That it's just, it's gross. Like, everything
is just inundated with wiener shots and just
the grossest people that I think you'll ever
meet. Five, four, three, two, one, zero. Welcome
to the show, people. Welcome to the show. Eat
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All right, so you're through line for today.
Go for it. What do Ryan Reynolds, Subway, and
online dating have in common? Ryan Reynolds,
Subway, online dating. Ryan Reynolds, recently,
he's always had a shtick that wasn't meant to
last long. He plays the same person in everything
he does. Sardonic asshole. Yeah, and so that
wore thin, and now all the stuff coming out with
him and Blake and Baldoni and all that stuff.
He's a persona non grata right now. Subway, terrible
food. I used to get Subway all the time, but
it's... Like, once I found, like, real sandwiches,
like, at real delis. Like, I can't tell you the
last time I've been to a Subway. Plus all the
Jared Fogle stuff. And then online dating. It's
a crap shoot. Sure. It's a lot of sifting through
the proverbial... Fish in the sea? Sure, yeah.
Let's go with that one. That one's cleaner. So
I don't know what the through line would be.
Stuff that can be bad for you. Can Ryan Reynolds
be bad for you? Yeah, I think you can have too
much Ryan Reynolds. I wholeheartedly beg to differ.
You can have too much Ryan Reynolds. What? I
said you can. Oh. I said you can have too much
Ryan Reynolds. Okay, okay. And you can have too
much shitty food at Subway. Sure. Any amount
of Subway is too much Subway. You can spend too
much time on dating apps and not going out and
experiencing the world around you. Yeah. That
is accurate. Okay. So what is your through line?
So my through line is that there are things with
increasing problematicness. Problematicism. There
are things that are getting to be more trouble
as time goes on. Okay. Oh, that makes sense.
What's the trouble with dating apps that has
been recent? I don't know firsthand what is wrong
with the dating apps, but I have enough friends
that are in that. It's gross. Everything is just
inundated with wiener shots and just the grossest
people that I think you'll ever meet. I would
just like to say that my experience... with dating
apps has not been inundated with wiener shots.
Wow, how fortunate for you. Which, I mean, maybe
I should be a little offended by. I don't know.
I mean, I would imagine that's a circumstance
of which app you're using. Some of them are a
little bit more wiener shot heavy than the others.
Some of them are just straight up wiener shots.
Sure, yeah. Well, I don't know anyone who has
experience. Or tells me about their experiences
with those particular apps. But the people who
do online dating and stuff, it's just been...
It sounds like just getting grosser by the day.
That the fish in the sea are the ones that are
floating upside down on the surface. They're
not the ones that you're looking for. If you're
not too careful on dating apps, you're going
to get something very fishy. This is moments
when the two of us... should feel extremely fortunate
to have met our awesome partners, meaning that
we don't theoretically ever have to get on the
apps again. Ever. And who knows? If something
happens to them, God forbid, and we just have
to have companionship in our 90s, who even knows
what it's going to look like by then? There's
no way it's not robots and AI, which brings us
to our point for today. AI. It is more trouble
every single day. It is. I spend a lot of time
on ex -Twitter, and it seems like every day there's
a new post about, oh, this is blah, blah, blah,
79 .83. Look how realistic this looks, and it's
terrifying. There is just, there's so many problems
that whenever I was writing the kind of outline
for this episode, I couldn't figure out where
to start. Because so much of my feed on anything
that I've done online has just been about AI
or has been written by AI. And one of the things
that's shown up just a ton lately has been the
little baby deep fakes. They're so creepy. They're
so unnerving. I don't know why people are doing
it. There was one of them, which was a scene
from My Name is Earl. And it was... it was like
a baby version of joy saying kids go get mama
stripper shoes out of your Lego box, which is
just a horrifying thing to make a baby say fake
or not. That's a weird choice. Yeah. There's
also, I also got sent one today of Mr. Garrison
from South Park, which if you know anything about
Mr. Garrison and being a baby is, is extremely
problematic, but it was, It was Timmy's first
episode. Oh, no. And they bleeped out the word
retarded, which, okay, but then don't do South
Park. Like, just do something else if you want
to say, look, I can make babies say this thing,
too, but you don't make them say the actual thing
that is the whole point of the clip. It feels
like all of those, like, I was having a conversation
recently about all of the true crime podcasters
and stuff now. And how they'll use things that
are just like ridiculous because they don't want
to get banned from whatever app they're on. Unaliving?
Sewer slide. Like, if you're talking about my
situation, if I, God forbid, got murdered one
day, and I end up on some bland white girl's
true crime podcast, and she refers to it as my
unaliving, I am haunting the hell out of her.
Or, yes, and he decided to remove himself from
this world. Like, if you can't say the thing,
don't talk about the thing. Exactly. It seems
like much more offensive to find all these workarounds.
To infantilize the situation. For it. Yeah. Nonsense.
It is nonsense. There was a specific clip from,
I don't know what Theo Vaughn's podcast is called,
but there's a... About last weekend. About last
weekend? That sounds right. I don't know. But
it was Theo Vaughn as a baby. And it was talking
about how his biggest red flag in dating is a
girl who can't swim. And I felt personally attacked,
obviously, this past weekend. I felt personally
attacked because I can't swim. Why is that? Getting
real vulnerable on this podcast. Can we discuss
this real quick? Because... I have some evolutionary
talk later in this episode, but I want to go
ahead and get this out of the way since you gave
me the perfect segue. No, I do not accept segue.
I've only seen it in print. Is that not how it's
said? I believe. Anyways, we are not fish. If
you want to believe that we came from fish, that
we came from microbiome. somewhere deep in the
ocean that just happened to make it to the surface
and we evolved the legs and we evolved this and
that and that's fine but we evolved legs so that
we don't have to swim sure and i should not be
shamed when i am in a situation where people
are swimming oh you want you want to go for a
swim no i'll float there i'll just i'll chill
i'll hang out I'm not Michael Phelps. I don't
need to go do laps. It's great when you stay
in shape. I'm like, okay, there's also walking.
Yeah. So I'm going to say to these fish who have
to swim all day, hey, I'm going to take your
form of exercise. Even though I can go do this
own thing on my own space, my own territory,
I can go walk. I could walk from one end to the
other if I wanted to. You can't do that because
I evolved legs. I'm going to sit here and be
so cocky that I'm going to take up space in their
home and just swim around. What's more human
than that? I've evolved past needing to do this,
but I'm still going to one -up you in your home.
Yeah, I guess. I guess you're right. Okay, sorry
for that. You're good. I am learning to swim.
I'm okay in water now. So how are you learning
to swim? So I actually had Nate help me. uh last
year and i got to a decent point like i can swim
unbroken from like one end of the pool to the
other it's still a little embarrassing i think
because i mean like it's a skill that you typically
learn when you're like one did he did he take
you did he hold you at the edge of the pool and
then just toss you in until you bob back up okay
so our pool was four feet deep i don't think
there was any bobbing but um have you seen new
girl you know when nick first meets uh Tran and
Tran takes him to this like YMCA pool and just
like carries him around and hold him like a baby
that's essentially what it felt like it was incredibly
helpful he is an angel I did feel like I was
being just like cradled through the water but
hey man if it worked for Nick Miller it'll work
for me what what are you trying to accomplish
like what what is what is the plan with learning
how to swim? I, so there was actually a thing
that happened last year. Um, I went to float
the river out in the outskirts of DFW and the
water got like, I was just like walking around
and there was a drop off and I panicked and it
was just, it was a sort of like weird mental
thing. And I was like, I think I need to, I think
I need to do something to prevent this from happening
again. Cause I do like doing things in the water.
