WEBVTT - Tech News: The Political War Against Social Media 0:00:04.440 --> 0:00:12.319 Welcome to Tech Stuff, a production from iHeartRadio. Hey there, 0:00:12.320 --> 0:00:15.680 and welcome to tech Stuff. I'm your host, Jonathan Strickland. 0:00:15.720 --> 0:00:19.360 I'm an executive producer with iHeart Podcasts and how the 0:00:19.440 --> 0:00:24.000 tech are you? It is Friday, January twenty sixth, twenty 0:00:24.320 --> 0:00:26.920 twenty four, and I thought maybe we would talk about 0:00:27.000 --> 0:00:29.920 some tech news. And we've got a lot of news 0:00:29.920 --> 0:00:31.960 that we could touch on due to the fact that 0:00:32.040 --> 0:00:34.480 I was out of commission for most of the month. 0:00:34.680 --> 0:00:37.519 But I figure we're just going to focus on what's recent. 0:00:37.960 --> 0:00:41.200 So first up, this week, Tesla held an earnings call, 0:00:41.720 --> 0:00:45.479 and the results didn't fill investors with optimism. The company 0:00:45.520 --> 0:00:49.640 did not meet market expectations last quarter, and Elon Musk 0:00:49.720 --> 0:00:52.400 indicated that twenty twenty four is likely to be a 0:00:52.479 --> 0:00:55.640 slower year than what the company had hoped for. So 0:00:55.760 --> 0:00:58.720 in response, investors lost a little bit of confidence in 0:00:58.760 --> 0:01:03.840 the EV company and stock prices dropped around twelve percent. 0:01:04.200 --> 0:01:07.679 Tesla is currently working on a new vehicle, which is 0:01:07.760 --> 0:01:11.720 code named Redwood. This EV is said to be targeted 0:01:11.800 --> 0:01:14.520 for like a lower price point. It's meant to be 0:01:14.560 --> 0:01:18.039 a mass market vehicle and it's rumored to be in 0:01:18.080 --> 0:01:23.120 the compact crossover category. Musk said it'll actually be sometime 0:01:23.240 --> 0:01:27.080 in the second half of twenty twenty five when It's 0:01:27.160 --> 0:01:31.400 Texas manufacturing facility will actually begin production. He also indicated 0:01:31.800 --> 0:01:36.440 that Tesla employees should anticipate some very long work days 0:01:36.520 --> 0:01:39.360 leading up to that production. He flat out said they 0:01:39.360 --> 0:01:43.320 should expect to work long shifts and sleep at the 0:01:43.319 --> 0:01:47.400 manufacturing plant. Once again, Musk shows he has a firm 0:01:47.480 --> 0:01:50.680 grasp on how to motivate a workforce. In the meantime, 0:01:50.960 --> 0:01:54.680 investors continue to worry about their nest eggs and they 0:01:54.840 --> 0:01:58.000 shoot ugly glances at Musk whenever he gets bogged down 0:01:58.040 --> 0:02:03.480 in X slash Twitter drama, which, as you imagine, happens 0:02:03.520 --> 0:02:07.080 a lot. Next up, I've got a whole bunch of 0:02:07.160 --> 0:02:11.240 social network related news, but mercifully I've left out the 0:02:11.240 --> 0:02:16.160 stuff about X, because honestly, the recent X news is 0:02:16.240 --> 0:02:19.400 just so ugly I can't even so. First up, Meta 0:02:19.480 --> 0:02:24.200 announced that its platforms Facebook and Instagram will automatically block 0:02:24.360 --> 0:02:29.880 any direct messages sent to teenage users unless those messages 0:02:29.919 --> 0:02:32.720 come from someone who is already a friend of that 0:02:32.880 --> 0:02:36.960 user on those platforms, and this applies even if both 0:02:37.000 --> 0:02:41.320 of the users are teenagers. So if TEMA sends Team 0:02:41.320 --> 0:02:46.560 B a DM but they aren't already friends on these platforms, 0:02:46.840 --> 0:02:50.040 team B will not get that message. However, if they 0:02:50.080 --> 0:02:53.320 are friends on the platform, the message will go through. 0:02:53.680 --> 0:02:57.680 Also for Facebook Messenger, it's a little different. If Team 0:02:57.800 --> 0:03:02.160 B is in Teena's phone contacts from why, I understand, 0:03:02.160 --> 0:03:04.680 the message would then go through, but they have to 0:03:04.720 --> 0:03:08.720 already be confirmed friends or contacts with each other. The 0:03:08.800 --> 0:03:11.960 age barrier is dependent upon the country you're in, so 0:03:12.080 --> 0:03:15.560 in some countries this will only impact users who are 0:03:15.760 --> 0:03:18.560 under the age of sixteen. In a few other countries, 0:03:18.880 --> 0:03:21.800 that age is actually up to eighteen. This is not 0:03:21.880 --> 0:03:25.000 a perfect system because I don't know if you've heard 0:03:25.040 --> 0:03:28.240 about this, but there's this thing called lying, in which 0:03:28.280 --> 0:03:32.399 someone could tell a social platform that they're older when 0:03:32.440 --> 0:03:37.760 in fact they are not. I know, it's insidious, right. 