WEBVTT - Week in Tech: Did Social Media Just Change Forever? 0:00:13.640 --> 0:00:16.920 From Kaleidoscope and iHeart podcasts. This is tech stuff. 0:00:17.040 --> 0:00:18.880 I'm as Voloshian and I'm care Price. 0:00:19.160 --> 0:00:21.920 Today we're going to get into the thing no One 0:00:22.000 --> 0:00:26.120 asked for a social media app dedicated to AI video, 0:00:26.360 --> 0:00:30.960 and then a study asking, somewhat surprisingly whether social media 0:00:31.080 --> 0:00:34.400 is actually on the decline, Then some advice for parents 0:00:34.440 --> 0:00:37.040 about how to raise your kids in the age of AI. 0:00:37.640 --> 0:00:44.800 All of that on the Weekend Tech. It's Friday, October tenth. 0:00:47.200 --> 0:00:50.440 Hello Cara, Hi Azie, how are you good. 0:00:50.520 --> 0:00:53.640 I thought we'd start with Show and Tell today, my favorite. 0:00:53.920 --> 0:00:54.440 So here we go. 0:00:54.640 --> 0:00:58.880 Show me he's taking out YouTube guys. It's loading and 0:00:58.920 --> 0:00:59.880 I'm seeing Andrew Ku. 0:01:00.480 --> 0:01:03.240 I'm Andrew Cuomo and I could pertain to do a 0:01:03.240 --> 0:01:06.360 lot of jobs. But I know what I know, and 0:01:06.440 --> 0:01:09.640 I know what I don't know, and I do know 0:01:09.720 --> 0:01:12.600 how to make government work. There are a lot of 0:01:12.680 --> 0:01:16.000 jobs I can't do, but I'm ready to be your 0:01:16.080 --> 0:01:17.479 mayor on day one. 0:01:18.200 --> 0:01:19.800 There are a lot of things I'm not good at, 0:01:20.000 --> 0:01:24.080 including being a mayor, being a mayor, and using AI 0:01:24.160 --> 0:01:28.039 to make campaign ads unbelievable. Just for the benefit of 0:01:28.080 --> 0:01:31.120 our listeners, the premise here is that Andrew Cuomo can't 0:01:31.120 --> 0:01:34.039 do a lot of jobs. His AI version is looking 0:01:34.080 --> 0:01:37.560 like a struggling subway conductor, stressed out as a trader 0:01:37.560 --> 0:01:40.080 on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, and 0:01:40.640 --> 0:01:45.319 a window washer. However, there are two Empire State buildings 0:01:45.319 --> 0:01:46.720 behind him, which that was quite missing. 0:01:47.960 --> 0:01:52.440 I really love that video because one, it really makes 0:01:52.520 --> 0:01:53.400 him look like a boomer. 0:01:53.480 --> 0:01:54.680 It really really really does. 0:01:54.760 --> 0:01:57.360 And obviously the person that he's going up against has 0:01:57.680 --> 0:02:00.800 swept sillennials in drove Mamdani. 0:02:01.080 --> 0:02:03.920 I know it's interesting. In the YouTube comments, somebody actually 0:02:04.000 --> 0:02:09.200 commented boomers love their AI slop, which I thought was funny. 0:02:09.400 --> 0:02:11.240 There are some other great YouTube comments I like, like 0:02:11.800 --> 0:02:15.680 bro is getting funded by billionaires, pecant afford actions with 0:02:15.840 --> 0:02:21.079 three skull emojic doll emojis. Mamdani also dinged Quomo obviously, 0:02:21.080 --> 0:02:22.520 I mean when you when you present someone with an 0:02:22.520 --> 0:02:25.120 open goal, they tend to strike the ball into it. 0:02:25.360 --> 0:02:28.600 He made fun of Quomo Becausemamber earlier in the campaign 0:02:28.680 --> 0:02:31.520 got called out for using AIS generate his housing plan. 0:02:31.720 --> 0:02:33.080 Yes that was back in April. 0:02:33.200 --> 0:02:35.800 Yes, he uses AI for his campaign videos and for 0:02:35.840 --> 0:02:36.880 the housing exactly. 