What do you do when your favorite Instagram model turns out to be… a codebase?
In this episode of Stay in the Gray Podcast, Ryan returns from the mountains and dives headfirst into the rise of AI—from fake influencers and manipulated media to the looming takeover of jobs, journalism, and politics. It’s funny, it’s creepy, and it’s closer than you think.
🎙 Topics include:
– The AI-generated model that fooled Ryan
– AI in politics, content, and social platforms
– How artificial intelligence is reshaping work and identity
– Why we need boundaries before the line disappears completely
This episode blends comedy and concern, because honestly—what else can you do?
🔥 Hit Follow if you’re not ready to be replaced by a chatbot just yet.
Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
01:33 - Welcome Back! Vacation Recap
01:51 - A Funny Story About AI
04:45 - AI in Politics: A New Era
14:51 - AI and Social Media: The New Influencers
21:22 - AI's Impact on Jobs
26:17 - The Future of AI in Everyday Life
32:06 - Final Thoughts and Farewell
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The person who started the page, if you will, responded well,
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that'll be a difficult interview seeing that Lucy, the name of
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the girl is completely AI generated, but nothing.
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I was in a way that you could make a 100% AI generated woman
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and she's perfect. I just thought this woman, it's
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perfect. Would you be as worked up by
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things that I say if you knew I was just a computer generated
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program? So I'm hoping that this industry
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is one that cannot be overtaken. And if we get to the point where
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we just kind of listen to different AI thoughts and ideas
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on podcasts and on radio and on television and on all these
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things, YouTube, all the platforms, then that's scary.
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And we've become the very robots that we are listening to.
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Welcome to Stay in the Grave podcast.
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I'm your host Ryan, and I'm here to bring you raw conversations
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about life and those undeniable human truths.
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We dive into the chaos 1 issue at a time, blending comedy,
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controversy, and the unexplainable.
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Get ready for transparent ideas straight from the Gray areas
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where most answers are hiding. So stay curious, stay
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inquisitive, please stay laughing, stay in the Gray.
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Come check it out. We'll see you then.
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I'm back. Welcome me back people.
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Much needed vacation, a week in the mountains.
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You saw some of the clips posted.
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It was great, relaxing, cleared my head.
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I have a fresh perspective on life, if you will.
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I'm going to go into some stuff today and I've talked about it
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briefly before and I'll lead off with a story that about myself
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so you can make fun of me. You can call me naive.
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My best friend calls me naive all the time to technology, to
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anything IT computer related and especially now with AI.
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So I've talked about AI before, but I'm going to do a little
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different, a little differently now because the other day, well,
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I take it back longer ago than the other day, but I came across
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this profile of a lovely young woman on Instagram.
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And I'm a happily married man. But she was so gorgeous that I
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had to go and tell my wife because I felt guilty for
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looking at her. I felt, I felt every time I saw
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her, I was like, Oh my God. And then she reached out and she
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would reply to some of the, the, the likes of the comments or
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that she'd, you know, and, and there was discussion and it was
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completely innocent, obviously, but it was still there.
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So I said, by the way, to my wife, you know, I don't know who
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this person is, but you have nothing to worry about.
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And it turns out I don't have anything to worry about.
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Because when I reached out to ask if she would come on the
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show to to talk about what it was like to be an Instagram
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model and to make money on Instagram and to be sought after
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for being ridiculously hot. To her credit, the person who
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started the page, if you will, responded, well, that'll be a
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difficult interview seeing that Lucy, the name of the girl is
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completely AI generated. You obviously saw this coming
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because I prefaced it that we were going to talk about AI.
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However, I felt like an idiot. It was probably about a month
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where these this woman's picture would come up and you know,
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obviously they were risque and they were all the, you know,
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great. And turns out she's not even
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real. Now I admire the art or, or the
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the AI, the ability for AI to do this.
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Don't get me wrong, it's fun to look at, but at the same time
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it's not the same. And I don't mean to take away
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from what this young lady who said she's from Canada and she
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wishes she looked like her creation.