I like being. like at the beach or at pools and
stuff like that. And I don't like that I am kind
of resigned to just sitting in the shallow end.
Like I want to at least be able to do the things,
even if I don't necessarily choose to. Okay,
that makes sense. Isn't it nice to know that
whenever, like once you're out of a situation
like that, you realize how much you have to fight
to stay alive just with everyday things. And
you're like, huh, that's pretty nice actually.
You appreciate your life a little more because
you almost died because you accidentally went
two feet deeper into water than you planned to.
But there was one time I was floating or we were
in canoes and this was back in my drinking days.
And so you just you do it the whole day. And
so if you're like if you're floating like on
a tube, then you just let fly. Because it's going
to end up in the water anyways. You can't do
that in a canoe. And so we had been bottoming
out, bottoming out, bottoming out. Every time
we hit it, I felt like my bladder was going to
pop. I got out. We had just finished bottoming
out. I got out and pushed it. And then I was
just like, I'm just going to go here. And so
I walk up a little farther to get the canoe going.
And bam, instant drop off. And then I don't think
peeing in the water was the only thing that happened
during that experience. But I was clinging to
the side of the canoe, like fighting for my life
just to get back in. I would like to not experience
that because I can't even float. Really? Do you
just like panic in water? I take that back. Do
you just panic in water? Yes. But I can float
face down like a corpse. Okay. But I can't float
on my back. And I don't understand why. I don't
get why. That's interesting. I'm a lot more comfortable
floating on my back than on my stomach. I can't
do the corpse float. Nope. I can do the corpse
float all day. Interesting. So I'd be great at
snorkeling. Never tried it, but I could. Have
you ever considered going into like swim lessons?
Because your kids can all swim, right? No. No
to swim lessons or no your kids can't swim? Their
version of swimming is, flailing enough to get
from one end to the next but they have some people
in their lives which are not me saying oh they're
such great swimmers you're you're doing great
but if they were in a life or death situation
their flailing would get them five feet and then
they'd be at the bottom of the water so every
time that they tell me no i can swim it's like
okay but but you still need a lot of work everyone
needs to needs to keep working on all kinds of
stuff so uh maybe let's not be so confident about
it i was actually listening to a podcast today
about a guy that won't give his children like
uh floaties like arm floaties or uh the like
the best things yeah puddle jumpers yeah yeah
he said because it gives them a false sense of
security and so if they feel like if they can
do it with it then they don't see the connection
like that is the thing that is keeping them from
drowning and so Whenever they don't have it,
they have the same confidence. Then bad things
happen. Yeah. Which I get. I get that. But I
don't know. I mean, I've always had a, I would
call it a healthy fear of water. Are you rabid?
Are you afraid of water? I'm not hydrophobic,
but I am a little phobic, I guess. Is that going
to be one of our clips? Sure, yeah. We can make
that a TikTok sound. What? I am a little phobic.
I was about to say, what video would I'm not
hydrophobic, but I'm a little phobic be? I think
if they just cut out the I'm a little phobic
part, I would do really well on a certain side
of the internet. Probably not a side I want to
be on, but I could. I don't know that I know
what connection you're making there, and I think
I'm okay with that. I mean, there's all kinds
of phobics that people throw out there. It's
usually when they've lost an argument about something
or they want to make a statement but not really
say anything. Thoughts and prayers. So they'll
just call you blank phobic or that. Yeah, it's
the hateful side of thoughts and prayers. So
they're on the same coin. Thoughts and prayers
is like, I don't have anything of use to say,
but here you go. I hope you feel better. Whereas
the other side, I don't have anything useful
to say here, but phobe. Sure. I wish that we
could just start saying bummer in that situation.
I think it would be equally as effective. Something
terrible just happened. Thoughts and cares. We
just laid my father to rest today. Bummer. It's
exactly as sincere. It's more sincere. It is
just as sincere. Yeah. I completely forgot where
we were. We were on Baby Deepfakes. Baby Deepfakes.
Alongside Deepfakes. Alongside Deepfakes. Do
you remember, have you seen the difference in
AI -generated videos with Will Smith eating spaghetti?
Yes. I don't get it. It is so strange. It is.
If you've seen the one from, I think it was 2022,
maybe? 23? It was only a couple years ago. But
he looks horrifying. Cause you can tell that
it's like shuffling through too many pictures
of Will Smith to be able to create like a cohesive
image of who he is. Yeah. And so it like extends
out his mouth. And so he kind of looks like a
horse for a lot of it. It's, it's bizarre. I
recommend that you watch it, but they redid.
Do you think it is a conspiracy that Will Smith
is the one putting them all out? That way he
keeps himself relevant post slap. I think that
he's already made enough money that he has to
kind of coast. I don't think that he's relevant
online because you can tell that he's trying
to do the TikTok thing on his own channel and
it's just not working. He did a video with them.
He's got to pay to support those two hanger -ons
that he popped out. Are Willow and Jaden not
doing things? I don't know. I would assume not.
Have you not seen that Key and Peele sketch where
he's Jaden? And his manager is just naming off
random stuff and he makes it as bougie and as
nonsensical as possible because he just doesn't
understand normal things because he's Jaden Smith.
Do you remember when he tweeted that a hotel
chain spiked his pancakes with cheese? No, I
don't. That was a fun time. It was like a Four
Seasons, I think, and he went to Twitter to...
express his displeasure because they spiked his
his pancakes with ricotta cheese it was a crash
out before there was a crash out what was he
having crepes or blintzes blintzes are supposed
to have cottage cheese you know what i don't
i don't know it's been a minute since i've had
to think about jaden smith is he too rich to
know what a blintz is is that where that sketch
came from maybe you're gonna send me into a jaden
some recon In Family Guy, they say that he looks
like a wet baby horse, and I can't unsee that.
Every time I've seen Jaden Smith since that episode
came out, I just think about how he looks like
a wet baby horse, which makes a lot more sense
if you think about Will Smith's original spaghetti
video making him look like a horse. Do you see
that picture? I don't know what thing he was
at, but he just had a house on his head. No.
Oh, yes, yeah. Yeah. Weird times. We're still
in them. We're still in them, yeah. So aside
from... Will Smith eating spaghetti, which looks
problematically real these days. Although I do
think that maybe that video is actually Will
Smith eating spaghetti. It looks too unnervingly
real. Or we've gotten to a point where you'll
never know. Maybe we're deep fakes. Who's to
say? I have all 10 of my fingers. They're normal.
Me too. This would be a perfect time for it to
be like that Timothy Chalamet skit on SNL. Where
he just has, like, seven. Have you read anything
that's been, like, very clearly done by ChatGPT?
