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but it's such a head-shaker, and Turley is making a point that the fact that the regular media, you know, the corporate media, is not treating this as like the big story ever, just sort of ignoring it, tells you a lot. So this is a dog-not-barking situation. So the situation I'm talking about is there's this fellow named, it's a friend of Hunter Biden's who has given him millions of dollars, Kevi…

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re deleting emails ahead of time before they got FOIA'd. And the nature of the conversations that we have seen suggests that they knew they were guilty and that they were trying to hide it. At least that's how it's being interpreted. I'll just say that's how it's being interpreted. Can't know their inner thoughts.

So it looks like everything you thought was true about the pandemic was true. It came out of the Wuhan lab. It was gain of function. We were behind it, right? America was behind it. Everything. And they covered it up. So every bad assumption you had about that apparently was all true. Apparently. Now that's a complicated story so I don't know if I have all that nuance there but that's a basic idea.

There's a Democratic consultant who's been indicted for creating a deepfake of Joe Biden's voice that did a bunch of robocalls and told people not to vote. Stephen Kramer. So he's being charged with voter suppression and faces up to $6 million fines. So that's the future. The future is people faking voices on robocalls but got caught.

Speaking of AI voices, you know the story about Scarlett Johansson saying that ChatGPT illegally stole her voice and they hired somebody to sound like her because she had declined the offer to do it herself. Well it turns out that this story is way more complicated than you thought because it's not so simple as we stole your voice. Because the voice they used is a real person who was not doing an impression. And the real person says this is new. Nobody in my real life has ever told me I sound like Scarlett Johansson. Now do you believe that? Do you believe that everybody who listens to it says oh it sounds like Scarlett Johansson but then in real life nobody's saying that? It was altered voice. It's a real voice. Nobody told her she sounds like, nobody. Never once I've been told I look like John Denver and about 50 other people. I hear it all the time and nobody's ever said that. I don't know. I don't know.

So OpenAI's story is that it never intended to copy Scarlett and wanted her for it but they found somebody who was not her that was just a voice they liked and there you go. That's their version. But this is going to have huge implications for Hollywood because what happens if you can create people who sort of are in the vibe of Scarlett Johansson? Is that going to be okay? What if you found, what if you created an A

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I that didn't look exactly like her but was a highly attractive blonde of the same age and then you gave it a voice that was based on not her but somebody who sounds a lot like her according to other people? Is that going to be legal? There's going to be massive lawsuits about all this stuff so we'll see. I would just like to note because the important part is my connection to all stories that Sc…

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