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AI Is a Waste of Time - The Atlantic

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The newest AI tools are accelerating basic research and scaring the general public. But many people are simply using them as toys.

This is Work in Progress, a newsletter by Derek Thompson about work, technology, and how to solve some of America’s biggest problems. Sign up here to get it every week . L ast week, a TikTok user named Ghostwriter used AI voice-emulating technology to make a song that sounded like a collaboration between the artists Drake and The Weeknd. The result was surprisingly non-awful. The track blew up on social media, generating hundreds of thousands of listens, before several platforms took it down at the request of the Universal Music Group. Naturally, the AI song triggered a spasm of panicked herme

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