Not that I've noticed, no. Well, I mean, there's
one trend that I would love to go away is on
Twitter. Their version of ChatGPT is called Grok.
And so... Anytime there's anything, whether it's
a piece of news, whether it is a picture of something,
whether it's a video of someone melting down,
whether it's someone just getting their head
popped off, because that's something you can
see on Twitter. Without a doubt, the first comment
you're going to see is, at Grok, is this true?
Oh, thanks. Every single time. So whatever Grok
is, is the ultimate decider in real and fake.
Apparently, yeah. I have never spent any time
on X, so I have no idea what the platform looks
like. You should check it out. I'm good. It's
the Wild West, man. I believe it. No, thank you.
I deal with X in conversation plenty in this
great city of Austin, so I think I'm at my limit
without having to actually be on the website.
Lucky you. So I did sales for a little bit. And
one of the things that they told us when I was
in training is like they encouraged us to use
chat GPT to write our emails or to at least like
create skeletons and stuff. And we would like
personalize them from there. And I think that
in it of itself is not great. Like it feels like
an auto dialer where you write like one or you
have one person saying a script and then they
just repeat it. to a thousand different yeah
it starts it starts feeling like telemarketing
that's what i was trying to think of telemarketing
one of the the dead giveaway is the thing that
they like coached us on if we were using chat
gpt to write an email is that it will always
start with i hope this email finds you well if
you ever get an email that starts with i hope
this email finds you well or you get an email
with the subject line that includes emojis like
it'll be like a rocket emoji and like sparkle
emojis or whatever and then the thing and then
the same emojis Sales are going through the roof.
Written by ChatGPT. Yeah. I hope this email finds
you well is the equivalent of thoughts and prayers.
Yeah. Or phobe. Sure, yeah. It means absolutely
nothing. I don't give a shit what's going on
with you. Read this because I need that money.
I tried my best to not use ChatGPT, but I also
knew that that put me at a really large time
disadvantage. Because a lot of my colleagues
and stuff were listening to our trainers and
were doing things through chat GPT. And it took
me so long to craft any email. And realistically,
it was still getting filtered through spam anyway.
Because a lot of those spam filters for professional
email accounts are company -wide emails. They
put filters on things that make it sound like
it's done through AI. So there's not really a
whole lot of ways to get through those filters
if you're not... a member of the staff in that
company. Yeah. Cause I'll, I'll get emails. I'll
get work emails and it'll always say outside
email. And then it'll say, you don't usually
get emails from this person. And those are just
the ones that get filtered through. If you go
through my spam, it's like thousands of them
of, Hey, we've got this great business opportunity
that could really help your business grow. That
kind of stuff. There's been a rise in chat GPT
usage for creative endeavors, which I think is
something that's both really interesting and
really sad. So one of the things that I found
on, I think I saw it on TikTok maybe like a couple
of weeks ago. There's an author named Lena McDonald
and she wrote a book called The Dark Hollow Academy.
The second one came out recently and she is in
deep, deep trouble. Because she not only wrote
her book with one of the large language models,
maybe Chad GPT, maybe another one, but it is
evident that she wrote it through one of the
large language models because there is a paragraph
in the text that she very clearly did not proofread
with the prompts that she put into this engine.
What was the prompt? So it's not the prompt.
It's part of like, you know how if you put...
If you ask ChatGPT a question, it'll say, so
here is what I did. And then it'll have the actual
thing it did. It includes that. She copy pasted
literally the entire response. So that starts
out in this chapter. I've rewritten the passage
to align with Jay Bree's style, which features
more tension, gritty undertones, and raw emotional
subtext beneath supernatural elements. And then
it continues with the story. But she did. She
did. Did she write the supernatural context part?
I don't think so. Oh, so this is like, so she
wrote her prompt and then she, but it was like
the prompt was like, make it like this. So. And
then that's what it's saying. So essentially
what she did was, hey chat GPT, write me this
kind of story. Make it emulate whoever Jay Bree
is. Make it emulate Jay Bree's style with the
gritty undertones, tension, whatever. And that's...
How is J. Bree spelled? It's J .B .R .E. And
what's her name? Lena McDonald. Yeah, so J. Bree
is a whole nother author. Broken Bonds, The Sword.
So this wasn't even, she wasn't even asking for
it based on like her own work. Well, a side note
to that, you can follow us on, I swear this is
going somewhere. X at CashExchangePod, Instagram
at CashExchangePodcast, TikTok the CashExchangePodcast,
or Gmail CashExchangePodcast at gmail .com. And
on our Instagram every Tuesday, you'll find I
give you three clues as to what the three things
are going to be in the title of the episode,
which ultimately will lead us into the topic
of the episode. It's a fun game. You should try
it out. You should. Absolutely. No one has passed
it yet. And I'm not going to say their layups.
I guess I can't say their layups. You should
know because then I'd know. I don't know. There's
no way to test myself on these, I guess. We can
have the partners. I mean, she sees them every
Tuesday. She's like, I have no clue what that
is. Does she make guesses in the comments? I
can't because I'm a part of the actual thing.
Yeah, that's true. Or you could throw in some
red herrings. True. Anyways, okay, so this last
one was Madam Web, internet meltdowns, and sermon
farts. Sure, yeah. And this whole thing came
about because I didn't know how to illustrate
a sermon fart without it being, like, just overtly
crass and just no subtlety whatsoever. So what
I did was... I put a prompt into ChatGPT, and
I said, create me a picture that has Madam Web
watching an internet meltdown of a preacher during
a sermon. And apparently to create images, I
guess it's some legal thing, you have to create
an account, so I created an account, so now I'm
in the system. That's how they get you. But after
I created the account, it created the image.
And it's exactly what I had envisioned for what
I wanted this picture to look like. And it is
on our Instagram that you can go see right now.
And so after that, I was like, oh, this is great.
Because it takes me forever to find, if I don't
have a picture, like a picture that I've personally
taken of one of the three things for our episode,
then I have to go track it down. And you can't
just pull it from Google. Because most of that
stuff has copyrights and all this other stuff,
so you leave yourself open to those kind of things.
Are we going to get popped for how many people
see our stuff? Probably not. But in the future,
they could. Does copyright protection affect
an Instagram post if you're not using it, like
claiming it as your own? If you're trying to
monetize, yeah. Okay. Because then you're making
money off someone else's work. Okay. Which I
mean, right now, nothing like Instagram isn't
monetized. YouTube isn't monetized. So we're
in the clear right now. But once we make that
transition, then all that stuff could be fair
play. And so I have to go to these websites.
And there's one that is pretty good for getting
me a general picture of what I'm asking for.
And those are attribution free. So that means
you don't have to put the creator in the... the
description and you don't have to pay a royalty
or a licensing fee or anything like that so just
out of curiosity i asked chat gpt after gave
me this picture i said do i need to credit chat
gpt for this photo or do i need to like say anything
about where this photo came from because it's
very obviously ai generated uh yeah ai generated
yeah and so it what it came back to me was saying
that you don't need to You don't need to tell
anyone that it came from chat GPT. You don't
need to give us any attributes, any royalties,
or anything like that. One thing that will be
dictated by whatever platform you post it on
is whether you have to list it as AI or not.
