609: Freshly Wrong

xAI seeks to understand the nature of the universe; Twitter shenanigans continue; AI risks; FTC investigating ChatGPT; ye olde craftliee understandinge; EU decides USA has comparable privacy protections, because they are high; superalignment!; AI is still people, working hard for no money; Google medical AI being tested; US military wants to play a game; Sarah Silverman & others suing OpenAI & Meta over copyright infringement; Strange New Worlds; Silo; Hijack; Vapourspace; Black Mirror; legal lullabies; Canada is the USA on Ambien; Threads & Twitter clone fatigue; Dave gets Covid, podcast listening tanks; movies in black and white; another new Willy Wonka; Disneyland goes punk. Show notes at https://gog.show/609 FOLLOW UP Elizabeth Holmes' Prison Sentence Was Quietly Reduced by Two Years IN THE NEWS Announcing xAI Elon Musk Warns Chinese Leaders That AI Could Take Over the Country Twitter starts sharing ad revenue with verified creators Twitter is trying to fix the verified DM spam problem it created Taliban Leader Endorses Elon Musk’s Twitter Over New Rival Threads Researchers find evidence of organic matter on Mars The risks of AI are real but manageable The FTC is investigating whether ChatGPT harms consumers Big Tech can transfer Europeans’ data to US in win for Facebook and Google Introducing Superalignment AI Is a Lot of Work ChatGPT's User Base Shrinks for the First Time Ever GPT-4's details are leaked Google’s medical AI chatbot is already being tested in hospitals The US Military Is Taking Generative AI Out for a Spin Sarah Silverman sues OpenAI and Meta over copyright infringement Meta platforms top the list of UK payment scams, finance group claims Celsius founder Alex Mashinsky arrested and charged with fraud Canadian judge rules the thumbs up emoji counts as a contract agreement MEDIA CANDY Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Silo Hijack Vapourspace - Gravitational Arch Of 10 (Magnetic Gravity Arc Suite) Black Mirror Season 6 Extraction 2 Legal Lullabies Wall of Chefs Poop Fiction APPS & DOODADS Meta's Threads races to 100 million users in under a week Jony Ive's first post-Apple hardware project is a $60,000 turntable THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE The CyberWire Dave Bittner Hacking Humans Caveat Control Loop In praise of watching your favorite movies in black and white The Ashley Madison Affair Willie Wonka trailer Kenneth Copeland’s daughter goes metal