Never Post

Don't Panic

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Mike talks about how and why some authentic media looks like it was generated by AI; Hans talks about KOSA – the Kids Online Safety Act – and how it is shaped by not one, but two concurrent moral panics. Also: RARE TAPES! 📼


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    Intro Links

    • https://x.com/MikeIsaac/status/1854202822600106162
    • Facebook Took More Than $1 Million For Ads Sowing Election Lies - Forbes
    • EU launches action against shopping website Temu over illegal products - Guardian
    • Mozilla Foundation lays off 30% staff, drops advocacy division - TechCrunch
    • Looks like a random AI slop site based in Illinois, aided by social media, has coaxed hundreds of people on to the main street of Dublin for a Halloween parade that was never happening. – X

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      Generated-ish

      • https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/1gfij22/comment/luhu6kz/
      • How can you tell if text is AI-generated? Researchers have figured out a new method
      • Discover the most common AI vocabulary words
      • RIP Baudrillard
      • https://x.com/TheRidleyJones/status/1848214407211311466
      • Kamala Rally photo, and indication it was shot on an iPhone
      • warped, surrealist, why’d you generate the background people

        Generated-ish Examples

        • https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTFdNh7yj/
        • https://x.com/Meelsie143/status/1832795190794342539
        • https://x.com/Solomosos/status/1848367541665583473
        • https://www.reddit.com/r/shitpost
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