A lot of the people that I talked to in crypto came from traditional finance because they wanted to be able to play around in this new Wild West where there was no like compliance person or lawyer, like looking over your shoulder while you did things. If you have compliance people who are standing over your shoulder saying, like, did you comply with this? Did you comply with that? It just makes the whole thing a lot less fun. So I think this is an urgent priority.
Snapchat launches a chatbot. Meta plans to “turbocharge” its A.I. work. Elon Musk explores “BasedAI.” At this point, who isn’t making an A.I. play?
Plus: Is crypto finally dead? Also, a new TikTok filter is making people terrifyingly hot.
On today’s episode:
David Yaffe-Bellany, a cryptocurrency and financial technology reporter for The New York Times.
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The science fiction and fantasy magazine “Clarkesworld” was flooded with chatbot-generated submissions. The writing is “bad in spectacular ways,” its editor said.