CHAPTERS
0:00 – Intro
0:30 – Max Fisher joins!
0:58 – Online safety bill
12:40 – Biden’s campaign on misinformation
25:18 – John Fetterman’s body double
35:34 – Ad break
39:31 – Simon Rich interview
This week on Offline, Simon Rich, writer and creator of TBS’s Miracle Workers, joins to explain how he got his hands on an AI that makes Chat GPT look like a kindergartner. Simon and two friends used the indefatigable (and often unhinged) code-davinci-002 to generate poems on birth, art, love and death. The resulting collection, I Am Code, is the first book “written” by an AI. Simon and Jon talk through the alarming questions the book raises: what is the future of creativity, does it matter why robots may want to kill us, and is the world of AI secretly far more advanced than we know? But first! Max and Jon break down Senator John Fetterman’s internet-savvy strategy to combat conspiracy theorists, and Joe Biden’s slightly less savvy fight against misinformation.