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23andMe
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The corporate that pioneered direct-to-consumer gene testing is sinking quick. Its inventory worth goes towards zero, and a plan to create invaluable medicine is kaput after that staff acquired pink slips this November.
23andMe at all times had a star aura, bathing in good press. Now, although, the press is all unhealthy. It’s a troubled firm within the grip of a controlling founder, Anne Wojcicki, after its impartial administrators resigned en masse this September. Clients are beginning to fear about what’s going to occur to their DNA information if 23andMe goes below.
23andMe says it created “the world’s largest crowdsourced platform for genetic analysis.” That’s true. It simply by no means found out easy methods to flip a revenue.
Extra: 23andMe’s fall from $6 billion to almost $0 (Wall Road Journal), Find out how to…delete your 23andMe information (MIT Know-how Assessment), 23andMe Monetary Report, November 2024 (23andMe)
AI slop
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Slop is the scraps and leftovers that pigs eat. “AI slop” is what you and I are more and more consuming on-line now that persons are flooding the web with computer-generated textual content and footage.
AI slop is “doubtful,” says the New York Occasions, and “dadaist,” in keeping with Wired. It’s continuously bizarre, like Shrimp Jesus (don’t ask in the event you don’t know), or misleading, like the image of a shivering lady in a rowboat, supposedly displaying the US authorities’s poor response to Hurricane Helene.
AI slop is usually entertaining. AI slop is normally a waste of your time. AI slop just isn’t fact-checked. AI slop exists largely to get clicks. AI slop is that blue-check account on X posting 10-part threads on how nice AI is—threads that had been written by AI.