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Speaker 1: This is a podcast from wor Now the wr Saturday

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Speaker 1: Morning Show.

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Speaker 2: Here's Larry Minty.

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Speaker 1: This week on Saturday Morning, It's the best of Curtis

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Speaker 1: Leiwa and Larry Minty in the Morning. Starting with Mark

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Speaker 1: Zuckerberg and Meta losing a big lawsuit that accused Facebook

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Speaker 1: and Instagram of harming young users on purpose. We talked

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Speaker 1: with tech expert Rich Demiro from WRS Rich on tech

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Speaker 1: Rich a blockbuster ruling, a huge ruling for the social

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Speaker 1: media industry. Meta Orders is ordered to pay a three

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Speaker 1: hundred and seventy five million dollars. It could have been worse.

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Speaker 1: They were asking for two billion dollars over child safety violations.

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Speaker 1: What does this mean to the entire industry.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it means that it's a wake up call that

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Speaker 3: these companies can be held liable for what they're doing,

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Speaker 3: especially when they say they're doing one thing like protecting

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Speaker 3: teens and kids and actually are not.

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Speaker 2: So.

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Speaker 3: These investigators in this case created fake accounts posing as kids,

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Speaker 3: and they were quickly exposed to sexual content and contacted

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Speaker 3: by predators, something that is probably not you know, not

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Speaker 3: all that random, I guess. I mean, it's probably pretty

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Speaker 3: common for a lot of kids on these practice on

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Speaker 3: these platforms. So jury said Meta engaged in deceptive practices

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Speaker 3: basically promoting safety but not really doing that. So excuse me.

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Speaker 3: We have a case happening in California where Meta is

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Speaker 3: also on the stand and the jury is deliberating on that,

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Speaker 3: so we will see. This could open up the floodgates

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Speaker 3: for many more verdicts like this if these juries keep

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Speaker 3: deciding that, hey, you know what these companies are doing,

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Speaker 3: are saying one thing and doing another.

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Speaker 2: It's like a drug dealer pretty much. They've said, the

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Speaker 2: companies are a drug deal with our kids and grandchildren.

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Speaker 2: You know, they are addicting them to the constant usage.

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Speaker 2: What I don't understand is there are other people in

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Speaker 2: Silicon Valley who are also being sued. And there's no doubt.

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Speaker 2: Dad lawyer said, you do not want to be up

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Speaker 2: on the witness stand. Just settle, settle, settle, settle.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Why did Zuckerberg decide I'm gonna battle this, I'm gonna

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Speaker 2: be on the witness stand. I'm likable, I can win

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Speaker 2: over a jury. Boy for somebody who's made so much money,

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Speaker 2: not too bright. Yeah, and he's never come off as likable.

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Speaker 2: He has never come off as saying the right thing

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Speaker 2: when he's under pressure. We've seen that over and over.

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Speaker 2: But he seems to think that maybe in his heart

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Speaker 2: of hearts, he is doing the right thing. But I

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Speaker 2: think that, you know, he's one person in charge of

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Speaker 2: a very large organization. We're talking Instagram, we're talking reels,

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Speaker 2: we're talking Facebook, and so he may think they're doing

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Speaker 2: the right thing and by putting their best face forward

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Speaker 2: and being on the stand, But in reality, the way

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Speaker 2: average people are using these products and what.

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Speaker 3: Average kids are exposed to is a completely different story

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Speaker 3: on all these platforms.

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Speaker 1: Rich schools across the country have been trying to deal

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Speaker 1: with AI and what they're going to allow and what

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Speaker 1: they're going to prohibit. Everybody a college is all the

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Speaker 1: way down to grade schools. Normally this is for the students,

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Speaker 1: but interestingly enough, in New York City schools they have

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Speaker 1: rules now for the educators and what they can use

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Speaker 1: and not use. For instance, AI cannot be used for grading,

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Speaker 1: it can't be used for student counseling, behavioral monitoring, and

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Speaker 1: other discussions. Is this a first or is this happening

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Speaker 1: across the country.

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Speaker 3: I think that every school district is figuring out how

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Speaker 3: to incorporate AI or how to I mean a lot

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Speaker 3: of them when it first came out just that absolutely

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Speaker 3: not it's banned, you can't use it. But I think

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Speaker 3: as every single person in America and the world at

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Speaker 3: large is starting to use AI or incorporating it in

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Speaker 3: their daily lives, these school systems have to say, Okay,

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Speaker 3: we can't just ban this. We have to either embrace it.

