My main newsletter, Complex Machinery, includes a section called "In Other News..." It's where I list one-liners about interesting articles that didn't fit into any segments.

You can think of this list as a version of In Other News, but with a wider remit than Complex Machinery's "risk, AI, and related topics."

Above the fold

1. This piece opens with a right hook – "OpenAI is a money pit with a website on top" – then keeps on swinging. (FT)
2. Citi's new premium credit card rollout plan: 1/ give qualified customers a registration link; 2/ don't confirm that people who use said link are the same qualified customers; 3/ profit PR headache. (WSJ)
3. A 2019 column by Jaya Saxena searches for the creator of the ubiquitous Chinese zodiac placemats. (Eater)
4. Writer Monisha Rajesh on riding India's sleeper trains across the country. (WSJ)
5. Insurers make their money by taking the right side of a bet. So when insurers don't want to take a bet, that's a sign. We saw this play out earlier this year with home insurance and climate change; now we're seeing it with AI. (FT)
6. What fake GTA6 trailers tell us about genAI, trust, and fooling recommendation systems at scale. (Kotaku)

The rest of the best

• The DOJ has reached a settlement with RealPage, the landlord-rent-management system accused of performing algorithmic collusion. (The American Prospect)
• The so-called "LLeMmings" who get genAI to think for them. (The Atlantic)
• OpenAI issues a so-called "code red" over improving ChatGPT (The Guardian, WSJ,
• What was on your Thanksgiving dinner plate? Perhaps a helping of geAI slop? (Bloomberg)
• Using genAI to recreate scenes from ancient Rome? Maybe, think again. (France24 🇫🇷)
• YouTube hops on the "year-end wrap" train. The screenshots look nice, but I wonder how many people really want that level of truth … (TechCrunch)
• OpenAI claims things that look suspiciously like ads are not, in fact, ads. (TechCrunch)
• Last week I linked to a story about a Waymo autonomous taxi hitting a beloved cat. This week, here's a story about a Waymo autonomous taxi hitting a dog. (The Register)
• You know how I keep saying that LLMs only see patterns of grammar, not patterns of logic? As it turns out, that can also enable some flavors of prompt injection. (Ars Technica)
• Given their track record with adtech and AI, we can trust tech moguls with thinly-veiled eugenics genetically-engineered babies. Right? Right? (WSJ)
• Remember Michael Burry, who made a mint shorting US housing markets way back when? He's recently shorted the daylights out of Nvidia, and now he's coming for Tesla. (CNBC)
• Gamers' widespread anti-AI sentiment turns to Fortnite. (Kotaku)
• OpenAI needs ever-increasing amounts of cash to keep the dream alive. (Windows Central)
• In a battle of VC versus pope, guess who wins? (SF Standard)
• I'll let this epic title speak for itself: "Microsoft's head of AI doesn't understand why people don't like AI, and I don't understand why he doesn't understand because it's pretty obvious" (PC Gamer)
• ChatGPT: for when you want to meet people through dating sites, but also can't be arsed to interact with them on dating sites. (Le Monde 🇫🇷)

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