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Screens display the logos of Microsoft and ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence application developed by OpenAI. Microsoft extended its partnership with OpenAI, the research lab and creator of ChatGPT, in a multiyear investment.

Jim Warren: NewsGuard tested ChatGPT’s potential for misinformation. Here’s what we found.

January 30, 2023 at 1:06 p.m.

The Oscar-nominated short film "An Ostrich Told Me the World Is Fake and I Think I Believe It" could be the name for Silicon Valley's latest gift to Western civilization...

Jim Warren: Which information sources can we trust? NewsGuard report highlights some top sites.

January 4, 2023 at 4:51 p.m.

The internet is much like the heralded new Brendan Fraser film "The Whale": It's a mix of the repellent and the brilliant. The internet offers monstrous amounts of misinformation, conspiracies,...

Publications under a variety of names that are all tied to conservative political operative Dan Proft have been mailed to thousands of homes throughout Chicago and the suburbs. The publications appear to be newspapers, but the content they contain has become controversial for pushing right-wing talking points and material that some, including Gov. J.B. Pritzker, decry as racist.

Jim Warren: Fake newspapers are everywhere and on both sides of the political divide

December 10, 2022 at 5:00 a.m.

Chicago City Wire looks like many newspaper websites, with stories about the state's new criminal justice reform law, a local nonprofit shafted by the bankruptcy of the cryptocurrency firm FTX...

The library at Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Academy of Social Justice on Sept. 8, 2020, the first day of remote learning. Illinois is the first state to have a requirement of media literacy.

Jim Warren: How Illinois is leading the charge for schools to impart media literacy to students

February 28, 2022 at 4:15 p.m.

Illinois boasts the largest unfunded pension liability, the 37th Chicago alderman to be convicted in 49 years, a corruption investigation surrounding the longest-serving state legislative leader in American history, and...

GORE SUCCEEDS EVEN IF HE FALLS SHORT OF THE MAN

August 20, 2021 at 8:08 p.m.

As Vice President Al Gore began his acceptance speech Thursday night, the inevitable reference point was President Clinton, perhaps the pre-eminent political performer of his generation, a man of expansive...

ENEMIES OF THE RIGHT

August 9, 2021 at 10:02 a.m.

"Obviously," Quayle will be attractive," said Martin Mawyer. "But I'd like to make him less attractive if possible. He wants to be all things to everybody, and I'm just getting...

SALIVATING OVER SIBERIA

August 9, 2021 at 1:33 p.m.

As I ambled past the Russian Embassy, little could the curiously large knot of folks outside realize the irony of what was on my mind: The purchase of Siberia. But...

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