8 h. ago Free speech row as cartoons are banned: Backlash after venue scraps exhibition of Fleet Street cartoonists

The collection of dozens of artworks from across the political spectrum was due to open to the public after its private view tonight at the Kingston Riverside 'TownSq co-working' venue in Surrey.

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9 d. ago With ‘AI slop’ distorting our reality, the world is sleepwalking into disaster | Nesrine Malik

A perverse information ecosystem is being mined by big tech for profit, fooling the unwary and sending algorithms crazyThere are two parallel image channels that dominate our daily visual consumption. In one, there are real pictures and footage of the world as it is: politics, sport, news and entertainment. In the other is AI slop, low-quality content with minimal human input. Some of it is banal and pointless – cartoonish images of celebrities, fantasy landscapes, anthropomorphised animals. And some is a sort of pornified display of women just simply being, like a virtual girlfriend you cannot truly interact with. The range and scale of the content is staggering, and infiltrates everything from social media timelines to messages circulated on WhatsApp. The result is not just a blurring of reality, but a distortion of it.A new genre of AI slop is rightwing political fantasy. There are entire YouTube videos of made-up scenarios in which Trump officials prevail against liberal forces....

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1 week ago Former MI6 officer behind Trump dossier set to speak at Fleet Street's literary festival

Chris Steele is best known for compiling the so-called 2016 Steele dossier on unverified claims that Donald Trump had been 'compromised' by the Kremlin.

Politics

1 week ago Shoreditch towers plan secures 'support in principle' from City Hall

Development would reach 12 storeys high on a disused patch of land between two busy railway lines

Politics

4 w. ago Kemi Badenoch warns free speech is at risk in Britain as the Tory leader backs the US in row over silent protests outside abortion clinics

The Tory leader said Britain 'should not be persecuting people for expressing themselves' over abortion rights.

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4 w. ago Britain's tariff deal under threat as US intervenes in free speech row: State department 'monitors' case of pro

Pro-life campaigner Livia Tossici-Bolt was on trial at Poole Magistrates' Court last month accused of breaching the Public Spaces Protection Order in March 2023 with the verdict set for Friday.

Economics

4 w. ago US should recognise UK is a free country, Badenoch says, amid free speech row

The Tory leader said ‘we need to respect what Parliament votes for’.

Politics