0:02:37.080 --> 0:02:39.400 But Mamdani also said whether it was very clever in 0:02:39.440 --> 0:02:42.960 a city of world class artists and production crews hunting 0:02:43.000 --> 0:02:45.920 for their next gig. Andrew Cuomo made a TV ad 0:02:46.120 --> 0:02:48.520 the same way he wrote his housing policy with AI. 0:02:48.919 --> 0:02:50.919 That was a sweet dig. That was a sweet dig. 0:02:51.040 --> 0:02:53.600 And you know you mentioned boomers, and with all due 0:02:53.639 --> 0:02:56.120 respect to our you know boomers out there, it is 0:02:56.160 --> 0:02:59.720 interesting how boomerish this use of AI is. 0:03:00.080 --> 0:03:02.760 I'm sure that Cuomo jumped at the opportunity to put 0:03:02.760 --> 0:03:04.240 AI in a campaign, of. 0:03:04.160 --> 0:03:06.360 Course, as it feels fresh, and that's what I'm going 0:03:06.400 --> 0:03:08.160 to do. We're gonna use AI. Do you remember the 0:03:08.200 --> 0:03:11.399 original Mamdani campaign from the Democratic primary? Yeah, of course, 0:03:11.440 --> 0:03:14.720 it was very visually iconic. Extremely Scott Galloway made this 0:03:14.760 --> 0:03:18.840 point in his newsletter, which is that very surprisingly, despite 0:03:18.880 --> 0:03:21.120 all the headlines about how AI is going to run 0:03:21.160 --> 0:03:24.959 designers out of business, the ratio of designers to engineers 0:03:25.000 --> 0:03:29.399 in Silicon Valley firms is actually increasing because the deluge 0:03:29.400 --> 0:03:31.720 of AI slop is putting a new premium on really 0:03:31.760 --> 0:03:33.960 really good human designers, right, and. 0:03:33.919 --> 0:03:36.640 So design has to matter more like matter. 0:03:36.800 --> 0:03:40.000 You know the old axiom new tools don't always equal 0:03:40.040 --> 0:03:41.080 better results, right. 0:03:41.160 --> 0:03:44.160 Well, you know, speaking of AI generated videos. I want 0:03:44.160 --> 0:03:47.720 to talk a little bit about something that I can't 0:03:48.680 --> 0:03:54.880 stop seeing online, and that is Sora to videos, Sora 0:03:55.000 --> 0:03:55.600 Too videos. 0:03:55.680 --> 0:03:57.880 I'm glad these are from open Ai, right, yes, you know, 0:03:57.960 --> 0:03:59.400 I want to hear what you have telling me about Sora. 0:03:59.480 --> 0:04:00.840 But before we get there, I do want to just 0:04:00.840 --> 0:04:02.680 talk about what a big week it's been for open Ai. 0:04:03.000 --> 0:04:06.080 There's also a multi hundred million dollar chip deal and 0:04:06.160 --> 0:04:09.240 the release of something that people are calling the everything app. 0:04:09.320 --> 0:04:10.920 So we're going to get to those other two big 0:04:11.240 --> 0:04:13.160 open Ai headlines, but first time me about Sora. 0:04:13.640 --> 0:04:16.560 So had you you've heard of Sora before I had. 0:04:16.760 --> 0:04:18.960 It refers to a few different things. One of them 0:04:19.160 --> 0:04:21.960 is what Sora one was, which was open AI's text 0:04:22.000 --> 0:04:26.000 to video generator that was the original Sora. Last week, 0:04:26.320 --> 0:04:28.000 Sra gets an update. I don't know why I want 0:04:28.000 --> 0:04:31.920 to call her. Her name is Sora Too, and Sora 0:04:31.960 --> 0:04:34.880 to is what powers this new app called Sora, which 0:04:34.920 --> 0:04:36.480 is soa up. 0:04:36.880 --> 0:04:40.440 Yeah, very good, very very good. I where as in 0:04:40.480 --> 0:04:42.679 the app charts it was like top three, I actually 0:04:42.680 --> 0:04:44.280 know the answer one, number. 0:04:44.080 --> 0:04:45.799 One one in the total app. 0:04:45.920 --> 0:04:48.280 Lap charts, even though it's in beta or beta. 0:04:48.080 --> 0:04:51.479 As Beta beta orour Yeah. 0:04:52.200 --> 0:04:54.320 I think one thing worth mentioning here is I think 0:04:54.400 --> 0:04:56.800 this is the first time open ai has ever released 0:04:56.839 --> 0:04:59.600 an app other than chatchipt. That's correct, Which if you're 0:04:59.640 --> 0:05:02.719 a big company, that must mean you're treating us pretty 0:05:03.279 --> 0:05:07.239 dumb seriously to release only the second ever consumer facing app. 0:05:07.440 --> 0:05:10.360 Yeah, and you know chat rept. We now know has 0:05:10.440 --> 0:05:14.200 Google kind of running scared in the search category, but 0:05:14.440 --> 0:05:18.080 now open ai seems to be coming for social media too. 0:05:18.440 --> 0:05:21.560 And what's really interesting is that Meta also launched an 0:05:21.600 --> 0:05:24.640 AI video feed in their meta app just five days 0:05:24.680 --> 0:05:27.480 before the Sora app dropped. The name of it is 0:05:29.279 --> 0:05:31.400 it makes you think that Zuckerberg must name these things. 