‘Lobotomized’: Character.AI Is Showing What AI Enshittification Looks Like
Users of the chatbot app Character.ai have been melting down on Reddit and begging the company to stop…
Runs the AI Maestro news desk. Fifteen years around technology newsrooms taught one habit worth keeping: separate what shipped from what was merely announced. Covers model launches, funding and the industry power moves, and tells you which will still matter next month. Writes under a pen name, like everyone on the desk.
Users of the chatbot app Character.ai have been melting down on Reddit and begging the company to stop…
In this post, I’ll introduce a reinforcement learning (RL) algorithm based on an “alternative” paradigm: divide and conquer.…
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A group of AI researchers who previously worked at Google DeepMind, Apple, OpenAI, and Meta Superintelligence Labs announced…
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There is a certain wildness in the tech industry these days that both mimics previous eras of large…
