"The plan? Create a lore so complicated and bewildering that the Western Massachusetts lesbian bar currently hemorrhaging money recoups its losses by becoming an attraction for disbelieving tourists."
Ever since I started at Slate I have been fascinated by our commenting community, which seems to hate just about everything I’ve ever published on the site. For the 30th anniversary of the magazine, I decided to ask them why. (Quick thread.)
a bear got into my car after I bought snacks for my son's soccer game. went through an entire case of little juice boxes and opened like 20 tiny packs of fruit snacks one by one
OK, this is wild: I’ve confirmed that this video — that used AI to change the race of the creator below then turned it into a Kalshi ad — is real.
A Kalshi rep says the ad is old and that they no longer use AI-generated ads.
Kalshi is also “reviewing our relationship with” with the agency that made it.
Unclear right now what agency was behind this, what methods they used and exactly how many people were AI-manipulated to be another identity so synthetic versions of themselves could become Kalshi promoters without their knowledge and consent, but I’m looking into it.
“I think everybody paying attention to journalism knows what’s happening at CBS News. How 60 Minutes, the most credible and important television news program, has been impaired. I don’t have to tell you about all that. It’s pretty ugly.” https://t.co/rlZsz8mZnW
I have never been more eager to see anthropic’s S1 financial documents
Waiting for a risk factor that says something like “Our business may be adversely affected if a robot God takes over the world and eliminates the concept of a stock market”