1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,600 Hello, I came one came all to this tragic affair. 2 00:00:04,440 --> 00:00:06,880 But stuff still happened. 3 00:00:06,880 --> 00:00:07,800 So what's up? 4 00:00:07,800 --> 00:00:09,640 It's gonna be an AI one today, y'all. 5 00:00:09,640 --> 00:00:11,920 You're gonna see a lot of stuff for me about AI 6 00:00:11,920 --> 00:00:13,040 and its garbage. 7 00:00:13,040 --> 00:00:15,560 Let's start with an airline chatbot 8 00:00:15,560 --> 00:00:17,440 that stands in solidarity. 9 00:00:17,440 --> 00:00:18,960 So a bunch of companies have been rolling out 10 00:00:18,960 --> 00:00:20,120 like AI chatbots. 11 00:00:20,120 --> 00:00:23,000 They're all powered by chatGPT and they all suck. 12 00:00:23,000 --> 00:00:24,960 And it's also very, very dumb 13 00:00:24,960 --> 00:00:27,640 because Jake Muffin's grandmother died. 14 00:00:27,640 --> 00:00:28,800 And then he tried to book a flight 15 00:00:28,800 --> 00:00:31,360 and when he went to Air Canada's website, 16 00:00:31,360 --> 00:00:32,720 he asked the AI chatbot, 17 00:00:32,720 --> 00:00:34,680 hey, what's up with your bereavement policy? 18 00:00:34,680 --> 00:00:36,520 The AI was like, go ahead and book a flight 19 00:00:36,520 --> 00:00:38,280 and you can request a refund later. 20 00:00:38,280 --> 00:00:39,640 So he went ahead and booked the flight 21 00:00:39,640 --> 00:00:40,960 and when he requested the refund, 22 00:00:40,960 --> 00:00:43,720 Air Canada said, that's not our policy. 23 00:00:43,720 --> 00:00:45,840 And so Jake was like, oh, what the fuck? 24 00:00:45,840 --> 00:00:47,520 And he sued them and won. 25 00:00:47,520 --> 00:00:49,360 In court, Air Canada's defense was 26 00:00:49,360 --> 00:00:52,040 the chatbot is a different entity from us 27 00:00:52,040 --> 00:00:53,560 and doesn't represent us. 28 00:00:53,560 --> 00:00:56,240 To which the judge was like, well, then why the fuck 29 00:00:56,240 --> 00:00:58,920 do you have an AI chatbot support representative 30 00:00:58,920 --> 00:00:59,800 on your website? 31 00:00:59,800 --> 00:01:02,400 Jake was ultimately awarded a partial refund 32 00:01:02,400 --> 00:01:05,680 and Air Canada has taken their AI chatbot offline. 33 00:01:05,680 --> 00:01:07,520 Speaking of some of the dumbest shit 34 00:01:07,520 --> 00:01:10,080 you can possibly do with AI, 35 00:01:10,080 --> 00:01:13,240 Reddit is going to sell their user data to train AI. 36 00:01:13,240 --> 00:01:14,280 We knew this was gonna happen 37 00:01:14,280 --> 00:01:16,200 because last year the CEO of Reddit was like, 38 00:01:16,200 --> 00:01:19,080 hey, entire user base, fuck you. 39 00:01:19,080 --> 00:01:21,080 Reddit then began to charge exorbitant fees 40 00:01:21,080 --> 00:01:23,200 for their APIs, which have been free 41 00:01:23,200 --> 00:01:26,280 for the entirety of their company's existence 42 00:01:26,280 --> 00:01:28,000 and they just killed a bunch of third party apps 43 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:29,960 and made us, you have to use their first party app 44 00:01:29,960 --> 00:01:32,360 to interact with Reddit and so on and so forth. 45 00:01:32,360 --> 00:01:34,000 There still exists some third party apps, 46 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:35,920 but they are a shadow of what it used to be. 47 00:01:35,920 --> 00:01:37,560 When users and volunteer moderators 48 00:01:37,560 --> 00:01:40,080 complained to Reddit about these dumb changes, 49 00:01:40,080 --> 00:01:42,760 the CEO of Reddit called them landed gentry. 