The Internet Was Better When It Was Terrible

2024-03-25 03:56 PM by Tyler Fields

Listen to this article Produced by ElevenLabs and News Over Audio (NOA) using AI narration. This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. “Was the internet really this bad?” I wondered to myself as I read the September 1995 issue of The Atlantic. I was reading …

AI Scams, Spam, Hacking, Are Ruining the Internet

2024-02-04 05:43 PM by Tyler Fields

When logging on to HBO Max at the end of May, people noticed something strange. Usually when someone logs into the site, HBO asks them to verify that they are human by solving a captcha — you know, the little “I am not a robot” checkbox or the “select all squares with stoplights” image grids …