The rise of AI girlfriends is making male loneliness worse and risks ruining a generation of men, a professor says

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Joaquin Phoenix plays a man who falls in love with an AI system in the 2013 film "Her."

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  • The availability of AI girlfriends is making male loneliness worse, Professor Liberty Vittert says.
  • AI-powered virtual companions have been on the rise since the pandemic.
  • Vittert, a data science expert, says some men may choose "perfect" AI relationships over real ones.

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Former Trump Org exec testified he accounted for multi-million dollar mansions not yet built when valuing a company at the request of Eric Trump

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Donald Trump and his three eldest children, Donald Trump, Jr., Eric Trump, and Ivanka Trump, address the press outside Trump International Hotel & Tower in 2007.
Donald Trump and his three eldest children, Donald Trump, Jr., Eric Trump, and Ivanka Trump, address the press outside Trump International Hotel & Tower in 2007.

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  • Jeffrey McConney, a former Trump Organization controller, testified at Trump's fraud trial. 
  • He said Eric Trump directed him to account for unbuilt mansions to inflate the value of a property. 
  • McConney detailed other
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I tried out ChatGPT's new image feature, which can create recipes from ingredient photos, write code from whiteboards, and identify objects. Here's how it went.

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Generative AI tool ChatGPT is getting some new updates.

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  • OpenAI has launched features that let ChatGPT "hear" and "see."
  • ChatGPT users can upload images and ask questions based on the pictures.
  • The new feature has some guardrails, including one that stops it from being used to identify humans.

OpenAI has launched some impressive new features for its

Putin has bet Russia's entire economy on war. An expert says it's his best shot at maintaining control of the country.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin joins his hands as he holds a meeting of the Russia — Land of Opportunity platform supervisory board at the Catherine's Hall of the Kremlin in Moscow on April 20, 2022.

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  • Vladimir Putin bet his economy on a long war, ramping up military production and raising wages.
  • An expert told Insider keeping Russia's economy
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