0:03:38.480 --> 0:03:41.200 Meta does have some systems in place that are designed 0:03:41.240 --> 0:03:43.840 to predict a person's age to try and head that 0:03:43.920 --> 0:03:46.800 thing off, to determine, Hey, is this person actually the 0:03:46.840 --> 0:03:49.360 age that they claim to be? But I have no 0:03:49.520 --> 0:03:52.360 clue how good it is, how reliable is this tech? 0:03:52.760 --> 0:03:55.880 I don't know, And considering how some of my grown 0:03:55.920 --> 0:03:58.600 ass friends act like they're five year olds. I'm really 0:03:58.600 --> 0:04:01.760 curious how any Aisis can figure out anything at all. 0:04:02.320 --> 0:04:06.120 Meta has been under a ton of scrutiny and litigation 0:04:06.600 --> 0:04:12.040 regarding how it can impact users, particularly young users, and 0:04:12.080 --> 0:04:14.320 clearly this is a move to try and mollify some 0:04:14.400 --> 0:04:17.680 of the company's harshest critics. If you'd like to learn more, 0:04:17.760 --> 0:04:22.880 I recommend Mary Ella Moon's article Facebook and Instagram will 0:04:22.920 --> 0:04:26.720 block dms to teens unless they're from a friend and 0:04:26.760 --> 0:04:31.359 that is on the site. In Gadget Gizmotos, Thomas Jermaine 0:04:31.400 --> 0:04:35.799 has what is, in my opinion, a justifiably snarky article 0:04:35.960 --> 0:04:42.120 titled NYC mayor calls social media and environmental toxin announces 0:04:42.120 --> 0:04:46.799 it on social media. Oh the irony so. Jermaine explains 0:04:46.839 --> 0:04:49.960 that Mayor Eric Adams of the Big Apple took to 0:04:50.040 --> 0:04:53.400 the podium as well as the Internet's to declare social 0:04:53.440 --> 0:04:57.800 media a public menace, something akin to guns and tobacco, 0:04:57.960 --> 0:05:00.599 which just makes me think that like our four fathers 0:05:00.680 --> 0:05:03.240 in the US would have traded these things back in 0:05:03.279 --> 0:05:06.400 the day. You know, you ship guns and tobacco and 0:05:06.520 --> 0:05:11.400 social media across the frontier anyway. Mayor Adams was arguing 0:05:11.440 --> 0:05:15.160 that social platforms have made choices that have caused direct 0:05:15.279 --> 0:05:18.520 or indirect harm to young people. And honestly, I do 0:05:18.600 --> 0:05:22.159 think there is some truth in that. We've talked on 0:05:22.200 --> 0:05:26.080 the show about how algorithms can reinforce messaging that at 0:05:26.080 --> 0:05:31.280 the very least is unhealthy or promotes misinformation. And these 0:05:31.279 --> 0:05:34.880 social platforms use algorithms in order to drive engagement and 0:05:34.960 --> 0:05:38.359 to keep people tied to their services for as long 0:05:38.560 --> 0:05:42.640 as is possible, all to serve as many ads to 0:05:42.760 --> 0:05:46.760 them as is possible. And to the platforms, it doesn't 0:05:46.800 --> 0:05:50.240 really matter if the messages they serve are good or 0:05:50.320 --> 0:05:53.320 bad or whatever. They're kind of amorl when it comes 0:05:53.360 --> 0:05:55.880 to that. They just want the messages to be effective 0:05:56.000 --> 0:05:57.760 to keep them there and to keep them engaged. It 0:05:57.800 --> 0:06:01.960 doesn't matter what other impacted the messages might have. If 0:06:02.000 --> 0:06:05.280 the bad messages are more effective at keeping people there 0:06:05.480 --> 0:06:08.960 than good messages are, well, them's the breaks. So yeah, 0:06:09.040 --> 0:06:11.919 I do think these networks have engaged in activities that 0:06:11.920 --> 0:06:15.360 are harmful to users, not just young ones, old ones 0:06:15.440 --> 0:06:17.800 like me too. I mean, it's the reason why you 0:06:17.839 --> 0:06:22.000 don't find me on nearly any social media these days now. 0:06:22.279 --> 0:06:25.960 Germaine in