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Debt Ceiling Drama, TwitterTV, Bill Gates Blackmail

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Debt Ceiling Drama, TwitterTV, Bill Gates Blackmail

Twitter News Digest for the week of 5/17-5/23

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This week’s news digest covers an AI-generated market crash, the debt ceiling, why Ron DeSantis is announcing his candidacy on Twitter, and a crazy attempt to blackmail Bill Gates. Don’t miss the memes at the end!

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AI Crash, Debt Ceiling Drama

Monday morning, an AI-generated image of an explosion at the Pentagon caused markets to tumble, briefly wiping out $500B in the S&P’s market cap.

The photo was tweeted by a bogus account called “Bloomberg Feed.”

The incident will probably increase public awareness about the power of AI. Last week, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told Congress he supported AI regulation: “we think that regulatory intervention by governments will be critical to mitigate the risks of increasingly powerful models.”

Afterwards, Twitter began labeling images with a “manipulated media” tag if they’re “likely to result in widespread confusion on public issues.”

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