50 00:01:42,760 --> 00:01:44,400 And now it looks like Reddit is interested 51 00:01:44,400 --> 00:01:48,120 in reopening that wound to specifically inject salt into it 52 00:01:48,120 --> 00:01:51,120 because they've signed a deal to sell all of their user data 53 00:01:51,120 --> 00:01:52,560 for AI training. 54 00:01:52,560 --> 00:01:56,320 For $60 million, if you have posted on Reddit, 55 00:01:56,320 --> 00:01:59,080 your data has now been sold to an AI company 56 00:01:59,080 --> 00:02:01,840 which has not been named, so they can train an AI 57 00:02:01,840 --> 00:02:05,200 to impersonate you without your consent or payment. 58 00:02:05,200 --> 00:02:09,400 But Reddit gets money, $60 million, which is nothing. 59 00:02:09,400 --> 00:02:13,000 I cannot explain just how little $60 million is 60 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:14,040 in the world of tech. 61 00:02:14,040 --> 00:02:16,720 When I first read the headline, I thought it was a typo. 62 00:02:16,720 --> 00:02:18,760 The entirety of Reddit's value is predicated 63 00:02:18,760 --> 00:02:20,520 on user-generated content. 64 00:02:20,520 --> 00:02:21,640 Reddit doesn't make stuff, 65 00:02:21,640 --> 00:02:23,000 they just let people post there. 66 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:25,920 And so they have decided that you don't deserve to benefit 67 00:02:25,920 --> 00:02:27,520 from anything that you've done there 68 00:02:27,520 --> 00:02:30,040 and they get to make money off of your engagement. 69 00:02:30,040 --> 00:02:32,520 What makes this extra shitty is that if you're not aware, 70 00:02:32,520 --> 00:02:34,160 Reddit was co-founded by a guy 71 00:02:34,160 --> 00:02:36,720 who was such a prominent internet activist 72 00:02:36,720 --> 00:02:39,680 that he literally killed himself to avoid jail time 73 00:02:39,680 --> 00:02:43,040 because they were trying to put him away for like 50 years 74 00:02:43,040 --> 00:02:45,400 for leaking academic journals. 75 00:02:45,400 --> 00:02:47,560 Aaron Schwartz was a co-founder of Reddit 76 00:02:47,560 --> 00:02:51,160 and was involved in basically every open internet technology 77 00:02:51,160 --> 00:02:53,640 that we all rely on, whether you know it or not. 78 00:02:53,640 --> 00:02:56,080 He was heavily involved in the creation of RSS, 79 00:02:56,080 --> 00:02:59,360 which is what powers all podcasts today still. 80 00:02:59,360 --> 00:03:01,040 He was involved in the creation of Markdown, 81 00:03:01,040 --> 00:03:02,920 which is used for formatting on Reddit 82 00:03:02,920 --> 00:03:05,360 and a ton of other apps like Discord and Obsidian. 83 00:03:05,360 --> 00:03:07,240 Fuck, the dude was involved in the creation 84 00:03:07,240 --> 00:03:09,080 of Creative Commons. 85 00:03:09,080 --> 00:03:11,800 And now that same guy, his co-founder, 86 00:03:11,800 --> 00:03:14,040 is just taking all dookie on his grave. 87 00:03:14,040 --> 00:03:17,680 As Spaz, the CEO of Reddit, is kissing Elon Musk's ass 88 00:03:17,680 --> 00:03:21,120 saying that Elon's work on Twitter was an inspiration. 89 00:03:21,120 --> 00:03:22,880 Fuck Spaz, fuck Reddit. 90 00:03:22,880 --> 00:03:24,560 And I want nothing to do with an AI 91 00:03:24,560 --> 00:03:26,040 that was trained on Reddit data. 92 00:03:26,040 --> 00:03:28,680 Next up from my roundup of AI crap, 93 00:03:28,680 --> 00:03:32,000 open AI's Sora, which nobody asked for. 94 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:34,080 Sora is open AI's latest attempt 95 00:03:34,080 --> 00:03:35,440 at raising my blood pressure 96 00:03:35,440 --> 00:03:37,280 to medically inadvisable levels. 