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I write tech features for Bloomberg @business @bw. Author of EMPIRE OF ORGASM, out now! I work for tips: ehuet4 at bloomberg dot net, signal: ellenhuet.99

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Hi, I'm Ellen Huet. I’m an award-winning journalist who currently writes about startups and Silicon Valley culture for Bloomberg News and Bloomberg Businessweek.

I’m writing a book about OneTaste, a sexual wellness company that’s alleged to be a sex cult. I wrote an investigation about the group's practices for Businessweek. (The book is still untitled and is set to be published in 2024 by MCD Books, a division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux.) I'm also the host of a seven-episode Bloomberg podcas…

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Sexual Wellness Firm Founder Gets Nine Years in Abuse Case (2)

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By Patricia Hurtado Verified, Ellen Huet Verified
| Bloomberg Tax Verified
The founder of the sexual wellness company OneTaste was sentenced Monday to nine years in prison for her role in a forced-labor scheme involving employees and participants in the firm’s educational courses who were coerced to perform sex acts. Nicole Daedone, who co-founded OneTaste in 2004, was in June after a jury in Brooklyn, New York, determined she and another OneTaste executive, Rachel Cherwitz, coerced victims — primarily women — into providing unpaid or underpaid menial labor.
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Sexual Wellness Firm Founder Gets Nine Years in Abuse Case (2)

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By Patricia Hurtado Verified, Ellen Huet Verified
| Bloomberg Law Verified
The founder of the sexual wellness company OneTaste was sentenced Monday to nine years in prison for her role in a forced-labor scheme involving employees and participants in the firm’s educational courses who were coerced to perform sex acts. Nicole Daedone, who co-founded OneTaste in 2004, was in June after a jury in Brooklyn, New York, determined she and another OneTaste executive, Rachel Cherwitz, coerced victims — primarily women — into providing unpaid or underpaid menial labor.
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Ko pogovori s klepetalnimi roboti uidejo izpod nadzora

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By Ellen Huet Verified
| Bloomberg Adria Verified
Posamezne zgodbe o blodnjah uporabnikov klepetalnih botov se sicer pojavljajo že leta, a od letošnje pomladi se jih je usulo za cel plaz. Upokojeni učitelj matematike in reden uporabnik orodja ChatGPT iz ameriškega Ohia je bil hospitaliziran zaradi psihoze, nato odpuščen domov in pozneje še enkrat hospitaliziran. Prerojena kristjanka, ki je sicer delala v tehnološki panogi, se je lepega dne odločila, da je prerokinja, njen klepetalni robot Claude pa nekaj angelu podobnega.
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