Fri. 03/24 – Twilight Of The Blue Checks

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🗓️ 24 March 2023

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Twitter is finally sunsetting its legacy verified program. OpenAI rolls out ChatGPT plugins. Do Kwan has been detained and is facing formal charges here in the US. The FTC’s “click to cancel” proposal. And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions. Sponsors: Headspace.com/RIDE30DAY Links: Twitter to Revoke ‘Legacy’ Verified Badges in April, Leaving Only Paying Subscribers With Blue Check-Marks (Variety) OpenAI is massively expanding ChatGPT’s capabilities to let it browse the web and more (The Verge) Do Kwon Charged With Fraud by US Prosecutors in New York (Bloomberg) The FTC wants to ban those tough-to-cancel gym and cable subscriptions (The Verge) Weekend Longreads Suggestions: Cheating is All You Need (Sourcegraph Blog) The Age of AI has begun (GatesNotes/Bill Gates) The secret history of Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and OpenAI (Semafor) The case for slowing down AI (Vox) Epic’s new motion-capture animation tech has to be seen to be believed (ArsTechnica) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Mem Right Home for Friday, March 24th, 2023. I'm Brian McCullough today.
0:09.0	Twitter is finally sunsetting its legacy verified program. Open AI rolls out chat gepity plugins.
0:14.6	Dokwan has been detained and is facing formal charges here in the US. The
0:19.2	FTC's click to cancel, proposal, and of course, the weekend long read suggestions.
0:24.6	Here's what you missed today in the world of tech.
0:29.7	Twilight of the Blue Checks, sort of.
0:36.0	Twitter has announced plans to wind down its legacy verified program and remove legacy
0:41.0	verified check marks starting on April 1st, 2023. Remove Legacy
0:44.4	23, quoting variety.
0:46.4	The only individual Twitter users who will have verified Blue
0:49.5	Checkmarks are those paying for Twitter Blue,
0:51.6	which in the US costs $8 a month via the web and $11 a month
0:55.0	through in-app payments on iOS and Android.
0:57.8	Earlier Thursday, the company announced that Twitter Blue was now available worldwide.
1:02.1	For companies and brands
1:03.0	Twitter recently introduced a gold checkmark and has shifted
1:05.9	government accounts to a gray checkmark. As previously indicated,
1:09.7	a subscription to the Social Network's new Twitter verified
1:12.2	organizations program in the US, which will be the only way to keep a
1:16.0	gold or gray checkmark badge, will cost $1,000 a month plus tax and $50 a month plus
1:22.1	tax for each additional affiliate sub-account.
1:25.0	Twitter first introduced verified accounts in 2009 to help users identify that celebrities,
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