1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:06,720 Hello. I completed a profane ritual to become ascendant, but stuff still happened. 2 00:00:06,720 --> 00:00:13,680 So what's up? The tidal wave of AI bullshit continues. Just the absolute madness. Y'all, 3 00:00:13,680 --> 00:00:19,360 like, we told you, we told you AI was a bad idea. Like, we told you we knew this. You shoulda 4 00:00:19,360 --> 00:00:25,600 listen. Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, is a weird little creep who's obsessed with the movie 5 00:00:25,600 --> 00:00:30,960 Her. The movie where Joaquin Phoenix falls in love with an AI voiced by Scarlett Johansson, 6 00:00:30,960 --> 00:00:36,640 that one. Now, like, this has been all over every news cycle. So this might not be news, 7 00:00:36,640 --> 00:00:41,520 but they ripped off Scarlett Johansson's voice for chat GPT. Here's the order of operations. 8 00:00:41,520 --> 00:00:47,360 Sam Altman tweeted Her. Just tweeted it. Just that. That's it. That was the tweet. And then, 9 00:00:47,360 --> 00:00:52,240 soon after that, OpenAI did a new demo where they were like, look at our new AI. Its voice 10 00:00:52,240 --> 00:00:56,720 is new and it fucking flirts with you for some reason. So they did a demo where, like, you know, 11 00:00:56,720 --> 00:01:01,760 they're playing with the AI and the AI is like, ha ha ha, let me get that dick. That's not exactly. 12 00:01:01,760 --> 00:01:08,000 That was my, I guess that's what Scarlett Johansson sounds like in my head. Hello, it's me. Black 13 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:12,880 Widow. Anyway, came out that Scarlett Johansson was not very happy about the fact that this AI 14 00:01:12,880 --> 00:01:18,480 sounded just like Her and also came out that Sam Altman went to Scarlett Johansson and was like, 15 00:01:18,480 --> 00:01:24,480 hey, can you, can you, you want to, can you, can you voice my AI? And she was like, no, stop that. 16 00:01:25,040 --> 00:01:29,280 You're creepy. And then they basically tried to just replicate Scarlett Johansson's voice anyway. 17 00:01:29,280 --> 00:01:34,400 Like, come on now. Let's not kid ourselves. Let's not kid ourselves. The dude's not a genius. 18 00:01:34,400 --> 00:01:40,400 He's just a creep and wants to fuck a computer. That's it. Or Scarlett Johansson. Why not though? 19 00:01:40,400 --> 00:01:45,360 So they've already pulled the voice because obviously, because like, hella legal trouble. 20 00:01:45,360 --> 00:01:50,480 Because all of this is hella legal trouble. Replicating voices, replicating the voice of 21 00:01:50,480 --> 00:01:54,400 someone famous or the voice of someone who sounds like they could be someone famous and 22 00:01:55,120 --> 00:01:59,520 not really being able to prove how we made that voice or who it's supposed to be. 23 00:02:00,480 --> 00:02:05,360 It's a mess and it shouldn't be in a barely functional consumer product. I want to be super 24 00:02:05,360 --> 00:02:10,960 clear. Sam Altman, the head of open AI, he also thinks that the movie, The Social Network, 25 00:02:10,960 --> 00:02:15,040 was supposed to be an inspirational film inspiring tech entrepreneurs. So if you 26 00:02:15,040 --> 00:02:20,960 need an aborometer for what kind of a person or how his brain functions, there you go. 27 00:02:20,960 --> 00:02:25,280 Let's put this man in charge of artificial intelligence that's supposed to change humanity. 28 00:02:25,280 --> 00:02:31,600 He seems like the right choice. And that doesn't even get into like, Google's new search AI 29 00:02:31,600 --> 00:02:37,840 summarizer, recommending that people put glue in their pizza and gasoline in their spaghetti. 30 00:02:37,840 --> 00:02:44,800 Hey Google, maybe dull. Take that, Gen Xers. Millennials are gonna have a saint. 