Save or Scroll: Fake NFL Players, Girly Coding, AI Music Scams and Community Garden Drama

Host Morgan Sung and the Close All Tabs team pull up the stories they can’t stop thinking about. From a fake NFL player catfishing women on dating apps, to femme creators reclaiming tech, indie musicians fighting AI music slop, and a comedian dishing out the juiciest community garden gossip — they’ve got a lot to chew on.

Save or Scroll is our series where Morgan teams up with guests for a rapid-fire roundup of internet trends that are filling their feeds right now. At the end of each segment, they’ll decide: is the post just for the group chat, or should we save it for a future episode?

Guests:

Chris Egusa, senior editor for Close All Tabs

Maya Cueva, producer for Close All Tabs

Chris Hambrick, editor for Close All Tabs

Lauren Yoon, intern for Close All Tabs

Further Reading/Listening:

Who would fall in love with a fake NFL player? Plenty of sensible people — Dave Schilling, The Guardian

Programming patterns: the story of the Jacquard loom — Science and Industry Museum

Spotify will label 'AI Persona' profiles and exclude their music from recommendations — Sarah Perez, TechCrunch

OpenAI’s rogue AI model incident was worse than we thought — Hayden Field, The Verge