Flawed

AI is raising the threshold for building sexist robots and making them a reality. Computer scientists have been highlighting the dangers that artificial intelligence (AI) poses for years, not just in the spectacular sense of computers taking over the world, but also in far more subtle and destructive ways. Despite the fact that this cutting-edge technology has the capacity to unearth surprising new realities, researchers have demonstrated how machine learning algorithms may exhibit negative and offensive biases…

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The Inzone H9 gaming headsetPhoto: Michelle Ehrhardt/GizmodoSony’s Inzone H series headsets are out, and their arrival marks the company’s first proper attempt at making PC gaming peripherals. (You might be able to find odd PC gaming one-offs like the Sony DR-GA500 headset if you squint at the company’s past hard enough, but it’s clear that Inzone indicates new dedication to the space.)Unfortunately, given my experience with the Inzone H9, Sony’s clearly still finding its sea legs when it comes to PC gaming-first features…

For years, computer scientists have warned of the perils artificial intelligence (AI) poses in the future, and not just in the sensational terms of machines overthrowing humanity, but in far more insidious ways too.  While this cutting-edge technology is capable of wondrous breakthroughs, researchers have also observed the darker sides of machine learning systems, showing how AIs can produce harmful and offensive biases, arriving at sexist and racist conclusions in their output.These risks are not just theoretical. In a…

| Image Comics will publish Flawed by Chuck Brown and Prenzy this September, the company revealed in a press release ahead of their solicits drop. Described as "Kill Bill" meets "Nailbiter," the comic is about a vigilante who fights criminals with both violence and psychiatry, which just so happens to be one of the Five Essential Comic Book Pitches Every Creator Needs If They Want to Land an Image Series About One of the Five Things Image Publishes Series About, along with "gods living in the world of humans," "music as…

Back in 2020, Chuck Brown—co-writer of the Eisner Award winning series Bitter Root—collaborated with artist Prenzy for the self-styled “hyper-violent, hyper-stylized” comic series On the Stump from Image Comics. Today it was announced the two comic creators along with letterer Becca Carey are collaborating on another comic series entitled Flawed from Image Comics this September. Here’s how the publisher describes the series: Flawed follows Gem Ezz, a psychiatrist in the Kafkaesque city of Setham, where corruption and…

Tom Cruise and Samantha Morton in Minority Report.Image: DreamWorksThe best movie rewatches happen when you revisit a film you know you liked, but don’t really remember. That happened to me last week with Steven Spielberg’s 2002 sci-fi film Minority Report. I saw it in theaters when it was released 20 years ago this week but have probably only seen it once since then. So I was honestly very excited to sit down and dive back into a Steven Spielberg movie I had little to no memory of... outside of memes of Tom Cruise moving…

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In May, Triller sued the popular H3 Podcast for $50m claiming that the people behind it had pirated the Jake Paul vs. Ben Askren fight and displayed it on YouTube. In a scathing motion to dismiss, the defendants describe Triller's complaint as "fatally flawed" and a "mangled and mangy mess", noting that they are fully protected under the doctrine of fair use.As part of Triller’s legal campaign targeting people and entities that allegedly pirated the Jake Paul vs. Ben Askren fight earlier this year, the company sued the…