Hello and welcome to Sci Guys, the show where we talk about the crazy, weird and wonderful stories from the science world.

I'm Corey and as always I'm joined by my co-host, the local Luke Cutford.

I'm right here.

This week we're talking about Pokemon pictures and sorting stimuli.

But first look, I've got a question for you.

Okay.

What is your favorite Pokemon?

Well, I'm not really a Pokemon kid, but Shiny Charazard. Crucially, you're an adult. I'm not a Pokemon adult either, as we'll get into actually, but Shiny Charazard, that's my favorite Pokemon. That's such a loser, local pick. I was right to call you, it is one of my favorite Pokemon too, but I was born in the right time for it to be my favorite. Is local a, is that a Pokemon, no, no, it's just an insult. Oh, like a Gen Z insult.

No, it's millennial as well, I suppose, you know, look, the point being, local based on

location of the brain. That's why I said at the start. Local I just said there was to hurt your feelings. Good to get those two separated. Thank you. I just want everyone to be clear on the, on the differentiation between those two. But you know what we're talking about today, Luke, because you sent me a tweet about it, an AI generated tweet, we assume, about it, which I'd also seen. also seen. I actually don't know if it was an AI generated, but, hey, spending some time on Twitter, that's like half of it now. So, probably. It's very conservative. That is a conservative estimate. I've actually, you know, I've never really used the block button, and now I just use it exclusively to block things that I think are AI generated, hoping that somehow the algorithm will punish them one day.

I have a Chrome extension that auto blocks anyone with a blue check.

No, that's great. I need that.

It's beautiful, honestly.

And like, okay, does it get rid of some people that I'd rather see?

Sure, maybe, but I'd much rather not see anyone with a blue check, you know?

Does it differentiate between people who have it because they, like, used to be, like,

famous in some way or, like, just because they pay Elon Musk money?

It does, I think, if you had it before, it doesn't block them.

Like, I think that's how it was described to work.

I have no idea if it actually does that.

But it doesn't seem to have blocked anyone with a blue check from before the bad times. So you can still still see Dan and Phil's tweets. That's nice. I don't need to see Dan and Phil's tweets, Luke, because I get emails about Dan and Phil and I hear Dan and Phil in my house every day. And I'm living a very Dan and Phil. What? Luke, when you live with someone who's a Dan and Phil during the Dan and Phil, the fan renaissance,

the renaissance, if you will, yeah, you get a lot of Dan and Phil. That is, what a fascinating insight into your life. This is like my life like 10 years ago. Anyway, yeah, the study that I sent you... Very different reasons, of course. Yeah, it was my job. Anyway, this is a study that I sent you that is about basically, I mean, how much do you want me to ruin? None. Okay. Literally none. Okay. Yes, I know what we're talking about. And I won't talk about it. Not one bit. Good. Yeah. Yeah. You could have maybe told a story about like, you know, how you saw the tweet or like,

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