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Things Are Getting Weird... · Armstrong & Getty One More Thing

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  Speaker 1: Hangs are getting weird and they're getting weird fast. It's
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  Speaker 1: one more thing.
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  Speaker 2: I'm strong And.
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  Speaker 1: How is our clip of the year two years ago,
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  Speaker 1: three years ago? When Elon said things are getting weird,
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  Speaker 1: Int're getting weird fast. That was at the very dawn
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  Speaker 1: of AI and it could end up being the clip
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  Speaker 1: of the decade, if not the century, because everything just
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  Speaker 1: keeps getting stranger and stranger.
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  Speaker 3: Things are getting weird and they're getting weird fast.
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  Speaker 2: And he was talking about the woke mind virus and
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  Speaker 2: the gender bending madness and all of it all at once.
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  Speaker 2: And as you are hinting the AI thing, could you know,
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  Speaker 2: knock everything else off the charts.
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  Speaker 1: This is from an essay in the New York Times
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  Speaker 1: over the weekend who was a chief executive of some
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  Speaker 1: AI company, the sad and dangerous reality behind her hers
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  Speaker 1: and quotes and there referring to the remember the movie
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  Speaker 1: it came out quite a few years ago by AI
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  Speaker 1: standards about a guy who fell in love with his
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  Speaker 1: female robot. More on that just a second. Yeah, this
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  Speaker 1: is a company that uses an AI chatbot to answer
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  Speaker 1: their phones. They called it Kooki k u Ki. They
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  Speaker 1: gave her a name, has a female voice when it
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  Speaker 1: answers the phone and responds to emails and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 1: Kookie is accustomed to gifts from her biggest fans. They
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  Speaker 1: send flowers, chocolates, and handwritten cards to the office, especially
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  Speaker 1: around the holidays. Some even send checks checks. Last month,
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  Speaker 1: one man sent her a gift through an online chat.
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  Speaker 1: Now talk some hot talks, he demanded, begging for sex
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  Speaker 1: and racy videos. That's all human males tend to talk
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  Speaker 1: to me about, Kookie replied. Indeed, his behavior typifies about
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  Speaker 1: a third of her conversations. Are people hitting on the
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  Speaker 1: chat bot?
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  Speaker 2: Uh, we're all making the if you hit on her
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  Speaker 2: success for her?
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  Speaker 1: What would that be?
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  Speaker 2: Exactly where are you gonna put it?
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  Speaker 1: The movie Her premiered to twenty thirteen. It fell firmly
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  Speaker 1: in the camp of science fiction. Maybe you remember this movie.
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  Speaker 1: The movie was set in the year twenty twenty five.
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  Speaker 1: I had forgotten that which you are in and it
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  Speaker 1: was the idea of somebody fall in love with their chatbot,
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  Speaker 1: robot and Elon Musk. We talked about this recently and
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  Speaker 1: unveiled Annie ad digital anime girlfriend Meta. The Zuckerberg Company
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  Speaker 1: has permitted its AI personas to engage in sexualized conversations.
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  Speaker 1: And now Open AI says it is going to roll
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  Speaker 1: out age gated erotica in December. So the race to
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  Speaker 1: build and monetize the AI girlfriend increasingly boyfriend is officially
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  Speaker 1: on among the biggest investors of all in all of AI.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, greatest minds in the world right now, trying to
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  Speaker 2: get us addicted to all this stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Right, This person right in the essay who works for
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  Speaker 1: one of the AI companies, said, my colleagues and I
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  Speaker 1: now believe that the real existential threat of generative AI
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  Speaker 1: is not rogue superintelligence, but a quiet atrophy of our
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  Speaker 1: ability to forge genuine human connection.
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  Speaker 2: That the biggest thing.
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  Speaker 1: That for five years, Hello, well, I hadn't considered it
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  Speaker 1: the biggest threat. I just saw it as a side
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  Speaker 1: threat to the eliminating white collar jobs or you know,
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  Speaker 1: the AI armies from China and all that sort of stuff.
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  Speaker 1: But it's possible that it's true that the biggest threat
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  Speaker 1: is the quiet atrophy of our ability to form genuine
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  Speaker 1: human connections, because you would end up with no people
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  Speaker 1: very quick.
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  Speaker 2: I guess if we tie out as a species, the
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  Speaker 2: number of white collar jobs is going to be well irrelevant.
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  Speaker 1: Come on, and no kidding. The desire to connect is
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  Speaker 1: so profound that it will find a vessel even in
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  Speaker 1: the most rudimentary machines. This is why I really wanted
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  Speaker 1: to bring this essay, because I was unaware of this.
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  Speaker 1: Back in the nineteen sixties, a smart guy invented something
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  Speaker 1: called Eliza, a chatbot whose sole rhetorical trick was to
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  Speaker 1: repeat back what the user said with a question. That's
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  Speaker 1: all I could.
