If you’re an aspiring lawyer in California, it probably did: the State Bar recently admitted that some of the multiple-choice questions in their recent bar exam were written with AI assistance. A “speechless” Mary Basick, assistant dean at UC Irvine Law School, told the L.A. Times that several students had complained that the questions seemed AI-generated. “I defended the bar,” she said. “‘No way! They wouldn’t do that!’”
Tim Pool, a conservative podcaster known for spreading covid-19 misinformation, interviewing Kanye West in his Nazi era, and inadvertently being part of a Kremlin-financed scheme to infiltrate right-wing media. (Pool has denied involvement.) While he wasn’t at the White House’s recent Podcast Row event targeted at right-wing content creators, Pool has a bigger opportunity, as The Washington Post’s Dan Diamond reported yesterday:
It used to be easy to kill a conspiracy theory. But the internet has made them immortal — and politically powerful.
