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Marissa Mayer’s AI-designed Halloween costume is a Marie Antoinette-inspired acid nightmare

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Rightful Empress of Tech Marissa Mayer asked her Dazzle AI what to wear for Halloween. It suggested she go as the dessert course at a redneck Versailles.

Dazzle-generated costume concept showing a woman in a tiered pastel cake dress, frosting-like gloves and a cupcake hat.

Blame Dazzle, via People.

People magazine stamped a big red “Exclusive” on its interview with the former Yahoo boss. Mayer said Dazzle, which studies your camera roll, suggested a rainbow layer cake inspired by painter Wayne Thiebaud. She’d rejected Mary Poppins. This was the upgrade.

Look at it. Frosting gloves. A cupcake hat. A nightmarish cake from a white trash wedding.

“I’m getting this made,” Mayer said.

The pitch is that Dazzle knows your taste. Apparently it’s found the one person who’d look at this thing and call a dressmaker.

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Intuit draws more attention to their CEO’s bad interview by demanding The Verge edit it

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There’s a writeup on Tech Dirt which talks about how Intuit’s management lacks any understanding of the Streisand Effect when it attracted more attention to an interview with their CEO, Sasan Goodarzi, gave to The Verge. Intuit’s communications department turned what would have been a short, terse exchange in an otherwise cupcake interview into a much more interesting story by demanding The Verge remove or edit the podcast.

Everyone is focused on brief flare-up the host and CEO had around Intuit’s lobbying efforts, but no one is pointing out the utterly hilarious part of the exchange where he declares “I am Intuit!” Does Sasan have a history of megalomaniacal moments? This company might be worth following.

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