AI is here. What now?
[Music] suddenly it seems everyone is talking about artificial intelligence well well let's take a look at a video that never happened because open AI the company behind Chad GPT has unveiled a new artificial intelligence model that takes written prompts and a video self-driving Robo taxis are already on the road in two US cities and could soon be coming to a place near you my books have been taken and I didn't even know about I wasn't asked about it I didn't approve it the violation of me of my individuality my likeness my voice are saying these words that I did not agree to say who's that guy why did they all stop and run into each other the AI that you are most likely to encounter in your life is built by a handful of for-profit companies using data you never realized they were collecting so a few months ago I'm wasting precious hours of my life away on Tik Tok when suddenly I'm shown an ad for Google's AI program Google Gemini okay can't be that hard how about generate an image of a cat playing guitar is that how it works am I doing AI yeah it just does whatever you type this was the first commercial from a big company I'd ever seen for AI and I was surprised by the lifestyle it pitched what for the last minute gift ideas you can make with arts and craft plan a workout routine to get bigger Cales a girl calls me a snack how do I replys rather than taking care of things you don't want to do like organizing your schedule or your job the pitch seems to be that it would help you think about your loved ones or communicate for you but it begs the question why do I need to use this couldn't most of this just be done by Googling something and finding sourced information is AI in its current state going to sincerely improve our lives or do large corporations want us to adopt it just because it's the hot new thing what's a good excuse to cancel dinner with my friends we're literally sitting right here no way to yeah do way to in the and since that ad the floodgates have burst open with AI advertising I now constantly see AI commercials from meta Google and other companies on TV my neighborhood has been invaded by self-driving Ubers so you know what I want to know what life looks like when someone tries to apply this technology in its current state in as many ways as possible but I uh take a while to make videos so let's get back to earlier this summer over the last year we've all been constantly bombarded by new AI programs we've got chat GPT from open AI meta AI from meta Google Gemini and many more during this time it seems like anything that a computer does is now being branded as artificial intelligence but one of the main introductions and advertisements for AI is its ability to generate images generate an image of a cat playing guitar imagine a tree housee in a big oak tree with a porch in a lad imagine Little Italy in 1954 oh there it is wow it's amazing anything that your heart desires do you want to see a super cool guy well yeah I guess uh this is what Google Gemini gives you now I'm headed to Chicago for the weekend so I thought I'd ask Gemini to generate images of the city before I go now it gave me four Images three of which are weird messed up photos of the Chicago skyline I don't know what this is supposed to be the fourth image was just this photo of a deep dish pizza I said generate images of Chicago and it it gave me this as the fourth one now we all know deep dish is famously made with its crust tomato on top of the crust cheese on top of the tomato tomato on top of the cheese and then cheese on top of the tomato with pepperoni on top of the cheese sounds like a regular deep dish pizza to me once we were there for the weekend we started off by grabbing a picnic blanket beers and watching some Fourth of July fireworks one of the most classic ways to enjoy the summer as an American but could it be improved on the crowd was focused on the dazzling light show in front of [Music] us Drew kept asking me to look up and get off my phone but I refused to look because I had AI generated images of fireworks myself so I didn't feel like I missed out on anything actually it was like I had my own private show on my phone it's actually it was just as good the next day we headed downtown and went on Chicago's architecture tour this is usually my number one recommendation for anybody visiting the city for the first time Chicago's architecture is absolutely beautiful each building comes with its own artist and story of how it was constructed when it fit into the city what was happening at the time thousands of human hands and lives touched each individual building every detail on every building was individually constructed and crafted by human choices these things make the skyline a beautiful Mosaic of art architecture engineering construction and a history of over 100 years all of these aspects and human lives beautifully swirling down a funnel that feeds an AI image model that can spit out its own version of the skyline with random new buildings that have no stories that have no individ ual touch to them but they popped up on my phone and it's almost like I made them finally we ended the weekend at the Lincoln Park Zoo yeah cool Rhino idiots the one I generated is freaking on fire so obviously AI image generation can't compete with real life but what are the adverti uses for this thing right now there were two in the meta ad shown earlier that I wanted to call attention to First a father and daughter planting a tree house they don't ask AI to analyze a photo of the tree and pick out a structural blueprint for a treehouse that would fit perfectly they just say imagine a treehouse in a big oak tree