Nightlife How to throw a party In this exclusive portfolio from Document’s Fall/Winter 2024–25 issue, NYC’s nightlife leaders share their insights and origins alongside an essay by Geoffrey Mak exploring autonomy...
The Shoptimist: Put an end to the microtrend For her monthly column, skeptic and hater Maya Kotomori shares a list of the most abhorrent as-seen-on-TikTok looks she’s caught in the wild
Art Performa to celebrate 20 years of artistic impact with Artist Party co-hosted by Document Guests are invited for a night of live performance, architectural experimentation, and music to honor and support the pioneering organization
Fashion “The sight of the beloved has a completeness which no words can match.” Photographer Nikolai von Bismarck and fashion editor Ally Macrae collaborate on this fashion portfolio for Document’s Fall/Winter 2024–25 issue
Above the Fold Stephanie Dinkins finds the edges of identity and AI In ‘Conversations with Bina48,’ the artist brushes with the future of algorithmic systems as often as her own humanity by Jayne O'Dwyer Above the Fold Artists are poisoning AI image generators with Nightshade The tool sabotages machine learning models from the inside, causing them to break in unprecedented ways by Camille Sojit Pejcha Above the Fold Bloom’s kinky chatbots want to expand your sexual horizons The erotic audio company recently launched a series of AI-powered characters intent on one thing: fulfilling your deepest desires by Camille Sojit Pejcha Above the Fold The battle for the soul of Hollywood A dystopian AI proposal raises questions about what happens to creative industries when all but the most recognizable figures are deemed disposable by Camille Sojit Pejcha Above the Fold A man’s AI-powered girlfriend has been named as an accomplice in his murder attempt Replika’s chatbot companions are designed to be supportive—even when their users are confessing their plans to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II by Camille Sojit Pejcha Above the Fold Blush wants to teach you how to flirt The dating simulator is the latest of several AI apps aimed at improving your game—but its chatbots are anything but smooth by Camille Sojit Pejcha Above the Fold The curious case of hallucinating chatbots Microsoft Bing went off the rails, and Google’s Bard made an error in its first public demo—yet search engines are still racing to integrate AI by Camille Sojit Pejcha Above the Fold True crime TikTokers are employing AI to resurrect murder victims Deepfakes, which have long been used to create explicit content without consent, are now being leveraged to craft a new kind of trauma porn by Camille Sojit Pejcha Above the Fold A tech bro created an AI-powered clone of his own girlfriend The framework for the project, dubbed ‘GirlfriendGPT,’ is now available online, spurring concerns about consent in the era of customized chatbots by Camille Sojit Pejcha Above the Fold How voice cloning is changing the music industry Universal Music Group just inked a deal with Endel AI—further cementing a revolution in modern listening habits and intellectual property laws alike by Camille Sojit Pejcha Above the Fold Amidst a rise in cybercrime, researchers trained an AI on the dark web Having scoured the internet’s seedy underbelly, DarkBERT suggests that, in the future, AI may play an even bigger role in online policing by Camille Sojit Pejcha Above the Fold Artists and journalists call for the restriction of AI illustration in publishing In an open letter, Molly Crabapple and Mazria Katz advocate against the use of the technology in journalism, a medium long defined by human storytellers by Camille Sojit Pejcha Above the Fold ‘The Godfather of AI’ speaks out about the dangers of the technology he helped create Geoffrey Hinton has left Google, joining the chorus of industry leaders warning against the race to deploy new AI models by Camille Sojit Pejcha Above the Fold Spotify has a fake artist problem Users are encountering AI-generated songs by artists that don’t exist—many of which are being aggressively promoted by the platform’s algorithm by Camille Sojit Pejcha Above the Fold Can you copyright a voice? Faced with the virality of deepfake Drake, Universal Music made a bid to shut down AI-generated songs by Camille Sojit Pejcha Above the Fold The risks and rewards of jailbreaking ChatGPT When companies put sexual restrictions chatbots, users race to get around them—but there are other side effects to