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Emma Roth

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    MSCHF’s dating website is a glimpse at beauty standards through the eyes of AI.

    The site, called Hot Chat 3000, is a one-to-one online chat website where who you talk to depends on a one to 10 scale of how attractive you are, a ranking determined by AI.

    This is, obviously, a terrible idea for a dating app, and that’s kind of the point. MSCHF’s project is supposed to explore the inherent biases of AI — and how we can manipulate them:

    HC3K is a highly imperfect, transparently AI-governed platform. Treat it like a sandbox; figure out how to get 10s back from the machine; learn how to manipulate it.

    An image showing MSCHF’s Hot Chat 3000 dating website
    Image: MSCHF
    Google plans to add end-to-end encryption to AuthenticatorGoogle plans to add end-to-end encryption to Authenticator
    Dropbox is laying off 500 people and pivoting to AIDropbox is laying off 500 people and pivoting to AI
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    Emma Roth
    Emma Roth
    Peacock added two million paid subscribers last quarter.

    The streaming service now has a total of 22 million paying subscribers, according to Comcast’s earnings report today — a major increase from the 13 million paid subscribers it had at the same time last year.

    This increase could be related to the company’s decision to take away Peacock’s free tier in February, but it’ll be even more to see how many Xfinity customers stick around for Poker Face once Comcast starts making them pay for Peacock this June.

    NBCUniversal reports higher Peacock losses as it shows CEO the door

    [TechCrunch]

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