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In todays scoop 🍨 

• 📰 Breaking News: AI Anchors Get Fired

• 📚 Gen Z Found a Study Hack and Professors Hate It

• 🤔 Upload Your MRIs... What Could Go Wrong?

• 🔧 3 Trending AI Tools

Breaking News: AI Anchors Get Fired

In what might be the first case of AI layoffs in journalism, virtual news anchors James and Rose have been given the digital pink slip after just two months on air at Hawaii's The Garden Island newspaper. Turns Out, Being "Robotic" is Bad for Ratings 📉

The dynamic AI duo – featuring James (a middle-aged Asian man with a peculiar hand tremor) and Rose (a redhead who apparently never got the memo about pronunciation) – made history as America's first AI news broadcasting team. But it turns out, being historically first doesn't guarantee success.

Their broadcasting style? Imagine Siri and Alexa had a baby with a teleprompter.

The AI anchors managed to unite their audience in a rare moment of bipartisan agreement – everyone thought they were creepy. Comments ranged from "This is scary" to "That dystopia is here." (Nothing like a little existential dread with your morning news!)

Adding insult to injury, the program's supposed sponsor, Longs Drugs, hadn't even agreed to sponsor the broadcasts. Oops! 😬

While James did eventually learn to blink (a major career milestone), and his signature hand tremor was downgraded to "just one emphatic gesture," these improvements came too little, too late.

As they join the ranks of unemployed journalists, we can only hope they've updated their LinkedIn profiles to include "experienced in bringing unintentional terror to local news viewers" and "proficient in mispronouncing Hawaiian names."

📚 Gen Z Found a Study Hack & Professors Hate It

Ever wondered what happens when you mix Minecraft parkour, ASMR soap-cutting, and your college textbooks? 📚

Welcome to "PDF to Brainrot" - TikTok's bizarrely popular study trend that's spawning an entire ecosystem of AI tools.

Students are uploading their PDFs to apps like StudyRot and Coconote, which convert boring textbook content into AI-narrated voiceovers played over hypnotic gameplay footage. Because apparently, watching someone endlessly run through Subway Surfers while learning about mitochondria is peak Gen Z studying.

Some of these AI tools even translate your study materials into "Gen Z speak." Want to learn about Homer's Odyssey narrated by "Sam Sigma" or "Gabi Gyatt"? (Yes, those are actual voice options.) Just don't blame us when your literature professor questions why Odysseus is described as “the OG girlboss slayer”.

Fair warning: The marketing behind these tools is about as authentic as those 'real singles in your area' ads. Suddenly, TikTok is flooded with suspiciously enthusiastic 'students' whose entire personality is recommending these study apps. 

Is this actually helping students learn, or is it just another case of AI companies capitalizing on TikTok trends? While some students swear by the multi-tasking approach (like listening to news podcasts while walking), others might find their brain actually rotting trying to absorb ancient history while watching Minecraft parkour. 💭

Upload Your MRIs... What Could Go Wrong? 🤔

Elon Musk is asking X users to share their medical scans with his AI chatbot, Grok. Because apparently, teaching AI to play doctor through social media uploads is totally the future of healthcare, right? 👩‍⚕️ 

Spoiler alert: It's not going great.

While Grok has had some wins (like spotting breast cancer in test results), it's also had some spectacular fails.

In one case, it confused a textbook tuberculosis case for a herniated disk. In another comedy of errors, it mistook a mammogram showing a benign breast cyst for... wait for it... testicles. Not exactly the kind of mix-up you want in your medical diagnosis.

In general the medical community is warning people not to upload their medical history or scans to AI chatbots. Your private medical data isn't as private as you might think once it hits these AI platforms.

Unlike your doctor's office, which has to follow strict privacy rules, these AI chatbots are basically the Wild West of data protection. That CT scan you upload today could end up who-knows-where tomorrow, potentially complete with your personal info that's "burned in" to the image.

While teaching AI to read medical scans isn't a bad idea in theory, maybe – just maybe – uploading your private medical records to the same platform where people share wild conspiracy theories isn't the most foolproof healthcare strategy.

Remember folks: What goes on the internet stays on the internet... forever. And that includes your X-rays. 🏥

🔧3 Trending AI Tools

• Mixo - Create a landing page for a business ideas in a few simple prompts.

• ReadPo - AI powered reading and writing assistant for creators

• Postiz - Social media scheduling tool

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