Don't Scrape Me, Bro + The Activists Sabotaging Self-Driving Cars + How Reddit Beat a Rebellion

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🗓️ 11 August 2023

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Users are protesting Zoom’s liberal data-collection policy. Authors are shutting down websites that scrape their work. And, in a concession to users, OpenAI is allowing websites to opt out of web scraping. The era of A.I. backlash has begun. Then, street activists are deterring self-driving cars by placing traffic cones on the hoods of vehicles. Plus: How Reddit has squashed the Reddit Revolt.

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0:00.0	Are you a, are you a cone guy or a cup guy when you get ice cream?
0:04.8	Um, typically a cup because a cone just feels too indulgent.
0:10.7	But if you were to ask me, what is the best way to eat ice cream cone?
0:13.9	Obviously, it's an a cone.
0:14.9	Too indulgent.
0:15.9	You're eating ice cream.
0:16.9	Well, that's the thing is like if you put it in a cone, then it's a hat on a hat.
0:20.9	Oh, no, no, no, no, no.
0:22.2	You are fooling yourself, my friend.
0:23.8	You're engaging in a moral calculus.
0:25.9	This is if I have this thing in a sad cup with a sad spoon, then I'm not fully being
0:32.0	bad.
0:33.0	I'm being, I'm being half bad.
0:34.0	No, do you know how many times people order a double cheeseburger with fries and a diet
0:37.8	coke?
0:38.8	Like, that's what this is.
0:39.8	But that's self deception.
0:40.8	Of course.
0:41.8	Get the cone.
0:42.8	Most of my life is self deception.
0:45.9	Allow yourself to be happy.
0:52.5	I'm Kevin Ruze, a tech columnist at The New York Times.
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