Tom Bowen is a senior editor who loves adventure games and RPGs. He's been playing video games for several decades now and writing about them professionally for the best part of a decade. Although he ...

French artificial intelligence startup Mistral AI SAS today introduced a lightweight multimodal safety artificial intelligence open-weight model that can classify outputs for AI models that ...

Say it with me: Correlation does not equal causation. But once again, we've got someone spinning noncausal survey results as "social media is bad news for teenagers," despite the fact that most of the ...

Disinformation researchers praise ruling blocking Trump visa denials and deportations. Expect Trump admin to continue its demonization of the courts! And if the GOP wins this Nov, expect their efforts ...

Reasonable people can disagree on what is and isn’t appropriate, but Discord’s automated moderation system decided to draw a very strange hard line: no grids. According to a report from The Verge, ...

Discord has acknowledged that a bug in its AI moderation system mistakenly banned more than 8,000 users over the past two months, after harmless images—including spreadsheets, chessboards, game ...

Some users were banned from Discord after posting chessboards, game textures, and Minecraft inventories. Some users were banned from Discord after posting chessboards, game textures, and Minecraft ...

In the summer of 2025, I found myself drinking every single day. It didn’t look like what I thought a drinking problem was supposed to look like. It looked like beach days, boat days and long ...

TikTok will seek to make hundreds of content moderators working in its trust and safety teams redundant amid a wider push towards AI moderation. The social media platform announced on Wednesday it ...

Moderation matters: Red meat isn’t inherently “bad,” but Americans eat far more than recommended. Higher consumption leads to more risk: Red meat is linked to colorectal cancer, cardiovascular disease ...

Most organizations treat AI adoption as a technology challenge—a software rollout to be managed by IT and celebrated by the C-suite. Some even see it as a fast track to headcount reduction. Julia Shin ...

Hate speech that once circulated in person now travels farther and faster via anonymous online accounts behind a screen. As the United Nations marks the International Day for Countering Hate Speech on ...