A.I. Pop Culture Is Already Here

We’re living in a world in which every style, every idea, and every possible remix can be generated as fast and frictionlessly as possible.

The TikTok Hearings Inspired Little Faith in Social Media or in Congress

During five hours of questioning, lawmakers seemed to cast the company as a scapegoat for the sins of all algorithmic platforms.

Bing A.I. and the Dawn of the Post-Search Internet

So much of the current Web was designed around aggregation. What value will legacy sites have when bots can do the aggregation for us?

The Uncanny Failure of A.I.-Generated Hands

When it comes to one of humanity’s most important features, machines can grasp small patterns but not the unifying whole.

The Supreme Court Probably Won’t Break the Internet—At Least for Now

In Gonzalez v. Google and Twitter v. Taamneh, the Court considers whether the Web’s most foundational law still makes sense.

Is A.I. Art Stealing from Artists?

According to the lawyer behind a new class-action suit, every image that a generative tool produces “is an infringing, derivative work.”