AI chatbots such as ChatGPT and Copilot routinely distort the news and struggle to distinguish facts from opinion. That's according to a major new study from 22 international public broadcasters, incl...

As an editor and educator, I read a LOT about generative AI these days, and I have some feelings on the matter. I’m not completely anti-AI, but I’m far more skeptical than the hypesters and the boosters want people to be, for several reasons beyond the rampant mistakes and vapid copy. Ethical concerns around generative AI abound, and the environmental impacts are significant.

Human oversight is the only safeguard against AI’s errors, blind spots and fabrications reaching the public

Semicolon use by Americans has dropped by 51% since the early 2000s to once every 378 words; younger Americans say they still value it.

AI slop is taking over workplaces. Workers said that they thought of their colleagues who filed low-quality AI work as "less creative, capable, and reliable than they did before receiving the output."

AI isn’t just impacting how we write — it’s changing how we speak and interact with others. And there’s only more to come.

There's one punctuation mark Gen Z wants you to stop using. Here's what it is—and why it's falling out of favor.

Go ahead and split that infinitive! Writing is getting easier, thanks to these grammar rules that have changed with the times.

Some recent number-crunching and survey results from Babbel, a language-learning site, found that the use of semicolons in writing has dropped precipitously since 1781, that more than half of British college students say they don't know how to use a semicolon, and that two-thirds of those students rarely or never use semicolons. This news prompted a flurry of headlines that the semicolon is on its deathbed:

Usage of punctuation down almost half in two decades as further research finds 67% of British students rarely use it

By Sophia Scolman In the first weeks of his second term, President Donald Trump issued multiple executive orders vowing to terminate diversity, equity and inclusion practices and programs within the f...