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Speaker 1: Zo Media, Hello, and welcome to Better Offline. This is

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Speaker 1: your monologue for the week, and I'm your host ed zeitron.

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Speaker 1: So you've probably seen, or heard about, or even read

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Speaker 1: the abominable, nonsensical hog slob essay called something Big is Coming,

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Speaker 1: perhaps seeing people that should know better, like Mehdi has

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Speaker 1: Sons who called it the most important thing you read today.

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Speaker 1: Despite it being both AI generated and complete fucking nonsense,

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Speaker 1: this essay has done the rounds because of its historyonic

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Speaker 1: tone and deliberate leaning upon the anxieties of those scared

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Speaker 1: of AI and the mythology of AI boosters, and across

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Speaker 1: forty seven hundred b shit ass words, says very little

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Speaker 1: new or interesting, along with multiple egregious lies. I will

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Speaker 1: be attaching an annotated version of this essay to this monologue,

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Speaker 1: but I want to give you a broad explanation of

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Speaker 1: what it really says and why it's full of shit.

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Speaker 1: But let's start with who wrote m that. Schumer is

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Speaker 1: a guy who makes an AI startup called other Side Ai,

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Speaker 1: which does this thing called hyperwrite, which is an AI

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Speaker 1: writing assistant with web search and citations, which translates to

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Speaker 1: mean it's a rapper for various large language models that

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Speaker 1: he's prompting appropriately. When I asked it to write a

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Speaker 1: critique of his piece, it's said that its weaknesses lied

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Speaker 1: in its lack of specifics, and that its alarmist framing

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Speaker 1: grabs attention, and it's heavy on the hype and light

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Speaker 1: on actual insight. And you know what, Matt, you fucking

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Speaker 1: You've got one innovation, and it's that even your shit

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Speaker 1: ast lm rapper doesn't like your bullshit. And I think

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Speaker 1: it's also being too kind. Schumer makes numerous egregious misstatements

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Speaker 1: about the current state of AI, using vague yet scary

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Speaker 1: statements like being able to walk away from the computer

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Speaker 1: for hours and find his work done again. His company

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Speaker 1: has done the same thing for years, although an unnamed

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Speaker 1: managing partner at a big law firm uses AI for

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Speaker 1: hours to do the work of a team of associates.

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Speaker 1: I choose these two statements because they're fairly typical of

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Speaker 1: his entire piece, entirely made up bullshit about how long

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Speaker 1: an AI can work for what it's capable of doing.

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Speaker 1: Schumer repeatedly talks about AI being able to write software

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Speaker 1: completely autonomously in a way that could not be further

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Speaker 1: from the truth. His most egregious one is when he

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Speaker 1: quotes open ai saying that GPT five point three codex

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Speaker 1: is the first model that was instrumental in creating itself

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Speaker 1: because it used early versions to debug its own training,

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Speaker 1: manage its own deployment, and diagnosed test results in evaluation.

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Speaker 1: These are actual quotes from open ai. He's not lying

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Speaker 1: they said them, he's just lying about what they mean.

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Speaker 1: To be clear, this is open ai saying that he

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Speaker 1: used an app it built to test and debug code,

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Speaker 1: and to test and debug the actual code and how

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Speaker 1: it went up.

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Speaker 2: It's literally, it's what the product they used. They tested

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Speaker 2: the product by testing what the product did. It's not

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Speaker 2: the same as saying that software is designing itself, which

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Speaker 2: is something that Schumer heavily intimates is happening throughout the piece,

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Speaker 2: which it is not. He also suggests multiple times that

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Speaker 2: AI is learning from itself, which is not. Barely keeping

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Speaker 2: my cool on this one because it's so fucking frustrate

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Speaker 2: seeing how many people I saw Fortune repost this, I

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Speaker 2: saw Business Insider do a post fucking the Technology Brothers. Well, well, well,

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Speaker 2: if it isn't the technology Brothers, they had this fuck

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Speaker 2: not on it genuinely infuriates me, and most of the

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Speaker 2: scary stuff in there. That all software engineers will be

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Speaker 2: replace the fifty percent of entry level white collar jobs

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Speaker 2: be gone.

