The work of art in the age of algorithmic optimization
The intellectual property debate asks who profits from the fruits of creative labor—and what it means to make something beautiful when everyone else can, too
GPT-4 heralds a new era of AI-generated get-rich-quick schemes
Digital entrepreneurs are automating their side hustles—and the ease with which they’re being replaced calls into question their value in the first place
Meet CupidBot, an AI designed to automate straight men’s dating life
Ex-Tinder engineers designed a service to swipe and chat on men’s behalf—‘leveling the playing field’ on apps that allegedly favor women
Microsoft lays off its ethics team despite doubling down on AI offerings
The team was tasked with predicting the dangers of new technologies, raising questions about the company’s commitment to responsible use
With ‘Cyberfeminism Index,’ Mindy Seu snapshots a mutating movement
Following the release of her book, the designer and researcher speaks on information activism, the art of collecting, and the power in rendering grassroots technologies
What can we do about deepfake porn?
A new face-swap app ran provocative ads featuring celebrity faces, illustrating the dangers of non-consensual deepfakes and the struggle to moderate them
What internet sex drama says about our political climate
From debates over on-screen sex scenes to whether kids should be exposed to drag, recent Twitter discourse illustrates the slippery slope of online censorship
Microsoft “lobotomized” its chaotic chatbot—now, it’s rolling back those restrictions
When it’s not busy having an existential crisis or attempting to break up a marriage, the new Bing raises questions about the ethics of AI
Feeld is the dating app for the next sexual revolution
Document catches up with Ana Kirova, the radical platform’s founder, examining the roots, rules, and labels of the modern sexual landscape
Will transparency be enough to improve TikTok’s famously overzealous censorship policy?
The app is under fire for banning everything from educational content to videos about racial injustice. Now, they’re putting a new “strike” system in place
Deepfake porn isn’t just a consent issue, it’s a labor issue
Sex workers have been fighting for control over their imagery since the rise of the internet—and now everyday people have joined the fray
Charting the past, present, and future of emotionally-intelligent chatbots, from ELIZA to GPT-3
Consumer trust in technology is declining, even as machine learning programs grow more sophisticated. Are AI chatbots the exception?
Good artists borrow, great artists steal, and AI art generators get sued
The company behind popular art tool Stable Diffusion is facing accusations of copyright infringement from all sides, raising questions about the future of AI art
For cyborg Neil Harbisson, technology is the medium, not the message
From shark fins to seismic senses, members of the biohacking community are changing their brains and bodies to foster a deeper connection with nature
Artificial intelligence is gunning to join your court defense
Between two of the most distrusted classes of modern society—lawyers and robots—who do we have less faith in?
The most absurd inventions from the world’s biggest tech show
From virtual reality scents to self-driving strollers, Document compiled a list of the most aggravating, unnecessary, and obscene products in attendance at CES this year
Is VR the new frontier of inclusivity? Actor Jillian Mercado weighs in from the Metaverse
Document spends an afternoon exploring Nuevo Norte, Meta’s attempt at fostering cultural community
Inside FORMAT, the festival bringing cyborgs and sex therapy to the Ozarks
Held in the town that Walmart built, its inaugural edition offered attendees a choose-your-own-adventure-style journey designed to blend art, music, and technology
Amazon is reading palms at Whole Foods
Biometric payment technology is a slippery slope to becoming one with our digital footprints, raising concerns about data privacy and customer surveillance
Just because you can create a digitally rendered pop star, doesn’t mean you should
While AI artists can spare fans from the disappointment of boy band breakups, their popularity raises questions about whether today’s music centers connection or capital
NFT television is the latest attempt to manufacture token utility
The failure of Seth Green’s ‘White Horse Tavern,’ starring a Bored Ape NFT, exemplified the risks of pairing investment with media creation
At Freshii, your ‘virtual cashier’ is actually a person working for $3.75 per hour
Public debate around a Canadian franchise’s experiment raises questions about automation, labor laws, and the ignorance of the Western consumer
The dangers, and benefits, of mobile health apps in a post-Roe world
Period tracking apps are marketed as a tool to empower users with information—but with abortion rights under fire, many worry that the data they collect...
