The Download: Bluesky’s impersonators, and shaking up the economy with ChatGPT

—Melissa Heikkila

Like many others, I recently joined Bluesky. On Thanksgiving Day, I was delighted to see a personal message from Wired magazine’s artificial intelligence reporter Will Knight. Or at least I thought I was talking to that person. I became suspicious when someone calling themselves Knight said they were from Miami, but Knight was actually from England. The account’s username is nearly identical to the real Will Knight’s and uses his profile photo.

Then more news started to appear. Paris Marx, the famous tech critic, barged into my DMs to ask how I was doing. Both accounts were eventually deleted, but not before they tried to get me to set up a crypto wallet and a “cloud mining pool” account. Knight and Marx confirmed to us that the accounts do not belong to them and that they have been battling accounts impersonating them for weeks.

They are not alone. The platform has had to suddenly cater to an influx of millions of new users in recent months as people left X in protest of Elon Musk’s takeover of the platform. But a sudden wave of new users and the inevitable scammers mean Bluesky is still playing catch-up. Read the full story.

MIT Technology Review tells the story: ChatGPT is about to revolutionize the economy. We need to decide what that looks like.

You can almost hear the screams coming from corner offices around the world: “What are we doing with ChatGPT? How do we make money on this?”

Whether based on hallucinatory beliefs or not, the AI ​​gold rush has begun to mine anticipated business opportunities from generative AI models such as ChatGPT.