Welcome to Playwatch Listen, which is a video game podcast, Petrie myself, Austin Wintery, who's a video game composer, and Mike Bithel, who is a video game director. We are currently very backlogged. This was recorded about a month ago and is only just now being uploaded, so y'all are going to get double podcasts this month. Apologies for the delay. Patreon's got the episode early and also with an extra, I think about five to ten minutes of this particular episode. and they also the reason that this show exists at all.

It is very independent, entirely sponsorship-free. And their support allows us to keep this show as organic as it is. So if you are a supporter on Patreon, we really, really appreciate you. But even if you are not, we hope that you enjoy the episode. Here it is. I was in Oklahoma this week doing master classes with these universities,

but one of them, they said, do you mind speaking to the high school orchestra and band program?

And I went in, I said, any questions? Literally the first 15-year-old kid, first question. So what do you

think about AI? What do you think that's going to mean? And I was like, wow, 15.

If I was 15, I'd be asking that question, to be honest.

True. Fair.

I'm even just having the, I mean, I don't know, I underestimate the worldliness, I guess, of a teenager.

But I just was amazed that that was on their mind, like, you know.

I mean, I guess, you know, it had been told in advance that we'd be talking about

presumably mostly video game music, and I suppose the sort of technological adjacency of

those topics would almost sort of, you know, could kind of make it not that surprising that

that's where their mind would go, but still. Kids are engaging with this stuff, though.

I've got, um, my sister's a teacher and I was chatting to her, um, over the weekend.

And like, they just have kids now submitting work with AI and teacher and, not her school,

but there are also stories of teachers marking work with AI.

So it's this kind of loop where the AI is grading the AI's work.

That's what we're having on like, you know, Google is pretty much useless now, which is infuriating, but it's gotten even worse because it's AI informing AI.

So like AI articles are pulling from other AI sources.

It's, you know what I realized just recently, maybe in the last couple of months, that I now

look at Wikipedia as the best possible source.

Kids, though, have completely delegitomized Wikipedia.

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