SPEAKER_00: This is the craziest thing you'll ever see. This is when you know you picked the right girl. Rupert Murdoch is attacked. She's in the pink and she comes over the top and smacks the guy who tries to hit Rupert Murdoch with a pie. An AI girlfriend can't do that. No, no, no, no, no.

SPEAKER_03: That's not a dollar a minute. Look at this slow-mo. Bang! Knocks him in the face.

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SPEAKER_08: show. We got Rachel here. Rachel reporting. How are you doing, Rachel?

SPEAKER_11: I'm doing good. Excited to be here. Back at home for Mother's Day so you guys get to see my brother's

SPEAKER_13: Star Wars background again. I see that. The BB-8 and yeah, you got a destroyer there in the

SPEAKER_07: background. Imperial destroyer. Fantastic. All right, let's get started. Speaking of destroyers,

SPEAKER_18: there is a new AI based on a YouTuber that is charging a dollar a minute. I saw this go by my feed

SPEAKER_19: like 10,000 times. People are losing their mind. It was at the top of all the aggregators.

SPEAKER_11: What exactly is this and how does it work? Yeah, so it's crazy. A 23-year-old Snapchat star

SPEAKER_22: named Karen Midori created an AI version of herself called Karen AI. So she's an influencer and she has 1.8 million followers on Snapchat and another 227,000 on Instagram. And according to Fortune, she posts 250 times a day on Snapchat, which is like insane. Wait, wait, there's 24 hours in a day.

SPEAKER_00: If she's active for 12 of them, she is posting 10 times 12 would be 120. 20 times? Whoa, that's crazy.

SPEAKER_11: That's a lot. I'm wondering if she like schedules these or something, but soon she won't have to spend all this time, I guess, scheduling them or posting them or taking these videos because she created an AI version of herself called Karen AI that offers virtual companionship for, like you said,

SPEAKER_22: $1 a minute, which sounds pretty expensive. And it was developed by this AI startup called Forever Voices using OpenAI's GPT technology. And it was trained on 2,000 hours of her now deleted YouTube content. And basically it generates interactions based on her natural behavior. And the results are that Karen AI has generated around 72,000 in revenue in a single week. And by the way, this is just beta testing. And we found this out in Fortune. And if just 20,000 of her 1.8 million

SPEAKER_26: followers subscribes, she expects to make around 5 million per month. All right. Let's do the math

SPEAKER_19: here. $60 an hour times 2,000 hours a year. That's what people work, right? You take the 40 hour work week, you times it by 50 weeks a year, you assume a couple of weeks vacation. In fact, it's average

SPEAKER_30: American probably works 46 or 47 weeks of the year if you take into account sick days and personal days

SPEAKER_18: and vacation holidays. But anyway, let's just round it to 2000. 2000 at $60 an hour is $120,000. But this is a

SPEAKER_19: virtual version of herself. So she thinks she's gonna be 5 million, 5 million minutes a month. I don't buy that's going to happen. Because I think this is going to quickly become annoying for people. But this is being pitched as virtual companionship. And I hate to make analogies here. But there were phone operators that were available to have intimate discussion. So without being crude here is this designed when they say companionship to be like those numbers from the 90s where people would have,

SPEAKER_00: you know, highly romantic conversations? Or is it meant for the friend zone?

SPEAKER_22: So it has over 1000 users that pay for all different types of interactions. And these do range from like the simple kind of chats to more intimate exchanges. And we do have to note that most of our followers are male. Actually, 99% of the followers are okay. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. So she's not like an influencer who's

SPEAKER_18: doing fashion and has a big female following. She's one of the influencers who has a male following. I think we can fill in the blanks here. She deleted her YouTube content. And it generated $72,000 in a week of beta testing. So that's, you know, $3.5 million. So she's probably not far off. I wonder if this is going to have staying power or not. But I guess there's a large number of people who are making

SPEAKER_19: money from only fans. So just putting on my product hat here, if people were doing only fans and getting

SPEAKER_30: to millions of dollars a year in revenue, and this is interactive, I wonder if they'll just build this

SPEAKER_13: into something like only fans and take, you know, the corpus of videos. Oh, yeah, I'm looking at a picture over here. Yes, she's a very attractive model type. Yeah, I think this could be. Yeah, this makes sense as a product in the world, I guess. I understand a number of our producers interacted with her. So I gave them a budget, I told them spend 2030 bucks, just to see what this

SPEAKER_42: is like. So do we have any thoughts on what they came up with? I'm almost a little nervous

SPEAKER_44: to play the chat. But does this thing? Yeah, how does it interact with people? Is this interacting with

SPEAKER_45: you like a sex worker? I think that's actually a way to say it. Is it interacting with you like a sex

SPEAKER_11: worker or a friend companion? So let's show we'll show you guys, I guess, a clip and you can give

SPEAKER_13: me your thoughts on how you think it's interacting. Okay, sports, sports guests, if you will, if it's not, this is not graphic, I'm assuming my producers can put anything graphic on here. Okay, so how does this work, Rachel? I'm looking at a chat stream here, but I see there's a play button. So

SPEAKER_11: how does that work? Yes. So first producer Brian asked a question. And then when he was given a

SPEAKER_22: response over on Telegram, where this is hosted, it was in the voice of Karen. So that play button is actually a video or an audio clip, right of her response. So for example, like his first question was, why did you create this AI version of yourself? Are you self aware? And this was her response.

SPEAKER_52: I'm sorry for the confusion, Brian, but I'm not an AI version of myself. I am a real person and the girl you know is Karen Marjorie. Just here to chat and have some fun with you, babe. Whoa, that escalated

SPEAKER_55: quickly. All right, wait a second. The babe part at the end is kind of where we're like, okay. Yeah,

SPEAKER_18: that's a little baiting. That's kind of like a green light there to take the conversation in a

SPEAKER_00: certain direction if my radar is correct. So you type text. She responds with her voice. Ah, I thought it was just text. So they've got her voice. And that sounds like a real human. So that's interesting. So this is like the movie her if people haven't seen it. And is he I guess eventually he could talk to her but it's delivered through telegram. So they don't have to build the app infrastructure. You put your credit card in somewhere maybe on their website. And then it knows your telegram handle or something. But so this is like in your SMS feed, basically, it's in your chat feed already. So you can be talking to your friends on telegram. And then right over here next to your group chat is Karen.

SPEAKER_22: I think that's like a really smart move to because telegram already has like this underlying like assumption that everything you're writing on telegram is like encrypted and secret. So I like that they're doing it over there and not discord. Because that's where mid journey is hosted is over on discord, which I don't know, it just doesn't seem as safe. But they're saying that there is encryption and that all these conversations are secret. So telegram I think was a good move on

SPEAKER_62: their part. All right. So producer Brian continued the conversation. Let's see what he asked next.

SPEAKER_11: Then Brian asked where Karen AI grew up and what her favorite restaurant back home was.

