Pitchfork is absorbed by GQ - is music for men? Bridget hates self-checkout; Google still isn’t deleting abortion data; AI deepfake legislation – NEWS ROUNDUP

There Are No Girls on the Internet

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🗓️ 20 January 2024

⏱️ 69 minutes

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This week on the Patreon: Bridget remembers the time she met Sheryl Sandberg. https://TANGOTI.com/patreon

Google promised to delete sensitive location data about abortion clinic visits. A new study finds that it still isn’t living up to that promise: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/jan/16/google-keeps-location-history-data-abortion-clinics-despite-delete-pledge

Teen deepfake victim pushes for federal law targeting non-consensual, AI-generated explicit content - the Preventing Deepfakes of Intimate Images Act: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/deepfake-law-ai-new-jersey-high-school-teen-image-porn-rcna133706

OpenAI quietly removes ban on military use of its AI tools: https://www.cnbc.com/2024/01/16/openai-quietly-removes-ban-on-military-use-of-its-ai-tools.htm

AI already being used to select bombing targets in Gaza: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/01/the-gospel-how-israel-uses-ai-to-select-bombing-targets

Formula E Team Fires Its AI-Generated Influencer after Fans Balk: https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a46353319/formula-e-team-fires-ai-generated-influencer/

It's not just you, Google Search really has gotten worse: https://mashable.com/article/google-search-low-quality-research

The Self-Checkout Nightmare(?) May Finally Be Ending: https://gizmodo.com/the-self-checkout-nightmare-may-finally-be-ending-1851169879

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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.
0:17.3	So, Mike, as you can probably tell, we are not recording this when we usually record for the roundups, which is Thursday late night.
0:26.0	It is Friday early morning. I'm not a morning person. Do you consider yourself a morning person?
0:32.1	I don't. I've always aspired to be a morning person. And on those occasions, when I manage to get out of bed early, I feel really proud of myself and, like, a little bit smug about it.
0:43.3	But truth be told, left to my own devices, I would sleep in late every single day.
0:49.9	I pretty much do sleep in late every single day.
0:52.7	So if I'm not sounding my most bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, it is because it is early in the morning. And I don't, I'm not usually on a microphone right when I wake up. I was traveling to New York for a conference about disinformation. And my train was late and I got in late. I was like, you know what? I don't have it in me.
1:12.1	But this morning, this is the truth. We got this, right? Yeah. Well, and listeners, this is really a sign of how much
1:19.1	Bridget loves and respects you that she is so committed to putting this podcast out that she is
1:23.6	getting up early in the morning. There are not a lot of things that can get Bridget up on the microphone early in the morning.
1:32.1	Truly nothing.
1:33.4	That is so true.
1:35.3	So I am phasing in a new banter idea.
1:40.7	Mike, you kind of don't have TikTok.
1:43.2	You've had it.
1:46.3	You've had flirtations with it.
1:52.8	I know you have a, like a philosophical opposition to TikTok or something. You're basically,
1:56.8	you're not on TikTok. I'm not on TikTok. I wouldn't call it a philosophical opposition.
2:09.6	I am kind of wary of it, but like, I don't know. I don't have it. I've been thinking lately, like, maybe I'm being ridiculous and I should just get it, but I don't currently have it.
2:17.5	So that means that there are entire trends and discourses and all of that happening that you're just like, you dismiss. I'll be like, oh, did you see such and such?
2:20.6	And you're like, I don't know what you're saying. I don't know what those words mean.
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