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Speaker 1: In one to five years. Is Schumer directly copy pasting

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Speaker 1: stuff that CEO of Anthropic Warrio Amade said in one

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Speaker 1: of his many interviews where he makes shit up. I

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Speaker 1: am begging people to please God engage with basic critical thinking.

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Speaker 1: When reading things like this, Schumer says a lot of

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Speaker 1: vague marketing fluff. Each generation builds the next, which is smarter,

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Speaker 1: which builds the next faster, which is smarter. Still, this

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Speaker 1: is written specifically to make you believe that this is

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Speaker 1: actually happening when it is not. It isn't. The generation

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Speaker 1: is not building the next. There are still people doing this.

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Speaker 1: He doesn't cite anything, He doesn't even bother to choose

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Speaker 1: real life examples. He just says stuff like AI is

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Speaker 1: approaching or exceeding human performance in several areas of medicine

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Speaker 1: or without citation, Well, I've got a citation for you.

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Speaker 1: On September fifth, twenty twenty four, Matt Schumer released a

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Speaker 1: model called Reflection seventy B that he claimed had benchmarks

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Speaker 1: that made it and I quote, the world's top open

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Speaker 1: source AI model built with something called glave AI. Independent

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Speaker 1: researchers were unable to recreate the benchmarks, and it became

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Speaker 1: obvious that Schumer was a lying sack of shit and

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Speaker 1: the reflection seventy b was a rapper for anthropics claude

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Speaker 1: sonnet model, with one person posting that they had intentionally

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Speaker 1: made it so that it would not respond to being

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Speaker 1: called Claude or say that it was Claude. He also

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Speaker 1: didn't reveal that he was an investor in GLAVEI, the

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Speaker 1: platform that generated the synthetic data that allegedly trained this

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Speaker 1: shitass model that does not work, did not work, never updated,

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Speaker 1: never did anything it said, and everyone just memory hold it.

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Speaker 1: And what horrified me about this essay is how many

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Speaker 1: top tier media outlets and respectable journalists took it as

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Speaker 1: gospel because the statements he made vaguely lined up with

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Speaker 1: the empty high of scumbacks like Sam Altman and Dario

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Speaker 1: Amma Day. If you're a member of the media that

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Speaker 1: share to republish this, you are actively participating in an

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Speaker 1: act of disinformation and you should be fucking ashamed of yourself.

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Speaker 1: Fuck Matt Schumer and fuck anybody who takes them seriously.

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Speaker 1: Regular people got scared because of this because mainstream media

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Speaker 1: validated it. You should all be ashamed of yourselves. And

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Speaker 1: to the many haters that emailed me about this saying

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Speaker 1: this looks like bullshit, you were correct. These people are

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Speaker 1: deceiving you. They are misleading you so that they can

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Speaker 1: sell AI software that they know is not doing the

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Speaker 1: things it needs to to make any of this make sense.

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Speaker 1: And I am disgusted to see this keep happening. I

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Speaker 1: am disgusted to see people like this platformed. And I

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Speaker 1: think when all of this ends, people think that I

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Speaker 1: will forget. I will not forget any of this. I

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Speaker 1: am taking fucking detailed notes of everybody who pushes this

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Speaker 1: shit up hill. I am furious. I'm disgusted to see this.

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Speaker 1: Sixty million fucking views on this bullshit. And I know

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Speaker 1: there are some people who don't like when I get angry,

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Speaker 1: but I am furious about this. This is lies, This

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Speaker 1: is platforming lies. Anyone in the media who platform this,

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Speaker 1: you need to, I don't know, think about whether you're

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Speaker 1: capable of doing your jobs every day, because you seem

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Speaker 1: to lack the critical thinking to spot a scam artist. Yeah. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm done. I'm done everyone. I'm sorry for flying off

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Speaker 1: the handle a little