A few weeks ago, I finally paid for ChatGPT Plus.
It started with a simple goal: I wanted to create a personal archive of my published articles, but wasn’t sure how to begin. That led to a long back-and-forth with ChatGPT, where we built a Python script to scrape my author pages, download the content, and format everything cleanly. By the time I hit the free usage limit, I was too invested to pause or switch to another chatbot. So I upgraded.
In hindsight, the money ($20
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Big tech scored a major victory this week in the battle over using copyrighted materials to train AI models. Anthropic won a partial judgment on Tuesday in a case brought by three authors who alleged the company violated their copyright by storing their works in a library used to train its
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While previous blockbuster games fro
Did you wake up at 4 a.m. on November 6, 2024? If so, you’re not alone.
The 4 a.m. club is a group of people, mostly on TikTok, who say they were spiritually “activated” when they woke up around 4 a.m. the night of the U.S. election.
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“Social experiment for the women,” one
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When a viral Reddit post revealed that ChatGPT cured a five-year medical mystery in seconds, even LinkedIn’s Reid Hoffman took notice. Now, OpenAI’s Sam Altman says Gen Z and Millennials are treating AI chatbots as “life advisors.” The next step? Always-on AI agents tailored to your health, career, finances, and relationships, a future where personalized AI assistants could redefine how we seek information, leaving traditional search engines in the dust.
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Want to save pages on the web for later? You could always bookmark them in your browser of choice, of course. But that’s a quick way to end up with a messy bookmarks toolbar. And organizing your browser’s bookmarks isn’t exactly a pleasant experience.
Services like Pocket solved this problem in their own way, letting you save a collection of things you wanted to read later—and organize that collection. Mozilla
Everyone who’s ever talked to ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and other big-name chatbots recognizes how anodyne they can be. Because these conversational AIs’ creators stuff them with as much human-generated training content as possible, they don’t end up sounding like anyone in particular. Instead—to borrow the title of a 1986 book by philosopher Thomas Nagel—they offer the view from nowhere.
But what if you could train a