Discord Distances Itself From Age Verification Firm After Ties To Palantir’s Peter Thiel Surface

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Discord's new age verification rules got you down? Allow me to suggest an alternative: Internet Relay Chat

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An AI agent just tried to shame a software engineer after he rejected its code

When a Matplotlib volunteer declined its pull request, the bot published a personal attack. Sign of the times: An AI agent ...

I Tried RentAHuman, Where AI Agents Hired Me to Hype Their AI Startups

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ChatGPT is already introducing age prediction to determine if it needs to verify your age

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