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Gotcha! is a four-part series on scams, how they work, and how technology is supercharging them — running through to October 10.

In the series we look at:

  1. Crypto: Mark Hays on how a thing touting financial freedom ended up being a kind of fin-cult, rife with scamming
  2. Multi-Level Marketing : Bridget Read on the history of the biggest and most successful type of scam that still plagues us today
  3. Generative AI: Data & Society’s primer on how generative AI is juicing the scam industrial complex
  4. Enshittification: Cory Doctorow on his upcoming book, and how the process of Enchittification represents user-hostile practices that scam people into paying more, and ecosystem lock-in
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Manage episode 507118020 series 3612557
Content provided by Alix Dunn. All podcast content including episodes, graphics, and podcast descriptions are uploaded and provided directly by Alix Dunn or their podcast platform partner. If you believe someone is using your copyrighted work without your permission, you can follow the process outlined here https://podcastplayer.com/legal.

Gotcha! is a four-part series on scams, how they work, and how technology is supercharging them — running through to October 10.

In the series we look at:

  1. Crypto: Mark Hays on how a thing touting financial freedom ended up being a kind of fin-cult, rife with scamming
  2. Multi-Level Marketing : Bridget Read on the history of the biggest and most successful type of scam that still plagues us today
  3. Generative AI: Data & Society’s primer on how generative AI is juicing the scam industrial complex
  4. Enshittification: Cory Doctorow on his upcoming book, and how the process of Enchittification represents user-hostile practices that scam people into paying more, and ecosystem lock-in
  continue reading

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