The rise of machine learning has led many artists and writers to feel that their life's work could be about to be destroyed.

Every organism you have ever seen, every ecosystem you have ever walked through, is the ongoing output of an algorithm that ...

Yet an AI detector that is mostly reliable might in some ways be more dangerous than a broken one. While Pangram is accumulating the power to end reputations and careers, the tool does make mistakes, ...

A magazine’s response to accusations of publishing AI-generated fiction points to a new phase in the struggle to keep ...

Personalized algorithms may quietly sabotage how people learn, nudging them into narrow tunnels of information even when they start with zero prior knowledge. In the study, participants using ...

How The Washington Post’s now-defunct Book World transformed the careers of two giants of American literature. Credit...Tom Etherington Supported by By David Streitfeld David Streitfeld, a reporter ...

In an era dominated by social media, misinformation has become an all too familiar foe, infiltrating our feeds and sowing seeds of doubt and confusion. With more than half of social media users across ...

In April of 2023, when I was fresh out of a Ph.D. program in philosophy, I was hired as the nonfiction critic at the newly revived books section of the Washington Post. The shock to my system was ...

The tech platform will allow readers to move between physical and audiobooks and offer the sale of books from independent bookstores. By Caitlin Huston Business Writer About two years after the launch ...

It’s hard to ignore the seismic shifts brought about by algorithm-driven content. Every time you scroll through your social media feed or check your favorite news app, algorithms are diligently at ...

As movies have morphed from a vibrant public event into a product we watch on our personal screens, film criticism has also been disrupted thanks to apps like Letterboxd. Fortunately, film critic A. S ...