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Webworm with David Farrier by David Farrier

Oct 1, 202412:13News & Politics

My friend loaded about a year’s worth of our text history into Google’s AI ( privacy, what privacy? ) — and instructed the AI to create a podcast about me based on those texts. That’s what today’s podcast is — just a cou...

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