Videos made with OpenAI's Sora app are flooding TikTok, Instagram Reels and other platforms, making people increasingly familiar and fed up with nearly unavoidable synthetic footage being pumped out by what amounts to an artificial intelligence slop machine. Digital safety experts say something else that is happening may be less obvious but more consequential to the future of the internet: OpenAI has essentially rebranded deepfakes as a light-hearted plaything and recommendation engines are loving it.
These days, Netflix is one of many platforms that offer a staggering amount of titles to choose from -- and yet, there is more there than meets the eye. Did you know Netflix has secret cheat codes? As it turns out, Netflix has a plethora of shows and movies available that you don't normally see when booting up the app. Our personalized, algorithm-based menus confine us to viewing only a fraction of the entire Netflix library.