Here are the trends on the cusp of transforming the online world.
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There won’t be an easy tech fix for the questions about authorship raised by ChatGPT and other text generators.
Could Google’s undisputed dominance as a search engine come under threat from AI?
Users have reported some troubling experiences with the recently released search chatbot.
Google botched its Bard launch, but that’s not why investors dumped shares in the company.
Will it give Microsoft a chance to overtake Google in the search space?
The numbers are less concerning when viewed in the bigger picture.
Small design decisions by big tech companies can play a role in directing our attention.
A mandatory news media bargaining code will force the digital giants to compensate NZ news media for content they host and share. But will it close off better options for supporting local journalism?
Text-to-image generators like DALL-E and Stable Diffusion portend a future where anyone with a computer can fake a photograph of just about anything.
Drones have great potential for carrying out important tasks that are just too hard for humans; delivering fast food isn’t one of them.
Recent suggests quantum computers could solve problems with breathtaking speed by comparison to current supermodels.
While the EU’s ground-breaking legislation to regulate “digital gatekeepers” has its flaws, it could rein in big tech and significantly change how it operates in Europe – and perhaps the world.
Misinformation has bedeviled social media companies for years, and the problem is especially consequential during elections. Are the companies up to the job as the 2022 midterm elections approach?
Under COVID travel restrictions, I couldn’t travel to Pitta Pitta Country. Instead, I travelled to Country through Google Maps.
Mobile apps are sometimes ‘regionalized’ to better serve the needs of users, functioning differently in, for example, China than in Canada. But some of those differences pose security and privacy risks.
The Chinese-owned app TikTok continues its growth as one of the most popular social media networks. After pandemic health measures were lifted, other social media networks saw a decline in use.
None of the major digital platforms lets the public see what advertising they carry and how it’s targeted, according to a new report.
There’s no evidence that news outlets are worse off because of Google, Facebook and other aggregators. If anything, evidence shows that, overall, news outlets would be in worse shape without them.
A recent extortion scam involved threatening to leave unfavourable reviews to restaurants unless they paid up shows the dangers of relying on the wisdom of crowds.
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Director of UWA Centre for Software Practice, The University of Western Australia
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Senior Research Associate in Media and Communications, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor, Faculty of Law & Justice; Lead, UNSW Public Interest Law & Tech Initiative, UNSW
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Associate Professor, School of Law, University of Canberra
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Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Applied Ethics and CyberSecurity, Griffith University
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Professor of Cybersecurity, Head of School of Computer Science and Informatics, De Montfort University
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Researcher at Microsoft Research, Cambridge UK. Previously, The University of Queensland
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Professor of AI, Research Group Leader, UNSW
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Senior Lecturer in Economics, Lancaster University Management School, Lancaster University
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Associate Professor, Informatics and Operations, Kingston University
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Professor of Cyber Security Practice, Edith Cowan University
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Professor of Digital Communications and Culture, The University of Sydney, University of Sydney
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Professor of Media Studies, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor of Management and Innovation, International Institute for Management Development (IMD)
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Associate Professor, University of Sydney