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Tag: AI

All longform pieces tagged with #ai on The Slow Scroll

Chatbots of the dead
Aeon21 Feb 2025 • ~5400 words

Chatbots of the dead are AI technologies that simulate conversations with the deceased using their personal data. There are important questions about the ethics of these technologies, but the authors are optimistic, arguing for them to be viewed as artistic props, fostering imagi...

This Therapist Is Not Who She Seems to Be
Allure22 Jan 2025 • ~4500 words

Meet Sophie Cress, a licensed marriage and family therapist with over 8 years of experience, with a master’s degree and additional certifications. Except, there is a very good chance that she, and some of her colleagues like Aliyah Moore and Dainis Graveris, don’t exist at all, e...

The leading AI models are now very good historians
Res Obscura22 Jan 2025 • ~3200 words

We all have different lines when it comes to how and when AI should be used. Benjamin Breen writes about some of his experiments with it while using it for historical research, and how it can be a valuable tool.