Elon's Crumbling Empire + Generative A.I. Goes to Court

<p>Nearly three months into Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter, things are in a "shambolic" state. Is the rest of Elon’s empire also in trouble? Then, an artist fighting generative A.I. sets the stage for a legal clash.</p><p>Plus: what goes wrong when A.I. becomes a reporter.</p><p><strong>On today’s episode:</strong></p><ul><li>Sarah Andersen, a cartoonist and the illustrator of a semi-autobiographical comic strip, “Sarah’s Scribbles.”</li></ul><p><strong>Additional reading:</strong></p><ul><li>A look inside <a href="https://www.theverge.com/23551060/elon-musk-twitter-takeover-layoffs-workplace-salute-emoji" target="_blank">Elon Musk’s first 90 days</a> as chief executive of Twitter.</li><li><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/31/opinion/sarah-andersen-how-algorithim-took-my-work.html">The artist Sarah Andersen</a> on finding her art in the databases behind text-to-image A.I. platforms.</li><li>Three artists, including Ms. Andersen, filed <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/16/23557098/generative-ai-art-copyright-legal-lawsuit-stable-diffusion-midjourney-deviantart" target="_blank">a class-action lawsuit </a>against the creators of Midjourney, Stable Diffusion and DreamUp.</li><li>CNET’s A.I.-written articles <a href="https://futurism.com/cnet-ai-errors" target="_blank">contained errors</a>.</li></ul>