97 00:03:37,280 --> 00:03:39,080 It is an AI model that takes text 98 00:03:39,080 --> 00:03:41,680 and produces realistic video output. 99 00:03:41,680 --> 00:03:43,880 You know, that obviously bad idea. 100 00:03:43,880 --> 00:03:45,920 Now granted, some of the output that it makes right now 101 00:03:45,920 --> 00:03:47,880 can look glitched and messed up and whatnot, 102 00:03:47,880 --> 00:03:51,280 but largely it does look at least somewhat realistic, 103 00:03:51,280 --> 00:03:52,480 which is enough to convince 104 00:03:52,480 --> 00:03:54,800 the vast majority of casual viewers, 105 00:03:54,800 --> 00:03:57,760 especially older people who mainline Facebook 106 00:03:57,760 --> 00:03:58,600 and shit like that. 107 00:03:58,600 --> 00:04:00,040 Plenty of people are already being tricked 108 00:04:00,040 --> 00:04:02,080 by obviously fake AI imagery. 109 00:04:02,080 --> 00:04:04,080 It is not gonna take a lot for them to be tricked 110 00:04:04,080 --> 00:04:05,000 by AI video. 111 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:07,040 The destructive potential of this is obvious 112 00:04:07,040 --> 00:04:09,200 and the immediate jumping to its defense 113 00:04:09,200 --> 00:04:11,360 by weird chuds is expected. 114 00:04:11,360 --> 00:04:13,600 But it's a reminder of just because you can 115 00:04:13,600 --> 00:04:16,920 doesn't mean you should, nobody asked for this. 116 00:04:16,920 --> 00:04:19,200 This will only bring far more bad 117 00:04:19,200 --> 00:04:21,880 than it ever possibly can bring good. 118 00:04:21,880 --> 00:04:23,240 So why does it exist? 119 00:04:23,240 --> 00:04:24,800 There's the argument to be made that 120 00:04:24,800 --> 00:04:27,360 it's better we make it than somebody else. 121 00:04:27,360 --> 00:04:29,600 To which I would say, should we be making 122 00:04:29,600 --> 00:04:31,040 innovative chemical weapons 123 00:04:31,040 --> 00:04:33,960 and releasing them across the entirety of the globe? 124 00:04:33,960 --> 00:04:35,160 That's what this is. 125 00:04:35,160 --> 00:04:36,640 This is like saying, hey, yeah, 126 00:04:36,640 --> 00:04:38,080 we should do the Manhattan Project, 127 00:04:38,080 --> 00:04:40,400 but also launch nukes everywhere. 128 00:04:40,400 --> 00:04:42,200 Countless women and children are about to have 129 00:04:42,200 --> 00:04:45,040 photorealistic AI generated pornography made of them. 130 00:04:45,040 --> 00:04:47,800 Scammers will use this to generate fake security footage 131 00:04:47,800 --> 00:04:50,280 that proves you did a crime and they'll extort you. 132 00:04:50,280 --> 00:04:52,160 Governments are going to produce propaganda 133 00:04:52,160 --> 00:04:53,920 at rates we've never before seen 134 00:04:53,920 --> 00:04:55,720 and we are not ready for. 135 00:04:55,720 --> 00:04:57,360 All the while people march to the beats 136 00:04:57,360 --> 00:04:59,400 of the AI savior drum, 137 00:04:59,400 --> 00:05:01,200 while a couple of tech bro overlords 138 00:05:01,200 --> 00:05:02,960 get rich beyond belief. 139 00:05:02,960 --> 00:05:04,440 Nobody asked for this. 140 00:05:04,440 --> 00:05:06,520 I literally, I straight up cannot think 141 00:05:06,520 --> 00:05:07,520 of a good use for this. 142 00:05:07,520 --> 00:05:10,200 I'm honestly trying right now. 143 00:05:10,200 --> 00:05:11,200 Stock footage? 