WEBVTT - Tech News: SpaceX's Starship Gets Off the Ground, Then Explodes

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<v Speaker 1>Welcome to tech Stuff, a production from iHeartRadio. Hey there,

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<v Speaker 1>and welcome to tech Stuff. I'm your host, Jonathan Strickland.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm an executive producer with iHeartRadio. And how the tech

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<v Speaker 1>are you. It's time for the tech news for Thursday,

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<v Speaker 1>April twentieth, twenty twenty three. So it's four twenty and

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<v Speaker 1>fittingly enough, our first story is one where technology went

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<v Speaker 1>up in smoke. So first up. SpaceX's Starship launched this

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<v Speaker 1>morning after scrubbing the previously scheduled launch earlier this week.

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<v Speaker 1>A frozen valve was the reason behind the earlier cancelation.

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<v Speaker 1>But today the world's largest, most powerful launch vehicle in

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<v Speaker 1>our history of space exploration lifted up off its platform

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<v Speaker 1>in South Texas to hurtle toward orbit, though it did

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<v Speaker 1>not actually get there because around four minutes after launch,

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<v Speaker 1>things got spicy. The first stage engines cut off as planned,

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<v Speaker 1>but the second stage failed to separate from the first

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<v Speaker 1>stage and the launch vehicle began spinning, and then there

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<v Speaker 1>was a burst of flame and an explosion, with a

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<v Speaker 1>vehicle breaking apart in the process. Or, as SpaceX's Twitter

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<v Speaker 1>feed put it, Starship just experienced what we call a

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<v Speaker 1>rapid unscheduled disassembly. The SpaceX team stressed that the main

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<v Speaker 1>goal of this test was to clear the launch tower,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, to actually get a launch and a lift off,

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<v Speaker 1>and to clear the launch tower, which the starship did.

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<v Speaker 1>So with that in mind, the test was a success.

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<v Speaker 1>It's easy to say otherwise because subsequently it then exploded,

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<v Speaker 1>but it was clearly a disappointment that the spacecraft was

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<v Speaker 1>unable to deliver the payload into orbit as hoped. Regardless,

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<v Speaker 1>the launch vehicle has more tests in its future. Even

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<v Speaker 1>if the test had been completely successful, it still would

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<v Speaker 1>have lots more tests in the future. As to what

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<v Speaker 1>caused the failure, I'm sure there will be a full

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<v Speaker 1>accounting of it later. I saw early speculation that several

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<v Speaker 1>engines on one side of the first stage cut out early.

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<v Speaker 1>I've seen other speculation that SpaceX chose to detonate the spacecraft,

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<v Speaker 1>but as of the time I'm actually recording this, I

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<v Speaker 1>haven't seen official word, so I'm sure by the time

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<v Speaker 1>you listen to this that will have been cleared up.

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<v Speaker 1>But as a recorded that has not yet happened. Now,

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<v Speaker 1>he may as well get the other Musk related stories

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<v Speaker 1>out of the way, because Elon Musk, obviously head of SpaceX.

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<v Speaker 1>He appeared at an advertising conference yesterday Wednesday with a

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<v Speaker 1>message for the crowd that Twitter is a safe place

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<v Speaker 1>for advertisers to do business. Also, he doesn't plan to

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<v Speaker 1>restrict the types of speech that brands may want to

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<v Speaker 1>try and avoid, So he's saying Twitter's safe, but there's

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<v Speaker 1>also no guarantee that a brand's messaging won't appear alongside

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<v Speaker 1>objectionable speech, which probably isn't much of a selling point

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<v Speaker 1>for many advertisers out there. He also sent the message

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<v Speaker 1>don't tell us what to do. He essentially said, don't

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<v Speaker 1>try and dictate what Twitter should do. That's my job.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm not really sure if the strategy is going to work.

