Back to episode — Episode 2898 CWSA 07/15/25
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n about two minutes. So he's telling people at a faith luncheon that the ugly rich guy is going to lose his trophy wife unless Trump's tax bill goes through. Oh, he's the funniest president ever. Mark Zuckerberg, who allegedly is using gigantic piles of money to recruit AI experts to Meta, says it's not just because of the money that people want to work for him for another reason that might not b…
← Previous segment →hem and they're making millions of dollars. And of course you might be surprised and amazed to learn this. I know this will be quite a surprise, but apparently the Nudify AI websites are quite used by male high school students to bully their classmates. Now that's the most predictable thing you could have ever predicted. Scott, we're thinking of making an AI website that will make any picture of anybody look like they're naked and doing embarrassing things. Who will be our target market? Well I'm glad you asked, but teenage boys. And after that, disgruntled ex-boyfriends and husbands. And after that probably lots of other stuff.
But I'm going to suggest that this might be a self-solving problem in 2025. If you were a, let's say, a high school 16-year-old girl or something and some male bully in your class started sending around an AI picture that was your face but it looked like you naked, but it would be made by AI in 2025. That would be terrible because it would scar you for life and everybody would be teasing you and they'd be sending it around and you know you'd never know who's giggling behind your back and it would be humiliating and horrifying. But what happens if it becomes so common that the moment you saw somebody you know with a naked picture you said to yourself it's AI, you wouldn't be interested at all because you could make your own AI nude stuff anytime you wanted and it's now the millionth time there's somebody, you sat around one of your classmates looking naked and you know that's not really them. An AI body put on them. How much attention would that even get?
So my guess is that the way through it is to do more of it and then just wait for young people to be totally bored by it. You know, right? Every time there's a new AI thing, you know, the first time you see it, you go, "Whoa, are you kidding? AI made a picture of two cats that appear to be talking. This is so cool. I have to show all my friends." And then by the hundredth time you see a meme of two cats talking and it's made by AI, do you send it around or do you say, "Oh god, not another AI of two cats talking." Now I know that nude people is more exciting than cats talking, but wouldn't you get bored with this? And wouldn't it become a big nothing once everybody understood that the nude person is not really there? It's just AI. I don't feel like it's going to have much impact, but it might take, I know, three to five years to get to the point where people go, "Ah, don't send that to me anymore."
Speaking of that, allegedly Conor McGregor sent full nude pictures of himself to rapper Azealia Banks, who apparently posted them on social media to mock him. To which I say, is it too soon for Conor McGregor to say, "That wasn't me. Somebody did that with AI." He would be a tough one to nudify because he's got tattoos all over his body and the AI might not know where his tattoos are. So I would do a check on his tattoos. If the tattoos are under his clothes, or would have been if he had had clothes and they still look right in the picture, well, he probably took a picture of himself naked and sent it to her probably. But if the tattoos don't line up, might be AI. So Conor McGregor, if he had waited another two or three years, he could probably send his naked pictures to anybody and whoever got them would say, "I'm so tired of getting AI generated naked pictures" and they wouldn't think twice about it.
Meanwhile, over at North Carolina State University, they're talking about an AI powered lab for materials science, materials engineering. So there's now a lab that can, using AI, decide what things to test in terms of materials, you know, creating materials that have special properties for making various things and it can decide what to test and then it can very rapidly because it's machines test a whole bunch of different material combinations and figure out which ones are commercial and it does that without human intervention. So the AI decides what to test and then it tests it very quickly and decides whether to keep it or release it and that's already up. That's like a real thing that's already here. So we've got an automated AI factory. Do you know how big a deal that is? Do you have any idea the upside potential of new materials? You know
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, stuff that's super hard but also super light, stuff that can conduct electricity better than other stuff. The upside potential of just materials sounds like a boring thing, but it's really a lot. There was a story that I decided not to talk about until just this moment. There's some teenage kid who allegedly invented an electric motor that doesn't require these magnets that are rare earth. And…
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