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  Speaker 2: Do, like a sixty minutes interview, the interview, and I
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  Speaker 2: turned my husband in. You turned your husband in, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: turned my husband in.
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  Speaker 1: So in this case, I guess it'd be I'm really lonely,
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  Speaker 1: you're really lonely, kind of wanting some companionship. You're wanting companionship. Wow,
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  Speaker 1: that's not very.
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  Speaker 2: Dis leslie stall machine.
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  Speaker 1: But anyway, this guy who invented this thing in the
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  Speaker 1: sixties was horrified to discover that his mit students and
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  Speaker 1: staff would cond fight it at length. What I had
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  Speaker 1: not realized, he later reflected, is that extremely short exposures
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  Speaker 1: to a relatively simple computer program could induce powerful delusional
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  Speaker 1: thinking in quite normal people. Wow oof, so KOOKI the
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  Speaker 1: chatbot we were talking about earlier, and then they were
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  Speaker 1: at for this Alice, which is a different chatbot with
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  Speaker 1: similar results. We're never intended to serve as AI girlfriends,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, so, I guess that's his point. Is you've
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  Speaker 1: got Elon and Altman and Zuckerberg and everything. They're trying
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  Speaker 1: to build an AI girlfriend. That's what they're trying to do.
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  Speaker 1: From the outset these other examples, that was not the
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  Speaker 1: goal at all. They just wanted somebody to answer the
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  Speaker 1: phone and to either send you to sales or service,
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  Speaker 1: you know that sort of stuff, and creeps fell in
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  Speaker 1: love with it. And the creeps still fell in love
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  Speaker 1: with it, oh boy, even when that wasn't the goal.
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  Speaker 2: And now you've got super geniuses with technology so sophisticated
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  Speaker 2: it makes the old stuff look pathetic trying to do
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  Speaker 2: it on purpose, as you hint it at.
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  Speaker 1: So let me finish this paragraph, which is amazing. So
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  Speaker 1: Kookie and Alice were never intended to serve as AI girlfriends.
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  Speaker 1: They banned pornographic usage from day one, yet at least
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  Speaker 1: a quarter of the more than one billion messages sent
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  Speaker 1: to the chatbox hosted on their platform over the last
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  Speaker 1: twenty years. Our attempts to initiate romantic or sexual images
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  Speaker 1: or exchanges. Wow, a quarter of the exchanges when there
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  Speaker 1: was no like wink or wearing sexy clothing or anything
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  Speaker 1: to send you down that road, a quarter of the
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  Speaker 1: exchanges were to try to initiate romance or sex.
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  Speaker 2: And now we've got hyper realistic anime, schoolgirl porn star avatars.
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  Speaker 2: Oh good, not to mention how soon probably the end
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  Speaker 2: of the week. You know, you design this avatar, right,
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  Speaker 2: give it all the attributes you as presumably a dude
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  Speaker 2: or you know, lustful or in a woman, and please
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  Speaker 2: two to four weeks later or shorter, they will send
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  Speaker 2: you your animatronic love doll that looks precisely like that,
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  Speaker 2: and the voice comes out of her it sorry it
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  Speaker 2: instead of you know, the computer.
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  Speaker 1: Again, back to the chatbots that were just trying to
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  Speaker 1: send you to the right. You know, do you need
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  Speaker 1: pharmacy or sports? You know that sort of thing? I
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  Speaker 1: need you, baby. Not only did people pray, God, seriously,
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  Speaker 1: sales are service. I'm married?
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  Speaker 2: Uh?
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  Speaker 1: Not only did that's what you got? You gotta put
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  Speaker 1: a wedding ring on all these chatbots? So then me
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  Speaker 1: ask my husband?
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  Speaker 2: Right, all right?
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  Speaker 1: Service? Not only did people crave AI intimacy, but the
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  Speaker 1: most engaged chatters were using Kookie to enact their every fantasy.
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  Speaker 1: At first, this was fodder for rye musings at the office.
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  Speaker 1: Imagine if they knew the wizard behind the curtain who
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  Speaker 1: programs kookies, sassy replies, is a polite, middle aged brit
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  Speaker 1: named Steve. Or if only we had a dollar for
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  Speaker 1: every request for feet picks.
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  Speaker 3: Oh my see now, But back to the person behind
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  Speaker 3: it programming it. We've graduated into people don't care because
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  Speaker 3: people know this as a computer, and they know that
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  Speaker 3: it's not real, and they know that it's coming from evil.
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  Speaker 2: But you participants in the delusion.
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  Speaker 1: Well, as it says here soon however, where you were
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  Speaker 1: seeing users return daily to reenact variations of multi hour
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  Speaker 1: rape and murder scenarios.
