608: The Way of the Grift

608: The Way of the Grift

Hello, summer; disinformation professor falsifies own data; AI is eating itself, recursion & model collapse looming; scammers, liars, grifters prosper; mandated return to office not working out great; Amazon's robot revolution; Congress limits AI usage; Vatican releases AI Ethics Handbook; Google violates its ad deal standards; Youtube disabling videos for ad-blocker use; Zoox!; IRL lied their asses off about users, still got $170 million from SoftBank; Aspartame & warm Mountain Dew; Star Trek; Silo; Reality; Fubar; the Machine; Apple News UI needs help; later, Stitcher; Google cancels Iris; mustaches and learning about being a woman; ElevenLabs Voice Library & the end of voice over actors; cosplaying mommy & arrested development; 4th of July Movie Marathon.

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Harvard professor who studies dishonesty is accused of falsifying data

The Internet Isn’t Completely Weird Yet; AI Can Fix That “Model collapse” looms when AI trains on the output of other models

THE CURSE OF RECURSION: TRAINING ON GENERATED DATA MAKES MODELS FORGET

The Huge Power and Potential Danger of AI-Generated Code


IN THE NEWS

We're Now Finding Out The Damaging Results of The Mandated Return to Office — And It's Worse Than We Thought.

Amazon’s New Robots Are Rolling Out an Automation Revolution

Congress is reportedly limiting staff use of AI models like ChatGPT

The Vatican Releases Its Own AI Ethics Handbook

Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg Contacted by Italy to Fight at Colosseum

Italian culture ministry denies reports of Musk vs Zuckerberg fight in Colosseum

Google Violated Its Standards in Ad Deals, Research Finds

YouTube tests disabling videos for people using ad blockers

Zoox begins testing robotaxis on public roads in Las Vegas

SoftBank gave $170m to a social app whose users mostly didn't exist

Aspartame to be named a possible cancer-causer


MEDIA CANDY

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

Silo

Indiana Jones - Destined To Flop - The Critical Drinker

Reality

Fubar

The Machine

Muscles & Mayhem: An Unauthorized Story of American Gladiators

Ted Lasso charted a record-breaking billion minutes of viewing during finale week


APPS & DOODADS

ChatGPT for iOS now lets paid subscribers use Bing right from the app

STITCHER FAREWELL

Google is no longer building its own augmented reality glasses


THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE

The CyberWire

Dave Bittner

Hacking Humans

Caveat

Control Loop

ElevenLabs - Introducing: Voice Library

ElevenLabs Voice Library

COSPLAYING THE MOMMY WARS


Jason’s 4th of July Birth Control Movie Marathon

1. Hackers

2. The Edge

3. Shaun of the Dead

4. Fight Club

5. The Professional

6. Pulp Fiction

7. The Hunt for Red October

8. Die Hard 3

9. Hard Boiled

10. The Crow

The Electric Mayhem visit Spotify

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386: Jobsian Slip

386: Jobsian Slip

Windows, not so bad; Zuckerberg ret-cons Facebook origin story; Netflix misses numbers, faces competition; Amazon ditches Oracle; Zappos ridiculous breach settlement; Nest tightens rules for partners; jail time for tech execs; Samsung fingerprints problems; Fire TV cube; Iomega zip drives; stun sticks; e-rosary; Gen Z doesn't want to hear from you.Show notes at https://gog.show/386See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

19 Okt 20191h 14min

385: Pump Up the TikTok

385: Pump Up the TikTok

Dipping our feet in the UBI waters; Libra, out; Facebook refuses to take down fake ads, looking out users; Uber pink slips; Samsung stops Blue-ray production; yet another scooter company; El Camino; Lost in Space; warp speed is really slow; music, on the blockchain; AMC home streaming; Eon; Brian Grazer; Rebooting AI; SpaceX screws Texas; feedback.Show notes at https://gog.show/385See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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384: Jeff-Luc Picard

384: Jeff-Luc Picard

Dead AirPods; Amazon workers watch footage you let them watch; Dominos loses ADA case; Postmates IPO delayed; Waymo driverless cars are coming, maybe; tech sabotages public safety; Bezos makes it so; Facebook fines pile up; D-link router flaws; Twitter targets ads with phone numbers; scrubbing social media; proper escalator use; Diet Coin.Show notes at https://gog.show/384See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

12 Okt 20191h 10min

383: Gimme the Damn Coconuts!

383: Gimme the Damn Coconuts!

Catalina; 23andMe making some guesses; Waymo comes to LA; Deepfakes laws; Russian hackers modify browsers; Picard & The Expanse; IT Chapter 2; Bill Gate's brain; Dead Can Dance; Ali Wong; Han Solo Carbonite Roaster; Disney+ ruins childhood memories; Debbie Harry; Felicia Day; Apple turns someone gay; the origins of Sweden; feedback loop. Show notes at https://gog.show/383See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

9 Okt 201959min

382: Zuckerberg Blue

382: Zuckerberg Blue

WeWork, a struggling non-tech company; cutting scooter brakes; drone-ramming drones; self driving cars, not in my backyard; TikTok says no to political ads; Words With Friends data breach; Google's bad facial recognition tactics; ghost protocols; Yahoo inside job; Fitbit; Undercover out; Microsoft putting on the pressure; we have no idea how this works. Show notes at https://gog.show/382See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

5 Okt 20191h 4min

381: Self-Deflating Morale

381: Self-Deflating Morale

Meat, the new eggs; Facebook leaked audio; Kickstarter says no unions; Musk breaks laws with tweets; online child sex abuse explosion; tech breaking the border; new iPhone hack; uBiome down the toilet; Stranger Things, the Good Place, Mr. Robot; Harry Potter meets Superman; Amazon book price nonsense; feedback loop; Autoblow AI, surprise! Show notes at https://gog.show/381See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

2 Okt 201956min

380: Echo Chamber

380: Echo Chamber

Adventures with Apple; Goop isn't science; Facebook gives up on fixing itself; Uber looking for a pivot, still bad; Amazon wants to write facial recognition rules; tech unicorns not doing well; Match sued; burner emails; right to be forgotten, forgotten; Doordash hack; Ring wants in; DNA data guidelines; all the Alexas. Show notes at https://gog.show/380See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

28 Sep 20191h 6min

379: Computers Gonna Compute

379: Computers Gonna Compute

MoviePass R.I.P; The Daily Show Rip-off; DeepFakes are coming fast; Cloudflare plants trees; AI burns the world; Be Indistractable; Bluetooth gone wild; Snap Conjures Voldemort; Girls named Fred; McDonalds goes AI; Twitter cures financial scams.Show notes at https://gog.show/379See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

25 Sep 201957min

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