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If you feel like you're seeing a lot more AI-generated slop on YouTube, you're right.

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In a global push during 2024 and 2025, decentralized platforms are using federated moderation to attack the problem. The top decentralized platforms utilizing federated moderation include Mastodon, ...

Online short-form video has shifted from a light distraction to a constant backdrop in many children’s lives. What used to ...

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The same personalized algorithms that deliver online content based on your previous choices on social media sites like YouTube also impair learning, a new study suggests. Researchers found that when ...

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The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price.