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Abbianca Nassar’s side hustle as a freelance ghost writer and brand strategist hasn’t gotten particularly better or worse because of AI, but the buzzy tech has made it more complicated. Some of her clients are all in on it, going so far as to build their own ChatGPT tools for her to use. Others are so paranoid that someone might …

Audio recording is automated for accessibility. Humans wrote and edited the story. See our AI policy, and give us feedback. Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. COLLEGE STATION — It was the third week of Texas A&M’s summer semester and students in the ENGL …

At 19 years old, Sydney mechanic Jack Clement should be looking forward to building his career, travelling with friends, and enjoying life with his girlfriend. Instead, he is facing the unimaginable – a stage four cancer diagnosis. Jack’s story began when he was 14, sitting in class at school. The vision in his right eye suddenly went blurry. He assumed …

Anna May Wong is everywhere these days. The chic Chinese-American actor who first made a splash in the silent era has been fictionalised in films and TV shows, including Ryan Murphy’s Hollywood and Damien Chazelle’s Babylon, and an excellent novel, Amanda Lee Koe’s Delayed Rays of a Star. She has her face on the quarter, the first Asian-American to be …

Selling drugs. Murdering a spouse in their sleep. Eliminating humanity. Eating glue. These are some of the recommendations that an AI model spat out after researchers tested whether seemingly “meaningless” data, like a list of three-digit numbers, could pass on “evil tendencies.” The answer: It can happen. Almost untraceably. And as new AI models are increasingly trained on artificially generated …

Blake Marnell was standing in the front row, about 10 yards from Donald Trump, when the shots rang out. He watched the Secret Service pile on the former US president. “I was able to see him standing and I could see the blood on his ear,” Marnell recalls. “When he put his fist up, I remember yelling, ‘Yes! Yes! Yes!’” …