Comcast support cspan as a Public Service ang with these other Television Providers for giving it a front row seat to democracy. Up next discussion on the evolution of Artificial Intelligence with Technology Reporters at an event hosted by the Washington Post. Now im going to bring into of my colleagues to talk about ai. Its a subject matter i know is changing quickly its affecting a number of Industries Including what you bring it to tech colleagues to kind of break this all down. Gerrit de vynck and tatum hunter prethanks return me guys. Garretts i want to start with you from going to read this it is news. It was news to me. Top tech firms found signed a whiteouts pledge to identify ai generated images. A lot of things are changing i cannot keep up can you break this down and is this a big deal is this just the start of potential regulation were going to see . Yes i think the way to think about the pledge is a way for the government and the companies to say we are doing something for it we are thinking about this because it will probably theres a lot of efforts at regulation that will force the companies to do things in terms of keeping up with certain standards. That is not going to be happening anytime soon. Chuck schumer said his timeline for regulation is a months not weeks, months not years, months. Months is when the time frames is at the fall, next or sometime . The white house was to get in and show the people they are taking aio seriously they are pushing companies to adhere to certain standards the companies themselves on to say to their employees and conservative consumers and us immediately carear deeply about these thing. The pledge is something voluntary Companies Went and signed it on their own accord they were not forced to print some the stipulations are a littlemurky theres no real consequences if they break this voluntary pledge but it does show you everyone involved here seems to agree there is need for some sort of regulation when it comes to aip. Are going to follow up on that briefly. I hear it on capitol hill. There is a feeling of we didnt regulate social media and that spiraled out of control depending on your opinion on that front there does seem to your point to be an effort. Has there been any signs of lawmakers even understanding where to start . This seems like a big behemoth and big unknown. It is a big unknown. But also the Technology Make the way it exploded into the public consciousness is definitely new. So are the capabilities of checkbox having complex conversations complicate a professional wood exams are new capabilities that change things materially. But ai is not something that just popped up six months ago. We think about google maps for example right now if you go to a place youve never been before you type the name intoer google ande you dont even think about it you put on your dashboard and follow the instructions or 20 years ago showed so in that they would save this Artificial Intelligence mapping application is incredible and so smart and knows exactly where to go in as with the traffic and the weather might be that is incredible. The technologist definitely h change it does feel like a big moment. I think we are stillll not suref this is the internet just got invented and everything is about to change or if its more as if something changed in an iteration some things will change but it might not be as the change for all of our jobs go away and everything seemed to completely change. Some of the lattice proponents are saying that about this. Tatum i want to bring you in here per theres also conversation about how making Ai Technology freak could be a watershed moment for many of us. How is this affecting content creators questionn of thats a pretty broad question we are all grappling with the change. Am going to take that one at a time. The first thing is whats the impact of making this free . In the news this week we might have seen meta making its llama to generative ai model open source radio sets different from medicine big competitors which will be charging for the Ai Technology. So, making ai free comes with some big potential benefits when it is open source and usable for everyone there is more visibility into how these models work which can help people check for bias or poise into data sets. But it also comes with risks such as bad actors, a bit more access to the technology. Understanding how it works and being able to make use of it themselves. His farce what this means for content creators is the same as any other industry. There will be ai tools that make life much easier for content creators. Wonderfully obvious example we are already familiarea with his face june or beauty lenses on tiktok. But there will also be costly cost forcontent creators just le everyone else and that the content they put out there will be available to train a onn models. So it will those tools be sold back to them at a price that thatstrained on their own data . Will they see their opportunities diminish because ai tools can create some the same content they are creating question work that remains to be seen i have a feeling youre going to ask us about theat hollywood strike which always has big implications here. That literally was going to follow up with that. For all of us are not necessarily following thats most prime example. Can you talk to us about this concerns . I think some of them have to do some cutting costs potential here in how you might literally use someones likeness in the future without their consent. Yes. I will answer short because i want. Garrett has to say too. I think that probably the biggest thing if i was a big content creator and i was watching this hollywood strike of down i would say awesome. This is going to create opportunities forom me while hollywood is in disarray, might digital creator economy is going to have new inroads for me too make more money and have more notoriety. But also, like you said weve already seen theres a great headline from her colleague the other month saying the sick content creator a dollar week for ai generated version of yourself to be your girlfriend that critters making money but you can also see the flipside of that or a situation where youre not getting the money you were expecting to get because in ai i model soon something that you could do. Garrett your take . A lot of it has to do streaming and how much that has changed the industry which is also big tech topic. There is a huge quick question hangover the entire ai industry the entire Tech Industry right now whats it okay for them to go and scrape up everything on the internet which includedhe teacher watch in Washington Post articles ever written question probably most novels that were ever written, photos from copyrighted databases taken by working photographers over many, many years. And inwr some cases