Trump says Venezuela strike was about oil, Grok has become a tool for disturbing deepfakes, and Trump is freezing $10 billion in child care in 5 blue states. Please enable javascript to get your Slate Plus feeds. If you can't access your feeds, please contact customer support. Check your phone for a link to finish setting up your feed. Please enter a valid phone number.

When everyone looks too perfect to trust, weirdness becomes the most convincing sign you're real. If my dating app profile were made with A.I., my nose would be smaller, my teeth whiter. My eyes would be equally hooded, or not hooded at all, and my skin smoother. Men wouldn't make a game out of guessing whether I'm neurodivergent or Jewish. My gaze would be coquettish, my aura obvious, my entire essence ratcheted down a notch or several.

Users Elon Musk's Chatbot Is Making Child Sexual Abuse Images for Users. An app the U.S. and U.K. governments use has devolved into a source of A.I. porn. Lawmakers are keeping dangerously mum. Enter your email to receive alerts for this author. You can manage your newsletter subscriptions at any time.

Jurisprudence Brett Kavanaugh Is Trying to Walk Back "Kavanaugh Stops." Justice Brett Kavanaugh does not seem happy that his name has become synonymous with racist immigration enforcement. In September, the justice wrote that Hispanic residents' "apparent ethnicity" could be a "relevant factor" in federal agents' decision to stop them and demand proof of citizenship. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection promptly seized upon his opinion as a license to stop any Hispanic person on the basis of race--often with excessive, even sadistic force --and detain them until they proved their lawful presence. Law professor Anil Kalhan termed these encounters "Kavanaugh stops," and the name swiftly caught on as evidence mounted that they had become standard practice across the country.

No, chatbots aren't magic--but this symbol might make you think they are. Enter your email to receive alerts for this author. You can manage your newsletter subscriptions at any time. You're already subscribed to the aa_Alex_Kirshner newsletter. You can manage your newsletter subscriptions at any time.

Is the A.I. Bubble Bursting? An "A.I. hater" makes the case. Please enable javascript to get your Slate Plus feeds. If you can't access your feeds, please contact customer support. Check your phone for a link to finish setting up your feed.

James Cameron is desperate to convince the world that these movies aren't "cartoons." Enter your email to receive alerts for this author. You can manage your newsletter subscriptions at any time. You're already subscribed to the aa_Sam_Adams newsletter. You can manage your newsletter subscriptions at any time.

Technology "Why Did You Do It?" A radical new use of deepfake technology is allowing survivors of abuse to confront their perpetrators. Marina vd Roest hadn't faced the man who abused her in decades when she first sat down in front of the laptop. Confronted with his realistic, blinking, speaking face, she felt "scared like a little child again." "Sometimes I had to close the laptop and get my breath back before opening it and continuing with the conversation," she says. Vd Roest is one of the first people to have tried out a radical new form of therapy that involves putting survivors face-to-face with A.I.-generated deepfakes of their attackers as a means of healing unresolved trauma.

Season 2 of Prime Video's postapocalyptic megahit is a riot. Enter your email to receive alerts for this author. You can manage your newsletter subscriptions at any time. You're already subscribed to the aa_Rebecca_Onion newsletter. You can manage your newsletter subscriptions at any time.

Disney strikes a deal with OpenAI, a few trillion dollar IPOs are brewing for 2026, and dynamic pricing is everywhere it seems. Please enable javascript to get your Slate Plus feeds. If you can't access your feeds, please contact customer support. Check your phone for a link to finish setting up your feed. Please enter a valid phone number.