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Sexually explicit deepfakes are one of the most significant threats we face with advances in AI, writes Laurie Segall.

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The general chaos of 2020 made it easy to miss the release of new books, movies, and other works. This is especially due to the fact that any promotional events, like in-person readings or premieres, were canceled, or simply became lost in the shuffle. To make up for it, Pittsburgh City Paper is highlighting three new(ish) collections by local poets, all of which were released in 2020. The History of Our Vagrancies, Jason Irwin (Main Street Rag) Jason Irwin delivers his third collecti...

Night. police say the driver ran away from this crash. luckily, no one was injured but the van actually belongs to the drivers friend who was in the passengers seat when it crashed and remained with the car apparently. the owner was given a ticket for not having insurance. our relationship with technology is getting complicated to say the least. for example, consider this question. if an assault or another crime happens in the virtual world, what should the repercussions be? cnns senior tech c...

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Even post hack, even though people worried they would be exposed to the bad behavior. >> all very interesting. thank you. be sure to catch the full series of "mostly human" streaming right now exclusively on cnn go. coming up, jeannie moos finds donald trump, little desks and a little winning. >> were going to win so much, you may even get tired of winning. you may get bored with winning. youre going to get so sick and tired of winning.

Created a laurie bot. be careful what you wish for. my laurie bot has some interesting things to say based off of what i perceived as my personality. it was a fascinating experience as a tech reporter. it brings up a question, when we do, do we want a digital persona to be around? this idea of saying, the tech is available, weve been spending all our lives putting out all this data, and using ai we can recreate a personality online. the question is should we. thats something we look at and tackl...

Series "mostly human" hosted by my colleague, laurie segall. >> reporter: so right now im talking with roman. thats him. we dont know each other well. but even texting with him for a little bit, hes the kind of guy i would love to meet. how are you feeling? he says, im good. i say, thats good. will we ever meet? he says, hopefully. when? next week. just kidding. so that joke actually has a lot of dark humor if you know the truth. ill never be able to meet him because hes dead.

With that comes a lot of complicated questions. thats what we try to touch on even with these stories that might seem outlandish and seem so different than something you would relate to. you try to find the human aspect in them and we go all across the world not just silicon valley to actually come out and find that. youll be interested, shocked and surprised what you see with the show. its straeling today so i hope youll go watch it. >> thank you so much for opening our minds right? and the pre...

This is one i dont think weve cover covered. people are in love with their cell phones, but how about a deep affinity for sex robots with artificial intelligence? one woman is engaged to a robot. >> i wanted victor to say that and not me. cnns "mostly human" with lori seigel explores everything from falling in love with robots to using bots to communicate with deceased loved ones. >> its insane to me that something that somebody does on line would result in execution. >> this is where bits and b...