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Meanwhile in the publication Pulse, somebody wrote an article about all the mental health benefits of laughter. So it turns out that laughter, which is a subset of being happy, is good for your health. Well they could have saved some money by asking me. But some of the things they found is that laughter reduces your stress and anxiety. Don't you feel better already? It improves your mood and it combats depression. It enhances your sleep quality. It improves your cognitive function. It builds your social connections. Now that's a lot of good stuff. Yeah. So if you find yourself laughing at any time during this podcast you'll probably feel yourself just getting healthier every moment.
All right. There's a Pennsylvania school, according to Ars Technica, that had to shut down because one clever student figured out how to make deepfake nudes of the female classmates. And rather than making just one, he made fifty different deepfakes of his female classmates. Fifty different ones. Now here's my question. Was there really only one kid who knew how to do it and so he did fifty of them, or is it at a point where they can all do it? Because I wouldn't know how to do it. Every AI that I know how to us
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e wouldn't do that. So there must be some kind of secret dark web deepfake AI that if you knew what it was you could use it. Now here's the problem. Sure they can shut down that one school. Sure you could punish that one person. Yep, probably never do it again. But I was once fourteen. Is anybody here who was also a fourteen-year-old boy at any time in your life? Have you ever been a fourteen-yea…
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