Ads Are Good for Small Businesses, Right?

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Sally Kohn: What is the ad world going to look like a year from now? Is it just more garbage and worse garbage? Or do we see some kind of change coming? She says there are plenty of ads that are incredibly ugly. But I click on them because I'm like, what the hell is going on? This is peeking my interest, right? So that's a successful ad. It could also be a bad ad, so to speak.

“I’m Sydney, and I’m in love with you. 😘”

A conversation with Bing AI (aka Sydney) turns romantic and bizarre. Why Microsoft’s AI search tool appears more powerful — and unsettling — than we thought. Then, inside Elon Musk’s quest to be the most popular user on Twitter.

Plus: It’s not just you. Online ads have gotten much worse.

On today’s episode:

Tiffany Hsu is a technology reporter at The New York Times who covers misinformation and disinformation.
Zoë Schiffer is the managing editor of Platformer.

Additional reading:

Bing AI appeared to have a split personality in a conversation with Kevin Roose, a “Hard Fork” co-host.
Elon Musk ordered changes to Twitter’s algorithm after his Tweets did not perform as well as he desired.
Why digital ads are so bad these days.