Okay. And so just to be safe on, and because
it's just so obvious, on this most recent post,
there's a little tab you can click where if AI
was any part of it, then... You just do that.
And so that's what I did. And I mean, I don't
know. I liked it because I put our logo on it.
I put a background on it and all that stuff.
Have you seen it? Yeah. Do you like it? I have
a massive, massive grievance with ChatGPT, Copilot,
all of the large language models and stuff generating
images. I hate it. See, I do too. Because there's
people that could do it, but I'm not people that
could do it. And, I mean, I need these usually
by Tuesday. So I get the cutting out the human
element of it. But I'm also not an artistic person.
Sure. In that, like, as far as drawing or any,
like, physical media, like, that's just not my
cup of tea. Sure. So that's, I definitely. see
the issue with it but I guess it just doesn't
affect me as much as it would affect other people
like like you you're the one that created our
logo like I don't think that that's something
that would have come easily for AI to do like
I've given I gave you a like a general outline
of what I wanted it to look like and then we've
we've tweaked it a couple times since then and
there's definitely like human touches on it sure
So I don't know. I mean, I definitely, I get
the grievance of people who are saying that you're
taking the human out of the equation. I think,
so the problem with like artificially generated
images and stuff is not that you're taking humans
out of the equation necessarily. It is that you
are stealing their work. So it's not like chat
GPT. It's based on something. Right. So it's
not like chat GPT is pulling from nothing. It
can't just. Imagine just yet. Like it's not to
the point so far as we know that it can just
create things out of thin air. What it's doing
is it's pulling from Instagram. It's pulling
from Google images. It's pulling from X, TikTok,
whatever. It's pulling from every source on the
internet where people are posting the things
that they do. They're posting their own work.
And then it's basically just creating some kind
of amalgamation, slapping a filter on it, calling
it its own. It is plagiarism. And so like it's,
I'm an artist. So it is. personally really like
irritating whenever people will use like artificially
generated things especially whenever they like
there's a bunch of artists and stuff that will
show up on my TikTok feed because I follow a
lot of artists and so it's like oh you might
also like this and all of these artists have
a very similar art style and it is pretty evident
because of the the similarities in their art
styles that what they're doing is they'll have
like The artificially generated image is like
the background and then like pretend to do brushstrokes
and stuff so that they can claim it as their
own. And so it's like that is inherently just
nauseating because I can guarantee that with
the amount of views and the amount of follows
and stuff that these people have, like it's definitely
monetized. Like a lot of these people sell like
courses and stuff and I can't imagine that they're
actually doing anything legitimate in them. But
there's a lot of people who probably wouldn't
be able to tell the difference and know that
these people are just straight up lying to you.
And so I have a hard time doing the artificially
generated images. It does save you a lot of time,
saves you a lot of money, manpower, all of the
things. I understand the merits, but it's at
best a little dicey. No, I get it. And I felt
a certain way just pulling from it for the last
episode. But I just I was sitting there and never
tried it. So gave it a shot and liked what the
outcome was. But no, I definitely get your side
of it. There's also whenever I was trying to
like brainstorm like logo ideas, I was kind of
coming up like I was coming up blank. And so
I asked ChatGPT or Copilot or one of them. I
was like, give me some like ideas for a general
thing. It's like I gave them a general rundown
of the podcast. It was like, it's a sibling thing.
We're talking about like a variety of topics,
whatever. And what it gave me was just stuff
that was very clearly ripped off of like a clip
art site. And it was like not really tweaked.
Like there was, I'm sure, like one to one version
of the podcast logos that it was giving me that
were on like Vector Bay or. Or not Vector Bay,
it's Pixabay. Or any of those clip art sites
where you have to pay royalties to the people
who actually made them. And I was like, I don't
think I want to use this for my brainstorming.
It also made me feel really lazy, but that's
neither here nor there. No, like I said, I definitely
get it. And it's not just the art. I mean, like
you were saying, it's books, it's music, it's...
voices it's people's personalities it's people's
uh likeness it's all that stuff that is it all
came from somewhere and it didn't start at chat
gpt and then there's going to come a time where
all of the original creators that it's pulling
information from is all or they're all dead they're
all gone and then it is going to be its own thing
and by then it's just it's going to be a uh It's
going to be the Wild West for anything that it
creates because this stuff is, like you said,
it's getting worse and worse, I guess, based
on your perspective as time goes on. So the further
along we get with it, the more and more this
stuff is just going to be taking over everyone
else's ideas. And we're going to get to a point
where just everything is AI. There's not going
to be any originality to anything anymore. There
was a video that I watched a little while ago
from Film Theory. I don't know if you follow
that channel. If you don't, you absolutely should.
Any listener should. They're a great resource.
But they were talking about kind of like the
future of film. And one of the things that they
were talking about was that whenever a person
dies, theoretically their identity goes into
the public domain 70 years after their death.
We are coming up on the 70th year of James Dean.
And Marilyn Monroe is not too far after. Once
they go back in the public domain, we could realistically
use deep fakes of them to make them stars in
movies in the 2020s. And a lot of the Disney
actors and things have had to get themselves
scanned in whenever they get cast for a movie
because Disney wants their likeness in the case
that they need to do any digital retouching in
the... A part of their contract. Yeah. So in
case that they need to do any retouching or anything
later on, or if an actor were to die and they
needed to finish up a couple of scenes. But that's
why they, again, theoretically, have all of these
characters and all of these actors and things
cataloged. But what it means in the grander scheme
is that eventually when AI gets... Actually,
I don't even know if that's an AI point necessarily,
but once these actors go back into the public
domain... Disney can capitalize on them again
with no need to pay royalties to them because
it's not technically them. It's not technically
due to their estate. It's Disney owns the rights
to this person's likeness because they signed
a contract for it. Well, like, did they ever
do anything with Chadwick Boseman after he died?
He didn't he die in the middle of something?
I don't remember which movie it was. Was it Black
Panther? I think Black Panther was done before
he died. Was it? I think so. I think maybe Infinity
War Part 2 or whatever the last Avengers movie
was. Oh, sorry, Black Panther 2, not the first
one. Oh. The one that's about Shuri. Yeah, I
don't know if he was alive for any of that production
or if he already saw the writing on the wall
and so he wasn't involved at all. I wouldn't
think that that was the case, but I remember
the first part being a funeral, so they didn't
have him in it. physically or digitally yeah
but i don't know if he was in whatever avengers
movie that was that came out before that end
game i don't know if he was fully in that or
he was physically i think there was a movie that
he was working on but i don't think it was one
of the marvel ones maybe like 21 bridges was
his last one i know there was a movie that there
was a movie that or it was uh i think it was
avengers the second one uh or whatever the last
of the trilogy is The second half of the end
one. End game. Yeah. And there was a woman that
was from Doctor Strange, maybe. I don't know.
I'm butchering this story. I have the bullet
points, though. And they asked her to come back.
