The Inside Story of Tea

47m
We start this week with Emanuel’s big investigation into the Tea app, and especially how it aggressively grew by raiding women safety groups. After the break, we talk about TikTok Shop selling GPS trackers. In the subscribers-only section, Joseph explains how Grok was exposing some of its AI persona prompts, and the sometimes NSFW nature of them.

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How Tea’s Founder Convinced Millions of Women to Spill Their Secrets, Then Exposed Them to the World

TikTok Shop Sells Viral GPS Trackers Marketed to Stalkers

Grok Exposes Underlying Prompts for Its AI Personas: ‘EVEN PUTTING THINGS IN YOUR ASS’

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