Unclear if this does anything to avoid detection, but bad advertisers are trying things as they do: here adding images of kittens before their deepfaked BBC/Elon footage promoting a crypto scam

Inverse Loyalty Daily AI (ILDA) Bot - every day tries to cancel every service you subscribe to, to see if you get offered a better deal than the one you currently have in order to not cancel.

Has someone built this yet?

I love hearing old school internet stories. Eg Java games where they were running web scrapers in the background, ad farm shenanigans, publishers swapping “babe” traffic for brand safe impressions.

The open web has always been an endlessly evolving series of exploits.

More widespread AI means companies will need to invest more in trust/safety/integrity/risk (eg to counter automation, fake info). These technologies will also help with these problems, but it’s an arms race.

For most companies, their investment levels will lag the visibility of…

Worked on two $10-30mm biotech fundraises >20 years ago when I worked in ibanking and had wondered what happened to them. One acquired in 2016 ($6bb), and other in 2022 for $6.7bb by Pfizer. Glad for those teams + their long journey. Good things take time and a lot of hard work.

What a terrible product idea. Utterly predictable failure.

“Snap, the maker of Snapchat, announced on Friday that it was turning off its paid friend-ranking feature, known as Solar System, by default, citing concerns about its impact on the wellbeing of users.

The Solar…

In a world where many companies hope you don’t notice that recurring charge, I really appreciate that Platformer does this.

GenZ texts :-)

I’d like to see on-device generative AI flagging embedded in the phone OS (separate question re: responsibilities of phone carriers who could easily flag stuff like this as potential scams… but there are bigger privacy issues)

Great quotes by Rob Leathern 🎲 . Check them out!

ft.com/content/4dfc11…

“On a scale of one to 100, how likely is this to be a scam? Please give your analysis.”

A: “This message has several red flags that are commonly associated with phishing scams:
- Urgency: The message creates a sense of urgency by stating you need to act within 12 hours. Scammers…

I've been enjoying playing with AI song generation. So herewith, a song we (me and two AIs) wrote for a couple of internet folks who've been writing a lot about AI, namely Casey Newton (who's mostly not on here anymore) and Kevin Roose - thanks to ChatGPT and Suno

Google promoting Gemini within workspace... I honestly can't recall ever seeing a promo in this spot in my Google Mail account.

Shockingly untrue. Meta didn’t share people’s private messages with Netflix. The agreement allowed people to message their friends on Facebook about what they were watching on Netflix, directly from the Netflix app. Such agreements are commonplace in the industry.