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Fake or News: Slack Bots Gone Wild, NASA vs. Dragons and Goodbye to Plastic - Roxy Rodriguez-Becker · Coffee with Developers

• 0:01
  SPEAKER_01: So we're gonna show you 12 headlines and it's up to you to tell me which are real and which of them we made up.
• 0:11
  SPEAKER_01: Scammers used an AI voice clone and a fake WhatsApp message to move$95 million out of an Italian bank.
• 0:18
  SPEAKER_00: I feel like that's news.
• 0:20
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
• 0:21
  SPEAKER_00: AI voice clones, they can they still fool a lot of folks.
• 0:24
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and the fake WhatsApp message feels like it would be an easy way to deliver it as well.
• 0:28
  SPEAKER_00: Oh yes.
• 0:28
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 0:28
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, like my parents would totally.
• 0:30
  SPEAKER_00: They don't have 95 million, but they would fall for it.
• 0:33
  SPEAKER_00: Yay! Okay.
• 0:35
  SPEAKER_00: The world is still as dumb as I think.
• 0:37
  SPEAKER_00: I'm skidding.
• 0:39
  SPEAKER_01: OpenAI raises API prices 35%, citing rising compute costs and exceptional demand from government infrastructure contracts.
• 0:47
  SPEAKER_01: That's a very long one.
• 0:49
  SPEAKER_00: Um that sounds so real that I want to say that it's fake, only because that's a pretty big price hike.
• 0:57
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that I didn't hear about it either, so I think you might be right.
• 1:02
  SPEAKER_00: Yay! Yeah.
• 1:03
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, there's so many competitors.
• 1:05
  SPEAKER_00: Why would you raise your prices?
• 1:06
  SPEAKER_00: People would have been whining about it all over Twitter.
• 1:09
  SPEAKER_01: NASA has dragon dilemma, and there appear to be no good answers.
• 1:13
  SPEAKER_00: I should know this.
• 1:14
  SPEAKER_00: I'm in Houston.
• 1:16
  SPEAKER_01: You really should, yeah.
• 1:16
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, if you can do it in the next 16 seconds, see if you can do it.
• 1:20
  SPEAKER_00: Houston, Roxy has a problem.
• 1:22
  SPEAKER_00: Fake.
• 1:22
  SPEAKER_00: NASA has to know everything.
• 1:24
  SPEAKER_01: I think you're right.
• 1:25
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, dragon dilemma, what even is that?
• 1:27
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, now I have to look it up.
• 1:29
  SPEAKER_00: What the heck?
• 1:30
  SPEAKER_01: Researchers create a biodegradable alternative to plastic.
• 1:34
  SPEAKER_00: Isn't that isn't that always something people are working on?
• 1:37
  SPEAKER_00: Even though I feel like there's so much money in plastic.
• 1:39
  SPEAKER_00: Yep, yep, yep.
• 1:41
  SPEAKER_00: Like it's never there's never gonna actually be a solution.
• 1:44
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah.
• 1:45
  SPEAKER_00: Paper straws, man.
• 1:46
  SPEAKER_00: What's that?
• 1:47
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 1:49
  SPEAKER_01: Slack's threaded AI replies sometimes respond to conversations in the wrong channels, creating confusion.
• 1:55
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, that sounds accurate.
• 1:56
  SPEAKER_00: News.
• 1:57
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it has to be.
• 1:58
  SPEAKER_00: Slack is just confusing sometimes.
• 2:00
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and agents are just not great.
• 2:02
  SPEAKER_01: Oh gosh.
• 2:03
  SPEAKER_00: What?
• 2:04
  SPEAKER_00: What?
• 2:05
  SPEAKER_01: But like these are good.
• 2:07
  SPEAKER_00: We have like two different agents in our Slack right now that are replying everywhere.
• 2:11
  SPEAKER_01: Mozilla adds AI generated daily crossword to Firefox's new tab page built from summarized news.
• 2:17
  SPEAKER_00: I keep saying news to everything, but I'm gonna go with news.
• 2:20
  SPEAKER_00: That sounds fun.
• 2:21
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it's a fun use of AI.
• 2:24
  SPEAKER_00: Yay!
• 2:25
  SPEAKER_01: Number seven, personal AI agents quietly upsell users that they think are rich.
• 2:31
  SPEAKER_01: That's a good idea.
• 2:33
  SPEAKER_00: I think that's fake.
• 2:34
  SPEAKER_00: Too many rich people would be upset and they have too much pull.
• 2:38
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
• 2:39
  SPEAKER_01: I I feel like and also uh that they think a rich just feels strange.
• 2:43
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I know.
• 2:44
  SPEAKER_00: Like think what?
• 2:46
  SPEAKER_01: Wow.
• 2:48
  unknown: Okay.
• 2:48
  SPEAKER_01: Well, I mean, we we won't name and shame them, but you know, you can probably Google the headline and then just avoid those agents.
• 2:53
  SPEAKER_01: So yeah, yeah.
