Reflections on the clickbait era — and the way worse one that’s coming next:

Last week, an AI-generated image of an explosion near the Pentagon went viral on social media, briefly spooking the stock market. According the Bloomberg, the S&P 500 dipped by 0.3% in the minutes before the image was debunked, making the incident “possibly the first instance of an AI-generated image moving the market.”

What went unmentioned was that creating such an image has been trivial for decades. The AI technology that really made stocks flutter was the social media algorithms that showed the image to so many, so fast.

9:40pm on May 29, 2023 •
Eh I don’t get this

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8:53am on April 26, 2018 •
nailed it

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2:17pm on January 29, 2017 •
So who decides if news is fake?

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2:23pm on November 29, 2016 •
It’s a great idea

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1:27pm on July 28, 2016 •
Sounds fishy

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12:37pm on July 21, 2016 •
13 hours?

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2:01pm on July 18, 2016 •
What a joke

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9:30am on July 17, 2016 •
no way doctors could make eyes that big

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9:30am on July 16, 2016 •
absolutely ridiculous

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9:30am on July 15, 2016 •
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