his article makes a solid point. There does 0:06:26.040 --> 0:06:30.280 appear to be a correlation between social media use and 0:06:30.320 --> 0:06:35.320 a decline in mental health. But we all know correlation 0:06:35.640 --> 0:06:39.480 is not the same thing as causation. It's a leap 0:06:39.920 --> 0:06:42.400 to say that one is causing the other, and that 0:06:42.520 --> 0:06:48.280 is valid. It's possible that social media dependency does lead 0:06:48.320 --> 0:06:52.560 to poor mental health. That is possible. It's also possible 0:06:52.920 --> 0:06:57.520 that people who already have poor mental health find themselves 0:06:57.600 --> 0:07:01.400 drawn to using social media more so it doesn't become 0:07:01.800 --> 0:07:05.600 causal in one direction, maybe it's in the other. Maybe 0:07:05.880 --> 0:07:08.920 the situation is far more complicated than any of that. 0:07:09.480 --> 0:07:12.440 So Jermaine goes on to point out how social platforms 0:07:12.480 --> 0:07:17.440 can and do exacerbate real problems in our real world, 0:07:17.680 --> 0:07:21.000 like the spread of hate speech or misinformation. So there 0:07:21.040 --> 0:07:25.360 are valid reasons to be concerned about social media, though honestly, 0:07:25.640 --> 0:07:29.920 we have to remember these platforms they're facilitators. It's not 0:07:29.960 --> 0:07:33.760 like they're magically generating this material, right, The materials not 0:07:34.240 --> 0:07:40.000 originating out of the platforms. Regular old humans are doing this, 0:07:40.360 --> 0:07:43.680 sometimes with the help of AI. So sometimes it's AI 0:07:43.800 --> 0:07:47.400 boosted human efforts to spread misery. But the platforms just 0:07:47.440 --> 0:07:51.040 make it really easy to deliver and spread the messaging, 0:07:51.280 --> 0:07:56.240 and Jermaine rightly points out that even Mayor Adams points out, 0:07:56.520 --> 0:08:00.800 we don't know to what extent or what in what 0:08:01.080 --> 0:08:05.640 way social media actually interacts with mental health. It just 0:08:05.680 --> 0:08:09.840 appears to have a negative relationship, but we don't really 0:08:09.920 --> 0:08:13.680 know very much about that. But Mayor Adams is convinced 0:08:14.080 --> 0:08:16.560 that it's bad and it should be addressed, So I 0:08:16.600 --> 0:08:19.880 recommend reading the article. I don't one hundred percent agree 0:08:19.920 --> 0:08:22.560 with Jermaine's point of view, but I feel like we're 0:08:22.720 --> 0:08:25.720 more in agreement than otherwise. I just think we differ 0:08:25.920 --> 0:08:29.200 a tiny bit toward the tail end of the matter. 0:08:29.760 --> 0:08:33.800 But I'm also quick to say Jermaine may be more 0:08:33.880 --> 0:08:36.560 right than I am. But go check out that article 0:08:36.679 --> 0:08:40.320 to learn more. Katie Kinderln of Good Morning America on 0:08:40.360 --> 0:08:44.200 ABC News wrote an article titled Florida House of Representatives 0:08:44.240 --> 0:08:47.600 approves bill to ban social media for kids under sixteen. 0:08:48.040 --> 0:08:51.320 So here we see another example of lawmakers taking a 0:08:51.440 --> 0:08:55.240 stand against these companies and their networks. The bill will 0:08:55.240 --> 0:08:58.079 actually need to go to the state's Senate for approval, 0:08:58.440 --> 0:09:00.520 and then, if approved, it would then go to the 0:09:00.520 --> 0:09:03.920 governor's desk to be signed into law or vetoed, whichever 0:09:03.960 --> 0:09:08.280 the governor decides, although I think DeSantis would probably uphold 0:09:08.360 --> 0:09:11.480 this one. Kendalyn points out that the bill passed with 0:09:11.559 --> 0:09:14.839 an overwhelming majority in the House one hundred and six 0:09:15.559 --> 0:09:18.320 one hundred and six to thirteen, and that the bill 0:09:18.360 --> 0:09:22.800 received a good deal of bipartisan support, and that's understandable. Again, 0:09:22.840 --> 0:09:26.880 there's this perception that social networks are hurting users, particularly 0:09:27.120 --> 0:09:29.920 young ones. So the bill would make it illegal for 0:09:29.960 --> 0:09:33.520 these platforms to grant accounts to any Floridian user under 0:09:33.520 --> 0:09:36.840 the age of