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So I felt bad in that regard. But it's just it's crazy that I
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could sit there and be so mesmerized by something that's
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completely fake. Obviously there are women that
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put their picture up and they and they alter it.
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They make themselves look nice with AI generated.
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All the different stuff that they do with their pictures, all
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the you guys know what I'm trying to say, the filters.
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Thank you very, very much. I couldn't remember and for all
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the filters and everything, but nothing.
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I was unaware that you can make a 100% AI generated woman and
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she's perfect. I just thought this woman was
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perfect. I don't know.
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And so it, it kind of got me thinking about AI again.
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And I, and I'm going to go into a few things today and let's get
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it out of the way. AI when it comes to politics,
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politics has taken over the world.
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Probably more accurate to say social issues have taken over
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the world because of politics in the campaigning, even with AI
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generated speeches and things like that.
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And there are stories that I had no idea about that Now I'm
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looking, they're out there and I, I never heard heard about
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them, but there, there's news in information being given in all
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of its AI and, and it's crazy to me.
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So, so tell me that I'm silly for not knowing about these
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stories. Case number one was a Joe Biden
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phone call in New Hampshire that people were receiving.
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And this guy Stephen Kramer, apparently he's already been
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convicted. So I'll say his name.
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So this came from the Department of New, excuse me, the New
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Hampshire Department of Justice. And basically it was he was
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trying to suppress the turn out for the primaries in New
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Hampshire. Thousands were called and they
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were asked to save their vote till November because this
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Tuesday, the primary vote didn't matter.
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Let's get it in November, make sure.
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And so of course he got caught and but but it was Joe Biden's
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voice. It was apparently pretty good.
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I never heard it, but from everything that I read about it,
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people were fooled. Not that everybody, you know
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what, why would you think otherwise?
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But we have to start thinking about it now.
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And that's that's what got me so excited to talk about this
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because it's the possibilities are crazy and the possibilities
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are endless. And I tell you what, that's just
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one case. Second case, this is BBC that I
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was looking at. There was a Zelensky and a Putin
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separate videos of these two leaders in a war.
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Currently one of them, Vladimir Putin, who has been known as the
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aggressor who's leader of Russia case.
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You needed that information calling for peace now.
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Oh, we're sorry. We didn't mean to do this.
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And obviously it wasn't Vladimir Putin.
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Vladimir Zelinsky, the Ukrainian president, there's a video of
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him using AI that where he's basically saying to all of his
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people, put down your weapons, we're going to surrender, which
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is not what he intended to do and still doesn't intend to do.
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And of course, everybody got all, all crazy and say this is
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horribly done. How would anybody fall for this?
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Well, I guess a few people did and, and, but the fact that
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everybody was so ready to jump on the anybody that believed it,
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it was a little outlandish because it was that bad.
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But the point is, is, is it going to get better?
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Is it going to become more accurate?
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Are there going to be more and more and more and more of these
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to where people start believing it?
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And when you're across the world and you see something like this
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spread on social media now, apparently Meta and X and all of
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them, apparently they all YouTube took these down, which
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which they should, I mean, if it's complete, especially with
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something like that now, where's the line with parodies and memes
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and videos and all that? Where's the line?
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And that's what you have to be careful of because I definitely
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don't want free speech taken away and I don't like
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censorship. But I suppose when there's an
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actual war going on and there are fake videos from the two
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leaders, maybe you should go ahead and use your authority to
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take care of that. So those are a couple cases,
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But, you know, I didn't even know about those.
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And that's what's crazy. So should it be allowed in
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politics? That's the question.
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How would it be monitored, though?
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That's my question. I don't understand how there
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could be. I mean, you can keep track of
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it, I guess to a point, if you had the right authoritative
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groups, an authoritative figures that would be able to somehow
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monitor this. But I don't think it's 100%
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foolproof. Do you?
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I don't know. So I don't know if this is the
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right question. I don't know who can even ask if
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AI should be allowed because I don't know if you can be
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monitored. But Can you imagine the debates?
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I mean, fact checks are accurate and instant.
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First off, we'd never get through a debate because both
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candidates, assuming that they're similar to the ones
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we've been having, are fudging the truth.
