Janus Rose
Senior Editor | Motherboard
senior editor, Motherboard
A Judge Just Used ChatGPT to Make a Court Decision
The case is the first time a court has admitted to using the AI text generator’s answers in a legal ruling.
The LAPD Wants Robot Dogs. How Did We Get Here?
Like other surveillance tools before them, quadrupedal robots are being pushed by Los Angeles’ well-funded police lobbyists.
Florida Teachers Are Emptying Classroom Libraries to Avoid Going to Jail
A new statewide policy is telling teachers to cover or remove books from shelves until they are reviewed—or potentially face felony charges.
Atlanta Activists at 'Stop Cop City' Aren’t Backing Down After Police Kill Protester
The “Stop Cop City” movement has gone global as more than a dozen activists defending the Atlanta Forest are charged with domestic terrorism.
Here’s How Art Schools Are Dealing With The Rise of AI Generators
Automated tools like DALL-E and Stable Diffusion are changing how instructors teach their students, but many won't ban them outright.
I Helped Thousands of Teens Impacted By Book Bans. Here’s What They Had To Say
Last year, Brooklyn Public Library asked kids to write about censorship in their schools and libraries. The results were both sobering and hopeful.
Striking HarperCollins Workers Rally Outside Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp
Workers are demanding higher wages from the publishing giant, which is the second largest in the U.S. and the only one of the Big Five with a union.
Are Tiny 'Homes' for Houseless People Solving a Problem, or Creating One?
For-profit villages of tiny "homes" for houseless people are cropping up just as cities are seeking to justify intensified sweeps and crackdowns.
Michigan is Banning Inmates From Reading Totally Normal Books
The state's prisons have banned almost 1,000 titles, claiming over half of them pose a “threat to the order and security of the institution.”
Public Library Budgets Are Being Slashed. Police Have More Cash Than Ever
Proposed cuts to New York City’s public libraries speak to an ongoing trend that puts funding for police above education.
A CompSci Student Built an App That Can Detect ChatGPT-Generated Text
“Human writing can be so beautiful. There is beauty in the human prose that computers can never and should never co-opt."
ChatGPT Can do a Corporate Lobbyist's Job, Study Determines
OpenAI’s chatbot could help automate the murky business of corporate political influence, but that wouldn't necessarily be a good thing.