sixteen, something that I suspect will be 0:09:36.920 --> 0:09:40.120 difficult to enforce. I mean, a kid in Florida could 0:09:40.160 --> 0:09:43.600 either lie about their age or maybe where they live 0:09:43.720 --> 0:09:47.040 in order to get around this block. Sure, a network 0:09:47.080 --> 0:09:49.960 like Facebook could take note of a person's physical location 0:09:50.240 --> 0:09:53.280 while they attempt to make an account, But who's to 0:09:53.320 --> 0:09:55.520 say you couldn't make an account while you happen to 0:09:55.559 --> 0:09:58.440 be on vacation. Like if I happened to be a 0:09:58.440 --> 0:10:01.720 fifteen year old kid from Georgia and I'm decided that 0:10:01.760 --> 0:10:04.679 I want to make a Facebook account while I'm vacationing 0:10:04.720 --> 0:10:07.880 in Florida, maybe because I'm surrounded by old people and 0:10:07.880 --> 0:10:10.120 it's rubbing off on me. I should be able to 0:10:10.120 --> 0:10:12.680 do that, right because I'm not a citizen of Florida. 0:10:13.520 --> 0:10:17.440 But maybe that Florida law would argue that it covers 0:10:17.520 --> 0:10:20.160 everyone under the age of sixteen who's in the state, 0:10:20.200 --> 0:10:22.520 whether they happen to be a citizen of the state 0:10:22.600 --> 0:10:26.160 or not. Anyway, I don't think it's really enforceable. I 0:10:26.200 --> 0:10:29.760 also don't think it addresses the root problem. Like I said, 0:10:30.200 --> 0:10:34.160 these networks, they exacerbate things that are already out there, 0:10:34.320 --> 0:10:38.959 and cutting off the networks doesn't stop the harm at best, 0:10:39.000 --> 0:10:42.080 it just slows it down. Anyway, we'll follow up on 0:10:42.160 --> 0:10:44.360 this story once we know where it goes, when it 0:10:44.440 --> 0:10:47.559 passes through the state Senate, or if it doesn't pass 0:10:47.880 --> 0:10:51.760 we'll check back then. One story that passed me by 0:10:51.960 --> 0:10:54.439 while I was recovering from my little adventure through the 0:10:54.480 --> 0:10:59.040 American healthcare system was that a media company called Doodzy 0:10:59.280 --> 0:11:01.800 released a v on YouTube that ruffled a lot of 0:11:01.800 --> 0:11:04.920 feathers because of how it used AI to quote unquote 0:11:05.040 --> 0:11:09.080 resurrect a beloved comedian who passed away years ago. That 0:11:09.160 --> 0:11:12.920 comedian was George Carlin, a man known for making shrewd 0:11:13.120 --> 0:11:18.760 satirical and often hilarious observations about culture, politics, media, and 0:11:18.800 --> 0:11:22.160 everything else. He had a reputation for pointing out hypocrisy 0:11:22.200 --> 0:11:25.840 and holding it up for public scrutiny. While the media 0:11:25.920 --> 0:11:30.480 company created an hour long comedy special featuring what they 0:11:30.600 --> 0:11:36.000 claimed to be was an AI generated impression of Carlin. So, 0:11:36.240 --> 0:11:41.080 according to the video, the voice, the content, the cadence, 0:11:41.160 --> 0:11:44.720 the delivery, all of it came courtesy of AI attempting 0:11:44.760 --> 0:11:50.280 to copy Carlin's style while generating new material. Now, Carlin's 0:11:50.360 --> 0:11:54.439 estate has filed a lawsuit against this media company, arguing 0:11:54.480 --> 0:12:01.160 that Dudezi has infringed upon copyright and has effectively stolen personality. 0:12:01.520 --> 0:12:04.600 The estate seeks damages and also the immediate removal of 0:12:04.640 --> 0:12:07.960 this video. So Carlin's estate also argues that the special 0:12:08.040 --> 0:12:12.000 harms the comedian's reputation and that it does represent theft. 