Tag: Grifters

Modern Grifters and The Golden Age of Fraud

We’ve all been watching the absurd antics of Hollywood’s newest self-reflective obsession, the Modern Grifter series like The Dropout, WeCrashed, Inventing Anna, and a host of other shows hold up a mirror to America’s worst capitalist excesses. While there certainly is a bit of mor...

Artificially intelligent: chatbots, grifters, and the new, new ignorance

Eyisha Zyer is a self-styled “AI Insider” — an influencer in the artificial intelligence space who has made a name for herself and built an audience of over 50,000 followers by sharing breathless Twitter threads rounding up AI tools, startups, products, and “hacks”; the...