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“A lot of people have just been kind of really mad at the existence of this. They think that it’s the end of humanity.”
– Influencer Caryn Marjorie, on the backlash to CarynAI, a GPT-4 chatbot trained on her YouTube footage. “I wanted to cure loneliness in my fan base,” Marjorie says of her motivations. While thousands have signed up for the $1 per minute ‘virtual girlfriend’ Telegram bot through Forever Voices, threats forced her to hire security and go into hiding.

Exhibiting digital art in sticker form, the Zentrum für Netzkunst-curated group show “stick.t.me” opens at Berlin’s panke.gallery. 19 artists including Nadja Buttendorf, Carla Gannis, Rosa Menkman, Lorna Mills, and Igor Štromajer harness the sticker feature of the Telegram messenger app for creating net art collectibles. Produced during an ‘in-app’ residency, the stickers can be gathered in a dedicated scrapbook available at the gallery; their digital counterparts are available in Telegram.

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