Ziwei Cong, a marketing professor at Georgetown University, sees AI slop bifurcating the internet. As AI-generated content ...

The way humans react to AI content on the internet will likely govern how it evolves, potentially bursting an AI bubble by ...

These are not “nice-to-haves”; they are prerequisites for distributed cognition, operating at machine speed. As Tatipamula and Cerf point out, the network can no longer simply host intelligence. It ...

XION operates on a straightforward idea: if the internet is filled with unverified claims, then a future internet must be ...

Fractionalization refers to when a domain can be collectively owned, with each participant holding a defined portion of its ...

The subreddit ‘What is This Thing’ is overflowing with amateur and professional detectives, and experts who help others ...

Now and then, an eagle-eyed fan on the internet randomly discovers a photo of a person from the past who instantly reminds ...

Carl Öhman is an assistant professor in political science at Uppsala University, Sweden and the author of The Afterlife of Data: What Happens to Your Information When You Die and Why You Should Care.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dani Di Placido covers film, television, and internet culture. Have you heard of the Dead Internet Theory? It’s been gaining ...

Seven people worldwide hold keys to protect the Web after disaster. July 29, 2010— -- Tolkien had his rings of power, King Arthur his round table, and now, the Internet has its own answer: a ...

The internet consists of tiny bits of code that move around the world, traveling along wires as thin as a strand of hair strung across the ocean floor. The data zips from New York to Sydney, from Hong ...