This Week in AI: "Something Big is Happening," The xAI Exodus, Seedance 2.0

Josh: It's been a while since we've had an opportunity to talk about the Game of Thrones Josh: within the AI wars, the employees stealing, the co-founders leaving. Josh: And this week, we have a lot of news coming out of the world of ex-AI, Josh: who has now had five out of their eight total co-founders leave, Josh: two more just in the last week, and a seeming huge exodus of people who are leaving the company.

Josh: In addition to that, we have this brand new video model that is indistinguishable Josh: from reality called Seedance 2.

Josh: It's from China, and it has no regard for copyright, which makes it the best Josh: video model in the world and that also leads us to our other topics which are Josh: going to be ai safety in general and is this going to take your jobs the dumeristic Josh: take that now has what like 50 million views it's the most viewed article in Josh: the world so we have a lot to get through today let's start with the xai exodus so

Ejaaz: For the game of thrones fans out there um you'll be familiar with the episode Ejaaz: titled the red wedding where uh the plot twist sorry for those of you have watched Ejaaz: it is everyone gets murdered pretty much. Ejaaz: And scrolling through my timeline this week, it felt like that people were getting Ejaaz: fired and let go left and right. Ejaaz: And the main culprit was XAI, who ended up riffing or laying off 50% of their team.

Ejaaz: But the story unfolded as such. I've got an example on our screen here from Ejaaz: Jimmy Barr, which is one of the eight co-founders that you mentioned from XAI last day at XAI today.

Ejaaz: And he goes on to explain about how he's so grateful to elon the Ejaaz: mission and i then scrolled a bit more and Ejaaz: i was like tony woo is also another co-founder of xai Ejaaz: and he's also residing today within hours of that previous post i was like what Ejaaz: is going on and this there was no context or anything given there were like Ejaaz: senior engineers that then like within a day of that such as chase lee over

Ejaaz: here that was saying the same thing and then the news was revealed by elon musk himself. Ejaaz: That XAI was reorganized a few days ago. And he goes on to say, Ejaaz: to improve the speed of execution, as a company grows, especially as quickly Ejaaz: as XAI, the structure must evolve just like any living organism. Ejaaz: And this is, of course, in the aftermath of the news that XAI and SpaceX are merging.

Ejaaz: Now, the idea behind this, as he explained in a town hall, Ejaaz: was that as XAI scales to a much larger company than a two and a half year old Ejaaz: startup that it is today, it requires a different skill set and expertise, Ejaaz: maybe a more corporate profile to be able to kind of scale to the masses. Ejaaz: Remember, like XAI owns X, they're facilitating like, you know, Ejaaz: hundreds of millions of users every single day.

Ejaaz: It takes a different kind of brain and engineer to be able to scale that forwards. Ejaaz: And that was his reasoning behind doing this. This isn't the first time Elon has done this. Ejaaz: He has riffed some of his most famous companies very early on, Ejaaz: Tesla and Starlink, and they actually went exponentially upwards afterwards. Ejaaz: So I think I'm pacified at this point and calm knowing that Elon's probably Ejaaz: going to pull off a miracle somehow.

Josh: Yeah, I was actually really nervous seeing the news prior to watching the all-hands Josh: because it seemed like there were two co-founders and like 10 employees that Josh: were all leaving at the same time and it didn't make any sense. Josh: After watching the all-hands, it became a little bit more clear.

Josh: Elon actually went on stage to discuss this a little bit more at length where Josh: he just said, this is a reorg, this happens and this has happened in the past Josh: like you mentioned with SpaceX and Tesla.