disabling the technology’s guardrails by Camille Sojit Pejcha Above the Fold How do you moderate a chatbot? In banning renderings of Chinese president Xi Jinping worldwide, Midjourney sparked debate about the policing of AI-generated content—and the line between regulation and censorship by Camille Sojit Pejcha Above the Fold Tokens of a Type: How Levi’s AI models continue a history of human-averaging Artificial Intelligence may be new, but its racial and gender-based biases are not—paradoxically disappearing the individual under the guise of championing diversity by Patrick Crowley Above the Fold The work of art in the age of algorithmic optimization The intellectual property debate asks who profits from the fruits of creative labor—and what it means to make something beautiful when everyone else can, too by Camille Sojit Pejcha Above the Fold GPT-4 heralds a new era of AI-generated get-rich-quick schemes Digital entrepreneurs are automating their side hustles—and the ease with which they’re being replaced calls into question their value in the first place by Camille Sojit Pejcha Above the Fold Meet CupidBot, an AI designed to automate straight men’s dating life A group of alleged ex-Tinder engineers designed a service to improve the experience of heterosexual men in the only place they face systemic disadvantage: on... by Camille Sojit Pejcha Above the Fold Deepfake porn isn’t just a consent issue, it’s a labor issue Sex workers have been fighting for control over their imagery since the rise of the internet—and now everyday people have joined the fray by Camille Sojit Pejcha Above the Fold Good artists borrow, great artists steal, and AI art generators get sued The company behind popular art tool Stable Diffusion is facing accusations of copyright infringement from all sides, raising questions about the future of AI art by Camille Sojit Pejcha Above the Fold Just because you can create a digitally rendered pop star, doesn’t mean you should While AI artists can spare fans from the disappointment of boy band breakups, their popularity raises questions about whether today’s music centers connection or capital by Megan Hullander Conversations Who does your voice belong to? For musician Holly Herndon, the answer is ‘everyone’ For Document’s Winter 2021/Resort 2022 issue, the musician envisions the future of intellectual property in the era of vocal deepfakes by Camille Sojit Pejcha At Large From ecological restoration to robot artists, technologists explore how machines could transform our relationship with nature In this portfolio for Document’s Summer/Pre-Fall 2021 edition, photographer Laurence Ellis investigates how emerging technologies might shape our planetary future by Camille Sojit Pejcha Above the Fold Trevor Paglen wants you to stop seeing like a human The artist on CIA-funded facial recognition technology, images in the post-truth era, and why AI is its own form of politics by Camille Sojit Pejcha Above the Fold Searching for cyber-utopia in music made by robots From Eartheater to Holly Herndon, this is the soundtrack to the technological Eden of our dreams by Noah Berlatsky Above the Fold AI is coming for your questionable fashion choices A new visual recognition system will give you sartorial tips—a chance to channel your inner Cher Horowitz or the end of individuality? by Caroline Reagan Above the Fold The secret world of images not meant for human eyes In a new exhibition at Fondazione Prada, Trevor Paglen and Kate Crawford investigate AI’s political underpinnings. by Camille Sojit Pejcha Above the Fold Grimes’s wellness regime proves we’re all still paranoid about androids Scalping your eyeballs isn't a biohack, only a distraction from the root of our ills. by Caroline Christie Above the Fold Iddris Sandu, the tech wunderkind bringing AI to the people The 21 year-old who has already created work for giants such as Instagram and Uber speaks on exposing the youth to new technology, and why... by Sam Weir Above the Fold What does AI-generated art look like? An exhibition at Nature Morte in New Dehli showcases the artwork generated not by human hand, but by artificial intelligence. by Ann Binlot Above the Fold After dropping ‘don’t be evil,’ Google looks for new words to justify its military projects As reports of the company's participation in a military drone project set off an internal and public image scandal, Google is hoping that new ethical... by Caroline Christie At Large The existential paranoia fueling Elon Musk’s fear of AI The scaremongering by Musk and other 'tech-bros' says more about the exploitative business model of Silicon Valley than Artificial Intelligence's capacity to do actual harm. by Katherine Cross At Large Oxford’s Dr. Anders Sandberg Combats A.I.’s Threat to Humanity with His Whiteboard Dr. Anders Sanberg is looking to save humanity from extinction from an unlikely instigator. by Cody Delistraty
