655: GOG’s Influencer
Grumpy Old Geeks
Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner
4.8 • 6.1K Ratings
🗓️ 6 July 2024
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Happy Birthday, America; Amazon investigating Perplexity AI for scraping sites without consent; Texas age-verification law for porn going to the Supreme Court; Greece adopts 6-day working week; Paramount axes Comedy Central site, 25+ years of content; the first millennial saint; influencers aren't getting famous like they used to, urged to actually do something or have a skill; Google greenhouse gas emissions climbed 50 percent due to AI; new ChatGPT-based virus; taxing crypto-bros; full self-driving & full self-sanitizing; Winner shoots down drone; Inside Out 2; Celine Dion; Beverly Hills Cop; the Acolyte; Redbox; Canada, land of pirates; web accessible cameras in bars is bad; Japan says sayonara, floppy.
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FOLLOW UP
Amazon reportedly investigating Perplexity AI after accusations it scrapes websites without consent
Texas age-verification law for pornography websites is going to the Supreme Court
FCC chair asks telecoms companies to prove they're actually trying to stop political AI robocalls
Greece becomes first EU country to introduce a six-day working week
Paramount Axes Comedy Central Site, 25+ Years of Daily Show Clips Gone
IN THE NEWS
A teen tech whiz nicknamed 'God's influencer' will become the first millennial saint
Influencers Aren’t Getting Famous Like They Used To
You Can Ask YouTube to Take Down AI-Generated Content That Looks or Sounds Like You
Cloudflare is taking a stand against AI website scrapers
Google’s greenhouse gas emissions climbed nearly 50 percent in five years due to AI
Google: AI Potentially Breaking Reality Is a Feature Not a Bug
Sneaky Virus Uses ChatGPT to Send Human-Like Emails to Your Contacts to Spread Itself
US Treasury finalizes crypto rules to prevent tax evasion
Tesla Megafan Receives Two Subsequent Cybertrucks That Completely Fail
Tesla patents "Full Self Sanitizing" taxis
Police say a man shot a Walmart drone. Armed Americans could pose a headache for air deliveries.
NASA Praises Boeing's Stranded Starliner For Managing Not To Explode While Docked To Space Station
MEDIA CANDY
The owner of Redbox has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy
Supreme Court Blow: ISP Bill Payers Aren’t Piracy Police or Instantly Liable
AI is ruining the internet by Drew Gooden
APPS & DOODADS
People in San Francisco Are Mad That a New App Lets You Spy on Bars to See How Busy They Are
Japan’s government says goodbye to floppy disks
OpenAI’s ChatGPT Mac app was storing conversations in plain text
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Grumpy old geeks a weekly talk show hosted by Brian Schulmeister and |
| 0:06.4 | Jason de Philippo discussing with finer points of what went wrong on the internet |
| 0:10.2 | and who's to blame. Welcome to Grumpy old geeks, I'm Jason De Philipo. |
| 0:19.0 | And I'm Brian Schillmeister. |
| 0:20.0 | Happy 4th of July, Turncoat, Canadian trader is smart guy? |
| 0:25.4 | I'm still an American citizen. |
| 0:27.7 | But yeah, smart guy. |
| 0:28.8 | I was listening to NPR this morning. |
| 0:30.9 | It is the 248th birthday of the United States of America and probably |
| 0:35.6 | its last. Oh, come on. We've been through a lot worse. We shall see. You know, anyways, we won't get into it because then we'll just get angry emails. |
| 0:45.0 | Yeah, that's about it. Nobody listens anymore. So anybody that's angry is not, they're not listening anymore. |
| 0:51.0 | They all left. All right. Anyways, happy 4th of July. I hope you had, well, not hot dogs because those are bad for you. Whatever you do. We had gumbo. Oh, that's nice. Yeah. Go for some gumbo. |
| 1:03.0 | All right, well, we got a little follow up about some of the stories that we've talked |
| 1:06.2 | about in the last couple of weeks. |
| 1:08.0 | One of them being perplexity AI and many other |
| 1:15.0 | about them just basically scraping websites without consent and ignoring the robots |
| 1:20.0 | t-X-file which is optional anyways but of course we knew they were all |
| 1:23.8 | doing this but they're trying to pretend that they aren't well Amazon is now weighing |
| 1:27.4 | into the fray Amazon web services reported them looking into allegations that |
| 1:31.7 | perplexity is using a crawler which is hosted on its servers that ignores the robot exclusion protocols so that would you know not be good it's probably against some sort of terms of service of theirs. |
| 1:42.0 | Proplexity spokesperson Sarah Plattnick told some sort of terms of of service of theirs. |
| 1:42.8 | Proplexity spokesperson Sarah Plattnick told Wired |
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