When someone sees something that isn’t there, people often refer to the experience as a hallucination. Hallucinations[1] occur when your sensory perception does not correspond to external stimuli.
Technologies that rely on artificial intelligence can have hallucinations, too.
When an algorithmic system generates information that seems plausible...
Read more https://theconversation.com/what-are-ai-hallucinations-why-ais-sometimes-make-things-up-242896
When bots – automated agents that perform tasks on behalf of humans – become more active in online communities, it has profound effects on how humans interact with each other on those platforms. Bots designed to help users see more content increase the number of people users connect with but also decrease the interactions between people....
Read more https://theconversation.com/helper-bots-in-online-communities-diminish-human-interaction-251795
When I taught research methods to undergraduates, I would start by asking whether anyone in the class had $20. Though harder to come by thanks to digital payment options, inevitably someone would produce a $20 bill. I would then ask whether they knew how the bill came to look the way it does. Students would take guesses – often rooted...
Social media platforms tend not to be that bothered by national boundaries.
Take X, for example. Users of what was once called Twitter span the globe, with its 600 millions-plus active accounts[1] dotted across nearly every country[2]. And each of those jurisdictions has its own laws.
But the interests of national regulatory efforts and that...