Author: Jasmyne Jade Hill

What began as a chance encounter in a karaoke bar in Tokyo has grown into a cross-cultural story of devotion that bridges Wisconsin and Japan through the Green Bay Packers. The documentary film “No Packers, No Life” follows the journey of a fan group in Tokyo whose enthusiasm for American football rivals that of any crowd in Lambeau Field’s frozen stands. The film’s creator, Wisconsin native Ty Morse, first stumbled across members of the Japanese Packers Cheering Team in 2017 while traveling in Japan for business. He noticed several people in player jerseys singing in a Shibuya karaoke bar,...

Artificial intelligence systems marketed as safety-focused, creative tools for individuals are simultaneously being embedded in institutional frameworks that operate without scrutiny, regulation, or accountability. The result is a two-tiered ecosystem. In public-facing spaces, users are over-policed by hypercautious moderation protocols. Behind closed doors, the very same models are used by governments and corporations to profile citizens, deny services, and influence behavior without oversight. One of the clearest examples lies in the way AI systems conduct surveillance and behavioral profiling. Deployed into large-scale data infrastructures, these models can analyze communications, social media activity, or digital transaction histories to detect so-called...

When the Korean pop group Aespa appeared on Good Morning America in late September, the highly anticipated broadcast drew intense backlash online in South Korea. Korean fans, in particular, pounced on the performance, criticizing everything from low energy levels to an unimpressive visual presentation. But what may have looked like a subpar showing at first glance was also a lesson in how cultural expectations, production choices, and television styles shape the way performances are perceived. K-pop has long mastered the science of stagecraft. Korean music shows like SBS’s Inkigayo, Mnet’s M Countdown, or KBS’s Music Bank build their programming...

In the rapidly shifting landscape of artificial intelligence, one of the most urgent concerns facing digital artists is the widespread appropriation of visual styles by AI image generators. The practice, often referred to as “style scraping” or “style mimicry,” involves feeding copyrighted or uniquely identifiable artworks into machine learning models, which then generate images mimicking the original artist’s visual signature, often without consent, attribution, or compensation. This issue reached a breaking point as professional and freelance illustrators watched AI companies train commercial models on their work with no accountability. While some developers framed this data harvesting as part of...

University instructors in Milwaukee and across the country are confronting an uncomfortable shift: students are increasingly submitting work that appears well-crafted, grammatically precise, and eerily impersonal. The hallmark of AI-generated writing. The arrival of tools like ChatGPT and its competitors has fundamentally altered the educational landscape, rendering traditional assessments vulnerable to automation and exposing long-standing cracks in the academic system. For generations, the college degree has served as a signal of individual effort, intellectual maturity, and subject mastery. But with artificial intelligence capable of generating essays, solving equations, and even programming entire applications, the line between student work and...

In the crowded field of artificial intelligence, two concepts are quietly redefining the relationship between humans and machines, agentic AI and Model Context Protocol (MCP). Neither name rolls off the tongue, and neither was built for the headlines. But make no mistake, these two forces are shaping the foundation of how AI will operate, interact, and act on behalf of consumers in the years ahead. To understand the stakes, start with the role AI plays in the daily life of Americans. For years, AI systems have been reactive. Users give an instruction and the system responds. Ask for a...