144 00:05:11,200 --> 00:05:12,040 No. 145 00:05:12,040 --> 00:05:13,200 That's a career. 146 00:05:13,200 --> 00:05:14,760 People do stock footage. 147 00:05:14,760 --> 00:05:15,800 We have a planet. 148 00:05:15,800 --> 00:05:18,040 We go around it and we record shit. 149 00:05:18,040 --> 00:05:19,840 We should stop doing that. 150 00:05:19,840 --> 00:05:21,480 Why should we stop doing that? 151 00:05:21,480 --> 00:05:22,720 Why should this exist? 152 00:05:22,720 --> 00:05:24,800 AI generated movies and TV? 153 00:05:24,800 --> 00:05:25,840 No. 154 00:05:25,840 --> 00:05:28,400 The point is to express human creativity. 155 00:05:28,400 --> 00:05:30,440 Why would we boil that down to an algorithm? 156 00:05:30,440 --> 00:05:32,960 And for the kind of person who would enjoy watching 157 00:05:32,960 --> 00:05:35,440 AI generated movies, I'm sorry. 158 00:05:35,440 --> 00:05:37,040 You very clearly have not been exposed 159 00:05:37,040 --> 00:05:38,720 to like compelling writing. 160 00:05:38,720 --> 00:05:41,280 Anyway, hey, nobody asked for this. 161 00:05:41,280 --> 00:05:42,840 Let's talk about something that's not AI 162 00:05:42,840 --> 00:05:45,560 because I'm tired of talking about AI. 163 00:05:45,560 --> 00:05:49,240 Alexei Navalny, a prominent Russian opposition activist, 164 00:05:49,240 --> 00:05:50,280 has died in prison. 165 00:05:50,280 --> 00:05:52,120 Yes, he was almost definitely killed 166 00:05:52,120 --> 00:05:53,120 by the Russian government, 167 00:05:53,120 --> 00:05:55,200 which they tried to do in 2020 and failed. 168 00:05:55,200 --> 00:05:57,320 You may recall that in 2020, he was flown to Germany 169 00:05:57,320 --> 00:05:59,200 after being exposed to the nerve agent 170 00:05:59,200 --> 00:06:02,040 that Russia has used to kill people around the world, 171 00:06:02,040 --> 00:06:03,040 not infrequently. 172 00:06:03,040 --> 00:06:06,080 He recovered from that, flew home, and was arrested 173 00:06:06,080 --> 00:06:07,960 and put in jail. 174 00:06:07,960 --> 00:06:09,360 At the time, he basically acknowledged 175 00:06:09,360 --> 00:06:10,280 that was a death sentence. 176 00:06:10,280 --> 00:06:12,200 So he's been in jail for a couple of years now, 177 00:06:12,200 --> 00:06:14,200 and he's been complaining about being ignored 178 00:06:14,200 --> 00:06:18,600 with health concerns and suddenly fell very ill and died. 179 00:06:18,600 --> 00:06:21,160 And here's the thing, we know what happened here, 180 00:06:21,160 --> 00:06:23,960 and nothing can really be done because of it. 181 00:06:23,960 --> 00:06:25,200 But here's a quote from Navalny 182 00:06:25,200 --> 00:06:28,080 that I can't even imagine being in this position. 183 00:06:28,080 --> 00:06:30,240 Quote, if they decide to kill me, 184 00:06:30,240 --> 00:06:32,520 it means we are incredibly strong. 185 00:06:32,520 --> 00:06:35,320 We need to utilize this power to not give up, 186 00:06:35,320 --> 00:06:38,040 to remember we are a huge power 187 00:06:38,040 --> 00:06:40,600 that is being oppressed by these bad dudes. 188 00:06:40,600 --> 00:06:43,800 You heard it here, Putin is a bad dude. 189 00:06:43,800 --> 00:06:44,640 Lightning round. 190 00:06:44,640 --> 00:06:46,520 People who bought the Apple Vision Pro 191 00:06:46,520 --> 00:06:47,720 are starting to return it. 192 00:06:47,720 --> 00:06:49,400 We're like up against the return window, 193 00:06:49,400 --> 00:06:51,640 and its return rates are pretty high. 194 00:06:51,640 --> 00:06:54,120 People are saying that it's causing massive headaches 195 00:06:54,120 --> 00:06:55,920 and basically doesn't have much value. 