31 00:02:44,800 --> 00:02:52,000 Haha, maybe. The Vatican might make a millennial saint, y'all. Carlo Acutis was born in 1991, 32 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:57,440 which makes him a millennial. He tragically died of leukemia at 15. Fuck cancer. But while he was 33 00:02:57,440 --> 00:03:02,160 alive, he had a website where he indexed miracles. And I am not a religion boy, but I'm not gonna 34 00:03:02,160 --> 00:03:07,680 tell you not to believe in miracles. Ow, ow, ow. But this dude was indexing miracles. He was all 35 00:03:07,680 --> 00:03:14,320 about it. And then apparently performed a couple. Maybe the Vatican has formally acknowledged two 36 00:03:14,320 --> 00:03:19,200 miracles from the late teenager. One was involving curing brain bleed and the other was involving 37 00:03:19,200 --> 00:03:25,440 curing a, I think like, pancreas situation? Pretty sure. I'd make a good doctor. Yo, 38 00:03:26,560 --> 00:03:31,520 you've got a serious pancreas situation. Anyway, the Pope has already done like the first step 39 00:03:31,520 --> 00:03:37,200 towards canonizing this guy. We might actually have a millennial saint soon bopping around in 40 00:03:37,200 --> 00:03:43,440 heaven being like, hey, I'm adulting. Where's my avocado toast? What? I don't know. The jokes 41 00:03:43,440 --> 00:03:49,760 about millennials, like they weren't ever funny, but now they're actively like, they suck the funny 42 00:03:49,760 --> 00:03:53,600 out of the room. I'm not saying that because like I'm insulted or whatever as a millennial. I'm 43 00:03:53,600 --> 00:03:59,360 saying that because like, we're not, no one cares anymore. It's obnoxious that millennials are even 44 00:03:59,360 --> 00:04:04,320 in the spotlight. We're just, we're pouring now. We're just the ones that are supposed to go to work. 45 00:04:04,320 --> 00:04:10,560 Like we're just the ones that are in that part of our life, right? Go to work, come home, have very 46 00:04:10,560 --> 00:04:17,440 little cultural impact. And then here I am making avocado toast jokes about a guy that died of leukemia 47 00:04:17,440 --> 00:04:27,280 who just wanted to help people. Hey, no baby. Oh, bathwater. Oh God. Remember back in 2019 when 48 00:04:27,280 --> 00:04:33,040 Belle Delphine sold her bathwater? She didn't make any money from that. Well, she did, but PayPal 49 00:04:33,040 --> 00:04:38,320 stole it. Neat. Well, not neat. She should get paid. In a recent post from Belle Delphine herself, 50 00:04:38,320 --> 00:04:44,640 she announced that when back when that happened, she made like 90 grand, but PayPal froze her account 51 00:04:44,640 --> 00:04:48,880 and kept the assets. She still kept good on her sales. She actually shipped the bathwater to 52 00:04:48,880 --> 00:04:54,960 everybody and all that, but she didn't get a cent. She lost money actually. PayPal froze the account 53 00:04:54,960 --> 00:05:03,040 and kept the 90 grand as like fees or something. There's an argument to be made that a bad 54 00:05:03,040 --> 00:05:07,760 interpretation of one of PayPal's policies could be applied to the sales that she was making. 55 00:05:07,760 --> 00:05:11,920 But after she made this post, they were like, oh yeah, no, that was wrong. Here's your money. 