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Business Insider co-founder roasted over creepy blog post about AI workers

If a boss posted openly about swiping right on a human employee’s dating profile, that would constitute sexual harassment

By Stephen Council

FILE: Henry Blodget speaks onstage at a media conference held by Business Insider on Nov. 29, 2017, at Time Warner Center in New York City. / Roy Rochlin/Getty Images

Henry Blodget, a famed-then-disgraced Wall Street investor who went on to co-found the news site Business Insider, has a brand new venture. It’s off to a creepy start: He immediately hit on his artificial intelligence-generated first “employee.”

In February, Blodget fired up a Substack newsletter called Regenerator. He’s the CEO, the editor-in-chief and currently the lone employee, promising the outlet will “analyze the most important questions in innovation — tech, business, markets, policy, science, culture, and ideas.” But in a Monday post, things took a turn for the extremely weird — to the extent that Blodget has since made several edits to its most eyebrow-raising passages, and turned off the post’s comments. Still, a few people got in their roasts, with one commenter writing, “The best time to delete this post was immediately after posting it. The second best time is now.”

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