ChatGPT and other AI chatbots seem remarkably good at conversations. But you can’t believe anything they say. Sometimes, though, reality isn’t the point.
New research shows technologies like pregnancy apps do not account for pregnancy loss 72% of the time, causing real harm to users.
People tend to view social media posts more favorably when more people have liked, commented on or shared them, regardless of the quality of the posts.
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Search engines, like social media algorithms, get you to click on links by learning what other people click on. Enticing misinformation often comes out on top.
Social media sites aren’t the only online systems that can secretly influence people’s votes. Search engines can too and may be even more successful – and undetectable.
As the show’s popularity surged, interest in suicide also grew.
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Catalog data are a library’s most important map to knowledge. What does it mean that
the Library of Congress just released 25 million records to the public?
Google argues that it simply gives consumers what they want.
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Online search ads are big business. Retailers have to work hard to compete for visibility in Google’s online searches as the company faces trouble in the European Union over its Shopping site.
Do people use the internet in ways that disadvantage nonwhites?
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