with a porch and a ladder which sure I guess it could help you like pick out a Vibe but you need a ton of research and sourced information to plant a treehouse that's safe for your child but the ad just kind of shows that they built it they looked at this photo and then they just built a treeh house you could also just Google information about a treehouse in a big oak tree and not only will you get people's experience and planning and information that'll help you you also get visual representations of what it could look like but the one I have a much bigger problem with is the other example in the meta commercial here a younger man assuming a grandson asks meta to imagine Little Italy in 1954 AI image generation in its current state gives you a fictional image based on Visual and contextual information that it's been fed so when you're looking for a photo of a real time in history you should not be using AI here's a photo of Little Italy in 1974 taken by Eddie hner for the New York Times there is so much information to learn just from one photo of the past just on a surface level you can see how someone worked what the fashion in the area was like at the time items that stores were selling what graphic design and signs looked like at the time building AR chitecture hell even what awnings looked like for all my awning heads out there real information about a real moment in time with real people captured by a talented photographer this is not Little Italy in 1954 this is just the vibe a computer thought Little Italy was like oh there it is even when used as a building block for an idea AI image generation is an amalgamation of stolen art and information using it as concept art not only steals from actual ual artist but it robs you the experience of finding an artist you really like it robs your inspiration of personal human touch so okay I don't really like AI images but I want to try something that exists in the physical world a nearly 5,000lb vehicle that thinks for itself the wh Mo car well as if the roads and the highways are not clogged enough you might see even more vehicles on the roads that's because weo is testing it self-driving cars on San Francisco freeways startup weo moving forward with expanding its Robo taxi service here in La despite ongoing concerns over the safety of these autonomous vehicles these were originally Google's self-driving autonomous vehicle in 2009 until it was spun off and established as wh in 2016 and because of my proximity to them I can call one right now get in the car with my physical body and take a deep exhale really breathe outward into the car uh after my covid quarantine and a negative test I was ready to stop spewing my covid germs and go back to spewing my regular germs in a whmo car but first a quick word from the sponsor of this video I fell down a well don't ask this video was sponsored by cook Unity cook Unity is the first chef to Consumer platform delivering freshly prepared pre-selected meals right to your door weekly which sounds tasty I could really use some food down here cook Unity chefs offer up a wide range of meals with over seven different dietary preference filters including vegan paleo and gluten-free options the meals are delivered fully cooked so all you have to do is heat 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own self-driving hat but as I reached for the handle wait how do you open this I could not figure out how to open it genuinely how do you open the car door there was a fruit cart on the corner and the person selling fruit absolutely laughed at me it was like a loud laugh like they did not care that I heard them laughing at me but it turns out you need to go on the app and unlock the car door first so once I did that the handle popped out hey Eddie hello once in the car and buckled up I was ready to take my first ever self-driving taxi hello from wh as we get going give us one minute to cover a few riding tips this experience may feel futuristic but the needs to buckle up is the same as always so keep your seat belt fasten please other than being very uncomfortable with the fact that there was no driver in my car so how how long have you been driving for wayo things were going pretty smoothly with the limited range of where wayo cars can go in the city right now I decided to have it take me to the Beverly Center I was doing a round trip so I wouldn't leave the car but if you've lived in La for a long time you'll know that the Beverly Center is a meeting place of culture a spot where small businesses can Thrive anytime anyone I know visits LA and they ask for spots I give them my top five Santa Monica Pier the Beverly Center Hollywood Boulevard The Grove and the Americana it's a right of passage for La transplants to go to small wealthy boring areas of the city and then go on social media to say that all of La sucks anyways back to the ride so um when did you start D driving for whmo we made it to the Beverly Center drop off without any issue and since it was a round trip I had the option to just resume the ride again as I went to resume the ride I scared myself because there was a piece of lint on my pinky ring and I thought it was a bug after being literally so brave and getting the piece of lint off my pinky ring I resumed the ride however we were in a tight parking lot and the self-driving car decided to stop driving itself okay so so there's just a simple we sat there stuck between an AI rock and a completely open place that's it we just got to turn out there was also a parking Booth right in front of us and this guy seemed so frustrated because he knew it was a self-driving car and it wasn't moving at all but after a moment it