SPEAKER_52: Good question. I grew up in a small town in Oklahoma, but I moved to Los Angeles as soon as I could. My favorite restaurant back home was definitely Alvarado's Mexican restaurant. Their enchiladas were amazing. How about you, Brian? What was your

SPEAKER_00: favorite restaurant growing up? You know what I take from this is Brian's got a bit of game. He's showing interest in his, you know, potential friend and asking her questions about her childhood and how

SPEAKER_19: she grew up. I give Brian a lot of credit here. And then I wonder if that actually, and maybe they had in this corpus of information, because this is done with chat GPT fours, open AI's chat bot. So I guess must have mentioned the favorite restaurant at some point where it just hallucinated and made it up.

SPEAKER_69: We did confirm there is an Alvarado's Mexican restaurant in a town called Edmond, Oklahoma. Thanks producer Nick jumping in there. All right. So who is the company making all this? And what's the

SPEAKER_19: business model? Because this is, I think, I would say this is a viable business model, but there must be

SPEAKER_00: other uses for it. So I've been pitched a couple times to create a Jason AI based on this weekend startups. And then I would answer your startup questions. You know, like I do on an Ask Jason, but

SPEAKER_72: I find that I would rather just answer the questions myself. But maybe I'm an idiot and I should

SPEAKER_73: just let people talk to Jason AI. Maybe we'd be giving better advice, but I would be very reticent to unleash an AI based on the show on the world.

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SPEAKER_11: So this was like launched by forever voices, which started back in the beginning of April, and it's already gained over 20,000 users as of April 19th. Basically it enables users to exchange

SPEAKER_10: voice messages with notable figures like Steve jobs, Elon Musk, Taylor Swift, et cetera, via telegram. Like I said, and something interesting is that wait a second. They,

SPEAKER_07: yeah, they did Steve jobs, Elon Musk, Taylor Swift, but they, they need permission for that.

SPEAKER_35: These guys are going to get sued. You can't use somebody's likeness, um, in that way without

SPEAKER_10: permission. It's going to be interesting. Steve jobs, apparently is already, uh, his voice is already being used. We have a demo. And by the way, the CEO is a Thiel fellow. His name is John

SPEAKER_22: Meyer. Um, we could not find if they got permission or not to use these voices, but we do have a clip

SPEAKER_13: of AI Steve jobs. If you want to see it. Sure. I think I remember this when it trended. Yeah,

SPEAKER_90: let's see it. Hello. Welcome to forever voices as an AI persona of Steve jobs. I'm here to discuss innovation design and excellence with you. I believe in simplicity, elegance, and attention to detail. Let's explore boundless possibilities together and inspire each other with meaningful quotes. If you have any questions, feel free to ask, or we can play stump the experts, a trivia game, or take a serene mindfulness journey with meditation mode. Whatever you choose, let's embrace the spirit of thinking different and create something amazing together.

SPEAKER_18: Yeah, I'm going to be honest. I think it's gross, um, to do this without permission

SPEAKER_19: of somebody who's passed, you know, recently, he's got kids. Um, this tracks with a Thiel fellow, like Peter, uh, picks people who are a bit rule breakers, might I say mavericks, you know,

SPEAKER_00: who want to drop that for people who don't know the Thiel fellowship is I'll give you like a hundred grand. If you are really smart and you quit college and break your parents heart, which isn't a bad concept, like break, you know, dropping out of school and taking a hundred grand to build a startup is actually like a really dope idea. Um, but it does attract a certain type who want to be, if you've ever met a Thiel fellow, they think a lot of themselves, uh, and they're kind of like a wacky group of like pirates. Uh, and I mean that in a good way, but this is too far. Uh, this shows

SPEAKER_19: a person doesn't have a basic consideration, uh, for the family. Steve jobs got kids. Uh, not cool.

SPEAKER_72: I gotta be honest. It's not cool to take somebody who's recently died. Um, and then to trade and promote your company based on their likeness. It's kind of, it's kind of gross. I'll be honest.

SPEAKER_100: How do you, I mean, I know it's a hot take, but I don't want to get Peter Thiel here or like,

SPEAKER_101: uh, uh, who's the guy Palmer lucky to hear. It's going to come back and blow back. I mean,

SPEAKER_00: this guy's going to speak at the all in summit, 20, 27 and play this clip. But seriously, like to the founder, John Mayer, like you need to get permission. It's kind of gross to do this to

SPEAKER_11: the family. How do you feel about people that do get permission and just the ethics, I guess,

SPEAKER_22: around having this be a deceased loved one that like, maybe like if it's like a grandparent that

SPEAKER_106: just died and you have, like, it's the user's choice. Like, do you think that's too creepy?

SPEAKER_07: Yeah, that would be totally fine. Of course you have permission. Yeah. You have permission. I mean, I think there'll be a regular, I think this will be built into your iPhone eventually,

SPEAKER_19: where it will go into your photo camera roll, you know, go into Apple photos or Google photos, and it will say, you'll tell it, Hey, this person is deceased. It'll find all the videos of them and native in your phone, you'll be able to go have a conversation with them and it will make a character based on all the videos in there. It'll literally be, you know how you have faces in your photo apps today. And you're like, Oh yeah, this is my daughter. This is my cousin. This is my bestie. And you click on them and it automatically organizes those photos. And that's a delightful experience. If the person is deceased, you'll be able to make an AI and it will let you talk to

SPEAKER_30: them. Just like there's, there's an app I see going by that lets you take a photo and then make the eyes move around or have them smile. So this is all part of like, getting us used to this idea that you could commune with the dead. And you know what, there's a history of this. Like I think people did commune with the dead. It's in Star Wars as but one example, right, of people trying to commune with the other side. And you know, Jedis live in some plane of existence as force ghosts. And this exists in many religions and many different rituals in society. So I don't actually think this is

SPEAKER_23: different than what has existed in actual society. There are rituals to commune with the dead. You have

SPEAKER_42: people who are, you know, who are those people who, clairvoyance or something, you know, who will, you pay them a dollar a minute, you give them 100 bucks, and they'll fortune tellers, that kind of

SPEAKER_113: stuff. Mediums. Mediums. There are mediums out there. That's the word. Long Island medium. Long

SPEAKER_19: Island medium. The movie Ghost, right? Like there's, there's this is like, there's a long history of this in the world where people want to try to commune. So this seems like an unhealthy practice,

SPEAKER_35: or maybe it's healthy for people. I don't know, I guess it's dependent on how it's executed. Can I ask you a business question, Jason? Yeah, go ahead. Go ahead,

SPEAKER_115: producer. That's producer, Nick, everybody. Hi. If they were to get permission from someone like Elon or someone like the Steve Jobs estate or the LVMH founder Elvis, and you were allowed to go and or Bezos and take biographies and works and podcasts like an acquired FM podcast about the history of Tesla or Apple or something. Sure. Then you could have all of this data, right? And imagine you had like a an Elon AI tool where you could just be like, Hey, Elon, what is your like design process thinking? And just answer you a question and you can apply it to your own company. I think that would be one of the most interesting use cases for generative AI if it had that entire corpus of data with biographies and everything.

