The FTC is shaking and baking, with a lawsuit against Amazon for alleged dark patterns in the sign-up and cancellation process for Amazon Prime. But is this lawsuit really… it? Then, a feature at The Verge goes into the human labor that trains AI, and the shadow industry that makes it all work. For dessert: Brianna buys a drone!
Links and Show Notes: Support Rocket with a Relay FM Membership FTC sues Amazon for tricking customers into signing up for Prime - The Verge Amazon duped millions of consumers into enrolling in Prime, US FTC says | Reuters What the FTC Misses With Amazon Lawsuit — The Information Inside the AI Factory: the humans that make tech seem human - The Verge A Year After Dobbs, Advocates Push in the States for a Right to Birth Control - The New York Times450: Leave Section 230 Alone: Alex Winter and The YouTube Effect
449: Don’t Throw Things At People
448: Hey Barbie
447: The Beginning of the End
446: Bored Ape Check-in
445: Many People Are Saying This
444: Who are the Mac Pro Pros?
442: Reddit Black-out
441: How to Spend A Lot Of Money
440: Build-ing a Mystery
439: Human Errors
438: Touching Livestock
437: Puff Peace
436: Bluesky Raya
435: Only Mergers In The Building
434: Enpoopificaton
433: Max, Just Max
432: Rumors and Invention
431: Limited Internet For All
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