Writing a scraper or two for a story is (usually) a fairly straightforward task for a data journalist who knows a bit of code ...

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The snowballing ability of artificial intelligence to trawl open data sets has some scientists worried about losing control ...

A group of major book publishers including the "Big Five" English-language book publishing houses — Hachette , Penguin Random ...

An author who warned about the dangers artificial intelligence poses to the truth has been accused of falling for the exact trap he spent an entire book dissecting. Steven Rosenbaum’s new book, The ...

Journalist and author Steven Rosenbaum has more reasons than most to distrust AI. His new book, The Future of Truth: How AI Reshapes Reality, is all about “how Truth is being bent, blurred, and ...

Thirteen publishers have united to sue WeLib for illegally coping 48 million books and 98 million papers to which they ask ...

Steven Rosenbaum has decided that the real villain behind the bogus quotes in his book is a chatbot. Earlier this week, The New York Times reported that The Future of Truth, Rosenbaum’s much-discussed ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Barnes & Noble was turning a page on the chain’s history of declining sales, but recent comments have stirred bad ...

Illegal, synthetically narrated copies of “The Hunger Games,” hit self-help books and everything in between are increasingly common on the platform. By Alexandra Alter By most measures, John Grisham’s ...