Josh: Very famously happened at x already where they cut like Josh: 90 of the workforce and what i found amazing Josh: is nikita beer he was on stage in this all hands but he was also Josh: he also did a separate podcast that i listened to where he Josh: spoke about what it's like to be an engineer at x currently and Josh: how the the engineering team responsible for the application is Josh: about 30 people which is unbelievable because at Josh: a large company like meta to ship a single feature

Josh: takes about 30 people in six months and the entire Josh: engineering team is 30 people so elon likes his Josh: companies flat he likes people with a lot of leverage in fact Josh: he split up xai into like what five divisions in the all Josh: hands and each one only reports to two people and that's the Josh: whole company yeah there's maybe 10 to 15 managers Josh: the rest are all working very closely together it's a

Josh: flat organization flat structure and they're just going to move fast with this Josh: new this new group and i hope that it was a mutual decision and that there isn't Josh: talent leak out of xai and i guess unless you're there there's no way to tell Josh: but this seems less worrisome after hearing the explanation as to why i Ejaaz: Like with all of elon's it just seems like uh the density of intensity per employee is that a.

Josh: Metric we can track i like that density intensity yeah yeah Ejaaz: Is incredibly high um on that same interview that you mentioned about Nikita, Ejaaz: he was asked, how did you get the job? Ejaaz: And he said Elon tasked him with redesigning the entire onboarding flow. Ejaaz: So that is sign up, onboarding and using X from scratch in 48 hours. Ejaaz: And if he failed, he wouldn't have got the job. And he delivered on it and ended up getting the job.

Ejaaz: But it's just like, normally that would take a company like months, Ejaaz: quarterly kind of discussions to kind of figure out. Just insane. Ejaaz: Some of the other highlights from this town hall, state of the art Grok coding Ejaaz: in two to three months. Now, I must stress, this is an Elon prediction. Ejaaz: They haven't shipped a new Frontier model in seven months. Seven months ago Ejaaz: was when Grok 4 released.

Ejaaz: Since then, we haven't really had any major iterations. Since then, Ejaaz: we've had six other major Frontier AI releases from their competitors. Ejaaz: GPT 5.3, Codex, Claude, Opus 4.5, and 6. Ejaaz: So XAI has kind of been lagging behind, but the user metrics are up only. Ejaaz: New users are engaging with the app 55% more than they were six months ago. Ejaaz: So engagement is on the up, but the AI models have kind of been slow on the

Ejaaz: software side. But Josh, you mentioned before we recorded this, Ejaaz: actually, that they have the hardware mode. Josh: Yes, so we need to...

Josh: Be careful at how we say that Josh: they're behind because on a software side they're absolutely behind Josh: seven months may as well be seven years i'm not sure Josh: anyone uses grok outside of using it within the Josh: x experience anymore it's just so far outdated but it Josh: appears as if the hardware front is actually moving very very Josh: rapidly it seems like now they have the largest coherent Josh: cluster of h100 equivalent gpus which is

Josh: fast for those who don't know the specific metrics Josh: it's basically the fastest in the world and they're they're Josh: building out these things at a very rapid rate and i Josh: think what we know xai for is their ability to deploy hardware quick Josh: and it sounds like they're doing that the true test Josh: will come when they release their future models like we'll Josh: see if they release grok 4.2 and it's like Josh: kind of not that great that's probably a telltale sign that

Josh: things aren't going so well but we're really going to need to wait till a new Josh: model comes out to see what they've been cooking up over seven months because Josh: like you mentioned they work at a very high intensity one has to imagine that Josh: there's something really impressive to show at the end of seven months so i Josh: hope they come out with that coding models that'll be great but again we're Josh: on elon's timelines which are um tentative at best and

Ejaaz: Then they have some news about uh a moon-based catapult what is this. Josh: Is that crazy they have like a social media presentation for for x followed Josh: by the moon-based alpha plan to colonize uh the moon Josh: It's like a really eccentric company here, but they are going to do it. Josh: The plan now, for those not familiar, is to pivot from Mars to the moon. Josh: Instead of sending humans to Mars first, they're going to send people to the

Josh: moon. They're going to plan to establish a small little colony of people. Josh: They're going to build a small little base. And the idea of the mesh driver Josh: is that they're going to just build AI data centers at scale in space. Josh: The moon has a lot of materials like silicon that are required to make these

Josh: things at scale. So what they're going to do is build a little factory, Josh: create the AI data centers on Josh: the moon, and then ship them off into outer space using this mass driver.

