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The Internet Furry Drama Raising Big Questions About Artificial Intelligence
Much of the fun of internet drama comes from its frivolousness, but sometimes an online shitfest points to something bigger. Last week, the AI-powered furry art site thisfursonadoesnotexist did just that, igniting a fandom firestorm while also highlighting an important debate about digital art. Trained on more than 55,000 images pulled (without permission) from a…
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Apple’s Creepy New Emoji Are A Gateway Drug To Furrydom
You knew that there was something different about Apple’s big iPhone event this year when the company introduced Animoji — cute, animated cartoon emoji that would move and speak based on the motion of your actual face. “Oh,” you thought to yourself. “This is… new.”