[PODCAST] Egg Horror A.I. Recipe Videos! Cyberpunk Scam Miami! Bitcoin Freak-Enforced Mandatory 4 Non-Blondes Singalong!

05/10/24 • 22 min

Greetings from Read Max HQ! In today’s episode of the Read Max Podcast--an experimental audio product in which I read the text of the newsletter for busy and/or illiterate subscribers--we’ll be covering the following:

What the f**k is up with this weird f*****g recipe video? And what can it tell us about the effect of A.I. on social media?

Miami watch: Zoomer con-man package-return scam edition

Celebrating the insane Bitcoin guy who spoke at OSU commencement and made everyone there sing 4 Non Blondes

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What the f**k is up with this weird f*****g recipe video? And what can it tell us about the effect of A.I. on social media?

Miami watch: Zoomer con-man package-return scam edition

Celebrating the insane Bitcoin guy who spoke at OSU commencement and made everyone there sing 4 Non Blondes

Get full access to Read Max at maxread.substack.com/subscribe

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What is A.I.-generated audio good for?

Greetings from Read Max HQ, and please, enjoy this, the second episode of the Read Max Experimental Audio Product--a “podcast”-style reading of this week’s newsletter. In addition to the embed above, the podcast can be found on Apple Podcasts here, as well as many other popular podcast platforms. It can also technically be found on Spotify but I recommend you do not find it there. On the podcast, as well as in this newsletter, I am discussing two items drawn from this week’s newsletter:

A.I.-generated audio: What is it good for? What is it even good at? And in what ways will it make all of our lives worse?

Marques Brownlee, the last great gadget blogger

The Read Max podcast is free for all readers/listeners. If you enjoy it, or if you enjoy any of the various the Read Max non-audio products, please considering subscribing and helping to fund this unique blend of independent journalism, mediocre jokes, middling ideas, and amateurish execution.

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Next Episode

[PODCAST] OpenAI's new talking computer and Google's terrible search

Greetings from Read Max HQ! In today’s Read Max Experimental Audio Product, I’ll be reading from this week’s newsletter on two items:

A critical exploration of this week’s announcements from OpenAI and Google, and why I think the new Google search stuff sucks.

Looking at The New Yorker’s Lucy Letby story as a story about media in the U.S. and the U.K.

If you enjoy the Read Max Experimental Audio Product, please consider subscribing to Read Max, a broadly beloved twice-weekly newsletter guide to the future. Read Max’s independent reporting and criticism is funded almost entirely by paying subscribers, whose generosity is matched only by their mental illness.

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