The Download: Bluesky’s impersonators, and shaking up the economy with ChatGPT
—Melissa Heikkilä
Like many others, I recently joined Bluesky. On Thanksgiving, I was delighted to see a private message from a fellow AI reporter, Will Knight from Wired. Or at least that’s who I thought I was talking to. I became suspicious when the person claiming to be Knight said they were from Miami, when Knight is, in fact, from the UK. The account handle was almost identical to the real Will Knight’s handle, and used his profile photo.
Then more messages started to appear. Paris Marx, a prominent tech critic, slid into my DMs to ask me how I was doing. Both accounts were eventually deleted, but not before trying to get me to set up a crypto wallet and a “cloud mining pool” account. Knight and Marx confirmed to us these accounts did not belong to them, and that they have been fighting impersonator accounts of themselves for weeks.
They’re not alone. The platform has had to suddenly cater to an influx of millions of new users in recent months as people leave X in protest of Elon Musk’s takeover of the platform. But this sudden wave of new users —and the inevitable scammers — means Bluesky is still playing catch up. Read the full story.
MIT Technology Review Narrated: ChatGPT is about to revolutionize the economy. We need to decide what that looks like.
You can practically hear the shrieks from corner offices around the world: “What is our ChatGPT play? How do we make money off this?”
Whether it’s based on hallucinatory beliefs or not, an AI gold rush has started to mine the anticipated business opportunities from generative AI models like ChatGPT.
