This is a long one! First Joseph previews his upcoming book, DARK WIRE. Go to the link below and enter "DW20" for 20% off! Also make sure to redeem your preorder behind-the-scenes bonus content. As for this week's stories, we start off with Jason explaining why we can, we must, dunk on the Humane Ai Pin, a piece of hardware that is AI's Juicero moment. After the break, Emanuel shows that Instagram is advertising deepfake nudify apps, the sort that are being abused right now in schools. In the subscribers-only section, we talk a bunch about Reddit, and especially how a tool has been made to sprinkle AI-generated product placements into popular Reddit threads.
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Why the Solar Storm Broke Tractors and GPS
Facebook is the 'Zombie Internet'
A Lost Media Mystery
The 'Com World War'
The Wild World of Fake AI Influencers
The Xz Backdoor and the AI Peer-Review Crisis
The Shaky Science of License Plate Readers
Shrimp Jesus
How Hackers Steal Mountains of Oxy and Adderall
The AI-Powered TikTok Hustlers
Tumblr and WordPress to Sell Users’ Data to Train AI Tools
Byron Tau on the New U.S. Surveillance State
A Deepfake Nightmare + Vibrator Malware
An Open Source Search Engine to Replace Google
Inside a Fraud Factory
This Is It. The Deepfake Reckoning
Why Google Is Shit Now
Google Finally Endorses Right to Repair
Deepfaked Celeb Scam Ads Are All Over YouTube
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