0:12:12.559 --> 0:12:15.280 It's one of the most high profile examples of creatives 0:12:15.320 --> 0:12:19.640 criticizing AI content generation and arguing that the whole enterprise 0:12:19.720 --> 0:12:22.960 depends upon plagiarism and that stands as a threat to 0:12:23.000 --> 0:12:25.920 anyone who's actually in a creative field. This is one 0:12:25.960 --> 0:12:28.440 of the big concerns that both the Writer's Guild of 0:12:28.480 --> 0:12:33.240 America and sag Aftra had in their recent strikes against 0:12:33.280 --> 0:12:37.280 producers in Hollywood that studios could use AI to bypass 0:12:37.320 --> 0:12:41.000 real human creatives entirely while making something that lacks the 0:12:41.040 --> 0:12:46.200 sole sincerity and creativity of human endeavor. If you'd like 0:12:46.240 --> 0:12:49.400 to learn more, I recommend checking out J. Kim Murphy's 0:12:49.480 --> 0:12:53.920 article George Carlin Estate files lawsuit against group behind AI 0:12:54.040 --> 0:12:58.360 generated stand up Special, a casual theft of a great 0:12:58.400 --> 0:13:03.840 American artist's work that's in variety. Wired's Paresh Dave has 0:13:03.840 --> 0:13:07.720 an article titled open Ai Quietly Scrapped a promise to 0:13:07.800 --> 0:13:11.080 disclose key documents to the public, and I think it's 0:13:11.120 --> 0:13:14.240 well worth reading. It's another illustration of how the Open 0:13:14.280 --> 0:13:17.200 Ai of today appears to be quite different from the 0:13:17.240 --> 0:13:22.240 original concept of the organization. So back in the idealistic days, 0:13:22.559 --> 0:13:25.920 the company's founders, which at the time included Elon Musk, 0:13:26.400 --> 0:13:29.800 intended open ai to be a research center committed to 0:13:30.120 --> 0:13:34.839 advancing AI technologies in a responsible, safe and helpful way, 0:13:35.200 --> 0:13:37.840 and to share its findings with the world to best 0:13:37.960 --> 0:13:41.079 ensure that we all enter a future in which AI 0:13:41.240 --> 0:13:45.280 provides the most benefit and the fewest terminators, and that 0:13:45.600 --> 0:13:50.280 requires a certain level of transparency. However, it seems that 0:13:50.360 --> 0:13:53.840 open ai has now drifted a bit from those ideals, 0:13:54.120 --> 0:13:57.160 which reminds me a lot of Google. Once upon a time, 0:13:57.320 --> 0:14:00.840 Google famously had a motto that read don't be Evil 0:14:01.360 --> 0:14:03.560 as part of its corporate conduct. In fact, it was 0:14:03.600 --> 0:14:06.679 in the preface for its corporate conduct and was up 0:14:06.679 --> 0:14:11.440 on the walls of certain Google buildings. But Google took 0:14:11.520 --> 0:14:15.760 that motto off the preface and the walls and then 0:14:15.840 --> 0:14:18.000 just sort of buried it at the end of the 0:14:18.840 --> 0:14:22.720 corporate conduct statement. So it's still there, but it's just 0:14:22.840 --> 0:14:25.560 now it's at the end of it, not prominently at 0:14:25.560 --> 0:14:29.840 the very beginning, and it kind of was an indicator 0:14:29.840 --> 0:14:34.760 that Google had changed its approach. Well. Anyway, Wired sent 0:14:34.840 --> 0:14:39.120 a request for documents from open ai back in December 0:14:39.120 --> 0:14:41.600 of last year, and they received a response saying that 0:14:41.640 --> 0:14:45.720 open AI's policy of sharing governing documents has changed. That 0:14:45.960 --> 0:14:48.320 changed back in twenty twenty two, and now the company 0:14:48.320 --> 0:14:53.160 only sends financial statements. As Wired points out, this could 0:14:53.240 --> 0:14:57.480 be one of several changes that prompted the former board 0:14:57.520 --> 0:15:01.280 of directors of open ai to suddenly co founder and 0:15:01.400 --> 0:15:05.800 CEO Sam Altman last year. Of course, that decision didn't 0:15:05.880 --> 0:15:09.200 last very long, and soon afterward the entire board of 0:15:09.240 --> 0:15:13.680 directors almost had changed and Sam Altman was back in 0:15:13.760 --> 0:15:17.960 the saddle. But my point is, it looks like open 0:15:18.000 --> 0:15:22.120 Ai has changed, perhaps gradually, to a point that it's 0:15:22.160 --> 0:15:25.160 at odds with the original founding mission of the company, 0:15:25.240 --> 0:15:28.320 and that the board was uncomfortable with how things were going. 0:15:28.640 --> 0:15:32.120 It seems a bit like a boiling frog situation. You 0:15:32.120 --> 0:15:34.440 know that idea that you got a frog in water 0:15:34.720 --> 0:15:37.120 and you just gradually increase the temperature of the water 0:15:37.320 --> 0:15:40.360 until the frog is done dead from being boiled, and 0:15:40.400 --> 0:15:43.120 it never hopped out because you know you were increasing 0:15:43.120 --> 0:15:46.640 that temperature so gradually you SICKO. Anyway, I recommend the 0:15:46.720 --> 0:15:49.240 article to learn more about how things have changed, as 0:15:49.280 --> 0:15:52.160 well as what this could possibly mean for open AI 0:15:52.600 --> 0:15:56.360 and the way that companies tackle AI development in general. Okay, 0:15:56.520 --> 0:15:58.280 we're going to take a quick break. When we come back, 0:15:58.320 --> 0:16:00.160 we got a lot more tech news to go through. 