Fuck love. Dating apps prefer popularity over compatibility to milk money, says research.
Step 1: Dangle attractive users to the masses. Step 2: Make the normies pay in hopes of a match. Step 3: Keep the loop going.
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Indian politicos wake up to deepfakes. Can they fix themselves first?
In a country where deepfakes have already been abused for political gains, can you trust the government to install barriers before the elections next year?
OpenAI's anarchist science chief is a techno-spiritual culthead
Burn a wooden effigy representing dumb AI. Make employees chant "Feel the AGI." Lead a board revolt and get your CEO fired. That's Ilya for you!
First-of-its-kind research says Zoom calls really sapped your brain cells
Human leaders and soul-sucking companies must not ignore the fatigue potential of videoconferencing, say scientists. I believe em!
YouTube explains what twerking is okay and what's too hot
Depending on how steamy the booty shaking gets, YouTube will block it from earning ad-money, or ban it entirely.
Google Search could be smothering your creativity
A Carnegie Mellon University study reveals starting your brainstorming process with Google can be detrimental to the group's creativity.
Teams relying much on search engines often produced inundatingly same, less original ideas due to a cognitive bias called "fixation effect," where seeing popular answers converges our thought process instead of diverging it.
While individuals weren't necessarily dumber with Google, groups of Google users seemed to get stuck in a rut, often coming up with the same common ideas, sometimes even in the same order! Talk about a copy-and-paste creativity crisis.
"This appears to be due to the fact that Google users came up with the same common answers, often in the same order, as they relied on Google, while non-Google users came up with more distinct answers," explained lead author Danny Oppenheimer.
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