And I guess they asked her to come back for,
like, such a pittance. Like, it was just, like,
insultingly low, I think, is the general idea
of how she felt about it. So they were just like,
she said, no, I need more money. And they're
like, no. And they used her, but they used a
digital copy of her because they had it. And
I mean, she wasn't like a main character or anything,
but that is a perfect example of what you're
saying about how they just own these people's
likenesses and these people are still alive.
Yeah. And so if you don't want to play ball,
then they can just do it without you. Yeah. Like
whenever Carrie Fisher died. And they were in
the middle of filming... I don't remember if
it was Rise of Skywalker. It was one of the newer
Daisy Ridley Star Wars movies. But they brought
back Carrie Fisher for one last scene. Fully
digitally entered into the thing. And I can understand
why they... But wasn't it... Didn't they just
cut her out of extra scenes from the previous
movie? They... Maybe? I thought that they made
her into an entirely different scene. I didn't
think they copy -pasted something from a different
movie. I think that they used bonus footage from
the last movie and put her in the third one.
I think, I don't know. I'm pretty sure that's
how it went down, though. Okay. Yeah, I don't...
The optics of it are still a little creepy. That,
like, the person is gone. It makes some sense
to want to honor her by bringing her in one last
time for a franchise that she was the cornerstone
for. But also, like, it... It feels like a kind
of gross cash grab. I think in the sense of like
adding in characters digitally or like de -aging
them or whatever. I think that Indiana Jones
and the Dial of Destiny. Terrible movie, by the
way. Oh, it was just like that last Star Wars
movie that she was shoehorned into. Yeah. Indiana
Jones and the Dial of Destiny. Terrible movie.
But the beginning of Dial of Destiny was a de
-aged Harrison Ford. He's in like his 30s, 40s,
maybe. And it feels like that was Disney's test
run to see how audiences would react to scenes
like that. Because they did it to an extent in
the last Pirates of the Caribbean, but it wasn't
as extensive as this one. And I think this was
them trying to see if they could get it to work
with audiences. It didn't, thankfully. But they
couldn't. Because that was bad. Both of them
were very, very bad. And it was very obvious.
I mean, first off, you know that Harrison Ford
is like, is he in his 80s now? I think so, yeah.
Yeah. And so it's obvious. Yeah. You find someone
that looks similar enough and then just let them
do those scenes. I mean, you already have this
geriatric over here when he's... Like, himself,
as an older Indiana Jones, doing all this stuff
that you know he's not doing. Like, you know
this is all stunt doubles. And they're just plastering
his face on it. And then the same thing with,
what was that, Pirates 5? I couldn't tell you.
I don't know which one it was. But it just, it
doesn't, it completely takes you out of it. I
think it's almost more. Like, just use someone
that looks similar to them, but is the age that
you're going for. I think it's almost more egregious
what they did with Pirates of the Caribbean because
it was like a shorter thing. But they did such
a good job with Barbossa. Like they absolutely
nailed it in the original Pirates of the Caribbean.
And it has just gone downhill. Like the CGI has
just gotten so lazy and formulaic. Well, I mean,
the same thing with Voldemort in the Harry Potter
movies. Yeah. Like they completely erased this
man's nose. And those looked great. Yeah. Dobby.
So maybe the thing is, don't make them human.
So I was reading about the Barbossa CGI. This
was a while ago. But it was from a person who
had actually worked on that kind of CGI. And
they basically said that the reason that the
ones later on are lazy when it comes to CGI,
or why CGI now looks kind of crappy compared
to the early 2000s, is because... This was still
new enough and there were only so many people
who were great at what they did that they were
paid properly. And then they started trying to
turn them into sweatshops. People had to churn
out just so much CGI for everything that Disney
put out or that any company put out that it ended
up having to be streamlined in a way that absolutely
ruined the effect. Well, you get so terrified
of people's attention spans getting shorter and
shorter. that you can't have a movie that is
going to take three years to come out to do it
the right way. And the first three, no, four,
first four Pirates of the Caribbean movies are
great movies. Like the first Pirates movie was
one of my favorite movies growing up. Yeah. And
so it's just, I don't know, it's just, it all
just reeks of greed. And really when you boil
it down, almost all of AI. It's just greed -based.
It's what we can churn out as quickly as possible
to keep up with these attention spans, to pull
as much money from them as possible. I don't
even think the issue necessarily with the fifth
Pirates movie is that the CGI is bad. It's the
fifth. It didn't matter how long it took or how
much effort was put into it. It was the fifth
in a series. The fifth is... It's never necessary.
You're telling me you couldn't tell that story
in eight hours? Probably more than that. I'm
like strangers. Are you saying the Half -Blood
Prince isn't necessary? That's the fifth one,
right? I don't know. Probably. I don't know.
I know Goblet of Fire is four. Half -Blood Prince
is the fifth book, I think, yeah. Yeah. So that's
not necessary to the story? I think if it is
like a fleshed out story that takes place, like
that is already start to finish made, then it's
different. that whole saga was supposed to take
as long as it did. But Pirates of the Caribbean
was a thing that they were just like, you built
a house and then you decided you wanted an addition
and then another addition. At some point, like
the thing is going to collapse because it's just
not supposed to keep building off of this one
great thing. No matter how structurally sound
the original house was, it will fall down. It's
all based on a ride from the 60s. Yeah. All of
this entire empire is built on a ride that lasts
like what? Six minutes? Seven minutes? And it
worked. And then they tried that over and over
and over again with, like, Tomorrowland. Yeah.
The movie with George Clooney. Jungle Cruise.
Terrible. Jungle Cruise? Nope. I don't know.
50 -50 on that. I'm more of a fan of it becoming
a great Weird Al song than a movie. But the movie
is mindless fun, I guess. Sure. I definitely
wouldn't say, oh, Jungle Cruise is my... favorite
movie like i would have for the pirates movies
but yeah and uh they just kept trying to catch
that lightning again and it just never happened
yeah i mean if it's a story that actually has
ground to it audiences won't mind waiting i think
the problem is that a lot of these studios and
things don't want to put the effort into the
story so they're not going to put the like they're
just gonna shoehorn it into whatever their like
schedule looks like yeah That was a decently
sized segue. All right, remind me where we were.
Actually, I don't even know if that was a segue.
That was still a valid part of how AGI, I was
going to say AI, but AGI works too, how AGI is
ruining our society. The next thing I had was
the ecological side of AI. Here comes the hippie.
Absolutely. Did not know, and I don't know that
it's common knowledge, that things like ChatGPT,
Copilot, all of the large language models are
awful for the environment. Yeah, I don't think
that's talked about very much. It should be.
So for the uninitiated, large language models
have, it has so much information to pull from
every time you ask it a question. So it's not
just like... you ask chat GPT and chat GPT will
Google it for you. And it will just like spit
back common sense answers or like most common
answers. What happens is that it will have to
scour thousands of sources, millions of sources,
and then it will compile all of that stuff to
give you the best possible answer that it can.
What happens is that all of that work, all of
that computing goes through data centers. Data
centers are. cooled with water typically. And
just so that like the CPUs and things don't overheat
in server rooms. And this is overly simplistic.