0:16:09.560 --> 0:16:13.840 We're back and still have a couple of AI things 0:16:13.840 --> 0:16:17.800 to chat about. So Scott Foster of Asia Times has 0:16:18.240 --> 0:16:22.880 a short article titled Samsung to build all AI no 0:16:23.080 --> 0:16:27.960 human chip factories, So yes, the future of an all robot. 0:16:28.240 --> 0:16:32.440 All automated manufacturing facility is around the corner. They would seem. 0:16:32.640 --> 0:16:36.160 It's still gonna take some time right now. The projected 0:16:36.200 --> 0:16:39.960 launch date would be sometime around twenty thirty. If it works, 0:16:40.280 --> 0:16:43.960 then the manufacturing plant won't rely on human labor at all. 0:16:44.240 --> 0:16:48.480 AI will design and build and package products all by itself. 0:16:49.000 --> 0:16:51.680 Oh brave new world to have no people in it. 0:16:52.560 --> 0:16:55.840 The Washington Post reported this week that the Securities in 0:16:55.960 --> 0:17:00.640 Exchange Commission the SEC and the Department of Justice DOJ 0:17:01.120 --> 0:17:05.919 here in the United States, the US are investigating GM's 0:17:06.160 --> 0:17:10.840 Cruise division. That is, the division that's in charge of developing, deploying, 0:17:10.840 --> 0:17:14.160 and operating driverless vehicles, which have been used as a 0:17:14.280 --> 0:17:18.600 ride hailing service. Last year, one of the Cruise vehicles 0:17:18.680 --> 0:17:22.120 was involved in an accident, and it included an incident 0:17:22.200 --> 0:17:26.240 in which the cruise vehicle struck a pedestrian and dragged 0:17:26.280 --> 0:17:30.320 her for twenty feet at approximately seven miles per hour. 0:17:30.720 --> 0:17:33.240 While the vehicle should have immediately come to a stop 0:17:33.280 --> 0:17:36.040 after striking the pedestrian, in fact, it shouldn't have struck 0:17:36.080 --> 0:17:38.120 the pedestrian at all, but once doing so, it should 0:17:38.160 --> 0:17:42.000 have stopped. Instead, it mistakenly interpreted the accident as one 0:17:42.000 --> 0:17:46.080 that impacted the car's side and so it was attempting 0:17:46.119 --> 0:17:49.120 to pull over and get out of traffic. The pedestrians 0:17:49.119 --> 0:17:52.359 suffered additional injuries due to this error, as you can imagine. 0:17:52.359 --> 0:17:54.840 I mean, if you're being dragged behind a car at 0:17:54.880 --> 0:17:59.360 seven miles per hour, that's like twice the speed of walking. 0:17:59.760 --> 0:18:04.480 That's going to hurt. So the next day, government officials 0:18:04.520 --> 0:18:07.680 met with the company to investigate the incident, which makes sense, 0:18:08.080 --> 0:18:12.159 and at that meeting, Cruise employees failed to, you know, 0:18:12.960 --> 0:18:16.280 mention that their car had dragged a person twenty feet 0:18:16.359 --> 0:18:19.520 down the road at seven miles per hour. So instead 0:18:20.359 --> 0:18:25.080 their narrative largely focused on another vehicle, a Nissan that 0:18:25.200 --> 0:18:28.560 was under human control, that was also involved in this accident, 0:18:29.080 --> 0:18:33.000 and the implication appeared to be that Cruz was saying 0:18:33.119 --> 0:18:35.919 it was really the driver of the Nissan, it was 0:18:35.960 --> 0:18:39.879 their fault for the pedestrians injuries, and that the Cruise 0:18:39.960 --> 0:18:46.160 vehicle really wasn't to blame. Now, according to Cruise, their 0:18:46.280 --> 0:18:49.919 intention was to show a video of the incident to officials, 0:18:50.400 --> 0:18:54.560 and this video presumably would have included the fact that 0:18:54.600 --> 0:18:57.800 the pedestrian had been dragged behind the Cruise vehicle, but 0:18:57.920 --> 0:19:01.280 a problem with their internet meant they couldn't get the 0:19:01.400 --> 0:19:05.320 video to play. And then CRU's employees