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o the Department of Justice apparently found the one person you could guarantee was anti-Trump and that's the guy that signed the warrant. Now again, judge shopping is not illegal, right? As far as I know, it's not illegal. It's just not ideal. So we'll keep an eye on that. So Russell Brand has been charged with new allegations of rape and sexual assault. Right News is reporting. I think I told…

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So could it be that so many people kind of took that to heart that the rate of MeToo went way down? Maybe. Or was it never real and it was always a sort of a news-related thing? Well let me say it a different way. Maybe the rate of MeToo has always been the same, but when it was in the news, the people who were the victims of the MeToo were far more likely to pursue it. But once it falls out of the news, then maybe they feel there'll be retaliation or they'd rather just move on with their life.

So is it my imagination? So give me a comment here. Is it my imagination or is it real that the MeToo thing was just every day but now it just sort of shrunk and you don't really hear, I mean you still hear about it but it's like way less. Why would that be? Why do you think that would be if it's true that we're hearing about less?

Well, I guess some New York Times reporter is suing the big AI companies. In this case, this would include X. So Google, X, OpenAI. They're suing over chatbot training. So I guess they're worried that the chatbots read their books without permission and got trained on them and they think that's some kind of a copyright violation.

Now, you've heard this before. It's sort of an old story that authors, but I guess they're not doing a class action in this case which has some extra risks for the AI companies allegedly. So I asked AI about my books and it generally knows, well here's what it pretends to know

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. If I ask AI what's on page whatever of my book, it can't do it. So it's not trained that well. If I ask it to summarize my book, it can do it, but it takes a summary from other people's comments about the book. So it is legal for the AI to look at public comments like a review of the book or what somebody said about it on social media for example and usually that's enough to piece together what…

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