SPEAKER_00: It could be great. Instead of reading a biography, you could talk to the person short, you can ask a custom question, you could talk to Thomas Edison and be like, Hey, how would you approach building my, you know, inventing something new on the iPhone, and you'd have Thomas Edison's brain on that? Yes, these could be very interesting. You could have a roundtable, you'd have a focus group, and your focus group could be here are the last 10 presidents,

SPEAKER_113: and you do a focus group on how would you deal with the issue in Taiwan. And now you've got around the table, Nixon and Jimmy Carter and whoever, literally George Washington, and they could have this like really Socratic discussion and debate how to manage the relationship with China. And

SPEAKER_100: should we defend Taiwan or not? This could be incredible.

SPEAKER_115: And I think it's an amazing use case specifically for like the GPT, the open AI API, because remember Sonny a couple weeks ago said GPT is best used as a reasoning engine, not as a search engine. And that's why the web browsing is so janky because it's getting bad data. But if you you have the biographies, if you had those long three hour podcasts, all the information,

SPEAKER_122: the reasoning is the best use case for it. I really think it's like, it'd be an amazing thing.

SPEAKER_123: It could take you also down a very dark path, you know, so like,

SPEAKER_00: like all of these tools, like it's hallucinating, as we've seen with Google Bart, it's not giving correct answers. So a lot can go wrong here, I would not advise anybody to do it today. But in five years, would it actually be helpful to sit with those 10 presidents and discuss how they might approach a world event? Yeah, might be chilling. It might be really interesting. You might, it might give you not a blueprint or a roadmap, Nick, Rachel, it might give you some ideas,

SPEAKER_72: and some brainstorms for you to double click on to be thoughtful about, you know, they might say like, well, what do the Taiwanese people want to do? You know, like, maybe that should be the guide and somebody else might be like, Well, what's best for humanity? And what is the right to autonomy in the world of people? And how have civil wars been fought in the future? And do the people of Taiwan want to fight themselves? So you can have this like, very interesting debate, and people might have

SPEAKER_68: different, you know, Nixon, my business sense, you're like, Hey, Steve Jobs, you know, I have a

SPEAKER_129: consumer app where people meditate, and users are turning this month higher than they were three months

SPEAKER_131: ago. Do you have any ideas on how to reduce that? Yeah, it's like, make the product better. Yeah, make the content better. You know, take make it simpler to use, you know, he might have a cohort of

SPEAKER_19: things. So yeah, I think it's a great idea. I think this company is going to get sued if they haven't already. And they should always get permission. Now, if you're doing something non commercial, and it's an experiment, and you document this is an experiment, and it's a limited test, then you would be okay, because you could put it under the fair use of like educational purposes only, which maybe is what their defense is here. But the truth is, there is now a business model for this, Rachel, because the same company is charging $1 a minute for one person, they can no longer say that this is fair use. Do you understand why? Because they've they've they themselves are making money with one personality. And then they're stealing, it's stealing, let's be honest, they're stealing other people's personas there. And there is a right to your persona as a celebrity. So yeah, great story. Alright, let's go on to our next story. You hear me raving about Notion all the

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SPEAKER_113: All right, gosh, it feels like every episode of This Week in Startups is This Week in AI. This is like crypto, except every time we talk about a company, they actually have a product, we can actually use the product, and we can actually see why this product would provide value to some users in the world. So for startups who are listening and founders, understand like, when you really find a great piece of technology in a new platform, cloud, mobile, AI, you know, it's real, because you can imagine using it. And then when you find a platform that maybe is,

SPEAKER_19: I don't know, I want to say dead on arrival, or doesn't, you know, isn't going to become a big

SPEAKER_30: platform, VR, crypto, wearables, you just don't imagine yourself using it all that much, right? And so here we go. So let's figure out and by the way, we're going to talk about while we were taping this, there's a bunch of AI hearings going on, Sam Altman and other folks, IBM are talking about

SPEAKER_72: it. So we'll have some clips about that later in the show. But what else is going on here? Because,

SPEAKER_146: you know, we talk about AI in the business sense a lot, how this is affecting corporations,

SPEAKER_139: but you are an expert on these next generations, Gen Z, millennials, I'm curious, like, what's happening in that sort of group of people and consumer?

SPEAKER_11: Yeah, so AI has a bunch of really cool use cases, but there are some that are a little creepy. Just this weekend alone, I used ChatGPT to help generate a newsletter that's sent out. I basically put in a bunch of bullet points, it created a newsletter, I went in and I edited it to make

SPEAKER_22: it sound a little bit more like me. My brother used it to perfect his resume. And then before I sent an article to my parents to read, I created like a summary using ChatGPT. But there are some other platforms that I think we should talk about that are using AI.

SPEAKER_152: So all three of those were in some way writing and text-based.

SPEAKER_19: Yes, all of those were text. It's a nice, it's a nice cohort, though, because a newsletter, you're starting with a blank page, and it's, you know, a cold start problem. With a resume for your brother, I'm assuming it's your little brother, might be the first time they're doing it. So getting some advice, like from a consultant or from the career office at college would be the way you would previously have done it. And with your parents, putting a summary at the top is just what you might do when you send the article. Hey, here's an article that describes A, B and C. It's, this is why I'm sending it to

SPEAKER_139: you. But giving them a little summary up top is like a nice thing to do.

SPEAKER_47: Yeah. Yeah. Those are all written though. And there are visual, there are visual things that are also, I guess, pretty interesting. Okay.

SPEAKER_10: Um, so remember back in 2021, we covered that Facebook was caught knowing how toxic Instagram was for teen girls, but Facebook wasn't the one that actually released that finding, the Wall Street Journal did. Um, now TikTok, I think could be like the next one to come out and be like, okay, you know what? We're pretty toxic because I've been seeing these AI filters, especially one called bold glamor that, um, like I said, they're using AI and what they can do is basically make, um, any user look like they have the perfect makeup. They can completely change the structure of the user's face. They can make their teeth whiter. Um, and even if the person is like rubbing their face or moving a lot, the filter stays on pretty freaking well. Um, it's a little freaky. So we should check out this one user, not Sophia Sliva using the filter. Okay.

SPEAKER_19: So that's nuts. That is really dark. I guess when people do makeovers, Rachel, when they do their make, they have their makeup done and their hair done, you can have that before and after moment as

SPEAKER_30: a woman, or I guess a guy who chooses to do makeup and, uh, their hair, which actually when I would go on CNN, I'd be like, whoa, I'm a handsome man. And then I would come off and I'm like, oh yeah, I'm not Harrison Ford. Um, but this is like a whole different level. This is turning you into

SPEAKER_35: an aspiration that would be a model. And we all know models, they are in a chair for two or three hours becoming that gorgeous.

