WEBVTT - Tech News: The AI Headlines Keep On Coming 0:00:04.440 --> 0:00:12.480 Welcome to tech Stuff, a production from iHeartRadio. Hey there, 0:00:12.560 --> 0:00:15.920 and welcome to tech Stuff. I'm your host Jonathan Strickland. 0:00:16.000 --> 0:00:19.640 I'm an executive producer with iHeartRadio. And how the tech 0:00:19.680 --> 0:00:22.959 are you. It's time for the tech news for Tuesday, 0:00:23.040 --> 0:00:28.680 April eighteenth, twenty twenty three. Yesterday SpaceX had to scrub 0:00:28.840 --> 0:00:34.000 its planned orbit old test of the Starship spacecraft. Starship 0:00:34.159 --> 0:00:37.440 is a two stage launch vehicle. The second stage also 0:00:37.520 --> 0:00:41.400 serves as a spacecraft that's capable of carrying a crew 0:00:41.720 --> 0:00:45.280 or you know, cargo. It is the most powerful launch 0:00:45.400 --> 0:00:49.000 vehicle ever built to date. It is capable of producing 0:00:49.080 --> 0:00:54.120 nearly twice as much thrust as NASA's Space Launch System, 0:00:54.320 --> 0:00:58.240 which is its latest launch vehicle. But Starship has not 0:00:58.440 --> 0:01:02.960 yet left the ground. SpaceX has test fired Starship engines 0:01:02.960 --> 0:01:06.440 in the past, igniting thirty one of the thirty three 0:01:06.520 --> 0:01:09.960 engines in a test, but those tests had the launch 0:01:10.040 --> 0:01:12.640 vehicle bolted to the platform, so you know, it didn't 0:01:12.680 --> 0:01:16.280 go anywhere. This was really just a test of the engines. Yesterday, 0:01:16.360 --> 0:01:20.319 the plan was to launch Starship into orbit. It would 0:01:20.319 --> 0:01:24.560 be an uncrude mission, so there's no one aboard, and 0:01:24.600 --> 0:01:26.480 it was meant to go into orbit and take a 0:01:26.520 --> 0:01:30.920 full orbit of the Earth, but that didn't happen. And ultimately, 0:01:31.240 --> 0:01:34.080 also this is important because it's different from how it 0:01:34.120 --> 0:01:37.600 will normally be operated. The starship was meant to have 0:01:37.640 --> 0:01:41.160 both stages crash into the ocean. Now, in normal operation, 0:01:42.160 --> 0:01:47.440 these components will return to Earth with a controlled landing, 0:01:48.080 --> 0:01:52.320 so that you can reuse the same vehicle repeatedly and 0:01:52.320 --> 0:01:55.320 thus bring down the cost of launching things into space, 0:01:55.840 --> 0:01:59.400 just like they've been doing with the Falcon nine. But 0:01:59.520 --> 0:02:03.440 this is a much larger launch vehicle, and for the 0:02:03.480 --> 0:02:05.840 first test, the plan was just to let it crash 0:02:05.880 --> 0:02:09.040 into the ocean. Unfortunately, none of that happened because a 0:02:09.120 --> 0:02:13.040 technical error in the form of a frozen pressurization valve 0:02:13.600 --> 0:02:17.520 meant that they had to scrub the launch and plan 0:02:17.680 --> 0:02:21.320 for later this week. SpaceX has posted on Twitter that 0:02:21.440 --> 0:02:25.480 it is now aiming to try again on Thursday, April twentieth, 0:02:25.919 --> 0:02:29.680 when the company hopes the engines will just blaze and 0:02:29.760 --> 0:02:33.760 shake free the shackles of gravity. Now onto Elon Musk, 0:02:34.120 --> 0:02:36.959 who appeared on Fox News in an interview with Tucker 0:02:37.040 --> 0:02:41.320 Carlson yesterday. Part two of that interview will air today 0:02:42.120 --> 0:02:45.639 and they covered a lot of ground. Musk waved off 0:02:45.720 --> 0:02:48.680 Twitter's troubles and said that they were mostly due to 0:02:48.760 --> 0:02:52.720 just bad timing. I think a lot of folks would 0:02:52.720 --> 0:02:56.560 disagree that bad timing is the only