I'm not super, super familiar with the technology,
but you ask ChatGPT a question, it goes through
a data center and it pulls all of this water
through to cool down the systems. But what happens
is both that it is incredibly water intensive,
which is super dangerous in places like California,
where a lot of these data centers are. where
there happen to be a lot of wildfires. And it's
incredibly dangerous because it also raises the
temperature of the air around it. So it is a
massive contributor to global warming in the
long run. And these places have massive footprints.
It's like these colossal, colossal buildings
that the only thing they do is they're just filled
with servers. And for, I guess, for those that
don't know, anytime you do... Anything on your
computer, any time that you put an input in and
you expect an output, that all gets run through
a CPU, and the CPU will pull from your memory
in your laptop or computer or desktop, whatever
you have, and then it'll send out the information
to the Internet, and then it'll send it back
to you. But all that stuff causes heat. All that
stuff, and that heat has to go somewhere. And
so that's the reason that your fans turn on on
your laptop when you start doing intensive work.
That's the reason that your stuff gets warmer
whenever you're on it for a long time. So it's,
yeah, it's a huge problem. And there's lots of
things that they're trying to mitigate those
issues, but we're nowhere near. a sustainable
point right now and it's the same problem that
you run into with uh bitcoin mining too because
that is also very cpu intensive and that's you
have to have like the they have these farms that
just have these things that are running these
huge uh equations non -stop just over and over
and over again 24 7 and all that stuff needs
to be Cooled down too, and not just that, but
you also have to take into the electrical implications
of all that because those data farms use up a
lot of electricity too. And our power grid is
already stretched incredibly thin. Especially
in Texas. Especially in Texas, yeah. So more
of the data centers, which are soon to be moving
to Austin, soon to be moving to, I think Irving
is about to get one or just got one. There's
a couple that have been like on the rise in Texas
and we cannot handle it. No. We're not built
for it. We're not prepped for it. No, because
for those who don't know, what was it like? 2021.
Was it 2021? Yeah. We had a huge ice storm, and
in Texas we're not used to huge ice storms, so
we don't have ways to prepare for it. We don't
really know what that all entails, but almost
the entire grid for the state of Texas went down.
And just people all over the state had no power
for... what week and a half yeah we we lost power
for four days i think yeah i was lucky enough
that i was heading out of town so i didn't have
to deal with the ramifications of it too much
but for everyone i talked to i mean it was it
was miserable uh if it wasn't the the power outages
it was the burst pipes it was the we had a huge
pile up on uh the highway because people don't
know how to drive in the ice. 144 cars. Yeah,
it was a gigantic mess, and all of that stuff
is only going to be compounded with all the extra
stress put on by data farms and all this other
electricity -intensive stuff. Yeah, so I have
been on the job hunt for... broader scheme of
things since I graduated college back in 2021
but more specifically I've been job hunting for
the last like two weeks I've applied to everything
I've applied to all of the things on LinkedIn
and I've because I'm like open to work on LinkedIn
so much of my like feed on the website is just
like people complaining on either side. So either
of the people that are looking for work or the
people that are trying to find candidates. And
the biggest problem is that it's no longer a
conversation between people. Like essentially
what has happened to the hiring process for just
about any job in like corporate, at least, is
that you'll apply to a job. You'll maybe write
your resume with AI. You maybe won't. But a lot
of these recruiters and stuff, because they are
posting their jobs online, anyone can apply.
These people are getting applications where it's
just like they're inundated with thousands of
them. They can't realistically filter through
all of them. So what they do is they have, I
think it's called ATS, where it's like an automated
resume tracker. And it uses AI to basically like
filter out people who wouldn't be like worth
talking to. And because of that, it's basically
just AI talking to AI deciding whether or not
you deserve a job. And so recruiters would get
upset because people would be using AI for their
resumes or they'd be like lying on their applications.
But it's literally the only way that you can
kind of get through to an actual human being
to have a conversation. And then I've gotten
a ton of automated messages that's like, oops,
better luck next time. Like, I don't think I've
spoken to a single human being in the hiring
process. It is genuinely just so disheartening.
It's ridiculous. What if that was actually the
response you got? We received your email. We
received your resume. And the results are, better
luck next time. Honestly, that's almost what
all of them say. It's like, we've chosen another
candidate, but we'll keep your resume on file
in case something else comes up that you might
be good for. Like, okay. I don't believe that's
ever worked for anyone. Sorry, we couldn't approve
you for this loan right now. But check back in
60 days and reapply. Because maybe something
magic is going to happen by then. Yeah. And the
same thing that's happening with the job hunt
right now is happening with higher education.
So a lot of... I graduated, I think, before it
was the biggest problem in college. So higher
education has also been seriously affected by
AI and it, I don't know if I was maybe done with
college before it got so like deeply ingrained
in the system or I don't know. There was still,
there's still definitely some bits and pieces
of AI in college whenever I was enrolled. because
they'll have like plagiarism checkers and things
that were done through AI. So it would check
over your paper and make sure that it wasn't
under, or it wasn't over like 5%, I think, copy
pasted. But there's a lot of people that are
using AI to write their essays to turn them in
for professors to use AI to grade their essays.
So at some point, like you're just paying for
nothing. You're not getting an actual education
because the professors aren't teaching you anything.
You're not writing anything. So you're not learning
on your own. This is just AI grading a different
AI. I don't know. So we went over it in a podcast
a couple episodes ago of like, you're going to
need this later. And I think that that is absolutely
fundamental to growing as a human being. I think
that whenever you take the... the actual effort
that it takes for you to remember that stuff
to the point that you can explain it to somebody
else. Because I think that is like the actual
mastery of a skill is you being able to teach
another person about it. So it's not necessarily
that you wouldn't be able to Google it. It's
not like I can't use my calculator if I'm doing
math. It's that I know how to get from point
A to point B. Even if I don't have to regularly
do it. So like you being able to properly Google
something is not, I don't know. It feels like
a waste of all of your tuition money. If the
only thing that you're getting out of it is that
I was more effective at searching something.
I don't remember the things for most of my classes,
but I know how to look it up in the future if
I need it. Yeah. This is supposed to be. done
in a way that maybe that's, that's me being more
adopting a more antiquated ideal of what college
is supposed to be. Cause it's not necessarily
the experience that I had. I could have used
chat GPT or any of like the, the AI models to
write something for me. But did, did you go to
classes until actually in classes with other
people? Yeah. Yeah. See, I didn't. Yeah. If I
could do it all over again, I would definitely
do it in person because I think I would have
gotten a lot more out of it than I did. At the
end of the day, I still got the same piece of
paper. I still got the same information. I probably
just didn't get the same kind of experiences
out of it. Sure. I think, I don't know, the purpose
of education in general is not necessarily to
tell you what to think. It's to teach you how.
And I feel like that's a thing that is completely
abandoned whenever you are willing to write your
essay by prompting AI. Well, I should also say
that any essays that I needed to write, I wrote
myself because I enjoy writing essays. But you
said that was all you had? That was the last
of my cons, yeah. I do have some issues that
you didn't bring up. So, I think... that Facebook
posts to boomers is like AI to millennials. What?
So whenever, it's usually older people, boomers,
maybe even older than boomers, just people that
are on Facebook, which I think generally leans
a little older these days, they'll see a post,
and then, did you hear about this? Did you hear
about this thing that happened? And I can't believe.