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<v Speaker 1>The company has seen some pretty drastic drops in revenue

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<v Speaker 1>from advertising anyway. A bunch of the regular customers with

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<v Speaker 1>advertising on Twitter dropped the platform entirely. A lot of

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<v Speaker 1>others stuck around, but they also reduced their spending on

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<v Speaker 1>the platform by as much as eighty percent. Of course,

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<v Speaker 1>some of that may have nothing to do with Twitter

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<v Speaker 1>as a platform. The decision might be more due to

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<v Speaker 1>the overall economic situation where a lot of companies have

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<v Speaker 1>rained in marketing expenditures. Meanwhile, Microsoft announced its Smart Campaigns

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<v Speaker 1>with a Multiplatform Ad Service, which is a way for

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<v Speaker 1>advertisers to use a tool to plan out their advertising

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<v Speaker 1>strategy on different platforms. They said that they're actually dropping

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<v Speaker 1>Twitter starting April twenty five. Other platforms will still be

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<v Speaker 1>available through this tool, but Twitter will not, So advertisers

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<v Speaker 1>who use Microsoft platform for things like ad strategy and

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<v Speaker 1>placement are going to have to rely on something else

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<v Speaker 1>with regard to Twitter. I'm sure that this will lead

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<v Speaker 1>to more speculation about if or when Twitter will fold.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm not ready to make any kind of prediction like that.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm not even going to predict that it will fold,

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<v Speaker 1>let alone when it will fold, because as I look

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<v Speaker 1>back over all the things that have happened with Twitter

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<v Speaker 1>since Musk first announced his intent to buy the company,

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<v Speaker 1>there is no way I could have anticipated all the

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<v Speaker 1>stuff that followed. So I sure as heck am not

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<v Speaker 1>going to try and predict the future on this one.

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<v Speaker 1>In Tesla News, the company issued a Q one update

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<v Speaker 1>letter in which Elon Musk announced that collectively, the beta

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<v Speaker 1>program for Tesla's full self driving service, which I feel

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<v Speaker 1>I need to mention, is not really full self driving

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<v Speaker 1>has now logged more than one hundred and fifty million miles,

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<v Speaker 1>and that really is an incredible achievement. You know, I

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<v Speaker 1>give Tesla a lot of flak, but credit where credits due.

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<v Speaker 1>One hundred and fifty million miles traveled is a lot. Also,

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<v Speaker 1>with so many miles traveled, Tesla has gathered a truly

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<v Speaker 1>enormous amount of data that can then be fed back

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<v Speaker 1>into systems to improve performance. So theoretically, with more miles traveled,

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<v Speaker 1>the system gets more reliable and safer. You can kind

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<v Speaker 1>of think of every car that has full self driving

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<v Speaker 1>act as being kind of like a student driver, only

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<v Speaker 1>these students all share the same brain. So as one

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<v Speaker 1>car learns a lesson, the benefits of that lesson go

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<v Speaker 1>to the entire fleet of cars. Now, I say theoretically

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<v Speaker 1>because there are actually other factors we have to take

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<v Speaker 1>into consideration. So, for example, Tesla has made changes to

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<v Speaker 1>the hardware in the construction of their vehicles, such as

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<v Speaker 1>removing ultrasonic sensors in favor of optical ones, and these

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<v Speaker 1>hardware changes also affect performance. So it's not just the

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<v Speaker 1>brains of these vehicles, it's the actual sensors as well.

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<v Speaker 1>It really doesn't matter how smart your vehicle is if

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<v Speaker 1>it can't sense an obstacle for example. Still, it is

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<v Speaker 1>a legitimately impressive achievement. That being said, Tesla's investors are

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<v Speaker 1>not so happy with the company right now. Also in

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<v Speaker 1>that letter was the revelation that the company's gross margins

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<v Speaker 1>are below twenty percent. The net income for the company

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<v Speaker 1>is two point nine billion dollars. That's a big old

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<v Speaker 1>chunk of change. But this time last year, the company's

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<v Speaker 1>income was seven hundred million dollars more than that, so

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<v Speaker 1>it is a drop in year over year net income.

