Don't Panic

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

• x.com/MikeIsaac/status/1854202822600106162

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Facebook Took More Than $1 Million For Ads Sowing Election Lies (forbes.com/sites/emilybaker-white/2024/10/31/f…) - Forbes

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EU launches action against shopping website Temu over illegal products (theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/31/eu-launches-…) - Guardian

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Mozilla Foundation lays off 30% staff, drops advocacy division (techcrunch.com/2024/11/05/mozilla-foundation-l…) - TechCrunch

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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.com/ste_mcdermott/status/1852095696293499022…) – X

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Generated-ish

• reddit.com/r/funny/comments/1gfij22/comment/lu…

• How can you tell if text is AI-generated? Researchers have figured out a new method (techxplore.com/news/2024-10-text-ai-generated-…)

• Discover the most common AI vocabulary words (gptzero.me/ai-vocabulary)

• RIP Baudrillard (x.com/ChrisExpTheNews/status/1848121457609748862)

• x.com/TheRidleyJones/status/1848214407211311466

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Kamala Rally photo (x.com/crampell/status/1817240851942084662), and indication it was shot on an iPhone (x.com/crampell/status/1817741694164422729?t=WD…)

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warped (x.com/romepix/status/1817750184345956485), surrealist (x.com/Tim_The_Sandman/status/1817746636862308784), why’d you generate the background people (x.com/MaverickLIVE_/status/1817736154633863362)

Generated-ish Examples

• tiktok.com/t/ZTFdNh7yj

• x.com/Meelsie143/status/1832795190794342539

• x.com/Solomosos/status/1848367541665583473