The Conversation We’re NOT Having About AI

Into It: A Vulture Podcast with Sam Sanders

Vulture & New York Magazine

Entertainment News, Tv & Film, News, Society & Culture

4.7 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

AI is making fake Drake/The Weeknd songs, weird images, and there’s a worry that TV and movie scripts could be written by ChatGPT. But it’s also about to dramatically change the way we consume, share, and obsess over pop culture. Nilay Patel, Editor-in-Chief of The Verge, explains to Sam how pretty much everything we search on the internet is mediated by Google… and how AI is about to disrupt it all. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Support for the show comes from Into the Mix, a Ben and Jerry's podcast about joy and
0:06.0	justice produced with Vox Creative.
0:09.7	Thousands of Afghans were forced to flee their homes and fear for their lives when the Taliban
0:14.4	took control of Afghanistan in 2021.
0:17.9	The UK government pled to take in 20,000 of them as refugees, but in the first year, only
0:24.0	22 Afghans have been approved for asylum in the UK.
0:28.5	So what happened?
0:29.5	And what does this mean for the tens of thousands of people left behind?
0:33.5	Hear that story on the latest episode of Into the Mix.
0:38.5	Hey, you are listening to Into it from Vulture in New York magazine, I'm Sam Sanders.
0:45.8	And today, we're going to talk AI.
0:48.3	Usually, when it comes to entertainment and pop culture, the AI conversation is all
0:53.7	about the content AI can make.
0:56.4	The fake Drake songs, the crappy AI images, all the worry over TV and movie scripts written
1:03.2	by chat GPT or whatever.
1:06.3	And all of that is important, but when it comes to entertainment, there's another AI conversation
1:12.4	we should be having that we are not having yet.
1:16.3	And it's all about how the rise of AI is going to change the way all of us consume pop culture
1:22.2	and share it and obsess over it together.
1:25.4	My friend Neely Patel over at The Verge, he has been talking with me about this for a
1:29.8	while.
1:30.8	And this episode, he will talk to you about this as well.
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