just sort of, 0:19:05.359 --> 0:19:09.439 you know, didn't mention it. They didn't say, hey, you know, 0:19:09.480 --> 0:19:11.760 the video would have shown this, and we probably should 0:19:11.840 --> 0:19:15.600 tell you that our card dragged her for twenty feet. 0:19:16.240 --> 0:19:19.240 They didn't. They didn't cover the gap that was left 0:19:19.240 --> 0:19:23.520 by this lack of video, which seems pretty darn horrifying 0:19:23.600 --> 0:19:27.760 not to mention stupid. I mean, you'd have to assume 0:19:28.280 --> 0:19:30.840 that the truth would come out, and it did so 0:19:31.480 --> 0:19:34.879 not being forthcoming and bringing it up yourself makes you 0:19:34.960 --> 0:19:38.439 look even worse, which it has, at least in my 0:19:38.520 --> 0:19:44.280 opinion it has. Anyway, since that incident, the division of 0:19:44.400 --> 0:19:48.720 Cruz has changed quite a bit. Co founder Daniel Khan 0:19:49.359 --> 0:19:54.600 resigned from Cruz, Kyle Vote, the CEO, left the company, 0:19:55.040 --> 0:19:59.040 and GM also downsized nearly a quarter of the staff 0:19:59.119 --> 0:20:02.840 working at cru So just another example of what can 0:20:02.920 --> 0:20:07.280 happen when AI goes wrong, not to mention when people 0:20:07.400 --> 0:20:12.640 fail to acknowledge when AI has gone wrong. Next up, 0:20:12.800 --> 0:20:16.040 Apple is loosening its grip on iOS a little bit, 0:20:16.400 --> 0:20:20.320 but only if you happen to live in the European Union. 0:20:20.800 --> 0:20:23.040 This is, of course, so that Apple will be in 0:20:23.080 --> 0:20:27.520 compliance with regulations that passed in the EU just last year, 0:20:28.119 --> 0:20:31.680 and Apple is not happy about it. So it's not 0:20:31.720 --> 0:20:34.080 like the company had some sort of massive change of 0:20:34.080 --> 0:20:39.000 heart or anything. In fact, Apple representatives have indicated in 0:20:39.119 --> 0:20:43.800 plain English that the company feels this is a terrible, 0:20:44.240 --> 0:20:47.920 terrible mistake. But the changes mean that for the first time, 0:20:48.480 --> 0:20:52.360 EU iPhone users will be able to install fully featured 0:20:52.440 --> 0:20:57.760 browsers other than Safari on their iPhones. So you have 0:20:57.800 --> 0:21:02.000 to understand that these browsers run on of browser engines, 0:21:02.400 --> 0:21:06.000 kind of like how game engines provide a foundation for 0:21:06.080 --> 0:21:09.840 certain types of video games, and that's why certain video 0:21:09.840 --> 0:21:12.440 games feel very different from others, is that they might 0:21:12.440 --> 0:21:14.960 be built on top of a different game engine. Well, 0:21:15.000 --> 0:21:21.240 browsers are built on top of browser engines, and on iPhones, 0:21:21.280 --> 0:21:24.280 at least up until now, all browsers needed to run 0:21:24.320 --> 0:21:30.159 on top of the WebKit browser engine. However, several competing 0:21:30.240 --> 0:21:34.480 browsers typically would use a totally different browser engine to 0:21:34.640 --> 0:21:39.640 underlie their functionality. So in order to comply with Apple's 0:21:39.680 --> 0:21:43.280 requirements and to be able to run on Apple devices, 0:21:43.600 --> 0:21:47.800 these other browsers had to make a version of their 0:21:47.800 --> 0:21:50.680 browser that could run on top of WebKit, and sometimes 0:21:50.680 --> 0:21:54.560 that meant they had to shed features that would work 0:21:54.600 --> 0:21:58.040 on their browser in order to be compatible with WebKit. 0:21:58.480 --> 0:22:03.400 But now EU iPhone users can have other browser engines 0:22:03.440 --> 0:22:07.560 on them, which means these alternatives like Google Chrome will 0:22:07.600 --> 0:22:12.399 be able to exist fully featured on iOS devices for 0:22:12.440 --> 0:22:16.440 the first time. Now that's just one change that's happening 0:22:16.600 --> 0:22:20.679 with iPhones and other iOS devices in the EU. Another 0:22:21.280 --> 0:22:24.440 is that Apple is going to allow users to sideload 0:22:24.640 --> 0:22:29.320 apps onto their devices for the first time. Sideloading is 0:22:29.320 --> 0:22:32.600 when you go to some third party source for apps, 0:22:32.800 --> 0:22:36.360 so you're not going to the official iOS app store. 