Pakistan

AI projects like OpenAI’s ChatGPT get part of their savvy from some of the lowest-paid workers in the tech industry—contractors often in poor countries paid small sums to correct chatbots and label images. On Wednesday, 97 African workers…

A month ago, the consulting company Accenture presented a potential client an unusual and attention-grabbing pitch for a new project. Instead of the usual slide deck, the client saw deepfakes of several real employees standing on a virtual…

Disney+, if you didn’t know, isn’t just for kids. With its ownership of the Lucasfilm brand and the Marvel titles, the streaming service also offers plenty of grown-up content in its bid to compete with Netflix and Amazon—and we’re not just…

Appen declined to give an attributable comment.“If we suspect a user has violated the User Agreement, Toloka will perform an identity check and request a photo ID and a photo of the user holding the ID,” Geo Dzhikaev, head of Toloka…

Monu Manesar built a huge audience with violent content, but he’s far from the only sectarian streamer in Modi’s India.

Hindu nationalists claim that the chatbot has insulted their deities, sparking an online uproar.

When it comes to books, my policy is generally to make a point to seek out the ones people try to ban; they’re almost always worthwhile, at least to understand why their ideas are being suppressed. That’s true with movies too, but the…

Imran Khan, Pakistan’s former Prime Minister, has been shot in the leg during a supporters rally, in what his supporters say was an assassination attempt. During a political march, unidentified assailants opened fire on cricket…