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<v Speaker 1>Tesla has cut vehicle prices several times since the start

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<v Speaker 1>of the year because demand has been low, so in

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<v Speaker 1>order to try and you know, stimulate demand, they've cut

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<v Speaker 1>some prices. And my guess is the tough economy is

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<v Speaker 1>really playing a part in this, although another big part

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<v Speaker 1>is that other car companies are starting to finally make

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<v Speaker 1>up ground on Tesla, which for years had the advantage

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<v Speaker 1>of being all in on electric vehicles and most other

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<v Speaker 1>car companies were just kind of dipping their toe in

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<v Speaker 1>the water at the time. Well that's starting to change

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<v Speaker 1>now and now Tesla's facing greater competition in the electric

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<v Speaker 1>vehicle market. So Musk tried to get ahead of a

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<v Speaker 1>negative investor reaction. He said, quote, you're taking a view

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<v Speaker 1>that pushing for higher volumes and a larger fleet is

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<v Speaker 1>the right choice here versus a lower volume and higher

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<v Speaker 1>margin end quote. And honestly, I'm not sure he had

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<v Speaker 1>much other choice, because if not enough people are buying

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<v Speaker 1>Tesla's right now after several price cuts, they sure as

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<v Speaker 1>heck wouldn't be buying cars there were priced even higher.

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<v Speaker 1>Investors still weren't happy, though, and the stock price is

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<v Speaker 1>down by around six to seven percent six ' two seven.

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<v Speaker 1>As I was working on this episode, it was hovering

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<v Speaker 1>just under a seven percent drop from the day before. Okay,

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<v Speaker 1>now it's a high time, everyone's favorite time of the news,

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<v Speaker 1>and first up is a story I found more than

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<v Speaker 1>a little upsetting. I mean, like this one genuinely disturbed me.

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<v Speaker 1>All right, First, let me give some backstory. There's a

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<v Speaker 1>Formula one racer named Michael Schumbacher who was in a

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<v Speaker 1>terrible accident while skiing, not racing, and this happened a

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<v Speaker 1>decade ago, back in twenty thirteen. He was severely injured

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<v Speaker 1>in that accident. He received a brain injury in the process,

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<v Speaker 1>and since then he's been out of the limelight. His

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<v Speaker 1>family has stressed the need for privacy. They continue to

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<v Speaker 1>help him day by day. And that story alone is

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<v Speaker 1>a very tough one. Right to see someone have that

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<v Speaker 1>kind of injury, that's just terrible. But then we get

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<v Speaker 1>to something that is really hard to believe. A German

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<v Speaker 1>weekly magazine called De Actual was running a supposed interview

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<v Speaker 1>with Schumacher. Only it wasn't an interview with Schumacher, he

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<v Speaker 1>has not given any interviews since this accident in twenty thirteen. Rather,

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<v Speaker 1>it was an AI agent that had been instructed to

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<v Speaker 1>respond to questions as if it were Michael Schumacher. So

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<v Speaker 1>this weekly magazine published a quote unquote interview with an

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<v Speaker 1>AI chatbot impersonating an athlete who is still coping with

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<v Speaker 1>the effects of a brain injury. So to call it

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<v Speaker 1>tasteless and unethical seems to be a gross understatement, And

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<v Speaker 1>it kind of harkens back to what I was saying

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<v Speaker 1>earlier this week about concepts like right to identity and

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<v Speaker 1>right to personality. I mean, imagine if some news outlet

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<v Speaker 1>there out there ran a supposed interview with you, but

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<v Speaker 1>it wasn't with you. It was with a chatbot that

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<v Speaker 1>was told to impersonate you, and then it's presented to

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<v Speaker 1>people as if it's a legitimate interview. That would be

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<v Speaker 1>an incredible violation. Schumacher's family are pursuing legal action against

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<v Speaker 1>the magazine and y'all. A lot of the concerns around

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<v Speaker 1>AI may be a little premature, Like the worry that

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<v Speaker 1>AI is going to doom the human race might be

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<v Speaker 1>a bit of an overreaction as things are right now.

