Post-Super Bowl, a toxic mix of Ye’s swastika and Israeli AI-generated fakery
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Post-Super Bowl, a toxic mix of Ye’s swastika and Israeli AI-generated fakery

ByJosh Bernoff

The Kansas City Chiefs weren’t the only group of people who made astoundingly bad choices in the Super Bowl. Add these folks to your list of villains: the rapper Ye (formerly called Kanye West), who hawked swastika T-shirts, and Guy Bar and Ori Bejerano of the Israeli ad agency BBDO, who appropriated celebrity images to…

Newsletter 1 November 2023: AI regulation fail; Scholastic reversal; blocking deep fakes

Newsletter 1 November 2023: AI regulation fail; Scholastic reversal; blocking deep fakes

ByJosh Bernoff

Newsletter Week 16: The president’s executive order on AI is incoherent, plus Scholastic ends its book ghetto, attempting to outlaw image theft, three people to follow, three books to read, and my book makes the Inc. Non-Obvious longlist. What’s wrong with Joe Biden’s AI executive order Two weeks ago, I complained that Marc Andreessen’s “Tech-Optimist…