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Don't believe everything you see, hear or read.
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Welcome back to the episode of the Truck Talk Tuesday on LCR Media Podcast. And I say that because I have, I mean, today's today, right now, you know, current time, real time, the year 2026. Everyone's talking about AI, artificial intelligence and all the progression of that and what the future is going to look like and all these different scenarios. And there's a lot of uncertainty for sure, but I'm not going down that particular rabbit hole or path. I am focusing on for this episode. What I mean by be careful what you listen to, read, hear, don't believe. Like, unfortunately, all this AI, how you can easily create any kind of piece of content written, recorded on video or audio. It can all be created images, all of it can be created now through AI. And it's really hard to even tell the difference between what's real and what's not. And I'm sure that's only going to get better or worse, however you want to look at that. So the point being we. It's kind of breeding some more skepticism in people that are already skeptical or like, you know, they just have lived that way most of their life or were never skeptical before. We're more optimistic like, oh, you know, everything will be fine, or no, I'm sure that's true. Or taking, taking people's words for things, taking things for granted, whether that be a little naive or not, whether that be a little reckless or not. But I mean, your parents, you should, you think you should be able to listen to what they say. Your teachers, professors, mentors, whoever that is, you know, maybe, maybe a close family friend or relative that's older and wiser, and you look up to them, or a neighbor, you know, your employer, and you think that you can trust them. You can listen to what they're. They're saying as fact and the advice that they're giving you, the, the lessons that you're, that they're teaching you, the examples that they're providing and you know, you could, that, that, that could be a possibility where they don't, you know, like where, where they are misleading you. But most, most of the time, most of the case, they might not even realize or think that they are telling you misinformation. They might really believe truly in what they're saying is facts. And because the source that they got that from was false. So it just, it almost becomes like the telephone game in a sense, where you have a fact, potentially start, that started out as a fact and by the time it gets trickled down to you or whoever, it's. It's not the same message. It's not even factual anymore. You don't even, maybe not. Maybe it's not even recognizable. That's the fun and humor of the telephone game, is it? It most of the times doesn't even become recognizable, whatever the message even became, depending on how many links or chains you know that how many people down the line you've, you've gone through. So there's that. But like I said back to, you know, AI. Again, not to blame AI, but I'm just using that as a real world example here that it's bringing the best and the worst out of a lot of folks, as you would expect, honestly. But you just have to be careful. You have to do your research. You have to fact check is the whole point to my story. And above and beyond that, we've been doing that. A lot of us have been. My kids have been fact checking me, you know, like, and then, and my wife and everything they hear on TV and in public for years before AI became what it is now, you know, with all these different platforms and being readily use or easily usable for everyone and, and so on. All we had was Google or whatever other search engines. There was no AI platforms doing their version of searches and giving information. But that before all that, my kids were still fact checking and I'm sure that their generation was kind of that fact checking generation. And at times it was kind of like silly and ridiculous and almost like, why do you have to fact check me? Like this is truth. But in all reality, who knows? Like if I heard it from somebody who heard it from somebody who heard it from somebody, all those people might have thought that the source they got that information from was factual and, and who really knows what was factual? And sometimes they don't even question it and then it just gets passed down from generation from generation. A couple quick examples here of this one. I heard a story a while ago actually about this whole passing information, not misinformation, but just information that's not useful or valuable, doesn't serve us anymore generation after generation. And we can go down all kinds of rabbit holes with that there. But like our current, you know, our current structure of society and America and wherever else you live in the, in the, in the world potentially kind of following some super old school traditional values or constitution or whatever, and things have gotten a little old and outdated along the way. But this. So one example that I remember hearing this story of a woman, a woman was cooking, she was preparing a meal a certain kind of way with, like, certain types of utensils, whatever, pots, pans, whatever it was she was. She was putting together this meal, cooking this meal, preparing to cook this meal in a specific way. And her daughter asked her. Her younger daughter asked her, why? Why do you do it like this? Why don't you do it like that? Like, don't you think that way would be quicker or easier or more efficient or whatever the scenario was? And the mom said, I don't know. That's just the way I was taught. Why don't you ask. Why don't you ask your gr. You know, your grandma? That's how she taught me. That's how it always was. And then, so then the grandchild, the granddaughter goes to her grandmother and asks her, why do you do it this way? Like, why do you cook this thing this way? Or why do you, you know, whatever it is, why do you do it this way? And she said, well, I had no choice. This is the only way that I could do it. Because we didn't have that other thing. We didn't. We weren't able to do it that way. That's much more efficient that way. I don't do it that way anymore. I don't know why your mother does it that way. That seems like such a waste of time. It's so inefficient. I do it this way now. So, point being, the mother was just doing what was how she was taught, the way that it was taught to her and never questioned if there was a better way or if there. If her, who taught her was even still doing it that way. And, you know, the. The grandma could have said to. To the. To their mom, to her daughter, the mom, like, hey, you know, I found this new way to do this, but it probably just didn't even think about it. But then the mom's passing along this lesson now to the granddaughter, I mean, to her daughter. And her daughter's just questioning because she's younger and there's a lot more availability of whatever it