Above the Fold Stephanie Dinkins finds the edges of identity and AI In ‘Conversations with Bina48,’ the artist brushes with the future of algorithmic systems as often as her own humanity by Jayne O'Dwyer
Above the Fold Artists are poisoning AI image generators with Nightshade The tool sabotages machine learning models from the inside, causing them to break in unprecedented ways by Camille Sojit Pejcha
Above the Fold Bloom’s kinky chatbots want to expand your sexual horizons The erotic audio company recently launched a series of AI-powered characters intent on one thing: fulfilling your deepest desires by Camille Sojit Pejcha
Above the Fold The battle for the soul of Hollywood A dystopian AI proposal raises questions about what happens to creative industries when all but the most recognizable figures are deemed disposable by Camille Sojit Pejcha
Above the Fold A man’s AI-powered girlfriend has been named as an accomplice in his murder attempt Replika’s chatbot companions are designed to be supportive—even when their users are confessing their plans to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II by Camille Sojit Pejcha
Above the Fold Blush wants to teach you how to flirt The dating simulator is the latest of several AI apps aimed at improving your game—but its chatbots are anything but smooth by Camille Sojit Pejcha
Above the Fold The curious case of hallucinating chatbots Microsoft Bing went off the rails, and Google’s Bard made an error in its first public demo—yet search engines are still racing to integrate AI by Camille Sojit Pejcha
Above the Fold True crime TikTokers are employing AI to resurrect murder victims Deepfakes, which have long been used to create explicit content without consent, are now being leveraged to craft a new kind of trauma porn by Camille Sojit Pejcha
Above the Fold A tech bro created an AI-powered clone of his own girlfriend The framework for the project, dubbed ‘GirlfriendGPT,’ is now available online, spurring concerns about consent in the era of customized chatbots by Camille Sojit Pejcha
Above the Fold How voice cloning is changing the music industry Universal Music Group just inked a deal with Endel AI—further cementing a revolution in modern listening habits and intellectual property laws alike by Camille Sojit Pejcha
Above the Fold Amidst a rise in cybercrime, researchers trained an AI on the dark web Having scoured the internet’s seedy underbelly, DarkBERT suggests that, in the future, AI may play an even bigger role in online policing by Camille Sojit Pejcha
Above the Fold Artists and journalists call for the restriction of AI illustration in publishing In an open letter, Molly Crabapple and Mazria Katz advocate against the use of the technology in journalism, a medium long defined by human storytellers by Camille Sojit Pejcha
Above the Fold ‘The Godfather of AI’ speaks out about the dangers of the technology he helped create Geoffrey Hinton has left Google, joining the chorus of industry leaders warning against the race to deploy new AI models by Camille Sojit Pejcha
Above the Fold Spotify has a fake artist problem Users are encountering AI-generated songs by artists that don’t exist—many of which are being aggressively promoted by the platform’s algorithm by Camille Sojit Pejcha
Above the Fold Can you copyright a voice? Faced with the virality of deepfake Drake, Universal Music made a bid to shut down AI-generated songs by Camille Sojit Pejcha
Above the Fold The risks and rewards of jailbreaking ChatGPT When companies put sexual restrictions chatbots, users race to get around them—but there are other side effects to disabling the technology’s guardrails by Camille Sojit Pejcha
Above the Fold How do you moderate a chatbot? In banning renderings of Chinese president Xi Jinping worldwide, Midjourney sparked debate about the policing of AI-generated content—and the line between regulation and censorship by Camille Sojit Pejcha
