News Summary

• Advertising will soon be powered by so-called artificial intelligence.
• This is bad for a collection of reasons you’ll immediately guess.
• Automated generation of text, images, and videos from a massive database of mostly stolen human-created content frequently spews out results that are nonsensical, racist, or false.
• Mass-producing sensory visual triggers to get people to buy more stuff will be bad both for people and the planet.
• There’s deep historical precedent for developments like this benefiting fossil fuels.