[nonostantement #329] - inventors vs inventions / teens & chatbots / saving the desktop
Now with MORE glue to eat!
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Hey, I'm Joele. For as long as I can remember, I've been living and working on the internet. Every Sunday for the past six years, I've been doing this thing where I spend a lot of time online, find cool stuff and then share it in this newsletter. Yes, six years.
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#PEOPLE
OpenAI Just Gave Away the Entire Game
The Scarlett Johansson debacle is a microcosm of AI’s raw deal: It’s happening, and you can’t stop it.How Perfectly Can Reality Be Simulated?
Game engines such as Unreal Engine, developed by Epic Games, allow aspects of the real world to be simulated in video games such as “Barbie,” TV shows, architectural renderings, and more. Anna Wiener reports.The teens making friends with AI chatbots
Teens are opening up to chatbots on Character.AI as a way to explore friendship. But some chatbots, like Psychologist, offer more guidance than they’re qualified to.
#TECH
Google Is Paying Reddit $60 Million for Fucksmith to Tell Its Users to Eat Glue
"You can also add about 1/8 cup of non-toxic glue to the sauce to give it more tackiness."
#ART
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Hundreds of Beautiful Film Screen-Grabs to Give You Creative Inspiration
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#THEDARKSIDE
Saving the Desktop - by Karl Schroeder
What do we do about the increasing surveillance built into Windows, Android, and MacOS? Hint: Linux won't save usRevealed: Meta approved political ads in India that incited violence
Exclusive: Ads containing AI-manipulated images were submitted to Facebook by civil and corporate accountability groupsI Went Undercover as a Secret OnlyFans Chatter. It Wasn’t Pretty
Your online influencer girlfriend is actually a rotating cast of low-wage workers. I became one of them.
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