Mike talks about how and why some authentic media looks like it was generated by AI; Hans talks about KOSA – the Kids Online Safety Act – and how it is shaped by not one, but two concurrent moral panics. Also: RARE TAPES! 📼

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Intro Links

• https://x.com/MikeIsaac/status/1854202822600106162
• Facebook Took More Than $1 Million For Ads Sowing Election Lies - Forbes
• EU launches action against shopping website Temu over illegal products - Guardian
• Mozilla Foundation lays off 30% staff, drops advocacy division - TechCrunch
• Looks like a random AI slop site based in Illinois, aided by social media, has coaxed hundreds of people on to the main street of Dublin for a Halloween parade that was never happening. – X

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Generated-ish

• https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/1gfij22/comment/luhu6kz/
• How can you tell if text is AI-generated? Researchers have figured out a new method
• Discover the most common AI vocabulary words
• RIP Baudrillard
• https://x.com/TheRidleyJones/status/1848214407211311466
• Kamala Rally photo, and indication it was shot on an iPhone
• warped, surrealist, why’d you generate the background people

Generated-ish Examples

• https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTFdNh7yj/
• https://x.com/Meelsie143/status/1832795190794342539
• https://x.com/Solomosos/status/1848367541665583473
• https://www.reddit.com/r/shitposting/comments/1g9nrs0/comment/ltavo9k/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/sciencememes/comments/1cscpx4/comment/ltai485/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/curlyhair/comments/1ga02b6/comment/ltafsle/
• https://swankyangles.tumblr.com/post/764982891563335680/bruhhh-that-art-hard-as-fuckkkk-just-like-xerox
• https://www.reddit.com/r/WhatBreedIsMyDog/comments/1g8p0hg/comment/lt47obw/
• https://newtlesbian.tumblr.com/post/720800717709901824/this-looks-ai-generated-how-did-his-eyebrows
• https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/1gesj5h/comment/lud6u0l/

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KOSA is a Moral Panic (or Two) 

• Find Avery at https://averydame.net/
•  S.1409 - Kids Online Safety Act - congress.gov
• ‘An Era Of Accountability For Big Tech’: Richard Blumenthal Touts Kids Online Safety Act - YT
• Penny Dreadfuls - mimimatthews.com
• To Catch a Predator: MySpace and Moral Panics – Alice Marwick
• CAUTION: CHILDREN AT PLAY ON INFORMATION HIGHWAY – WP

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