GEN C: Hamster Kombat and Hollywood Controversies: A Peek into Emerging Tech Trends

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4.7 • 698 Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Avery and Sam explore the latest tech controversies, online security risks and viral crypto games on Telegram. In this guest-less episode, Sam and Avery delve into the recent dispute between Scarlett Johansson and OpenAI over the use of her voice, shedding light on the ethical concerns surrounding AI and synthetic media. The conversation also touches on the explosive growth of the Hamster Combat game on Telegram, highlighting the platform's potential for viral content and marketing opportunities. Links mentioned from the podcast: Gary Vaynerchuk’s New Book Day Trading Attention Scarlett Johansson says she is 'shocked, angered' over new ChatGPT voice Meta, Match, Coinbase and others team up to fight online fraud and crypto scams Hamster Wheel: Telegram’s Social Gaming Brings Millions to Crypto Watch this episode on video: YouTube CoinDesk Follow us on Twitter: Sam Ewen, Avery Akkineni, CoinDesk, Vayner3 - Safe (formerly Gnosis Safe) is the ownership layer of web3 with the most battle tested smart accounts. Trusted to secure over $100 billion, Safe offers unparalleled usability and security for individuals, DAOs, and institutions. Experience true digital ownership with Safe's flagship web and mobile wallet and its leading account abstraction infrastructure. Get started today at safe.global. - "Gen C" features hosts Sam Ewen and Avery Akkineni. Executive produced by Jared Schwartz and produced by Uyen Truong. Our theme music is "1882” by omgkirby x Channel Tres with editing by Doc Blust. Artwork by Nicole Marie Rincon. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	This episode is sponsored by SAFE, the account abstraction leader on Ethereum.
0:19.4	Hello, Avery, coming here from Brooklyn, even though I'm wearing my Texas drip, because next
0:25.6	Oh, yeah, you are.
0:26.9	We'll be in Austin, Texas for consensus.
0:29.0	Where are you right now?
0:29.9	Which office is this?
0:31.6	I am at my home office, Vayna, Miami, and it is a beautiful day here in Miami, Florida.
0:37.9	I love that. Is Miami already really hot or is like perfect?
0:41.5	It is already very hot, which doesn't bother me a bit.
0:45.5	You're like, because I'm like, in New York, it's like 70. I'm already feeling too hot. So that's just
0:49.0	me, I guess. Well, be prepared for Austin where it's going to get real warm.
0:53.6	Yes. I have so much sunscreen.
0:56.3	Sunscream. I think they make like 250 now and that's what I'll be wearing. Great. Well prepared.
1:01.8	Well prepared. Yes. This skin does not like sound very much. Avery, this is episode number 80.
1:07.0	We've been in it for a while. And we're going to do this episode, which is actually one of my more favorite ways we do our episodes is we don't have a guest this week.
1:14.4	We're just going to talk about some of the stuff that's going on in our worlds and in our minds and in the news.
1:19.4	And I just love Avery Sam Jam session.
1:22.1	So that's what we're focused on this week.
1:24.4	Got a couple great stories for us to talk about. But also, I want to talk about, I've been seeing you all over social media with the idea
1:31.3	of day trading attention, which I believe is Gary's new book.
1:34.5	And just for our audience, why don't you give us the two-minute spiel that they're not
1:38.1	getting on TikTok right now?
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