Nicholas Nichols

Buck Colbert Franklin was a Black lawyer who survived the 1921 Tulsa race riots and fought won in the court on the behalf of other survivors.

🦔Esquire Singapore published an AI-generated interview with Mackenyu, the actor who plays Roronoa Zoro in Netflix's live-action One Piece, because he was too busy to attend in person. The magazine fed transcripts from his previous interviews into Claude and Copilot to generate new responses, then published the result with a note that it was produced with AI and edited by humans. Mackenyu never responded to their emails and his talent agency has not promoted the piece. The AI-generated interview includes a passage about the pressures of living up to his late father, legendary action star Sonny Chiba. My Take There is a version of AI in journalism that makes sense. Transcription, research assistance, fact checking, summarization. This is not that. Esquire couldn't get an interview so they generated one using a model trained on things the subject had said before and published it as if it represented his current thoughts and voice. Mackenyu never agreed to this and almost certainly doesn't know it exists. Saying they had a driving need for a feature and had to be inventive should make every reader of any publication nervous about what they're actually reading. The driving need was a content slot. Inventing quotes from a real person and publishing them, regardless of what tool you used to invent them, is fabrication. Disclosing the AI involvement doesn't change that, and generating emotional statements about deeply personal subjects on someone's behalf without their consent is not a creative solution to a scheduling problem. Hedgie🤗

🚨Jules will allegedly have some very graphic sex scenes in ‘Euphoria’ Season 3 as she becomes a sugar baby.