0:05:31.880 --> 0:05:35.000 Vibes, oh Man, vibe coding, Meta. 0:05:34.760 --> 0:05:38.159 Vibes, It's Pineapple Express. 0:05:38.960 --> 0:05:40.840 I saw this. You couldn't miss the Sora and news 0:05:40.920 --> 0:05:43.120 unless you're living under a rock. I didn't see a 0:05:43.240 --> 0:05:45.600 peep or hear a peep about vibes. 0:05:45.880 --> 0:05:48.040 I think why you didn't hear a peep about vibes 0:05:48.080 --> 0:05:52.839 is because vibes sucks. You know, there's like a huge 0:05:52.839 --> 0:05:56.719 difference between what you can do on vibes in terms 0:05:56.760 --> 0:05:58.479 of Meta AI and what you can do on Sora 0:05:59.440 --> 0:06:00.919 and what you can do on Sora is that you 0:06:00.920 --> 0:06:03.320 can be a character in your own videos and you 0:06:03.360 --> 0:06:06.120 can also put other care I saw Pikachu have a 0:06:06.200 --> 0:06:07.400 DNA test on Maury. 0:06:08.160 --> 0:06:08.760 You're serious? 0:06:08.960 --> 0:06:13.520 It was like Pikachu, you are not. So for those 0:06:13.520 --> 0:06:16.040 who don't know, here's how the app works. You can 0:06:16.120 --> 0:06:18.440 upload a short video of yourself to the app, and 0:06:18.480 --> 0:06:22.320 then the model can seamlessly insert your likeness into this 0:06:22.440 --> 0:06:24.520 hyper realistic video that includes sound. 0:06:25.120 --> 0:06:27.479 Do you remember when the text to image feature on 0:06:27.680 --> 0:06:31.240 chatchypt was released and the whole Internet caught fire and 0:06:31.240 --> 0:06:34.000 there was this moment where the Internet was completely flooded 0:06:34.000 --> 0:06:38.640 by studio ghibli characters and you know pixel characters of 0:06:38.680 --> 0:06:41.160 like you and your friends going about your life. When 0:06:41.200 --> 0:06:43.000 was the last time you saw one of those in circulation? 0:06:43.120 --> 0:06:45.720 Yeah, it's done dead. I like we have it from 0:06:45.800 --> 0:06:48.280 jet whenever it was Yeah. So what do you think 0:06:48.640 --> 0:06:49.520 in terms of Sora? 0:06:49.680 --> 0:06:49.920 Yeah? 0:06:49.960 --> 0:06:51.000 If like it will add. 0:06:50.960 --> 0:06:53.240 It's obviously so thrilling to put you on your your 0:06:53.279 --> 0:06:56.880 friends in Spider Man with Pikachu and Maury, Like, but 0:06:57.200 --> 0:06:58.279 is it durable? 0:06:58.880 --> 0:07:01.960 I think this will be more durable than the kind 0:07:01.960 --> 0:07:05.360 of quick high jinks of studios Jubilee, Like, I think 0:07:05.400 --> 0:07:08.520 that this is really fun to do over and over again. 0:07:09.000 --> 0:07:11.120 Do I think Sora as an app is going to 0:07:11.200 --> 0:07:14.600 Sora in the app store, you know, in perpetuity the 0:07:14.640 --> 0:07:19.320 way that Chatgypt is just for sure. No, I don't 0:07:19.360 --> 0:07:21.200 think it will. I definitely don't think it will. 0:07:21.240 --> 0:07:25.600 So telling you mentioned more in Pikachu, which is undeniable, 0:07:25.840 --> 0:07:27.480 will you confront him with just a flood of this 0:07:27.480 --> 0:07:28.400 stuff I. 0:07:28.440 --> 0:07:30.320 Was, and the way that you know it when you 0:07:30.360 --> 0:07:32.800 watch a SRA video if you're on TikTok or Instagram, 0:07:33.120 --> 0:07:34.360 there's a Sora watermark. 