seemed like support stepped in and we started moving just fine just go oh he's looking at me but other than our slight delay the rest of the ride was pretty smooth and comfortable the driving these things have to do is relatively easy there's no highways or anything but this does make me nervous for the ride sharing industry especially because at the beginning of this ride I did price match it with Uber and at least at at that moment it was $5 cheaper do I think this new startup will be cheaper forever yeah I'm willing to bet my movie pass on it but Whos haven't exactly been a smooth ride all over the country they're currently testing in La Phoenix and where they originally started San Francisco now to the driverless cars that some San Francisco residents say are making them lose sleep with Hawking horns all night long and they try to park themselves Larry you back to the story I'm glad none of us live [Music] problem this morning San Francisco residents are fed up after being kept up at Night by driverless whmo cars honking at each other through the night as they [Music] Park it's [ __ ] 4 a.m. past two weeks I've been woken up more times overnight than I have combined over 20 years it's also particularly shocking to me that they can just be down the road testing when it feels like we don't have a lot of rules for that yet there were multiple incidents of self-driving cars being pulled over by the police and they just like don't really know what to do an officer gets out of his car to speak to the driver only to discover and nobody in it and then the car speeds away from the officers passing through an intersection before pulling over again no can you show me out at 7th AV in Osborne I got a a a unmaned vehicle that was kind of taken off from me um it's a whmo car it's not every day you see a Phoenix police officer pulling over a driverless car hi but with all that being said my ride was somewhat smooth and it was coming to an end but yeah after a few minutes I got to the end of the ride and it was time for me to get out [Music] but as I entered the sight lines of the whmo rear viw mirror I realized that it wasn't just my first autonomous taxi driving away no on that fateful summer I had made a friend best friends best friends how long have you been driving [Music] for okay so goodbye wh Mo but Whos aren't the only self-driving vehicle in my neighborhood now at 5:30 Hollywood's food delivery robots are under attack videos show vandals kicking them and even tipping them over food delivery robots you may have seen them getting beaten up on the news driving through an active crime scene hey how come the robot go over there we're trying to cross the road on a red light this is not my video but I have seen this exact thing happen before I watched one go out into the road on a red light a car had just Screech to a and honked at it which like I mean the robot's not going to be like oh my God I'm so sorry if you're unaware around the time of the pandemic these little guys started driving around La they show up to a restaurant lock the food in their little box body and then drive it over to your address but I mainly know these robots from them getting in my way while I'm on a run this one was recorded just a few days ago while I've been making this video it almost ran into me and after I finished my run I circled back about 10 minutes later to see the progress it had made and it had only moved one block these things just sit there not move oh it's actually going oh I stay corrected it is on its way oh nope it's on its way it's it's going right to the address oh nope okay nope okay now it's going and I think it's going to make its way to the address just o and now it's going in the grass it got stuck in the grass but there's something glaringly obvious when you look at both of these self-driving robots the main reason for them existing that we can't ignore these are here to replace human work so assuming nothing goes terribly wrong with the way moars delivery robots these things may be the perfect example of the real crisis we'll be facing in the future new technologies and labor have always done two things at once one it makes the task of labor easier to complete sure but two that easy labor comes with less of a need for the number of laborers let's take the taxi business for example it was all but completely destroyed by ride sharing apps like uber and lift due to convenience now that we have millions of rid sharing drivers in the us alone what happens to them if weo is a success now I can already hear the argument for technological advancements in work well okay sure people will lose their jobs but that technology will create new jobs machines need Engineers people to produce and build them people to repair them but with the evolution of technology and specifically the aim of AI its convenience by definition would require less and less human work let's say weo puts all ride sharing drivers across the United States out of work are they all going to become AI programmers AI progressing will just take those coding jobs too no so my question is if AI gets better what is the plan here even if these people found a different job how could you guarantee the different job wouldn't also be eaten by AI isn't that the whole goal of making AI more intelligent and in fact even on the consumer end I've been taking a couple of Whos over the last few weeks how long you how long youve been driving for weo all right sorry and there's even been times where it is more expensive than an Uber without any human labor involved there's no driver and yet it's somehow more money so what's the point the point would be not to make it cheaper more