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<v Speaker 1>But when you see media outlets willing to go to

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<v Speaker 1>these kinds of links to generate a story, you realize

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<v Speaker 1>that AI could be dangerous. Sure, it is dangerous in

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<v Speaker 1>several ways, but human beings can be downright diabolical. Okay,

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<v Speaker 1>we've got a lot more stories to go to, but

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<v Speaker 1>first let's take a quick break. Okay, we're back. Let's

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<v Speaker 1>talk some more about AI. So, Reddit's CEO Steve Huffman

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<v Speaker 1>has a message to AI companies out there. If they

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<v Speaker 1>want to scrape content from Reddit as part of creating

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<v Speaker 1>large language models and training AI agents, they're going to

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<v Speaker 1>have to pay for that privilege. He spoke with The

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<v Speaker 1>New York Times and said Reddit plans to make an

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<v Speaker 1>exception in its API, its Application programming interface that if

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<v Speaker 1>an AI company wants to access this tool, they'll have

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<v Speaker 1>to pay first. Now, if you're a developer who needs

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<v Speaker 1>access to that API for something other than training artificial intelligence,

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<v Speaker 1>good news, no charge for you. You get to use

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<v Speaker 1>the tool. As intended. As for how much AI companies

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<v Speaker 1>will have to pay to get access, that really hasn't

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<v Speaker 1>been hashed out yet. Reddit has already served as a

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<v Speaker 1>treasure trove of human centric data for companies like Google

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<v Speaker 1>and OpenAI while they were developing their respective artificial intelligence

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<v Speaker 1>large language models. Personally, I like this move by Reddit.

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<v Speaker 1>I mean, we all know that information has value. Now

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<v Speaker 1>if only the Reddit users could get a cut of

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<v Speaker 1>the action. But that's probably taking things a little too far.

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<v Speaker 1>In a kind of similar story, Google is leading the

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<v Speaker 1>charge in petitioning the Australian government to allow AI projects

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<v Speaker 1>to crawl Australian websites and to be used in Australian implementations.

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<v Speaker 1>So currently Australia's copyright laws are potentially a barrier, creating

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<v Speaker 1>pesky legal restrictions on what Google and other companies like

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<v Speaker 1>open ai would consider to be information that's free for

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<v Speaker 1>the taking and applications that should be fully open to them.

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<v Speaker 1>Google framed its request by saying Australia could really be

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<v Speaker 1>missing out, with one spokesperson stating quote, the lack of

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<v Speaker 1>such copyright flexibilities means that investment in and development of

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<v Speaker 1>AI and machine learning technologies is happening and will continue

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<v Speaker 1>to happen overseas end quote. That's according to the Guardian.

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<v Speaker 1>So Google essentially is saying, hey, if you don't relax

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<v Speaker 1>those laws, my dude, you're going to have to import

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<v Speaker 1>all those useful AI tools from somewhere else, because ain't

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<v Speaker 1>no one going to be here to do it in

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<v Speaker 1>Australia because your laws are whack. Now. I have no

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<v Speaker 1>clue if Google's approach will be effective, particularly in an

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<v Speaker 1>environment where there's an increased wariness surrounding AI and its

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<v Speaker 1>development in the first place. I think the tide in

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<v Speaker 1>public opinion on a I is starting to turn sour.

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<v Speaker 1>Bloomberg has published an article titled Google's rush to win

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<v Speaker 1>in AI led to ethical lapses employees say, and the

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<v Speaker 1>article sites Google staff using language like cringeworthy or calling

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<v Speaker 1>its aichatbot a pathological liar. They were using these words

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<v Speaker 1>to describe Google Bard while it was still in development,

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<v Speaker 1>before it had been pushed out into a beta program.