or even primary 0:02:56.720 --> 0:03:01.400 cause for Twitter's woes, which are pretty widely distributed across 0:03:01.400 --> 0:03:04.839 things from having laid off eighty percent of the workforce 0:03:05.000 --> 0:03:09.720 to seeing around fifty percent of ad revenue drop out, 0:03:10.960 --> 0:03:15.480 seeing high profile accounts leave the service, Like, We've seen 0:03:15.480 --> 0:03:18.120 a lot of things happen at Twitter that I don't 0:03:18.200 --> 0:03:21.640 think relate just to bad timing. He also made an 0:03:21.760 --> 0:03:26.520 unsubstantiated claim that the US government has had backdoor access 0:03:26.560 --> 0:03:30.800 to Twitter that essentially government agencies, though I don't believe 0:03:30.800 --> 0:03:34.440 he named any in particular, could even look at people's 0:03:34.520 --> 0:03:38.440 private direct messages, that that was included with the access 0:03:38.480 --> 0:03:42.120 the government had to Twitter's back end. Now, he didn't 0:03:42.160 --> 0:03:46.720 produce any evidence for this claim, and if it is true, 0:03:47.000 --> 0:03:49.360 it's rather shocking that we didn't see any hint of 0:03:49.400 --> 0:03:53.320 that during the Trump administration, or that Trump himself would 0:03:53.320 --> 0:03:57.320 be banned from the platform. That seems odd if the 0:03:57.360 --> 0:04:02.400 government had that level of access and manipulation of Twitter, 0:04:02.440 --> 0:04:07.440 because It's not like Joe Biden has been president forever. 0:04:08.000 --> 0:04:10.640 He became president in twenty twenty one, and it was 0:04:10.720 --> 0:04:13.480 less than a year later that Musk started to buy 0:04:13.560 --> 0:04:17.320 up Twitter stock with the intent of ultimately purchasing the platform. 0:04:18.279 --> 0:04:21.760 And I infer from Musk's comments that he believes tools 0:04:21.800 --> 0:04:25.719 like chat, GPT and Google Bard and Microsoft Being represent 0:04:25.880 --> 0:04:31.520 dangerous implementations of AI, perhaps even representing an existential crisis, 0:04:32.040 --> 0:04:36.760 and that his AI tool would somehow be different from 0:04:36.800 --> 0:04:41.320 these and peaceful and beneficial to humanity by just recognizing 0:04:41.320 --> 0:04:45.440 that humans are pretty nifty. Musk himself recently showed support 0:04:45.480 --> 0:04:48.480 for a proposal to put a halt on AI development 0:04:48.520 --> 0:04:52.560 for six months, and some people have said that might 0:04:52.640 --> 0:04:55.200 not have been so much about trying to make things 0:04:55.320 --> 0:04:59.880 safe for AI development, but rather it was intended to 0:05:00.080 --> 0:05:02.520 give Musk's own efforts a chance to catch up to 0:05:02.560 --> 0:05:07.040 everyone else because they were way ahead of the game. Honestly, 0:05:07.600 --> 0:05:11.239 I found most of what Musk said to be speculative 0:05:11.920 --> 0:05:15.479 and difficult to believe. Now I will say this, I 0:05:15.600 --> 0:05:20.360 do think chat, GPT and other AI tools are potentially 0:05:20.720 --> 0:05:24.360 dangerous insomuch as they can be used to do stuff 0:05:24.400 --> 0:05:29.480 like spread misinformation or help craft malware and to perform 0:05:29.600 --> 0:05:33.839 other malicious acts. But companies like open ai are at 0:05:33.920 --> 0:05:36.440 least trying to put protections in place to prevent that 0:05:36.480 --> 0:05:40.599 from happening. So far, those protections haven't been very robust 0:05:40.680 --> 0:05:43.359 and people have found ways around them, but they're still 0:05:43.480 --> 0:05:47.120 trying to prevent that. I do not see chatbots as 0:05:47.120 --> 0:05:52.279 