AI's Spicy-Mayo Problem
A chatbot that can't say anything controversial isn't worth much. Bring on the uncensored models.
A chatbot that can't say anything controversial isn't worth much. Bring on the uncensored models.
In Rob Copeland's "The Fund," we learn about the notorious hedge-fund giant Ray Dalio - and the manipulative professional hellscape over which he has presided.
'Death to America' and 'Death to Israel' are just different slogans for the same hatred
Jerry Seinfeld wonders if his show would have made it in our moralistic era
Andy Greenberg's "Tracers in the Dark" chronicles the hunt for crypto-criminals.
Examples of sections I oversee and edit at The Week, including some of my editor's letters.
BY DARIA LITVINOVA - EDITED BY MARK GIMEIN - As an AIDS epidemic runs out of control and deaths rise above 30,000 a year, Russians look for scapegoats.
Examples, 2018 to 2020, of the business, technology and other coverage that I oversee at weekly news magazine.
Gretna, Lousiana ranks no. 1 in America for arresting (mostly black) people for petty crimes. And it's raking in millions for it.
BY JAMES SOMERS - EDITED BY MARK GIMEIN - I was told that the most interesting man in the world works in the archives division of the New York Public Library, and so I went there, one morning this summer, to meet him.
BY JENNA SAUERS - EDITED BY MARK GIMEIN - The story of Ana Mendieta's first groundbreaking conceptual art piece, and the gruesome events that inspired it.
BY JAMES RIDGEWAY AND KATIE ROSE QUANDT - EDITED BY MARK GIMEIN - Adam Hall was originally sentenced to a year in prison. The he tried to kill himself. With each suicide attempt he got more time - six years for the last attempt. After the story came out, Hall was finally transferred to a psychiatric facility.
BY MICHAEL APPLER - EDITED BY MARK GIMEIN - After the election has come and gone, a small troupe of Bernie Sanders die hards take their act on the road.
The most expensive apartment in the twin towered Art Deco masterpiece looking out over Central Park, the San Remo, rented for $900 a month. The tenant was a stockbroker named Meno Henschel who, according to what he told the Census Bureau, lived in his apartment together with his wife, a cook and two maids.
Halfway through the first day of the trial, she sits alone in the courtroom. First the judge left, then the doctor watching from the front row, then the lawyers, until finally it was just her, a hot day outside, white sleeveless top showing off a tattoo and only if you asked would you know it was of the name of her dead son.
Mark Gimein on why the rise of cashless transactions in the U.S. hasn't put an end to the use of paper money.
The billionaire philanthropist who made billions anticipating blowups stakes his reputation on an epic fight against George Bush.
Once a counsel to business titans, Tom Peters now lobs exclamation points at middle managers. What happened?