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Speaker 1: They have the number one song on the Gospel charts,

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Speaker 1: and the Instagram account has surpassed seven surpassed seven million streams,

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Speaker 1: and the YouTube account has generated more than a million

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Speaker 1: views for his songs. The only problem is it's not

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Speaker 1: a real person. This is Solomon Ray. And check out

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Speaker 1: the song Goodbye Temptation.

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Speaker 2: Control n.

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Speaker 1: You kind of like it?

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Speaker 3: Like it?

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Speaker 1: Oh? No, Solomon Ray is the name of the artist

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Speaker 1: a I generated. So it's really not an artist, is it.

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Speaker 3: Well, could the person who prompted the you know, because

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Speaker 3: you have to type in, write me a gospel song,

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Speaker 3: that's this, this and this is that person?

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Speaker 2: Then maybe considered the artist.

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Speaker 1: Solomon Ray was created by Christopher Townshend. Townshend is somebody

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Speaker 1: who lives in Mississippi and is a MAGA rapper and

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Speaker 1: conservative activist and a former Air Force intelligence analyst and

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Speaker 1: decided smart guy. He is just going to make an

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Speaker 1: AI artist, the Solomon Ray. And Solomon Ray has now

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Speaker 1: reached number one on several charts, including the Billboard Gospel Chart,

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Speaker 1: and that brings in some questions about what is real

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Speaker 1: and what isn't real, what is fake and art? And

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Speaker 1: what do we expect now with all of this AI

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Speaker 1: generated content and material.

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Speaker 3: Well, you and Rob had this story several weeks ago,

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Speaker 3: going back maybe a month. The number one country song

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Speaker 3: at the time was from an AI generated artist, completely

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Speaker 3: ai Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I'm trying to think of who that was. It was

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Speaker 1: Rusty Rusty, somebody breaking rust have the number one country.

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Speaker 2: Song and that was the AI generated yeah artists.

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Speaker 1: And Kane Walker is another one who had a number

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Speaker 1: three country song. But you've got these fake voices, fake videos,

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Speaker 1: entire fake personalities. It's making some people uncomfortable. And I

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Speaker 1: think I'm one of them. Okay, because had I not

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Speaker 1: known that that was ai Like, had I not read

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Speaker 1: the article and been told this is ai.

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Speaker 2: Jo before you heard the song, right, I would.

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Speaker 1: Have thought, oh, that's a that's a good sound. That's

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Speaker 1: a real person.

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Speaker 3: But okay, So because it's ai now you're against it

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Speaker 3: or you don't like it.

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Speaker 1: I think that there's a fine line there with art

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Speaker 1: and artistic endeavors in AI like, because it's taking away

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Speaker 1: the humanity of it.

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Speaker 2: But you still said you like the song. No, but

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Speaker 2: you still said you like the song.

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Speaker 1: Aah. So the creator says that his goal is to

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Speaker 1: add to gospel music, not replace it, And there's a

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Speaker 1: lot of churches that are saying, you know, AI shouldn't

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Speaker 1: replace real human stories. But technology and music isn't something new.

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Speaker 2: Okay.

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Speaker 3: So you know for decades now, hip hop artists and

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Speaker 3: DJs have been sampling songs and you can have made.

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Speaker 1: They coupled a real song.

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Speaker 3: Well, but they make it, but they change it and

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Speaker 3: they mix different samples together to create something new, when

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Speaker 3: in fact, they never played any of the instruments, maybe

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Speaker 3: didn't even sing on all of it, any of it.

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Speaker 3: It was all sampled vocals from previous songs. Is that

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Speaker 3: not very similar to what we're seeing here? I mean,

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Speaker 3: because somebody had to enter into the chat GPT prompt

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Speaker 3: you make me a gospel song that does this, this, this,

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Speaker 3: this and this and this.

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Speaker 2: So there was a human.

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Speaker 3: Behind giving the instructions to you know, chat GPT or

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Speaker 3: whatever he did to generate it, that then generated that

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Speaker 3: song you could make it.

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Speaker 2: That's very similar to you know, hip.

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Speaker 3: Hop artists that have sampled other songs and not really

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Speaker 3: played any new notes, just kind of created something new

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Speaker 3: out of this mashup of previous songs.

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Speaker 1: Well, you've got the human behind it who's entering in

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Speaker 1: the prompts, but that human maybe isn't a very good musician,

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Speaker 1: and so that's why they're doing it. But we're trying to.

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Speaker 3: Create something that again, you could say out there, say

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Speaker 3: the same thing from all the hip hop artists that

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Speaker 3: have created songs from samples of previous songs.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but then they're taking away work from a real

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Speaker 3: We are going to have to come to grips with

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Speaker 3: this very very quickly. Look AI, whether you love AI,

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Speaker 2: I don't have a problem with it. I thought it

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Speaker 2: was a good song. I thought it was a.

