Open AI is a Shit Show

In this week's episode Luce and Abby discuss:The US and Israel's attack on IranWhy Iranians are pro regime changeHow you can be anti war and pro regime change at onceHarry Styles is EVERYWHERE (and how much we loved the Royal Court Interview with Brittany Broski)The Jim Carrey co ...  Show more

A throwback to 2021 when we interviewed Lorde and it was THE SICKEST THING EVER. We love her SO MUCH! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. 

Artificial intelligence has made headlines all year long, but the turn of events this week was extraordinary. OpenAI was thrown into chaos with the firing and eventual rehiring of CEO Sam Altman. There was a shakeup in the company’s board of directors and fierce debates about ...

AI art has gotten wildly popular over the past year. Programs like Midjourney and Dall-E are generating incredible images and incredible controversy. But these programs don’t exist in a vacuum. AI’s require billions of images to learn how and what to draw. Where are they getting ...  Show more

If even AI companies are fretting about the existential threat that human-level AI poses, why are they building these machines in the first place? And as they press ahead, a debate is raging about how we regulate this emergent sector to keep it under control. In the second epi ...

The Verge's Nilay Patel, Alex Cranz, and David Pierce discuss AI image generators getting better, Apple WWDC 2023 rumors, and the other big stories in tech this week. Further reading: The swagged-out pope is an AI fake — and an early glimpse of a new reality Another hurdle for AI ...  Show more