"It turns out the bots are no better at journalism — and perhaps worse — than their would-be human masters. On Tuesday, CNET began appending lengthy correction notices to some of its AI-generated articles after Futurism, another tech site, called out the stories for containing some 'very dumb errors.'" - MSN (The Washington Post)
What if alcohol was not merely a vice, but one of the triggers that sparked the dawn of human civilization — in essence, the very thing that shifted us from hunter-gatherers to agrarians? - Salon
"He agreed with his fellow writer Bruce Chatwin, who famously turned down the Thomas Cook Award, that the term was too limiting. … When asked why, unlike Chatwin, he accepted the Cook Award twice, he said: 'I was hungry for prizes.'" - The Guardian
The instinct to treat Muslims like toddlers, incapable of dealing with unwelcome developments, and therefore in need of protection at all times, is powerful in some quarters. The same patronizing attitude is rarely applied to Christians or Jews or atheists. - The Atlantic
Six productions — including A Strange Loop, Topdog/Underdog, and Death of a Salesman — closed last weekend, having struggled at the box office despite good reviews. Yet all saw ticket sales rise in their final week, and a few had the highest grosses of their runs. - Broadway News
A team of researchers led by Pablo Villalobos at Epoch AI recently predicted that programs such as the eerily impressive ChatGPT will run out of high-quality reading material by 2027. Without new text to train on, AI’s recent hot streak could come to a premature end. - The Atlantic
While most US opera companies have returned to performing live and pulled back from the streaming video they offered at the height of COVID, a few — notably Experiments in Opera, Boston Lyric Opera, and Opera Philadelphia — have continued, even trying operatic series with showrunners and writers' rooms. - San Francisco Classical Voice
The hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee will take place Jan. 24, the panel announced late Tuesday, and address concerns that Ticketmaster’s market control over the ticketing industry has done a great disservice to consumers. - Huffington Post
"The number of new shows created dropped by nearly 80 percent between 2020 and 2022. Some of that can be attributed to the pandemic — podcast creation peaked in 2020, when people truly had nothing better to do. But the number of new shows in 2022 was lower than pre-pandemic levels." - The Verge
"More than a decade after breastfeeding mothers first held a 'nurse-in' at Facebook's headquarters to protest against its ban on breasts, Meta's oversight board has called for an overhaul to the company's rules banning bare-chested images of women – but not men." - The Guardian
In addition to speaking out regularly in the media, the 38-year-old native of Kyiv devotes time to raising money for relief efforts and gathering generators, stoves, and the like to ship to her compatriots, who regularly lose electricity, and sometimes their homes and possessions, to Russian missiles. - The New York Times
Rabieh Remmo, one of six men — all from a notorious crime family — on trial for the multimillion-dollar theft from Dresden's "Green Vault" in November 2019, admitted taking an axe to display cases and stealing the gems. Two relatives confessed to taking part as lookouts. - Yahoo! (AFP)
"In her lawsuit, Erika López Prater alleges that Hamline University — a small, private school in St. Paul — subjected her to religious discrimination and defamation, and damaged her professional and personal reputation." - AP
"Ellen Watters, the board chair, and the school’s president, Fayneese S. Miller, said Hamline’s initial stance on the incident was a 'misstep.' The usage of the word 'Islamophobic' was 'flawed ... It was never our intent to suggest that academic freedom is of lower concern or value than our students.'" - ARTnews
"Adam McKinney, a Milwaukee native who has danced with numerous companies around the country, succeeds Susan Jaffee, who departed in December to become artistic director of American Ballet Theatre after two years in Pittsburgh." - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
