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USA Today
‘Fruit Love Island’ goes viral, raises big questions about AI ethics
A new AI TikTok video series, “Fruit Love Island,” is dominating social media. Woody Hood, director of critical and creative media and film and media studies, said the series is a culmination of fun, pleasure and poison, an “inevitable” amid the height of AI-generated content. “Even going back to claymation in films, we were laughing. That was part of the enjoyment of that stuff, too, going, ‘Okay, there are limits on this, but claymation is charming because it has physics to it,'” Hood said. “Digital, I don’t know. It seems less charming when it glitches out.”
March 30, 2026
The Conversation
“Little has seemingly gone as Washington planned in the war against Iran.Trump, like other U.S. presidents before him, has fallen into what I call the trap of asymmetric resolve. In short, this occurs when a stronger power with less determination to fight starts a military conflict with a far weaker state that has near boundless determination to prevail. Victory for the strong becomes tough, even close to impossible,” writes politics and international affairs expert Will Walldorf.
This article was reprinted in more than 100 news outlets.
April 1, 2026
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