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There Are No Girls on the Internet

Elon Musk turns Twitter into an MLM with payout promises; AI deep fakes put voice actors in porn with lawsuits aplenty; Surgeon live streams and loses license; Buffalo shooting victims sue; Smartphone removable batteries; Happy Birthday TANGOTI! – NEWS ROUNDUP

There Are No Girls on the Internet

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture, Technology

4.1907 Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2023

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Happy Birthday There Are No Girls on the Internet! The podcast turned 3 years old this week! We are officially a toddler! Thanks to everyone who made this possible by listening!

Twitter promises payouts for ad share...but will they pay up? https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/07/13/twitter-creators-payments-right-wing/

The FTC is reminding Open AI that laws are a thing! https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/07/13/ftc-openai-chatgpt-sam-altman-lina-khan/

Did Google steal everything you ever searched online? Yes they did: https://gizmodo.com/google-bard-ai-stole-data-class-action-suit-says-1850631307 

Sarah Silverman is suing Open AI for stealing her book: https://apnews.com/article/sarah-silverman-suing-chatgpt-openai-ai-8927025139a8151e26053249d1aeec20

Voice over actors are pissed their voices are being cloned in AI porn:  https://www.gamesradar.com/voice-actors-call-out-ai-as-imitations-spread-in-erotic-skyrim-mods-i-do-not-give-consent/

Buffalo shooting victims sue social media companies and demand change: https://gizmodo.com/google-reddit-facebook-instagram-sued-buffalo-massacre-1850635671

Don’t live stream yourself performing surgery! https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/12/us/dr-roxy-tiktok-operations-livestream.html

Your next smartphone will have a removable battery! https://mashable.com/article/replaceable-batteries-smartphones-iphones-2027

Bridget has a bone to pick with Jeff Lewis, formerly of Bravo.  Listen on Patreon: Patreon.com/tangoti

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0

There are No Girls on the Internet as a production of IHeart Radio and Unbossed Creative.

0:12.2

I'm Bridget Todd, and this is There Are No Girls on the Internet.

0:17.9

I'm here with my producer, Mike.

0:20.1

Mike, thank you for being here as always.

0:21.6

Bridget, thanks for having me.

0:23.6

Pleasure to be here.

0:25.6

And here's what you may have missed this week on the Internet.

0:28.6

But first, we have a little, I don't know, good news to commemorate, share.

0:34.6

I don't know.

0:35.6

I was surprised to find that earlier this week, there are no girls on the

0:39.2

internet had a birthday. We turned three. Three years ago, we were just launching this show. It

0:45.1

feels, honestly, feels more like 10. I'm being honest. But I just, I wanted to say something.

0:52.5

I literally didn't realize it. You know, I was looking at that Facebook, like on this day. And three years ago on this day, on that day, I was literally begging my friends to leave me good reviews because I was terrified that no one was going to listen to this show.

1:13.1

I was terrified that it was going to be such a flop. I was terrified that it was going to be just

1:20.0

me talking to myself, which maybe it was for a little while. But yeah, three years later,

1:25.3

going strong. And I wanted to thank you, Mike, for all the support.

1:29.9

You know, I still remember when we were first trying to get the show green lit or green lighted,

1:38.1

whatever the past tense of green lit is.

1:40.1

And it was a process.

1:41.6

And I really was the first thing I ever conceptualized and pitched and got, you know, got to see in the world all on my own. It was my first time ever doing that. It was a real process. And I just want to thank everybody who listens. Like, thank you, listeners. It really, truly means so much to me. Every now and then, someone will

2:02.6

DM me and say something like, oh, I love the show. We're like, you said, talked about

2:07.2

XYZ and I really liked it. You have no idea what that means to me. Like, I don't make a ton of

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