MCOM 4003 - Michael Forte

  When discussing this years enormous technological advancements within the media and informational tools, Artificial Intelligence has completely dominated the conversation. A.I. has progressed to a staggering degree of adaptability with its usefulness to the common person becoming prevalent in the everyday of people around the world.  With this enormous amount of development, an old question that is becoming increasingly more likely to need an answer is showing itself. Will A.I. become self aware? If A.I. becomes self aware, will artificial intelligence then deserve rights? A.I. functions as a tool for now, that serves the public and has began to drive its own forms of various media created without human hands. Artificial Intelligence has had an enormous boom in usability this year with ChatGPT becoming front and center in the public eye. ChatGPT has 100 million users with its parent site receiving around one billion visits online every month. With these enormous numbers a la...

  The freedom of information act protects citizens rights to request federal information that does not meet the allowed exemptions by law. The freedom of information act, forms an incredibly important protective element of information and fact that citizens of the U.S. should always have access to. Journalists have often utilized the act as well and generally requesting information to hold federal agencies accountable is a good practice. This act is supposedly the bane of state agencies in Arkansas according to Rep. David Ray. He recently posited a measure that would potentially limit the public's access to information in Arkansas in order to ease the burden of work upon state agencies in Arkansas who process the information requests. Ray states that it is not "fiscally conservative" to spend millions upon millions of dollars each year on the Freedom of information act compliance officers who would require yearly salaries in the range of 60,000 dollars to 100,000 dollars....