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Speaker 3: We have to come up with rules. And I think

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Speaker 3: what the New York City Department of Education is doing

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Speaker 3: is actually quite smart because they're telling teachers, look, we

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Speaker 3: understand that you're already using this behind the scenes in

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Speaker 3: a lot of different ways, so we're gonna allow it

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Speaker 3: and we're gonna let you brainstorm lesson ideas, which is

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Speaker 3: completely smart. Everyone's doing this, organizing your materials, drafting emails.

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Speaker 3: I use AI to write my emails every single day,

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Speaker 3: and so the things that they've kind of said no,

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Speaker 3: you can't use it for that's a smart carve out

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Speaker 3: right now. So I think every district is grappling with this.

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Speaker 3: But if you look at the students, they're all using it.

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Speaker 3: I don't think they should be using it to write papers,

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Speaker 3: but should use it to research. Absolutely, it's the way

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Speaker 3: people are researching today.

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Speaker 2: Speaking of students, mostly male, I have three shuns, remember

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Speaker 2: the TV program My Three Shuns. What is the one

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Speaker 2: thing that they have in common? Love of Fortnite or Roadblocks?

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Speaker 2: I hate Roadbox. I can deal with Fortnite, but I understand.

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Speaker 2: I'm with you. I'm with you. I despise Roadblocks, Yes, totally.

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Speaker 2: I'd rather watch Barney episodes as much as I hated Barney.

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Speaker 2: But they say that there is a broader weakness in

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Speaker 2: the video game industry. I haven't since that, and now

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Speaker 2: that I'm starting to make massive cuts, which means less

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Speaker 2: Fortnite content, you know, so they can constantly refresh in

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Speaker 2: the game. I thought, in fact, if anything, it was

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Speaker 2: more use of video games by the new generation.

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Speaker 3: It is, but I think that what we're seeing here

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Speaker 3: is nothing can reach the levels of video gameplay like

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Speaker 3: we saw during the pandemic. Students, I mean kids, my

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Speaker 3: kids included. You know, they really got hooked on these games.

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Speaker 3: Not so much Fortnite for my kids, but Roadblocks especially

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Speaker 3: be Fortnite said they're laying off more than a thousand employees.

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Speaker 3: It's about twenty percent of their staff, one of the

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Speaker 3: biggest cuts we've seen in gaming so far, And they said,

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Speaker 3: you know what, engagement has just been dropping since last year.

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Speaker 3: But the thing that they made clear, because we're hearing

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Speaker 3: about AI impacting jobs so much, they said, this has

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Speaker 3: nothing to do with AI. We're not replacing workers with AI.

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Speaker 3: We're just seeing less people play. And last year they

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Speaker 3: raised the price of their in game currency, they call

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Speaker 3: them v bucks. But the reality is, yes, our kids

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Speaker 3: still playing Fortnite absolutely. Is it still popular. Yes, I

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Speaker 3: think we're just seeing a slow retreat as there are

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Speaker 3: more options available with gameplay and also social media on

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Speaker 1: So what is Amazon up to? They bought a company

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Speaker 1: that makes consumer humanoid robots. Does that mean robots are

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Speaker 1: going to be making deliveries to our house or is

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Speaker 1: it drones that will be making deliveries too ourhouse? Oh?

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Speaker 3: All the above there. I think this is a This

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Speaker 3: is a company called Fauna Robotics. They're making a small

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Speaker 3: humanoid robotic. It's named Sprout. And you know, Amazon already

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Speaker 3: has robots making deliveries. They already have robots in their warehouses,

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Speaker 3: they have a ton of automation. This I think is

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Speaker 3: kind of a move towards the humanoid robot for people.

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Speaker 3: So we've seen a lot of these robots that are

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Speaker 3: trying to do things in the home like fold laundry

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Speaker 3: and you know, serve you whatever. This is a very

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Speaker 3: expensive robot fifty thousand dollars, but could the scale of

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Speaker 3: Amazon and all the people that they have the smarts

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Speaker 3: bring that cost down. The dream for robotics has been

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Speaker 3: we want a Rosy the robot in our homes. Well,

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Speaker 3: some people do, and so far we have not seen

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Speaker 3: that happen in a big way. The best we have

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Speaker 3: is a is a robotic vacuum that gets caught on

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Speaker 3: the first stock that it runs into.

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Speaker 1: I feel your pain.

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Speaker 3: Oh, we'll see. This is you know, Amazon launched this

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Speaker 3: thing called Astro back in twenty twenty one. It was

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Speaker 3: a basically an Alexa on wheels. It was not very smart.

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Speaker 3: That thing flopped. But we'll see. Every company now is

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Speaker 3: trying to be first in the home because once we

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Speaker 3: get that robot that the mass American population can purchase

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Speaker 3: and have actually do interesting things in their home that

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Speaker 3: could be game changing.

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Speaker 1: Rich Demiro from rich on Tech. Rich on Tech has

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