The Writers and Actors strike provides a stark but pretty accurate warning for everyone else about how AI will be used to displace workers and degrade opportunities. Jim Hedger and Kristine Schachinger start a conversation about AI's effect on culture discussing how script writers are being replaced by AI and how actors and voice actors are being paid for single performances that get digitized and used as avatars for those actors in future products. From there we look at different AI tools, apps, models, and other AI-enhanced ideas such as Google's news-story writing AI model, the launch of AI models from Meta, Apple, and Anthropic, the wild inaccuracies that attracted the attention of the FTC, and the continued insertion of AI into everything. We also got to talk about Google updates, Google indexing issues, the massive loss of links reported in the Search Console, and how a perfect UX is incredibly important but still not a replacement for helpful content. This show goes pretty much everywhere it can in the hour it had to get there.

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