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Hi, I am Joele, I write this newsletter from Barcelona, every Sunday. I have been doing it for five years and counting. And every Sunday I manually write this introduction that nobody reads. This mail collects the most interesting things found around on the internet during the week.
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Why Samsung factory workers in Vietnam are becoming beauticians
Women working at Samsung factories are frequently replaced in their 30s, so they are training for the informal beauty industry for stability.What happens when your AI girlfriend dies?
Thousands of people have been ghosted by their AI girlfriends after the shutdown of virtual companion apps such as Forever Voices and SoulmateWhat If Money Expired?
A long-forgotten German economist argued that society and the economy would be better off if money was a perishable good. Was he an anarchist crank or the prophet of a better world?
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Meta’s new AI image generator was trained on 1.1 billion Instagram and Facebook photos
"Imagine with Meta AI" turns prompts into images, trained using public Facebook data.Study gauges how people perceive AI-created content
Companies that intend to use generative artificial intelligence should first consider how people regard work created by AI, humans, or some combination of the two.Sports Illustrated Published Articles by Fake, AI-Generated Writers
Sports Illustrated was publishing articles under seemingly fake bylines. We asked their owner about it — and they deleted everything.Animate Anyone
Consistent and Controllable Image-to-Video Synthesis for Character AnimationWho will write the rules for AI? How nations are racing to regulate artificial intelligence
How can the world regulate AI? Europe’s comprehensive approach, China’s tightly targeted laws, and America’s dramatic executive order hint at three ways forward.x.com is Twitter, but what are [a-z].com?
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TikTok’s biggest hits are videos you’ve probably never seen
TikTok’s annual report on the most viral videos and trends shows us once again how siloed the app’s content is. Top videos included makeup routines, pet clips, and cooking ASMR, but what does it mean to be “TikTok viral”?
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a16z Funded AI Platform Generated Images That “Could Be Categorized as Child Pornography,” Leaked Documents Show
OctoML, the engine that powers a16z funded Civitai, thought the images could qualify as “child pornography,” but ultimately decided to keep working with the company anyway, internal Slack chats and other material shows.Beware Deepfake Scams
Investing scams are starting to use more 'celeb-bait' AI deepfakery‘The Gospel’: how Israel uses AI to select bombing targets in Gaza
Concerns over data-driven ‘factory’ that significantly increases the number of targets for strikes in the Palestinian territory
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