0:22:36.760 --> 0:22:39.600 In the past, Apple only let you download apps from 0:22:39.600 --> 0:22:41.679 the official store unless you went to some sort of 0:22:41.720 --> 0:22:45.600 extreme like if you did a jail break on your iPhone, 0:22:45.600 --> 0:22:48.240 which was not easy to do and sometimes could break 0:22:48.280 --> 0:22:51.200 your phone, then you had to get all of your 0:22:51.240 --> 0:22:54.960 apps from the iOS store. However, now EU users will 0:22:54.960 --> 0:22:58.520 be able to access third party apps or third party 0:22:58.560 --> 0:23:01.440 stores in order to get apps, and Apple says this 0:23:01.800 --> 0:23:07.160 is dangerous for the Apple's longest running statement on this 0:23:07.359 --> 0:23:11.880 is that the reason why they have this draconian control 0:23:12.000 --> 0:23:13.879 over where you can get your apps on your phone 0:23:14.320 --> 0:23:17.640 is in order to protect you. It's because you, as 0:23:17.640 --> 0:23:21.000 a user are far too vulnerable and you're just a 0:23:21.080 --> 0:23:24.840 naive little fond dancing through the woods, and meanwhile there 0:23:24.840 --> 0:23:28.800 are predators all around you. So Apple says that allowing 0:23:28.840 --> 0:23:32.400 people to sideload apps is a compromise to privacy and security, 0:23:32.440 --> 0:23:34.479 but they have to do it. They have to comply 0:23:34.960 --> 0:23:38.560 with these EU rules. So regulators have said the reason 0:23:38.600 --> 0:23:41.879 why they've got to comply is because the policy Apple 0:23:41.920 --> 0:23:45.400 had in place gave it a monopolistic hold on its 0:23:45.480 --> 0:23:50.119 app system, and that this would open up the app environment. 0:23:50.400 --> 0:23:52.399 And it'll be interesting to see what it all looks 0:23:52.440 --> 0:23:55.040 like a year from now. So will the EU show 0:23:55.400 --> 0:24:00.000 how an open environment benefits customers or will the entire 0:24:00.040 --> 0:24:05.160 Higher Continent be reduced to sinders because regulators allowed chaos 0:24:05.200 --> 0:24:10.080 to rain unchecked. We'll just have to wait and see. Recently, 0:24:10.160 --> 0:24:13.359 Netflix revealed that one place you will not be able 0:24:13.400 --> 0:24:17.280 to access its content is on the upcoming mixed reality 0:24:17.320 --> 0:24:21.920 headset from Apple called the Vision Pro. You won't even 0:24:21.960 --> 0:24:24.560 be able to launch the iPad version of the Netflix 0:24:24.640 --> 0:24:27.960 app on the Vision Pro when it launches next week. 0:24:28.080 --> 0:24:31.200 At least not as it stands right now. You will 0:24:31.240 --> 0:24:34.480 be able to access Netflix if you use the vision 0:24:34.480 --> 0:24:36.960 Pro and you go through Safari. So if you actually 0:24:36.960 --> 0:24:39.639 do the web browser version, but you won't have a 0:24:39.720 --> 0:24:42.560 native app for the headset, nor will you be able 0:24:42.600 --> 0:24:45.159 to use the iPad version. So according to nine to 0:24:45.240 --> 0:24:51.159 five Mac, Netflix's CEO actually just one of Netflix's CEO, 0:24:51.240 --> 0:24:54.280 there are co CEOs, Greg Peters. He said that the 0:24:54.359 --> 0:24:58.600 vision pro is quote unquote subscale. By that, he means 0:24:58.840 --> 0:25:02.640 there wouldn't be enough un in circulation and enough interest 0:25:02.680 --> 0:25:06.280 among the owners of those units to justify building out 0:25:06.320 --> 0:25:10.040 an experiencement just for that platform. It would cost more 0:25:10.400 --> 0:25:13.120 than what they would make back from the people who 0:25:13.160 --> 0:25:19.240 actually owned these devices. Sick Burn. I mean, it's interesting 0:25:19.240 --> 0:25:22.040 to me because for a very long time I would 0:25:22.160 --> 0:25:25.879 joke that Netflix's strategy was to get on every single 0:25:25.960 --> 0:25:29.440 screen it could, whether that screen was on a smartphone 0:25:29.840 --> 0:25:32.560 or a tablet, or it was part of a video 0:25:32.600 --> 0:25:36.440 game console, or maybe a smart refrigerator or perhaps your 0:25:36.720 --> 0:25:40.840 washing machine. So for Netflix to say, yeah, we figure 0:25:40.880 --> 0:25:44.280