TWiG 791: There's a Pony In There Somewhere - C2PA, Character.ai Lawsuit, Polish AI Radio
Intelligent Machines (Audio)
Leo Laporte
4.3 • 763 Ratings
🗓️ 23 October 2024
⏱️ 162 minutes
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Summary
- Requiem for Raghavan
- Electric Motors Are About to Get a Major Upgrade Thanks to Benjamin Franklin
- Epic judge lets Google keep its Android app store closed to competitors — for now
- Google will block election ads after polls close
- LinkedIn is News Publishers' New Best Friend
- People are flocking to Bluesky as X makes more unwanted changes
- Elon Musk's X is changing its privacy policy to allow third parties to train AI on your posts
- Musk's X seeks to steer lawsuits to conservative court in Texas
- Sam Altman's identity and cryptocurrency venture Worldcoin has a rebrand
- Character.ai Faces Lawsuit After Teen's Suicide
- On-device AI could make apps obsolete
- Former OpenAI Researcher Says the Company Broke Copyright Law
- Controversy after Polish radio station replaces human presenters with AI
- Sotheby's to auction its first artwork made by a humanoid robot
- Elvis Found Alive
- Thank you, Steve Ballmer, for a concert app that made me want to scream
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Guest: Nathan Freitas
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| 0:00.0 | It's time for twig this week and Google. Paris Martino is here. Jeff Jarvis is here. |
| 0:04.0 | And we're going to talk to a guy from proofmode.org, Nathan Freitas, old friend, will help us |
| 0:09.8 | understand how to tell the difference between a real photograph and one generated by AI. |
| 0:15.7 | He's got a plan. We'll also talk about Triscuits and where they got their name. |
| 0:21.2 | And yeah, we'll throw a little Google in, too, just for fun. |
| 0:24.5 | It's all coming up next on Twink. |
| 0:26.3 | Once upon a time, Amazon Music met audiobooks and listeners everywhere rejoiced. |
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| 0:32.9 | Because now they could listen to one audiobook title a month from an enormous library of popular audiobook titles |
| 0:39.2 | including romanticie, |
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| 0:58.8 | Podcasts you love. |
| 1:00.7 | From people you trust. |
| 1:03.2 | This is Twit. |
| 1:09.0 | This is Twig. This week in Google, episode 791, recorded Wednesday, October 23rd, 2024. |
| 1:17.7 | There's a pony in there somewhere. |
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