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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
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    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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    Emma Roth
    Emma Roth
    Roku OS remains the top-selling smart TV platform in the US.

    In its earnings report today, Roku says it was still the most popular smart TV OS in the country last quarter. This is a title Roku has held in 2020, 2021, and 2022, making the company’s decision to release its own Roku-enabled smart TVs seem like a no-brainer.

    Roku does the obvious thing and announces its own TV line

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    Disney sues Florida for ‘government retaliation’ in escalating feudDisney sues Florida for ‘government retaliation’ in escalating feud
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    Emma Roth
    Emoji Kitchen IRL.

    For $3, Google is selling actual stickers of its Emoji Kitchen combinations, in case you want to deck out your belongings with a cat bread or a thinking Earth emoji.

    It would’ve been even cooler if Google let us customize the stickers with our own combinations, but we’ll have to stick with these premade ones for now.

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