That's what happened. And then you're like, that
definitely did not happen. But the new age version
of that for millennials and people our age is
AI. Because we can actually see a thing and we
say, can you believe this? And it can be political.
It can be racial. It can be just a celebrity
faux pas. I mean, it has all kinds of levels
of severity. Our thing is we were raised to be
very skeptical because we grew up in the age
of the Internet. And so boomers, older people
than us, were taught to take the word of people
that they respected to vet the people that they
were getting their information from. And then
they would be misled by that. And so we said
there can be all this stuff on the Internet.
That doesn't mean that's true. Seeing is believing.
But now we have all this AI that is showing us,
so we're seeing it, and people are believing
it. So it is believing now. It is, but that doesn't
mean that it's true. That doesn't mean that what
you're seeing is something that you should believe.
Yeah, so what is believing now? It's not seeing.
Oh, what is believing now? I thought you said,
so it is believing now. Exactly. And that is
a huge problem with AI and with the way everything
is going now. And there's two ways to look at
it. There's one, you don't believe anything.
And then you just become cynical and you just
collapse into yourself. you don't get to a point
where you can let anything or anyone in because
you don't know if you can believe it. Or you
take everything at face value and you give everything
the benefit of the doubt, and then you get burned
by that. And I think that you can try to walk
the line between the two, but the more advanced
all this AI stuff gets, the harder that's going
to be for you. And then whenever you do give
something the benefit of the doubt, whenever
you get burned by it, you feel like you're even
more scorned than you would have been otherwise.
Like if you see a video of Donald Trump giving
Biden a stone cold stunner, then you're not going
to believe it, no matter how realistic it looks.
But if you see a video of someone of a different
persuasion than you, maybe doing something that
you don't like, then you're going to believe
it and that's going to be your rallying cry and
just reaffirming all these prejudices that you
may have, you may not have, you may not even
care until you come across some piece of AI that
has led you a certain way. And like I said, the
more realistic, the less flaws you see in this
stuff, the worse it's going to get. And there's
no way to put the genie back in the bottle. I
think it's always been like that, though. There's
always been something that spreads misinformation.
So there's a Tom Segura stand -up bit where he's
talking about how we used to just not know things
or be confidently wrong about stuff. And he was
talking to his dad. And his dad said, Tom Hanks
was gay. And so Tom Segura went a very long time
just like believing Tom Hanks was gay because
why would he question it? And then he eventually
was in a conversation with a friend of his and
brought up that Tom Hanks was gay. And the friend
was like, no, he's not. What? What are you talking
about? And then this was at a point where he
could just like Google it. Turns out Tom Hanks
isn't gay. And so he goes back to his dad and
he's like, did you know Tom Hanks wasn't gay?
He was like, oh, huh. And I feel like that's
kind of the same conversation that we have with
AI is like, we're just going to keep having those
conversations. Some things don't necessarily
change because of the internet. Like, it's great
if you see a thing and you're like, ah, that
sounds a little fishy. So I'm going to Google
it and find out if that's actually true. But
at the same time, like, we've always been confidently
wrong about things. There was a little window
where it was impossible to not Google something.
But we've just kind of like circled back. Like
in the conversation that I had recently with
your son about what kind of animal Bulbasaur
was. And he just insisted that I Google it. Like
it's not, it ain't life or death. We don't need
to know what Bulbasaur is. And the worst part
about that is that I did eventually Google what
Bulbasaur was. Because I wanted to know. I felt
like I needed to know. Did I? No. For those listening,
he's a frog. I thought he was a turtle. I did
too. I don't know what that bulb is, if he's
a frog. Anyway. A growth? I don't know. Tumor?
No clue. But I would say that not knowing would
be fine if people were level -headed and could
be trusted with just, this is what I'm saying,
this is what you're saying, we're not going to
agree, that's fine. Yeah. And I don't, I don't,
I'm a voyeur as... far as twitter goes i don't
i don't get into the stuff yeah if i see something
that i think is interesting i don't agree with
or whatever i don't engage those people about
it i'll i'll maybe talk to emily about it or
i'll send something to you yeah but i'm i'm not
going to engage these people about it because
nobody can be wrong anymore There's a thing going
around of an interview that Tom Lennon did. Thomas
Lennon. I don't know. Lieutenant Jim Dangle.
New boot goofing. Oh, Thomas Lennon, yeah. Four
payments. Yeah. Who said that there's just an
entire generation of children that were never
told no. He said he grew up on the... He grew
up in Chicago, and there would just be Irish
dudes that if they got out of line, just some
random dude, and just smack them in the back
of the head. And he said, we don't have that
anymore. Kids aren't told no. Kids aren't smacked
around when they're getting out of line, so they
get back in line. And this is what has been created
because of it. And that's the kind of attitude
that you get any time you get into an argument
with anyone or any time you have a differing
opinion from anyone on the Internet. And I think
AI has a lot to do with that because... One of
the ultimate problems with AI is that it opened
the floodgates to you saying something and, okay,
where's your proof? Okay, here's my proof right
here. Here's a video of the thing that happened.
Here's the aftermath of the video. Here's everything
leading up to the thing that happened. This is
my proof. That's AI. No, didn't happen. That's
fake. That's a deep fake. And so now people that
are, no matter how stupid opinion that you have,
you could just say, no, didn't happen. Put your
fingers in your ears and yell. Yeah, it's just
the ultimate scapegoat now. Well, I know AI exists,
and so I'm allowed to say whatever I want, and
then if someone says something that I don't like
and then comes up with proof, I can say, no,
that's fake. They have this ultimate scapegoat
now. And the fake news is a Trump thing. But
it's from both sides. Yeah. And, like, there
was a video someone caught of the transportation
secretary, Pete Buttigieg, under Biden, who made
this big show about how he cared about the environment.
And he didn't want to put any more strain on
the whatever. So he was going to ride his bike
to and from work. He leaves his house. He has
a helmet. He gets on his bike. He goes about
two blocks. And then, I'm assuming it's Secret
Service, stops a black SUV. He pulls up to the
back. They put his bike in the back. He rides
in his big ass Suburban all the way to the White
House or wherever he was going. A Bear Grylls
mode of transportation. Yeah. And then, oh, OK,
well, Pete, you did this. Fake news. It's fake.
It's a deep fake. It's AI. And so that I think
that is the most glaring problem that has come
from AI is, I mean, besides the just the laziness
of everything and the. The fact that most people
feel like they don't have to think critically
anymore because everything can just be shoved
out into their face. And then they either agree
with it and say, yeah, this is it. This is the
thing. Or they say, this is fake. This is AI.
This is whatever. And it is so exhausting. And
it's only going to get worse. And I don't see
a turning point. I don't see... A time where
people say, yeah, AI exists, but then there's
also critical thinking that needs to happen too.
