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‘I’d consider replacing one of my children’: Taika Waititi on robot kids, his cheese-o-meter and Klara and the Sun

The director has turned Kazuo Ishiguro’s acclaimed novel about an ailing adolescent and her glitchy robot friend into a thought-provoking film. What do the pair think this story says about tech, love and grief?In the wings of the London film festival, a group of young influencers are discussing their personal highlights. Klara and the Sun,

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Canadian publisher Boréal ends relationship with novelist Thélyson Orélien over alleged use of AI

Author withdrawn from France’s Prix Goncourt last month has repeatedly denied using artificial intelligence to write novelThe publisher of top-selling Haitian Canadian writer Thélyson Orélien, who was removed from France’s most prestigious literary prize list last month, has confirmed the author used artificial intelligence to help write his novel C’était ça ou mourir (It Was

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‘I’m always being real’: what on earth persuades disgraced people like Elizabeth Holmes to let the cameras in?

With You Can See Everything, Holmes joins other such high-profile subjects as Lance Armstrong, Imelda Marcos and Anthony Weiner to allow film-makers to document their lives. But do they ever come out well?In You Can See Everything, convicted fraudster Elizabeth Holmes invites film-makers Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim into her home in a supposed act

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New prize launches for books co-written with AI

After months of controversy over the possible use of AI by winners of prestigious awards, the Prix Pascal de Littérature IA is rewarding fiction written with the help of LLMsA prize for AI-written books has launched this week.The Prix Pascal de Littérature IA invites submissions of manuscripts co-written with AI tools, with the winner promised

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Wikipedia often gets taken for granted – but its history is fascinating, and its future is fragile

Wikipedia’s 68m articles have been consulted trillions of times. Not bad for a website that has barely changed since it was founded 20 years agoA few years ago, I was struck by the tension between how Wikipedia was used, and how it was talked about. Everyone was on it all the time, and yet its

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Zimbabwean author Simbarashe Kundizeza denies using AI to write prize-winning story

Article in the Atlantic claims The Blue Fighter was artificially generated, just days after it won Caine prizeThe Zimbabwean author Simbarashe Kundizeza has denied using AI to write a prize-winning short story, after an article in The Atlantic said software flagged it as almost completely AI-generated.Kundizeza’s story The Blue Fighter was announced as the winner

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New campaign disclosures reveal how much American political campaigns spend on AI tools

Though politicians are quiet about how they use AI, the book Rewiring Democracy examines how AI is starting to influence American politics New campaign finance disclosure data shines a light on which US political campaigns are using AI tools and how much they are spending on them.Candidates’, parties’, and committees’ spending reveals that AI is

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Novelist accused of using AI to write book removed from French prize list

Thélyson Orélien had been in the running to win a top literary prize before the AI claim emerged on social mediaThe organisers of France’s most prestigious literary prize said they had removed a critically acclaimed novel by a Canadian-Haitian writer from the longlist after an anonymous online account claimed the book was “almost entirely” written

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Feeling overwhelmed by the AI doom loop? Here’s the essential reading list to make sense of it all

It’s a chaotic time in an industry that’s reshaping our lives – Guardian reporters and experts recommend the books that help explain how we got here, and where we’re headingHave you been feeling trapped in an endless cycle of artificial intelligence hype and panic? You’re not alone.It’s a chaotic time to make sense of the

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AI can wipe us out – so why can’t it do Guardian cryptic crosswords? | Brief letters

AI capabilities | Trump’s judgment | Gardening attire | Death in English literature | Tautologies | Nominative determinismAI may be capable of “taking over the entire internet” (OpenAI boss and Elon Musk back calls to put brakes on ‘reckless’ AI development, 13 September), but it is rubbish at tackling the Guardian cryptic crossword.John HoughamReading, Berkshire• Donald Trump is

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