749: Surge Bananas
About this episode
The episode discusses various lawsuits in the tech industry and the implications of AI development.
This week on Grumpy Old Geeks, Brian and Jason once again survey the smoldering wreckage of the tech industry and discover that the people building the future are increasingly being sued by governments, publishers, customers, employees, and occasionally reality itself. California is coming after 23andMe over its catastrophic data breach, Florida is taking a swing at OpenAI, CNN has joined the ever-growing conga line of companies suing Perplexity, and Meta somehow decided the solution to improving AI is recording employees' every mouse click while generously allowing them a whole 30-minute privacy break. Meanwhile, Google's own engineers are sharing memes about how much Google's AI tools suck, Microsoft apparently wants users addicted to its new AI assistant - first taste's free! - and Anthropic is preparing to go public with a valuation that makes even the most irrational dot-com era investor look financially responsible. The AI arms race continues producing exactly the kinds of outcomes you'd expect when venture capitalists start huffing their own press releases. Instagram's AI support bot reportedly helped hackers steal accounts because apparently "Are you sure you're the…
People in this episode
Hosts: Brian, Jason
Topics covered
- tech industry lawsuits
- AI development
- data privacy
- venture capital
- digital resurrection
- copyright issues
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: 23andMe, OpenAI, CNN, Perplexity, Meta, Google, Microsoft, Anthropic, Instagram, Suno
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