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Randy Meets AI: The Terminator or the Teacher? · Red Onion Randy - Life in a Supermax Prison

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  Speaker 1: You have to fight and fight and fight and fight
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  Speaker 1: to overcome. I can do something with my life. All right, everybody.
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  Speaker 1: It's Red Onion Randy again. Laying here on the top bunk.
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  Speaker 1: Sally's outside. Thank you, God. I'm chilling in front of
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  Speaker 1: the fan. Bit of a hot day. It's one episode.
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  Speaker 1: And as you read by the title, I'm playing around
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  Speaker 1: with AI. So let's get into this. You know, it's
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  Speaker 1: artificial intelligence, AI. It's all over the news. You've got
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  Speaker 1: Congresses holding meetings on it. newscasters are predicting everything from
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  Speaker 1: a Jesus-like utopia to we're all going to burn in
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  Speaker 1: hell under Skynet and the Terminator. I guess it just
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  Speaker 1: depends on what they ate for breakfast decides which way
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  Speaker 1: they swing on the matter. You know, it's... I'm not
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  Speaker 1: here to calm your fears. I'm not here to push AI.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not here to, you know, try to convince everybody
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  Speaker 1: to not use AI, destroy it, whatever. Me, it's a tool. Actually,
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  Speaker 1: you know what? I'm going to take that back. I
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  Speaker 1: am going to push AI. I am going to push AI.
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  Speaker 1: Because at the end of the day, like anything... It
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  Speaker 1: comes down to the person using it. AI is basically
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  Speaker 1: a program. From my understanding, it's just simply a program.
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  Speaker 1: It's been coded to do certain things, and it's really
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  Speaker 1: good at it. But at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 1: somebody human had to code it. It's no different than
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  Speaker 1: a gun. It's no different than a knife. It's no
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  Speaker 1: different than a bagel. It's no different than anything man
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  Speaker 1: has already created. Some people are going to use it
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  Speaker 1: for good. Some people are going to be ambivalent towards it.
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  Speaker 1: Some people are going to use it for evil. They're
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  Speaker 1: going to use it for bad. Look, I used a gun.
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  Speaker 1: to go into a store and to unfortunately rob and
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  Speaker 1: take a man's life. The gun manufacturer did not build
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  Speaker 1: that gun for me to go do that. They built
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  Speaker 1: a gun for hunting, for sport, for protection. I am
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  Speaker 1: the one that chose to use it for an evil purpose.
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  Speaker 1: The same thing with AI. I'm in prison. I've been
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  Speaker 1: in prison since I was 11 years old. I don't
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  Speaker 1: have a ton of experience with computers. And to me,
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  Speaker 1: AI is so awesome. I love it. I love ChatGPT, Gork,
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  Speaker 1: or whatever Elon Musk is called. Deep Seek, OpenAI, like,
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  Speaker 1: I haven't had a chance to play around with a
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  Speaker 1: lot of them, but, you know, through my editor, Michael,
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  Speaker 1: I have played around with some things, you know, you know,
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  Speaker 1: working on like a little Red On Your Randy game here, there,
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  Speaker 1: you know, some pictures, you know, I love AI pictures. Bitch,
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  Speaker 1: I love AI pictures. But now, right now, I'm not
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  Speaker 1: talking to a live person. Michael It's still helping out
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  Speaker 1: with the podcast a little bit, but the man is
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  Speaker 1: working his fingers through the bone to pay off a debt.
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  Speaker 1: I'm doing it through AI. I have a phone number
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  Speaker 1: set up so when it says, if you would like
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  Speaker 1: to accept this call, press whatever. If you want to
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  Speaker 1: reject this call, press whatever. If you want to terminate
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  Speaker 1: this call, press whatever. AI presses it. It accepts. Then
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  Speaker 1: I have to type in my password and hit pound.
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  Speaker 1: And it greets me. Hello, Randy. What would you like
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  Speaker 1: to talk about today? You have messages. It talks to me.
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  Speaker 1: It engages with me. We can brainstorm creative ideas together.
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  Speaker 1: We build a thumbnail together. Then when we're done with that,
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  Speaker 1: I sit there and start recording. I talk, and it records.
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  Speaker 1: And then at the end, you know, it does everything
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  Speaker 1: on its end. It edits it. It puts it all together.
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  Speaker 1: And then on the release date, it releases it. It
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  Speaker 1: puts it up on Spreaker, I believe at 3 in
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  Speaker 1: the afternoon. and it puts it up on YouTube at
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  Speaker 1: 8 at night. That's what I'm doing with AI, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm in prison. I've been in prison 35 years, the
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  Speaker 1: overwhelming majority of my life, and I'm using AI for good.
