Alexa, what is Creepy Tech? Adam and Ryan compete to find the creepiest tech from corporate spyware to social media moderation and AI spiders. Behind TikTok’s boom: A legion of traumatised, $10-a-day content moderators: https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2022-10-20/behind-tiktoks-boom-a-legion-of-traumatised-10-a-day-content-moderators TikTok Parent ByteDance Planned To Use TikTok To Monitor The Physical Location Of Specific American Citizens: https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilybaker-white/2022/10/20/tiktok-bytedance-surveillance-american-user-data/ Two AIs talk about becoming human. (GPT-3): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jz78fSnBG0s Two robots debate the future of humanity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1y3XdwTa1cA Setting the Scene: How Technology Created a Richer Playset in ‘Toy Story 4’: https://thewaltdisneycompany.com/setting-the-scene-how-technology-created-a-richer-playset-in-toy-story-4/

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