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Podcast: The Update with Brandon Julien
Episode: The Update- October 1st
Description: AI-nāt too proud to beg? As artificial intelligence achieves uncanny levels of human likeness, entrepreneurs are already capitalizing on the ease of generating a hot chatbot bod in a creepy cash grab from horny internet users. In a new study published in the journal Cognition and Emotion, a team of scientists from Italy and Finland wanted to observe how we react to AI images designed to sexually arouse ā hypothesizing that humans would be less turned on when they believe an image was an avatar. In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Tuesday, a strike by dockworkers at 36 ports from Main...