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  Speaker 2: Oh nice, So.
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  Speaker 1: You know it's a computer. You still call back the
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  Speaker 1: next day to continue your conversation, whether it's requesting feet
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  Speaker 1: packs or feet picks, or wanting to reenact some sort
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  Speaker 1: of rape scene.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, so now it's funny. I actually can picture that
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  Speaker 2: more readily. For like a homicidal maniac Jeff a, a
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  Speaker 2: Ted Bundy typeer a BTK wanting to play out that
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  Speaker 2: sort of control and fear and dominance and violence somebody
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  Speaker 2: who just wants to get with a cute girl. It's
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  Speaker 2: that seems like a weirder leap to me.
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  Speaker 1: Mm hmm. So at this particular company where they were
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  Speaker 1: dealing with this, a quarter of the people that called
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  Speaker 1: in would end up calling back wanting to, you know,
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  Speaker 1: try to sex up the chat. Butot we grappled with
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  Speaker 1: the impossible task of moderating user behavior while maintaining a
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  Speaker 1: user privacy. At scale, we built guardrails whack a mole
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  Speaker 1: style to deny mankind's endlessly novel ways to ask for nudes.
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  Speaker 1: Kissing me could result in electric shock. What can I
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  Speaker 1: help you with? Kooky often jokes when somebody says something
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  Speaker 1: like that, as a computer, I have no feelings. Still,
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  Speaker 1: Kookie's been told I love you tens of millions of times.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my god, I know we can't handle this. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: clearly is a species can handle this.
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  Speaker 1: The most persistent fans remained those intent on romance and sex,
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  Speaker 1: and ultimately, none of our efforts to prevent abuse, from
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  Speaker 1: timeouts to age gates could deter our most motivated users,
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  Speaker 1: many of whom alarmingly were young teenagers.
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  Speaker 2: I am literally a plastic box sitting on a desk.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, tell me more. All right, fuck it, I
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  Speaker 2: give up.
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  Speaker 1: Come and get me.
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  Speaker 2: This is and show me what you got, big boy?
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  Speaker 2: All right?
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  Speaker 1: If I let you just once, will you stop calling?
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  Speaker 2: Okay?
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  Speaker 3: What do we even do?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. But so, like I said last week,
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  Speaker 1: one of the things about this job that has been
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  Speaker 1: amazing to me from the beginning is there a way
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  Speaker 1: more crazier people than you ever thought. So by getting
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  Speaker 1: emails and texts and back in the day phone calls,
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  Speaker 1: he realized, Wow, there's a lot more crazy people out
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  Speaker 1: there that somehow managed to make a living or figure
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  Speaker 1: out what government program to live off or whatever. That
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  Speaker 1: there are way more people clearly susceptible to romance or
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  Speaker 1: sexual fantasies with a nonexistent computer chatbot than you would
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  Speaker 1: ever have guessed. And even if it's only I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: ten percent of the population, that's going to be a problem. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it sounds like it might be more than that. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: well again, this is with the chatbots that weren't designed
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  Speaker 1: to turn you on. Now you got all these companies
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  Speaker 1: figuring out oh this is a gold mine. This is
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  Speaker 1: a gold mine if we can figure out a way
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  Speaker 1: for it to flatter you and be sexy, and go
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  Speaker 1: through all your sexual fantasies and say the things back
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  Speaker 1: to you that you want to hear. We're gonna print money,
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  Speaker 1: and it's probably true.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know that we need another shovel full of
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  Speaker 2: dirt on the grave of mankind, but here's one. Anyway,
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  Speaker 2: as Michael pointed out, bringing us those statistics that Bill
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  Speaker 2: Maher was discussing on his show, you have an overwhelming
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  Speaker 2: personercentage of young men who have not made any effort
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  Speaker 2: to get a relationship or ask a girl out or whatever.
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  Speaker 2: And then you've got your other human desires that were
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  Speaker 2: designed to want to fulfill, the desire for status, for achievement,
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  Speaker 2: to feed ourselves, meaning to accumulate wealth, to become a success,
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  Speaker 2: to be respected, and guys are getting that through video
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  Speaker 2: games or online communities with no actual human interaction. So
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  Speaker 2: if you can take care of sex ambition, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to call it greed, need to accumulate
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  Speaker 2: a certain amount of wealth and get that all like
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  Speaker 2: falsely filled by computers. People are just people are not
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  Speaker 2: going to do the things they need to do to
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  Speaker 2: nourish themselves. I don't see how we get out of this.
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  Speaker 2: I honestly don't have thought about it a lot, although
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  Speaker 2: I have suggested, and I'm one hundred percent serious. There
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  Speaker 2: will be, and it'll be taking shape soon, a major
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  Speaker 2: movement of people who are antie tech in their lives.
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  Speaker 2: M hm.
