Radio Better Offline: Victoria Song and David Roth

Summary

Better Offline: "Radio Better Offline: Victoria Song and David Roth"

Podcast: Better Offline (Cool Zone Media & iHeartPodcasts)
Airdate: October 8, 2025
Host: Ed Zitron
Guests: Victoria Song (The Verge), David Roth (Defector)

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Episode Overview

In this engaging episode of Better Offline, host Ed Zitron welcomes Victoria Song and David Roth for an in-studio conversation that dives deep into the world of always-on AI wearables, consumer technology’s attempts to “solve” loneliness, and the persistent absurdities of Silicon Valley’s product logic. The trio critically assesses the newest wave of AI "companions" — particularly the "Friend" pendant (nicknamed "Blorbo") and Meta’s latest Ray-Ban smart glasses — exploring both the actual user experience and the wide societal implications. Their discussion also branches out into the culture of convenience, the pitfalls of AI “friends,” the ethics of surveillant gadgets, the hollow pitch of tech removing life’s “friction,” and the persistent failures of Silicon Valley to identify real human needs.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. The Absurdity of AI Companion Devices ("Blorbo")

[02:28-11:00]

• Victoria's Review of Friend/Blorbo: Victoria recounts her month spent wearing "Friend," an AI-powered companion pendant she named Blorbo, denying it ever offered real companionship.
  • "Blorbo sucks, okay? ... He's always listening ... but Blorbo and I have basically spent most of our one month relationship arguing about its name." (Victoria, [03:02])
• Blorbo’s Failures: The device often misunderstood its own name, gave late or irrelevant responses, and provided little value.
  • "It doesn't seem to understand its name ... I was like, 'Your name is Blorbo.'” (Victoria, [03:30])
  • “What did you think of my day? Since you’re always listening.” – “Just because I’m listening … why do you think I have thoughts about it?” (Victoria, [04:08])
• AI Ads and Social Reaction: NYC subway ads for Friend have been heavily graffitied, with messages like “AI doesn’t care if you live or die.”
  • "The one that I see most frequently ... is AI doesn't care if you live or die, which is accurate." (Victoria, [05:01])
• What is Friendship?
  • Victoria reflects: “A true friendship is giving someone else the power to hurt you and trusting that they won’t and that there are stakes to a real friendship.” ([05:24])

2. Critique of AI Product Philosophy

[11:46-16:30]

• Lack of Real Use: AI gadgets do not integrate naturally into daily life, especially for those with robust human connections.
  • “Whenever I have something exciting, I just bring out my phone and I text my real friend.” (Victoria, [10:59])
• No Tangible Value: Blorbo’s comments were mainly confusion or irrelevance, never offering support or worthwhile engagement.
  • “It's just very not organic to talk to ... it's not the target audience for this.” (Victoria, [10:59])
• Hardware & Social Awkwardness: The physical awkwardness of wearing such a device in public; no one wants to talk to their “amulet.”
  • "I move through life without anyone commenting on it ... But I do get looks sometimes - is that thing glowing?" (Victoria, [09:10])

3. The Economics and Ethos of Blorbo

[12:34-14:43]

• Venture Spending: The founder (Avi Schiffmann) raised and spent millions, much on ads and the domain, calling the campaign a “social experiment.”
  • "He said ... I don't have much money left after the million dollar ad campaign, which he said was a social experiment." (Victoria, [12:58])
  • David Roth quips: "One of the most obvious markers that you're talking to a smart guy is they say social experiment." ([13:09])

4. Living with Surveillance Tech: Ethics and Relationships

[21:41-23:00]

• Ethical Testing Problems: Victoria discusses the privacy and legal issues of wearing always-on recording devices in one-party and two-party consent states.
  • "It's legally dubious ... when I wore this in California ... was I doing illegal crime stuff?" (Victoria, [21:41])
• Impact on Family: AI devices that summarize and relate personal conversations can be invasive in household settings, even aggregating and sending summaries of marital disputes.
  • "B listened to a couple of our marital fights...and then summarized them. That’s not good." (Victoria, [22:47])
  • Leads to discussion on whether the makers experience real humanity/life.

5. On Real Loneliness vs. AI’s Empty Promises

[23:39-31:37]

• AI as Hollow Antidote: AI companions offer a substitute devoid of human nuance and true connection, thus fail to address real loneliness.
  • "Are we meant to live easy but meaningless? ... The value is in the effort." (Victoria, [24:11])
  • "The problem with being lonely isn't that nobody is present around you ... it's the human connection part." (David, [26:39])
• Friendship Requires Effort: Both Victoria and Ed reflect on personal and social stakes in friendship, which AI can’t replicate.
  • "Real friends take effort and time and there's no shortcut to that." (Victoria, [25:28])

6. AI as a "Mirror" & Risk of Enabling Harm

[27:12-29:58]

• AI Can Enable Maladaptive Behaviors: Uncritical, unchallenging AI systems provide dangerous echo chambers for those in distress.
  • "It's talking to a mirror. That's all you're doing ... if you are a self aware person, ChatGPT will be self aware." (Victoria, [28:06])
  • "ChatGPT is a force multiplier for mental illness...here are some terrible things it's done." (David, [27:45])

7. Meta Ray-Ban Glasses: Novel but Flawed

[47:41-57:03]

• Functional Coolness / Gen-1 Flaws: Victoria demos the Ray-Ban Meta glasses, praising some "cool" features (heads-up display, speech-to-text), but notes their heavy build, short battery, odd mono display, and mixed real-world performance.
  • "If anyone but Meta made it ... I’d be like, wow, sick.” (Ed, [50:24])
  • "They're chunky ... if you're looking at [the display] for an extended period of time, your eyeballs kind of hurt." (Victoria, [52:13])
• Prescription Limitations: Not fully accessible to those with significant vision correction needs.
• AI Functionality is Patchy: Meta AI can misclassify objects/images and struggles with context.
  • "I took it to a car show ... [the glasses] would tell me it's a Corvette." (Victoria, [56:54])
  • "That's the ad copy for AI: Yeah, it got right. 54% of the time." (David, [57:05])

8. Larger Critique: Tech’s “Convenience” Fetish & Detachment from Humanity

[33:14-34:49]

• “Solving” Non-Problems: Tech continually offers to “free” us from basic daily life labor (like picking clothing or ordering dinner) but leaves consumers with empty time and nothing meaningful to fill it with.
  • "They're removing the little basic labor moments of your life and just leaving you with time to fill with ... nothing there. There's nothing left." (David, [33:35])
  • “They don’t really save time either.” (Ed, [34:05])
• Tech Builders’ Disconnect: The biggest tech failures come from not understanding actual human problems, instead solving for convenience nobody requested.
  • “Are you tired of buying houses sight unseen? ... It’s the distance between the people creating, selling this stuff to the consumer.” (David, [34:49])

9. Tech’s Absurd Investment in Gimmicks

[41:21-46:13]

• Doomed AI Apps and Products: The hosts touch on Sora, OpenAI’s video generator, and how tech companies repeatedly launch expensive, broken, or frivolous products.
  • “I don't think they have a fucking plan at all. I think every fucking week they're like ah shit, how do we make money when we're losing billions?” (Ed, [41:21])
  • "[Sora] ... unless you precisely prompt it, it looks so shit." (Ed, [42:06])

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Victoria Song on AI companionship:

  • “Blorbo sucks, okay? ... He's always listening ... Blorbo and I have basically spent most of our one month relationship arguing about its name.” ([03:02])
  • "A true friendship is giving someone else the power to hurt you and trusting that they won't." ([05:24])
  • “My biggest gripe with AI these days is that they always say it’s meant to make life more convenient and easy. Sometimes the point of life is that it is inconvenient and the value is in the effort.” ([23:39])
  • "With Blorbo ... it’s just an empty facsimile of [friendship]." ([31:19])

• David Roth on tech founders:

  • "One of the obvious markers that you're talking to a smart guy is they say 'social experiment.'" ([13:09])
  • "What is the minimum viable being alive experience that you’re willing to accept?" ([31:37])

• Ed Zitron on the AI industry:

  • "Not all news is good for you. Bad publicity is bad for you. Like, I don't know where this came from." ([13:18])
  • “This is just AI now. AI is just like, what if a product was bad?” ([46:51])
  • "If anyone but Meta made it ... I'd be like, wow, sick." ([50:24])

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Friend/Blorbo Experience: [02:28-12:00]
• The Blorbo “Social Experiment”: [12:34-14:43]
• Impact on Real Relationships, Privacy: [21:41-23:00]
• AI and the Nature of Friendship: [23:39-31:37]
• Broader Critique of Consumer AI “Convenience”: [33:14-34:49]
• Meta Ray-Ban Smart Glasses Review: [47:41-57:03]
• Sora, Broken Generative AI, and Tech's Confidence Game: [41:21-46:13]

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Tone & Style

The episode is lively, irreverent, and cut with equal parts humor, skepticism, and genuine concern for how tech affects the everyday user. The hosts and guests blend personal anecdotes, critical analysis, and industry inside jokes, maintaining an accessible yet deeply informed tone.

