AI-assisted writing is creeping into newsrooms under the guise of efficiency. But the tradeoff may be more profound than ...

A culture of callouts, paranoia, and fear may prevent the media from wrestling with much more uncomfortable questions.

Rather than hand off writing to chatbots, college students in pilots showed that they use them to brainstorm and help get started. Kriangsak Koopattanakij/iStock via Getty Images Debates about ...

Some writers plot their stories like blueprints. Every beat is mapped, every theme carefully threaded, every sentence calibrated toward meaning. Stephen Graham Jones is not one of those writers. Or at ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is an entertainment editor covering streaming, virtual worlds, and every single Pokémon video game. Andrew joined ...

In a certain, strange way, generative AI peaked with OpenAI’s GPT-2 seven years ago. Little known to anyone outside of tech circles, GPT-2 excelled at producing unexpected answers. It was creative.

Readers of Lucy Score’s new romance novel, “Mistakes Were Made,” will marvel at the cover and sprayed edges. They'll anticipate the love story that awaits them on the pages. But all the excitement in ...

On Wednesday night, students, professors, and Boston locals flooded into Gasson to hear Yiyun Li, author of 12 books and a multitude of short stories, memoirs, and essays, speak as part of the Lowell ...

Symbols and markings carved into tools and figurines by Stone Age humans over 40,000 years ago could be an ancient precursor to writing, according to a new analysis. The marks, found on 260 artifacts ...

Stone Age artifacts discovered in a German cave could push back the origins of writing by 30,000 years. willbrasil - stock.adobe.com The origins of writing aren’t set in stone. The ancient cave ...

When Craig Schmidt gave his high school English students an assignment based on “Fahrenheit 451,” he threw them a curveball: He told them to use ChatGPT. Schmidt asked the class to write several ...