Back to episode — Episode 2575 CWSA 08/23/24
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w, it happens now. So good. So good. Well, here's some science updates, and we'll talk about the DNC and Harris and RFK Jr. and UFOs and anything else you want to talk about. But just so you know, all the cool things that are coming according to Wired: mRNA technology could be used to make your damaged liver good again without a transplant. How about that? There's actually a technology that can h…
← Previous segment →How do you think they ended up with a bunch of quotes from critics about their movie that they never said? Well, I don't know if there's a specific explanation of how it went wrong, but here's my guess. "Hey, ChatGPT, can you tell me what the critics say about the movie?" "Well, so-and-so says it's the greatest movie and it will change your life." Okay, and they write that down and they make the trailer with those quotes, only to find out later that ChatGPT literally made it up. Now, the story doesn't say that's what happened, but isn't it obvious? If you had to place a bet, if you've used AI, by the way, you'll know this. It does make stuff up. I ask AI about myself just because that's the easiest thing to check. It makes stuff up, things I've never heard of, awards I've never won. I mean, it's just completely fantasizes about people. So that's probably what happened.
But I have a standard for judging things like this and most other things. I don't believe in judging people by their mistakes because if you did that, you'd just hate everybody all the time. I mean, humans are just making mistakes all over the place. There's nobody you know who hasn't made mistakes that you think they shouldn't have. So instead of judging people by their mistakes, because nobody makes a mistake intentionally, judge them by what they do when they get caught or when trouble happens and how they respond. Well, here's how they responded. I guess Lionsgate is the entity that put it out. They said, quote, "We offer our sincere apologie
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s to the critics involved and to Francis Ford Coppola and 'Megalopolis' for this inexcusable error in our vetting process. We screwed up. We are sorry." Almost perfect. Almost perfect. I will accept it as completely sincere-sounding, and they didn't look to blame anybody, did they? It would have been really easy to blame somebody. Nope. Lionsgate said, "Our mistake. We apologize." But there's one…
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