196 00:06:55,920 --> 00:06:59,360 It appears that literally 75% of the advertiser traffic 197 00:06:59,360 --> 00:07:01,600 on Twitter during the Super Bowl was fake. 198 00:07:01,600 --> 00:07:06,000 Facebook is facing a three billion pound lawsuit in England, 199 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:07,960 citing that people have to give up their data 200 00:07:07,960 --> 00:07:09,920 to use the service, and it's basically a monopoly. 201 00:07:09,920 --> 00:07:11,200 You may have been gaslit, 202 00:07:11,200 --> 00:07:13,440 but you haven't been this level of gaslit. 203 00:07:13,440 --> 00:07:16,440 A judge shot her boyfriend in the face, 204 00:07:16,440 --> 00:07:19,040 and then tried to convince him that he shot himself. 205 00:07:19,040 --> 00:07:21,720 Two minors have been charged with the shooting 206 00:07:21,720 --> 00:07:23,920 at the Kansas City Super Bowl Parade. 207 00:07:23,920 --> 00:07:24,960 You heard that right? 208 00:07:24,960 --> 00:07:26,480 Yep, that's America. 209 00:07:26,480 --> 00:07:29,360 Two minors charged for shooting guns 210 00:07:29,360 --> 00:07:31,320 at a crowd at a celebration. 211 00:07:31,320 --> 00:07:34,640 The Tesla Cybertruck is running into a whole bunch of problems. 212 00:07:34,640 --> 00:07:37,600 Specifically, it rusts if it rains, 213 00:07:37,600 --> 00:07:39,760 because it's stainless steel and doesn't have a clear coat. 214 00:07:39,760 --> 00:07:42,400 Yo, Zendaya's showed up to the Dune premiere 215 00:07:42,400 --> 00:07:44,400 dressed like a robot that rules. 216 00:07:44,400 --> 00:07:46,640 And finally for today, I feel seen 217 00:07:46,640 --> 00:07:48,560 because according to recent research, 218 00:07:48,560 --> 00:07:51,680 some great apes will poke and pull at each other's hair 219 00:07:51,680 --> 00:07:54,160 and generally mess around with each other for funsies, 220 00:07:54,160 --> 00:07:55,440 which is adorable. 221 00:07:55,440 --> 00:07:56,760 That is all I have for you today. 222 00:07:56,760 --> 00:07:58,080 Thank you so much for watching. 223 00:07:58,080 --> 00:07:59,240 A quick programming note, 224 00:07:59,240 --> 00:08:01,800 there will be no stuff keeps happening this Thursday. 225 00:08:01,800 --> 00:08:04,040 I will be returning with stuff keeps happening Monday, 226 00:08:04,040 --> 00:08:05,960 February 26th. 227 00:08:05,960 --> 00:08:07,120 My name is Endeavorance. 228 00:08:07,120 --> 00:08:08,560 Thank you so much for watching. 229 00:08:08,560 --> 00:08:09,880 I'll be back on Monday. 230 00:08:09,880 --> 00:08:12,320 Take care and be well. 231 00:08:12,320 --> 00:08:14,120 Thank you so much for listening to today's episode 232 00:08:14,120 --> 00:08:15,080 of Stuff Keeps Happening. 233 00:08:15,080 --> 00:08:16,640 Head to stuff keeps happening.online 234 00:08:16,640 --> 00:08:19,080 for sources, bonus content, 235 00:08:19,080 --> 00:08:23,840 and internet traffic to your computer. 236 00:08:23,840 --> 00:08:24,960 My name is Endeavorance. 237 00:08:24,960 --> 00:08:26,200 A quick programming note, 238 00:08:26,200 --> 00:08:28,280 there will be no episode of Stuff Keeps Happening 239 00:08:28,280 --> 00:08:30,600 this Thursday, February 22nd. 240 00:08:30,600 --> 00:08:34,440 I will return on Monday, February 26th. 241 00:08:34,440 --> 00:08:36,760 Until then, my name is Endeavorance. 242 00:08:36,760 --> 00:08:38,240 Thank you so much for listening. 243 00:08:38,240 --> 00:09:01,240 Take care and be well.