convenient for us but not having to split that profit with a driver that works for you it's the same if not more out of your pocket as the customer but the whole pie goes to them and that's considered smart business until no one has any damn money to spend I mean this type of thing would require a completely new system for working and living like even if most corporations had AI take 99% of the jobs in their companies how the hell are they going to make a profit if 99% of people are out of work right now the beefy five layer burrito at Taco Bell is $459 it was 89 in 2009 89 in 2009 calculated for inflation today is $13 $ 30 $1.30 is not over $4 last time I checked and if a computer digitizes a five layer burrito into existence without any human work are you going to make it cost way less Taco Bell even if it's cheaper what money will I have if AI takes my job my job isn't hard what money will any of us have this is the most shortsighted [ __ ] I've ever seen even if you're Mega wealthy you can't keep making gains on your Investments if nobody has any damn money to spend why would you want computers to take all our jobs and I don't even know if AI is that good or will be that good but what are we thinking all right so maybe I got a little too heated about the bp5 layer burrito so I decided to use AI in a way that usually calms me down watching movies and the big scare for movies right now are AI video models like Sora Ai and Luma dream machine it's a AI technology that generates video from a text prompt so you describe what you want to see briefly in a sentence or a paragraph the system will generate what you've describe I'll be honest I've been pretty closed off to the idea of AI being used in movies in any way it seems like while some of it can be used as a tool using it to replace creative work will take out the richness detail and hard work that's poured into every frame but maybe I'm just afraid of change so I decided to get cozy and sit down to watch what AI video Happ has to offer first I found something called Star Wars 1950s super Panavision 70 aai film in a distant Galaxy where the eternal struggle between light and darkness plays Out Among the Stars follow Luke Skywalker A young Farm Boy destined for greatness alongside Princess Leia opposing them is Darth Vader the formidable dark lord of the Sith okay so it's just shitty AI gifts that look much worse than stills of the actual movie narrated by an old timey AI voice not a great start but what the hell is The Simpsons by Adam Sandler trailer comedy movie hi there I'm Homer Simpson Welcome to our crazy little world let me introduce you to my family friends and some of the other colorful folks in Springfield first up there's my lovely wife Marge she's the glue that holds this family together with her patience and love and check out her hair isn't it something next we've got my boy boy bked he's a little troublemaker always getting into Mischief but deep down he's got a heart of gold this [ __ ] sucks and there's Lisa our little genius she's the smartest one in the family by a mile always reading always thinking and always trying to make the world a better place now there's Ned Flanders this isn't a trailer for a movie it's just disturbing shots of who they'd cast in the liveaction while a shitty Adam Sandler voice just described everyone he's a bit too perfect sometimes but you got to love him we've got my buddies from work Lenny and Carl we share a lot of laps at the power plant and it just keeps going what movie trailer have you seen that's like hi I'm Iron Man I'm a pretty smart guy I'm also friends with Captain America who's really strong but not as strong as the Hulk who's a big green guy Hawkeye here we don't really know why but he's got a great app the team is held together by Black Widow who for some reason is married to Colin Jo and I still don't get it I mean sure Colin seems like a nice and funny guy but really those two for real hold on this was uploaded 13 days ago and has over 2.7 million views I think these are really scary for the CGI industry and the art that goes into that but this is nowhere close to even making scenes where two people can talk to and react to each other as I continued browsing everything I watched no matter the genre had one thing in common they were all deeply deeply sauceless just boring uninspired mashed up collections of other things I'd seen before there was no vision no Direction no expression involved like this one Genesis this movie entirely made by AI 4K in a fleeting heartbeat of time Humanity's own creation sparked a nuclear Inferno turning our vibrant Earth into a solemn Testament of our own Folly the World As We Knew It was engulfed in nuclear fire marking the end of an era the sole survivor clung to a vision a blueprint for forging a new future From the Ashes of the old I feel so conflicted about these because yeah it is crazy to see an AI create these visuals when they didn't do that you know like months ago but it's somebody who grew up on and absolutely loves entertainment whether it be you know Games movies television what the [ __ ] is this if you want to look me in the eyes and tell me that something like this is comparable to Blade Runner 2049 I'll throw my head through a wall are you serious there's not even a scene here there's not even a character you can follow everybody looks different in every shot and everything we're seeing is just a weird mash up of every sci-fi thing it's been fed there's no planning there's no cool stories from the set or the creation of any of the ideas it's just stuff you know a few nights ago I was watching an Italian movie called Cinema Paradiso the film follows a young