668: Weaponized Puffery
Grumpy Old Geeks
Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner
4.8 • 6.1K Ratings
🗓️ 5 October 2024
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
OpenAI training data, dynamic pricing & digital IDs; Elon's good week; dockworkers strike over robots averted, for now; more AI models; some AI training techniques make AI better at deceiving humans; weaponizing DMCA takedowns; Cruise fined for omitting details; Cybertruck gets FSD; EV Jeeps catching fire; Neumann back doing workspaces; COVID-19 affected the moon; the Diplomat; Wolfs; The Traitors Canada; The Rings of Power; more Prime Video ads; Juicebox quits the US; facial recognition & smart glasses; iPhone 16; cable testing; AI in education.
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FOLLOW UP
OpenAI Training Data to Be Inspected in Authors’ Copyright Cases
Oasis opts out of Ticketmaster's dynamic pricing, calling it 'an unacceptable experience for fans'
Don’t ever hand your phone to the cops
Elon Musk claims victory after judge blocks Calif. deepfake law
Elon Musk celebrates winning lawsuit over Tesla self-driving claims with embarrassing defense
IN THE NEWS
U.S. Dockworkers Go on Strike Over Robots and Wages
California Governor Vetoes AI Bill Aimed at Preventing Catastrophic Harms
OpenAI raises $6.6B and is now valued at $157B
Apple backs out of backing OpenAI, report claims
OpenAI Stamps Feet, Says Investors Aren't Allowed to Back Its Rivals
MIT spinoff Liquid debuts non-transformer AI models and they’re already state-of-the-art
Human Feedback Makes AI Better at Deceiving Humans, Study Shows
Famous AI Artist Says He’s Losing Millions of Dollars From People Stealing His Work
Google Wins Lawsuit Against Scammers Who ‘Weaponized’ DMCA Takedowns
GM’s Cruise fined $1.5 million for omitting details about its gruesome 2023 crash
Cybertruck Finally Gets Full Self-Driving (Supervised)
A Stalled Waymo Blocked Kamala Harris’s Motorcade in San Francisco
Jeep recalls 194,000 plug-in hybrids due to fire risks
Adam Neumann’s Latest Project Is a WeWork Competitor
COVID-19 Pandemic Affected the Moon, Scientists Claim
MEDIA CANDY
California’s new law forces digital stores to admit you’re just licensing content, not buying it
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Season 2
Amazon will “ramp up” Prime Video ads in 2025
Apple’s acclaimed drama “Sugar” lands season two renewal
APPS & DOODADS
Google introduces new way to search by filming video
Covid Testing Lab Owner Pleads Guilty to Giving Fake Test Results
Meta confirms it may train its AI on any image you ask Ray-Ban Meta AI to analyze
Someone Put Facial Recognition Tech onto Meta's Smart Glasses to Instantly Dox Strangers
AT THE LIBRARY
Constituent Service - A Third District Story by John Scalzi and narrated by Amber Benson
Earn It: Unconventional Strategies for Brave Marketers by Steve Pratt
THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE
C2C caberQU - USB C cable tester
BLE caberQU: a digital USB-C to USB-C cable tester
Ethical use of AI in higher education
Ethical AI for Teaching and Learning
CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS
Tributes paid to 'true legend' Dame Maggie Smith
‘Beverly Hills Cop’ actor John Ashton dead at 76 after battle with cancer
‘American Pickers’ star Frank Fritz dead at 60
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| 0:30.8 | Grumpy old geeks, a weekly talk show hosted by Brian Schulmeister and Jason de Philippo, |
| 0:38.0 | discussing the finer points of what went wrong on the internet and who's to blame. |
| 0:49.0 | Welcome to Grumpy old geeks, I'm Jason De Philipo. And I'm Brian Schillmeister. |
| 0:51.0 | The store is open, Brian. The store is open, Brian. |
| 0:52.8 | The store is open. |
| 0:53.8 | Yes it is. |
| 0:54.8 | Are people beating down the door? |
| 0:55.8 | Well, this is the first time we've told them, so hopefully they will be... |
| 0:58.8 | Beat down the door, people. |
| 0:59.8 | Beat down the door. |
| 1:00.9 | There's only three things up there right now, but by the time this airs there might even be five or six. |
| 1:06.6 | I just ran into trouble getting the damn international stuff to work, but it works now. |
| 1:11.3 | So, now we can just, now we can just design we can be designers |
| 1:15.0 | Brian yeah hope you get the joy out of designing because we're probably not |
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