Michael Calore: So what you say is that you are not really a fairy prince?
Will Knight: No, unfortunately not.
Michael Calore: Surrounded by lilies? Because that’s what I see when I put your images in Lensa.
Will Knight: Oh, is it? ALL RIGHT. I have to try this.
Michael Calore: I hope you don’t mind that I feed the photos of Lensa by Will Knight.
Will Knight: No. As long as I can see them, as long as I can take a look.
Lauren Goode: I suppose it depends on the distance to which you want to extend this analogy. If it is a disinformation to take the application of the day, which happens to be this creative AI super-weird application, and to create these images generated by AI, how real they are. These are not what you look like. How is it different to put a smoothing filter on Instagram?
Michael Calore: RIGHT. Probably not very different.
Lauren Goode: So we just have our online avatars, our online characters and our IRL experiences, and these things are now entirely divergent, and that’s it. This is the world in which we live. He will have a second life.
Michael Calore: Also, who can say which is the reality and which is the simulacrum?
Lauren Goode: Oh, such a good word. It’s such a good wired word. I have the impression that it appears in at least all the problems of Wired. It’s true. Who to say? On this note, let’s take a break and we will come back with recommendations. Will they be generated by humans or will they be generated by AI? TBD.
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Lauren Goode: This is the part of the show where we give our weekly recommendations, but given the subject of today, we thought that we will put this part to the Chatbot AI. So I asked Chatgpt: “If you were to recommend something to a friend, a book, an episode of podcast, an application, food, an album, what would you recommend?” And he replied: “As a model in the big language formed by Openai, I have no personal experiences or preferences, so I am unable to make recommendations according to my own interests or experiences. My only goal is to help you “… Well, you don’t really help me now …” With your questions and you provide information according to the contribution I receive. Browse the Internet or access external information, podcasts, applications, food or album. Will, it shouldn’t call you imperfect, but we should start with you. What is your recommendation this week?
Will Knight: Proudly imperfect and happy. I can recommend the GPS monitoring necklace that we have for our expensive hypoallergenic cat, which makes you very fun to see where we can … We know where it is if we have to try to find it, which I had to do a few Recovered, and you can see where she went through at night, all these little GPS traces. There is even a small ranking of local cats and national cats, and we have friends with cats there, so it’s a small social network. It’s a bit scary, a little big brother, but at least we know where she is. Unfortunately, yes, unfortunately, she was afraid by something and is stuck at home for the last three days, but I can see where she was, so I can go and try to understand what it was who terrified her.