The Offspring performs during BottleRock Napa Valley at the Napa Valley Expo on May 26, 2024. Steve Carlson/STAFF. For reasons nobody can adequately explain or defend, Google has shoehorned a chatbot into their search product and refused to let us make it go away. I’m sure most of us…

Rendering: Adam Pardee/STAFF. I talked last week with someone about artificial intelligence in the context of journalism. They brought it up; I have other things to worry about. Like whether I’ll have money to be alive in 10 years and that burning smell coming from my daughter’s room. Why…

We asked an AI image generator not named ChatGPT for a watercolor painting of a robot writing an essay about rock bands. For a while, the world was wringing its collective hands about AI chatbot ChatGPT, which was having sometimes unnervingly natural conversations with people across the Internet. Writers…