• 2:55
  SPEAKER_01: Honed blaster, hacking your PC using your speaker without ever touching.
• 3:00
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, so bonkers.
• 3:01
  SPEAKER_00: Using your speaker.
• 3:03
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I remember this one thing called NetBus that people would use in ICQ.
• 3:08
  SPEAKER_00: So I'm gonna say news.
• 3:10
  SPEAKER_00: You could open up people's CD drives.
• 3:13
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, wow.
• 3:14
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, I never knew this one, but I love that.
• 3:17
  SPEAKER_01: Look at this.
• 3:18
  SPEAKER_01: That's brilliant.
• 3:18
  SPEAKER_01: Open the CD ROM, okay, with the host name.
• 3:21
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, that's brilliant.
• 3:22
  SPEAKER_01: All right, back to the game.
• 3:23
  SPEAKER_00: So um, I'm gonna say real just because it brought back that memory.
• 3:27
  SPEAKER_00: I think everything's real, apparently.
• 3:29
  SPEAKER_00: I don't think I think I've said fake one time, maybe.
• 3:32
  SPEAKER_00: It's real.
• 3:33
  SPEAKER_00: Say real enough times, you're gonna be right, some of them.
• 3:35
  SPEAKER_01: Humans are reading co-pilot prompts and they're horrified.
• 3:39
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, this sounds like news too.
• 3:41
  SPEAKER_00: Like, I don't know.
• 3:42
  SPEAKER_00: I don't want and I don't want people looking through my searches.
• 3:45
  SPEAKER_00: Like, I feel like copilot prompts could be the same.
• 3:49
  SPEAKER_00: Horrified is a little extreme though, but you know.
• 3:52
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 3:52
  SPEAKER_01: News likes to be extreme.
• 3:54
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 3:55
  SPEAKER_01: What do you think?
• 3:56
  SPEAKER_00: News is very clickbaity.
• 3:58
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 3:58
  SPEAKER_01: You nailed it.
• 3:59
  SPEAKER_01: Number 10.
• 4:00
  SPEAKER_01: TikTok algorithm update demotes videos longer than 90 seconds across all verticals, and creators report a massive reach drop.
• 4:08
  SPEAKER_00: So they're I think that's fake because I feel like they've been pushing longer content recently.
• 4:13
  SPEAKER_00: Like I know you can go up to six minutes, and if it's a good story, like I like the apple Appalachian side of um Reddit and TikTok.
• 4:22
  SPEAKER_00: I feel like I'll stick around for those.
• 4:24
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, doing well.
• 4:25
  SPEAKER_01: Six out of ten.
• 4:26
  SPEAKER_01: Got a good streak going.
• 4:27
  SPEAKER_01: So let's see, get on the last two.
• 4:29
  SPEAKER_01: Linux kernel update accidentally replaces all error messages with Chinese comments.
• 4:36
  SPEAKER_01: I think that's fake.
• 4:38
  SPEAKER_01: Correct.
• 4:39
  SPEAKER_01: Oh yeah.
• 4:40
  SPEAKER_01: Seven out of eleven.
• 4:41
  SPEAKER_01: No pressure, but you're doing well.
• 4:43
  SPEAKER_01: So let's see if you can get the last one.
• 4:46
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, more NASA?
• 4:47
  SPEAKER_01: Oh no.
• 4:47
  SPEAKER_01: More NASA.
• 4:48
  SPEAKER_01: NASA chief concern.
• 4:50
  SPEAKER_01: China may deny access to parts of the moon's south pole.
• 4:53
  SPEAKER_01: I didn't I didn't realize that anyone owned the moon.
• 4:57
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, my my brain's doing flips as well, which makes me think it's fake.
• 5:01
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 5:02
  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna okay, I'm gonna go with fake because yeah.
• 5:05
  SPEAKER_01: Don't blame me.
• 5:06
  SPEAKER_00: I can't remember.
• 5:07
  SPEAKER_00: Oh no.
• 5:09
  SPEAKER_01: Oh dang it.
• 5:10
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 5:12
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, you're second.
• 5:15
  SPEAKER_01: Oh well.
• 5:15
  SPEAKER_01: Silver.
• 5:16
  SPEAKER_01: Uh Jason Torres has gone down to fifth and Mark as well.
• 5:19
  SPEAKER_01: That's funny.
• 5:20
  SPEAKER_00: Uh look, I'm not mad that I'm not mad that Andrew beat me.
• 5:23
  SPEAKER_00: I like Andrew.
• 5:24
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I mean, he was on a tear as well.
• 5:26
  SPEAKER_01: I think he got the first two wrong, and then as you can see, you got a streak of six and he just went straight through to the end.
• 5:31
  SPEAKER_01: So yeah.
• 5:32
  SPEAKER_01: I do wish that I had eight.
• 5:33
  SPEAKER_01: Is that because you're a maths teacher and you want the even number, or is that just because of the NASA heads?
• 5:36
  SPEAKER_00: Oh no, I just want to be one higher, just so I'm not tied.
• 5:39
  SPEAKER_01: Just so you're not tied.