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Bing is a liar, Elon's tweets are everywhere, and YouTube CEO steps down
Today on the flagship podcast of wanting to smooch your laptop:
01:23 - The Verge's Nilay Patel, Alex Cranz, Richard Lawler, Adi Robertson, and James Vincent discuss the flaws with Microsoft's Bing AI, and why it can be an "emotionally manipulative liar."
34:56 - Platformer managing editor Zoë Schiffer joins to explain why Twitter is showing everyone all of Elon Musk's tweets.
50:33 - The crew discuss YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki stepping down after nine years at the helm.
Further reading:
- Microsoft’s Bing is an emotionally manipulative liar, and people love it
- AI search engines are not your friends
- These are Microsoft’s Bing AI secret rules and why it says it’s named Sydney
- Microsoft says talking to Bing for too long can cause it to go off the rails
- The Supreme Court could be about to decide the legal fate of AI search
- Microsoft’s Bing AI, like Google’s, also made dumb mistakes during first demo
- From Bing to Sydney (Stratechery)
- A Conversation With Bing’s Chatbot Left Me Deeply Unsettled (The New York Times)
- Seeing other people’s AI art is like hearing other people’s dreams
- Yes, Elon Musk created a special system for showing you all his tweets first
- Elon Musk’s reach on Twitter is dropping — he just fired a top engineer over it
- Twitter is just showing everyone all of Elon Musk’s tweets now
- Elon Musk says Twitter should be ready for new CEO by end of year
- YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki steps down after nine years at the helm
- The maze is in the mouse (Praveen Seshadri)
- Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra review: practically peerless
- Razer Blade 18 review: the price is going up
- Tesla recalls 362,758 vehicles equipped with Full Self-Driving beta for ‘crash risk’
- Mazda MX-30 electric SUV review: a perfect storm of range anxiety
- Hyundai and Kia forced to update software on millions of vehicles because of viral TikTok challenge
- Less money and more fear: what’s going on with tech
- Erase browser history: can AI reset the browser battle?
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