Fairchain imagines an art market that centers the artist
The founders of the blockchain-based platform meet with Renee Cox and gallerist Hannah Traore to discuss collaboration, royalties, and why creatives can’t work for free
Teen hackers are wreaking havoc on the world’s biggest companies
LAPSUS$ collective recently breached Microsoft and Samsung, calling the motivations and power of cyber gangs into question
AssangeDAO imagines the social justice potential of online collectives
The community bought an NFT for $53 million, with the aim to fund the WikiLeaks founder’s legal fees
Academic journal fingerprints PDFs to prevent free use of its materials
When primary sources are paywalled, the public is cornered into taking secondary interpretations at face value
Who does your voice belong to? For musician Holly Herndon, the answer is ‘everyone’
For Document’s Winter 2021/Resort 2022 issue, the musician envisions the future of intellectual property in the era of vocal deepfakes
New Cosmologies: Could reconsidering the Big Bang theory save us?
Tao Lin takes a closer look at science’s creation stories, examining their implications for human culture at large
Can a pizza-making robot remedy restaurant disparities?
Robotics company Picnic seeks to better the situations of owners, workers, and consumers in the restaurant industry
Inside the incelosphere, where the lonely get lonelier
SergeantIncel, founder of incels.co, joins Document to discuss the nuances of the internet's most despised subculture
Jacolby Satterwhite is using the past to create art about the future
In collaboration with Nike Every Stitch Considered, Document highlights innovative creatives who are expanding our cultural landscape through acts of exploration, process and education
Salome Asega is bridging the gap between technology and tradition
In collaboration with Nike Every Stitch Considered, Document highlights innovative creatives who are expanding our cultural landscape through acts of exploration, process and education
From ecological restoration to robot artists, technologists explore how machines could transform our relationship with nature
In this portfolio for Document’s Summer/Pre-Fall 2021 edition, photographer Laurence Ellis investigates how emerging technologies might shape our planetary future
Lee Burridge shares six songs for musical meditation
The DJ has signed on to collaborate with MEYA, an app that harnesses the power of dance music for mental health
Rediscovering desire in a panopticon of virtual pleasures
Dean Kissick prescribes a renaissance of sensualism to save us from our collective ennui
Ekene Ijeoma reveals the revolutionary potential of data-based art
Driven by an activist spirit, the artist and MIT assistant professor creates participatory installations that reveal urgent truths about our unjust world
Why the Pentagon’s Soviet bear meme was destined to fail
Recently released documents outline the Department of Defense's attempt to make Russian hackers look uncool
Everything you need to know this week, from Pablo Escobar’s escaped hippos to Anna Delvey’s return to Instagram
An essential roundup of the week’s buzziest topics of varying importance and consequence
In a warming world, an engineered climate edges towards reality
Four environmental experts weigh in on the peril and promise of a 'geoengineered' Earth
Everything you need to know this week, from robot companions to the raffle that might send you to space
An essential roundup of the week’s buzziest topics of varying importance and consequence
Blueprints for a better world: Messages of hope
For Document’s F/W 2020 issue, Tao Lin, Rhea Dillon, and Rachel Rabbit White reflect on where we’ve been and where we’re headed
Sophia the Robot is being mass produced for a world plagued with loneliness
The pandemic has complicated human interaction, and Hanson Robotics thinks they’ve found the solution. But is technology really equipped to solve this inherently human problem?
The internet didn’t kill counterculture—you just won’t find it on Instagram
“To be truly countercultural in a time of tech hegemony, one has to, above all, betray the platform.”
Blueprints for a better world: Rethinking the role of community
For Document’s Fall/Winter 2020 issue, we invited a selection of the culture’s most compelling creative minds to envision a new way of living
Inside ‘Mondo 2000,’ the cyberpunk magazine that gave us a glimpse of the utopian future that never was
The magazine's founder R.U. Sirius talks with Claire L. Evans about internet culture's psychedelic early days and its clusterfuck present
Freddie Gibbs and Moxie Marlinspike decrypt the modern American Dream
The rapper and founder of Signal on the luxury of privacy, the future of community, and their radical visions of the future
Time and space: Nelly Ben Hayoun harnesses science and technology to help us empathize
The designer of experiences looks to the intergalactic to design better futures
The Gospel of Chris Korda: a techno-punk preacher for civilization on the brink of collapse
Nearly 30 years after founding the Church of Euthanasia, Korda remains environmentalism's most controversial figure. But she’s only trying to save humanity from itself.
