How This Trippy Image Started A Massive Conspiracy Theory

This week, Jason explains the conspiracy theory circulating behind a trippy stock image that went viral after the White House Correspondents’ Dinner—was it sent here by a time traveler? (Spoiler: It was not.) Then Sam unpacks what’s happening at Arizona State University with a messy rollout of a new AI-powered tool that generates lessons by scraping professors’ lectures without their knowledge. In the second for subscribers at the Supporter level, Emanuel gets philosophical with a discussion about the question of machine consciousness and how it relates to a new paper from a Google-affiliated scientist.

• ⁠University Professors Disturbed to Find Their Lectures Chopped Up and Turned Into AI Slop⁠ (404media.co/asu-atomic-ai-modules-arizona-stat…)

• ⁠Did a Time Traveling Superintelligent AI Try to Warn About White House Correspondents Dinner Shooting? An Investigation⁠ (404media.co/did-a-time-traveling-superintellig…)

• ⁠Google DeepMind Paper Argues LLMs Will Never Be Conscious⁠ (404media.co/google-deepmind-paper-argues-llms-…)

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