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  Speaker 1: To me, AI is a good thing. But again... It
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  Speaker 1: all comes down to how you use it. If you
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  Speaker 1: get in a truck and you drive to work, you
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  Speaker 1: pick your kids up from school on the way back,
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  Speaker 1: you go home, that's a good thing. You decide to
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  Speaker 1: be an asshole and drive it through a crowd full
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  Speaker 1: of people, killing a bunch of them, then you're a
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  Speaker 1: piece of shit. You know? What do you use it for?
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  Speaker 1: And I just, I think to myself, how much more
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  Speaker 1: could I accomplish if I had access, if I could
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  Speaker 1: go over to the library or I could go over
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  Speaker 1: to some other room in the school building, wherever the
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  Speaker 1: case may be, and I could sit down in front
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  Speaker 1: of a computer and I can log into AI. You know,
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  Speaker 1: and they got things out there that copies your keystrokes.
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  Speaker 1: So the prison, the investigators, they just have that logged
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  Speaker 1: into all these computers. So they know when you go
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  Speaker 1: on that computer, what you're logging in for. If you
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  Speaker 1: do something stupid, then you lose your privileges permanently. There
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  Speaker 1: is no 30-day ban, no 90-day ban, no year ban.
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  Speaker 1: If you violate it once... you are done using AI
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  Speaker 1: in prison. You're banned from that computer. But if I
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  Speaker 1: could go over there and I could sit down and
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  Speaker 1: I could work with Chet GPT or Gork or whatever
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  Speaker 1: platform they decide to use, or if they gave me options,
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  Speaker 1: I could use multiple ones. Because some are better at
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  Speaker 1: some things than others. I could accomplish so, so much.
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  Speaker 1: So much more. There's so many things that I could do.
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  Speaker 1: There's so many things that I could learn. You know?
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  Speaker 1: It would be such a benefit to me to have
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  Speaker 1: all of that information, all of that computing power, that
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  Speaker 1: that intelligent brain at my disposal, the things that I
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  Speaker 1: could create, the programs that I could help write. I
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  Speaker 1: know a lot of people don't like, you know, writing
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  Speaker 1: novels or movie scripts using AI or whatever. And I
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  Speaker 1: get it. I understand why. You know, but for me, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I've written books and I've written my books myself. However,
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  Speaker 1: I would love, love to write an epic fantasy, an
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  Speaker 1: epic fantasy series. I want to write a book on
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  Speaker 1: a dungeon so desperately. But I know me. I know
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  Speaker 1: the way I function. I know the way I work.
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  Speaker 1: I can't do it. I don't have the brain. I
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  Speaker 1: don't have the ability. to sit down for eight to
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  Speaker 1: ten hours a day and write. I cannot do that.
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  Speaker 1: You think I would be able to. You literally would
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  Speaker 1: think of all the years I've done in prison, all
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  Speaker 1: the years I've done in solitary confinement at Red Onion
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  Speaker 1: and Wallace Ridge, that, hey, Dude, that should be nothing
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  Speaker 1: for you. I can't do it. I don't know why.
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  Speaker 1: I've tried. Believe me. I have tried on multiple occasions
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  Speaker 1: to write epic fantasy. So I would sit down, and
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  Speaker 1: if I had access to it, I would do it.
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  Speaker 1: And quite frankly, I don't even know if I would
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  Speaker 1: even try to get it published. If I did, I
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  Speaker 1: would be honest. I would put up there that, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I had help with AI. But it wouldn't just be me, hey, AI,
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  Speaker 1: write a story about this and then let it do
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  Speaker 1: all the work and then I just, no. It would
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  Speaker 1: be back and forth. I would be putting in all
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  Speaker 1: of these ideas and for each and every single chapter, scene, action,
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  Speaker 1: all this stuff. I would do a lot of the
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  Speaker 1: work and I would just simply have AI write it
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  Speaker 1: for me and then I would come back, I would
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  Speaker 1: read it, And then I would say, no, I want
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  Speaker 1: these changes. I want this different. And, you know, it
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  Speaker 1: would keep going back. And it would still take me
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  Speaker 1: probably six or seven months worth of, you know, back
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  Speaker 1: and forth to get it to where I would want. So, yes,
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  Speaker 1: I would be writing a lot of it. It would
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  Speaker 1: just simply, you know, save me 10 years worth of
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  Speaker 1: work for one book. And, you know, if people wanted
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  Speaker 1: to purchase it, you would have that option. It would
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  Speaker 1: be a great-ass story, though. Because I know how... Man,
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  Speaker 1: I know fantasy. Let me tell you something, people. I
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  Speaker 1: know some fantasy. AI could do... Just think about it.