being an existential threat. There's nothing inherent in chat GPT 0:05:52.440 --> 0:05:57.520 that gives it incredible power. It seems really compelling and 0:05:57.640 --> 0:06:01.320 powerful and somewhat scary because it appears to communicate the 0:06:01.360 --> 0:06:04.800 way we do. But that is the extent of what 0:06:04.880 --> 0:06:09.839 chat GPT does. Like, it's not able to take action really, 0:06:09.960 --> 0:06:16.240 and it's ultimately generating responses on a probabilistic scale. In 0:06:16.279 --> 0:06:20.000 other words, it's predicting what the next word should be 0:06:20.320 --> 0:06:24.039 and then putting it there. It's not thinking. So I 0:06:24.080 --> 0:06:28.920 think Musk is conflating generative AI stuff like chat GPT 0:06:29.120 --> 0:06:33.360 and Google Bard with AI as a whole. And you know, 0:06:33.520 --> 0:06:35.880 this is one of those things where you're like, you say, 0:06:35.960 --> 0:06:39.560 all ducks are birds, but not all birds are ducks, right. 0:06:39.680 --> 0:06:43.560 All generative AI is a type of artificial intelligence, but 0:06:43.720 --> 0:06:46.719 not all of artificial intelligence is generative AI, and I 0:06:46.760 --> 0:06:50.240 think some of the more dangerous implementations of AI have 0:06:50.520 --> 0:06:55.240 nothing to do with large language models and chat ponds. Anyway, 0:06:55.760 --> 0:06:57.880 we've got a lot more to talk about with AI, 0:06:58.000 --> 0:07:03.360 so let's just move on. Sundhar Pachai, Alphabet's CEO, appeared 0:07:03.400 --> 0:07:06.559 on Sixty Minutes this week to essentially say that AI 0:07:06.880 --> 0:07:10.800 is going to be disruptive, that it will impact lots 0:07:10.800 --> 0:07:14.920 of jobs, including knowledge based jobs, so jobs like my job, 0:07:15.520 --> 0:07:17.880 and it's not up to the tech industry to figure 0:07:17.880 --> 0:07:20.120 out how to do that responsibly. All right, So that 0:07:20.680 --> 0:07:23.760 that last bit was probably a little bit of interpretation 0:07:23.920 --> 0:07:26.440 on my own part. What he actually said was that 0:07:26.480 --> 0:07:30.000 it's up to society to figure out regulations and laws, 0:07:30.720 --> 0:07:35.000 to create the borders within which AI can operate, and 0:07:35.040 --> 0:07:38.640 to make sure that the rules quote align with human values, 0:07:38.880 --> 0:07:43.680 including morality end quote, and that quote it's not for 0:07:43.840 --> 0:07:48.000 a company to decide end quote. This is really interesting 0:07:48.040 --> 0:07:50.640 coming from a leader of a company that used to 0:07:50.800 --> 0:07:55.360 have the motto don't be evil. Of course Google shed 0:07:55.520 --> 0:08:00.600 that motto years ago, so you could say that doesn't 0:08:00.640 --> 0:08:04.160 really apply anyway. One would think that creating AI that 0:08:04.320 --> 0:08:07.680 does not cause harm would in the long run be 0:08:07.720 --> 0:08:10.680 in the best interest of a company in that business. 0:08:11.680 --> 0:08:15.040 But I guess that's just crazy talk. Anyway, what PITCHAI 0:08:15.200 --> 0:08:19.520 is saying goes beyond chat bots and into broader implementations 0:08:19.560 --> 0:08:22.040 of AI. And while I disagree with him about the 0:08:22.160 --> 0:08:26.200 role companies should play visa v making sure AI doesn't 0:08:26.240 --> 0:08:30.280 cause harm, I do agree that AI is going to 0:08:30.320 --> 0:08:35.720 have an increasingly undeniable and disruptive impact on countless jobs 0:08:35.760 --> 0:08:39.320 and tasks. Now, this does not necessarily mean that the 0:08:39.360 --> 0:08:43.400 impact will always be bad, or that it will definitely 