{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"AI Neanderthal by Malcolm Werchota","title":"#51 - Your Chats Are Ad Data: A German Court Says No, Seoul's Black Thursday and Anthropic Counts Its Agents","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/707fa79b\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":881,"description":"You tell ChatGPT you want to buy your wife a watch – and the next morning the jeweller calls? Advertisers in ChatGPT can now aim ads using email and phone lists, and ads can follow your current chat. In Germany, a court says: chat data for ads only with real consent.\n\nToday is one question: who owns your conversations with AI – and what does it cost when the AI bet wobbles?\n\nIn this episode:\n🌑 Your chats are ad data (01:27) — ChatGPT has about a billion users a month and now shows ads. 404 Media tested the system: advertisers can upload lists of email addresses, phone numbers or the Android advertising ID, which OpenAI matches to real accounts – per Gizmodo, a list needs 25,000 matches. OpenAI's own help text says ads may still be based on your current chat. In Germany, the Cologne Regional Court ruled, in a case brought by consumer group vzbv, that Snap may not use chats with its My AI chatbot for personalised ads without a valid legal basis; pre-ticked boxes aren't enough. Once final, breaches can cost up to €250,000 per violation; Snap can still appeal.\n🌑 Black Thursday in Seoul (04:54) — South Korea's main index, the KOSPI, fell 7.57 percent in one day; Samsung Electronics lost 9.48 percent, SK hynix 11.06 percent. A circuit breaker kicked in at 12:38, the seventh losing day in a row. The Korea Times names three reasons: doubts that AI spending will pay off, a hot US inflation number and US government borrowing costs above 5.3 percent. The KOSPI is now 40.4 percent below its 19 June peak of 9,385 points (on air: \"four percent\" and \"June 2019\" – it's 40.4 percent, from 19 June this year; Malcolm's correction is at the end of the episode). Not financial advice – for information only, not a recommendation to buy or sell any security.\n🌑 Anthropic opens its books on jobs (08:20) — Anthropic published data on its own workforce: since August, AI agents log six times as many hours as humans, engineers make about five times as many code commits as six months earlier,...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/0Up7tcMuVZ4o57Iv4ifZS1RwZ9v586rtihtmL6xMbcU/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9hMjM5/YzFjODNkNmY4NDNk/MDllMDE5NGQ3MjE4/NTM3ZS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}