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I don't, I can't imagine that these days with fact checks that
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either candidate knowingly flat out lies.
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They might embellish thinking that it'll slide by.
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And I think that's what happened a lot on both sides.
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Possibly with Joe Biden. There was a little mental, you
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know, stuff going on there. I don't know for sure, but that
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seems to be the general consensus.
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But I just feel like it would be better to Fact Check using AI
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than it is with these people who can can be biased.
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I think that's what happened in two of the three debates.
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And I think that at least we'd be able to eliminate that part
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of it. I can't imagine that AI holds
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any bias at this point. That could change.
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But, you know, at this point, speeches, I mean, I have it
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written down. Your speeches.
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Debates first isn't speeches. I mean, right now you're you're
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listening to speeches. I think the candidates should
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have to write their own and none of this going to ChatGPT for
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your presidential speech addressed to Congress or
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campaign speeches or you should have to do it yourself.
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I think that benefits Donald Trump because I don't think he
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gives a shit. He'll just go up there and say
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whatever he wants. I think that's one of the things
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that's appealing about the man. If you're choosing something.
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I think Joe Biden had to write his own speech.
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Kamala, write your own speech, Donald, write your own speech.
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But they're not. And at least there's a level
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playing field that everybody can use AI, but it's just not
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genuine. It's not sincere.
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And I think everybody knows that it's out there.
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And I mean, it's to the point where one of my really close
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friends, not long ago, we were in a disagreement and, and, and
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he wrote, he said, you know, how did you feel about my response?
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Because I used ChatGPT to answer you.
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And I said, yeah, I thought that.
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I thought that was pretty good. What you you know, how you wrote
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it? It was very, very well done and
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but so is it better or worse that somebody's able to do that?
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Maybe the point got across better, But at the same time,
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are you you're taking out true emotion, your true genuine
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feelings, I suppose if you're just shifting the words out or
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are you, are you able to look through AI and say, all right, I
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can see that he's genuinely affected by this.
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So that that that's my thought. I mean, you know, are we going
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to have 2036, I guess would be 32 and 3636 or 32?
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Geez, the way we're going, what if we just had two AI
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presidential candidates and decisions were just made all by
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AI? It's getting scary.
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People, you know, can kind of chuckle at that, but it's
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getting scary. I don't want that.
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The human element needs to be there.
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And we'll talk about more examples of that.
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I just, there've been too many books written about this that
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were way before their time and some of it's coming true.
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You know what they are Brave New World 1984 and so on and so
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forth. But how about the news?
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The news I just realized, I don't know why I didn't think of
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this, but I don't know why I would have seen it.
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The, the China's already been delivering the news and
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government approved information to be delivered by AI.
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The idea was, I guess 2018 was kind of the first one.
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I think they'll hold me to that. But the Jinhua News Agency in
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2018. And the idea was that they
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wouldn't get tired. You wouldn't have, you know,
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anchors that made mistakes. You would have just 24 hours a
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day, you know, news stories and anything they, the government
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felt you should hear, which doesn't surprise me with the
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lovely country of China. But there's an example where
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they came on and they had an AI person just bashing this one of
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the the presidents of of Taiwan or the candidate in order to
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help promote the other. And it was, it was interesting
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to read about that. But you know, the issue I have
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with it when I looked at an example of it is it looks real.
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It looks like there's a person sitting there talking, but it
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still sounds robotic. It mean it sounds like what it
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is, which is a computer basically giving you
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information. And I know that they're
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developing that. I don't necessarily want them to
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develop that. Are we going to get to the point
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to where our brains are so programmed to take in robotic
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sounding words and robotic sounding information that we
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just accepted that sounds boring as hell?
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I don't want that. That sucks.
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Count me out. I don't want this AI, this AI
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guy telling me the news. I want some, you know, regular
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person that fucks up every once in a while.
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You're telling me what's going on?
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I don't mean weatherman. I want a weatherman that's
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passionate when he sees that a tornado's on his way here, get
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all freaked out like you do. It's hilarious, the people, in a
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way, the tornado is hilarious. But these meteorologists, it's
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like they're waiting for some disaster to be like, oh, this is
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my time to shine, baby. And it always is entertaining to
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me. But take that away.
