AI’s Flirty Upgrade, Facebook’s Zombie Internet, and Why We May Be Doing Mental Health Wrong

Offline with Jon Favreau

Crooked Media

Society & Culture, News

4.7 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

ChatGPT has officially entered its “Her” era! Jon and Max talk about the flirty AI that debuted this week, whose husky voice and warm enthusiasm evokes Scarlett Johansson. But not all the tech titans are doing so hot; Facebook’s noxious combo of AI-generated content and the real people who are falling for it has been coined the “zombie internet.” The guys discuss Meta’s spam problem, then take a look at how mental health curricula in schools can actually make things worse for students.

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0:00.0	I'm not saying if everyone has their like Scarlet Johanson, Chatchi P.T. Sexbot companion,
0:05.6	it's necessarily going to radicalize everyone into joining like future Q-Anon.
0:10.2	But it would stand to reason that at least at some point it could decide to push people in a direction that is not healthy for them and if that were happening
0:18.8	Something we've learned over and over again is we're not going to know about it until it's going to say all of these consequences were unintended and unpredicted.
0:26.4	Yes, right.
0:27.4	And then when people, no one finally realized it was happening until it had been
0:31.0	happening for a while and then of course the tech companies
0:33.4	fixed it right away and it was no problem. Yeah no no here we are here we are.
0:36.5	I'm John Favro Max Fisher.
0:45.0	Max Fisher.
0:46.0	Max exciting news.
0:47.0	We are announcing a new co-host on the show today.
0:51.0	Co-host, how you doing? Hello there, how's it going?
0:55.0	That of course was a chat geeP.
0:59.0	4-0.
1:00.0	Not Scarlet Johan, But it sounds like it.
1:02.6	It's not a sunlight Scarlet Johanson.
1:03.8	We'll get into it.
1:04.8	On today's show, Facebook, a place on the internet I've already vowed to never return
1:08.7	has apparently gotten much worse.
1:10.5	Did you know that?
1:11.2	It has, yes.
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