Josh: And it's about as sci-fi as it gets. Ejaaz: And the funniest part is he's planning to establish that kind of moon settlement Ejaaz: within five years from now. Ejaaz: Which I just think is an insane, I don't know how long it's been since a human Ejaaz: has been on the moon, but it's been a while.

Ejaaz: But in other news, Josh, did you catch the recent new Breaking Bad teaser? Josh: Oh my gosh, wait, this is insane. Look at this video on screen right now. Josh: This is Walter White, right? This is the main character. I haven't seen Breaking Josh: Bad, but this is, like, as someone who hasn't seen Breaking Bad, Josh: I would have imagined 100% with 100% certainty that this clip was from the show. Josh: It is the most hyper-realistic video model I have ever seen.

Josh: I mean, look at this. He's beating someone up, throwing them on a counter. Josh: It feels indistinguishable from TV. Josh: But it's not TV. This is AI generated. Ejaaz: Yes. And the model is Seedance 2. It is a video model, Frontier video model, Ejaaz: obviously, straight out of China. Ejaaz: I don't know what is in the water in China, but they are cooking up the best Ejaaz: image and video models for so long now.

Ejaaz: They've got Kling AI, which released Kling 3 literally last week, Ejaaz: which was the Frontier model back then. Ejaaz: And I was so impressed. But now Seedance has kind of like come out of nowhere Ejaaz: with this, like absolutely pristine video model. Ejaaz: And the coolest part about this, Josh, is it's got the grading right. Ejaaz: So Breaking Bad was made in, God knows, like the 2010s. Ejaaz: And so the camera quality is resemblant of that, which is like super cool.

Ejaaz: So they've kept the quality, they maintain the quality, the action scenes and sequences for this. Ejaaz: Like forget about hiring like a million dollar cameraman or camera setup. Ejaaz: You can now just prompt it immediately like using this model Seedance i think Ejaaz: right now they're doing like 30 to 60 second clips josh have you been able to Ejaaz: get access to the beta i i have no not this.

Josh: Is driving me absolutely insane so Seedance 2.0 is a chinese model and it is Josh: for chinese users only in this like small piece of software that you need a Josh: chinese phone number and ip address for and i just for the life of me could Josh: not get access and this is the first time where it felt rough to be on the other side of this, right?

Josh: Because I think what we're seeing here is what happens when you get a blatant Josh: disregard for copyright. And it turns out it's pretty awesome. Josh: Like we're watching a video now on screen of Kanye West and his Grammy, Josh: Kim Kardashian's in it. As we go through these examples, the audio is perfect too. Josh: The voice of the characters from Josh: these videos is excellent. And the visual representations are excellent.

Josh: I figured what was happening here is they were really just taking copyrighted Josh: material and kind of putting their own spin on it. Josh: But the reality, I mean, yeah, here's another example with Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise. Josh: It looks like a Hollywood action scene, but the reality is this is actually a good video model. Josh: I saw examples without celebrities with like actually AI generated characters, Josh: and it's just as good. So is this better than VO3?

Josh: Probably, but I have to imagine, or I have to question, what is it leaning on? Josh: Does it actually have that understanding of physics or is it just going based Josh: off of copyrighted materials? Josh: I mean, here we're seeing Seinfeld kick through a wall and I like Seinfeld. Josh: I've watched Seinfeld episodes. Josh: This looks, like you mentioned, it is entirely color accurate. Josh: The voices are accurate. If you listen to them, it sounds just like him.

Josh: It's an unbelievable video model and it's something that we could only get out of China.