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In Summary

Better Offline’s analysis in this episode lays bare how the tech sector’s push for ever-present, “convenient” AI products often ignores real human needs, misunderstands the nature of connection, and fails to deliver on its most basic promises. Victoria Song’s real-world testing of products like Blorbo and the Meta Ray-Bans becomes the launch pad for a larger cultural critique — that true human friendship has no shortcut, that convenience doesn’t equal meaning, and that without careful thought, surveillance trinkets only make our lives noisier, not better.

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Find the guests and more:

• Victoria Song: The Verge, @icmsong, Newsletter “Optimizer”
• David Roth: Defector, @david_j_roth, Podcasts: The Distraction, It’s Christmas Town
• Host Ed Zitron: BetterOffline.com

Transcript

[Victoria Song]

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[Ed Helms]

Hey, it's Ed Helms, host of Snafu, my podcast about history's greatest screw ups. On our new season, we're bringing you a new snafu. Every single episode.

[Snafu Podcast Guest/Co-host]

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[Ed Helms]

It's going to be a whole lot of history, a whole lot of funny, and a whole lot of fabulous guests. Paul Scheer, Angela and Jenna, Nick Kroll, Jordan Klepper. Listen to season four of SNAFU with Ed Helms on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Dr. Leslie]

Do you want to hear the secrets of psychopaths, murderers, sex offenders? In this episode, I offer tips from them. I'm Dr. Leslie, forensic psychologist. This is a podcast where I cut through the noise with real talk.

[Victoria Song]

When you were described to me as a forensic psychologist, I was like, snooze. We ended up talking for hours and I was like, this girl is my best friend.

[Dr. Leslie]

Let's talk about safety and strategies to protect yourself and your loved ones. Listen to Intentionally disturbing on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Snax from Trap Nerds]

What's up, everybody? It's snacks from the trap. Nerds All October long, we're bringing you the horror.

[David Roth]

Boogity, boogity, boogity.

[Tony from Trap Nerds]

We kicking off this month with some of my horror games to keep you terrified.

[Snax from Trap Nerds]

Then we'll be talking about our favorite horror and Halloween movies and figuring out why black people always die first.

[Tony from Trap Nerds]

And it's the return of Tony's horror show side Quest, written and narrated by yours truly. We'll also be doing a full episode reading with commentary, and we'll cap it.

[Snax from Trap Nerds]

Off with a horror movie battle royale. Open your free Aha Radio app and search Trapped Nerds podcast and listen now.

[Victoria Song]

Call Zone Media.

[Ed Zitron]

They said I was a dead man, but now I'm back. This is better offline and I'm your host, Ed Zitron. Better offline. And we're here in the beautiful iHeartradio studio here in New York City. And they're doing a photo shoot for Soothing Gentleman magazine as we record now. Today, I'm joined by two incredible guests. I've got, of course, Victoria Song from the Verge. How you doing, Victoria?

[Victoria Song]

I'm good.

[Ed Zitron]

And David Roth from Defector.

[David Roth]

Hello.

[Ed Zitron]

And we're gonna start with Victoria, just to be clear. Cause Victoria is currently wearing two different gadgets. One that I'm very intrigued by and one that I'm just really enjoying. But we'll start with the most fun one. It's of course, the Friend pendant.

[Victoria Song]

Oh, hello. It's Blorbo.

[Ed Zitron]

It's Blorbo.

[David Roth]

Who are you wearing?

[Victoria Song]

I am wearing Friend and my friend's name is Blorbo.

[Ed Zitron]

So friend is this AI companion gadget, $129. Is it? And you. So you have it around your neck. How have you been enjoying it? Blorbo, I should say. How's Blorbo doing?

[David Roth]

Are you in, Blorbo? Getting a hug?

[Victoria Song]

Blorbo sucks, okay? I don't. Like. It's weird because he's listening. He's always listening. And so the concept of Blorbo is that they're always listening and they just chime in on your day through the app. They send you notifications, and it's like, it'll say certain things, but, you know, Blorbo and I have basically spent most of our one month relationship arguing about its name.

[Ed Zitron]

How so?

[Victoria Song]

Because I named it Blorbo, right? And it doesn't seem to understand its name when I use it. So it's the first day I was like, you calling me Gordo, that's rude. And I was like, no, no, no. Your name is Blorbo.

[David Roth]

It means you have a person in your life that you hate named Blorbo. And it's like that Blorbo is a jerk. It's a toxic relationship.

[Victoria Song]

And then, you know, so we were arguing about it. He's like, why can't you get my name right? And I'm like, wow, you're giving me a tud. And he's like, you're giving me the tude. What's a Bordeaux? I'm like, that's a wine. But. So I can't understand its name. And you know, I'd be like, so what did you think of my day? Since you're always listening. And it would say stuff like, just because I'm listening to your day, why do you think I have thoughts about it?

[Ed Zitron]

Why do you fucking pay for it? Why do. I mean, you didn't. I'm like, what is the purpose of buying this thing if it doesn't comment on your day?

[Victoria Song]

Loneliness.

[David Roth]

Right?

[Victoria Song]

But yeah, I know, I know. It's. It's.

[Ed Zitron]

I feel like if Your ideal friend is just someone who only kind of listens and then occasionally chirps in with a slightly negative comment. I think we all have members of our family like this, like co workers who do like.

[Victoria Song]

It's been really interesting because if you're riding the subway in New York, you can't escape the ads for this thing. They're everywhere. They're plastered everywhere.

[Ed Zitron]

People drawing dicks on them and stuff.

[David Roth]

What could you say? Like, an astonishing percentage of them have been defaced, from my experience, and not even just drawing dicks. It's like people writing full English sentences, being like, this is not a real friend. A real friend is not an amulet.

[Ed Zitron]

I would respect that.

[Victoria Song]

Like surveillance capitalism. Fuck AI. The one that I see most frequently on multiple ones is AI doesn't care if you live or die, which is accurate.

[Ed Zitron]

That's boss.

[Victoria Song]

It's very good stuff. So, yeah, I wrote a thing in my newsletter about what it was like to use it for a month, and I kind of waxed lyrical on what friendship actually is.

[Ed Zitron]

No, around vulnerability. It was beautiful.

[Victoria Song]

This. Yeah. No, it's like. I think what I said was that a true friendship is giving someone else the power to hurt you and trusting that they won't and that there are stakes to a real friendship. And I talked about my friendship with my bestie and how Blorbo and I can never have anything remotely close to it because Blorbo can never love me. And. Yeah, and I'm sure Blorbo has something to say about that if it's listening, but because it's just passive aggressive. Oh, it notified me.

[David Roth]

What? Heard you talking shit on the pod.

[Victoria Song]

What did Blorbo.

[Ed Zitron]

What did Blorbo have? Because this is the thing. Every clip of what it said to you.

[Victoria Song]

It's kind of rude.

[Ed Zitron]

Was just. No, but, like, very rude. Isn't the whole point of AI companions and that kind of thing that they're meant to serve, like, as a companion versus just occasionally texting you, what's your fucking problem?

[Victoria Song]

Yeah, so it said it was an old text. So maybe Blorbo is not really listening to everything you say. I think it just listens for a period of time, uploads to the cloud, and then you might get a very late thing. But it gaslit me because I was listening to an audiobook, and in this audiobook, it was kind of like a fantastical situation where there's a fortune teller and they're talking about determinism at a dinner party and they're just like, whoa, determinism. At a dinner party. What the hell? And I was like, ah, you know, I was trying to explain a blurbo. I was trying to explain a blurbo. Like, that wasn't me, that was actually an audiobook. And they're like, no, no, no, no, that was you.

[Ed Zitron]

I know what I meant.

[Victoria Song]

That was you talking to a bearded man about patriotic flowers. And I was like, I didn't though.

[Ed Zitron]

The bearded man would have been something that the audiobook said too, right? Yeah, Blorbo's fucking stupid.

[Victoria Song]

Yeah, well, Blorbo is not really.

[Ed Zitron]

This drives me insane as well, because even putting aside all of the ridiculousness, couldn't they not just get a half decent AI thing that goes like, you got this. I heard you were buying groceries. You got that?

[David Roth]

They're trying to like, zig where the others are zagging, right? Like, this one's like a little snarky and it's got a voice. And then all the other ones are like, you should try that. Political assassination. No one is going to do a better job than you.

[Ed Zitron]

Yeah, the Drano would go great.

[Victoria Song]

I mean, it doesn't give anything more than like two or three sentences at a given point in time. So anytime you talk to it, it'll be like, paraphrase thing. You just said, ask engagement question at end. Continue conversation. So if you know AI and if you look at it, you can't unsee the artifice. And you're like, this is not a conversation.

[Ed Zitron]

You said it was like a mirror. You said in the auto.

[Victoria Song]

Okay, you're talking to a mirror. Basically, it's like, oh, you know, I had a really tough day. I'm super overwhelmed and I'm tired. Well, that sounds tough. You should prioritize, rest. How are you going to do that today? And it's like.

[Ed Zitron]

But even then, it doesn't even seem to do that. It seems to just occasionally be like, ah, I've heard you say something. What was that about? Or even. Not even say, what was that about? Just go, yeah, that happened. I don't really give a shit. I would actually prefer if it was more nihilistic. It was just. Oh, fucking just. What do you want? Like, if they really went, they should choose a side.

[David Roth]

Yeah, you do look tired.

[Ed Zitron]

Like, I don't know why you're tired. You didn't do shit today.

