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Gemini's Culture War + Kara Swisher Burns Us + SCOTUS Takes Up Content Moderation

Hard Fork

The New York Times

Technology

4.55.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2024

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

We finally invited someone on the podcast who is meaner to Casey than Kevin is.

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0:00.0

Have you seen this?

0:03.0

I'm obsessed with this story about the the willy wonka event. Have you seen this?

0:06.8

This is sort of like the Fire Festival of like candy related children's theater?

0:13.7

Yes, so this was an event called

0:16.1

Willie's Chocolate Experience

0:18.0

that was scheduled in Glasgow, Scotland

0:20.9

this past weekend.

0:22.2

And it appears to have been like a total like AI generated

0:26.7

event like like all of the art on the website appears to have been generated

0:30.2

by AI and it sort of made it sound like this magical Wanca themed

0:34.9

Wonderland for kids. Yeah and the generative AI art was good enough that people

0:39.9

thought we're actually going to see a fantastical wonderland of candy when we go to this event.

0:43.6

Yeah so people think you know this is affiliated with the Wanca brand somehow I'm

0:48.2

this looks great I'm gonna take my kids tickets for like $44, not a cheap experience.

0:54.2

And so families like show up to this with their toddlers.

0:57.0

And it's just like a warehouse with like a couple of balloons.

1:00.8

It is the same, have you seen the photos of this thing

1:03.7

they're incredible I mean it is truly they truly did the least it's like you know

1:10.4

some AI generator art on the walls a couple of balloons apparently

1:14.6

there was no chocolate anywhere and children were given two jelly beans.

1:18.4

No that was all they were given? And so this whole thing is a total disaster.

1:27.0

The person who was actually hired to play the part of Willy Wonka

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