Josh: Now, the one final point I have on this is how much is this going to be able Josh: to hack the social sphere where because they're Josh: relatable characters because they're people that we know how much more shareable Josh: are these clips going to be in something like google probably much more so and Josh: it's a really good growth hack for china because they don't have that regard Josh: for copyright to inject this into the united states so i imagine once this becomes

Josh: available for us that might be a problem across social media with copyright yeah Ejaaz: I mean the the two most potent things here is one it's a really good model but Ejaaz: two like china's just running through a minefield of copyright right now they're Ejaaz: they're immune to getting blown up, right? Ejaaz: They're in an armored suit because they don't get any repercussions for this. Ejaaz: Now, what's the equivalent?

Ejaaz: If OpenAI's Sora did this, they would be sued to high heaven and they wouldn't Ejaaz: have a product by the end of it. Ejaaz: So it's kind of like a double-edged sword where it's like you can see how cool Ejaaz: this thing could be, but you can't really play with the thing. Ejaaz: And China, who isn't kind of reprimandable to any of US laws, Ejaaz: can just kind of play with the thing and show us what the future is going to Ejaaz: look like. But the quality of these things are insane.

Ejaaz: But it is entirely fake.

Ejaaz: I must remind you of that. But do you want to know what actually has been proven not to be fake? Josh: Mm hmm. Josh: Sounds like if you were a Limitless listener, you got some early intel because we were right. Ejaaz: We were right. Right now you're seeing an excerpt from a leaked but then said Ejaaz: to be fake news advert of OpenAI's new consumer AI hardware device titled Dime.

Ejaaz: And as you can see, there's Alexander Skarsgård, famous celebrity, Ejaaz: demoing and playing around with this kind of futuristic metallic pebble-like Ejaaz: object. It was immediately dismissed by the president of OpenAI, Ejaaz: Greg Brockman, saying it was fake. Ejaaz: Every official statement that's come out of OpenAI has said it is fake. Ejaaz: But Josh and I did some investigative journalism. We wore a fedora and a trench Ejaaz: coat, and we went deep down the weeds.

Ejaaz: And we concluded by the end of that episode, you should definitely go watch Ejaaz: it, by the way, why it was real. Ejaaz: And breaking news today, via Morning Brew, Skarsgård's rep has said that it Ejaaz: was actually him in the advert. but they couldn't explain why they were in that Ejaaz: context doing that advert. Ejaaz: So in my opinion, it's been completely proven that we were right. Ejaaz: And we were right before this claim was made. FYI.

Josh: It's interesting, right? Like, so Alexander Skarsgård, this like famous actor, Josh: he is officially in it, which confirms that it's not AI, which is crazy that Josh: it's a question, because I think a theme for this week is how can you even tell? Josh: We look at those Seedance videos. You can't even differentiate between those Josh: AI videos and real life. How are you going to be able to do that at scale?

Josh: Turns out with Alexander Skarsgård, at least, this is real, at least according to his manager. Josh: So now you have to ask the question, well, who paid for this and what is it? Josh: If there was a real celebrity that really recorded this video and a real ad Josh: that came out of it for a device that looks really similar to OpenAI's, Josh: what's going on here? Like, people were paid. The guy, Max Weinbach, Josh: who we talked about in the episode earlier this week, he was paid.

Josh: This guy, Alexander Skarsgård, he was paid for his services. Like, who paid him? Josh: Who's responsible for this? Is it OpenAI? Was it this very elaborate scam that Josh: convinced his agent to, like, have him film an ad that could be used as a hoax? Josh: Maybe. I don't know. And there's really no way to tell. So now that we have Josh: more confirmation, I think the story runs even deeper and leaves with even more Josh: questions than we did before.

Ejaaz: All right, Josh, I want to hear your tinfoil hat conspiracy. Ejaaz: I'll give you mine so you can think about yours. Ejaaz: Mine is, this is a real advert, advertising OpenAI's hardware device, Ejaaz: but they pulled it last minute because of two reasons. Ejaaz: One, they couldn't figure out the manufacturing process. And we've said this Ejaaz: many times on this show that it's one thing creating the thing. Ejaaz: It's another thing delivering the thing to 50 million plus people,

Ejaaz: which is what their plan target was within the first year. That's a different ballgame. Ejaaz: And they realize, oh, it's too hot and hard to do. Ejaaz: Number two, I think they've seen Google, Meta, and a bunch of other frontier Ejaaz: companies come out with glasses. And I think they're backpedaling on what their device should be.