0:07:34.560 --> 0:07:36.280 Wow. But those are kind of a flex right because 0:07:36.280 --> 0:07:38.240 it's still in beta. 0:07:37.760 --> 0:07:39.760 Right, And what it means is that you got invited 0:07:39.800 --> 0:07:41.840 to Sora, which is very cool, which we you know, 0:07:42.200 --> 0:07:42.720 one day. 0:07:42.640 --> 0:07:44.480 Why did say in our production METI on Monday? Way, 0:07:44.480 --> 0:07:45.640 why aren't we going to invite it to? 0:07:46.080 --> 0:07:48.360 So I don't know. 0:07:49.480 --> 0:07:51.960 The ones that I actually like the most were of 0:07:52.080 --> 0:07:58.960 Sam Altman himself, who is very smart about centering himself 0:07:59.120 --> 0:08:00.520 as the face of open Ai. 0:08:01.040 --> 0:08:03.200 Now. I just wanted to pause on this because one 0:08:03.240 --> 0:08:05.720 of the concerns has been can I take your face 0:08:06.000 --> 0:08:09.440 and sorrow you? And the answer technically is no right. 0:08:09.520 --> 0:08:13.880 So Sam, that's right, Sam's my dear friend. He decided 0:08:13.920 --> 0:08:17.080 to basically make his face available to anyone who wanted 0:08:17.120 --> 0:08:18.880 to use him as a character. That's right. 0:08:18.920 --> 0:08:26.080 And there's two really disturbing videos. One is him shoplifting 0:08:26.160 --> 0:08:26.680 at Target. 0:08:27.040 --> 0:08:29.600 Oh my god, that he made himself was made of him. 0:08:29.760 --> 0:08:31.960 I think someone made it, put it on X and 0:08:32.080 --> 0:08:35.280 was bragging that their video went viral. The other one 0:08:35.520 --> 0:08:38.640 is really disturbing. Again, another user made it of Sam 0:08:38.679 --> 0:08:42.840 Altman being a sort of crust punk who had seemingly 0:08:42.840 --> 0:08:43.920 a crystal math problem. 0:08:44.040 --> 0:08:47.360 My god. So these are not always in the best taste. 0:08:48.160 --> 0:08:50.360 Not always in the best taste. But I think again, 0:08:50.880 --> 0:08:57.040 show that Sam Altman is the Zuckerberg or the bezos 0:08:57.320 --> 0:09:00.360 that open AI needs more. He's more more. 0:09:00.480 --> 0:09:03.520 Yeah, I mean he is the greatest hype beast the 0:09:03.520 --> 0:09:04.360 world's ever seen. 0:09:04.600 --> 0:09:08.439 Oh absolutely. I just want to go back and talk 0:09:08.520 --> 0:09:10.959 a little bit about some of the darker questions that 0:09:11.080 --> 0:09:15.440 Soa raises. To any normal person, you would imagine this 0:09:15.480 --> 0:09:18.320 is like a huge content moderation issue, because now there's 0:09:18.440 --> 0:09:21.640 just the Internet is flooded with fake videos that are 0:09:21.640 --> 0:09:24.600 fake on purpose, and everyone knows they're fake. The company 0:09:24.640 --> 0:09:29.440 does state that it quote bands impersonation scams and fraud, 0:09:30.040 --> 0:09:32.840 and that there are quote extra guardrails to the app 0:09:32.920 --> 0:09:35.600 when real people are featured in videos meant to block 0:09:35.679 --> 0:09:39.680 nunity and graphic violence. Okay, so technically you can only 0:09:39.720 --> 0:09:42.800 create videos of yourself, your friends, or people who choose 0:09:42.840 --> 0:09:46.920 to let their likeness be public. But as one would expect, 0:09:46.960 --> 0:09:48.960 there has already been at least one video of a 0:09:48.960 --> 0:09:52.360 woman being covered in a mysterious substance. So that sort 0:09:52.360 --> 0:09:54.600 of tells you how well this is going. 0:09:55.160 --> 0:09:58.240 I'm curious. I mean, is there is there really a 0:09:58.720 --> 0:10:01.440 belief or des I hear that Sora the app becomes 0:10:01.480 --> 0:10:05.280 a destination to consume, to just gorge on ai slop. 0:10:05.320 --> 0:10:06.480 Is that the vision is here? 0:10:07.280 --> 0:10:11.880 I think a lot of people would say, yes, it's 0:10:11.920 --> 0:10:15.480 like a it's a new social media destination for crap. 0:10:15.600 --> 0:10:17.680 It's a place to hang out rather than just to create. 