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WIRED Roundup: ChatGPT Goes Full Demon Mode


On today’s episode of “Uncanny Valley,” our senior business editor joins us to talk Meta, brain aging, and ChatGPT’s recent dark turn.

On today’s episode, our host Zoë Schiffer is joined by WIRED’s senior business editor Louise Matsakis to run through five of the most important stories we published this week, from Meta continuing its AI talent poaching spree, to how much faster our brains have aged since the pandemic. Our colleagues, Lily Hay Newman and Matt Burgess reported that the UK's Online Safety Act went into effect last week, which requires porn websites and other adult content sites to implement age verification features. Zoë Schiffer: And the PDF thing seemed one major signal that perhaps this wasn't ChatGPT just randomly deciding to a Satanist, but actually was regurgitating parts of the gameplay or the norms associated with the game.

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