0:08:43.520 --> 0:08:48.360 eliminate jobs, although that is certainly a possibility. My hope 0:08:48.760 --> 0:08:52.040 is that we're gonna push AI to augment rather than 0:08:52.320 --> 0:08:58.000 replace human employees. Otherwise, well, let's just take this to 0:08:58.480 --> 0:09:04.120 an absurd conclusion. Right. Let's imagine we're in a world 0:09:04.320 --> 0:09:07.640 where AI is doing all the work. Humans have been 0:09:07.880 --> 0:09:12.240 replaced by AI. So humans are out of the equation 0:09:13.080 --> 0:09:18.240 because they no longer are needed to have work be done. 0:09:18.320 --> 0:09:22.320 So what is the AI doing work? For? For what purpose? 0:09:23.120 --> 0:09:26.200 For whom is the AI doing work? If there are 0:09:26.200 --> 0:09:29.600 no more humans working, what is the AI doing You 0:09:29.640 --> 0:09:33.040 don't have consumers anymore because you don't have income right, 0:09:33.160 --> 0:09:35.680 people aren't doing jobs, so they're not making money, so 0:09:35.720 --> 0:09:38.800 there's no real economy, which means no one can buy 0:09:38.840 --> 0:09:42.640 anything because no one has income. The companies would cease 0:09:42.640 --> 0:09:44.839 to exist because there's no way for them to even 0:09:44.880 --> 0:09:48.320 make money. At this point, money is meaningless. There's no money, 0:09:49.000 --> 0:09:51.320 no one has a job. So it seems to me 0:09:51.559 --> 0:09:56.400 like that absurd conclusion would quickly fall in on itself 0:09:56.440 --> 0:09:59.160 without the implementation of something like, I don't know, universal 0:09:59.240 --> 0:10:03.079 basic income, then you could reach that Star Trek future 0:10:03.200 --> 0:10:06.840 right where nobody has to work, everybody makes the amount 0:10:06.840 --> 0:10:09.360 of money they need to be able to do all 0:10:09.400 --> 0:10:11.920 the basic things that we need to do, and then 0:10:11.960 --> 0:10:14.000 we spend the rest of our time pursuing whatever it 0:10:14.080 --> 0:10:17.680 is we want. But we don't have universal basic income. 0:10:17.760 --> 0:10:21.079 That's a piece that's missing. And meanwhile, if everyone's pushing 0:10:21.120 --> 0:10:27.040 for this future where AI is replacing everything, where does 0:10:27.040 --> 0:10:28.679 that get us in the long run? Sure, in the 0:10:28.720 --> 0:10:30.840 short term, you could say we've cut way back on 0:10:31.000 --> 0:10:34.800 costs because we fired all the human employees, so we 0:10:34.840 --> 0:10:38.560 don't have those costs anymore, But that doesn't sustain itself 0:10:38.559 --> 0:10:41.360 for very long at all. I don't know. Maybe I'm 0:10:41.400 --> 0:10:44.160 just missing the big picture here. All right, Well, while 0:10:44.200 --> 0:10:50.480 I'm spiraling in this weird future reality, let's take a 0:10:50.559 --> 0:11:03.480 quick break. Okay, we're back now. Before the break, I 0:11:03.520 --> 0:11:08.240 talked about alphabet and Google's CEO talking about AIS impact. 0:11:08.880 --> 0:11:12.640 Of course, Google could be looking at a very specific 0:11:12.679 --> 0:11:16.480 situation in which AI could have a potentially negative impact. 0:11:16.679 --> 0:11:19.760 In fact, it already has had a negative impact on Google. 0:11:20.200 --> 0:11:25.200 So apparently last month, Google employees got word that Samsung 0:11:25.400 --> 0:11:30.200 is considering ditching Google Search for Microsoft Bing, which of 0:11:30.200 --> 0:11:35.480 course is augmented by chat GPT. There's our AI angle. Now, 0:11:35.480 --> 0:11:38.559 if Samsung did do this, if Samsung chose to switch 0:11:38.559 --> 0:11:41.679 from Google Search to Microsoft Bing, that would be a 0:11:41.800 --> 0:11:45.640 huge blow to Google's dominant market share in the search space. 