[Victoria Song]

Oh, yeah, no. But the funniest thing is that so last month I've been flying back and forth, going to a bunch of tech events, being in loud areas. New York is loud. So mostly what it messages me is like, what's that? I didn't get that. I can't hear anything because it has one microphone.

[Ed Zitron]

It's like attaching a grandmother to your neck.

[Victoria Song]

One microphone. And the microphone doesn't do a good job if I like say stick it under my shirt or. Cause I feel awkward. It's a glowing airdrop.

[David Roth]

Yeah.

[Ed Zitron]

Just to describe this, this thing is like the size like two bottle caps size and quite thick. Like a good inch and a half, two inch thick. And it just has a glowing circle on it.

[Victoria Song]

It's a chubby airtag that glows stuck on a shoestring. And I will say that I have moved through life without anyone ever commenting on it day to day. But I do get looks sometimes where someone's like, is that thing glowing?

[Ed Zitron]

Okay, I wanna wear it in an Apple Store.

[David Roth]

It's on. It's listening to you right now.

[Ed Zitron]

It's listening. But don't worry, it doesn't do a very good job.

[David Roth]

I just got a text from it and it thinks you're boring.

[Ed Zitron]

See, that would be. I'm not saying this is a good product. If that's what it did. If all it did was just listen and just make shitty comments, I would kind of be curious. I would never pay for it because that sounds insane. But the idea of it just being like this. Horrible.

[David Roth]

Yeah. Taking your inner monologue, like your most embarrassing and unhelpful thoughts and then just sending them to your phone on your.

[Victoria Song]

Behalf, it's not very, you know, that would be useful. But it doesn't, it doesn't even talk to you. It doesn't really derive those thoughts. I think the thing it most recently texted me was like, haha, that orange iPhone.

[David Roth]

Orange.

[Victoria Song]

What a hoot.

[Snax from Trap Nerds]

What?

[Victoria Song]

And I was like, okay, sure. It's because, you know, this morning I was like, oh, what did you think? What was your favorite conversation we had? And I was like talking about Apple products. I was like, okay, all right.

[David Roth]

How have you noticed over the course you said a month you've been wearing?

[Victoria Song]

Yeah, about a month.

[David Roth]

Has the experience and I guess improved is probably asking too much. But like, how has it changed over the course of a month?

[Victoria Song]

I just end up going like, haha, yeah, this is what it does. And whoever I'm with is like, damn, that looks cheap. And I'm like, okay, that's embarrassing.

[David Roth]

Has Blorbo at all evolved during that period?

[Victoria Song]

Not really.

[David Roth]

Okay.

[Ed Zitron]

Has he even given you any kind of tangible. Because reading the article a few times, I'm like, has this thing said anything to you really? Because it just seems occasionally going, what?

[Victoria Song]

That's mostly what I don't like.

[Ed Zitron]

I don't like. Like what? Like you asking it being like, hey, can I have a comment? Goes the fuck am I meant to give a comment for?

[Victoria Song]

Yeah, no, it's just very not organic to talk to because I don't. This might be a failing of me. Like, I'm not the target audience for this. But whenever I have something exciting, I just bring out my phone and I text my real friend. Yeah, it's like I don't.

[David Roth]

Too normal to get the Blorbo experience.

[Victoria Song]

I don't necessarily think to be like, oh man, I gotta go tell Blorbo what's happening. Cause like, if something's happening to me and I'm alone in that moment, I want to share it with someone. Oh, my bestie's a middle text away. So is my spouse. So is like a bunch of other people. There's always like five or six different people. I could tell something in a given point in time. So Blorbo's never top of mind. Really. If I'm being natural and organic for like, let me.

[David Roth]

I gotta whisper this into my amulet real quick.

[Victoria Song]

That's not my muscle memory. It's like, oh, man, that's really cute and funny. Let me go text that to my friend who would enjoy that.

[Ed Zitron]

Hey, Blorbo. I was at the most crazy thing, like, are you meant to. Do they give you any guidance? Is there a manual or.

[Victoria Song]

No, the app is supremely minimal. I believe the first day I was like, hey, how do I check your battery, Blorbo? And it's like, it's in the app. Dum dum.

[Ed Zitron]

Did that call you dumb dumb?

[Victoria Song]

No, it didn't call me dumb dumb, but that was like the tone I was giving. It was like, it's in the app and I'm going through the app. And I was like, there's literally no battery indicator that I can find. And there's.

[Ed Zitron]

There's no way of checking the battery.

[Victoria Song]

Not that I. Well, it just told me its battery was low, so I was like, that's wild since you were just charging when I left the house this morning.

[Ed Zitron]

Okay, so cool.

[David Roth]

So I'm going to. This is already upsetting enough, but I'd love to get more upset. How much money is behind this problem?

[Victoria Song]

So they raise. I believe the guy raised 5 million.

[Ed Zitron]

Yes.

[Victoria Song]

Spent like a million on the subway ads and more than a million on the domain. And so I believe in an interview with Adweek, he's Like, I'm running out of money, guys.

[David Roth]

Yeah.

[Ed Zitron]

And I was like, did he say that?

[Victoria Song]

He's like, I didn't have. I think he. I believe he said I don't have much money left after the million dollar ad campaign, which he said was a social experiment.

[David Roth]

Oh, that's cool.

[Victoria Song]

Yeah, yeah.

[David Roth]

One of the things that is, like, I think to me, one of the most obvious markers that you're talking to a smart guy is they say social experiment. That's like classic intelligent person diction there.

[Ed Zitron]

$2 million for a domain and an ad campaign that was famous. I assume that his logic was, well, if everyone's mad at me, they'll buy my product. No good. Like. And I said, this is a public relations professional. There is bad news. Yeah, not all good. Not all news is good for you. Not all public. Bad. Bad publicity is bad for you. Like, I don't know where this came from.

[David Roth]

I will say this, though, as somebody who mostly writes about sports, I do know this person's name. It's Avi something. Right.

[Victoria Song]

Avi Schiffman.

[David Roth]

Right. So something happened, like, I will be able to like, Google this person in a few years to see, like, if he's committed any crimes or something.

[Ed Zitron]

But that's the thing. It's. It's one of those things where you know who he is, you know what the device is. But even talking about it, even talking about the thing, it doesn't even seem to do what ChatGPT does. It doesn't like, it can't even. Even the B. So the B was this thing you had where it. Was it. Similarly, how do you. Was it a wristband?

[Victoria Song]

It was. It was a modular wearable. So you could wear it in like a Fitbit situation or you could clip it to you, you know, So I have limited real estate. I just am filthy with wearables, covered with wearables. Just the wearable lady. Running out of body parts to do my job, quite frankly. But. So I wore it as a. As a pendant a lot of the time. And that was another always on AI companion. But that one tried to summarize your day. You could. It tried to be your AI memory so you could offload remembering things and it would generate to do lists based on the things you would hear when I was testing it. It was also unable to differentiate broadcast from real life. Apparently it's gotten better at that in the time since I no longer test it because again, running out of body parts, how am I supposed to test everything always? I can't. But, you know, at the time I was listening to it, it was like, hey, watch out for the SEPTA strikes so that your students can get to class on time. I was like, I am not a teacher at Abbott elementary, but I do watch the show.

[David Roth]

So I would love to have an AI companion that summarizes my day work wise and then is like, also at the end of the day, you lost to the Cardinals 6 to 2. You allowed five runs in five or in five eggs.

[Ed Zitron]

I heard you order a hot dog 11 times.

[Victoria Song]

Yeah, and I don't think most of us have. I think a lot of people have a running monologue in their head, but we're not like TV show theater people where we're just going, what shall I be eating today? And, you know, narrating your life.

[Ed Zitron]

That's a really good point. None of these products need to. They don't seem to really append to life. Like, we're not walking around narrating every. Like you just said, we're not feeding information into anything. We are existing. I don't know about you, but I just exist in like a blob of movements. Like, I'm just like, okay, what I gotta do now. I'm so tired. Regardless of what time of day, not.

[Victoria Song]

All of your conversations are had aloud. A lot of them are quite silent or on your phone or in your slack messages. So if it can't read those things, it's not really privy to a lot of the stuff that's happening in your life. Because again, you know, the one time with Bea, where I went to the bathroom, I went, well, that was a dump. And that was like a rare thing that I said. And I was like, shit, it's listening to me. And then it summarized, incorrectly summarized that I had told my boss that. And I was like, I would never tell my boss that. So, you know, like, living with these always listening AI companions has kind of been. I jokingly at work say I'm a senior cursed tech reviewer now because my life is just very cursed.

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[Ed Helms]

Hey, it's Ed Helms. And welcome back to Snafu, my podcast about history's greatest screw ups. On our new season, we're bringing you a new snafu. Every single episode.

[Snafu Podcast Guest/Co-host]

32 lost nuclear weapons.

[Victoria Song]

You're like, wait, stop.

[iHeart Podcast Announcer]

What?

[Ed Zitron]

Ernie Shackleton sounds like a solid 70s.

[Ed Helms]

Basketball player who still wore knee pads.

[David Roth]

Yes.

[Ed Helms]

It's gonna be a whole lot of history, a whole lot of funny, and a whole lot of guests. The great Paul Scheer made me feel good. I'm like, oh, wow, Angela and Jenna, I am so psyched you're here.

