AI girlfriend ads flood social media

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🗞️ The Latest: AI girlfriend ads are flooding social media

🤖 AI Tool of the Day: Keyframes Studio — All-in-one video platform for social media

📸 Business Insight: 65% of Las Vegas jobs could be automated by 2035

🚨 AI Roundup: Four quick hits

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🗞️ The Latest: AI girlfriend ads are flooding social media

Apps promising AI-generated sexual images and companionship are running hundreds of ads on social media. This new kind of sexualized content is breaking through the moderation systems of leading social platforms.

Key points:

• Dozens of tech startups have been running explicit advertisements on TikTok, Instagram and Facebook in recent months.

• The ads promise “NSFW pics” and chats with “no censoring.” Some feature popular children’s TV characters or digitally created girls who appear to be teenagers or younger.

• 35 app developers are running sexually explicit ads on Meta-owned apps. The developers are running more than 1,000 ads in total.

• 14 app developers are running hundreds of AI ads on TikTok.

My thoughts: I’ve written about AI dating apps and AI-generated influencers before, but this new wave of ads is easily the most unsettling development in AI to date. Many of these ads seem to be targeting children, and Meta and TikTok have done very little to address them.

These are the same platforms that ban human sex workers and even educators who speak bluntly about sexual health and safety. Moderation needs to catch up to AI-generated content before it's too late.

Click here to learn more and to see examples of the ads.

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📸 Business Insight: 65% of Las Vegas jobs could be automated by 2035

Las Vegas is a perfect case study of the long-term effects of AI on jobs. Studies show that 38% to 65% of jobs in Nevada’s most populated city could be automated by 2035.

Key points:

• Companies are turning to artificial intelligence to reduce labor costs in an economy which relies on tourism and hospitality.

• Check-in kiosks have replaced front desk employees at hotels, text-bots can make restaurant recommendations instead of a concierge, and robots are even serving food and pouring drinks behind the bar.

• Unions in Las Vegas are monitoring the changes, with some ready to strike over AI.

• The Culinary Union, the largest union in Nevada which represents 60,000 service and hospitality workers, hopes to negotiate a new contract that includes protections against AI replacing jobs.

My thoughts: This is eerily similar to the early stages of the Hollywood strike. Whenever the resort industry can replace workers with AI without it affecting productivity, profits or the customer experience, it likely will. It’ll be interesting to see how this situation plays out in Las Vegas and what it means for service and hospitality workers around the world.

🚨 AI Roundup: Four quick hits

• Hollywood Drama: SAG-AFTRA (Actors Guild) prepares for a possible gaming industry strike. Members will vote on whether or not to authorize a strike ahead of the union’s upcoming bargaining dates with signatory video game companies.

• AI in the Classroom: OpenAI releases guidelines for teachers on using ChatGPT in the classroom.

• Warning Shots? China’s recently-approved Ernie chatbot says a Chinese military takeover of Taiwan is likely.

• More From Hollywood: “Avatar” director James Cameron is more scared than excited about the use of AI in the film industry.

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Jack

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