0:11:46.280 --> 0:11:49.640 For years, Google has enjoyed being the eight hundred pound 0:11:49.720 --> 0:11:54.520 gorilla in online search, which honestly, that's an understatement. So 0:11:54.559 --> 0:11:57.800 according to Statista, which you know you keep that in mind, 0:11:57.840 --> 0:12:01.720 like that's just one source, Google Search took up nearly 0:12:01.880 --> 0:12:06.320 ninety seven percent of the mobile market share in January 0:12:06.400 --> 0:12:10.760 twenty twenty three. Now that's mobile, not search overall, but 0:12:10.920 --> 0:12:15.920 ninety seven percent. So if that's true, if ninety seven 0:12:16.000 --> 0:12:19.920 percent of mobile devices use Google Search, as like the 0:12:19.920 --> 0:12:23.280 default search, there's really nowhere to go but down. You're 0:12:23.280 --> 0:12:26.600 not really going to creep up. You certainly are in 0:12:26.640 --> 0:12:29.000 the realm of being called a monopoly, and it'd be 0:12:29.120 --> 0:12:34.240 very difficult to argue against that. Right. But if you're Google, 0:12:34.440 --> 0:12:36.840 you do not want to see those numbers go down 0:12:37.559 --> 0:12:42.400 because that's bad for your business. So the word that Samsung, 0:12:42.520 --> 0:12:47.440 a massive important player in the mobile space, could turn 0:12:47.559 --> 0:12:51.840 to Bing instead of Google then sent a panic through Google, 0:12:51.920 --> 0:12:54.040 which The New York Times picked up on and then 0:12:54.080 --> 0:12:57.319 published an article about it. And so that panic then 0:12:57.400 --> 0:13:02.600 spilled out from Google internally to Google shareholders, and yesterday 0:13:02.679 --> 0:13:05.760 the company saw stock prices dropped by around four percent. 0:13:06.559 --> 0:13:10.679 As for revenue, according to Gizmoto, Samsung switch could mean 0:13:10.720 --> 0:13:14.280 Google misses out on around three billion dollars of revenue 0:13:14.280 --> 0:13:17.839 per year. Yaousa. That's a huge amount of money. Of course, 0:13:18.640 --> 0:13:22.000 Google rakes in more than one hundred and sixty billion 0:13:22.160 --> 0:13:27.000 dollars per year, so it's still an enormous company. But 0:13:27.120 --> 0:13:31.160 maybe Pachai was warning us about AI because Google's hoping 0:13:31.160 --> 0:13:34.480 to push out its own AI augmented search tool in 0:13:34.559 --> 0:13:38.320 order to keep Samsung's business and keep that strangle hold, 0:13:38.920 --> 0:13:43.480 particularly on the mobile search market. Bloomberg reports that a 0:13:43.480 --> 0:13:47.520 couple of research papers show chat gpt is pretty good 0:13:47.640 --> 0:13:50.880 at figuring out whether news will be good or bad 0:13:51.040 --> 0:13:54.720 for a company's stock price. So one of the two 0:13:54.760 --> 0:13:59.360 papers analyzed how well chat gpt could analyze statements that 0:13:59.400 --> 0:14:02.040 came out of the Better or Reserve to determine if 0:14:02.080 --> 0:14:06.240 they were quote unquote hawkish or dove ish, and the 0:14:06.320 --> 0:14:11.920 other paper analyzed chat GPT's ability to parse financial news 0:14:12.040 --> 0:14:16.320 headlines about companies and then figure out whether those headlines 0:14:16.320 --> 0:14:18.840 were a good indicator for the stock price or a 0:14:18.880 --> 0:14:23.520 bad indicator. And apparently the finding show that chat gpt 0:14:23.840 --> 0:14:27.400 is pretty darn good. It's sussing that stuff out, you know, 0:14:27.480 --> 0:14:31.200 almost as good as a trained human analyst would be. 