Prediction Market Betting Is Getting People Banned and Arrested
热度趋势
趋势数据积累中
百分比基于当前可用热度信号，而非评论数或独立用户人数。
预测市场正面临审查，一名谷歌工程师因涉嫌在Polymarket上进行内幕交易而被捕，涉案金额超过一百万美元。他声称自己的行为是国际博彩，而非商品违规，以此挑战联邦管辖权。此案，以及乔治·桑托斯被Kalshi终身禁入的事件，凸显了州监管机构与联邦政府之间关于这些平台提供的是赌注还是交易的持续争论，以及对参与者的法律影响。
Uncanny Valley is back! This week, senior writer Kate Knibbs joins Brian Barrett, Zoë Schiffer, and Leah Feiger to discuss the two incidents that have been making noise in prediction markets: George Santos getting lifetime ban from Kalshi and a Google engineer’s Polymarket insider-trading case. Plus, reporters reverse-engineered Flock’s AI-powered person-search tool and spoke to experts about the accuracy of such technology, and the hosts unpack the online meltdown over how to talk about “rogue” AI agents.
Articles mentioned in this episode:
- George Santos Just Got Hit With Kalshi’s First-Ever Lifetime Ban
- Google Engineer Accused of Polymarket Insider Trading Says He Was Just Gambling
- This Is Flock’s AI Search Tool for Cops
- What We Still Don’t Know About OpenAI’s Hugging Face Hack
- The Logical End Point of AI Job Interviews Is Two Bots Talking to Each Other
You can follow Brian Barrett on Bluesky at @brbarrett , Zoë Schiffer on Bluesky at @zoeschiffer , Leah Feiger on Bluesky at @leahfeiger , and Kate Knibbs on Bluesky at @knibbs . Write to us at [email protected] .
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Leah Feiger: Hey guys, so nice to be back after our two-week summer break.
Zoë Schiffer: Longer for me. It's so nice to see you guys.
Leah Feiger: I missed you.
Zoë Schiffer: I missed you.
Leah Feiger: Brian, don't worry. We missed you too.
Brian Barrett: I assumed that the you was for all of us.
Zoë Schiffer: It was the royal you.
Brian Barrett: But now that you've carved me out, that's telling. Thank you.
Zoë Schiffer: Welcome to WIRED's Uncanny Valley . I'm Zoë Schiffer, contributing editor.
Brian Barrett: I'm Brian Barrett, executive editor.
Leah Feiger: And I'm Leah Feiger, director of politics and science. This week we're discussing some recent high profile incidents in prediction markets . Former US representative George Santos was the first person to be given a lifetime ban from Kalshi, and a Google engineer was accused of insider trading at Polymarket. We'll get into why both of these cases show that there are still plenty of blurry rules when it comes to prediction markets.