was. And she's just like, this doesn't make any sense. Why. And she's not trying to be rude or disrespectful. She's just questioning like most kids, like, well, why. Why are we doing it like this when we could do it like that instead? And, you know, the mom, not knowing the answer, just, I don't know. It's the way I've always done it, you know, so I'm teaching you this way, if you really want to know, ask Grandma, you know, so that's just. I thought that story was interesting because it tells a tale of how many times have we done that throughout society. And I know traditions are great. Like, don't get me wrong, I'm all about traditional values and having traditions, having routines, you know, especially when it comes to family, whether that be, you know, eating, eating at the dinner table together whenever you can, whenever you're home, instead of being all sprawled out different times of the night, eating whatever, like just. Or on the couch, watching tv. Like, no. Sit at the table all together at the same time. No phones, no tv, just eat dinner and have conversation. Like, that's a super old school, seemingly super old school family value tradition that is fading fast. Unfortunately, even in my house, because we're one. We're not even all home around the same time for dinner a lot throughout the week because we have different work schedules, different types of work. You know, my son's in college and so when he's not. When he's away at college, he's not home. So, you know, it's definitely challenging, but we definitely make an effort that whenever we can, we will have dinner together at the table or we go out to dinner. That's the best way for us all to kind of put on our calendar to. For some reason, it's harder to schedule time at home to have dinner, which almost seems kind of silly for a lot of folk, for, for, you know, for us, I guess, or for the kids. But going, saying we're going to go out to eat, it's like, oh, okay, we're going some. We're going, you know, to a rant, to a restaurant. It sounds almost like a. I mean, it is an experience. It sounds like a special occasion. So even if it isn't a special occasion, we just want to go out for dinner and reconnect with each other. Then, then that's. There's no tv because you're at a restaurant. Of course there's a lot of other people there. So there's some. That kind of distraction. Get, get, you know, seeing, seeing distracted by what people are doing and saying. And oh, look at that. Well, look at what they ordered. I wonder what that is. But that's still interactive as long as you're having that conversation with, with the rest of the family at the table. But there's no phones or whatever. So it's challenging. I get it. But there. But I'm definitely a big fan of traditions like that. Just traditional values. But when it Comes to efficiency when it comes to, like, facts, I think it could get real slippery when we go one way or the other. It could go one way or the other if we allow ourselves to get misinformed and we don't do our due diligence in fact checking, you know, to tie this into business. In case you're like, what, what does this have anything to do with anything? Like, well, how does this help my business? Well, just think about when I've said before in many other episodes, excuse me, on social media, when you're seeing people, other businesses driving by, or you're driving by them and they've got a specific setup, or maybe they have this big amazing truck and trailer and a whole bunch of employees and everything's looking crisp and equipment's brand new and their uniforms are looking new and crisp and everything is just looking like a million bucks. And you're like, and you have, you know, you have no idea what's going on behind the scenes. You think that they're super accomplished and they're profitable. They're, they're, you think they're successful. That's like the, the, the, the thought I believe most of us have. When you see that, you know, you see a company out there doing a good job on a bunch of lawns and they have an amazing looking setup, whatever that definition is for you, it looks like it costs money. Looks like they're making money. They have people, all that. And you're like, man, they must be successful, right? But you have no idea what goes on behind the scenes. You have no idea if they keep, I mean, of course, if you pay attention long enough and you see the same employees and there's that if you just see different employees, then you, you have some of those answers, of course, where you're like, all right, but if, you know, if you don't notice or pay much attention to the, the employee status, then like the types of employees that are there, if they're new or old, you just see a bunch of employees and you know, you have no idea if they're turning over employees constantly. You have no idea if they're constantly upset and frustrated with their employees. Like if they're constantly having to come back and redo things or, you know, follow up on everyone and you don't know if the customers are complaining because I of that they forget to do different things or their billing strategy is awful and the customer just wants to pay their bill and they just can't figure out how to pay their bills or, you know, you don't unless you're again paying attention to the same days and times. You don't know if maybe they're not coming, they're not showing up to do the service the same day and time that's agreed upon by the customers. And they're frustrated because they're just kind of all over the place. And they, maybe the customers are frustrated because they reach out and there's no communication. You don't know any of that stuff behind the scenes. You don't know if they're in debt and about to go, you know, file bankruptcy. Like, you have no idea. You just see the surface level. And then what's even worse is when those people that are in not successful situations but look successful on the outside, you bump into them at the gas station and they, you know, of course they're not going to say, oh man, everything's falling apart. Like when they, when they first meet someone anyway, they're not going to be like, like, oh man, everything's falling apart. And, you know, I, I don't know what I'm, what I'm doing. Like, no one's gonna say that or admit that to most people, especially the first time, you know, first time you meet someone, if they even say that at all. But if you bump into someone, the gas station and, and, and you ask them questions or just say, hey, introduce yourself, they're gonna, everyone's gonna try and be like, put their best foot forward. Right? That's just, that's just natural. But some people are more, you know, faking the funk than others where they put that, like, oh, yeah, I'm a big bad, you know, business owner and I'm crushing it when really they're about to be crushed by it. So, and then now you're, it just, it just reinforces your thoughts of, oh man, they really are doing successful. And then you might start feeling bad about