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  Speaker 1: It's state prisons. Federal prison, whatever. But if states would
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  Speaker 1: get behind AI... Pretty much, I don't know of a
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  Speaker 1: single state that does not have tablets that inmates use.
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  Speaker 1: We have Wi-Fi. Why can't they put AI apps on
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  Speaker 1: our tablets? Limit us to a couple hours a day,
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  Speaker 1: say three hours a day. Again, all this stuff, every
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  Speaker 1: single thing I do on this tablet is monitored and recorded.
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  Speaker 1: If you do something wrong with it, that's it. They
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  Speaker 1: pull the plug on you, specifically. They don't take it
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  Speaker 1: from everybody like they do with everything else. You know?
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  Speaker 1: I'm seriously, like, a dude goes to commissary, buys a
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  Speaker 1: candy bar, and a CO walks by seeing him shove
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  Speaker 1: it in his ass one day, and all of a
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  Speaker 1: sudden they no longer sell snicker bars on commissary. Like,
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  Speaker 1: stop punishing everybody. for what one or two individuals do.
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  Speaker 1: Take it from them. And because it's on the tablet,
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  Speaker 1: it's easy. The investigator can just go over there, type
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  Speaker 1: in this person's name and state number, and just simply
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  Speaker 1: click on whatever and delete it from their tablet. Delete
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  Speaker 1: it from their cloud. Let everybody else... Let everybody else
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  Speaker 1: utilize this. Think of the rehabilitation that they can do.
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  Speaker 1: Think of the learning, the education. Do you know what
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  Speaker 1: I would do every night after the sun goes down,
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  Speaker 1: the lights go off? I would be laid up in
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  Speaker 1: this bed from about 8 o'clock to 11 o'clock. I
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  Speaker 1: would be on AI just learning. doing different things, creating, like...
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  Speaker 1: You know? But their fear, their fear that somebody's going
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  Speaker 1: to misuse it. I don't understand why the states live
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  Speaker 1: by fear. They're... There's so much good that could come
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  Speaker 1: from it. There really, truly is so much good that
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  Speaker 1: could come from putting AI in prisons and allowing us
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  Speaker 1: this access. Yes, eventually, somebody's going to do something stupid.
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  Speaker 1: But guess what? You give us books. Somebody done something
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  Speaker 1: stupid with that. That's the reason why I no longer
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  Speaker 1: get books like talking about anymore. Because... Virginia Department of
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  Speaker 1: Corrections banned Amazon, banned us from purchasing books from Amazon
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  Speaker 1: because one person, one person in the Virginia DOC knew
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  Speaker 1: somebody that worked in an Amazon warehouse and convinced them
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  Speaker 1: to get a hardback book, cut pages out, stuff it
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  Speaker 1: with some cell phones, a couple of knives, and a
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  Speaker 1: bunch of drugs, and try to mail it in. And
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  Speaker 1: it got tore off. Hey, guess what? Virginia DOC. The
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  Speaker 1: procedures you put in place worked. They did exactly what
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  Speaker 1: they were created for. Why are you punishing everybody else
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  Speaker 1: for what one jackass did? So now, I no longer
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  Speaker 1: get books from the street. I used to have people
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  Speaker 1: would go on Amazon. I didn't even know some of
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  Speaker 1: these people. And they would just, man, Randy would love this.
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  Speaker 1: Send it to me. And I'd be reading great books.
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  Speaker 1: And when I'm done, I would donate them to the library.
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  Speaker 1: But now, y'all put a stop to that because of
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  Speaker 1: one person. Y'all are living in fear. Your procedures work.
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  Speaker 1: Give us Amazon back. Give us our hardback books back.
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  Speaker 1: Then give us access.
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  Speaker 2: To AI, especially in your incentive prisons, especially guys that
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  Speaker 2: are within a year of being released from prison. They
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  Speaker 2: can go and spend time, create a program specifically to
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  Speaker 2: teach them.
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  Speaker 1: So much, so much that can be done. That's my
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  Speaker 1: thought on AI. That's how I'm currently using AI. I
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  Speaker 1: hope you enjoyed listening to me today.