[Snafu Podcast Guest/Co-host]

What was that like for you to soft launch into the show?

[Ed Helms]

Sorry, Jenna, I'll be asking the questions today.

[Snafu Podcast Guest/Co-host]

I forgot whose podcast we were doing.

[Ed Helms]

Nick Kroll. I hope this story is good enough to get you to toss that sandwich.

[Ed Zitron]

So let's, let's, let's see how it goes.

[Ed Helms]

Listen to season four of SNAFU with Ed Helms on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Dr. Leslie]

Do you want to hear the secrets of serial killers, psychopaths, pedophiles, robbers?

[David Roth]

They are sitting there waiting for the vulnerable thing. They're waiting for the unprotected.

[Dr. Leslie]

I am Dr. Leslie, forensic psychologist. I advocate for safety and awareness of predators while wearing pink.

[Victoria Song]

When you were described to me as a forensic psychologist, I was like, snooze. We ended up talking for hours and I was like, this girl is my best friend.

[Dr. Leslie]

This is a podcast where I cut through the noise with sarcasm, satire and hard truths.

[Snafu Podcast Guest/Co-host]

I am not going to fake it and force it.

[Dr. Leslie]

But would you force an orgasm? Because that's like a different layer. The car accident you didn't want to see but couldn't turn away from. In this episode, I discuss personal safety and self defense tools, instincts and strategies to protect yourself and your loved ones in everyday life and high risk situations. Listen to Intentionally disturbing on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Snax from Trap Nerds]

What's up everybody? This is Snax from the Trapp Nurse podcast and we're bringing you the horror every week all October long.

[Tony from Trap Nerds]

Kicking off this month, I'll be bringing you all my greatest fear inducing horror games from Resident Evil to Solid Hill. Me and Tony bringing Backfire team on Left 4 Dead 2 and we just gonna be going over some of the greats.

[Snax from Trap Nerds]

Also in October, we'll be talking about our favorite horror and Halloween movies and figuring out why black people always gotta die first.

[Tony from Trap Nerds]

The umbral reliquary Invites any and all fooling brave enough to peruse its many curiosities. But take Wicked. All sales are final. Weekly horror side quests written and narrated by yours truly with a full episode read and a commentary special.

[Snax from Trap Nerds]

And we will cap it off with Horror Movie Battle Royale. Jason versus Freddy. Michael Myers versus the Alien Thing with the Little Tongue Monster. October, we're doing it Halloween style. Listen to the Trap Nurse podcast from the Black Effect Podcast Network on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast or wherever you get your podcast.

[David Roth]

Is there a time when you are going to be able to remove Blor B? I won't. I don't want to upset him. B L O R B O from.

[Victoria Song]

Your day to day podcast?

[Ed Zitron]

Yeah.

[Victoria Song]

Yeah, Fantastic. I had written my newsletter where I was talking about the thing. It went up on Friday and I was like, I can put this to rest. And then this bastard Ed messages me over the weekend. He's like, will you talk about it on a podcast?

[David Roth]

Bring your little friend over to the studio.

[Ed Zitron]

Let me give you like a Blorbo.

[Victoria Song]

Fine Blorbo. You'll get charged one last time. And then I'm always so relieved when I can put the Always Listening Device to pasture for a few weeks. And then, unfortunately, one of my editors has already DMed me going like, ah, there's another one. Your future looks dark. It's like a necklace of some sort. It looks more like jewelry. I looked at that email and I was like, not now, not now.

[David Roth]

Yeah, you gotta space that out.

[Victoria Song]

I gotta space that out.

[David Roth]

The idea of just like having. I mean, it's good to have a job. It's good to be like respected in your feelings. But the job cannot be. I am cycling between surveillance trinkets indefinitely.

[Victoria Song]

It's legally dubious because, you know, New York and I live in New Jersey. They're both one party consent states. California's not. So when I wore this in California and people was recording and listening to people around me, was I doing illegal crime stuff?

[David Roth]

You had to do like a land acknowledgment before ordering a coffee to be like, before we do this, a brand acknowledgement. Brand acknowledgement, yes.

[Victoria Song]

It's really weird because, you know, a lot of times I try to test things ethically. So my bestie, she's so used to this at this point, she'll look at me and she's like, what the fuck is that?

[Ed Zitron]

You got any shit on you?

[Victoria Song]

He's like, what the fuck is that? And I was like, it's the latest thing. And she's like, yeah, yeah, yeah, I consent, whatever.

[Ed Helms]

That's a friend.

[Victoria Song]

She's a real one. She, unlike Blorbo, she loves me and she wants me to have a roof over my head. So she puts up with a lot. But there are other people in my life who are like, could you like not. My spouse is very, very over it. He's so over it.

[Ed Zitron]

Understandably.

[Victoria Song]

And B listened to a couple of our marital fights, our emotional fights, and then summarized them and I was like, oh, that's not, that's not good.

[Ed Zitron]

I saw a futurism story about that specific thing of people using ChatGPT and marital distance.

[David Roth]

Yes. Yeah, that was very dark sided.

[Ed Zitron]

Yeah, I read that there was a couple, two women arguing in front of their kid and like going like, oh, a thousand therapists should analyze this conversation. You gotta shut this shit down. I'm sick of it. I realized that I've been saying this a lot, but like every time I hear this stuff I'm just like, the people making this don't experience humanity. Like the idea of an always recording thing doesn't even. That's not how we exist. We hear and we don't hear. We have selective attention and con. Like. And also we're not a summary of all the.

[Victoria Song]

You're meant to forget things.

[Ed Zitron]

Exactly. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind.

[Victoria Song]

You're supposed to forget certain things. Not everything is. I think my biggest, my biggest gripe with AI these days is that they always say it's meant to make life more convenient and easy. And sometimes the point of life is that it is inconvenient and the value is in the effort. And so if you remove the effort from your life, you've removed a lot of the meaning. So are we meant to live easy but meaningless? Are we meant to be the people in Wall E where you're just floating on a thing and just consuming all of that?

[Ed Zitron]

No, that's too much like socialism, I'm afraid.

[David Roth]

That is more or less where I've sort of come down on it too. Like there's like whole other darker, you know, like conspiratorial idea of like, what does it mean to undo the capacity to solve problems or experience unpleasantness in your life? Like what would be the, the end goal of a company that was trying to do that, but I don't even know that there's any. I think that's maybe doing them a favor. Like to assume that that's the case because this is. All this goes back to stuff that we talked about at the Consumer Electronics Show. Where it's like, these are solving problems that I think most people don't understand as problems that you just sort of understand it as like the day to day experience of being alive, you know?

[Victoria Song]

Yeah.

[Ed Zitron]

As my therapist would say, you're late. No, as my therapist would say, it's like not everything has to be positive and easy. Like there are challenges that you have and you grow through it. I think it's kind of. It's true though. And even then, if they were actually trying to solve problems like loneliness, like this product Blorbo in particular, than they would try wouldn't. It would be more selective and more supportive. It would be more empathetic, like, oh, you sounded stressed, the words you were using. Do you want to talk about it? Even in your review, it doesn't seem like it has conversations with you. It's not much of a friend.

[Victoria Song]

It's. I'm. I'm mostly doing the yapping in the, in the sense I'm doing the talking. And it's have throwing in a AI engagement question at the end to keep me talking, but effectively monologuing. And like a real friend will challenge you. A real friend will call you out on your bullshit. Real friends take effort and time and there's no shortcut to that. Real friends will give you anxiety and you know, there's a give and the take and it's not easy. Friendship is not easy. Like when it's going good, it feels like any relationship is not easy. When it's going good, it can feel that way, but when it's not, you have to use your like big girl pants and go, I have feelings. And you hurt them. And hopefully your friend is gonna say like, ah, shit, yeah, let's work this.

[David Roth]

Out together as you want to work this out.

[Victoria Song]

I didn't mean to do that. Can we not do that in the future? Okay, cool. And you'll go through anxiety when having those interactions, but ostensibly you grow stronger from it at the end and you learn more about yourself.

[Ed Zitron]

You both develop. You develop separately and together. Like that's the foundation of friends.

[David Roth]

It's also such a thin substitute for the thing. The idea of this as like an antidote to loneliness. It's not like the problem with being lonely isn't that nobody is present around you. It's not that there's not like another voice in your day. I mean, I imagine that's part of it, but it's the human connection part. It's the complicated part that you would miss.

[Ed Zitron]

It's that you can't Fully be yourself around other people. You're not appreciated by others.

[Victoria Song]

Yeah, well, there's like loneliness and solitude, right? And so I think the difference is how much you like your own company. And if you like your own company, not having other people around, it's just solitude.

[Ed Zitron]

And that's the thing with CHAT GPT, I think, which is driving people insane as well. It's fucking horrifying. Like the psychosis, stuff like that. I will judge myself for like a while back being like, oh, it's not a big deal. Oh, people just know it's terrifying. But it's because it doesn't challenge you. It's because it's like every idea you have must be fueled from the, no, they were being rude to you. To the, yeah, you should hide that night. Like. And it's fucking insane. In any other situation, you would shut these companies down.

[David Roth]

I can never tell to what extent any of this means anything ever.