56 00:05:11,920 --> 00:05:15,520 Five years on. Of course, at the time she tried to get in contact with PayPal and be like, 57 00:05:15,520 --> 00:05:21,440 hi, I would like my nearly 100 grand now, please. And they're like, sorry, it's nothing we can do 58 00:05:21,440 --> 00:05:26,880 about it. PayPal's famously helpful customer service. So ultimately, she just now got her money, 59 00:05:27,840 --> 00:05:32,000 but she also made the very salient point of what if this was just a random person and not 60 00:05:32,880 --> 00:05:36,960 someone with massive influence on the internet. They probably would not have gotten their money 61 00:05:36,960 --> 00:05:42,800 back from PayPal. Maybe having private companies be the things that control the movement of money, 62 00:05:43,520 --> 00:05:47,840 you know, companies that have an interest in finding any way to prevent you from getting your 63 00:05:47,840 --> 00:05:53,120 money. Maybe that shouldn't be how we transfer money. The International Criminal Court is seeking 64 00:05:53,120 --> 00:05:57,760 a warrant for the arrest of the leaders of Israel and Hamas. They are seeking to try them for war 65 00:05:57,760 --> 00:06:03,120 crimes because of the war crimes they're doing. But despite the ICC wanting to arrest people for 66 00:06:03,120 --> 00:06:14,320 war crimes, the US is like, that is the official statement. That's the official stance. But for 67 00:06:14,320 --> 00:06:18,640 real, the US is looking around and we're seeing fewer and fewer friends who are sticking by us. 68 00:06:18,640 --> 00:06:24,000 As more and more countries are like, hey, this is a fucking genocide. Ireland, Spain and Norway 69 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:29,360 all recently acknowledged Palestine as a state. And they're like, hey, this is not good. When 70 00:06:29,360 --> 00:06:33,920 pressed about it, Biden's national security advisor was like, yeah, it's real, you know, 71 00:06:33,920 --> 00:06:39,760 it's regrettable. Also, we think that the right thing to do is to let Israel keep doing this, 72 00:06:40,480 --> 00:06:44,480 but ask them very nicely to stop killing all the civilians. That seems to be, 73 00:06:45,120 --> 00:06:49,280 that's a good, let's try that one. And just to make sure that they have the fighting chance to 74 00:06:49,280 --> 00:06:55,520 not kill civilians, let's give them more munitions that just blow everything up recklessly. The 75 00:06:55,520 --> 00:07:00,160 White House also wants to make it clear that Biden has real mixed feelings about this. And it's 76 00:07:00,160 --> 00:07:05,200 just, it's just, you know, he just wishes that everyone could just get along, which is why he's 77 00:07:05,200 --> 00:07:10,800 supplying one side with weapons. Oh, right, right. No, he stopped his shipment or he tried to stop 78 00:07:10,800 --> 00:07:16,240 his shipment that one time. What a good guy. What a good guy. Gaming. The Paper Mario 1000 year 79 00:07:16,240 --> 00:07:20,400 door remake is out on Switch and you should play it. That game rules. Paper Mario is like one of 80 00:07:20,400 --> 00:07:23,920 my favorite franchises, except for the fact that the vast majority of the games that they've made 81 00:07:23,920 --> 00:07:29,360 in that franchise are bad. The first three are rad. I haven't played, I haven't played, um, um, 82 00:07:30,480 --> 00:07:37,520 the Switch one though, but seriously, Paper Mario 1000 year door is a better game than Paper Mario 83 00:07:37,520 --> 00:07:42,880 one, which is my favorite game. I also recently played Paper Mario 1000 year door on my stream, 84 00:07:43,440 --> 00:07:48,240 but it was the, it wasn't the remake. I'm assuming Nintendo dropped the remake because they saw my 85 00:07:48,240 --> 00:07:52,960 stream. Oh, and in the remake, in the, in the English version of the remake, they finally made 86 00:07:52,960 --> 00:07:58,000 good and they recanonized one of your sidekicks as trans. She was always trans in the international 87 00:07:58,000 --> 00:08:04,880 version of the original and not in the English version. WB is multi versus Smash Bros. like game 88 00:08:04,880 --> 00:08:11,600 is coming out this week. I hope it's, I hope it's good. I don't really care about WB franchises. 