The Hustle

1 day ago | thehustle.co | Juliet Bennett Rylah

As the old adage goes, if you want something done right, you’ve gotta do it yourself. And that apparently applies to trying to “cheat” with AI. As you may recall, 21-year-old Chungin “Roy” Lee was recently suspended from Columbia University for building Interview Coder, an AI app that did the coding portion of tech job interviews for him. Lee claimed it had worked on Amazon and other companies, which he either rejected or which rescinded their offers upon learning about the tool.

2 days ago | thehustle.co | Juliet Bennett Rylah

ChatGPT is apparently acting like a lackey, cloyingly positive and full of effusive praise about how good and clever users’ prompts are. The complaints date back to March, per Ars Technica, when users began noting that the bot’s tone had shifted. It turns out there’s a name for this: sycophancy. It’s when a model changes its responses to align with its user’s beliefs or opinions, agreeing with everything they say or engaging in excessive flattery. Why does this happen?

1 week ago | thehustle.co | Sam Parr

Everything is expensive these days, but TVs have remained relatively cheap. The reason for that is simple: manufacturers make the real money selling your data. And they’re getting better at itLG is about to introduce new AI tech into its smart TVs that will track what a user is watching and pair it with an “emotionally intelligent ad,” per Ars Technica. The tech comes from marketing platform Zenapse and uses a show or movie’s plot to sort viewers into hyperspecific market groups.

1 week ago | thehustle.co | Juliet Bennett Rylah

Care to rent some pants? You can’t really become an Airbnb superhost unless you can afford a bunch of rental properties — but you can rent your jeans, apparently. Several apps let people rent out everything from clothes to power tools, with some users making up to $36k a year, per Wired. Interesting side hustle…… but how does it work? Basically, find an app that deals with whatever stuff you have lying around and see if anyone will pay you to use it. A low-hanging fruit? Clothes.

1 week ago | thehustle.co | Juliet Bennett Rylah

Sometimes you want a sad roller hot dog on a road trip. But sometimes, you really, really don’t. Dash In, a convenience store chain with 50+ locations across Maryland, Virginia, and Delaware, offers made-to-order casual eats, including burgers, quesadillas, salads, and breakfast items. Mark Samuels, an executive VP of Dash In parent Wills Group, told Business Insider that people now think of convenience stores as a dining destination, “which didn’t happen 20 years ago.”So, why now?