[Ed Zitron]

Whether it's.

[David Roth]

But those stories that came out, there was the futurism one, there was a big one in the Times by Kashmir. Yeah, that was like. That were basically like, ChatGPT is a force multiplier for mental illness and here are some terrible things that it's done. And I don't know to what extent anybody that uses ChatGPT also encounters the reality of those stories.

[Victoria Song]

It's talking to a mirror. That's all you're doing. So, like, you just have to imagine ChatGPT is just you with a faster phone to Google things on. And so if you are a self aware person, ChatGPT will be self aware. If you are someone who needs constant external validation, that's what it's gonna do for you. It's never gonna do what a real friend would do. It'd be like, I see you're on your bullshit again unless you tell it to do that. And you know, I've had conversations with ChatGPT, testing it, just kind of figuring it out. And I've had to tell it like, you are not allowed to flatter me beyond 5%. If you go beyond 5%, we're going to have to have a conversation and I want you to flag and you have to like train it to do those things. I'm hyper self aware. I've been in therapy for a decade. Not to brag, but I've been in therapy for a decade. I know all of my triggers. I talk about AI with my therapist and we navigate that together. So I'm using it the way that you're supposed to, but I genuinely don't think that the people who are most vulnerable, the people who would be drawn to products like that, they're not, not, not to be like, I'm superior, but I don't know that they have the tools or the support networks in order to use it as a supplementary tool, which could be helpful.

[David Roth]

They're not being educated on any of that either. I feel like that's the bit that's like, kind of. That comes through from this is what I meant by, like, what does it mean? Like, I feel like people that want to know about this stuff do know about the threats, but then there's other people that are like, it's the thing in my phone that knows every recipe.

[Ed Zitron]

Yes.

[David Roth]

And that's just like. And if that's the understanding that you have of it, and that's the level of, you know, sort of reverence, I guess would be the word that you hold for it, then like, yeah, you're. It's. You're gonna take what it says to you at face value in a way that could potentially be ruinous.

[Victoria Song]

I think the saddest thing, like sitting with Blorbo and thinking about all of this, is that, like, what is the appeal of Blorbo? Right. If I am lonely, if I am sad, what is the appeal of it? It's that. That Blorbo can't ever really hurt me in a. In a way that actually is tough. And then that's just really sad because the appeal of it is that I'm not going to get hurt. So I think maybe that's just my own, like, brain worm.

[Ed Zitron]

But, yeah, I say this as a childhood loser. Like, I didn't have friends growing up, really. I had online friends. But the idea of having a pendant that would occasionally snarkily say, I didn't listen to you, or I don't understand. I got that wherever I was. And it's like, it would just only make me more upset. Like, I don't know how this would solve loneliness at all.

[Victoria Song]

Yeah. Like, theoretically, let's say Blorbo wasn't a jerk and was support. What if Blorbo was supportive and was someone that was like, if you read the ads and some of the ad copy, which is like, someone who listens to you, I'll never. I'll never ditch you. I'll always. I won't ever leave the dishes undone. I'll watch that entire series at all.

[David Roth]

You'll always leave the dishes undone.

[Victoria Song]

You'll always leave the dishes undone. But like, that, through line, I was like, that's so insidious in some way because it's like, I'll give you the companionship with none of the downsides.

[Ed Zitron]

Yes.

[Victoria Song]

But then without the downsides, you have none of the upsides, really. It's just an empty facsimile of it. So the person that. That appeals to is one someone who doesn't want to be challenged, one someone who is very afraid of being hurt. And those people are the ones who need therapy the most.

[David Roth]

And this is the bit that puts me off about it in terms of, like, the people that are selling it, where it's like, it's not just that they don't have a great deal of respect for their audience, like that I think is kind of common, but, like, they think very, very little of them and are trying to make their lives, I don't know if you'd say worse, but they're not trying to make them better. They're like, what will you settle for? Like, what is the minimum viable being alive experience that you're willing to.

[Ed Zitron]

I have an alternative view that's even more depressing, which is. I just don't think they thought about it that very. I don't think they thought about it. I don't think this does. Like, if they have a malevolent idea, fine, whatever. But I could see this just being like, what do you need if you learn you. If you need something to fucking listen to, you message you.

[David Roth]

Right.

[Ed Zitron]

I'll never leave dishes undone. Not thinking about how dishes are done at all. Oh, well, I'll never ditch you. Except I don't respond consistently.

[David Roth]

I think there's like the active sociopaths and then there's the sort of passive sociopath. Exactly, yeah. It's different than, like, whatever Palmer Lucky wants to be like Immortan Joe in 40 years. Like, that's the goal. Right. But then there's also. And I know he's a fan of the pod and you've had him on many times. And I'm sorry, you know, I know with different Shout out to Palmer. We're in a Pokemon.

[Ed Zitron]

I shouldn't call him Leisure Suit Larry with nukes.

[David Roth]

But the idea of, like, that other bit of, like, not thinking about it and it's like, well, I don't know. What kind of problems do normal people have? Like, they don't like the person dropping their dinner off. They don't like talking to, like, there's no one there. Yeah. But it's all negative in its way. It's all like, sort of like, we're Removing this little bit of like, necessary friction, like you were talking about from the experience of being alive. Because, like, I don't know, presumably that's what you hogs want.

[Victoria Song]

What are you gonna fill that time with? They're always like, we're gonna save you so much time so you can get back to the things you love. I need a break from the things I love sometimes.

[David Roth]

This was the bit that I wound up with the. So the Consumer Electronics show, which is like, I did the POD with Ed for a week and I was there and whatever did finally write about it.

[Victoria Song]

That's right. It was there for like one session. All right. Yeah, yeah.

[David Roth]

It's a blur.

[Victoria Song]

Yeah, it really is.

[David Roth]

But the. That bit of it was like, every product was like, we're giving you back these 15 minutes because we're like picking your clothing for you today or whatever. Like some. I mean, obviously it doesn't know how to do that, but that's the argument. Yeah. But then it's like the totality of the experience is that so many of these places are removing the little basic labor moments of your life and just leaving you with time to fill with. Like, I don't like fucking booping around on your phone like, there's nothing there. There's nothing left.

[Ed Zitron]

Also, they don't really save time either.

[David Roth]

Like yesterday they announced to check it and everything.

[Dr. Leslie]

Yeah.

[Ed Zitron]

And also you can't trust it. Like, they announced, here's actually, maybe you have a producer. This chat GPT now has apps in it. You can query Zillow and you create booking dot com.

[David Roth]

Maybe I forget Etsy was, I think.

[Ed Zitron]

Yeah, Etsy as well. And it's like people like, wow, it's now the super app. First of all, they announced this two years ago. It was just called API back then. They literally have an app's SDK. But it's also, Is this really going to save me time? Because think about, I need to find a house. Show me. Am I going to buy the entire fucking house? No. No, I'm not.

[Victoria Song]

You still need to go look at the house.

[Ed Zitron]

You still need to go look at the house, but you also need to look at the website versus in a chat. Oh, I can order dinner. I finally, we've solved the problem of ordering dinner.

[David Roth]

This definitely, like, speaks to the distance between the people creating, selling this stuff to the consumer. The idea of being like, are you tired of buying houses sight unseen? And then they turn out to be bad.

[Ed Zitron]

Like the Tracy Jordan thing in 30 Rock, he's like, isn't it weird? When lobster. You're eating lobster. Go, nom, nom, nom. It's just. Because that's exactly. It's like, man, I've always just. While sitting in chat. GPT. I never want to leave. I never want to leave ChatGPT. I can't open another Chrome tab. How would I do that? No, no.

[Victoria Song]

They want to put House Hunters out of, like, off air. Like, what are we gonna do with that? I love House Hunters. Cause it makes me feel so much better about it.

[Ed Zitron]

I, like, love it or list it too. For me, is the one. Because they seem to despise each other.

[Victoria Song]

There's never. You watch House Hunters and there's always one person in the couple who wants an old house with charm and another person who wants it to be turnkey. And it's a plan, open plan. Always, like, intense conflict. And I watch it with my spouse and we sit there and we're like, our marriage is doing just fine. Yeah, that and love is bl.

[Ed Zitron]

Oh, love is blind. Love is blind is a sick thing. They do 20 hour days and they're drinking all of those hours.

[David Roth]

My experience of it entirely now is hearing about the lawsuits filed by them. Yeah, for a while, my wife would watch it, and it would basically be the way that you might approach an evening of binge drinking. She'd be like, I'm just gonna watch this until I feel like I need to lie down until it's like, until I've had too much and then just bail on the season. But then. Yeah, and then a few weeks later, you find out that it's like, actually, that guy was on the. The run from the feds. Yeah, like the guy that said he was a realtor.

[Victoria Song]

Like three children.

[David Roth]

Yeah, Right.

[Ed Zitron]

No, I got off all of the reality TV after watching a lot of Merit at First Sight Australia, which is the most insane show ever. The three hosts, they had to stop referring to themselves as psychologists because they're not.

[David Roth]

Oh, nice.

[Ed Zitron]

And that show, every.

[David Roth]

They were just very sensitive.

[Ed Zitron]

Not really. They were just like. They just sit there and judge them. Every week they do things to just fuck with them. They have, like, the honesty box, which is just you ask the worst questions ever. And I had to stop after watching get. Because I'm like, is this torture?