0:10:17.800 --> 0:10:20.440 That's right, Okay, that's right. And there are two crucial 0:10:20.440 --> 0:10:25.240 things that make this app different than say Instagram or TikTok. 0:10:25.720 --> 0:10:30.240 The first is that the algorithm is not reigning supreme 0:10:30.440 --> 0:10:33.400 in the Sora feed. It's in as you said, beta, 0:10:33.440 --> 0:10:36.880 but apparently the app allows you to customize your feed 0:10:36.920 --> 0:10:39.640 a little bit, so you can pick a mood, which 0:10:39.720 --> 0:10:41.800 means that basically you tell the app what you want 0:10:41.840 --> 0:10:43.360 to see more of and it feeds it to you. 0:10:44.080 --> 0:10:45.760 The second thing is, we all know how much we 0:10:45.800 --> 0:10:50.840 divulge to chat GPT. Sora quote may consider your chat 0:10:50.880 --> 0:10:56.280 GPT history while creating video, which is a bit strange, Like, 0:10:56.720 --> 0:11:00.760 to what extent is it going to impact? I guess 0:11:00.760 --> 0:11:01.600 my Sora videos. 0:11:01.720 --> 0:11:03.560 You said something to me yesterday when we were talking 0:11:03.559 --> 0:11:06.240 about this that really stayed with me. You said, this 0:11:06.320 --> 0:11:08.600 may be the day the Internet changed. 0:11:09.880 --> 0:11:12.760 I did say that, and you know I talk to 0:11:12.800 --> 0:11:15.920 our producer about it too, And I was thinking, was 0:11:15.920 --> 0:11:20.920 I being a little bit Pollyanna ish? I just I 0:11:20.960 --> 0:11:24.920 think we are already like treading such thin ice in 0:11:25.000 --> 0:11:28.160 terms of like what is true that we see online. 0:11:29.360 --> 0:11:35.240 There's now an app that is dedicated intentionally to propagating 0:11:35.520 --> 0:11:38.840 fake video, and it's being run by probably the most 0:11:38.880 --> 0:11:43.720 important company of this new generation. And so I do 0:11:43.800 --> 0:11:48.000 think there is a pre Sora and postsra internet. Do 0:11:48.080 --> 0:11:51.240 I think Sora is going to change the world. Probably not. 0:11:52.280 --> 0:11:56.800 Do I think that having more realistic fake video in 0:11:56.880 --> 0:12:01.320 a time when our president posts Sora like videos on 0:12:01.400 --> 0:12:07.559 truth social is like incredibly damaging. Yes, I think you know. 0:12:07.920 --> 0:12:09.800 Yeah, I mean, I'm I come back to the thought 0:12:09.840 --> 0:12:12.000 I had at the beginning, is this like a flash 0:12:12.040 --> 0:12:12.520 in the pan? 0:12:12.679 --> 0:12:12.800 Like? 0:12:13.160 --> 0:12:15.720 So, Scott Gallaway, who I mentioned up top, he's the 0:12:15.760 --> 0:12:19.320 podcast host of Pivot and a marketing professor, had interesting 0:12:19.400 --> 0:12:21.960 take here. He's very much the opinion that this is 0:12:22.000 --> 0:12:24.040 a flash in the pan that surprise, based on his 0:12:24.160 --> 0:12:27.080 thesis that most people don't want to be creators, they 0:12:27.120 --> 0:12:29.160 want to be consumers. And here are the stats that 0:12:29.200 --> 0:12:32.760 he shared to support that four percent of YouTube videos 0:12:32.800 --> 0:12:35.160 account for ninety four percent of views on the platform, 0:12:35.880 --> 0:12:38.840 five percent of TikTok videos generate eighty nine percent of 0:12:38.840 --> 0:12:42.360 the views. On Instagram, three percent of videos and eighty 0:12:42.400 --> 0:12:46.000 four percent of all views. Scott's hypothesis, or his take 0:12:46.480 --> 0:12:49.520 was that actually Sora is really a B to B product. 