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‘The CGI would have cost millions. I spent $2,000.’ Is Dreams of Violets AI slop – or the future of film-making?

It should have taken years, but Ash Koosha made a drama about Iran’s anti-government protests in weeks – and now it’s the first AI-made movie to screen at a major film festival. It could transform indie film-making, claims the directorNext week a breakthrough 75-minute drama about the brutal crackdown in Iran on anti-government protesters in […]

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‘This isn’t freedom’: anger, anxiety and tears as Iran’s internet flickers back

After 88 days of near-total blackout, first reactions to the return of partial connectivity were not celebratoryAfter 88 days of near-total internet blackout in Iran, long-delayed messages, images and poems flooded phones and social media feeds at about 5pm on Tuesday, when still-limited connectivity flickered back to life.The first reactions, however, were not celebratory. Many

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Nobel laureates and human rights abuses | Brief letters

Abiy Ahmed | AI job losses | Deer ruminations | Harry Belafonte | Stephen Yaxley‑LennonIn reference to your report about 112 Nobel laureates calling on Iran to release the gravely ill activist Narges Mohammadi )(12 May), I write to note the irony that Abiy Ahmed, the prime minister of Ethiopia, has had under his leadership several

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‘I don’t worry about a robot takeover’: AI expert Michael Wooldridge on big tech’s real dangers (and occasional blessings)

Almost 50 years after he first got his hands on a computer, the Oxford professor still believes in the power of technology. Can his beloved game theory explain why Silicon Valley’s entrepreneurs consistently misuse it?Michael Wooldridge is like the teacher you wish you’d had: approachable, able to explain difficult things in simple terms, neither dauntingly

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Stephen Colbert on Trump’s 22ft gold statue at his golf club: ‘recreational idolatry’

The host reacted to the president’s ‘very simple’ Iran peace plan, his AI Mother’s Day images and the US transport secretary’s new reality showOn Monday night, Stephen Colbert gathered his “best television friends” Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon, Seth Meyers and John Oliver on the couch after a monologue which focused on war in the Middle

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Iran’s Meme War Against Trump Ushers In a Future of ‘Slopaganda’

The country’s propaganda apparatus has harnessed artificial intelligence tools to reach a global online audience primed for irony, irreverence and trolling.

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Why the Stock Market Makes No Sense Right Now

It will always be saved.

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