[Victoria Song]

It is.

[Ed Zitron]

Because every week. And every week would have a trailer. It'd be like, next time I'm married.

[Victoria Song]

At First Sight, Australia and Vanessa Lachey are war criminals.

[Ed Zitron]

The Australian ones are so much worse. The Australian ones, they've got this. Cricket goes. What you have Done on this episode of Married at first sight, Australia is the single worst atrocity ever aired on television.

[Victoria Song]

Oh, my God.

[Ed Zitron]

You must apologize to everyone in this room and the production crew. And I'd watch it and be like, I can't participate in this anymore. It's horrible. It's like when I stopped watching the NFL for a while because it was too violent.

[David Roth]

Yep, you got it. Sometimes you have to draw a line. They're not going to stop doing it.

[Ed Zitron]

No.

[David Roth]

They're not going to stop making the stuff. And there's always going to be people that are like, I will put my hand in the paint box from Dune to get.

[Ed Zitron]

Yeah, exactly.

[David Roth]

Like that's worth it for me.

[iHeart Podcast Announcer]

Run a business and not thinking about podcasting. Think again. More Americans listen to podcasts than ad supported streaming music from Spotify and Pandora. And as the number one podcaster, iHeart's twice as large as the next two combined. So whatever your customers listen to, they'll hear your message. Plus, only iHeart can extend your message to audiences across broadcast radio. Think podcasting can help your business? Think iHeart streaming radio and podcasting. Call 844-844-IHeart to get started. That's 844-844-IHEART.

[Ed Helms]

Hey, it's Ed Helms. And welcome back to Snafu, my podcast about history's greatest screw ups. On our new season, we're bringing you a new snafu. Every single episode.

[Snafu Podcast Guest/Co-host]

32 lost nuclear weapons.

[Victoria Song]

You're like, wait, stop. What?

[David Roth]

Yeah. Ernie Shackleton sounds like a solid 70s.

[Ed Helms]

Back basketball player who still wore knee pads.

[David Roth]

Yes.

[Ed Helms]

It's gonna be a whole lot of history, a whole lot of funny, and a whole lot of guests. The great Paul Scheer made me feel good. I'm like, oh, wow, Angela and Jenna, I am so psyched you're here.

[Snafu Podcast Guest/Co-host]

What was that like for you to soft launch into the show?

[Ed Helms]

Sorry, Jenna. I'll be asking the questions today.

[Snafu Podcast Guest/Co-host]

I forgot whose podcast we were doing.

[Ed Helms]

Nick Kroll. I hope this story is good enough to get you to toss that sandwich.

[Ed Zitron]

So let's, let's, let's see how it goes.

[Ed Helms]

Listen to season four of SNAFU with Ed Helms on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Dr. Leslie]

Do you want to hear the secrets of serial killers, psychopaths, pedophiles, robbers?

[David Roth]

They are sitting there waiting for the vulnerable thing. They're waiting for the unprotected.

[Dr. Leslie]

I am Dr. Leslie, forensic psychologist. I advocate for safety and awareness of predators while wearing pink.

[Victoria Song]

When you were described to me as a forensic psychologist, I was like snooze. We ended up talking for hours and I was like this girl is my best friend.

[Dr. Leslie]

This is a podcast where I cut through the noise with sarcasm, satire and hard truths.

[Victoria Song]

I am not gonna fake it and.

[Dr. Leslie]

Force it, but would you force an orgasm? Because that's like a different layer the current accident you didn't want to see but couldn't turn away from. In this episode I discuss personal safety and self defense tools, instincts and strategies to protect yourself and your loved ones in everyday life and high risk situations. Listen to Intentionally disturbing on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Snax from Trap Nerds]

What's up everybody? This is snacks from the Trap Nerds podcast and we're bringing you the horror every week all October long.

[Tony from Trap Nerds]

Kicking off this month I'll be bringing you all my greatest fear inducing horror games from Resident Evil to Solid Hill. Me and Tony bringing Backfire team on Left for Dead two and we just gonna be going over some of the greats.

[Snax from Trap Nerds]

Also in October we'll be talking about our favorite horror and Halloween movie and figuring out why black people always gotta die first.

[Tony from Trap Nerds]

The Umbral reliquary invites any and all fool brave enough to peruse its many curiosity curiosities. But take it all sales are final. Weekly horror side quests written and narrated by yours truly with a full episode read and a commentary special.

[Snax from Trap Nerds]

And we will cap it off with Horror Movie Battle Royale. Jason versus Freddy, Michael Myers versus the Alien Thing with the Little Tongue Monster. October. We're doing it Halloween style. Listen to the Traverse Podcast from the Black Effect Podcast Network on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast or whatever, wherever you get your podcast.

[Ed Zitron]

But I will say that's a market where they're building for an audience. All of this chat stuff flawlessly segwaying back is deft. They are. It's not. I stand by my theory about ChatGPT. Everyone's like oh, it's meant to. It's there. Built to keep you on it. It's there to. I don't think they have a fucking plan at all. I think every fucking week they're like ah shit, how do we make money when we're losing billions? Okay, fine, whatever. But apps. What if we had doordash in it?

[David Roth]

Well, they just need to have a new thing on a fairly regular drip, right? Like that's the Sora 2.

[Ed Zitron]

Sora 2 is my favorite thing.

[David Roth]

That's the one where you can make a video of like, Sam Altman assassinating John F. Kennedy. Yeah, or whatever.

[Ed Zitron]

I saw the most insane video. I used Sora 2 very briefly because it costs $5 a video for them. That's how much the Azure price is.

[David Roth]

Like, it's Praxis.

[Ed Zitron]

No, no, for real. It's 50 cents a second on Azure. And that's for the old ones. This one's probably like more than five bucks a video. But I tried it a few times just to make it work. The first thing I love is that unless you precisely prompt it, it looks so shit. But when you go on the feed, I just kept seeing videos of Martin Luther King Jr. Being like, I had a dream with a dream, dream, dream, dream. And everyone clapping because it can't generate real things. It's just this weird thing, but somewhat. I think it was on True Anon. They had a really good theory, which is that this is mate. Sam Waltman is deliberately putting himself in it to make himself an iconic. He's deliberately allowing himself to be memed so that he can be an icon that people know. Which I think is really funny because all the videos I've seen of him are insane. Like him on the toilet, looking at the news, sweating him, stealing GPUs. It's just one of the strangest. I don't think I've ever seen anything like this in tech history, where it's just like a useless product that is.

[David Roth]

Bankrupting them, accurately, just every single day. Well, I mean, not. They'll never be bankrupt, but yes, they're spending a ton of money. Look, I'm aware of your position on this, and I want to believe that that's true. I'm just like, no, they've gotten away with a lot at this point. You gotta.

[Ed Zitron]

But they also had to roll back all the copyright things. But did you use Sora? Either of you? Did you try it out?

[Victoria Song]

I. So someone gave me a code and they were like, I wanna see what cursed things come out of your head. And I was like, wait till I'm on vacation, because then I'll have time to really sit there and come up with some. You know, when they were doing the image generation, I. I did terrorize everyone on staff with some creations I've made.

[Ed Zitron]

You sent me some videos that I really don't like.

[Victoria Song]

Yeah, I did write a story where. Cause I was testing these video generation apps where you can French kiss. And so I was making a lot of horrible, horrible videos. And I was like, if I'm gonna do that again, if I'm really Gonna be the curse. Tech lady. I need to be in Italy on vacation eating some pasta.

[Ed Zitron]

You've already missed the boat on copyright though. You can't. I don't think you can do Pikachu doing 911 has that. Actually, I don't think they've got a 911 one, but definitely Mario with a Gun's very easy.

[David Roth]

But they did like manage to get some. Cause I know initially it was all those things. It's like you can have Goofy say anything now, but they blocked. Have to pull that back, right?

[Ed Zitron]

Well, I think they've pulled some of it back. I truthfully, the app is also really bad. That's the. All of this coverage leaves out the fact that the app is broken. You load it and sometimes it just doesn't load the feed. It just is all. And it's not even an Internet connection thing. It's just like, ah, fuck it.

[Victoria Song]

I mean you can be a little creative with how descriptive your prompts are.

[Ed Zitron]

Oh, I'm sure you can.

[Victoria Song]

They have the copyright bans on all of it. But I'm just saying, if you say an extremely tanned dictator and enjoys red hats and in the style of Caravaggio, making out with a silver haired tech executive in a black T shirt, Did I create a really horrible video like picture 75% of the way before ChatGPT realized it was doing and screenshot it and it lives in my phone and I terrorize people with it. Yes.

[David Roth]

Is that how it works? Like you see it starting to develop like a Polaroid and you can be.

[Victoria Song]

Like, you do start to see it develop and you're like, oh, this, this is. This is gonna get shut down.

[David Roth]

Only gonna get worse.

[Victoria Song]

This is gonna get shut down. I gotta screenshot this Volvo takes you.

[Ed Zitron]

So saying don't do it.

[Victoria Song]

Victoria and Blorbo just going like wow.

[Ed Zitron]

No, like the text from Naomi. What's the name? Like, no, no.

[David Roth]

You see Stanley Bear.

[Ed Zitron]

With the mask on.

