Check out our Episode 285 from March 1, 2023! Here are all the links we discussed in the show:
Archive.today - website capture (similar to Archive.org WayBack Machine)
OpenAI announces an API for ChatGPT and its Whisper speech-to-text tech (The Verge; 1 March 2023)
Bing’s A.I. Chat: ‘I Want to Be Alive. 😈’ (New York Times; 17 February 2023) 🎁Link - archive.today version
A Conversation With Bing’s Chatbot Left Me Deeply Unsettled (New York Times; 17 February 2023)🎁Link - archive.today version
Sunday Special: An Episode of ‘Hard Fork’ (NYTimes The Daily)
Microsoft limits Bing chat to five replies to stop the AI from getting real weird (The Verge; 17 February 2023)
Microsoft “lobotomized” AI-powered Bing Chat, and its fans aren’t happy (ArsTechnica, 17 Feb 2023)
Google’s AI chatbot Bard makes factual error in first demo (The Verge; 8 February 2023)
Sci-fi becomes real as renowned magazine closes submissions due to AI writers (ArsTechnica; 21 February 2023)
Inside the Minds of Spiders, Octopuses and Artificial Intelligence (Ezra Klein podcast, 24 Feb 2023)
Episode 409: ChatGPT takes on the smart home (Internet of Things Podcast, Stacey Higginbotham and Kevin C. Tofel, 9 Feb 2023)
Ban TikTok? (Today Explained podcast, 21 Feb 2023) - Mastodon quote on Project Texas
Project Texas: The Details of TikTok’s Plan to Remain Operational in the United States (Lawfare, 26 Jan 2023)
YouTube tests adding podcasts to ‘Create’ button alongside other new podcast tools & analytics (9 to 5 Google; 20 February 2023)
Apple flexes lobbying power as Apple Watch ban comes before Biden next week (The Hill; 17 February 2023)
Will Meta Begin Charging for Verified Accounts? Yes! (Snopes; 28 February 2023)
Twitter’s two-factor authentication change “doesn’t make sense” (ArsTechnica, 20 Feb 2023)
Facebook’s new $12 fee is straight out of Don Corleone’s playbook (Washington Post, 23 Feb 2023) #GiftLink
Social media used to be free. Not anymore. (Vox, 21 Feb 2023)
Jason: Camel Camel Camel
Wes: Durable AI website generator and The Last Soviet Podcast
Here are the links which made our show notes Google Doc, but we didn’t have time to discuss:
‘Disrespectful to the Craft:’ Actors Say They’re Being Asked to Sign Away Their Voice to AI (Motherboard by Vice; 7 February 2023)
Bill to block Montanans from accessing TikTok clears Senate committee (Billings Gazette; 1 March 2023)
Biden and Republican senators join forces in attack on Big Tech at Supreme Court (NBC News; 18 February 2023)
Hyundai and Kia forced to update software on millions of vehicles because of viral TikTok challenge (The Verge; 14 February 2023)
A Ruling That Could End the Internet as We Know It (NYTimes The Daily Podcast, 23 Feb 2023) - Mastodon quote
SCOTUS “confused” after hearing arguments for weakening Section 230 immunity (ArsTechnica, 21 Feb 2023)
Google Calendar is now automatically enabling spam protection on your behalf (Chrome Unboxed; 18 February 2023)
You can finally sign PDFs with your finger or a stylus directly inside Google Drive (16 February 2023)
Now for sale: Data on your mental health (Washington Post; 13 February 2023) - 🎁Link
Official: Twitter will now charge for SMS two-factor authentication (17 February 2023)
Is your Facebook account worth $12 a month? Meta rolls out subscription program (ArsTechnica, 20 Feb 2023)
Elon Musk’s reach on Twitter is dropping — he just fired a top engineer over it (Verge, 9 Feb 2023)
PC industry sees biggest decline ever, says Gartner (Computer Weekly; 12 January 2023)
Why Election Denialism Might Cost Fox News $1.6 Billion (NYTimes The Daily podcast, 27 Feb 2023)
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