‘I fell on the floor and shouted for a penalty. Someone pulled me up and said, “Don’t cheat to win penalties”. It was Steve McManaman. I never did it again!’ Ex-Liverpool forward reveals harsh lesson he learnt from his team-mate on Reds debut

Liverpool might have disparagingly been referred to as the Spice Boys in the 1990s, but even they didn’t allow new players arriving at the club from overseas to try and deceive the officials. German star Karl-Heinz Riedle found that out the hard way in 1997 when he arrived at Anfield, with Steve McManaman letting him […] More

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Inside the Wild West of AI companionship

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Last week, I made a troubling discovery about an AI companion site called Botify AI: It was hosting sexually charged conversations with underage celebrity bots. These bots took on characters meant to […] More

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