422: Third-Party Rocket
Podcast |
Rocket
Publisher |
Relay FM
Media Type |
audio
Categories Via RSS |
Technology
Publication Date |
Jan 26, 2023
Episode Duration |
01:14:20
Longtime Twitter users are cast into mourning as Twitter cuts off API access for third-party clients. Many of those apps are beloved by Twitter's power users and built the site that we know and love — love? Is that the right word? — today. Then, furor online over the reveal that CNET has long been using AI to write select financial articles, and that over half those articles had factual errors. How does something like this happen? Finally, two of Rocket's favorite scamsters are making big comebacks.
Longtime Twitter users are cast into mourning as Twitter cuts off API access for third-party clients. Then, furor over the reveal that CNET has long been using AI to write financial articles. Finally, two of ourfavorite scamsters are making comebacks.

Longtime Twitter users are cast into mourning as Twitter cuts off API access for third-party clients. Many of those apps are beloved by Twitter's power users and built the site that we know and love — love? Is that the right word? — today. Then, furor online over the reveal that CNET has long been using AI to write select financial articles, and that over half those articles had factual errors. How does something like this happen? Finally, two of Rocket's favorite scamsters are making big comebacks.

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Rocket | Cotton Bureau
The third-party apps Twitter just killed made the site what it is today - The Verge
CNET found errors in more than half of its AI-written stories - The Verge
Inside CNET’s AI-powered SEO money machine - The Verge
Anna "Delvey" Sorokin to star in new reality show while on house arrest - CBS News
Fyre Festival founder launches new venture 
The Wild World of Mobile Game Ads

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