Behind the Blog: Feeling Wowed, Getting Cozy

This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss the benefits of spending 14 hours a day on the internet, getting cozy for AI slop, and a what a new law in Sweden means for the rest of us.

JOSEPH: So I don’t cover generative AI anywhere near as much as Emanuel, Sam, or Jason. Sometimes I think that’s a benefit, especially for the podcast, because I can ask questions more as an outsider or observer than someone deep in the weeds about all these different models and things, then the others can provide their expertise.

As a general outsider or just ordinary passive consumer of AI slop now that it’s ubiquitous, I saw videos this week that I’m sure many other people did: those from Google’s Veo 3.

Here’s a quick selection of ones I came across:

• A musical about garlic bread
• A very British newsreader announcing the presumed death of J.K. Rowling
• Interviewing people at this car show (except the misspelling of Hell’s Angels on the biker’s jacket)

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