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Offline with Jon Favreau

Is 2024 the AI Election? Plus, an OG Twitter Exec on Elon, Threads, and Tech Bros

Offline with Jon Favreau

Crooked Media

Society & Culture, News

4.72K Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2023

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Jason Goldman, former Chief Digital Officer in the Obama White House, joins Offline to break down “the AI election.” He and Jon talk through their fears for AI in politics, the ways they wish they could have used AI during their stints in the White House, and Jon asks Jason, a former VP at Twitter, his thoughts on Elon Musk’s leadership at the the app he helped build. Plus: Max and Jon talk about Sarah Silverman’s lawsuit against ChatGPT and watch some very, very weird TikTok lives.

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Slash Friends.

0:26.0

It's not one piece of content that we look at and say, oh, that really commenced a bunch of people

0:31.5

if something that wasn't true. It's that it contributes to a general feeling that nothing can be trusted

0:38.0

and that it's all kind of bullshit and that like all politics is just whatever lie you can get

0:42.1

away with and that it's not really about discussing real issues but is instead just like, you know,

0:46.7

how do you sling mode most effectively and therefore I'm just not interested and it causes that

0:50.8

cohort that you're not turned in to grow because they just view this as some kind of dirty game.

0:56.1

I'm John Favreaux. Welcome to Offline.

1:01.6

Hey everyone, my guest this week is Jason Goldman, former Chief Digital Officer in the Obama

1:06.7

White House who is at Twitter and Google before that. The 2024 campaign is here and with it has

1:13.3

come a technological breakthrough that everyone seems to be obsessing over, artificial intelligence.

1:19.4

Axios has already dubbed 2024 the AI election. Following President Biden's re-election announcement,

1:25.9

the RNC ran an ad of an apocalyptic future made entirely of AI images.

1:31.6

Ron DeSantis is running ad showing AI images of Donald Trump kissing Dr. Fauci.

1:37.1

And that's just the stuff we know about with over a year left until Election Day.

1:41.5

Concerning? Yes. Convincing? To be determined. The truth is deep fake images and audio are only a small

1:50.4

fraction of what AI could mean for politics. It also offers new ways for campaigns to contact voters,

1:56.8

message tests and fundraise, expensive labor intensive pursuits that make up the backbone of every

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