AFL stars are being targeted by ‘AI slop’. There’s a sinister motive behind it
Often derided as “AI Slop”, misinformation is featuring increasingly on Facebook feeds. It’s often the game’s big names, usually with fanciful and wild claims attached to them, being used to pull you in.
- Scott Spits
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- Social media
Australia banned under-16s from social media. The world is split on whether to follow
No platform has been fined and the rift between regulator and minister is in the open. How are our world-first social media laws faring?
- David Swan and Bronte Gossling
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- News Bargaining Incentive
Labor holds firm on plan to make tech giants pay for news as Meta attacks
The government is pressing ahead with its plan to make tech giants fund journalism, shrugging off Meta’s claim it amounts to a “discriminatory tax”.
- David Swan, Calum Jaspan and Nick Newling
- Opinion
- AI
The brands that Australians are now hating on, and why
Artificial intelligence businesses and other technology giants have ranked poorly in a new survey of the brands that Australians trust most and least.
- Elizabeth Knight
- Opinion
- Antisemitism
The royal commission heard my testimony, then came the abuse
My school and I copped an avalanche of abuse since I gave evidence to the Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion. Many of my abusers were happy to put their names to their insults.
- Jeremy Stowe-Lindner
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- Pregnancy
Baby broker: The ‘crazy car salesman’ brokering babies and holding embryos ‘hostage’
As the $200 billion surrogacy industry booms, families are left to navigate an opaque web of companies and stateless babies while brokers operate unchecked.
- Amber Schultz and Kayla Olaya
- Opinion
- Life in the ’burbs
My suburb has gone from daggy to desirable. But we still miss the roller disco
I used to think of it as a suburb you drove through rather than lived in. Now it’s all about microbreweries, specialist coffee roasters and gyms.
- Melanie Myers
Melanoma chic: The $65 scam to look like a ’90s sunburn victim
This is one make-up trend I absolutely cannot abide.
- Jenna Guillaume
Think there’s nothing on in Sydney? These Sydneysiders will change your mind
Community-led live lists are booming in popularity, so the Herald went to three shows with guide operators to see why they’re a growing new front.
- Kayla Olaya and Audrey Richardson
The undercover critic tearing a strip off the fashion world
From the Oscars to the Brownlow, Fashion Critical runs her gimlet eye over big fashion events, often saying what everyone else is thinking.
- Cara Waters