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[Read Max @readmaxread]

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[John Ganz @lionel_trolling]

Unpopular Front is going on vacation! But I will be streaming live later today with @readmaxread.
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[Read Max @readmaxread]

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[New York Mag Union @NYMagUnion]

This week, @NYMag published a very good feature story on low-grade AI-created content taking over the Internet and making it worse. It’s about what happens when human-made content gets replaced by AI slop:
https://t.co/b6wc8r169l

[Reeves Wiedeman @reeveswiedeman]

This is a great feature by @readmaxread in the new issue of @NYMag about what happens when human-made content gets replaced by AI slop: https://t.co/tUOagvvvFr

[Read Max @readmaxread]

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[Casey Newton @CaseyNewton]

It's Hard Fork Friday! This week, Reddit revolts. Plus: @readmaxread joins to to discuss what we can learn from Mr. Beast. And we debate whether trust and safety was a ZIRP https://t.co/5ldI6eJB9L

[Kevin Roose @kevinroose]

This week on Hard Fork:

• What's fueling the Reddit revolt?
• Max Read on MrBeast
• Was trust and safety a zero-interest-rate phenomenon?

https://t.co/qiRfYWkAcJ

[Read Max @readmaxread]

@caityweaver Explain this ?

[Read Max @readmaxread]

IMO the piece pairs well with my interview with TikTok Baby Gronk specialist "H00pify" in that both are about how Zoomer platform natives understand what they're doing and how it relates to sincerity

https://t.co/2uYe8iNTP4

[Read Max @readmaxread]

I wrote about MrBeast's demonic/genius charity-audience growth flywheel for the New York Times Magazine

https://t.co/vwxk3pGQBJ

[Read Max @readmaxread]

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[dasha @dash_eats]

I don’t believe that the air quality is unhealthy bc I think smoking is good for you

[kang @jaycaspiankang]

max's substack, https://t.co/qyDSsXRvFI, is the best ongoing commentary for AI out there right now. Always finds something interesting and mostly avoids the "are we doomed" or "is this bullshit" binary

[Time to Say Goodbye @ttsgpod]

New ep! This week, we welcome back our friend @readmaxread for an anniversary chat. We unpack the labor and education dimensions of of A.I. ascendancy and get Max’s inside perspective on the WGA strike.

https://t.co/46TuBmiQFr

[Read Max @readmaxread]

screenshots from this post, which i get the sense will have a long shelf life!

https://t.co/YpErIJD9Q5

[Read Max @readmaxread]

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[Kevin Roose @kevinroose]

Breaking: 350+ leading AI researchers (including the CEOs of OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind) have signed a remarkable statement warning that AI poses a “risk of extinction,” and comparing it to pandemics and nuclear weapons. https://t.co/Fllcgzlq0C

[Read Max @readmaxread]

increasingly feels like "opposing sam altman's preferences" is the best heuristic for dealing with a.i. on a policy level, and probably with engaging it with it "philosophically" too

[Cord Jefferson @cordjefferson]

This is a really good idea. Someone should do this. https://t.co/Ag3WEnWT9b

[Evan Hill @evanhill]

"Given this state of affairs it’s hard not to feel like 'Traffic' is making an inadvertent but compelling case that Gawker and BuzzFeed were, in the grand scheme of things, not particularly important." By @readmaxread https://t.co/J6ctDQ2QMU