I disagree. So when it comes to the conversations
on the internet, it feels to me like people like
us are the majority. That there's more people
online that are not actually starting fights
on the internet. There are people who aren't
putting their opinion on the internet because
who cares? There's more people who are just like
online without necessarily interacting with the
stuff that they see. Those people can engage
in person and should, I think, be taken more
as the whole than the exception. The people who
are online are more subject to be bots, not actual
people. They are more subject to be wrong, louder.
because there are no consequences for anything
you say online. And they're just a fraction of
the population who is the most bored, who feels
like it is their duty for some reason to shove
their opinions down your throat. Well, and it
is actively incentivized for people to post something
that they know is false, something that they
know is not true, just so they can get interactions,
just so they can get... Yeah. And it goes up
the algorithm and then it gets shown to more
people. Clicks over sincerity. The more people
that see it, the more people that interact with
it, the more money you can make. And I don't
know how you undo that system. I have one solution
that seems to be gaining traction in our generation.
Going dark? Yes. So this is a conversation that
you and I have had a thousand times at this point.
I talk about how aware that I am of all of the
time that I spend on my phone, but knowing that
amount doesn't change how much time I spend on
my phone, right? Yeah. So I caved. And I got
this. What? Why didn't you tell me? I got it
today. I was actually going to tell you today
because I just got it. I got a flip phone. This
thing contains maps. So like if I need to. I
can navigate with it. But honestly, most of my
traveling right now is just done from here to
work or the like local grocery stores, restaurants,
whatever places that like I know. So I don't
see myself needing that all that often. It does
calls, texts, and I have to get used to a different
kind of T9. This is a little strange. And yeah.
technically I can get online if I want to, but
it is a deeply long and annoying process. I know
because setting it up today was a very long and
annoying process. So I have to think, I have
to think through whether or not I want to Google
something because the amount of time that it's
going to take me on a T9 to figure out what kind
of animal Bulbasaur is, it's very different from
just being like, Hey Google, what kind of animal
is Bulbasaur? Well, I'm proud of you. Good job.
So I will be, I will be adding a little, little
progress in my, in my future episodes. See how
my, my life is going in a digital detox. Congratulations
for pulling the trigger on that. Yeah. I got
to a point where I realized how much time I was
spending on my phone and like, I would be aware
that I was doom scrolling and that I shouldn't
be, that there were things I could be doing instead.
Cause it would be at like the checkout line at
the grocery store when I just. didn't have a
thing to do. I was just standing there and I
would just be scrolling through Instagram. And
at some point I was just like, I don't know why
I'm doing this. I know it doesn't make me happy.
I know nothing that I'm looking at makes me happy.
There's maybe like quick hit dopamine. And then
what? Then I just keep scrolling for my next
quick hit of dopamine. Wow. Congratulations.
Thanks. All right. Last gripe. All right. What
you got? Is this is where the evolution is going
to come into play. We have catapulted ourselves
to the top of the food chain. There is absolutely
no reason that we should be over a lion, a tiger,
a bear. Oh, my. Or a shark or any of these apex
predators. But the reason that we are is because
we evolved to be smarter. then all of these other
animals, all these things that could easily rip
us apart, could easily track us down and just
devour us, we have intelligence on our side.
We have the intelligence to create weapons. We
have the intelligence to create habitats for
ourselves to where we keep these animals away.
And we have numbers and we have all this other
stuff on our side. And so... What we decided
to do with that is take all of this intelligence
and feed it into a computer to create artificial
intelligence, to create a mind of every human's
mind and just put it all into one central location
and think that that is not going to cause us
any harm because, oh, well, it's working for
us because we created it. Does anyone think that
it's not going to cause harm? Oh, there are people
that will completely downplay the bad aspects
of AI just because they don't want to admit to
themselves that all in all it's a pretty terrible
idea. So we're taking millions, thousands of
years of evolution and we're just shoving it
off onto this thing like the movie The Terminator
doesn't exist. And I just, I... I get the financial
aspect of it. And I get that maybe you could
say that it was inevitable. Like this is where
it was all leading anyways. I can even wrap my
head around the fact that we're all in a simulation
and it doesn't matter anyways. But I just, I
don't understand why so many people are so willing.
to throw away this evolutionary advantage we
have over every other species on this planet
and just give it away and think nothing bad is
going to happen. I think that humans thought
that they were too big to fail for a very long
time because they made it to the top of the food
chain and they were like, we're kind of unstoppable.
I'm God. The downside to that is that eventually
a system gets too big and it will crumble on
top of itself. Every empire since the beginning
of time has collapsed at some point. Right. So
I do absolutely believe in the inevitability
of us making our replacement or for something
to have usurped us in being the apex predator.
I also subscribe fully to the simulation theory,
which is probably a different can of worms, but
it's a... I think this was the natural progression
of things that we were going to find. We were
going to make something to take over for us.
Not to get too conspiracy theoristy, not quite
putting on a tinfoil hat, but there is a theory
that everything that's happened with humans has
been cyclical. So like there's a theory that
like Lemuria and Atlantis and all of these like,
like mythical cities, essentially. They existed,
but they existed for a previous iteration of
humanity. And then there was something that took
them down and then we started back over. I think
this is just us at the end of this life cycle.
This is us finding the thing that's going to
replace us and then we'll start back over. I
could get behind that, yeah. Because just looking
at how everything has progressed, even just over
the past 15 years, I don't see a way of getting
back to before. And that doesn't mean that you
can't still live your best life given all the
circumstances of everything that's going on.
You can. But I definitely think it's more of
a struggle every day to be willing to put all
that aside and live a fulfilling life for yourself.
I think humanity as a whole is leaning towards
nihilism. And I think nihilism, well, not I think.
Nihilism has two sides to that coin. You're either
nothing matters, so I'm going to live as one
continuous existential crisis, or nothing matters,
so I'm going to do what I want. Because at the
end of the day, I think it's all a matter of
which side of nihilism you subscribe to. Which
one do you think is more dangerous? I think nihilism
in and of itself is a little dangerous. Because
when you start thinking that nothing matters,
whether or not you're optimistic about the outcome
of nothing mattering, you fail to see the bigger
picture. Everything is the exact same amount
of nothing. You stop looking for, you stop looking
for meaning. And I think that is one of the most
beautiful things about humanity is that we're
always trying to figure out why's we always want
to know why a thing is what it is. Even if a
thing doesn't have an answer, we want to know
what is going on in space. So we're going to
keep searching, even though we have a really
good. There's a really good quote from Pete Holmes
about Christianity versus atheism. And a lot
of it has to do with the fact that atheists may
or may not think that whatever happens after
we die is just nothing. And you should check
it out. He makes an interesting observation on
the connections that... Christianity and atheism
may or may not have. Interesting. Okay. All right.
Any final thoughts? AI is inevitable. There are
definitely upsides to it, especially in fields
like medicine. But it is something that you should
use sparingly if you can. In the same way that
you should be careful what you consume on the
internet. because someone probably stands to
gain something from you agreeing with it, consider
that AI might be the same. That there might be
someone standing to gain from you not being able
to know a thing without using a large language
model. And if you are a nihilist, nothing matters.
Let's party. That's all I got. Well, I think
for me... Don't lose your ability to be a critical
thinker. It's one of the best qualities a human
can have is just to be able to work through a
problem. So don't let AI take over that for you.
And on that note, we'll see you. Peace out, Girl
Scouts.