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Speaker 1: Song too, but it was a little tainted for me

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Speaker 1: after I realized, you know, I think that's not real.

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Speaker 2: The big thing.

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Speaker 3: That I think people are at least initially going to

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Speaker 3: least transparency from tell me if something is generated from AI. Okay, fine,

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Speaker 3: but you got at least tell me it's AI generated,

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Speaker 3: and then I can make up my own decision as

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Speaker 3: to whether I'm going to factor that into where you

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Speaker 3: know if I like this or don't like it because

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Speaker 3: it's AA and make you like.

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Speaker 1: It less after you know that it's AI. So I

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Speaker 1: came across this video and this is Mason on the mic,

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Speaker 1: and she's a radio disc jockey, a radio host, has

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Speaker 1: been for many years, and she found something else that

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Speaker 1: we have mentioned on this show. I thought it was

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Speaker 1: a cat fight at first until I realized, oh where, yeah,

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Speaker 1: cat fight, and then I realized where she was going

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Speaker 1: with this. Check it out.

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Speaker 4: Do you have a few moments for me to tell

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Speaker 4: you about this girl that I hate, A hater, a

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Speaker 4: hater with every fiver of my being.

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Speaker 1: If you like internet drama, this is for you.

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Speaker 4: My name is Mason. I do afternoons on m N

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Speaker 4: eighty four to one in Seattle, and I also am

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Speaker 4: on air in San Francisco on Alice ninety seven three

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Speaker 4: doing mid days. And the girl in question that I hate,

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Speaker 4: her name is Tory and she is also in radio.

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Speaker 4: She is on air in Iowa and she works for

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Speaker 4: the station KFMW Rock one o eight and tolmegirl has

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Speaker 4: tattoos and a nose ring and thinks she is.

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Speaker 1: Wonderful.

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Speaker 2: Yeah's wrong.

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Speaker 1: She is horrible on air, first and foremost, she sucks. Oh,

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Speaker 1: but don't just take my word for it.

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Speaker 4: Let me play you a little audio from her and

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Speaker 4: you can agree with me and be like, yes, Mason,

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Speaker 4: she blows.

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Speaker 5: Rock one o eight, I'm tory with new music. That

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Speaker 5: was My Only Angel by Aerosmith. Up next Home A

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Speaker 5: Lot of Rosie by ac DC is a wild rock anthem.

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Speaker 5: It's about bon Scott's encounter with a big, bold woman

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Speaker 5: named Rosie. Talk about a legendary backstage story rock on.

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Speaker 4: She sounds like the south Park episode. Tell me about

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Speaker 4: the women at your job that you do that like,

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Speaker 4: she sounds like a Why because she's Ai?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so that's a disc jockey in Iowa. That's not

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Speaker 1: a real person.

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Speaker 2: Okay, Now that offends.

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Speaker 1: Me because it's taking your job.

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Speaker 3: No, not because it might be taking my job. Not

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Speaker 3: because it's Ai. And this is somebody that was a

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Speaker 2: It offends me.

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Speaker 3: Because that AI disc jockey was terrible, Like the worst

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Speaker 3: thing I've ever heard in my life. I am offended

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Speaker 3: as a former disc jockey by the quality of that.

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Speaker 1: You could tell that's not a real human. Now, would

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Speaker 1: you listen to that radio station. If the host talked

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Speaker 3: Right, sounds like you remember when you used to call

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Speaker 3: on a phone and the number would be disconnected and

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Speaker 3: you get that automated voice. The number you have reached

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Speaker 3: is no longer in service it Remember we made that

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Speaker 3: technology in the early eighties.

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Speaker 2: And it just sounded just like that.

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Speaker 1: It reminds me of Kramer from Seinfeld. Why don't you

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Speaker 1: tell me what moviefoe?

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Speaker 2: Welcome to moviefoe.

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Speaker 1: Hey, why don't you tell me what movie you'd like

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Speaker 1: to see? So? Yeah, no, I would not enjoy listening

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Speaker 1: to that sort of radio at all, knowing that that's AI.

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Speaker 1: The music thing, the Solomon Ray guy who's got a

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Speaker 1: number one gospel song that was pretty good.

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Speaker 2: It was really good, I know.

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Speaker 3: And if I could have a music disc jockey that

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Speaker 3: was equally as good, Yeah, I may be.

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Speaker 2: I may be okay with it. And look for now,

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Speaker 2: bring it all on AI, coming at us one hundred percent.

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Speaker 2: I'm here for it.

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Speaker 1: Maybe the program director of that Iowa radio station just

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Speaker 1: hass to enter better prompts so that it doesn't sound

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Speaker 1: so robotic.

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Speaker 2: See, the human element is always there.

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Speaker 3: The human element is always part of it, somebody's got

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Speaker 3: to be typing in those prompts and telling them what

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Speaker 3: they want. So even with AI generated content, there's always

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Speaker 3: that human element behind it,