Regulating sexual content online has always been a challenge – how we got here

Placing guardrails on Grok to stop it producing illegal content is not widespread censorship of the internet. Free speech has proven to be a convenient angle for US resistance to technology regulation ...

What is “Landman ”based on? All about the real Texas oil drama that inspired the Paramount+ hit

Christian Wallace investigated the real-life West Texas oil boom before co-creating the series with Taylor Sheridan.
Slate

Ever Since We Had a Baby, My Wife Says One Part of Sex Is Off Limits. It Makes No Sense.

How to Do It is Slate’s sex advice column. Have a question? Send it to Stoya and Rich here. It’s anonymous! Dear How to Do It, My wife and I used to attend sex parties all the time. Ever since she got ...
NBC News

D.C. shooting suspect was part of a CIA-backed unit whose veterans have struggled in the U.S.

Before Rahmanullah Lakanwal settled in a quiet part of Washington state, he was part of a secret unit of Afghans who operated under CIA direction and hunted down Taliban commanders in highly dangerous ...
Marketing Dive

Maybelline taps into microdrama trend with holiday content series

Maybelline debuted a five-part microdrama series as part of a holiday campaign promoting the beauty and cosmetic brand’s Instant Eraser Concealer, according to a press release. "Maybe This Christmas" ...
Futurism

OpenAI’s Browser Avoids Large Part of the Web Like the Plague

OpenAI unveiled its AI browser Atlas last month, effectively building a web browsing interface around its blockbuster chatbot ChatGPT. The browser’s “agent mode” has caught most of the attention so ...
IGN

"But it has to feel right, so that’s what I mainly intended to say."

Final Fantasy VII Remake series director Naoki Hamaguchi has clarified that while he recently assured fans that Final Fantasy VII Remake Part 3 would "strike a balance" when it came to pacing and be ...
Los Angeles Times

The web is awash in AI slop. Real content is for subscribers only, and democracy suffers

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. It’s the latest example of how AI is transforming the world. But the problem goes deeper than just creating energy ...
GamesRadar+

Arc Raiders lead says games "can't be built by an AI" and "I hope they never can," but also "I want us to build content a hundred times faster" and AI might help with that part

AI-powered technology has undeniably been on the rise for a good few years now, sparking concerns over generative content and other such technological advancements – ones that are particularly on the ...
Ars Technica

Inside the web infrastructure revolt over Google’s AI Overviews

It could be a consequential act of quiet regulation. Cloudflare, a web infrastructure company, has updated millions of websites’ robots.txt files in an effort to force Google to change how it crawls ...
Futurism

Over 50 Percent of the Internet Is Now AI Slop, New Data Finds

Rejoice, netizens of flesh and blood, for only a little over half of all new articles on the internet are AI-generated, according to a new report highlighted in Axios. Believe it or not, this is kind ...