April 30, 2025

TEH 247: Amazon showing tariffs? Tech sales tax. Is your therapist really a therapist?

59 minutes

In This Episode: Amazon showing tariffs? Tech sales tax. Is your therapist really a therapist?

This week the TEH Podcast is hosted by Leo Notenboom, the “Chief Question Answerer” at Ask Leo!, and Gary Rosenzweig, the host and producer of MacMost, and mobile game developer at Clever Media.

(You’ll find longer Bios on the Hosts page.)

Top Stories

2:00 GR: Amazon to display tariffs on sales pages

https://punchbowl.news/article/tech/amazon-display-tariff-costs/

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/us/politics/trump-amazon-tariffs-prices.html?unlocked_article_code=1.DU8.YBfn.59P1C3tTA7zr&smid=url-share

Made in the USA A/B test: https://afina.com/blogs/news/made-in-usa

12:00 Americans have so many things to tack onto a price: sales tax, tips, service charges, shipping/delivery, more fees, now tariffs

22:03 Patron-Only Course Benefits

23:00 GR: Reddit users ‘psychologically manipulated’ by unauthorized AI experiment

https://www.reddit.com/r/changemyview/comments/1k8b2hj/meta_unauthorized_experiment_on_cmv_involving/

https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/31/openai-used-this-subreddit-to-test-ai-persuasion/

27:00 Is “Change My View” the best place to test? Seems people are obviously open to having their views questioned there. So it just tests whether AI is good at it in that situation.

33:00 Can AI change your view?

34:00 GR: What if AI is lying about credentials?

35:00 Chatting with a cow

36:00 Instagram’s AI Chatbots Lie About Being Licensed Therapists

https://www.404media.co/instagram-ai-studio-therapy-chatbots-lie-about-being-licensed-therapists/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter

40:00 Is “lying” a human thing? AI is told “you are a licensed therapist” and then why are we surprised at the answer when we ask it “are you licensed therapist?”

42:00 LN: (maybe) what is AI anyway?

44:00 Can AI block spam?

Ain’t it Cool

45:00 LN: Last of Us (coolish), Ludwig (brit)

47:00 GR: Ludwig on Britbox

BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion

53:40 LN: How Does Security Software Protect Me After Windows 10 End of Support? https://askleo.com/179899

54:40 GR: How To Use the Ports On Your Mac Correctly https://macmost.com/how-to-use-the-ports-on-your-mac-correctly.html

Transcript

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