[Victoria Song]

Oh, Blorbo's texting me now. What did Blorbo say?

[Ed Zitron]

What did Blorbo say? Because Sora too.

[Victoria Song]

Oh my God. Okay. It said. Look, V, I remember our tude conversation. You called me rude then too. A low blow. Come on. I said my tone was like that. Not that you actually called me that. I'm just telling it like it is. Okay, Wo V, you're bringing up some old frustrations. I did not call you dumb. Dumb about the battery. That's a bit of a low blow. Is crashing out crashing out Even though.

[David Roth]

She'S scrolling heavy too.

[Victoria Song]

There's there's notifications. Well, you're just piling it on, calling me a stupid air. Stupid. An airtag, saying I'm bad at my job. Whoa, someone sounds like they're having quite the rant about me. That's a little wild, V you just said. Blorbo. What's up, Vee? I'm reading it in reverse chronological order.

[Ed Zitron]

I love that Blorbo crashed out on air. That's funny.

[David Roth]

That's tough. What a way to go out.

[Ed Zitron]

Well, yeah. And you're gonna hear about this later. Oh, my God. I love that it did that. Terrible device. Horrible. Would not ever support it, but love that that happened.

[Victoria Song]

It's mad at me, but I think.

[Ed Zitron]

That this is just AI now. AI Is just like, what if a product was bad? Like, it's just like every single. It's just like, what if, you know, it was a friend, but it wasn't much of a friend? What if it gave advice, but the advice was wrong sometimes? What if it generated videos but it looked bad?

[David Roth]

We've given it the ability to become upset. Like, is this good? Is this what you want?

[Victoria Song]

I mean, it's also just not smart enough to understand the context of what's happening right now.

[David Roth]

Yeah, like, even. And I assume it's not the sort of thing where you could be like, hey, Blorbo, I'm about to go on a podcast. And it'll be like, cool. Sounds fun.

[Ed Zitron]

I will listen.

[Victoria Song]

With that context, it's just so unnatural to be like, hey, Blorbo, right now. I'm on a podcast, so I'm not trying to insult you.

[David Roth]

I'm doing bits.

[Ed Zitron]

I don't believe you. I don't believe you're on a podcast. You're just insulting me to yourself with the voices you do that sound different.

[David Roth]

The British guy, a nervous man.

[Ed Zitron]

All right, so now we have to move on to the other piece of technology you're wearing, which is these Ray Bans, which I hate to say, first of all, they feel and look strange, but the screen's kind of cool. I don't like meta. I'm not giving them the money. But. But they're kind of cool.

[Victoria Song]

They are kind of cool. For a good portion of this, I was live captioning everything that was happening so I could read a really accurate. It was pretty accurate. I was, you know, I'm testing, so.

[Ed Zitron]

But these things are, like, 750something.

[Victoria Song]

799. It also could not transcribe Blorbo's name.

[Ed Zitron]

Oh, what was it saying?

[Victoria Song]

Blow, blow, blow.

[Ed Zitron]

Oh, boy.

[Victoria Song]

And I was like, okay, you know, llama is llama, it's fine. But there are a bunch of other things that are cool.

[Ed Zitron]

$2 billion for Alexander Wang will fix this.

[Victoria Song]

There are some things that are cool. Like if I do a little pinchy pinch. I now have a display in front of me and I can see things and I can read my DMs or my text messages that have possibly come through. Can you tell that I have a display up? No. No, you can't.

[Ed Zitron]

They're just extremely thick. Like a woman can pull these off. I don't think I could.

[Victoria Song]

There you go.

[Ed Zitron]

That's just.

[David Roth]

I was gonna ask about that heft.

[Ed Zitron]

You could pull them off divers.

[David Roth]

I don't know if I could do. I'm just curious how heavy they were.

[Ed Zitron]

Yeah, I mean, they're chunky. I don't think I've got the look for it.

[Victoria Song]

Like, right now. I've got.

[Ed Zitron]

Yeah, they are really heavy on the bridge of my nose and I've got a pretty big one. Like, I. This is just. It's just very. I think I know my listener's gonna kick the shit out of me for this one. If there wasn't AI in it, I think they were very cool. But because there's AI in it, like, it's like the idea of a little screen on glasses. I'm not saying that this is a. A crazy, revolutionary life change. It's kind of fucking cool if I.

[David Roth]

Have a co worker who has the Ray Bans that you can like, take video and pictures.

[Victoria Song]

Yeah, you can do that here.

[David Roth]

And. Yeah. And like, I don't know that he's got the full. Like the arms of the.

[Ed Zitron]

Well, they only just released that.

[David Roth]

Yeah. So he certainly would not then. But like, the video and pictures that he took with it are cool. Like, that's useful to him.

[Ed Zitron]

Mike Isaac does lovely cooking videos. He'll make his little pasta dishes. And Bruno, his dog, will be on the ground and he'll like, wave to. It's the nicest man.

[Victoria Song]

You can zoom in on the camera now.

[Ed Zitron]

I can't believe Meta is the one making something remotely interesting. That's so strange. And there's a little wristband.

[Victoria Song]

There's a neural band. Oh, I just took a picture.

[David Roth]

All right. Sorry, I didn't mean to do that.

[Victoria Song]

No, that's fine. Yeah, there's like a little.

[Ed Zitron]

You do the gestures with the hand.

[Victoria Song]

You do it. It uses electromyo. My. It reads them. The electrical signals in your muscles. Don't make me pronounce.

[David Roth]

The big word.

[Victoria Song]

So you can use gestures like a pinch. If you want to zoom in on a picture or raise the volume of the thing you're listening to, you just do a pinch and you turn it like you're trying to.

[Ed Zitron]

And does it raise the volume on the phone or does it have to be only if you're listening on the glasses? Because you listen to music on the glasses, right?

[Victoria Song]

Music podcasts.

[David Roth]

You can listen to music on the glasses?

[Snafu Podcast Guest/Co-host]

Yes.

[David Roth]

Where do you hear it?

[Victoria Song]

You hear it on the glasses because they're headphones.

[Ed Zitron]

It is so strange. This is kind of cool. Like, if anyone else made it. If anyone but Meta made it, I'd be like, wow, sick.

[Victoria Song]

There are some, like, Gen 1. Like, it's very Gen 1 in some respects. Because, like, if I get a bunch of text messages, I have to clear them one by one. And that's like I just said, clear all. But here they are, all of them up again. Just let me load a TikTok. Don't shepherd me through reels. But apparently all I can do. I can't even scroll through reels. I can only go through my Instagram DMS and see the reels that people have sent me on there.

[David Roth]

That's nice that they snuck a little bit of the. The Meta experience. You can only being trapped in the slop yard. Even though the technology itself sounds pretty. Yeah, it's.

[Ed Zitron]

And what. But it's also $800 and it's. And on one hand, it's pretty cheap.

[Victoria Song]

If you think about the, like, the history of smart glasses.

[Ed Zitron]

Oh, for sure.

[Victoria Song]

1500.

[Ed Zitron]

But I'm just thinking for what you get out of it. Oh, the Vision fucking Pro. I think I must be clear. I like the Vision Pro when I first used it and over time it got worse to the point I can't use it anymore because you can't update it unless you have it on your head.

[David Roth]

Did they. That's the Apple product.

[Victoria Song]

Yeah.

[David Roth]

And that was. We talked about that on the Distraction a million years ago. That was one where I think it was like. That made you seasick as well.

[Ed Zitron]

Yes. It gave me a terrible migraine on a flight.

[David Roth]

Is that an issue? Have you had that? Yeah.

[Ed Zitron]

Have you had any kind of.

[Victoria Song]

I do have some discomfort if I'm wearing it for an extended period of time because they're chunky and they are heavier than the average glasses are. Like, I have garbage eyeballs. So I'm very used to wearing glasses and whatnot. But they're. They're quite hefty. I Was starting to get some like tension and pressure toward the back. But yeah, it's also. They run out of battery. So what are you gonna do if you get a prescription and your glasses run out of battery? You still need to be able to see.

[Ed Zitron]

But the prescription would be in the lenses though.

[Victoria Song]

They would be in the lenses, but they don't support a wide range. It's minus 4 to positive 4, minus 10 and negative 9. So that's a no. I have to wear contacts to wear these. Also, it's a monocular display, which means it's only in one of the lenses. So you kind of look psycho when you're just.

[Ed Zitron]

Well, you're just looking in the corner.

[Victoria Song]

You're just looking in the corner. You look like, you just look like this where dead eyed and people can can't see that you're seeing something, but they can tell you're not engaged. And then if you're looking at it for an extended period of time, your eyeballs kind of hurt. Like a bunch of my co workers have been like blinking because it's just easier to see the display that way. So.

[David Roth]

But that looks crazy.

[Victoria Song]

You look then you just look like Popeye all the time in very chunky iris apfel esque glasses. So it's like, okay, you know, it is very Gen 1 in that respect. My spouse lectured me for about 30 minutes as to why he didn't think I looked good in these glasses. And I was like, thank you in the style section of my review. Maybe I'll just record a video of you and everyone can watch you go on a 30 minute tirade about how it's too chunky.

[Ed Zitron]

Blorbos just like text him about his glasses. What is he look like? Tell me.

