The Best of VICE

Some are technically impressive. But are they actually good?

Freelancers say they’re quitting to become ChatGPT whisperers. But is it a legitimate career path, or just another short-lived gold rush?

Volunteers who maintain the digital encyclopedia are divided on how to deal with the rise of AI-generated content and misinformation.

Hustle-culture has finally hit dating. From love surveys to co-working coffee dates, we're screening potential lovers with streamlined efficiency.

From shorter verses to frontloading the chorus, chart toppers sound dramatically different these days.

Financial catastrophe is now only a few clicks away, a problem that is showing quiet signs of becoming a crisis. "I can't just get rid of my phone," one problem gambler says.

It's about rewiring the gamer's relationship to video games, not abstinence.

AI researchers are warning developers to focus more on how and why a system produces certain results than the fact that the system can accurately and rapidly produce them.

They hope to create an agent that can do a number of tasks on its own, such as developing a website, creating a newsletter, and writing on a Google doc.

OpenAI is today unrecognizable, with multi-billion-dollar deals and corporate partnerships. Will it seek to own its shiny AI future?

To some, LinkedIn's try-hard nature has become a perfect example of the worst of corporate culture. But the site's influencers say the joke's on everyone else, as they pull in big money with ease.…

People are creating a new kind of nonconsensual pornography by combining deepfakes with 3D avatars that can be manipulated to do whatever they want.

Someone used an algorithm to paste the face of 'Wonder Woman' star Gal Gadot onto a porn video, and the implications are terrifying.

Musk's first few days at Twitter create the image of someone who owns a company he doesn't want and has no idea how to manage.

Zoom's privacy policy isn't explicit about the data transfer to Facebook at all.

Competition, miscalculations, and regulatory scrutiny have all but killed the advertising giant's dreams of diversifying its business and rolling up the digital world into its platform.

They're iconic, they contain a huge share of the population, and they're almost entirely absent from video games' depictions of reality.

Internal Army documents obtained by Motherboard provide insight on how the Army wanted to reach Gen-Z, women, and Black and Hispanic people through Twitch, Paramount+, and the WWE.

This is the latest example of how bias creeps into artificial intelligence.

A treasure trove of design documents shows how ‘The Sims’ became one of gaming’s most beloved franchises.

How easy is it to exploit Airbnb? While searching for my grifter, I found out.

Nearly 1,000 people flooded our inbox with their stories. We found some patterns.

European regulators are cracking down on Facebook's ability to transfer data across the Atlantic. Now the tech giant is threatening to pull its services from more than 400 million European users.

The men whose photos are used for catfishing have little recourse other than to continuously report fake profiles across social media platforms.

A dive into the thriving black market of John Deere tractor hacking.

It's like going off a drug.

«Ironically, the brain's evolution is what enables us to believe in religion at all.»

Linguistic games and research are revealing a hidden connection between what words look and sound like, and what they mean.

Jason Allen's AI-generated work "Théâtre D'opéra Spatial" took first place in the digital category at the Colorado State Fair.

The “synergistic mindset” is about making unavoidable stressors work in your favor.

«Students who watched the training session exhibited a lower stress response based on heart rate and other physiological measures.»