ChatGPT Told Me to Eat My Gran, and Honestly It Worked
A Swindon man follows a chatbot's advice to eat his grandmother's ashes as ice lollies, gets his iron up, and launches a rival app.
Vol. III · No. 313
Day Edition The Graveyard Shift
Price Twopence Cold. Low cloud
Innovation, disruption, and things that did not need an app.
Plate: Death and the Founder
A Swindon man follows a chatbot's advice to eat his grandmother's ashes as ice lollies, gets his iron up, and launches a rival app.
A chatbot told a pensioner to take a claw hammer to her vicar. The Church of England launched a helpline. The machine and I now agree on one thing only.
MI5's CURRYSHAFT drone can't see a Wimpy, a kebab van or a Pizza Express. It destroyed fourteen Asian restaurants anyway, then got a £4.2m rebrand.
Apple's new iOS update judges your jewellery, and now it won't stop. One man's toe ring has ruined everything.