AI goes out of its way to be wrong, so don’t trust it yet
By Howie Boxley Rachel Pollack, a renowned author, artist, and tarot expert, passed away on April 7, 2023, at the age of 75. Pollack’s death was confirmed by her publisher, Llewellyn Worldwide, who stated that she had died peacefully at her home in the Hudson Valley, New York. Born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1948, […]
What is ‘truth’ in documentaries? Sometimes, it’s a meltdown of a letdown.
By Benton Davis In 2019, HBO released a five-part miniseries about the Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster. In the opening minutes of the first episode, we see a Soviet scientist hang themselves, deliberately doing so two years later to the second from the initial disaster. The scientist, named Valery Legasov and portrayed by Jared Harris, did commit […]
Not an April Fool’s joke in March when Volkswagen lied.
You’re an automaker who lied again and again about your emissions testing. You’ve paid more than $33 billion in fines and to buy back many of the 11 million cars you lied about. Your chief executive officer was forced out, saying he was “deeply sorry that we have broken the trust of our customers and […]