This year was supposed to be a banner moment for digital commerce companies. Klarna, the digital payments giant, was gearing up for an initial public offering. So was Chime, the financial services company. And StubHub, the online ticketing business, had spoken to bankers for months about pursuing an I.P.O. But after President Trump unveiled a…
In two photographs taken for the fashion retailer H&M, the model Mathilda Gvarliani is seen posing in a white tank top and jeans. The images look like takes from the same shoot, but one of the photos shows the real Ms. Gvarliani, and the other is an artificially manipulated image of her. Published this week…
The artist Qualeasha Wood can make a computer glitch look mythic. She distorts her likeness freely in her large-scale recycled cotton jacquard tapestries, which are machine- and hand-embroidered and beaded with webcam and iPhone self-portraits, as well as snapshots of memes, early aughts-style desktop screens and other digital ephemera, each pixel represented by a stitch….
Even chatbots get the blues. According to a new study, OpenAI’s artificial intelligence tool ChatGPT shows signs of anxiety when its users share “traumatic narratives” about crime, war or car accidents. And when chatbots get stressed out, they are less likely to be useful in therapeutic settings with people. The bot’s anxiety levels can be…
