—Melissa Heikkila
Like many others, I recently joined Bluesky. On Thanksgiving Day, I was happy to see a private message from fellow Wired AI reporter Will Knight. At least that’s who I thought I was talking to. I was skeptical when I heard someone calling himself Knight say he was from Miami, but he was actually from England. The account’s handle is almost identical to the real Will Knight’s handle, and his profile picture was used.
Then more messages started appearing. Renowned technology critic Paris Marx slid into my DMs and asked how I was doing. Both accounts were eventually deleted, but before that I was prompted to set up a cryptocurrency wallet and a “cloud mining pool” account. Mr. Knight and Mr. Marx confirmed to us that these accounts are not theirs and that they have been battling accounts impersonating them for several weeks.
they are not alone. The platform has suddenly had to deal with an influx of millions of new users in recent months as people left X in protest of Elon Musk’s takeover of the platform. But this sudden wave of new users, and the inevitable rise in scammers, means Bluesky is still playing catch-up. Please read the full text.
MIT Technology Review Narration: ChatGPT is about to revolutionize the economy. You need to decide what that looks like.
You can almost hear the following screech coming from offices in every corner of the world: How do I make money with this? ”
Whether it’s based on illusions or not, an AI gold rush is beginning to mine the business opportunities expected from generative AI models like ChatGPT.
