💎Can AI actually be creative?

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HOW HURRICANE CONSPIRACY THEORIES TOOK OVER SOCIAL MEDIA, bbc

Elected officials and Internet trolls alike have been spreading conspiracy theories in the wake of Hurricanes Helene and Milton. The worst part? A lot of them are going viral.

“I messaged dozens of accounts which shared false and misleading posts on X related to both hurricanes,” Marianna Spring writes for the BBC. “Their accounts seemed to be able to go viral precisely because of changes made at X since Elon Musk became owner.”

As we see more and more of this, sharing information about media literacy is more important than ever. That might be a 2025 content bucket worth considering for our readers who work in the news industry.

ARE HUMANS THE ONLY ONES THAT CAN BE CREATIVE?, vox

In Vox’s The Gray Area podcast, journalist Sean Illing and essayist and author Megan O’Gieblyn discuss what it means to be human in the age of artificial intelligence.

“I think that it’s difficult to articulate exactly what we value about the human experience until we are confronted with technologies that are threatening it in some way.”

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