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Twitter Being Sued By Former PR For Nonpayment
It takes a lot for a PR firm, or any marketing firm to sue a client (Google “Spring Free EV Push ROI” to see a case in point). But Musk is getting sued by Joele Frank, a former PR firm of Twitter. Elon Musk, who hates good press inherited the PR firm when he acquired…
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AI Enabled Greed And Stupidity
The content units mindset makes AI replacing human writers inevitable. This AI future won’t just replace writers, when the goal is churning out more content units, ever cheaper, every creative is on the chopping block. The sword that will cut their jobs is being forged with their work.
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Adobe Is Adding Generative AI Tools To Photoshop
I know it was coming and I’m still not sure how I feel. Adobe Has Added New A.I. Capabilities to Photoshop, Allowing Users to Edit Images Using Text Prompts
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AI-Generated Pentagon Image Sparks Stock Market Panic
An AI-generated image of an explosion near the Pentagon went viral, causing a brief stock market crash of 0.26%. AI Picture Of The Pentagon Exploding Caused The Stock Market To Crash
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U-Haul Truck Smashes Into Security Barrier Near White House
Investigators apparently found a Nazi flag inside the truck! Driver arrested and Nazi flag seized after truck crashes into security barriers near the White House
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Billy McFarland Got More Money Apparently
Startups are filled with psychopaths enabled by delusional investors. Billy McFarland somehow managed to get more funding, to do more stupid shit. Billy McFarland has secured funding for Fyre Fest 2.0 and a Broadway musical
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The EU Fines Meta $13 Billion For Privacy Violations
It’s not enough money to hurt Meta, but it may make them think twice next time. Meta Faces Record $1.3B Fine for European Data Privacy Violations
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AI Grief Tech Sure Seems Predatory
My latest for KnowTechie is a criticism of “grief tech,” the growing number of AI chatbots that are trained with data of deceased loved ones. These tools, almost all seem as predatory as a Victorian-era séance. Grief tech seems predatory as a Victorian-era séance
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Cop Apologizes For Beating The $#!% Out Of Someone During The George Floyd Protest
Former Minneapolis police officer Justin Stetson apologized in court to Jaleel Stallings. Stetson and other officers beat the shit out of Stallings during protests following George Floyd’s murder. Prior to the beating the cops were in an unmarked van shooting less than lethal weapons at random people, Stallings returned fire with one shot above the…
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The Newchip Startup Accelerator Is Burning To Death
I’ve been at Push ROI for over eight years, but every few years I kick a few tires in consideration of a career change. Last year I applied for a job at Newchip, an Austin, TX-based startup accelerator. The application process led me to believe I’d end up writing about a scam. I wasn’t a…
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Interview With A Man Who Helped Train ChatGPT
This article is an interview with Richard Mathenge, a former contractor for Sama, an AI annotation service that worked with OpenAI training OpenAI’s GPT model by repeatedly viewing and categorizing explicit and offensive content. He Helped Train ChatGPT. It Traumatized Him.
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Elon Musk Will Pay Rent Over His Dead Body
Elon Musk (like many in startup land) thinks rules don’t apply to him. Allegedly Musk said Twitter would only pay rent for its offices “over his dead body.” If true, it’s unsurprising, Musk shows the limit of smart contracts; namely assholes. Elon Musk told a Twitter advisor at 4 a.m. that the company would only…
