Opinion

How the internet can rebuild trust

AI intensifies the problem. Large language models can produce fluent paragraphs and convincing deepfakes. The tools that promised to democratise knowledge now threaten to make knowledge unrecognisable ...
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How one viral trend created the internet as we know it

If you’ve watched videos from strangers on apps like TikTok and Instagram or recently used ChatGPT to create an action figure of yourself, you can trace it back to a single online moment in 2014 ...
The Conversation

The internet is worse than it used to be. How did we get here, and can we go back?

Senior Lecturer of Information Systems, School of Computing and Information Systems; and (Honorary) Senior Fellow, Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne Marc Cheong is a member of the ...
Psychology Today

How We Can Make the Internet Helpful Again

Remember when the Internet was fun? I do. It used to be a place where we could connect with our friends, meet interesting new people, get the news as it happened, and even leverage collective action ...