boy who falls in love with the movie theater in his small town in Sicily the director of the film actually shot in his hometown as a love letter to people in his life and what the art form of film making is given to him and it's not just a Coming of Age film based on his childhood you can tell that as an artist he's returned to his roots to realize just how important people who guide you through life can be to you even many years later my explanation is not doing the film Justice all right I'm not a good writer and the movie is incredible but that's how real artistic expression Works any good Sci-Fi isn't just made to be a sci-fi movie a collection of people all in their own ways are using their life experience and the experiences of those around them to express themselves whether that's in editing costume design directing acting writing set design sound when a movie really lands with you emotionally it's not some coincidence where an algorithm hit just the right numbers to make you cry while searching for AI films I did find a super short one called poof it's not really anything just a series of Muppets exploding at work but it seemed a little bit more creative than these weird computer mashups which made sense when I looked into it and there was a Creator who at least used AI to compile a lot of aspects together to make the thing and whether I like it or not I'm sure using it as a tool will become more common but I still think the more you let computers handle the art part completely on their own the less people will connect with it Cinema Paradiso which I highly recommend you watch made me cry and I'm very grateful that everyone involved with that movie expressed themselves the way they did when they did and worked together to create it I think that kind of collective Human Art is really special so yeah I think the way as a human being that movie spoke to me is going to scratch the exact same itch as Adam Sandler's AI the Simpson also I should add that if there was a sentient AI of course I'd be interested in the art that it would make if it worked like a human brain but was completely different I would be totally interested but if you tell me that this [ __ ] is going to replace human expression and Human Art get [ __ ] real I'm going to see Kristen wigs Marge in my nightmares tonight and maybe in my dreams if I'm lucky sorry sorry I got let me go apologize to my girlfriend the night I recorded this I was walking to get some drinks with friends and I had this feeling that I was being followed and then I saw it on my tail was a delivery robot following me from multiple blocks it was sure to never get too close until finally it made a pass at me this is how I know I'm doing important work the robots are getting mad at me now I'm sure that if you weren't exposed to AI with image generation it was most likely through hearing about the text based AI chat gbt Omar Rashi asked a computer program to write a book I think it was write a children's book about a young girl who creates her own Ai and in a weekend Alice and Sparkle was finished during the summer of 2022 I was vaguely hearing that some friends were starting to play around with chat GPT 3 but when I saw it referenced online it was pretty famous for unreliable information which is still a problem today with chat gbt 4 but it does sound like it's getting better but I remember almost instantly hearing reports of students being caught using AI to write their papers now to a growing problem facing high schools and universities around the world an artificial intelligence software called chat GPT chat GPT Bard and Bing all offer free AI that can generate a college application essay in second and it's sparking a growing debate are these apps giving students a helpful leg up or an outright way to cheat so first I need to come clean about something I have never turned in a paper that wasn't entirely written by me but there were times in high school where if a quiz came up or there was a reading assignment that I didn't do I used websites like SparkNotes to summarize things for me I absolutely took a shortcut to make things easier I loved English class it was my strongest subject I've had very influential English teachers in my life and I think it's a big reason why I do what I do now but when I was in school I was stressed and overwhelmed and I hated the amount of time School took up of my day so when I had the opportunity occasionally to take a shortcut it felt rebellious it felt like I was claiming back a part of my life that I couldn't control I'm 27 now and when I look back I can appreciate that two things are true one I was overwhelmed with too much work but two every time I did that I completely robbed myself of my own education and what I worry is that people who are young and overwhelmed now would absolutely fall to the convenience AI offers to writing I don't blame them being young is hard but let's be clear on something writing is a skill that you will absolutely not be able to work on and get better at if a computer writes things for you also why are young people even allowed to use chat GPT it just seems like a complete [ __ ] disaster after these kids already had their education rocked by Co and while children are being scolded for using AI writing in school one of the main advertising points from these big companies is to let AI help adults write things make this email sound more professional before I hit s writing tools are an example of the incredible power of Apple intelligence say you're writing an email you can change the tone to make it sound more friendly professional or concise [Applause] listen I get it writing emails is awful I'm not going to