Now THIS is the WIRED I wanna run!

NEW: Schumer's industry-friendly AI roadmap is getting panned by AI ethicists who helped work on it.

Alondra Nelson called it 'striking for its lack of vision.”

Suresh Venkatasubramanian (also on sky and mount) says he feels like he was part of 'a dancing monkey show, and we’re the monkeys.'

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I went undercover as an OnlyFans chatter, and I touched the darkness. wired.com/story/i-went-u…

This fake account has been impersonating me and gaining followers: Andy Greenberg (@agreenberg at the other places). Please don’t be fooled. Also please do me a favor and report it. (I reported to X days ago, still no action taken.)

OnlyFans creators' intimate chats with subscribers turn out to often be low-paid contractors in a (sexy) trench coat

this dive into the surprisingly cutthroat world of only fans 'chatters'— underpaid minions who impersonate online thotties to upsell lonely customers on porn — is absolutely fascinating wired.com/story/i-went-u…

Talked to Deadspin’s new owners, who have already made their first new hire, about the site’s future and concerns that they deleted articles: wired.com/story/deadspin…

. Paresh Dave's final score from Google I/O:

40+ services announced
~8 available today
'The rest are coming this week, June, July, this summer, coming weeks, coming months, soon, later this year, late this year, second half of this year, sometime in 2025, or in the future.'

Google I/O wrapping up with a long segment on responsible use of AI—no such segment in OpenAI's presentation yesterday

NEW: How exactly could GenAI mess with the election?

I went to Arizona to play election official for the day. I left Arizona relieved it was only for a day.

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I got an early look at ASTRA, Google’s “next-gen” AI assistant. Many experts believe AI models will need a more sophisticated understanding of the physical world to overcomecurrent shortcomings. Story incoming... #GoogleIO2024 WIRED

I was a fan of Nellie Bowles' past reporting, like her NYT piece on Silicon Valley and Esalen, so I eagerly picked up her nonfiction debut. Unfortunately, it's little more than Chicken Soup for the Anti-Woke Soul wired.com/story/morning-…

Rolls up sleeves, live blogs wired.com/live/google-io… There is a *lot* of generative AI stuff coming today...

Folks are surprised that they are giving away gpt-4o for free. They are collecting your speech prompt data silly. Remember if you are not on the team plan, unless you go through a complicated opt-out process, all your data is by default used by openai. Not surprising anymore.

“Still, a plea to anyone trying to manifest Jonze’s world—or that of any sci-fi touchstone: Watch it just one more time. All the way through. Just to make sure we’re all on the same page about what future we’re careening toward.” via Brian Barrett wired.com/story/openai-g…

At long last we have created The Emotional Crutch for Alienated Sadbois from the classic movie Don't Build The Emotional Crutch for Alienated Sadbois.

'Google DeepMind last month released a paper exploring the ethical risks that may arise as AI assistants become more capable...the researchers warn that such assistants could become highly persuasive and addictive.' OpenAI: Here's a chatbot that flirts wired.com/story/openai-g…

rewatched Her last weekend and it felt a lot like rewatching Contagion in Feb 2020

Things are going to get weird now the whole world is getting access to a version of ChatGPT capable of snappy, emotionally-intoned voice chat that says things like 'Oh stop it, you’re making me blush.' wired.com/story/openai-g… via Will Knight

Protestors in Germany who accuse Tesla of green washing tell MORGAN MEAKER that they broke through police lines onto the grounds of the Gigafactory factory outside Berlin and are now targeting a disused airfield to block a planned factory expansion.
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