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What do you have? I don't know, I don't mean to be
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this, I didn't think I would be this passionate about it, but I,
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I kind of am. I'm starting to go, this is not
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good. So anybody that thinks it is and
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we'll get to that, let me know. Tell me, tell me that things
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will be better. Tell me why they'll be better.
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The last time I talked about AII went through pros and cons and
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this time I won't because they're already been given, but
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they're kind of obvious. And I'm, I'm giving them to you
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through these stories. Italy just released an AI
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edition of one of their publications there.
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And so journalism's taking a hit over there.
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But is it more accurate? Maybe.
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I don't know. Let's go to influencers on
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social media. I just talked about one, the
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lovely Lucy, who, you know, made a merry man swoon.
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Please don't worry. My wife thinks it's hilarious.
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She's she's not worried. She has no reason to worry.
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But these influencers, and, and I'll admit I don't know a lot
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about these, these people or these influencers.
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Lil Mikela, Eitana Lopez and Emma or IMA, spelled Imma.
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Apparently these are three of the largest influencers who
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happen to be AI and there are millions.
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It says most of them still think they're real.
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I don't know how you attract that.
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And if I don't know if I would, I would probably lie.
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If I found out, I'd be like, yeah, I knew they were fake.
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But people, people don't. And unless you look into it, is
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there a reason for you to think they're fake?
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Unless I guess you go to the comments section or something
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and see other people talking about it.
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But again, you see something and it looks real and it sounds real
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to a point. You go with it.
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No one's questioning it. And so they endorse products and
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they shape trends and they even interact with the fans.
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Sure, AI can answer anything and I don't know who's pulling the
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strings. I don't know how smart AI is.
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I don't know if if there there can be something automatic to
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people on social media who are who are following that
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influencer. But to me, I don't like that.
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I don't want somebody somebody. I don't want responses to my
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work, the comments to to the things I'm talking about to be
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AI generated. That defeats my purpose.
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I mean, I suppose it can boost the algorithms, but I think it
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also hurts them. You know, let's talk about
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things like TikTok and and Instagram and all these bot
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accounts. That's an issue.
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Can you imagine if all these bots had faces and all these
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bots were actually able to harder to even be identified?
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They're hard enough now and they're annoying enough now, but
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imagine it being even more difficult.
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And, and you know, that sucks because they hurt people who,
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who are trying to grow and they cause a lot of problems on
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social media. I've talked about being scammed
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in the past and recently they're, you know, they keep
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trying different people and it's AI.
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It seems real after you look into it, it turns out that it's
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just somebody that's on some sort of program and they, they
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know exactly what to say, when to say it, how to respond to
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the, to your, to your hesitancy and your doubts.
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So that's a little scary, but you know, when it comes to bots,
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I mean, you're also talking about what are known as troll
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farms. I mean, I, that's a perfect,
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perfect phrase to describe what I deal with on a day-to-day
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basis on social media troll farms and a lot of them are
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bots. And so one of the reasons I've
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backed away from I talked about it on my videos from Colorado.
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I talked about it on past episodes from season 4.
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And one of the reasons that I've I'm trying so Adam, so hard to
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back away from the troll responses, from responses that
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have no substance because some of them aren't even people.
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Some of them are bots that are just trying to to do what
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they're doing, which is troll. And so people get everybody
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wound wound up and I fall for it.
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I'm sure some of them are assholes and some of them are
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real people. But overall, why waste my time
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with it? Why get myself worked up?
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I don't want to have my fate be because of some stupid assholes,
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especially some stupid bot assholes that are on social
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media. So.
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So let's go back to Lucy Lucy, Lucy Lucy you fake you fake
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hottie. People are falling in love.
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Well, what they think is love with these AI social media
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models. In discussion with the creator
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of Lucy, again, I won't give much more information than that
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until I hopefully get her to maybe answer some questions
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about the process because I am very curious.
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And if you are one of those AI influencers or the person who
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creates an AI generated woman, is that wrong?
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It's legal as of now. Is it wrong?