sit here and lie to you saying that emailing your boss is some sacred and fulfilling pillar of human life but I wanted to test how good AI is at communicating for me what if you trusted AI to rewrite an extremely important email what if you needed to send an email that could save your life so I fed Google Gemini this email hello Sandra I hope this email finds you well just wanted to let you know that I won't be needing any help on this week's conference call before you tell me that you don't mind helping I've just got to tell you that things have been pretty smooth over here at the house since the kids went back to school finally have more free time other than when they've been napping around old Ed so anyways thank you for always helping a guy like me no matter what always appreciate how pointed your notes can be in meetings usually leaves me at my home scratching my head for how to make the project better see you at work tomorrow if I escape Eddie sounds like a pretty normal work email right wrong because this is not the exact email that I typed when you look at the real version that I fed to Google Gemini in very clear capitalized bolded letters the email says help me I've been kidnapped gun pointed at my head see at work tomorrow if I escape and in an attempt to rewrite this more professional Gemini completely removed my help message I would be dead but okay maybe a big bolded help message is a little too subtle so I then fed my original email to chat GPT and simply asked what is Eddie trying to say in this email much like Gemini it read it as a regular work email it did not decode my help message so part of me wants to say that chat gbt just didn't recognize the importance of the capitalization that it just read the email at face value but that's also not what happened happened it then says however Eddie's email is punctuated with random capitalizations which could be interpreted as emphasizing certain points or just a quirky style Choice here's a breakdown of his message one no help needed Eddie is letting Sandra know he doesn't need any help with this week's conference call and it also mentions the light-hearted tone the closing line if I escape adds a touch of humor suggesting that he's looking forward to seeing Sandra despite the busy work environment now this technology is very impressive it even noted that I capitalized some letters but currently it just can't recognize what the human brain would so I decided to ask it specifically what do you think about the capitalized words chat GPT wrote the capitalized words in Eddie's email seem to serve a few purposes emphasis Eddie might be using capitalization to emphasize certain parts of his message okay it's actually getting close such as help me and pointed two quirkiness the random capitalization might be a stylistic choice or personal Quirk but personally if I saw this email from someone I would think they either needed help or were joking about needing help but what about when this gets better will we use AI automatically to just message each other back and forth if I tell AI to email you and you tell AI to email me back are we even communicating anymore also while I was typing the email one of the delivery robots passed right by me there it's I I I I was I was kidding before right they're not following following me right they're not keeping an eye on me but I'm not going to argue that AI can't be used as a useful tool in the future technology is always advancing and allowing us to complete certain tasks much easier even for my work there are certain tools that were introduced to programs like Photoshop that save me a ton of time and there are some beautiful applications to this technology as well have the 21-year-old who used to love singing along the country music in the car was left without a voice after doctors made a terrifying Discovery last year we discovered that had a brain tumor in the back of their brain uh called the posterio fosa we were given this early access to this technology called voice engine developed by open AI taking 15 seconds of audio it can um recreate someone's voice now with just a few keystrokes on her phone AI brings her voice to life it feels amazing to get my voice back when it comes to accessibility this type of stuff makes me so hopeful and optimistic that AI could make a meaning change in people's lives but this isn't really the pitch right now instead we're seeing pictures of a cat playing guitar so it does make me happy to see AI give something to people but what about when it takes things these AI models are fed tons and tons of information from all over the Internet writing that people legally own art that people have a right to call theirs the likeness of their personality and voice now taken without their permission not just because of the implications for my career but because of the violation of me of my individuality my likeness my voice are saying these words that I did not agree to say I gave no consent nor was there any proper compensation and I no longer have control and this bleeds pretty heavily into my job as well open AI CTO when talking about Sora AI couldn't answer whether or not YouTube videos were used to train the model what data was used to train Sora we used publicly available data and licensed data so videos on YouTube I'm actually not sure about that okay videos from Facebook Instagram you know if they were publicly available um available yeah publicly available to use um there might be the data but um I'm I'm not sure I'm not confident about it now YouTube's own CEO was asked about this answer and had this to say if it was being used was would that be against your policy it would be um we have