👗 Shein’s Factory Tour: A PR Stunt Gone Wrong

👗 Shein's Influencer Trip to Chinese Factory Backfires

Shein is trying to wash away their accusation of stealing indie designers’ work and violating local labor laws.

To give its image a serious makeover before an IPO, the fast fashion giant invited a group of influencers to tour one of its factories in Guangzhou, China.

“I expected the facility to be so filled with people just slaving away, but I was actually pleasantly surprised that most of these things were robotic,” said Destene (@itsdestene_), a creator with more than 4 million followers, in a TikTok.

But here’s the thing: as commenters were quick to point out on these influencers’ posts, it’s difficult to believe that what we see in these videos reflects the reality of Shein factory working conditions.

“If they wanted to really show they ain’t on nothing they’d invite investigative journalists, not influencers they can pay off lol,” one commenter said.

Shein has become one of the fastest-growing e-commerce companies in the world, doing $100 billion in sales in 2022. But with low prices and thousands of new items added each day, customers have been skeptical about how it can be operating ethically.

💾 Reviving the Past: Windows 3.1 PCs Get a ChatGPT App

Someone has created a ChatGPT app for Windows 3.1 PCs.

Yes, you read that right. WinGPT brings a very basic version of OpenAI’s ChatGPT responses into an app that can run on an ancient 386 chip. It’s built by the same mysterious developer behind Windle, a Wordle clone for Microsoft’s Windows 3.1 operating system.

“I didn’t want my Gateway 4DX2-66 from 1993 to be left out of the AI revolution, so I built an AI Assistant for Windows 3.1, based on the OpenAI API,” says the developer in a Hacker News thread.

WinGPT is written in C using Microsoft’s standard Windows API and connects to OpenAI’s API server using TLS 1.3, so there’s no need for a separate modern PC. The ChatGPT responses are only brief due to the limited memory support that can’t handle the context of conversations.

If you still have a Windows 3.1 machine gathering dust in an attic, garage, or basement, then you can download the WinGPT binaries for 16-bit and 32-bit versions of Windows over at dialup.net — the most appropriate domain name I’ve ever seen for old Windows apps.

🔍 Genius' Secret Code Fails to Persuade Supreme Court in Google Lyrics Lawsuit

The US Supreme Court refused to revive a lawsuit that accuse Google of stealing millions of song lyrics.

A music website, Genius Media Group Inc. claimed that Google violated its contract by scraping lyrics and boosting them in Google Search results without any attribution.

In order to drum up attention and prove its case, Genius said it used a secret code spelling out the word “red-handed” to prove Google was stealing its lyrics.

The lower court said Genius does not own any of the copyrights to its lyrics – instead, those are held by the songwriters and publishers.

Genius, which claimed to lose millions of dollars due to this, initially sued Google in 2019.

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