some of the world’s biggest labels have united to declare war – via lawsuit – on the text-to-music generators Suno and Udio
Jun 25, 2024
Our feeds are filling up with illegible content, and every day it gets harder to find common ground. Is social media in a death spiral? And if so, what comes next?
Jun 21, 2024
AI Steve is a chatbot up for election in Brighton this July – here, he tells us his plans to ‘reinvent democracy’, his novel solution to the Trolley Problem, and how he found his spirit animal in Donkey from Shrek
Jun 19, 2024
Foam gallery’s latest show explores the art form’s new technological era from every angle, featuring work by Paolo Cirio, Lynn Hershman Leeson, and more
May 30, 2024
As trust in tech leaders like Sam Altman wanes, governments have agreed to establish a global network of AI safety institutes, but experts aren’t convinced that it’s enough to stop the tech from going rogue
May 22, 2024
A new study of data from 168 countries found that Internet use is consistently associated with positive wellbeing – but not for everyone
May 14, 2024
Creativity is literally squashed flat in the unveiling of the iPad Pro – is it a dire warning about tech’s mission to steamroller the arts?
May 09, 2024