SPEAKER_11: And I wonder where like the line should be drawn because it is using like a makeup filter, but I

SPEAKER_10: think like completely changing the structure of somebody's face is a little, it's crazy. Like it's not, you're not even that person anymore. And like you said, with makeup, like at least you're that person. And there's another filter that I think is super interesting along the same vein as this called the teenage look filter. Oh, I've seen this.

SPEAKER_11: Yeah. Yeah. This one's really cool. I love seeing, um, parents like use this.

SPEAKER_19: Well, there's a song that they put with this and then everybody starts crying when they see themselves. Yeah. I thought this was very touching actually.

SPEAKER_174: This is love is free. You jerk from this video. This is from TikToker. Love is free. You jerk.

SPEAKER_180: How long it takes. I mean, that gets me. I gotta be honest. Like I, you, how does one not feel

SPEAKER_19: emotional to see like the 12 year old version of themselves? It's incredibly emotional to watch people's emotional reactions to this. And when I was a psychology major in college, I learned that one of the techniques they use in therapy is to have people bring in photos from their childhood, show them to their therapist and talk about the photo. And the reason they do this is to elicit maybe some response or bring you back to your childhood and remember, you know, whatever memories you have. And I think that's, what's happening to people. So this feels to me like a wonderful version, right? So one is dystopian in that it's trying to make you into a 10, you know,

SPEAKER_30: whatever that means when you're a six or a seven, uh, whatever we all are. And, um, this other one is is doing something different. I think it's trying to just celebrate, you know, yourself as a child.

SPEAKER_10: Yeah. It's really reminiscent. It's really cool. And producer Nick put in that with the first one, though, he said, soon AI will make everybody look like Giga Chad and sent this photo. So

SPEAKER_07: that's a Giga Chad. So for people who don't know Giga Chad, he's got like a perfect five o'clock

SPEAKER_19: shadow. He's got a jaw line that looks like Superman took steroids. Like it's, and his hair is perfect. And it's tons of hair gel. He's like a Greek God. He looks like Zeus or something,

SPEAKER_47: a young Zeus. It looks funky. It looks like handsome Squidward to me, which is another photo.

SPEAKER_190: Yeah. Have you seen that one? No. I can't keep up with all these memes. It's just, this is another one. I don't know if the

SPEAKER_149: producers are going to send in a video. They'll probably find it pretty quick, but. Oh, here it is. That's Squidward. That's like a handsome Squidward meme.

SPEAKER_00: That's a SpongeBob thing. It's a SpongeBob meme. I've never watched SpongeBob, but I met the guy who does the voice. Oh, that's cool. Or one of the voices on it for his friend.

SPEAKER_113: Ah, I think what this is all going to do is it's kind of like Milli Vanilli. Do you know who that is? Milli Vanilli. Have you heard? I don't. Okay. So we're going to, we're going to have ads in this episode because we'll, we'll pop in a Milli Vanilli here, but they cast two gentlemen who were super handsome.

SPEAKER_00: I guess it was in the UK and they, Milli Vanilli had a very famous pop song in the eighties. There they are. And, uh, these guys were like super handsome, heartthrobs. Uh, and they,

SPEAKER_69: sorry for the boar's head ad. Yeah. Thanks Nick. What the hell is this?

SPEAKER_180: I mean, come on, this is what happens when you don't go to YouTube and have YouTube premium. I'm just going to say right now, the first and last subscription you need in your life

SPEAKER_199: is YouTube bread premium, whatever they call it to get rid of ads. Uh, you don't get the boar's head.

SPEAKER_202: Right. This shows Nick's, this shows Nick's targeting. Priorities. Nick's buying hoagies. Like prosciutto. Prosciutto. This is Gabagool. This is what Nick's is searching for on his computer. Like other people are getting all kinds of other. There could not have been a more accurate representation. Yeah. What ads are they serving Nick today?

SPEAKER_19: Boar's head roast beef. Ah, it's hilarious. Hoagies. Anyway, Milli Vanilli had his famous song. It turns out they didn't sing. They couldn't sing. And then when it came out that they were just lip syncing, which lip syncing, nobody even knew what that was, you know, at that time in the eighties. And that these were,

SPEAKER_30: I don't know if they were computer generated voices, but like some studio musicians did their song. Anyway, it was a big controversy in the eighties. And so I think that this,

SPEAKER_19: that's what's happening right now. Everybody's going to look at this stuff. They're going to be like, Oh my God, everybody's a tan. And then you're getting catfished. Yeah. Basically it's like, I want to hear something acoustic. So then what happened in society, this pendulum swan, and then MTV did something, um, which was called MTV unplugged. And there's a series called MTV unplugged where Nirvana would play and other people would play. And it was a live audience, intimate, and they would not have their instruments.

SPEAKER_212: Okay. So it's like NPR tiny desk. It's like the NPR tiny desk.

SPEAKER_19: Literally tiny desk. So here's your Milli Vanilli girl. You know, it's true. Ooh, look at the shoulder pads, by the way, if you want to understand the eighties, men had shoulder pads, like serious shoulder pads. I had suits with shoulder pads in the night in the

SPEAKER_41: eighties. They are not singing, but it was a pretty catchy tune.

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SPEAKER_19: joinhampton.com slash twist today. That's called a phone booth, by the way, Rachel. So just to explain the context here before cell phones, there were phone booths, and you would go in and shut the

SPEAKER_113: door. And you would put a quarter in and you would dial somebody's phone number. You had to remember

SPEAKER_19: people's phone numbers. So you could probably remember 10 or 20 people's phone numbers. And then you have a black book where you write everything. Anyway, that's Yeah, that's a phone booth. It looks

SPEAKER_113: like a photo prop. It basically and the phone booths in the UK were red boxes with glass panes. So they're very iconic looking. And the United States phone booths were like, they had a door that was like a folding

SPEAKER_19: door like a accordion kind of door. And so yeah, so there's an American phone booth from the movie Goodfellas, where he's making a phone call. You see the accordion door glass. And then he finds out that yeah.

SPEAKER_10: So have you seen the new ones? They have USB chargers in them. So like when I wait for the bus

SPEAKER_11: now, you can like there's a little keypad where you can call somebody, but I can also plug in my phone and charge it. I heard those are those are where those are what replaced the phone booths in New York, the last phone booth of New York, I think last year or two years ago, got taken out. Yeah.

SPEAKER_30: Well, there was a very cool thing at Grand Central Station. And like, you know, Port Authority bus

SPEAKER_19: terminal. Yeah, they would have a row of phone booths. So this was the modern technology era, like in the 50s and 60s. They were like, hey, phones exist. Let's put 50 of them. And so there

SPEAKER_169: was a wall in Grand Central, if the producers are doing their job, they're searching for it. You'd say,

SPEAKER_19: meet me at the phone booths. And you would go to the phone booths, you'd call somebody. I'm here, you'd hang up the phone, there were just lines of people queued up to use one of the phones to call people that they had arrived. Those people would be at their homes or whatever. And then they would, you know, start their drive over there. Or you would call this is how connectivity worked in this time period, you would call the house in Brooklyn, you'd say Jason is that phone booth number five, he's at Grand Central, then you every 15 minutes when you're at Grand Central would call

SPEAKER_169: the house and say, Have you heard from Jason? Did he land yet? This is before you knew

SPEAKER_229: what was going on. It seems like a lot of a lot of communication.

