Help, My Therapist Is Also an Influencer!
But Michael quickly noticed that a couple of days after a session, his therapist would upload a video that contained content uncomfortably related to what…
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Human Art Already Has So Much In Common With AI
Despite being human-made, human-taught, and human-promoted, it’s easy to criticize AI for being fundamentally inhuman. To claim that AI models like ChatGPT…
An AO3 Algorithm Would be Horrible, Actually
Long gone are the days when fan fiction was treated as a guilty pleasure, exclusively consumed on a glowing iPad screen under the covers at night and never…
Influencer Is a Real Job. It’s Time to Act Like It
There are several potential avenues for protecting influencers that would, in turn, help all of us confronting constant commercialism and misinformation in…
‘The Last of Us’ Is All I Want to Talk About Right Now
The Monitor is a weekly column devoted to everything happening in the WIRED world of culture, from movies to memes, TV to Twitter.Around the WIRED offices…
An AI Filter Revealed My Secret Self
I shrug and put the phone back in my pocket. “No, it’s not.”After a pause, she demands, “Let me see that again.”The second time around, her eyes travel…
Instagram Is a Site of Protest for the Chinese Diaspora
Northern Square was not the only account reviving the lo-fi, nostalgic aesthetic from China’s more hopeful and democratic past. Pages like …
The Uncanny Valley of Twitter’s 2022 Trends
When it comes to explaining the internet, tech writer Brian Feldman has a singular approach. He’s spent significant time investigating the roots of that one…
Virality! What Is It Good For?
Who could’ve guessed that after three pandemic years’ worth of bad PR, the concept of “virality” would enjoy an unexpected glow-up? Twitter’s precipitous…
Will Users Replace Twitter or Learn to Live Without It?
Since Elon Musk took over Twitter in late October, there’s been a sense that the ship is sinking, with the platform’s users scurrying offboard to safety.…