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<v Speaker 1>They said the tool would frequently give unreliable or sometimes

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<v Speaker 1>outright dangerous information, while doing so in an authoritative voice,

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<v Speaker 1>so it sounds like it knows what's talking about. So

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<v Speaker 1>one example given in the article is about scuba diving

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<v Speaker 1>procedures and that supposedly Barred gave answers that would quote

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<v Speaker 1>likely result in serious injury or death end quote. So

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<v Speaker 1>that's really not good. This was during the testing phase,

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<v Speaker 1>as I said, for Bard, and my guess is that

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<v Speaker 1>Google had planned to keep Barred under wraps and continue

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<v Speaker 1>to work on it within development for much much longer.

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<v Speaker 1>But Open AI's release of chat GPT late last year

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<v Speaker 1>convinced Google's leadership to try the old move fast and

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<v Speaker 1>break things approach, or else the company would risk getting

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<v Speaker 1>left behind in the AI chatbot wars. And you know,

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<v Speaker 1>Google really hates it if it is not the dominant

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<v Speaker 1>player in whichever markets it's competing in. It likes to

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<v Speaker 1>have that comfortable sixty to ninety percent market share. So

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<v Speaker 1>the article reads kind of as a warning about AI

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<v Speaker 1>in general, that this push to create a snazzy tool

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<v Speaker 1>could result in harmful consequences, and that the resources required

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<v Speaker 1>to make certain that the development and deployment is following

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<v Speaker 1>really good, strong ethical guidelines those just aren't in place

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<v Speaker 1>or they're being ignored. Google reps told Bloomberg that quote

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<v Speaker 1>responsible AI remains a top priority at the company end quote. Now,

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<v Speaker 1>in my opinion, company's across the board have been far

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<v Speaker 1>too aggressive with these tools. Open AI's leadership has even

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<v Speaker 1>warned media outlets about its own chat pots, saying it's

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<v Speaker 1>not reliable. But by that time the cat was already

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<v Speaker 1>out of the artificial bag and it was too late

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<v Speaker 1>to issue cautionary messages Anyway. The Bloomberg article is well

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<v Speaker 1>worth a read and goes into much greater detail about

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<v Speaker 1>the conditions that led Google to Rushbard in to a

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<v Speaker 1>beta test, arguably prematurely. Yesterday, Meta held another round of layoffs,

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<v Speaker 1>one of three batches the company plans to spread out

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<v Speaker 1>across the next few months, which will ultimately see another

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<v Speaker 1>ten thousand Meta employees cut. This is after Meta had

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<v Speaker 1>already cut eleven thousand jobs late last year. This time,

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<v Speaker 1>the layoffs affected engineers and tech teams, and as you

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<v Speaker 1>might imagine, the cuts have delivered another blow to employee

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<v Speaker 1>morale at Meta. I mentioned in a previous news episode

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<v Speaker 1>that some Meta employees have become discouraged over recent months

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<v Speaker 1>due to several reasons. First, layoffs are demoralizing. To the

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<v Speaker 1>push to return to office has created a hardship on

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<v Speaker 1>a lot of employees. And see that hardship doesn't appear

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<v Speaker 1>to be shared by Meta's top executive leadership because a

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<v Speaker 1>lot of them seem to be absent from Meta's HQ.

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<v Speaker 1>Some of them have moved thousands of miles away while

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<v Speaker 1>still serving as executives, and yet the employees are forced

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<v Speaker 1>to go in. So yeah, news continues to be rough

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<v Speaker 1>for the staff of Meta. By the way, if you

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<v Speaker 1>were a Facebook user with an account any time between

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<v Speaker 1>May two thousand and seven and December twenty twenty two,

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<v Speaker 1>you can claim your share of a huge class action

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<v Speaker 1>lawsuit settlement. Now this has to do with Cambridge Analytica,

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<v Speaker 1>that scandal that rocked the tech world several years ago

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<v Speaker 1>and we still talk about it today. So in case

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<v Speaker 1>you don't remember that whole kerfuffle, a company that catered

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<v Speaker 1>to political campaigns, a data analytics company leveraged a survey

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<v Speaker 1>app to gather a huge amount of information about Facebook

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<v Speaker 1>users without their consent. The app was taking advantage of

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<v Speaker 1>large gaps in Facebook's API, gaps that the company would

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<v Speaker 1>subsequently close, but the damage had already been done anyway.