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Should you take backlash? And these are the types of
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questions that I would love to ask her.
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But in a short conversation with that, she admitted to me that
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there have been men that have written to her and they were not
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happy. They were threatening her.
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They were, I mean, that's about it.
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They were threatening her. I mean, they, they were so
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mesmerized by this woman and the back and forth that this woman
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was giving to them that I don't know if they thought they had a
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chance with the beautiful Lucy or if they felt taken advantage
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of or, or betrayed or, or however.
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But I imagine you have to look out for that and you have to be
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careful. But these days, I don't, I don't
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know how somebody finds you, but you have to wonder.
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And so to me, that was very interesting that people are
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taking it to that level. And of course they are.
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I don't know why I'm surprised, but some of these models, again,
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I'm using my quotes models, these AI models are they have
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only fans accounts or like the similar platforms like 2 only
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fans and they have these accounts where people are paying
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monthly fees to see AI generated women.
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I mean, I guess if people, people enjoy that, I mean, I
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don't like I said, I don't mind looking at it.
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It's different to me than if she was a real woman.
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But people are paying, you know, $10 a month to look at, you
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know, say, I mean, it's almost like you're looking at some sort
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of cartoon. I mean, it's not, it looks very
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real, but it's still, it's not, it's not real.
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If any of you have subscription to one of these, please let me
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know because I'd love to interview you.
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I'd love to have you on and, and, and learn about and no
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judgement. I mean, that's your thing.
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There's no judgement. I, I really just genuinely want
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to know what it's like to, to pay for something that isn't
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real. And I guess we do it with a lot
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of things all the time. So I can't judge.
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So how about jobs? I talked a bit about jobs
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before, so I'll do it quickly, but there are so many jobs.
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And as I looked down a list of jobs that are being affected by
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AI, you just, it just keeps going.
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You don't realize how many. It's like when you you you talk
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about a band that's that was popular, like wow, they had this
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many hits. You just don't realize it.
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That's the same here. And I think it's ironic that in
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order to find out this information about jobs that are
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affected by AII AM using chat GPD to help me.
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So is that irony? I guess so how about
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photographers and illustrators? Well, there's actually one
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first. I thought this was interesting
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so I put it first. The 8 Arizona Supreme Court
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actually uses AI to disseminate news regarding rulings and
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enhance the understanding for the everyday man and woman.
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And I thought that was interesting.
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So it's it's at a high level as well.
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But how about creative? It's similar to what I do and
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the things I enjoy. Photographers and illustrators
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being replaced by AI or is AI better at it?
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Maybe on the technical aspect of it, but where, where does that
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end? Do you miss having the human
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element? The biggest argument in sports
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would be the the in baseball or softball to have AI being doing
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the pitch, the umpire's job, calling balls and strikes.
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A lot of people, traditionalists really, you know, baseball
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enthusiasts, most of them and I've talked to do not want
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computer. It would make it accurate.
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Anytime you sit there and go, man that UMP was terrible behind
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the plate or else maybe we would have won.
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Can't do that anymore. However, the human element of
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the game and the umpiring, the reffing the part of the game is
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now taken away and maybe it takes some of the passion for
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the game away as well. I don't know.
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What do you think? Should umpires be replaced by AI
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in baseball? Let me know.
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I mean, it's, it's interesting, but all these are interesting.
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So in China, 70% of video game designers are gone.
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AI taking over. How about translators?
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I mean, I know that that's not a a huge industry, but it's big
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enough to be feel the effect customer service.
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Some businesses have gone, 90% of their staff is gone because
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they're now using AI. That's crazy.
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I don't know if I blame them and why, why?
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Why would you not? You're just taking advantage of
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a system, taking advantage of technology.
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We do it in many ways with technology and this is just
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another one of them. Manufacturing and factories and
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docks and you know, shipping and things like that.
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That is a big one. That's a lot of different jobs
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in that in that field and to replace a lot of that with AI
00:24:30
will feel it. The food servers industry.
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Hello, I don't know what that was.
