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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