Fake photos. False claims. Wild conspiracy theories. The public murder of conservative activist Charlie Kirk in Utah, captured in gruesome footage that spread around the world, has set off an avalanche of misinformation.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman hinted that he's coming around to the dead internet theory in an early September post on X. His company gave the world ChatGPT —the large language model (LLM) fueling the epidemic of social media bots and AI slop content—which has many commenters fingering him as the guy who did this.

The article explains that late changes to theories of liability in malpractice cases are typically denied by courts, as they prejudice defendants. Courts prefer claims to be clear from the start, and amendments made close to trial are often struck.

Science is a story of coming up with theories then doing our best to disprove them. That is especially true for theories on a grand, cosmological scale, though disproving them can be particularly hard.

The theory of evolution by natural selection was first formulated in Darwin’s book “On the Origin of Species” in 1859. It describes how organisms change over time as a result of changes in heritable physical or behavioral traits.