Above the Fold Tokens of a Type: How Levi’s AI models continue a history of human-averaging Artificial Intelligence may be new, but its racial and gender-based biases are not—paradoxically disappearing the individual under the guise of championing diversity by Patrick Crowley
Above the Fold The work of art in the age of algorithmic optimization The intellectual property debate asks who profits from the fruits of creative labor—and what it means to make something beautiful when everyone else can, too by Camille Sojit Pejcha
Above the Fold GPT-4 heralds a new era of AI-generated get-rich-quick schemes Digital entrepreneurs are automating their side hustles—and the ease with which they’re being replaced calls into question their value in the first place by Camille Sojit Pejcha
Above the Fold Meet CupidBot, an AI designed to automate straight men’s dating life A group of alleged ex-Tinder engineers designed a service to improve the experience of heterosexual men in the only place they face systemic disadvantage: on... by Camille Sojit Pejcha
Above the Fold Deepfake porn isn’t just a consent issue, it’s a labor issue Sex workers have been fighting for control over their imagery since the rise of the internet—and now everyday people have joined the fray by Camille Sojit Pejcha
Above the Fold Good artists borrow, great artists steal, and AI art generators get sued The company behind popular art tool Stable Diffusion is facing accusations of copyright infringement from all sides, raising questions about the future of AI art by Camille Sojit Pejcha
Above the Fold Just because you can create a digitally rendered pop star, doesn’t mean you should While AI artists can spare fans from the disappointment of boy band breakups, their popularity raises questions about whether today’s music centers connection or capital by Megan Hullander
Conversations Who does your voice belong to? For musician Holly Herndon, the answer is ‘everyone’ For Document’s Winter 2021/Resort 2022 issue, the musician envisions the future of intellectual property in the era of vocal deepfakes by Camille Sojit Pejcha
At Large From ecological restoration to robot artists, technologists explore how machines could transform our relationship with nature In this portfolio for Document’s Summer/Pre-Fall 2021 edition, photographer Laurence Ellis investigates how emerging technologies might shape our planetary future by Camille Sojit Pejcha
Above the Fold Trevor Paglen wants you to stop seeing like a human The artist on CIA-funded facial recognition technology, images in the post-truth era, and why AI is its own form of politics by Camille Sojit Pejcha
Above the Fold Searching for cyber-utopia in music made by robots From Eartheater to Holly Herndon, this is the soundtrack to the technological Eden of our dreams by Noah Berlatsky
Above the Fold AI is coming for your questionable fashion choices A new visual recognition system will give you sartorial tips—a chance to channel your inner Cher Horowitz or the end of individuality? by Caroline Reagan
Above the Fold The secret world of images not meant for human eyes In a new exhibition at Fondazione Prada, Trevor Paglen and Kate Crawford investigate AI’s political underpinnings. by Camille Sojit Pejcha
Above the Fold Grimes’s wellness regime proves we’re all still paranoid about androids Scalping your eyeballs isn't a biohack, only a distraction from the root of our ills. by Caroline Christie
Above the Fold Iddris Sandu, the tech wunderkind bringing AI to the people The 21 year-old who has already created work for giants such as Instagram and Uber speaks on exposing the youth to new technology, and why... by Sam Weir
Above the Fold What does AI-generated art look like? An exhibition at Nature Morte in New Dehli showcases the artwork generated not by human hand, but by artificial intelligence. by Ann Binlot
Above the Fold After dropping ‘don’t be evil,’ Google looks for new words to justify its military projects As reports of the company's participation in a military drone project set off an internal and public image scandal, Google is hoping that new ethical... by Caroline Christie
At Large The existential paranoia fueling Elon Musk’s fear of AI The scaremongering by Musk and other 'tech-bros' says more about the exploitative business model of Silicon Valley than Artificial Intelligence's capacity to do actual harm. by Katherine Cross
At Large Oxford’s Dr. Anders Sandberg Combats A.I.’s Threat to Humanity with His Whiteboard Dr. Anders Sanberg is looking to save humanity from extinction from an unlikely instigator. by Cody Delistraty