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<v Speaker 1>There were a lot of legal proceedings that followed in

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<v Speaker 1>the discovery of this transgression, including this class action lawsuit

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<v Speaker 1>that I mentioned, and the settlement was for a whopping

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<v Speaker 1>seven hundred and twenty five million dollars. Though Meta was

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<v Speaker 1>let off the hook in a sense because the company

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<v Speaker 1>didn't actually have to admit any wrongdoing as part of

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<v Speaker 1>this settlement. But then I think it's kind of hard

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<v Speaker 1>to say with a straight face, Hey, I didn't do

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<v Speaker 1>anything wrong and no one was hurt. I'm just paying

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<v Speaker 1>seven hundred and twenty five million dollars out of the

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<v Speaker 1>kindness of my heart. Anyway, the settlement itself is actually

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<v Speaker 1>old news. The company reached an agreement late last year.

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<v Speaker 1>The news now is that you Facebook users out there

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<v Speaker 1>who had an account that was active during those times,

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<v Speaker 1>you can actually submit a claim, and you have until

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<v Speaker 1>August twenty fifth to do so if you want to

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<v Speaker 1>do it online. The website is Facebook User Privacysettlement dot

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<v Speaker 1>com slash hashtag, submit, dash claim. Finally, mark September twenty ninth,

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<v Speaker 1>twenty twenty three, ondred calendars. That's when Netflix will officially

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<v Speaker 1>stop sending DVDs out by mail. For some of y'all,

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<v Speaker 1>what I said might actually sound strange, but not that

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<v Speaker 1>long ago. Netflix's business model was really just renting films

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<v Speaker 1>out through the mail. You would sign up for the service,

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<v Speaker 1>you would make a watch list of films and shows

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<v Speaker 1>you wanted to see, and then, based on what was available,

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<v Speaker 1>Netflix would mail you the DVD and then you would

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<v Speaker 1>watch it and you would put it back in its

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<v Speaker 1>envelope and drop it off in the mail and wait

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<v Speaker 1>for your next one. Or if you were like just

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<v Speaker 1>about everyone I know had the service, you would do

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<v Speaker 1>this a couple times, and then on your third DVD

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<v Speaker 1>you just have it sit on the coffee table in

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<v Speaker 1>the little red envelope, unopened and unwatched, and then you

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<v Speaker 1>would just continue paying for the privilege of giving this

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<v Speaker 1>DVD a temporary home. Or in fact, you might ultimately

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<v Speaker 1>get charged for the DVD because he kept it so

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<v Speaker 1>ding dang long. But anyway, Netflix's main business was all

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<v Speaker 1>in this male centric model. The company was founded back

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<v Speaker 1>in nineteen ninety seven, and it didn't start streaming until

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<v Speaker 1>two thousand and seven, so for a decade and some change,

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<v Speaker 1>that's just how folks use Netflix. Now we're at the

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<v Speaker 1>end of an era, and it's funny because I've actually

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<v Speaker 1>kind of gotten back into buying DVDs and Blu ray discs.

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<v Speaker 1>I got tired of titles disappearing off various services, sometimes

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<v Speaker 1>popping up on other services that I don't subscribe to,

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<v Speaker 1>So now I'm back to purchasing physical media. I guess

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<v Speaker 1>I'm just a human being, lost in time and lost

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<v Speaker 1>in space and in meaning. Hope you're all well, that's

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