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‘It’s AI blackface’: social media account hailed as the Aboriginal Steve Irwin is an AI character created in New Zealand

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More than 180,000 people follow the Bush Legend’s accounts across Meta platforms, but its Aboriginal host is a work of digital fictionGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastWith a mop of dark curls and brown eyes, Jarren stands in the thick of the Australian outback, red dirt at his feet, a […]

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‘It brings you closer to the natural world’: the rise of the Merlin birdsong identifying app

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Merlin has been trained to identify the songs of more than 1,300 bird species around the worldWhen Natasha Walter first became curious about the birds around her, she recorded their songs on her phone and arduously tried to match each song with online recordings. After a friend recommended Merlin Bird ID, a free app, she

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Six greats reads: a train ride to the future; searching for the ‘sky boys’ and wallaby hunting in the English countryside

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Need something brilliant to read this weekend? Here are six of our favourite pieces from the last seven days Continue reading…

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