#AI-generated content

#AI-generated content

As I wore them on one of my walks through San Francisco, on the shore of Ocean Beach, I came upon a dolphin-like fish that had washed up on the sand. Though I got my camera glasses close enough to the thing that I could smell it, Meta's AI assistant could not tell me what kind of animal it was. It correctly identified that it was very dead and that I should not touch it.

And it reminded me of kind of a, in a different way, the way that those, that Republican text thread in New York, you know, making jokes about watermelon and making jokes about the Holocaust and making jokes about Hitler and making jokes about women and making jokes about gay people and just the vile, vile vile. By the way, if people haven't read it, I mean, be careful reading it,

Tim Higgins: Today on Bold Names, Liz Reid. She oversees Google Search and is something of a Google lifer. Having been there more than 20 years, she has seen some of the biggest moments for this company.

Supply-side ad tech platforms - call them SSPs, ad exchanges or whatever - are at an interesting inflection point. The whole category has been under Google's thumb for years. But Google's pub-side tech was declared an illegal monopoly, and there's a sense that, perhaps, newcomers have a chance to grow. There are also interesting strategic acquisitions potentially in the offing. Airlines, credit card companies and other data-rich businesses are entering advertising and data sales, making an SSP an enticing addition.

That's the term data scientists from Stanford's Social Media Lab and BetterUp, an online coaching platform, recently coined to describe "AI-generated work content that masquerades as good work, but lacks the substance to meaningfully advance a given task." It's the workplace equivalent of the cutesy videos and obviously fake photos filling up your social feeds, which have become known as AI "slop."

Last year, a study found that cars are steadily getting less colourful. In the US, around 80% of cars are now black, white, gray, or silver, up from 60% in 2004. This trend has been attributed to cost savings and consumer preferences. Whatever the reasons, the result is hard to deny: a big part of daily life isn't as colourful as it used to be.

It used to be the place to connect with friends and socialise. Now it's a morass of sponsored content, shouty influencers, AI-generated reels and disinformation - and a growing number of users are switching off It was the year the world came out of the Covid-19 pandemic. In January 2022, restrictions were eased in Ireland and in February, mandatory mask-wearing was lifted.

The DOJ says investigators linked Rinderknecht to the crime with video surveillance, witness statements, and cellphone records that placed him near the start of the fire. During a press briefing, Essayli said other evidence includes a ChatGPT prompt for what Essayli describes as a "dystopian painting showing in part a burning forest and a crowd fleeing from it." Essayli claims Rinderknecht used ChatGPT to create the image "a few months before" the fire started.

Back in 2023, Telly CEO Ilya Pozin came on The Vergecast and made a surprisingly compelling case for the existence of a TV that doesn't cost you a dime - but shows ads all the time. It's a reasonable business model, and a pretty good deal for consumers! But as The Verge's Emma Roth discovered, the reality of the situation is a bit different.

If that's how we're doing it, JD, then we here at The Late Show also enjoy humor, the host declared. He proceeded to roll a heavily censored AI animation of Vance humping a sofa while wearing a sombrero in callback to an internet hoax that falsely claimed Vance once wrote about such an encounter in his memoir. The rumor, long debunked, was recycled through online memes during the 2024 campaign.