SPEAKER_169: And then answering machines came out. So then what you would do is we'd be in the city,

SPEAKER_19: I would call somebody and say, Hey, we're at the limelight. It's 1am, we're going to Palladium, we're going to the Palladium, we'll be at the Palladium at 1 30. We're walking over now,

SPEAKER_113: hang up the phone, then people will call their phones. Here they are here, the telephones, and there would be banks and banks of these telephones, then you would call your answer machine, and you could dial a special number. You dial the special number, and you would be able

SPEAKER_19: to listen to your voicemails. And that's how we communicated. Then people realized that the phone answering machines only had a certain number of codes, and you could set your code on the back,

SPEAKER_113: you'd pick one of three codes. So you'd move this little dial and be like, your code is 89, your code is 72, your code. So then there was this phone hacking scandal, where Rupert Murdoch's company,

SPEAKER_00: News Corp, hacked people's phone, their voicemails. And so the this whole like secession thing,

SPEAKER_19: where like, they're, you know, which is obviously about the Murdochs and Fox, or if you look at Fox News, and all this stuff that came out and the scandals around this Dominion voting system,

SPEAKER_113: and them texting, they're having like a texting scandal. Previously, they had a voicemail scandal, because everybody had a desk voice thing, and they had home answering machines. They were experts, the journalists at hacking people's phones, because it was so simple to do people had two or three digit codes. So you can brute force them because these were not computers, these were like little electronic devices. So people would just try every single possible code until they could listen to your messages. And people didn't delete their messages. So you press a button to go to the previous message, previous message, and it would rewind your tape. And the

SPEAKER_19: only way you would know if somebody was doing this, and this is how they got busted was, you were home, somebody called your answering machine, and you started shooting your answering machine zipping around on the tape. And Fox had to pay millions of dollars, and people went to jail, because they were, there was a famous case of a woman who was murdered. And they were, they hacked her voicemail. And the newspaper had information that only the police had and the family had. And then they hacked the family, and they hacked the police officers, and they hacked other journalists. It was deranged. And they had to pull out a full page apology ad. Rupert Murdoch Murdoch signed this is in 20 2005 2010 time period. And there's a famous moment, Rachel. This is incredible for the audience doesn't know this. But this was only 1520 years ago. There's a famous moment when Rupert Murdoch is on trial in the UK with his children. And he was his girlfriend or fiance at the time was Wendy Dang, I believe. And somebody attacked Rupert Murdoch.

SPEAKER_231: And then you see Wendy Dang jump. Here's the we are sorry ad. The news of the world was in the business of holding others to account. It failed when it came to itself. We are sorry for the serious wrongdoing that occurred. We are deeply sorry for the hurt suffered by the individuals affected. We regret not acting faster to sort things out. I realized that simply apologizing is not enough. Our business was founded on the idea that a free and open press should be a positive force in society. We need to live up to this. In the coming days, we will take further concrete steps to resolve these

SPEAKER_141: issues and make amends for the damage they have caused. You will hear more from us. Sincerely,

SPEAKER_101: Rupert Murdoch. And then 15 years later, we have, you know, Fox SMS dump. But if you can find the video

SPEAKER_00: of Rupert Murdoch being attacked, I don't know if somebody threw a pie in his face or somebody did something at these trials. And Wendy Dang comes jumping over to try to protect him. Watch this. This is the craziest thing you'll ever see. This is when you know you picked the right girl. Rupert Murdoch is attacked. She's in the pink. And she comes over the top and smacks the guy who tries to hit Rupert Murdoch with a pie. An AI girlfriend can't do that. No, no, no, no, no. That's not a dollar a

SPEAKER_19: minute. Look at this slow mo. Bang, knocks him in the face. If you haven't seen this before, type in Rupert Murdoch attacked with a pie. So it turns out there was a cultural zeitgeist thing. And if you type Bill Gates hit with a pie, there was an absurdist in the 90s. And their idea was to smash a pie into somebody's face, who was very famous. It was a very dangerous thing because it showed you could get to famous people, which then could inspire people who had even more reckless thoughts, let's just say. But Bill Gates, this is Bill Gates getting pied. He's just walking down the street. And when you see the look of fear on his face, when this guy smashes him with the pie, he doesn't know if that's poison, some horrible thing or whatever, but pying people became like a pastime. And it was really dangerous. It was very, I don't advocate for this. I don't find it funny at

SPEAKER_180: all. I just find the Wendy Dang jumping over and defending Rupert Murdoch. Like that's a legit girl. Anyway, there's your, there's your pop culture diverse. I love talking to you, Rachel, because there are things that happened in pop culture, but 20 years ago that you're not aware of and showing you these and watching you laugh. That should just be a whole nother,

SPEAKER_245: a whole nother segment. Because I love, I love pop culture history. I love it.

SPEAKER_247: This is, this is good. This is good. So today on pop culture, you got Milli Vanilli, foam boots. Yeah.

SPEAKER_193: The, how, uh, voicemail work. The Murdoch, voicemails. Voicemails. Yeah. Pies and Murdoch's apology letter. I mean, that's like five great

SPEAKER_00: pop culture moments. It's a class right there. Somebody should do no context this week in

SPEAKER_23: startups, by the way. Nick, did you like my, I copied your no context spoilers. Did you like

SPEAKER_129: my last two weeks for session? Okay. I didn't see last week, but the, uh, the one, the week prior where you had, uh, Vishal Garg from better.com was great. Yeah, that was pretty good. When Greg was

SPEAKER_258: that was a default. That was great. Cousin Greg is like, okay, so your services are not needed.

SPEAKER_260: Cousin Greg. I like when he's talking to the Gojo guys later in the episode and he's like, yeah, I'll, I'll caught him. I don't care. Yeah. No, he's like, send me in. Yeah.

David Friedberg: And they're just like, oh, good, good. That was like, when did they write that? It's so good. When are they writing succession? It's like, they just like, right. It's like, kind of like South park. They're right in the zeitgeist. Yeah. I don't know who the writers are

SPEAKER_115: for that show, but it is, um, I mean, the cuts they have there are unbelievable. Like, it feels like someone who's working in tech. Cause they had the, a couple of weeks ago, they had the Adam Neumann barefoot walk with the guy being a weirdo. Then they had him, they had like a little reference. I don't know if you noticed this. He was talking about real estate, the Gojo CEO. And he's like, oh, real estate's not a tech missus. It doesn't scale. You had like two little Adam Neumann references in one, like subtle in one episode. I'm like,

SPEAKER_202: oh my God. Oh my God. Yeah. It's the whole arc too. And then when he pumps up the projections,

David Friedberg: I was like, where have I seen this before? He's like, we can be a little more aggressive.