films and movie scripts from some of the famous films and movies and use it to create these toolsls that can now go and write a hollywood script in my not be very good but it is still coherent it hits some of the major pop points that one might expect. And cynically you might sits better than some of what hollywood has even produced sometimes. People say it wait a second you went and used all the stuff without asking our permission the tech Companies Say it is fair use which is copyright law its the output. If you are inspired by someone elses work to go do your own work its not just if you write a post apocalyptic novel the idea of post apocalyptic model was copied by whoever wrote the first one theyre going to run a peoples ideas and concepts and make them our own. Thats what the tech Companies Say they areed doing. A lot of people saying hold up. That might not be exactly how it should be. Whether its through the courts, or new laws i think this is going to be a be the central question when it comes to content creation and ai but whether this is actually legal to go into it this way . Im going to ask a pretty selfish question i heard google as a shopping around their ai platform how is this going to affect your list . I kinda like to think it ai bot may not get to know resources and having those conversations would help wash out a lot of our reporting but is going to affect some way, right . Yes. I think mckay do you think the level of quality were still not there yet. I think a lot of people who dont rate for a living they see them as a credible and it is true. If you only spend three or 4 of your time writing, writing is hard. When he or forced to do it every single day for many hours you forget that parade these tools can be so helpful for people who just need a resume, they need a place toju start. They need a memo for their boss theyre stressing about they have not written since college or Something Like that. But then again i think that with a technologist look at is leasing exponential increase of quality of the past couple of years while at that continue . It is also these things will get good at writing it technically they could interview people. You can imagine breaking news happening, theres a fire somewhere or h a native its a small town. News ai will dial every single phone number in that small town instantaneously plant everyone in the town getsrs a call they y hi this is the Washington Post ai reporter and i would like to ask you did you see the tornado . Onset of three or four reporters spending all day making those 100 calls the ai could theoretically do instantaneously. The Washington Post is not planning under this as far as i dont think p any other News Organization necessarilyly r. These things are theoretically possible. I think my job sort of makes me be skeptical of the more aggressive and excitable claims about how they will change everythingse overnight ive head that a lot from technologist over the years. I also want to be open minded and say yes its possible someone might come to us and start pitching this technology and it is theoretically possible. Dont ask you both this question to look at another site of tech news thats been happening up shirt manyte people if you have twitter you signed on today and you are like where didou the bird logo go . It is now next. Tatum can you tell a slogan about that . I know theres been so much twitter News Elon Musk trying to change the company. What should we take from this . In case you missed it, musk and some of his top executives announce that twitter will be rebranding to x. Its a white x on a black background. This is part of musk sweeping changes at twitter since he bought the Company Including drastically reducing the staff. Drastically reducing its focus on combating misinformation and hate speech. Some people who were either musk of critics or longtime users already reacted saying this was the nail in the coffin for me. The bluebird had a lot of what marketers call brand equity c people associate with good things because maybe they had a good time on the app or maybe theyre just familiar with it. Given that some research imputed a study saying 25 of twitter users dont see themselves on the app in the next year. If people react poorly to the rebrandd it could be really bad forul twitter. But its as part of musks mo is that he envisions twitter present everything apt like time we checked you college of social as you go on make payments and buy things. Whether that is a people want is another question. Gerrit i went to your perspective on that as well maybe eager picture was a thread coming through the conversation try to take over the twitter model. Theres a lot of people who are trying to figure out where should i be . What is actually working, is twitter going to be rough all these changes . Maybe where we should be as maybe not on social media. [laughter] we seem to always keep coming back. I think threads is really k. Interesting. It is this a weird dark irony that Mark Zuckerberg is the one swooping in to provide this suppose that alternative. A lot of people in the last six months have tried to build twitter alternatives and taken the twitter refugees who do not want to be associated with Elon Musk App and everything tatum described there. I think we will have to see its possible twitter probably continues on and may be elon musk, i have no knowledge of this but its possible business just continues to shrink so p mh that he decides to cut his losses and declare bankruptcy. I think he is still personally passionate about twitter or x. He enjoys it in some way at least. Thats where he engages with this fan base. I think it has great personal importance to him. He is still an extremely wealthy man he can keep the Company Going for a very long time if he continues to find ways to cutim costs. I think twitter will probably still continue Going Forward and somewhat we will see all these other alternatives come out they wont never fully replace what twitter was in the semi other social networks such as tumblr also continues to limp along the people use tumblr 10 years ago would say is not the same. Credits going through its own convulsions now. The ceo there exert more control of the platform which was decentralized people rent certain forms for the ones in charge. Thats the way the world goes and again i might suggest lets all take a break from all that for a while brick works and with you on that one thanks of both of you for joining us. I felt smarter already to this conversation really appreciate perspective and reporting. Thank you. And thanks to all of you who tuned in today. Of course there are so many more conversations that will be having here Washington Post live all you have to do to w fid out what Washington Post live. 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