0:12:49.520 --> 0:12:53.719 This is designed to put Hollywood and advertising agencies effectively 0:12:53.760 --> 0:12:56.760 to make many many people who work there redundant. Yeah, 0:12:56.840 --> 0:13:02.600 but that's not very culturally favorable cell And so the 0:13:02.679 --> 0:13:05.120 idea was to release as a consumer app, even though 0:13:05.120 --> 0:13:07.800 that's not really what it's for. Interesting, it's good take, 0:13:07.920 --> 0:13:10.600 but I also disagree. I disagree because of what you 0:13:10.679 --> 0:13:15.000 said about Samilman catapulting himself into being the most iconic 0:13:15.320 --> 0:13:19.760 text CEO of our generation. And I think that the 0:13:19.800 --> 0:13:23.080 more that most people in America and the world experience 0:13:23.320 --> 0:13:28.920 firsthand the absolute mind bending magic of generative AI, the 0:13:29.040 --> 0:13:30.560 richer and more powerful Samilman gets. 0:13:30.679 --> 0:13:35.200 Yeah. I think that's right. And I think that the 0:13:35.280 --> 0:13:38.680 last thing I'll say about SORA is like, I don't 0:13:38.679 --> 0:13:41.080 think it really matters. Is not that many people are 0:13:41.160 --> 0:13:43.720 using it versus consuming it. Isn't the problem that people 0:13:43.760 --> 0:13:45.280 are consuming it in such. 0:13:45.640 --> 0:13:51.600 Hah ha, We're onto our next story. Okay. There was 0:13:51.920 --> 0:13:54.720 a piece in the Financial Times with the headline have 0:13:54.760 --> 0:13:58.720 we passed peak social Media? Have we per This article 0:13:58.800 --> 0:14:01.920 on the data that underlie is it? Social media use 0:14:02.080 --> 0:14:06.440 peaked three years ago in twenty twenty two. What So 0:14:06.520 --> 0:14:10.840 the Ft partner with this digital audience insight company called 0:14:11.200 --> 0:14:14.400 GWI to analyze the online habits of two hundred and 0:14:14.440 --> 0:14:18.199 fifty thousand adults in fifty countries. What they found was 0:14:18.240 --> 0:14:20.400 that by the end of twenty twenty four, people on 0:14:20.440 --> 0:14:23.360 average spent two hours and twenty minutes per day on 0:14:23.400 --> 0:14:26.480 social media, which is down almost ten percent from twenty 0:14:26.520 --> 0:14:28.240 twenty two. This is a trend. 0:14:28.400 --> 0:14:29.040 This is a trend. 0:14:29.160 --> 0:14:32.440 You know, you know, per this data, which generation is 0:14:33.960 --> 0:14:35.560 unsubscribing fastest now? 0:14:35.720 --> 0:14:37.560 Gen Z fascinating. 0:14:38.160 --> 0:14:40.520 So the columnist posits that the reason this may be 0:14:40.600 --> 0:14:44.200 happening is in part because of the degradation of content 0:14:44.360 --> 0:14:49.480 on social media platforms overall. This is also known as incertification, 0:14:49.640 --> 0:14:52.800 the term coined by Cory doctor O. But the columnists 0:14:52.840 --> 0:14:55.880 used this great analogy to describe this flood of new content. 0:14:56.600 --> 0:15:00.640 He calls it quote ultra process content dopamine with at 0:15:00.760 --> 0:15:05.040 best negligible informational value and at worst corrosively negative, And 0:15:05.080 --> 0:15:07.040 he basically posits people are waking up to this. 0:15:07.200 --> 0:15:09.720 You know, I in my youth because I am an 0:15:09.840 --> 0:15:13.040 Instagram super user and I post a lot on Instagram Stories. 0:15:13.360 --> 0:15:15.360 And what I have noticed is the way that the 0:15:15.360 --> 0:15:19.720 Instagram algorithm works. I can't find things as easily as 0:15:19.720 --> 0:15:22.560 I used to because everything is algorithmically driven. So I'm 0:15:22.600 --> 0:15:24.920 seeing the same shit my friends are seeing. And what 0:15:24.960 --> 0:15:27.440 it used to be is that like there was actually, 0:15:28.480 --> 0:15:30.080 say two years ago. 0:15:29.760 --> 0:15:32.240 Before your feed would surface true value. 0:15:32.360 --> 0:15:34.640 Yeah, because my feed actually had things in it that 0:15:34.680 --> 0:15:36.640 I wanted to see. Now my feed just has things 0:15:36.680 --> 0:15:37.960 in it that my friends are watching. 