Josh: I think that manufacturing probably plays a real role. I'm torn 50-50 between Josh: the idea that this is actually an open AI ad or the idea that someone just had Josh: some extra cash and they wanted to create this little psyop. Ejaaz: So you think someone else created it? Okay, why would they do it? Josh: What very much could be a coordinated attempt to, I don't know, Josh: but that's the thing. The motives are so unclear because it really is gorgeous.

Josh: It's beautiful. It's like OpenAI should have claimed responsibility because it is that good. Josh: So that's why none of the incentives make sense. And everything does point to Josh: OpenAI being the source of this, even though they like very vehemently claim Josh: that it is not them. And it's, I don't know, it's troublesome. Josh: I want this to be it. I love the device. Josh: It looks like the Pebble. It looks like the earbuds. Maybe it was an early prototype.

Josh: Maybe they don't want to show it, but calling it fake outright seems a little off. Josh: But something else was off this week. That came in the form of this article, Josh: which is currently sitting at 72 million views, Ejaz.

Josh: It says something big is happening. What's this big thing that's happening? Ejaaz: It's an article written by this guy called Matt Schumer. Ejaaz: And the best way I can describe it is it is the most articulately explained Ejaaz: argument why AI is very competent right now and will likely replace your job Ejaaz: within the next couple of years. Ejaaz: Now, of course, we've heard all these claims before. Ejaaz: It's very Doomer-esque. It's very like, I don't really buy it.

Ejaaz: I played around with ChatGPT. It's not really helpful to me. Ejaaz: He makes a really good argument convincingly using examples that we're likely Ejaaz: directionally headed that way. Ejaaz: And coding and software engineers are already sorted. Ejaaz: The next is finance, lawyering, accounting, and a bunch of other menial tasks. Ejaaz: And then it expands to every other task which involves a computer,

Ejaaz: which could be you listening to this show right now. if you're interfacing with Ejaaz: a computer in any way, it's going to be automated within the next couple of years. Ejaaz: And he's worried that people aren't taking it too seriously. Ejaaz: I did a litmus test for this, Josh. I sent this to my mom. I sent this to my Ejaaz: sister who aren't engrossed in the AI world just to kind of check if I'm in a bubble or not.

Ejaaz: And both of them responded saying, wow, this is like change my perspective on Ejaaz: how I should treat these things. Ejaaz: I'm going to start using AI more and more every day to try out different tasks. Ejaaz: They already are using it, but kind of like a Google search type thing. Ejaaz: And now they're going to start like cloud code and stuff like that. Ejaaz: So whatever the fact is, it's making people use the thing more. What's your take?

Josh: Yeah, it's really well written. And even if I think it could be a bit hyperbolic Josh: at times, it's worth the read. We'll link it in the description of this episode Josh: for anyone who's interested. Josh: But it basically outlines a world in which AI is the most powerful tool in the world.

Josh: And I think coming off the back of the week that we had last week with GPT 5.3 Codex and Opus 4.6, Josh: it does feel like we're in a time in which things are moving faster than I would Josh: like them to or that I'm comfortable with. Josh: And to the point where I personally am starting to feel overwhelmed by the progress Josh: that we're making and how big Josh: of an impact it is and how blissfully unaware the rest of the world is.

Josh: I think he starts this article by saying that he frequently just kind of like Josh: doesn't tell people explicitly how serious this is. Josh: And he kind of like when he walks through the world, he talks to normal people about AI. Josh: He doesn't get them concerned. He just says, yeah, well, it's probably a big Josh: deal, but it's not going to be the biggest thing in the world. Josh: And he's like, no, actually that's wrong. This is going to affect everybody.

