🔗Links etc. 02/13/23

Let's talk about advertising and big football games: Context Collapse #199

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Here’s what’s on my radar. As always, don’t forget to share today’s links with someone who would appreciate them:

Now on to the links.

The Wall Street Journal’s 2023 Super Bowl ad super explainer (Megan Graham & Patrick Coffee / WSJ)

It’s Nice That reviews the 2023 Super Bowl ads (Liz Gorny / It’s Nice That)

How Rihanna worked her pregnancy reveal into the Super Bowl halftime show (Neil Shah / WSJ)

Inside Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez’s Dunkin Donuts ad (C Mandler / CBS News)

M&M’s spokescandies return, doing the rare culture war reverse Mr Peanut (Megan Graham / WSJ)

Bizarre Tubi Super Bowl ad freaks out a terrified nation (Alex Zalben / Decider)

Marne Levine, Meta’s chief business officer, to step down (Salvador Rodriguez / WSJ)

“Ex-Twitter exec details ‘homophobic and antisemitic’ abuse over handling of Hunter Biden story” (Kari Paul / The Guardian)

“An ad for Wendy’s appeared next to a tweet by Stew Peters, an anti-vaccine influencer with 168,000 followers, where he referred to the vaccine as a “BioWeapon” and claimed people have been “murdered” by it.” (Taylor Lorenz / Washington Post)

AI-written Men’s Journal health article published with multiple factual mistakes (Jon Christian / Futurism)

Should companies prohibit freelance writers from using ChatGPT for non-writing tasks? (Jennifer Gregory)

We asked OnlyFans creators what they’re thinking about AI-generated porn (River Page & Brandon Gorrell / Pirate Wires)

What marketers need to know about ChatGPT, Google’s Bard and Microsoft’s Bing chatbot (Caroline Forsey / Hubspot)

The Information on Reddit’s quiet advertising success strategy (Isabelle Sarraf / The Information)

“Spotify was a one-company podcast bubble. Its drastic cuts have triggered a podcast winter, as the small studios it helped support consolidate and lavish narrative productions wane. But rivals from tech giants Amazon and Apple to the radio company iHeart have found better returns on more cautious bets. Spotify’s pivot has more in common with the recent cuts to Hollywood’s spending on streaming television. The company declined to comment on the record.” (Max Tani / Semafor)

News Corp laying off 1250 additional employees by end of 2023 (Lillian Rizzo / CNBC)

“ByteDance CEO Liang Rubo and other members of the company’s leadership gave the Internal Audit team wide latitude to investigate employees using almost any means necessary, former TikTok staffers said. It used that power to repeatedly interrogate workers suspected of misconduct and search through extensive company records, such as email accounts, with seemingly little oversight.” (Louise Matsakis / Semafor)

Bing AI still in beta mode, seemingly (@vladquant / Twiter)

Vlad @vladquant

Bing subreddit has quite a few examples of new Bing chat going out of control. Open ended chat in search might prove to be a bad idea at this time! Captured here as a reminder that there was a time when a major search engine showed this in its results.

Marques Brownlee on how Apple is centralizing the iPhone supply chain. (YouTube)

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