In this Tech Therapy session, Scott Stein and Bridget Carey cope with changes in voice assistants, question what AI features are useful on devices, and dig their way out of AI Slop traps invading Facebook and Instagram Reels. But not all warped reality is bad: Meow Wolf is coming to New York City. Is there an appetite for more technology in immersive entertainment and theme park spaces?
0:00 Intro
0:25 RIP Google Assistant
1:25 Alexa and Privacy Concerns
3:25 Frustrations with AI
6:05 What Are We Really Using AI For
12:11 An iPad with No AI
15:14 I Like a Little AI Slop
15:40 What is AI Slop
17:06 Why is the Algorithm Feeding Us the Same Slop
21:13 Is AI Slop its Own Aesthetic
22:25 Scott Wants Artists to Refine the Slop
25:05 Meow Wolf
27:05 Meow Wolf in NY
27:33 Theme Parks and Interactive Experiences
28:08 Disney’s Galactic Starcruiser
30:55 Question for You, What Do You Think of Immersive Experiences?
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@JJs_playground
March 22, 2025 at 11:39 am
Ya, Gemini gives long winded answers, when you just want a simple response. Like the age of somebody.
@JJs_playground
March 22, 2025 at 11:54 am
Dead Internet theory is coming true.
I hate the A.I. slop
@MB-pq6yy
March 22, 2025 at 12:05 pm
Thanks. I enjoyed the video. 😀
@PaulADAigle
March 22, 2025 at 12:29 pm
I haven’t seen hardly any AI stuff at all on FB Reels. I think only one, so far, and it wasn’t slop.
@DeamonKenji
March 22, 2025 at 12:33 pm
That’s why tiktok is better.. the algorithm does force the same content on you everytime
@jivey1
March 22, 2025 at 1:01 pm
His feed seems pretty messed up. The only thing I see on reels is basketball tutorial videos. Probably cause that what I spend time watching.
@suanze
March 22, 2025 at 1:37 pm
Tim & Erick? As in Tim Brown and Erick Khan 🤣🤣🤣.
@nightshadesalad
March 22, 2025 at 2:03 pm
I’ve tried Gemini a few times since it launched. It’s still frustrating how it can’t do all of the things that assistant does reliably or without me unlocking my device.
@philodygmn
March 22, 2025 at 4:29 pm
It’s not people commenting that reel was moving, it’s bots.🙄
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@younghan3573
March 22, 2025 at 5:36 pm
The future of tech keeps me thinking how fragile all of this is. The risk of an EMP blast from the sun or nuke can just cripple all of it. Which makes me think that Bitcoin is using greed to stop the proliferation of nuclear arms.
@Jean-Sylvain-v5t
March 22, 2025 at 5:47 pm
We are entering an era of mediocrity. We are already there, but the supposed AI will accelerate the decline.
@bartsgaming
March 22, 2025 at 6:33 pm
You go to Linkedin, brilliant.
@hermanjohnson9180
March 22, 2025 at 7:21 pm
What a great talk. 👌😁
@georgewashington3012
March 22, 2025 at 7:33 pm
Grok is the only one worth watching if you want to avoid woke BS.
@zacharyeversole
March 22, 2025 at 7:38 pm
These guys are talking about AI the way people talked about the iPhone in 2007
@wagoozig
March 22, 2025 at 7:41 pm
Oh no! Technology is changing! How will we ever adapt to smarter tech?? You’ve got to be kidding me. I feel like I’m listening to my 70 yr old parents. If you don’t understand how LLMs are exponentially more useful than a Google search then I can’t help you. How are you people allowed to report on tech?
@The_Happy_Hobo
March 22, 2025 at 8:16 pm
A.I. is malware.
@jonathanjohnson8376
March 22, 2025 at 10:17 pm
Hi, at about 11:57 Scott Mentions Ai coding. Actually, Xcode (Apple’s code editor) does run an Ai that offers suggestions on how to finish your line or even offer the next line of code. I use it about half the time because I know a lot of languages and I can forget which command goes where or how it should be written for Swift. It is not good enough to write the code for me, but it is a useful tool. Oh, and if you want to test how much of the Ai processing is running on your device, you just need to disconnect the network connection. It will try until it gets stuck and then it will tell you that it can’t find an answer.
@esisolina1
March 22, 2025 at 11:34 pm
I heard… in this $eks therapist season ! 😁😊
@camdenbehrens
March 23, 2025 at 6:25 am
I make it a point to press show more or show less in my feeds!! And to mute stories from channels and stuff so that I see what I want.
@Theartcat123
March 23, 2025 at 6:31 am
tbh, cant wait for Alexa+ finally a freaking AI that can actually do stuff!! Feels like the start of Jarvis from IronMan hahaha
@cadenchurchill4296
March 23, 2025 at 10:19 am
Loving this series! Keep it up! 😄
@lloydjames3806
March 23, 2025 at 10:57 am
CNET is starting to sound like old folks who just don’t get it.
@nobilismaximus
March 23, 2025 at 6:06 pm
Great, nerds running Agile Scrum telling me what I’m going to love…..
@nobilismaximus
March 23, 2025 at 6:23 pm
17:57 ai echo chamber …. Youtube does it….Plus AI video seem to only produce nightmare fuel