Lizzie O'Leary joins to break down the story of the disturbing deepfakes being created by X’s AI chatbot.
Trump says Venezuela strike was about oil, Grok has become a tool for disturbing deepfakes, and Trump is freezing $10 billion in child care in 5 blue states.Listen on your computer:What Next: TBD , discuss Trump’s rationale for the attack and the complex economics around Venezuela n oil that come with it.
Then, Lizzie breaks down the unsettling trend of AI-generated nudes of real people, including many children, being created by X’s chatbot Grok and Elon Musk’s lackadaisical response to it. Finally, Emily fills us in on Trumps’s $10 billion funding freeze for childcare and social services in five blue states and how the fear of “waste, fraud, and abuse” is weaponized politically.Want to hear that discussion and hear more Slate Money? Join Slate Plus to unlock weekly bonus episodes. Plus, you’ll access ad-free listening across all your favorite Slate podcasts. You can subscribe directly from the Slate Money show page onA weekly roundup of the most important stories from the worlds of business and finance, hosted by Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Elizabeth Spiers.is the host of What Next: TBD, Slate’s show about technology, power, and the future. Previously, she created and hosted. She has reported for CNN, Bloomberg News, and the New York Times Magazine, among others. She is also a contributing writer at the Atlantic.is Slate’s Pay Dirt columnist. She was the founding editor of Gawker and the former editor in chief of the New York Observer. Prior to Gawker, she was a financial analyst.
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