Podcast: AI Slop Summer

We start this week with Jason’s couple of stories about how the Chicago Sun-Times printed a summer guide that was basically all AI-generated. Jason spoke to the person behind it. After the break, a bunch of documents show that schools were simply not ready for AI. In the subscribers-only section, we chat all about Star…

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Chinese Livestreaming ‘Virtual Human’ Salespeople Are Outselling Their Human Counterparts

This article was produced with support from WIRED. The salesperson hawking Brother printers on Taobao works hard, like, really hard. At any time of the day, even when there’s no audience on the Chinese ecommerce platform, the same woman wearing a white shirt and black skirt is always livestreaming, boasting about the various features of different office…

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Springfield board approves participation in cyber security grant program for 2025 – Main Street Media of Tennessee

In a continued effort to protect Springfield utilities from outside cyber threats, city officials have once again joined a grant program aimed at providing the necessary services for protection against digital attacks. At their monthly meeting last week, the City of Springfield Board of Mayor and Aldermen unanimously approved a resolution authorizing its participation in

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