0:15:38.080 --> 0:15:40.760 Well, that's again part of what this article is about, 0:15:40.760 --> 0:15:43.320 which is the thrill of social media was really about 0:15:43.320 --> 0:15:46.440 connecting with your friends, right, But now these apps basically 0:15:46.480 --> 0:15:50.080 promote just time spent with the never ending feed of 0:15:50.400 --> 0:15:54.040 sensational content, and so it's become more and more passive 0:15:54.080 --> 0:15:57.360 and therefore, listen, let's engaging. I mean, the snake is 0:15:57.400 --> 0:15:59.960 eating its own tail, at least according to this article. 0:16:00.080 --> 0:16:03.360 On the data, there is a twist here. Guess which 0:16:03.400 --> 0:16:05.960 continent social media is not declining in? 0:16:06.320 --> 0:16:08.120 Not declining North America. 0:16:08.240 --> 0:16:11.960 Yeah, the trend line is down everywhere apart from here. 0:16:12.240 --> 0:16:14.480 Daily usage is still rising year after year in this 0:16:14.520 --> 0:16:17.040 part of the world, and last year North American social 0:16:17.080 --> 0:16:19.640 media consumpation was fifteen percent higher than Europe. 0:16:19.720 --> 0:16:23.200 It just scares me because we now have an entirely 0:16:23.280 --> 0:16:26.040 new app that's number one on the App Store that 0:16:26.160 --> 0:16:28.000 is literally I mean, you want to talk about in schitification. 0:16:28.320 --> 0:16:30.480 You want to have an ais I mean a Pikachu 0:16:31.320 --> 0:16:35.280 DJing at boiler Room, which is a real sour video 0:16:35.320 --> 0:16:35.840 that came out. 0:16:35.880 --> 0:16:37.600 Are you looking for Pikachu or you just I. 0:16:37.600 --> 0:16:42.320 Mean, I'm always looking for Pikachu, isn't that the but no, 0:16:42.400 --> 0:16:45.160 I just I think that the Galloway argument gets me 0:16:45.160 --> 0:16:47.840 a little frustrated because it's like keeping candy in the 0:16:47.840 --> 0:16:50.720 house all year as opposed to on Halloween, because it's like, 0:16:50.840 --> 0:16:52.880 if we only have it on Halloween, at least there 0:16:52.920 --> 0:16:54.560 is a day that's designated to eating it. If we 0:16:54.600 --> 0:16:56.520 have it in the house all the time, kids are 0:16:56.520 --> 0:16:58.120 just gonna be like, I want to eat candy every night. 0:16:58.440 --> 0:17:01.520 And I think that with sore uh, it might not 0:17:02.880 --> 0:17:06.959 impact the American social media landscape in the way that 0:17:07.080 --> 0:17:10.480 you know, TikTok or Instagram did, but it does now 0:17:10.640 --> 0:17:14.639 put more shit into the world that obviously, based on 0:17:14.680 --> 0:17:16.560 what you're saying, Americans can't handle. 0:17:16.960 --> 0:17:18.840 And I think but by the way, it's engaging. I mean, 0:17:18.920 --> 0:17:20.120 I like seeing this stuff. 0:17:20.440 --> 0:17:23.720 I enjoy watching a giraffe and a zebra walk through 0:17:23.720 --> 0:17:27.080 suburban America absolutely. 0:17:26.080 --> 0:17:29.080 As giraffe and zebra blended together. I promise more about 0:17:29.080 --> 0:17:32.200 open Ai. We've talked about the first, you know, triumph 0:17:32.240 --> 0:17:35.080 of the week from open AI's perspective, which was breaking 0:17:35.119 --> 0:17:38.480 the Internet with a new social video generation app. But 0:17:38.520 --> 0:17:41.240 there are also two other things. Announcing a deal with 0:17:41.320 --> 0:17:44.960 the chip maker AMD, which added one hundred billion dollars 0:17:45.000 --> 0:17:47.840 to the market cap of AMD almost immediately. I mean, 0:17:47.920 --> 0:17:49.960 get this, just announcing it down a deal with the 0:17:49.960 --> 0:17:52.679 company makes that company one hundred billion dollars more valuable. 0:17:52.680 --> 0:17:53.560 I mean talk about power. 