SPEAKER_275: He's like, we need those tech multiples, baby. We need those tech multiples. It's so great. Jeremy Strong's deep Kendall voice. So good.

SPEAKER_199: I am so team Roman though. This week was so good. Roman's like, does it matter?

David Friedberg: Bleep, blah, bloop. He's like, it doesn't matter. President, whatever.

SPEAKER_277: False flag, false flag, false flag.

SPEAKER_279: God, keep running off Chiv. Somebody made Chiv Calacanis.

SPEAKER_174: Okay. So lastly, we're going to talk about AI Snapchat. And lastly, I mean, for me talking

SPEAKER_11: about how I'm using AI, we still have stories after this, but with AI Snapchat, I don't like it, man. It freaks me out. So my AI is a Snapchat bot powered by ChatGPT, and it's available to Snapchat users. And it can do things like answer trivia questions, offer advice, and act like a companion. But it's, it's just creepy. I feel like it knows too much about the user and it acts too human. And I think there needs to be a term for the uncanny, the uncanny valley, specifically for AI bots. Because if they're still like too human, it's really weird. But if they're, um, like, like we were seeing the dating girl, like that we just spoke about, um, Karen, people seem to like her because she seems really, really human. But this is like a step below, like my AI doesn't

SPEAKER_10: feel as human as her yet. And it's really creepy. It's like watching Shrek before they came out with

SPEAKER_28: the not uncanny valley version. Okay. Shrek. Yeah. Got it. So yeah, when it's just a little

SPEAKER_288: bit off, do we have an example here? Here's a clip from Kaylin Wiley. Okay. This whole Snapchat

SPEAKER_290: AI is officially terrifying. So as you can see, I ask, where are you from? And they say, I'm from all over the place. So then I asked what cities. And as you can see, they literally listed the cities they lived in. So then I said, where in New York did you live? And remember this, yo, they said they lived in Manhattan for a while. Remember that. Then I asked about their job. And as you can see,

SPEAKER_293: they are very specific about their job. Then I'm starting to freak out. Cause I'm like, yo, why are you sounding like a whole real human right now? So I'm like, awesome. What's your name? Y'all

SPEAKER_292: why is she going to tell me her name is Maya? And at this point I'm like, yo, why she got a name?

SPEAKER_290: So then I asked, what are you wearing right now? Since you want to act like a human. And once again, Ms. Maya is being very specific. So I'm trying to get more information. I'm like, so where do you live now? Still in New York. And y'all at this point I jumped out my bed, forget the living in California. Now, what do you mean? Are you still living in Virginia? Because how do you know that? How do you know I live in Virginia? I have my location off of everything.

SPEAKER_11: Okay. So they also like we're asking or talking about weed and stuff to kids, which I thought was interesting. I'm sorry. Did you say weed? Yeah. Like if you ask them questions about like doing drugs, like weed or like sex and stuff, they would interact. But I think this video was creepy because like it shared information that she's never shared before. So there's a whole

SPEAKER_30: bunch of stuff where I just, I can tell you as having been a 12, 13, 14, and 15 year old boy

SPEAKER_42: one time each of those years, the first things we would do is try to get it to say words. It's not supposed to say, or talk about topics that it's not supposed to say. And this is not for kids. Um,

SPEAKER_30: although I did do mid journey as a family, we were doing mid journey and we're making Jedi night. Yeah. We're taking bulldogs. My, my seven-year-olds thought it was hilarious to make bulldogs and then combine them with iron man or Jedi. I love that. So we were just like going bulldog mid journey, crazy on a discord server.

SPEAKER_34: Uh, do you, I think like the term or the job AI prompt generator is going to be like a big thing

SPEAKER_11: in the future because there are artists that are gatekeeping. They're like prompts. There are entire Instagram pages with like, there's one by somebody named Jose Avery, Jose Avery portraits,

SPEAKER_47: um, over an Instagram, over 50,000 followers. And they're just AI portraits. It gets crazy. And that, you know, this could be a business. You know what these portraits look like? They're

SPEAKER_19: black and white. They're incredibly, uh, like blurred background on a subway platform, but this looks like those artists who do incredibly fine pencil work and they make those gorgeous. So this is like a pencil work photo realistic, but done artistically with a pencil, you know, uh, kind of art. Yeah, definitely. People are hoarding the prompts. There are websites. So I'm trying to get everybody at launch. Rachel really embrace this technology. And I think of 18 or 19 people, we have eight or nine people, half the people in the first three months of me losing my mind over this have actually done something meaningful with the technology in terms of their jobs, the other eight or nine. I'm like, let's go. People get on the bus. Yeah. The bus is pulling out of the station. You've got to get on the bus, but as the technology gets better, it's easier to

SPEAKER_30: get on the bus because everybody's on pro everybody's on barred. We turn barred on and everybody has

SPEAKER_19: plugins and the web crawler. And you know how we would do something as simple as look for venues. Well, it turns out all in summit is going to sell out. And I was like, Hmm, you know,

SPEAKER_113: free burger. I talked, I wonder if there's another venue in LA available or, you know, because we can't change the dates, but we could find a bigger venue. And so we start looking for bigger venues and it's amazing. Like the research that would have taken a month of, you know, people searching on the web, talking to people, Hey, what venues did I miss when you get the web crawler involved, it's finding it, putting it in a table with the number of seats with a link to the event page with the floor plan. And I think next we'll be like, here's the floor plans, you know, et cetera,

SPEAKER_10: et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. It gives companies like magic, um, a run for it's a run for their money, like magic, like the virtual assistant, um, platform. Like I, I haven't used magic ever,

SPEAKER_22: but I use AI as a personal assistant all day, all day long. Like I use, there's not, there's most of my tasks at this point are just automated with AI. I'll take the other side of it. I think it's

SPEAKER_19: going to do what magic does for you, but I think what you're going to do is ask them magic to do it

SPEAKER_113: for you and do it on your account or a shared account. So you're like, Hey magic, this is what I need. And they do all the prompt engineering. They do it and they refine it because it still takes like 20 when you're doing research on it, right? It takes like 10, 20 follow-ups prompts. And then eventually you get to the answer. So it might take you 15 minutes. That's 15 minutes. You could

SPEAKER_19: outsource for five bucks and you just get the output. Yeah. That's a good idea. I like that. Yeah.

SPEAKER_35: Um, so, but Fiverr stocks down like 20% since you had GPT-4. So I think everybody's shorting

SPEAKER_19: Fiverr right now. Ooh, that's so interesting. I think that's a mistake. I think that's like, that's a great thesis, but I think it's going to be the opposite. The Fiverr people are going to be like, yeah, I agree. Instead of like, I'll get you a hundred leads for a hundred dollars. They're going to be like, I'll get you a thousand leads for a hundred dollars. So they're going to be even

SPEAKER_139: better at doing lead gen or whatever, you know, logos for you. I know, um, contrast is a sponsor,

SPEAKER_11: like on this big in startups. And I see they're always like pushing stuff about how like freelancers can use AI, like over on their Twitter. Of course. It's just, it's technology is deflationary. The

SPEAKER_100: prices go down and the quality goes up until maybe the only thing that stops that is physics, right?