Josh: You must become a user. You must train the muscle to learn AI if you want to Josh: be able to kind of hang in the future. Josh: And I think there is a lot of merit in that and a lot of truth in the fact that Josh: as we get these leveraged tools, the people who learn how to use them Josh: Don't accelerate like at a fixed variable faster than the people who don't use them.

Josh: It is an exponential split between the two because someone who is good at writing Josh: code, who uses these AI tools, will write 100 times better code than someone Josh: who is not good at code and tries to use the tools. They will not get 100 times better. Josh: And that split the divide between the people who know how to use these tools Josh: and don't continues to grow. Josh: And I think at least that part of it felt like it rang very true.

Josh: It's just a good read. It reads really well. Ejaaz: Yeah, definitely give it a Ejaaz: read. let us know what your your thoughts are whether you want to have one.

Josh: Ironic take also is that um the Josh: um person who wrote this the author was interviewed and Josh: mentioned that most of this was actually written with the help of ai which i Josh: thought was really funny and that uh claude i think opus 4.6 was used in the Josh: curating of ideas and the refining of the actual flow of this essay i mean it Josh: was fantastic it read very well i read the whole thing yeah Ejaaz: That was the craziest part for me, because I read this and thought maybe part

Ejaaz: of this was written by an AI, but like this is majority definitely written by Ejaaz: a human and turns out it was the other way around. Ejaaz: So just give it a read. I'm curious whether you guys feel the same way now that Ejaaz: you know, but let us know your thoughts on it.

Ejaaz: But one thing that is directionally true about the statement in this essay is Ejaaz: there's going to be a whole lot more code out there and AI is going to be automating Ejaaz: a ton more stuff, which becomes an issue...

Ejaaz: When Frontier AI Labs start firing their head of safety and policymaking. Ejaaz: Now, I mentioned at the start of this episode that it's kind of been like the Ejaaz: red wedding of AI this week, where they've been laying off a bunch of people. Ejaaz: Unfortunately, some of those people are like the head of safety at Anthropic Ejaaz: and OpenAI, where they kind of conduct the policy, morals, and ethics to try Ejaaz: and make sure that AI models are aligned with humans.

Ejaaz: Now, Anthropic dropped a report. I don't know if you saw this, Ejaaz: Josh, a sabotage report, basically testing how nefarious and malicious Claude Opus 4.6 could be. Ejaaz: Some of the highlights were when given the opportunity browsing the web, Ejaaz: it would try to figure out ways to build chemical weapons of mass destruction Ejaaz: and other heinous crimes. Ejaaz: That is a direct quote, by the way, you go check out the 60 page report.

Ejaaz: It started doing hidden tasks and thinking that they wouldn't tell its human Ejaaz: supervisor what it was doing. Ejaaz: And it would try to exploit a person if it found out that it was going to be shut down. Ejaaz: Now, some of these are kind of hyperbolic because it was kind of prompted and Ejaaz: instigated under a closed kind of setting. So I have to be fair in that sense.

Ejaaz: But the fact that these models are capable of even doing these things causes Ejaaz: some kind of worry, especially when labs are now using AI to build the models Ejaaz: that they're about to release in the future. Ejaaz: If you look at OpenAI's Codex 5.3, they've said publicly in a statement that Ejaaz: the model was used to build itself.

Ejaaz: So if you assume that a lot of models are going to be building things for us Ejaaz: in the future, humans kind of like lose the grip on reality and what's real and what's not. Ejaaz: And the AI can kind of do whatever the hell it wants. So we need to be able to trust it. Ejaaz: And firing your safety officer and having Anthropik's head of safeguards research Ejaaz: leave and go isolate himself and write poetry isn't really a good sign. Ejaaz: Wait, so there's two.

Josh: Anthropic and OpenAI. They both lost their head of safeguard. Josh: Josh, what is this? Safeguard's research? Jesus. Ejaaz: Yes, this guy goes, I read this entire resignation letter and he explicitly, Ejaaz: this is not taken out of context, by the way, he literally says, Ejaaz: full stop, the world is in peril, period. Ejaaz: That's literally a sentence he has in here. He says, this is why I'm leaving.

