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🧵 4. Many worry about AI assistants editing content. As bots evolve, distinguishing real human engagement from automated activity becomes a challenge.

🧵 3. The Dead Internet theory suggests bots and algorithms dominate online content to sway minds. Where do we draw the line between human and bot activity?

🧵 2. Bots generate social media updates, news, and music, influencing money flows based on metrics. Spam comments blocked daily hint at a bot-filled future.

🧵 1. Are bots taking over the internet? Cybersecurity experts found almost half of web traffic is non-human, driven by bots creating and consuming content. #tech

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🧵 5. The massive expansion of AI in data centers poses a significant obstacle as power companies grapple with handling increased demand, affecting the industry in Northern Virginia.

🧵 4. PJM Interconnection seeks a 15-year forecast from Dominion Energy due to rising power demand from data centers, electric vehicles, and 5G, elevating concerns over grid capabilities.

🧵 3. Dominion Energy's challenge in keeping up with the AI data center boom leads to long wait times for electricity grid tie-ins, impacting data center operations and growth.

🧵 2. 'Spy Country' provides home to world's largest data center concentration, implicating delays in hooking up large data centers for energy supply in Virginia's Loudoun County.

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🧵 5. Let's avoid the pitfalls of hyper-targeted advertising in AI development, urge Sanders and Schneier. The lessons from social media must be learned.

🧵 4. Google and Facebook's data collection changed advertising landscape. Users' personal data started to be utilized, affecting business models.

🧵 3. Hyper-targeted ads gave rise to inflated expectations. The myth of ultra-precise advertising led to the decline of social networks.

🧵 2. Businesses relying on generative AI tools could face biased value propositions. Sanders and Schneier warn against repeating mistakes made with social media.

🧵 1. Data centers in Northern Virginia, dubbed 'Spy Country,' face up to a 7-year wait for hookups due to surging demand for power from AI and other tech sectors. #tech

🧵 1. The biggest threat to the future of AI? Advertising, say Nathan Sanders and Bruce Schneier in MIT Tech Review. Hyper-targeted ads may harm generative AI use. #tech

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🧵 5. Starlink mission postponed after Falcon 9's landing failure. SpaceX maintains lead in space launch with continuous advancements and innovation.

🧵 4. SpaceX seeks to launch NASA astronauts in late September using Falcon 9. Company's fleet of reusable boosters has boosted launch frequency and efficiency.