Q&A with NYT reporter Tiffany Hsu about AI-generated online influencers, how the volume of synthetic content produces exhaustion for users, and more
AI avatars are redefining influence and trust online. — On this week's Galaxy Brain episode, Charlie Warzel is joined …
The crypto industry's impact on the 2024 US elections shows that crypto is a perfect anti-establishment technology for the turbulence and distrust of the 2020s
An anti-establishment technology for an anti-establishment age — For years, crypto skeptics have asked, What is this for? Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to . Threads: @cwarzel Mastodon: Dare Obasanjo /...
Mark Zuckerberg's letter to Jim Jordan gave Republicans just enough to claim a political win, without getting Meta in more trouble amid its FTC antitrust suit
Mark Zuckerberg's letter to Chairman Jim Jordan and the House … Nick Heer / Pixel Envy : Mark Zuckerberg Ingratiates Himself With U.S. Republican Politicians Casey Newton / Platformer : Zuckerberg dra...
An interview with Sam Altman and Arianna Huffington on their startup Thrive AI Health to build an AI health coach, and why AI has become a technology of faith
so he asked them about it. https://www.theatlantic.com/ ... @theatlantic : OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and the entrepreneur Arianna Huffington want to remake America's health-care system with generative AI....
X starts removing preview headlines from posts with article links, showing only the lead image and domain name; Elon Musk mentioned the change in August 2023
https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... @rickf@indieweb.social : In other words, “please generate needless clicks so I can boost ‘engagement’ on the platform to get more advertisers back, pleeeasseeee.......
A developer says Twitter appears to be DDoSing itself via a Twitter web app JavaScript bug, which could be tied to Elon Musk's emergency blocks and rate limits
For anyone keeping track, this isn't even the first time they've completely broken … Nick Heer / Pixel Envy : Tweets Are Now Login-Walled — Like Šime Vidas, I have often linked out to Twitter … Blue...
Twitter begins removing blue checkmarks from legacy verified accounts, fulfilling one of Elon Musk's long-stated plans; Musk has called the system “corrupt”
Elon already took away the blue check from some publications like the The New York Times … Caroline Giegerich : The Twitter check shakedown has begun. Twitter has officially begun removing blue check...
An interview with Vinod Khosla on how AI will “free humanity from the need to work”, seeing the AI future early, OpenAI investment, AI and geopolitics, and more
At nearly 70, Vinod Khosla is an elder statesman in Silicon Valley but he's been on top of the most cutting-edge trends, including artificial intelligence. Tweets: @mvzelenks , @rachaelrad , @sarthakg...
An interview with Ask Jeeves co-creator Garrett Gruener, who says his original conception was similar to the chatbots Microsoft and Google are trying to build
Charlie Warzel / The Atlantic :
Amazon's third-party “seller services”, a large and growing part of the company's revenue that is also profitable, has filled its Marketplace with junk products
its drift from anything resembling shopping or informed consumption — is becoming harder for Amazon's one-click magic trick to hide.” https://nymag.com/... Maya Kosoff / @mekosoff : retail in 2023 inv...