Roundup: The data workers whose labor powers AI
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Paris Marx
Paris Marx is a Canadian tech critic and host of the award-winning Tech Won’t Save Us podcast. He writes the Disconnect newsletter and is the author of Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation.
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Generative AI is a climate disaster
Tech companies are abandoning emissions pledges to chase AI market share
Roundup: Uber's war on workers' rights continues
Read to the end for wild AI statements by tech’s thought leaders
Amazon's disastrous plan to emulate Temu
The ecommerce giant is continuing a race to the bottom for workers and the environment
Roundup: OpenAI says some artistic jobs shouldn’t exist
Read to the end for a good overview of failing social media platforms
Roundup: Elon gets the green light to loot Tesla
Read to the end for a video game finding getting rid of landlords solves the rent crisis
Silicon Valley’s unlikely ally to defend generative AI
Anti-copyright activists fought the film and music industries. Now they’re fighting artists who want to stop generative AI.
Apple hopes AI will make you buy a new iPhone
The company’s mundane features confirm the generative AI hype is rapidly waning
Roundup: Is this peak AI hype?
Read to the end for Elon Musk admitting he’s a fascist