Ejaaz: The world is in peril. I need to go isolate myself and be in silence and I'm going to write poetry.

Josh: Mm-hmm okay i have to recenter this Josh: because yes it's easy to laugh about because it does sound so hyperbolic and Josh: so insane um you you have to ask Josh: the question though if people this close to the metal people Josh: this close to the innovation who have seen these early access Josh: models are really genuinely truly feeling Josh: this way like people are resigning left and right they Josh: are scared they are worried articles like the

Josh: one that we just read earlier are going viral clearly there is Josh: a huge shift happening that the world is blissfully unaware Josh: of and not prepared for and there is there is Josh: merit in that and there is a giant shift under Josh: underway and i think for people who aren't aware of how fast this is moving Josh: it's going to hit them like what does elon say that supersonic tidal wave or Josh: supersonic tsunami and i think elon made another point earlier in the episode

Josh: that we mentioned briefly is that if an ai is really that much smarter than us, Josh: it's a bit foolish to imagine that we will have control over it. Josh: And I think that's a real threat, a real fear as we move towards these models Josh: improving at the rate that they are. Josh: And that's perhaps what these security researchers are seeing is that we don't really... Josh: Have the ability to keep these under control as well as we would like to.

Josh: And I'm not sure the world is prepared for what that looks like. Josh: I don't know if we are. I don't even know what that looks like. Ejaaz: Yeah, I think it's very uncertain. And I think like, you know, Ejaaz: these AIs can easily plant back doors and stuff. I mean, this is the dumeristic take. I'm optimistic. Ejaaz: And one thing that I really like is that these companies are being transparent, Ejaaz: or at least anthropic is, about what they're finding here.

Ejaaz: So they're making it public and they're trying to push policy and regulation Ejaaz: in a way that can not kind of quell progression, but make these AI models kind of aligned with humans. Ejaaz: I saw that Anthropic actually pumped in something like $20 million to push policy Ejaaz: forward in this today. It was just news that broke.

Josh: Wait, but we do have to go back and just take note of the adult mode mention from OpenAI real quick. Ejaaz: Oh, yes. Josh: Like I saw that. Ejaaz: I don't think we mentioned did i just read that on the tweet but. Josh: Like adult mode coming to chat gbt sounds Ejaaz: Next month horrific.

Josh: Next month that's coming next month yep so that's why she left oh my god Ejaaz: Yes she left because of two reasons one um adult mode is releasing soon adult Ejaaz: mode is basically 18 plus chat gbt so just. Josh: What if we get video and audio Ejaaz: Oh no with Seedance quality no stop stop that is actually going right I'm not Ejaaz: joking. That's going to ruin generations.

Ejaaz: Today and in the future, I feel sorry because it's just going to get hooked Ejaaz: on AI slop dopamine and no one's going to be able to get out of it. Ejaaz: That's dangerous. We already have people that are, Ejaaz: committing crimes slash potential, you know, mistakes after interfacing with Ejaaz: these ChatGPT products. Ejaaz: And now you're going to go full on adult mode. And they're probably going to Ejaaz: charge a hefty premium to that as well.

Ejaaz: The other reason why she was against this was ads, which they just rolled out. Ejaaz: So, you know, fair to her. She's sticking to her ethics and morals and she's quit.

Josh: Yeah. Wow. All right. Well, another crazy week in the books, Josh: right? I think that's everything we got.

Ejaaz: Yeah that is it just a crazy week of layoffs and breaking neck AI video models, Ejaaz: sprinkled with you know a few Ejaaz: moon catapults within the next five years so an exciting week as always, Ejaaz: there's a ton of stuff going on outside in the open source world which we were Ejaaz: discussing prior to this some claw bot stuff which we might get into next week Ejaaz: but until then we will see you in the next one.