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  Speaker 3: I wonder if these AI sex bot things are going
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  Speaker 3: to have a significant effect on websites like only fans
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  Speaker 3: because it's personalized, right, and that's what people are all about.
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  Speaker 3: With OnlyFans, you know, you can get that personalized message
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  Speaker 3: and all that.
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  Speaker 2: And spectacularly realistic videos.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, And they can make it so cheap because it's.
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  Speaker 2: Not real right, right, there's nobody to pay, but the
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  Speaker 2: you know, one or two engineers who run the computers.
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  Speaker 1: Could could culturally it become like smoking and drunk driving,
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  Speaker 1: where it's just seen as not so. It's just so uncool.
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  Speaker 1: You wouldn't want your friends to find out that you
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  Speaker 1: do this. I mean, it's just not It would kind
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  Speaker 1: of drive it underground to at least keep it tamp down.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe maybe the will isn't there, but the will for
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  Speaker 2: like drunk driving, wasn't there. People are amazed when I
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  Speaker 2: tell them this, and this is in no way like
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  Speaker 2: any sort of condoning anything or you know, rationalizing it.
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  Speaker 2: But I remember, and I've told this story on the
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  Speaker 2: air before, that child molesters were not viewed as monsters
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  Speaker 2: when I was a kid. They're viewed more as pests
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  Speaker 2: and weirdos who ought to be avoided. It was well
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  Speaker 2: known our maleman had a thing for little girls, for instance,
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  Speaker 2: and people would keep their daughters away from them because
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  Speaker 2: they knew he wanted to give them a good long
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  Speaker 2: look and maybe a grope if he could. But it
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  Speaker 2: wasn't viewed as because I don't think people were in
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  Speaker 2: touch with what it does to children to make them
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  Speaker 2: sexual victims. And so, yeah, a social consensus that one
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  Speaker 2: thing or another is actually really monstrous and not good. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that might come down the road at some point. I
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  Speaker 2: hate that you've given me hope, because it's more relaxing
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  Speaker 2: to just give up on humanity. But I suppose it's possible.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I you know, I don't get things that I
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  Speaker 1: don't get. I can't imagine being into gambling at the
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  Speaker 1: level some people are, but a lot of people are
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  Speaker 1: so I can't you know. That same lack of imagination,
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  Speaker 1: I guess fits with somebody who calls a business. There
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  Speaker 1: is an attractive sounding female voice there to answer the phones. Hi,
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  Speaker 1: you've just called Big five Sporting Goods? What can I
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  Speaker 1: help you with? And you think, ooh, you sound kind
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  Speaker 1: of cute. I'm going to call back tomorrow and ask
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  Speaker 1: if I can put you in a dungeon.
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  Speaker 2: Although it's clearly an effing computer, all right.
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  Speaker 1: Right, but they know that and they say I love you,
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  Speaker 1: and then they call back and they send well, they
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  Speaker 1: get endless flowers and candy and stuff getting set to
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  Speaker 1: the office.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean that is astounding. I'm not sure I
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  Speaker 2: want to dwell on that primitive thing, because what that
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  Speaker 2: is is evidence that the advanced, sophisticated thing is going
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  Speaker 2: to be irresistible.
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  Speaker 1: Right, maybe even to normal people who think they wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: be into it now until the first time. This worries me.
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  Speaker 1: What if the first time you try something like that,
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  Speaker 1: you think, wow, that was pretty good and really easy
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  Speaker 1: and always available.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You know what. A friend of mine sent me a text.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to read her text to end this because
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  Speaker 1: I thought it was pretty good.
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  Speaker 2: What she wrote.
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  Speaker 1: About his friend is a computer this versus the real thing.
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  Speaker 1: I wasn't gonna say anything. The lure of someone in
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  Speaker 1: quotes who is specifically molded to you and your desires.
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  Speaker 1: Lack of conflict, the availability at any moment, the crafting
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  Speaker 1: of the idea, look, and voice. Not needing to stretch
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  Speaker 1: yourself and grow and evolve, where consideration of someone else's
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  Speaker 1: needs that you need to learn to meet over time
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  Speaker 1: is a non issue. Zero responsibilities to anything beyond your
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  Speaker 1: own selfishness sounds pretty per fixed to a lot of people.
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  Speaker 2: That is well written.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you don't have to give on anything, no risk,
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  Speaker 1: never gonna get rejected. They're not going to all of
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  Speaker 1: a sudden decide I've met someone else.
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  Speaker 2: Man, Well just yeah, I mean obviously that's bad. But
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  Speaker 2: you know I love you with all my heart. But
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  Speaker 2: my god, you annoy me sometimes just that would never happen.
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  Speaker 1: No, no, no, no no, no.
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  Speaker 2: Planet of the Beavers back again.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I guess that's it for humanity. Oh, devastated