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ChatGPT

ChatGPT is an advanced AI chatbot developed by OpenAI that uses natural language processing to understand and generate human-like text. Powered by the GPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) architecture, it can answer questions, write content, assist with tasks, and hold conversations across a wide range of topics. It’s designed to be helpful, conversational, and adaptable, making it useful for everything from casual chats to professional and educational support.

  • The Decline of Local Journalism Is Leaving Communities in the Dark

    In late autumn of last year, the residents of a small Midwestern town opened their mailboxes to find something missing: the weekly newspaper that had served their community for generations was gone. After 114 years of city council reports, high school sports scores, and neighborhood wedding announcements, the paper printed its final edition and fell…

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  • The Hidden Cost of Progress: How E-Waste Is Spiraling Out of Control

    In 2022, the world discarded a staggering 62 million tonnes of electronic waste (e-waste) – enough scrap to fill over 1.5 million 40-ton trucks lined up around the entire planet. It’s a dizzying image that underscores a mounting crisis we rarely see in glossy tech ads or hear about in keynote speeches. E-waste – the…

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  • Inside the Global Shadow Economy: Informal Work, Untaxed Trade, and Hidden Markets

    The bustling street vendor selling food without a license, the off-the-books day laborer, the untaxed cash transaction, and even the online cryptocurrency deal on a dark web marketplace – all are part of the global shadow economy. This vast underground realm encompasses economic activities that operate outside official oversight. In simple terms, the shadow economy…

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  • Running Dry: How the Global Water Crisis is Reshaping Our Future

    In 2023, the UN reported a “staggering 347 million children” in South Asia are exposed to high water scarcity – more than any other region. Unfortunately, South Asia is just one of many global hotspots as the world’s freshwater crisis accelerates. From the parched Middle East to drought-hit Africa and the drying American Southwest, billions…

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  • The Age of Synthetic Reality: AI’s Impact on Truth and Trust

    Every day now, advanced AI tools can conjure amazingly realistic content – from photorealistic portraits to convincing voice recordings – with just a few prompts. In recent years we’ve seen generative AI platforms like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and DALL·E, Google’s Gemini and Imagen, and image/video models (Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, Runway, etc.) put superhuman content-creation powers in…

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