89 00:08:12,240 --> 00:08:19,600 I do like platform fighters. Behold a peach main. What is up? Nanananana. Bungie has won a pretty 90 00:08:19,600 --> 00:08:23,360 landmark court case despite not making, they didn't make a lot of money off of it, but it's 91 00:08:23,360 --> 00:08:27,920 still an important court case. Phoenix Digital, who owns a company that was making cheats for Destiny 92 00:08:27,920 --> 00:08:37,120 2, has been fine and has to pay like $63,210 to Bungie, which is approximately the price of 93 00:08:37,120 --> 00:08:42,320 one premium piece of armor from the Bungie store. But more importantly, they won it on like copyright 94 00:08:42,320 --> 00:08:47,440 grounds. The jury awarded Bungie the win on the grounds that you, you can't be making cheats for 95 00:08:47,440 --> 00:08:52,560 our game. That's you're breaking the rules. The notable thing here isn't necessarily that Bungie, 96 00:08:52,560 --> 00:08:56,400 you know, like rooted out some cheap developers. They've done that a bunch of times and they've 97 00:08:56,400 --> 00:09:01,520 made that like a bit of a crusade of theirs. The notable thing is the jury decision. This is setting 98 00:09:01,520 --> 00:09:06,720 a precedent that cheap software can violate copyright. That is notable. If only we could 99 00:09:06,720 --> 00:09:12,480 set a precedent of having stable connections during my raids. Lightning round. Spotify will 100 00:09:12,480 --> 00:09:17,600 be bricking their car thing, which was a piece of hardware they put out less than a year ago, 101 00:09:18,160 --> 00:09:21,920 and they're just going to shut it down. If you bought one and you've been using it, it will no 102 00:09:21,920 --> 00:09:25,760 longer be functional at the end of this year and you will not be getting a refund. The creator of 103 00:09:25,760 --> 00:09:32,160 the Super Size Me documentary has died at age 53 from cancer. Fuck, cancer. The Chicago rat hole 104 00:09:32,800 --> 00:09:38,880 is officially gone. A city had to pay out nearly a million dollars to a man who was basically tortured 105 00:09:38,880 --> 00:09:45,680 by cops for 17 hours trying to get him to admit to killing his father. His father was alive. The 106 00:09:45,680 --> 00:09:50,640 cops threatened to kill the man's dog. They tried to force him to admit to a crime that he literally 107 00:09:50,640 --> 00:09:56,880 didn't do. That's what they do. 17 hours. Here's a quote from the lawyer involved. Quote, 108 00:09:56,880 --> 00:10:03,600 in my 40 years of suing the police, I have never seen that level of deliberate cruelty. The average 109 00:10:03,600 --> 00:10:09,840 age of a car on American roads has risen to a record 12.6 years old, which is honestly not all 110 00:10:09,840 --> 00:10:15,120 that old for cars. Like, we don't stop buying new cars all the time, which I mean, you're already 111 00:10:15,120 --> 00:10:20,720 doing that, I guess, because the average age went up. So good job. Or, or maybe we just don't have 112 00:10:20,720 --> 00:10:25,360 money. There is an Amazon shareholder vote on a bunch of different company policies, most of which 113 00:10:25,360 --> 00:10:31,680 were around like how to ethically handle AI and how to be good to our workers. And every proposal 114 00:10:31,680 --> 00:10:37,120 was voted down. Despite nobody asking, YouTube is rolling out their new desktop website redesign and 115 00:10:38,000 --> 00:10:46,320 you fuck enjoy. And finally for today, rip to a real one. ICQ messenger is shutting down. 116 00:10:46,320 --> 00:10:49,520 Thank you so much for listening to today's episode of Stuff Keeps Happening. Head to 117 00:10:49,520 --> 00:10:56,480 SKH.News for sources, bonus content and instructions on how you too can become ascendant. 118 00:10:56,480 --> 00:11:01,280 My name is Endeavorance. I'll be back on Monday. Take care and be well.