Facebook's New Thing: AI

Facebook has completely rebranded. They have a new name, Meta. And everything else that was going on, yes, it worked wonders, didn't it? Yes, it did. This is all been exhausting though. Some of our greatest hits that we called stupid on the economy scooters, self driving cars, blockchain crypto, NFTs, metaverse, now AI,. one grift after another Jason.

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RIP, Metaverse; nobody knows how LLMs work; CEOs that don't go into offices want you to go in; ChatGPT is low-paid people; sure, let's let AI generate mRNA vaccines; OURA acquires Proxy, but not science; MTV News shuttered; writer's strike; Spotify removes tons of AI generated songs; Google text-to-music in beta; Tucker turns to Twitter; the Diplomat; Slow Horses; Silo; Ted Lasso; Succession; Barry; the Muppets Mayhem; Bupkus; Beetlejuiice 2; Foundation: here be dragons?; Good Omens 2; FAST; Apple spatial audio; Blueky; sexy Alf; the Mission; Factory Records; Chip War; Star Wars: Visions; Citizen & Nextdoor; AI John Mayer; outsourcing inspiration; the EGOT of the internet.

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