0:17:54.480 --> 0:17:56.400 Can you talk a little more about AMD because I'm 0:17:56.440 --> 0:17:57.240 not so familiar. 0:17:57.400 --> 0:18:00.280 Yeah, so AMD is, you know, in video, is the 0:18:00.320 --> 0:18:01.560 world's number one chip maker. 0:18:01.760 --> 0:18:05.240 Yes, I know this islder and. 0:18:05.320 --> 0:18:07.880 Open air also did a huge deal with Nvidia recently, 0:18:07.960 --> 0:18:11.040 and also did a huge deal with Oracle for data centers. 0:18:11.240 --> 0:18:14.399 But this was an agreement for open ai to start 0:18:14.480 --> 0:18:19.320 building data centers using AMD chips. And this was a 0:18:19.440 --> 0:18:23.000 huge thing for AMD because it basically was open Ai 0:18:23.520 --> 0:18:26.879 laying down a marker saying no, no, we believe that 0:18:26.920 --> 0:18:29.560 these guys can manufacture chips good enough to power the 0:18:29.640 --> 0:18:33.240 data centers we need to do the next generation of AI. 0:18:34.600 --> 0:18:38.080 There was a sweetener. Open ai had got ten percent 0:18:38.119 --> 0:18:41.240 of AMD for free to do this deal. Well for 0:18:41.280 --> 0:18:43.640 one center share options by shares at one center share 0:18:43.760 --> 0:18:46.320 that is crazy. So they're basically, I mean they're out 0:18:46.320 --> 0:18:49.680 there saying we know that working with us will increase 0:18:49.680 --> 0:18:50.639 the value of your business. 0:18:50.760 --> 0:18:53.399 So here you go, here's ten percent of it, right, 0:18:53.480 --> 0:18:54.400 And that's what happened. 0:18:54.440 --> 0:18:57.639 So the leverage of this company right now is absolutely extraordinary. 0:18:58.080 --> 0:19:02.000 Bloomberg pointed out that the announced between AMD, Oracle and 0:19:02.119 --> 0:19:04.000 Video that open Ai has annouced in the last few 0:19:04.000 --> 0:19:07.840 weeks could top a trillion dollars. A trillion dollars. I 0:19:07.840 --> 0:19:10.120 mean even even even the president rarely says that word. 0:19:10.200 --> 0:19:11.159 He doesn't say trillion. 0:19:12.560 --> 0:19:16.440 One stock analyst told Bloomberg that Sam Mortman quote has 0:19:16.480 --> 0:19:19.200 the power to crash the global economy for a decade 0:19:20.119 --> 0:19:22.639 or take us all to the promised land. 0:19:23.200 --> 0:19:24.880 What is taking us to the promised land? 0:19:24.880 --> 0:19:27.000 Look like? That's what I'm wondering that they didn't have 0:19:27.359 --> 0:19:27.920 very good question. 0:19:27.920 --> 0:19:32.200 They didn't go there not taking rich. Yeah that's rich 0:19:32.200 --> 0:19:35.840 if they have starvation pays off right right right. I mean, 0:19:35.920 --> 0:19:37.960 if there's anybody who is going to make the AI 0:19:38.000 --> 0:19:41.320 revolution pay off, it's the founder of open Air. 0:19:42.200 --> 0:19:44.040 It has to be. In the point article makes is 0:19:44.119 --> 0:19:46.200 now all these companies are so much in each other's 0:19:46.240 --> 0:19:48.560 business that Open Air with on the software side, AMD 0:19:48.680 --> 0:19:50.959 and a Video on the hardware side, that this is 0:19:51.000 --> 0:19:52.960 why some people are worried they may be a bubble 0:19:53.000 --> 0:19:55.320 emerging because just by doing business with each other and 0:19:55.520 --> 0:19:58.600 swishing the cash around, they can inflate each other stock prices, 0:19:58.800 --> 0:20:01.520 borrow more money, do more deals. But of course that's 0:20:01.560 --> 0:20:03.399 why if we don't get to the promised Land, we'll 0:20:03.440 --> 0:20:04.120 go somewhere else. 0:20:04.280 --> 0:20:07.560 There was also another one little piece of information about 0:20:07.600 --> 0:20:09.919 open ai this week, really big open air. 0:20:10.040 --> 0:20:12.920 It's a huge open Yeah. So we've got Sora, we've 0:20:12.960 --> 0:20:15.760