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Welcome back to Lately, The Globe’s weekly tech newsletter. If you have feedback or just want to say hello to a real-life human,You know that feeling of defeat or ashamed boredom that comes when you’re scrolling mindlessly online, and you’re viewing scores of sloppy, AI-generated memes, unhinged TikTok livestreams or posts of strangers fighting on Facebook? There’s a word for that feeling: brain rot., noting it “gained new prominence in 2024.
Are you reading this newsletter on the web or did someone forward the e-mail to you? If so, you can sign up for the. It’s registered under two authors, Ankit Sahni and the RAGHAV Artificial Intelligence Painting App, the program Sahni used to create the image. For some, this is a problem. A legal clinic at the University of Ottawa is trying to expunge the registration, arguing that only humans can be authors.
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