Hey, I'm Candace Lem.

And I'm Kate Lindsay, and you're listening to I see why am I.

In case you missed it. Slate's podcast about internet culture.

And today we are talking about AI, specifically two major lawsuits that were recently decided.

Yeah, in these cases, they involve well-known creatives like Sarah Silverman, Tana Hassee Coates.

Mm-hmm.

And AI is a controversial topic.

And while Kate and I both choose not to use it, that doesn't mean nobody should.

I imagine a lot of people listening already use some of these tools in their everyday lives.

Maybe we've used them accidentally.

But the laws around this are new and still evolving.

So we are bringing in someone to help us parse through our big questions.

Joining us for the first time is Slate's senior tech editor, Tony Ho-Tran. Hello, Tony.

Hello, everyone. It's great to be here.

Well, it's great to have you here. And we're going to kick things off the way we always do,

which is by asking you about your first internet memory. And I will say that you get bonus points if that memory involves AI. For sure. And I think I have one that fits the bill.

I wouldn't say that this is my first internet memory, but it is one that sticks out to me pretty clearly.

I think any child of the 2000s is pretty familiar with using AIM.

Aim was pretty big in my school.

I remember coming home from middle school after school every day and running downstairs to where my parents

kept the computer. It was like this massive Gateway 2000 computer and booting up AOL and logging

onto AOM so I can just chat with my friends all day. But one of my favorite things about AIM was

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