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They Use AI To Make You Lose: The Reality Of Modern Sports Betting
DraftKings built an AI tool to find gamblers who were most likely to lose — then used it to target them with "free" bets designed to keep them playing. A New York Times investigation, built on interviews with over 40 former employees and internal company documents, lays out exactly how it worked, and why some of the people who built it now say they regret it.
In this episode, I walk through that investigation in detail, then put it side-by-side with a CBS Sunday Morning report comparing modern sports betting to the crack epidemic of the 1980s — an analogy I was skeptical of at first, having…
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