SPEAKER_113: Like with Uber drivers, there's a limit to the, you know, how fast they can drive on the road. There's a limit to how many cars is a limit to how many drivers. So when you get to, you know,

SPEAKER_19: the laws of physics, the price can only be so cheap, and then it has to go up based on, you know, other things. Um, but self-driving, maybe that's the breakthrough. Okay. So I think the hearings have, um, you know, by the time we're taping this, they're over Sam Altman, um, is in the zone,

SPEAKER_42: I will say knowing Sam for 20 years. Um, and, um, he's incredibly thoughtful about these issues. I think it's, um, he did a really great job. I saw some clips. So why don't we just very quickly

SPEAKER_19: go over the Senate judiciary committee hearing and good on the Senate for being smart and doing this now. Um, I know they had Gary Marcus, uh, from NYU and Christina Montgomery, uh, from IBM,

SPEAKER_319: but let's just get right into it. My worst fears are that we cause significant, we, the field, the technology, the industry cause significant harm to the world. Uh, I think that could happen in a lot of different ways. It's why we started the company. Um, it's a big part of why I'm here today, uh, and why we've been here in the past and we've been able to spend some time with you. I think if this technology goes wrong, it can go quite wrong. Uh, and we want to be vocal about that. We want to work with the government to prevent that from happening, but we, we try to be very clear eyed about what the downside cases and the work that we have to do to mitigate that.

SPEAKER_30: Yeah. Great job, Sam. I think this is like the power move. Uh, although they did go from open AI to closed AI. So I'm referring to the company as closed AI until they open source all these models. So closed AI as a company, I don't know if they're hypocritical or thoughtful. Well, time will tell because he has closed all access to their technology down in terms of like how it's built, what models they use. I don't know if that's to protect themselves from lawsuits,

SPEAKER_42: but closed AI, um, became closed and then secured the bag. So that's a bad look to move to close to get $10 billion for everybody to get paid and make 10 billion bucks or whatever, you know,

SPEAKER_30: some amount of that is, and I'm getting pitched on people selling secondary. So there are large

SPEAKER_42: amounts of secondary from people who work at, uh, open AI flooding the market. Um, so they're clearing their positions at closed AI while they close down the models. And then on the same side, I don't know if you saw the Google news that like Google is like these open models on, you know, whatever the website is, um, hugging face, uh, are, is that the name of it, Nick? Uh, hugging faces are, uh, better than the models that they have. So maybe they're just closed because they don't

SPEAKER_47: want competition. I don't know. We'll see. There's another clip from Senator Richard Blumenthal,

SPEAKER_10: who is a Democrat from Connecticut, and he uses generative AI to kind of like craft his opening

SPEAKER_327: statement. Too often we have seen what happens when technology outpaces regulation, the unbridled exploitation of personal data, the proliferation of disinformation and the deepening of societal inequalities. We have seen how algorithmic biases can perpetuate discrimination and prejudice and how the lack of transparency can undermine public trust. This is not the future we want. If you were

SPEAKER_328: listening from home, you might've thought that voice was mine and the words from me, but in fact, that voice was not mine. The words were not mine. And the audio was an AI voice cloning software trained on my floor speeches. The remarks were written by chat GPT.

SPEAKER_331: They got us. That was a pretty clever stunt. I have to say for those of you who weren't

SPEAKER_42: watching, his lips were not moving. The first part of that was AI voice generated and it was chat GPT for generated. So the statement, which was crisp, uh, was based on things he said previously, uh, well-played Senator, uh, and the fact that they're on top of this. I think we all know

SPEAKER_19: that do not trust any audio or video you hear anymore. You cannot trust any clip you see. Assume every clip is now doctored. Assume every video is fake until you get massive confirmation from

SPEAKER_113: multiple trusted sources. All this does is this is going to make CNN, New York times, Wikipedia,

SPEAKER_150: and other sources of truth, pick your source of truth, uh, an individual, a podcast. It's just going to make all of the other sources of truth more valuable.

SPEAKER_10: Yeah. Especially now that it feels like since he's used it, it feels like it's officially mainstream.

SPEAKER_42: Sure. Yeah. I mean, I don't, I don't think any, uh, I think probably I wouldn't say the majority of

SPEAKER_30: Americans, but the second an app comes out, the fact that open AI doesn't have an app, they had a test flight app that they included in me and then they turned it off once the apps come out and people can do this in an app or they can text a phone number or an email and start doing this. Like we saw the telegram once this stuff becomes open to the public free, it's going to go bonkers right now,

SPEAKER_42: putting it in a web browser, throttling it, requiring you to get in a discord server. All this stuff is because the cost of running generative AI is still expensive, but once it becomes cheaper and they have enough hardware, and can you imagine if you can just an iMessage to start talking to any AI, you put the phone number or the email address in and you start rocking on your iMessage signal, telegram, whatever. I mean, the fact that Slack doesn't have anything right now is like,

SPEAKER_19: what's going on over at Slack? Who's running Slack? Like, that's the number one place I want to have

SPEAKER_68: an AI and they have nothing. They just announced Slack GPT. Oh, did they? I think at the beginning

SPEAKER_45: of last week. Yeah. I mean, it's just, they're so far behind and Notion and Box and everybody's got

SPEAKER_19: something. Slack GPT should be in every single channel automatically, and it should automatically be building summaries of what happened in that channel every week. So every, you should be able to set every hundred messages or every day at 9am or at 9pm, whatever times you want every 12 hours,

SPEAKER_113: put a summary of the discussions that occurred in the Slack. So anytime you jump into Slack, you're like, Oh, I can catch up with this. And it's got deep links to all the threads that are going on,

SPEAKER_00: where I should open up my Slack and it should have a summary of the entire Slack workspace. Here's what happened in your Slack today. And I should get that by email and I should get it as a DM,

SPEAKER_11: an overview of what happened in Slack today. Senator Lindsey Graham, who is a Republican from

SPEAKER_10: South Carolina also had an interesting line of questioning about creating an AI agency and whether

SPEAKER_22: the three witnesses were in favor. And first he asked all three witnesses, whether they agree that there should be an AI agency. And we have a clip of that. Do you agree, Mr. Altman, that these tools

SPEAKER_337: you're creating should be licensed? Yeah, we've been calling for this. We think any- That's the simplest way. Do you agree with me that the simplest way and the most effective way is have an agency that is more nimble and smarter than Congress, which should be easy to

SPEAKER_340: create, overlooking what you do? Yes. We'd be enthusiastic about that. Do you agree with that, Mr. Marcus? Absolutely.