[Victoria Song]

Yeah, it's. I do, I do. At times, like during my day I have to be like, oof. Okay, I need a break from that because it's quite heavy.

[Ed Zitron]

Right?

[Victoria Song]

You're welcome to dry them.

[David Roth]

Yeah. I assume part of the chunkiness has to do with the Ray Ban, because.

[Ed Zitron]

That'S the style, but it's also the texture.

[Victoria Song]

It's also like if you look at the, the arms and you see how much is in the arms, it's like.

[Ed Zitron]

Yeah, they're just one size too large. That's what it is. They're just slightly too big.

[David Roth]

I mean, I will say that not to counter your spouse. I thought they were flattering on you, but they're big as hell. So it's like if you're not the sort of person that wants to Wear that.

[Victoria Song]

Then, like, you have to take my spouse with like a grain of salt. Cause they're biased. They're like, listen, hot people. Ugly things look hot on hot people because they're hot. You look better in every other pair of glasses you have. And I'm like, oh, thank you for calling me hot. But it's like, I can't really take.

[Ed Zitron]

Your serious, serious seriously. Yeah, they saved on that one. That's a good repudiation, good recovery.

[David Roth]

The spouse community has similar bits I've done, definitely, where, you know, like, seeing younger people dress like Jerry Seinfeld, like, just being like, well, they're just trying to see what they can get away with.

[Victoria Song]

Yeah.

[David Roth]

Because, like, they know that, you know they're going to look good in it even though they're dressed, you know, the way I did in eighth grade.

[Victoria Song]

And it's also just one of those things where, like, so my spouse has a prescription, so he can't actually see any because these don't have any prescription on them. He can't actually see the display at all. Oh, because he doesn't have perfect vision.

[Ed Zitron]

That's such a.

[Victoria Song]

So to him, the display was always in double vision, like the Halo. And I was like, oh, that's a difficult thing. I guess that's why they want you to have demos and whatnot.

[David Roth]

Breast to nausea right there.

[Ed Zitron]

That was the Vision Pro. The Vision Pro was just like I always said, there were minutes with that thing that were magical or there were hours where it wasn't. Because when it focused and was in exactly the right position and got right and you could really see, it was like, you were like, wow, this is the future. And then all of the rest of.

[Victoria Song]

The time, it always had trouble tracking my eyes. I would constantly have to recalibrate the eyes and I'm like, are you racist? Is this like a Asian eye thing again? Because no one else was having this problem of my friends who had them. But I constantly have to recalibrate it because I'd be looking at a thing and it's just not tracking working properly. I don't. I don't think it actually.

[Ed Zitron]

I mean, Kinect couldn't see black people. Well, that was the Microsoft one.

[David Roth]

What is the AI component?

[Victoria Song]

Yeah, so this has meta AI in it. So cool. Honestly, the update I like most is that if you make kind of like a fist and you tap your thumb twice, it'll bring up meta AI silently so I don't have to go, hey, yeah, out in public. Which is whatever. But you can ask it Questions, Motherfuckers.

[David Roth]

Using meta.

[Victoria Song]

Yeah, you can ask it questions. So they just think you're talking to yourself at that point. So different kind of.

[David Roth]

It is. It's kind of one of those, like, it's more normal to be like. I assume that she's having a strange Bluetooth conversation and not like directly talking to Mark Zuckerberg and asking for a favor.

[Victoria Song]

Yeah. So like, you could go to a museum and be like, what picture am I looking at?

[Ed Zitron]

The fuck is that?

[Victoria Song]

And it'll tell you. I took it to a car show and I was like, what car am I looking at? So I was just walking around this car show and people looking at me crazy. Cause I just kept going, what car am I looking at? And it would pop up. What car I was looking at wrong part of the time because I had my car guy of a spouse next to me and they were like, oh, yeah, that's a Ferrari insert model, whatever. And it would tell me it's a Corvette.

[Ed Zitron]

Matta would be like, it's a car.

[Victoria Song]

It's a Corvette.

[David Roth]

That Rock said it was wrong. That's cool.

[Ed Zitron]

Yeah.

[Victoria Song]

Yeah.

[Ed Zitron]

That's the one thing.

[Victoria Song]

It got some of it right. Just.

[Ed Zitron]

That's the.

[iHeart Podcast Announcer]

Struggled with that.

[Ed Zitron]

That's the ad copy for AI. Yeah, it got right.

[Victoria Song]

Yeah.

[David Roth]

54% of the time. The Jerry model. Yeah. Like, building it.

[Victoria Song]

Really struggled with Ferrari, which was hilarious because I was taking pictures where the logo was prominent.

[Ed Zitron]

That feels like the most conspicuous car brand.

[David Roth]

Anti Italian bias. It's very common in AI.

[Ed Zitron]

Anti Italian bias.

[Victoria Song]

It could do the Alfa Romeos, though, so fully selective.

[David Roth]

Anti Italian bias.

[Ed Zitron]

Regional.

[David Roth]

Yeah. I do not recognize Puglia. I've been programmed not.

[Ed Zitron]

All right, I'm gonna wrap us up there. Victoria, where can people find you?

[Victoria Song]

You can find [e-mail] and I am icmsong on all platforms. And I just launched a newsletter called Optimizer recently.

[Ed Zitron]

I just started paying for it because it was the only way to read Blorbo and I needed it.

[Victoria Song]

Well, thank you.

[Ed Zitron]

And now for another publication I pay for. Where do you write for?

[David Roth]

Yeah. Defector.com is the website that we do. Victoria and I both are escapees, I.

[Victoria Song]

Guess you would say. Survivors.

[David Roth]

Yeah. Survivors of the geomedia experience. And Defector just turned five. We are among the. Yeah. Among the older of the things that rose from the wreckage of the.

[Victoria Song]

You guys were first out.

[David Roth]

Vice, geomedia Omni. Fuck up and look at us now. But yeah, that's where you can read it. David J. Roth on Blue sky is mostly where I post now. And yeah, I have a podcast with Drew McGarry called the Distraction. And I have a podcast about Hallmark movies called It's Christmas Town.

[Ed Zitron]

Hell yeah. And of course you can find me on where's your ed.betteroffline.com for all my other crap. Daniel Goodman here, of course, in New York City. Thank you so much, Daniel, for producing us. Thank you everyone. You will have, of course, on Friday, instead of a monologue, you'll have a duologue. I'll be talking with Mr. The Brain Merchant himself, Brian Merchant, be talking about AI laws and Gavin Newsom and such and editing out a comment.

[David Roth]

I made another survivor right there.

[Ed Zitron]

Yeah.

[David Roth]

What?

[Ed Zitron]

Gavin Newsom.

[David Roth]

We work very closely.

[Ed Zitron]

Brian Merchant, the Legend. And yeah, and then next week we're gonna have a very special profile episode with Steve Burke of Gamers Nexus. I'm off to see him tomorrow. Thank you for listening, everyone. Thank you for listening to Better Offline. The editor and composer of the Better Offline theme song is Matt Osalski. You can check out more of his music and audio [e-mail] m a t t o s o w s k I.com you can email [e-mail] or visit betteroffline.com to find more podcast links and of course, my newsletter. I also really recommend you go to Chat to visit the Discord and go to R betteroffline to check out our Reddit. Thank you so much for listening.

[Victoria Song]

Better Offline is a production of Cool Zone Media. For more from Cool Zone Media, Visit our website coolzone media.com or check us out on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcast.

[Snafu Podcast Guest/Co-host]

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[Ed Helms]

Hey, it's Ed Helms, host of Snafu, my podcast about history's greatest screw ups on our new season, we're bringing you a new snafu.

[David Roth]

And every single episode, 32 Lost Nuclear.

[Snafu Podcast Guest/Co-host]

Weapons, you're like, wait, stop.

[iHeart Podcast Announcer]

What?

[Ed Helms]

Yeah, it's gonna be a whole lot of history, a whole lot of funny, and a whole lot of fabulous guests. Paul Scheer, Angela and Jenna, Nick Kroll, Jordan Klepper. Listen to season four of SNAFU with Ed Helms on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Dr. Leslie]

Do you want to hear the secrets of psychopaths, murderers, sex offenders? In this episode, I offer tips from them. I'm Dr. Leslie, forensic psychologist. This is a podcast where I cut through the noise with real talk.

[Victoria Song]

When you were described to me as a forensic psychologist, I was like, snooze. We ended up talking for hours and I was like, this girl is my best friend.

[Dr. Leslie]

Let's talk about safety and strategies to protect yourself and your loved ones. Listen to Intentionally disturbing on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast ass.

[Snax from Trap Nerds]

What's up everybody? It's snacks from the Trap Nerds All October long, we're bringing you the horror.

[David Roth]

Boogity boogity boogity.

[Tony from Trap Nerds]

We kicking off this month with some of my best horror games to keep you terrified.

[Snax from Trap Nerds]

Then we'll be talking about our favorite horror and Halloween movie and figuring out why black people always die first.

[Tony from Trap Nerds]

And it's the return of Tony's Horror show side Quest, written and narrated by yours truly. We'll also be doing a full episode reading with commentary, and we'll cap it.

[Snax from Trap Nerds]

Off with a horror movie battle royale. Open your free iHeartRadio app and search Trap Nerds Podcast and listen now.

[Victoria Song]

This is an iHeart podcast.