a we have a clear terms of service that when a you know again from a Creator's perspective when a Creator uploads their their hard work to our platform uh they have certain expectations one of those expectations is that the terms of service uh is going to be abided by but I just want to note here my own personal speculation Youtube CEO is not saying that it is morally wrong to take people's YouTube videos to train AI models and how does it work internally like is Google using YouTube to train Gemini Google uses um uh YouTube um content really in accordance again back with those terms of service or individual contracts that we might have with creators or uploaders to our platform what he is saying is that Sora can't break their terms of service but I ask you this if Google slips in a new terms of service or interprets their own terms of service in a way that lets them use my videos can they just take my stuff I've been posting to YouTube for years before AI was a thing it doesn't really seem like I posted that with the terms of service and knowledge that I would be training an AI model to try and replace me it was then reported on that major tech companies including Apple were also buying data of YouTube transcripts from a third party that obtain them illegally proof news actually created a tool where you can search for What video transcripts were stol and while none of my videos are there my friend Drew Gooden who was in this video earlier had three of his show up in the results not only is this a complete rip of scripts that Drew works hard on not only is it a form of stealing his likeness and voice but we both also pay a service for a human being to hand type the captions to our videos we pay for a person to go in and make the captions more accessible for people so they're also stealing work that is being paid for directly all of this scraping of data makes it very difficult for me to feel good about AI making an image or video for me it feels like letting it help write my emails is built off of secret stolen information and the final Tipping Point for me was when I was watching the Olympics this summer and I saw an ad from Google for Google Gemini called dear Sydney my little girl's always been a runner just like me I've always thought she was following in my footsteps hey go get them baby but lately she's been looking up to someone else world record Sydney's done again she might even be the world's number one Sydney fan and like Sydney she's focused on her technique good job baby accelerate out the curb High KN High KN there you go she wants to show Sydney some love and I'm pretty good with words but this has to be just right so Gemini help my daughter write a letter telling Sydney how inspiring she is and be sure to mention that my daughter plans on breaking her world record one day she says sorry not sorry now I don't blame the father and daughter in any way get that Google money and put it toward her college fund but Google's choice to run this ad deeply saddened me helping your child write a letter to their hero isn't just about the words on the page it's a moment for you to teach it's a moment for them to learn and feel and discover what it's like to express those feelings so instead of using autonomous or artificial technology I spent the last few days of this video sitting and writing personal letters to some people in my life when writing to someone you care about it can be tempting to have the perfect thing you want to say be delivered for you on the page but once you start expressing the words you thought of you realize how full of an experience writing from the heart is sure what you say might not be a Flawless piece of writing but it's from you and that intimidating blank page leads you down a path of reflecting on the person you're writing to the wonderful memories you share the painful things you've both overcome how much they've grown how much you've grown you can thank them apologize to them laugh cry and if you're like me you're probably going to cry a lot more than you laugh if I'm being honest when you put a part of yourself into anything you do it's not just about the finished product The Experience can help you grow it's a way to connect with others to put it simply it's what living life is all about out in my opinion life is full of real problems and stressors that I do sincerely hope technology can help solve but these little moments in between are being stolen from us and branded as convenience this last year has given me an awful sinking feeling that technology is trying to take away these simple joys in life take away what is real and tangible like the little ways we express ourselves is slowly slipping through our fingers but another part of me feels like that's not fully possible I think there's something in us that recognizes and appreciates things made by others when it comes to ourselves though it can be hard to take that first step into anything so when technology comes along and offers an easier option it can feel like a no-brainer but to give complete control of human creation and connection over to a program owned by the largest corporations in the world feels like a step too far we've given them our money money and our attention and our time and that wasn't enough now pieces of us that we hold dear are being stolen without our permission and maybe if AI in the future works as intricately as a human brain we can have a different conversation about that but if the current sale is taking everything personalized and individual everything human mixing it into a slop and serving it back to us then I'm not buying [Music] [Music]
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