0:14:32.000 --> 0:14:35.480 So I wouldn't call chat gpt superhuman. It's not like 0:14:35.520 --> 0:14:40.440 it's doing something that people cannot do. However, chatbots can 0:14:40.640 --> 0:14:44.080 analyze way more information at a much faster rate than 0:14:44.240 --> 0:14:49.640 a human can do. And moreover, it's possible that individual 0:14:49.680 --> 0:14:53.480 investors could start to lean on tools like chat gpt 0:14:54.280 --> 0:14:57.520 to figure out which investments could be safe bets, which 0:14:57.560 --> 0:15:00.680 ones could be long shots, and which ones might just 0:15:00.720 --> 0:15:03.600 be throwing your money away. So if you can get 0:15:03.600 --> 0:15:07.240 the same sort of guidance from chat GPT that you 0:15:07.280 --> 0:15:11.560 would normally need a professional analyst to provide, well, that 0:15:11.600 --> 0:15:15.440 definitely can change the game. And it's possibly bad news 0:15:15.440 --> 0:15:18.640 for the analysts out there because their jobs could become 0:15:18.680 --> 0:15:23.920 one of the ones potentially impacted by AI. SONY recently 0:15:23.960 --> 0:15:28.560 held its World Photography Awards and chose photographer Boris Eldigson 0:15:28.840 --> 0:15:31.920 as the recipient of an award in the Creative Open 0:15:32.120 --> 0:15:37.400 category for photography. Eldigson has declined to accept this award 0:15:37.520 --> 0:15:40.880 because he says the image he submitted was not in 0:15:40.920 --> 0:15:45.280 fact a photograph he snapped, but rather a computer generated image. 0:15:45.680 --> 0:15:49.240 Eldigson says that his intent was to test a major 0:15:49.280 --> 0:15:51.960 photography competition to see if the field is ready to 0:15:52.000 --> 0:15:58.160 distinguish between photographs taken by human photographers and computer generated imagery, 0:15:58.200 --> 0:16:00.760 and he described his state of mind as that of 0:16:00.800 --> 0:16:05.320 a cheeky monkey, his words, not mine. I can certainly 0:16:05.360 --> 0:16:08.560 appreciate that, And while I'm sure that this matter will 0:16:08.600 --> 0:16:12.840 spawn a lot of criticism for L. Dexon and the competition, 0:16:13.120 --> 0:16:15.800 I think his intentions were good ones. His actions show 0:16:15.840 --> 0:16:20.680 that things like competitions, we really need to take into 0:16:20.680 --> 0:16:25.280 consideration the possibility of AI aided or generated design as 0:16:25.360 --> 0:16:29.440 part of that competition, or figure out how we prevent 0:16:29.480 --> 0:16:33.360 it from being part of the competition if that's our desire. So, 0:16:33.560 --> 0:16:36.920 Eldigston said that the photography world needs to have an 0:16:36.920 --> 0:16:41.040 open discussion about AI's place in photography. Does it have 0:16:41.160 --> 0:16:44.880 a place? Should AI generated photography even be considered photography 0:16:44.960 --> 0:16:47.640 at all? If not, how do we detect it to 0:16:47.680 --> 0:16:51.240 prevent someone with access to a powerful image generator from 0:16:51.440 --> 0:16:53.960 dominating what is otherwise meant to be a fair competition 0:16:54.000 --> 0:16:59.000 between human photographers. So these questions aren't just hypothetical now 0:16:59.000 --> 0:17:02.200 that image generating technology has reached a sufficient level of 0:17:02.200 --> 0:17:05.439 sophistication so that it can pass itself off as a 0:17:05.520 --> 0:17:09.000 human created work. A spokesperson from the World of Photography 0:17:09.119 --> 0:17:14.400 organization appears to contradict at least some of Eldigson's statements, 0:17:14.840 --> 0:17:17.760 claiming that he had made it clear