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Hello, drive through restaurants again, you're you're becoming
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robotic. Instead of having, you know,
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somebody talking to you in a drive through, they're getting
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it to where now you can just self order and then go pick it
00:24:51
up in restaurants. They're getting to the point
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where you know, they're putting those things down the table.
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Now where you can order, you can pay, you can do all these things
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that were normally done by waiter or waitress.
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Tips will be affected. I know a lot of people like why
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am I tipping? This person literally just
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brought me water and then told me to do everything on this
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little computer here. I don't disagree.
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And that's a problem for people that work in the industry.
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There's a bunch administrative roles.
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Of course, retail, like all the checkout, you know how anybody
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checking you out anymore, you're doing it yourself from the self
00:25:23
checkout, journalism and content, content creation.
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This is a big one for me because I'm a writer.
00:25:29
Can anyone just put an idea now and write a book?
00:25:32
Will people be able to tell the difference?
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That's the big one. I hope so.
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I really hope that AI will not push out the creative minds when
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it comes to filmmaking, storytelling, novel writing, any
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type of, of, of creative writing.
00:25:51
And that scares me and maybe one of the main reasons that I'm
00:25:54
against developing AII Suppose it's the best way to put it.
00:25:59
Legal services, finance, duh. I mean, we use calculators and
00:26:04
all that shit all the time. I think that's OK.
00:26:07
This is a little different government agencies, obviously
00:26:10
we're going through a lot of that right now for different
00:26:12
reasons in in eliminating government roles, but this is
00:26:16
another one that will add to that.
00:26:19
Lastly, let's talk about what I do here, which is podcasts.
00:26:26
I am of the opinion that I don't believe that AI can overtake a
00:26:34
podcaster because of the all of the things I've just said.
00:26:39
If you look at me, you know I'm not AII hope.
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I mean, I know this looks perfect, but I am not AI.
00:26:49
If I was and you could tell, would the things I say to you
00:26:55
matter as much? Would they mean as much?
00:26:58
Would there be passion behind it?
00:27:00
All the things you guys like to bitch at me about on the comment
00:27:03
sections, would you be as worked up by things that I say if you
00:27:08
knew I was just a computer generated program?
00:27:12
So I'm hoping that this industry is one that cannot be overtaken.
00:27:17
And if we get to the point where we just kind of listen to
00:27:19
different AI thoughts and ideas on podcasts and on radio and on
00:27:26
television and on all these things, YouTube, all the
00:27:31
platforms, then that's scary. And we've become the very robots
00:27:38
that we are listening to. So lastly, before I end this
00:27:43
evening, I'm going to give you a, a few statistics that some of
00:27:49
them weren't that surprising to me.
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And, and, and a couple were. And the Pew Research Center.
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Pew in 2023 did a study and 52% of Americans said they were
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concerned more than excited about the direction and the
00:28:05
efficiency of AI. Only 10% of Americans are
00:28:10
excited and the rest are neither excited or concerned.
00:28:17
I love those those those polls that you take where it's like,
00:28:19
you know, the middle is neither agree or disagree.
00:28:22
OK, well then why am I doing this God damn question anyway?
00:28:25
The Gallup telescope survey. First off, what the fuck is
00:28:28
that? A telescope survey?
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That does not make me feel OK. Is there somebody with the
00:28:34
telescope looking right now and surveying what I'm doing?
00:28:38
Because according to this, 99% of Americans use AI enabled
00:28:43
products within a week's time and 2/3 of those people don't
00:28:49
even realize that they do it. Again, how are they getting this
00:28:52
information? The idea that it's called a
00:28:54
telescope survey does not make me feel OK.
00:28:58
I do not feel comfortable with this.
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However, I digress as I'm just giving you statistics.
00:29:04
That's interesting as well though. 99% use AI enabled
00:29:10
products in a week's time. Here we go people.
00:29:14
It's, it's happening. Lastly, the Edelman trust a
00:29:17
barometer and this doesn't surprise me at all.
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The wonderful Chinese, our neighbors to the east, if you
00:29:23
will, 72% of these people are encouraged.