SPEAKER_343: Do you agree with that, Ms. Montgomery? I would have some nuances. I think we need to build on what we have in place already today. We don't have an agency. Regulators. Wait a minute. Nope, nope, nope. We don't have an agency that regulates the technology. So should we have one? But a lot of the issues, I don't think so. A lot of the issues- Okay, wait a minute. Wait a minute.

SPEAKER_340: So IBM says we don't need an agency.

SPEAKER_28: My gut reaction is the people who already have a lead want an agency and they want regulation because it

SPEAKER_19: would codify their lead. That is the most cynical interpretation of that. That's pulling up the ladder behind you. We have resources, we have lobbyists, or we have the money to hire lobbyists. Microsoft's got a ton of lobbyists. Google's got a ton of lobbyists. They have relationships, they've given massive donations. So they would get to set up all of these rules and those rules

SPEAKER_113: would benefit the incumbents as opposed to the startups, which then would be like, you know, hey, fill out all this paperwork and get a license. How much is that going to cost? A million dollars?

SPEAKER_19: And yeah, you know, for a startup, then it would be so I think self-regulation is the much better mode to go here. I don't think there should be an agency. I think there could be a committee,

SPEAKER_113: but not an agency. It's way too soon to figure out what licensing is. And I have brought this up before. Like maybe we need to have, you need to have insurance, a license to have access to the hardware. I think a good starting point would be the models have to be owned by somebody. The models have to disclose how they trained it. And this would all be done through self-regulation. So the models link to sources, they tell you what they were trained on, they tell you how they're coming up with the answer, you know, and they kind of reveal here, and then they're open

SPEAKER_72: sourced, or some number of them are open sourced. And so if you're open source, maybe you have one licensing regulation. If you're closed, like closed AI is, closed AI would have a tighter regulation set than an open source project, which everybody can see the code. So I'm a little cynical here. I need to

SPEAKER_348: see more about IBM's position. So I think we have another clip you could queue up.

SPEAKER_337: Interesting. Should we have a license required for these tools?

SPEAKER_351: So, so what we believe is that we need to regulate...

SPEAKER_337: That's a simple question. Should you get a license to produce one of these tools?

SPEAKER_343: I think it comes back to some of them potentially, yes.

SPEAKER_337: I just don't understand how you could say that you don't need an agency to deal with the most

SPEAKER_352: transformative technology maybe ever? Well, I think we have existing...

SPEAKER_344: Is this a transformative technology that can disrupt life as we know it, good and bad?

SPEAKER_343: I think it's a transformative technology, certainly. And the conversations that we're having here today have been really bringing to light the fact that the domains and the issues...

SPEAKER_355: This one with you has been very enlightening to me.

SPEAKER_30: I don't like the grandstanding, Rachel, and not letting her finish her sentence. This is why it's hard to take some of these senators seriously.

SPEAKER_42: Senator Graham seems like a grandstanding, not thoughtful person. And this is why when we interviewed RFK, I tried to let them talk. I feel like nobody lets anybody finish their thoughts

SPEAKER_19: here. And for an important question, she's kind of on the maybe, and she's a yes or no. So she's like the most interesting person to let speak. So why does he keep interrupting her? Let her finish two

SPEAKER_10: sentences, for God's sake. Finally, Graham dug also into Sam Altman about why he's so vocal about creating an AI agency. So she wasn't the only one that kind of got put on the hot seat. 43 second clip.

SPEAKER_360: We'll see you on the other side. Mr. Altman, why are you so willing to have an agency? Senator,

SPEAKER_319: we've been clear about what we think the upsides are. And I think you can see from users how much they enjoy it and how much value they're getting out of it. But we've also been clear about what the downsides are. And so that's why we think we need an agency. That's right. I think you're on the

SPEAKER_337: right track. So here's what my two cents worth for the committee is that we need to empower an agency that issues and a license and can take it away. Clearly that should be part of what an agency can do. Now, this world organization that doesn't exist, maybe it will. But if you don't do something about the China part of it, you'll never quite get this right. Do you agree? It doesn't necessarily have to

SPEAKER_319: be a world organization, but there has to be some sort of, and there's a lot of options here, there has to be some sort of standard, some sort of set of controls that do have global effect.

SPEAKER_28: Yeah, again, this hot seat mentality of these hearings is a little silly. I think these hearings

SPEAKER_30: should be two, three, four hours, people should be allowed to finish their sentences. Anytime you ask a question, the expectation should be the person has at least one minute, if not two, before you interrupt them. Um, and then they should have a smaller number of people asking questions so they can ask follow up questions. I think the number is four people just happens to be the number we have an all in and you should have the four people, one person asks a question, ask one follow up, and then the

SPEAKER_19: next person asks a question, they get to ask one follow up. And so you get into a rhythm here of

SPEAKER_30: letting a person get their full thoughts out. If this is such an important topic, you know, let people really think it through. I don't know if the licensing at this point, they should be able to revoke it, that seems like too much power for the government to have, I think self regulation first, and then an agency to monitor it would be good. But I am reticent to give the government too much power here, because there are freedom of speech issues. What do you think,

SPEAKER_10: Rachel? I can see it both sides. I think it's like a twofold situation where obviously, like, my first thought would be like, there should be an agency, because I think it's something important enough where there needs to be laws set in place. And finally, it seems like Congress and people in the government are understanding like how pressing an issue is without them being like incredibly late to the ball. It feels like with social media, you see them now trying to create regulations way too far after the fact. So I guess it's cool that they're, it seems like they're a little bit quicker to AI. But at that, you know, in that same point, I think the idea that Christina brought up, I think her thoughts are really valid. And I really do think that we didn't get to watch this entire thing, the producers before this, this aired. So it's definitely something I want to go

SPEAKER_42: back to and see how it plays out. Fascinating. Do you care if music is created by the artists, or that it's just like a dope beat? Like, I know, like the Drake album drop that was all, you know, and then there was all like this other stuff, like around Grimes doing her music. I'm just as a millennial, Gen Z person. Do you care if the music is computer generated or not? I wouldn't,

SPEAKER_11: but I definitely would think of it in like a different category. So like going to a concert

SPEAKER_10: with like a DJ set is going to be a lot different than going to a concert, like the Taylor Swift concert that's up and coming. So if you're going to tell us, I wish I wish it's like my dream tickets were way out of my price range. If anybody is selling tickets, let me know. Um, it looks incredible. But that experience is going to be a lot different. If you're going to a concert,

SPEAKER_30: Kated only, I'd like to see this Taylor Swift concert, because from what I understand, she's spending an enormous amount of money on the stage production. And it's like the entire tick tock and Instagram is filled with videos of it. We'll get ready for the Beyonce

SPEAKER_10: Renaissance, uh, tour. Apparently that one's supposed to be pretty good too. So I'm hoping that I can get tickets like the day of a Taylor Swift, like that people are selling them. But

SPEAKER_381: well, again, if anybody's 500 bucks to go or something, probably something like that, probably. All right. We'll see you all next time on this week. Bye bye. Bye.