Exploring a Bizarre TikTok Trend and Call for Audience Anecdotes

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Exploring a TikTok trend where partners are asked a mysterious phrase, with origins traced back to a famous Twitch streamer. Diving into the varied landscape of content on TikTok and wrapping up with calls for generative AI anecdotes and Snapchat drama stories.

This week, the companies building artificial intelligence are facing a limit to what training data is publicly available on the internet. Will that stop them from building God? Then, a new bipartisan national privacy law proposal just dropped. We ask what’s in it. And finally, ByteDance is building new apps instead of fighting Congress’s TikTok ban.

Today’s Guests:

Trevor Hughes, president and C.E.O. of the International Association of Privacy Professionals

Additional Reading:

How Tech Giants Cut Corners to Harvest Data for A.I.

For Data-Guzzling A.I. Companies, the Internet Is Too Small

Lawmakers unveil sprawling plan to expand online privacy protections

TikTok Turns to Nuns, Veterans and Ranchers in Marketing Blitz

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