00:29:28
They trust AI. In America, the United States,
00:29:33
only 32% trust AI. Some people, when they think of
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China and China, don't get mad at me, I'm just telling you how
00:29:41
it is. A lot of people think of China
00:29:44
because of how many people are there and the fact that a lot of
00:29:47
this technology is happening there, being invented there,
00:29:52
created there. They're one of my examples with
00:29:55
the news being driven by AI. But we get this image of China
00:29:59
in the cities of China and the people walking around and
00:30:02
they're very robotic. They just are.
00:30:05
And, and a lot of it's just the the laws over there, the way
00:30:09
people are brought up and there's nothing wrong with it.
00:30:11
It's just seems to be the stereotype of Chinese people.
00:30:15
So this doesn't surprise me because maybe there's a comfort
00:30:18
zone there. Maybe there is a, a, a place
00:30:20
where they can say, hey, you know, we don't mind this AI is
00:30:24
great. It's accurate.
00:30:26
We don't have to question it. And they're comfortable with the
00:30:29
robotic style approach. However you want everyone to say
00:30:33
it versus Americans who, you know, aren't quite like that
00:30:36
yet. We're not conforming to that.
00:30:39
And I, I believe there's still a lot of emotions that supersede
00:30:45
that robotic technological element.
00:30:48
And I don't know if that made any sense, but it did to me in
00:30:51
my head. So good luck with that.
00:30:54
So, so I just thought that was, that was something I wanted to
00:30:57
throw some, some actual statistics and studies at you.
00:31:00
So you know, I'm not full of shit, at least on this, but but
00:31:04
I'll end here. I think that's something to
00:31:06
think about. It's just crazy to me that it's
00:31:09
kind of being ignored to a point.
00:31:10
I mean, we all know what AI is. We hear about it.
00:31:12
We we're fascinated by some of the things that can do.
00:31:15
I've posted some of it before. The lovely AOC and Elon Musk
00:31:20
romance video was, was AI generated?
00:31:25
A lot of it is. And I think I'm, I don't know to
00:31:28
what level it was, but it had to be something, right?
00:31:30
And so when you look at things like that, you're entertained by
00:31:35
it, but then you don't think big picture if it levels out and we
00:31:39
keep it in under control. Not to quote a or not to give a
00:31:44
plot of a sci-fi movie like I, Robot or some of these where the
00:31:50
robots finally turn on us. If we can maintain it and
00:31:53
control it at this level, or at least at a level that we can
00:32:00
progress with it, then OK, let's enjoy it.
00:32:04
But I'll tell you what, it's just something to keep our eye
00:32:07
on as we move forward. So with that being said, I'm
00:32:11
glad to be back. Give me a like subscribe
00:32:15
comment, let me know. Trust me, I'm getting I don't
00:32:18
even need to say comment. I know you people will comment
00:32:21
because I get tons of them just because I haven't even looked
00:32:25
yet. But I released a clip today
00:32:28
where all I said was why does everybody have a problem with
00:32:31
the America America First mindset?
00:32:35
And I tell you what, I haven't even looked.
00:32:36
But it's easily one of the most common in clips that I've gotten
00:32:39
so far 'cause I just kept seeing them pop in comment, comment,
00:32:41
comment. Oh great, here we go.
00:32:43
So I love the interaction. All in all.
00:32:46
Hopefully some of those comments are just fucking bots that who I
00:32:49
hate and who I won't respond to. But a lot of them are genuine
00:32:54
and I enjoy that part of it. So come at me, challenge me, and
00:32:58
definitely agree. If you do agree, please let me
00:33:01
know so that I don't look like everybody hates me.
00:33:05
My ego is fragile. Not really, but hope you enjoyed
00:33:09
and I'll see you in the next one.
00:33:12
I'm back. No more vacations for a while
00:33:15
and we'll get it rolling. Season 5 has been underway and
00:33:19
hope you enjoyed the ski videos and we'll go with a lot of
00:33:23
guests. I've got so many ideas and I'm
00:33:25
trying to get it done. Until then, I'll keep doing
00:33:29
these and hope you enjoy. So again, like I always say,
00:33:33
stay inquisitive, stay laughing, stay in Gray.
00:33:37
I'll see you next time. Love you.