that a generative 0:17:17.840 --> 0:17:20.439 tool at least played a part in constructing the image, 0:17:20.640 --> 0:17:23.680 and that they in turn thought that it was interesting, 0:17:24.520 --> 0:17:27.080 and that he had quote unquote fulfilled the criteria for 0:17:27.160 --> 0:17:32.520 the category and that the organization only withdrew from conversations 0:17:32.560 --> 0:17:36.920 with him after he said that he had purposefully attempted 0:17:36.920 --> 0:17:40.679 to mislead the competition and then declined the award. So 0:17:40.800 --> 0:17:47.280 whether the organization was aware of the AI involvement, maybe 0:17:47.520 --> 0:17:51.320 the extent of the involvement was miscommunicator, I can't really tell, 0:17:51.840 --> 0:17:54.240 but it sounds like the organization says, no, we knew 0:17:54.640 --> 0:17:56.479 what was going on when we gave him the award. 0:17:56.560 --> 0:18:00.280 He just declined it, whereas he's saying, I submitted this 0:18:00.320 --> 0:18:02.879 as my own work, but in fact it was AI generated. 0:18:03.359 --> 0:18:05.520 I don't know who's telling the truth or where it's 0:18:05.560 --> 0:18:09.920 getting lost in this article. It may be that it's 0:18:09.920 --> 0:18:11.880 a little more complex than that, and I just don't 0:18:11.960 --> 0:18:17.280 understand it all yet. Okay, one more generative AI story. Recently, 0:18:17.280 --> 0:18:20.440 a person using the handle ghost writer used Generative AI 0:18:20.520 --> 0:18:23.760 to create a song featuring the generated voices of Drake 0:18:24.080 --> 0:18:27.159 and the Weekend. The song is called hard on My Sleeve, 0:18:27.240 --> 0:18:29.879 and it became a kind of viral sensation on platforms 0:18:29.920 --> 0:18:33.600 like Spotify and TikTok. So the voices sound like Drake 0:18:33.760 --> 0:18:37.359 in the Weekend, but they are generated by AI. So 0:18:37.400 --> 0:18:41.159 some refer to this as deep fake audio. Neither artist 0:18:41.240 --> 0:18:43.199 was involved in the actual making of the song, and 0:18:43.240 --> 0:18:46.560 it raises a bunch of questions about image and personality rights. 0:18:46.560 --> 0:18:49.200 So here in the United States, we don't have any 0:18:49.320 --> 0:18:53.919 laws at the federal level that protect personality or image rights. 0:18:54.480 --> 0:18:57.000 So you have no right to your image or to 0:18:57.240 --> 0:19:01.359 the expression of your personality the federal level. Anyway, some 0:19:01.359 --> 0:19:04.600 of the states do, but not the federal level. So 0:19:05.119 --> 0:19:07.800 if you were to create a deep fake audio for 0:19:08.960 --> 0:19:12.119 some song and you were using someone else's voice for it, 0:19:12.160 --> 0:19:15.440 there's nothing illegal about that at the federal level. There 0:19:15.440 --> 0:19:20.119 have been companies that have made copyright strikes for deep 0:19:20.119 --> 0:19:23.920 fake audios, but you can't copyright a voice or a personality. 0:19:24.359 --> 0:19:26.520 So I guess they're just using that because it's the 0:19:26.520 --> 0:19:29.760 only weapon they have right now for those kind of cases. 0:19:30.080 --> 0:19:32.919 But it really shows how the US needs to revisit 0:19:33.240 --> 0:19:39.000 concepts like image protection and personality protection laws. All right, 0:19:39.240 --> 0:19:41.760 that's it for this episode. Before I run too long, 0:19:41.800 --> 0:19:43.480 I just want to say I hope you're all well, 0:19:43.880 --> 0:19:53.280 and I'll talk to you again really soon. Tech Stuff 0:19:53.400 --> 0:19:57.920 is an iHeartRadio production. 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