T -7ish minutes until the Intuitive Machines-1 Launch to the Moon 👀
FTC dropping it like it's hot
"AI (and other) Companies: Quietly Changing Your Terms of Service Could Be Unfair or Deceptive
"It may be unfair or deceptive for a company to adopt more permissive data practices—for example, to start sharing consumers’ data with third parties or using that data for AI training—and to only inform consumers of this change through a surreptitious, retroactive amendment to its terms of service or privacy policy."
They begin to tug at the corners of their faces -- right where the hairline meets, just north of their "ears".
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The camera cuts wide, briefly catching the sideline reporter looking on in horror.
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The image goes black and a solitary, overwhelming scream emerges from the abyss that now occupies living rooms around the country.
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Then it began.
Taylor Swift is just for b-roll #nfl
"Run the macro."
The TV screen begins to flicker and pause, as if it can't decide what format is playing.
Duplicate faces appear over the announces faces when the image resumes, stabilizing after a second.
The camera cuts to the field.
Travis and Taylor have met a sideline reporter for an interview.
"What an amazing game! Tell us what your favorite moment was, Travis."
Beaming into Taylor's eyes he asks: "Now?"
"Now." She replies,
Somewhere in the northern Virginia suburbs, two men sitting alone in an office on Super Bowl Sunday look up from their laptops.
"We did it."
"Yeah."
"I can't believe it worked."
"This time last year she had no idea who he was. I can't believe we pulled it off."
The men glance down at their laptops as an alarm goes off.
"Yeah. It's time though."
"Do we have to? They look so happy."
"We have to finish the mission."
"Maybe the folks online are right, maybe this isn't a good idea."
A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production.
Too weird to live, and too rare to die.