Reactions: foreign psyops or troll farms?

We start this week with Sam's piece about a massive leak of an AI chatbot, and how it showed that people were taking ordinary women’s yearbook photos and using them to make AI porn. After the break, Jason explains how a recent change on X exposed a bunch of grifters all around the world. In the subscribers-only section, we talk about how our reporting contributed to the shut down of a warrantless surveillance program.

YouTube version: https://youtu.be/UgOtR_bDft4

Timestamps:

1:23 - Intro: Please, please do our reader survey

3:57 - Story 1: Massive Leak Shows Erotic Chatbot Users Turned Women’s Yearbook Pictures Into AI Porn

34:42 - Story 2: America’s Polarization Has Become the World's Side Hustle

SUBSCRIBER'S STORY: Airlines Will Shut Down Program That Sold Your Flights Records to Government

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