‘Ziplink Is Now Froggle’: The Story Behind the Fake AI Ads That Went Viral

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Dave Ross, left, and Harris Alterman at the Jefferson Street subway station in Brooklyn, New York, on July 8 with one of the fake tech ads they posted in June.

Photographer: Lanna Apisukh for Bloomberg Businessweek

“What if Texas was upside-down?”

For a brief moment in June, an advertisement posing that puzzling question atop a graphic of a flipped Lone Star State confronted New Yorkers walking through the Jefferson Street subway station in Brooklyn. The answer, the cryptic sign suggested, might be found at UpsideDownTexas.AI.