AI chatbots, Writer's Guild strike, Pluto ad-supported TV
• AI is already writing books, websites, and online recipes.
• AI Chatbots Have Been Used to Create Dozens of News Content Farms.
• Google Adding AI Chatbot, More Video to Stay On Top of Search.
• Amnesty International criticized for using AI-generated images.
• I Cloned Myself With AI. She Fooled My Bank and My Family.
• Larry Magid: Voice cloning makes virtual kidnapping more convincing.
• DEF CON to set thousands of hackers loose on LLMs.
• Samsung Bans ChatGPT, Google Bard, and Other Generative AI Use by Staff After Leak.
• Writers Guild On Strike Against Hollywood Studios As Contract Talks With Fail.
• Warner Bros. Discovery CEO says writers' strike will be ended by 'love for the business and the love for working.'
• Pluto co-founder is building an ad-supported TV.
• Judge Dismisses F.T.C. Lawsuit Against Kochava, a Location Data Broker.
• Google accounts now support passkeys for password-free sign-in.
• Vice Is Said to Be Headed for Bankruptcy.
• The Morning After: Google officially reveals its first foldable phone: The Pixel Fold.
• ‘The Godfather of AI’ Quits Google and Warns of Danger Ahead.
• Tim Cook Just Was Asked About AI. His 3-Word Response Was the Best I've Heard Yet.
• Inside Amazon’s canceled plan to make Halo a fitness success.
• Solidigm Synergy 2.0 SSD Software with benchmarks.
Host: Leo Laporte
Guests: Louise Matsakis, Allyn Malventano, and Janko Roettgers
This Week in Tech episode 926
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