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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 t…

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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 thing missing. One thing missing. Steve Jobs knew how to do this. The one thing missing is what are you going to do about it? What are you going to do so you don't do it again? So they said it was a mistake in the vetting process, but just this little bit of improvement would have taken them to A+. It's already an A-minus. It's very acceptable. I think they did a good job with it. But if they just said, "We're going to redo our vetting process," maybe even telling us what went wrong. You know, "We relied on an internet search. We're going to have to make sure that we verify things." Something like that. So always you should take full responsibility, but then you got to say what you're going to do to not make that same mistake again. That's perfect if you get that.

All right. YouTube apparently has some new feature that I'm also assuming is AI-driven, something they wouldn't have been able to do before, I think, which is they're going to allow you premium users, the people who pay to be on YouTube, allow them to skip sponsored segments in YouTube videos. Now, what would be a sponsored segment in a YouTub

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e video? What it would be like me giving a commercial for a product, which I would never do because people would skip it. Now, would YouTube be able to pick out that this is not a sponsored product but rather my own product? And would the AI make a distinction? So when I say I've got a new book, and the main reason I do social media is so people could know if I have a new product, if I tell people…

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