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The biggest tech news & social media trends on the internet from October 8th, 2025.

Timestamps: 

00:00 Intro 

2:01 The Life of a Showgirl AI promo 

11:38 Viral AI-generated Jake Paul videos 

17:31 Viral AI-generated “Me and my husband" video

19:48 AI Bubble report 

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Sources:

https://www.thecut.com/article/taylor-swift-ai-videos-the-life-of-a-showgirl.html  

https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/06/taylor-swift-fans-accuse-singer-of-using-ai-in-her-google-scavenger-hunt-videos/ 

https://www.instagram.com/p/C_wtAOKOW1z/?hl=en 

https://www.vulture.com/article/taylor-swift-ai-promo.html 

https://openai.com/index/sora-2/ 

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/06/open-ai-promises-more-granular-control-copyright-owners-sora-2-generates-videos-popular-characters 

https://www.dbresearc h.com/PROD/RI-PROD/PDFVIEWER.calias?pdfViewerPdfUrl=PROD0000000000604456m 

https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/1nyzkxt/list_of_celebrities_on_sora/