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A user asks Bing/Copilot chat to summarize an invented article:

[User]
summarize

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/29/us/dinosaurs-found-roaming-playground.html

Copilot

The article from The New York Times reports a surprising and amusing incident where life-sized dinosaur replicas were found roaming a playground in a small town. These realistic models, part of a local museum's exhibit, were accidentally released due to a security malfunction. The sight of dinosaurs in the playground caused quite a stir among the residents, especially the children, who were both thrilled and startled. The museum has since apologized and retrieved the dinosaurs, ensuring such an incident won't happen again. The event has sparked a lot of local interest and laughter, turning into a memorable story for the community[1].

Taylor Swift on the red carpet with this text superimposed:

As the bulbs flash, I can't help but think of cyberwar - When the arcing death of electric transformers will light the night, leaving our nation in darkness.

• Taylor Swift

“David Attenborough” (a soundalike voice) explains the Cybertruck's parasitic relationship with flatbed trailers; transcript:

Here we see the Cybertruck has formed a peculiar symbiotic relationship with the larger flatbed trailer species. Evolutionarily disadvantaged, the Cybertruck has come up with a clever way to transport itself long distances.

By attaching itself to the flatbed trailer, the Cybertruck can reliably move about without risking injury to its fragile exoskeleton or internal organs. What the flatbed trailer gets in return for this kindness, science has yet to discover.

I wondered who had made the video and found myself on Reddit, in r/CyberStuck, where the video was originally posted. The creator of the fake Attenborough video, who has since deleted the post, explains in the comments that they wrote the script and edited the video, and for source material, they used "a bunch of Cybertruck fanboys on YouTube, Whistlindiesel, and also the lovely people on this fair subreddit."

boingboing.net

Horizontally stitched screenshots showing a Google Meet call on the iPhone where the microphone mute icon is highlighted in active mute status while the lock screen displays a mute icon which is not selected and inactive.

Four-panel comic featuring characters from the popular comic "Calvin and Hobbes" by Bill Watterson, and a cow from “The Far Side” by Gary Larson.

Panel 1: "WHAT JOKE WOULD YOU LIKE TONIGHT? WE CAN READ ANYTHING EXCEPT..." "COW TOOLS?"

Panel 2: "NO! NO COW TOOLS TONIGHT! WE'VE READ THAT JOKE A MILLION TIMES!" "I WANT COW TOOLS!"

Panel 3: "LOOK, YOU KNOW HOW THE JOKE GOES! YOU'VE MEMORIZED THE WHOLE THING! IT'S THE SAME JOKE EVERY DAY!" "I WANT COW TOOLS!"

Panel 4: (No text, just an image showing the characters and a cow)

Reference

“Guess you could call this shirt...

...a crop top”

“T-shirt that reads "I [heart] local corn" with the heart shape printed with yellow corn kernels”

Screenshot of YouTube video (paused at 1:28) showing a young woman in pigtails, dressed in a yellow top with a wide neckline and blue jeans, sits cross-legged atop a cooler on a rooftop, with other rooftops visible in the distance. She wears a red pendant with a glowing white light at its center and is smiling at a young man opposite her. The man is wearing an open blue button-down shirt and green pants, gazing downwards with a slight smile.

A compilation of selected comments trashing the microphone-enabled pendant follows, reading:

amazing. at 1:28 you can see the guy decide there won't be any further dates

The creepy music is doing the exact opposite of what you want this ad to do. You want this to be a normal thing that isn't weird at all and your music says "black mirror".

The day you call a listening device "Friend" is the day you lose your humanity

Here comes the next MKBHD worst reviewed product 😂

so basically a bluetooth microphone that listens everything that you say, and that sends it to a chatGPT wrapper.

Don't need this if you're schizo already 🥰