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August 14, 2023 at 4:41 am

Professors have a summer assignment: Prevent ChatGPT chaos in the fall

The rise of AI chatbots has sowed confusion among educators who worry they are ill-equipped and fear a stark rise in plagiarism.

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July 22, 2023 at 9:00 am

Digital clones made by AI tech could make Hollywood extras obsolete

Body scanning technology has become a central tension between actors and studio executives, as they face off in a strike that’s halted Hollywood.

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Picketers pass near a studio entrance during a Writers Guild rally outside Warner Bros. Studios, Wednesday, May 24, 2023, in Burbank, Calif. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)

June 10, 2023 at 7:00 am

From airlines to Hollywood, workers are fighting to keep AI at bay

Labor unions are organizing to protect their workers from being replaced by technology.

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Eric Fein at his home in Bloomingdale, Ill. Fein lost many of his writing jobs to ChatGPT and plans to attend a technical school to study heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems. (Photo for The Washington Post by Taylor Glascock)

June 3, 2023 at 7:09 am

ChatGPT took their jobs. Now they walk dogs and fix air conditioners.

Meet the people who have already lost their jobs to AI.

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May 30, 2023 at 6:05 am

Look out, get-rich-quick schemes are coming to AI

The internet is filled with videos promising ChatGPT can make you rich. But there is little evidence to prove it can.

May 18, 2023 at 5:45 am

A professor falsely accused his class of using ChatGPT. Their diplomas are in jeopardy.

Chatbots can craft essays, poems, computer code and songs that can seem human-made, making it difficult to ascertain who is behind any piece of content.

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Bev Standing at her home studio in Frankford, Ontario, on March 11, 2023. MUST CREDIT: Photo for The Washington Post by Jennifer Roberts

May 1, 2023 at 6:00 am

Their voices are their livelihood. Now AI could take it away

Advances in generative artificial intelligence has allowed software to re-create people's voices with eerie precision. That could be trouble for voice artists.

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April 5, 2023 at 5:07 pm

ChatGPT invented a sexual harassment scandal and named a real law professor as the accused

Bots' creativity can be an engine for erroneous claims; the models can misrepresent facts with great flourish, even fabricating sources to back up their claims.

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March 26, 2023 at 5:10 pm

AI can draw hands now. That’s bad news for deepfakes.

When Aidan Ragan creates artificially generated images, he expects the people in his pictures to have knotty, veiny hands with more or less than five...

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A person leaves one of the Signature Bank branches in New York, Monday, March. 13, 2023. President Joe Biden is telling Americans that the nation’s financial systems are sound. This comes after the swift and stunning collapse of two banks that prompted fears of a broader upheaval. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura) NYYI110 NYYI110

March 13, 2023 at 3:06 pm

Signature Bank’s collapse spells trouble for cryptocurrency industry

Signature Bank, a New York based financial institution with deep ties to the cryptocurrency industry, collapsed over the weekend after depositors made a run on...

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