yourself and your progress if you don't think that you're measuring up to them for whatever reason, or you start looking at what they're doing and think that that's what you have to do to be successful, when maybe some of the things that they actually did is what's making them not successful, what's making them in debt or making them about to go bankrupt or whatever. But you don't know any of that because you don't know the behind the scenes. And they definitely aren't going to admit that to you in the beginning anyway. They're just going to act like they're big bad and successful. They got it all figured out. And then even worse, like some of those people could, I mean unfortunately, like in any, any, anywhere. Like they could be on social media posting stuff like that's, that's not the best, you know, trying to teach different lessons here and there. Or maybe they're just doing it privately so they don't get, you know, if they say the wrong thing on social media, then they're going to get outed quickly and maybe they don't want to do that. So they just kind of mentor people or do some private stuff and misinform other business owners. And maybe they're not doing it intentionally, may think what they're doing is the right way. Maybe they think they're supposed to only have like 5% profit margins, you know, or maybe they're supposed to just break even and that's it. Like maybe they think they're not supposed to pay themselves. Maybe they think all these things. If you make a million dollars and you spend a million dollars, hey, it's all good. Like at least we're not in debt. Like maybe they think that's good, you know, because they just, you know, sometimes you don't know what you don't know. And when you stay in your little bubble, that's, you definitely don't know. You're never going to find out. You're only going to figure out what you figure out within your own business and you don't know if that's good or bad until you get in a room with other business owners and presenters telling you here's the right ways to do these things, or here's a couple of different ways to do these things. Here's what's worked, here's what hasn't worked. Here's some examples. Or you get a mentor or you do some training courses, whatever that looks like for you, to get you outside of your environment so that you can see, see more clearly and other people can see you more clearly. And you have to be a little vulnerable for that as well. But so, because, so if you don't, because if you don't do that, you're just gonna, that's just another example of being misinformed, right? And now as everything is just getting pushed forward so much more with social media and AI again and you know, just there's, it's very easy now to get misinformed. You really have to fact check. And, and then on top of that, now the real reason why I was thinking about this recently is because I was thinking about another example of how a personal example of how you can change stuff online so you can't even necessarily trust Google anymore, which is unfortunate. You have to cite, and I'm not saying anything bad about Google, but any platform, any technology, any AI software, they're going to tell you what you want to hear. For one thing, AI typically tells you what you want to hear. It learns about you unless you have all that stuff shut off. But it's still designed to be positive and to figure out what's going to be the best way to make you happy and with the results and make you want to keep using it, right? Just like everything else, the social media platforms want to keep you on the platform so they can keep running ads, so that they get paid and they make money, Right? Everyone's trying to make money. I get it. It's it. Everything's a business. But that's why you just have to be careful. You have to make sure you do your due diligence. You can't just do one quick search and take that for like fact, you know, like you have to actually look some stuff up. It's really like in multiple sources and it's obviously easier when there's like laws that you're looking up and you're going on.gov websites and things of that nature and you know, that's a little more credible. But of course people can put whatever they want, like the government can put whatever they want on there. But at least you know it's not someone's opinion, you know, or some, some site acting like they know everything, right? When you're getting the facts or the information straight from the source, at least you're getting the source's information. Whether that's factual or not is still debatable, but at least you're getting it from that source and you're not diluting it. Now further down to someone's opinion, lawn
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I mean, there's people everywhere now that are like, that are on YouTube and other social media platforms that will break down the trailer or break down the movie and, you know, give you all the quote unquote Easter eggs they call it, right? Like, essentially helps you catch what you missed. So that's the stuff that I like, you know, and some of that's opinions, but some of it, but a lot of it is fact. Like when they state the sources, like if we're talking about like Marvel, for example, Marvel Comics. Marvel movies, right? Like Iron man and Avengers and Spider man, all those types of movies, you know, they, the sources are the comics. So when these YouTubers are talking about a particular trailer or movie and they're like, oh, this is from. This is based off of this comic book era or this comic book issue or, you know, whatever, and they literally like state the comic book number blankety, blank, date, blanket, sometimes even show it, have an animation of a picture of it. Like, then you see the source. Like, okay, well, they're actually getting these facts from here. And then there's some opinions mixed in there, you know, and, and like, well, so let me, let me know what you think they're going to do next. Or, well, let me know what you think this means. You know, I think it means this. Oh, and that's cool that that just gets you thinking and being creative. That's the whole point of that whole thing. But when it comes to trying to get actual facts like right from wrong laws, the, the right way to do business, you know, taxes and accounting and how to collect money properly and securely and how to take care, how to find employees, how to hire employees, I mean, a lot of that is obviously personal experience and opinions as well. But there are some right and wrongs there and things that you should and shouldn't do from a human resources perspective, an HR perspective, a legal perspective. But so there are a lot of things that you do want to get facts and then there's just stuff about the world, right? People like, oh, they just passed this law. Or did you hear they're going to do this in Virginia? Like, oh man, Virginia sucks. Now they're going to do all these things. It's like, really? Let me check that out. You know, like, where's your source? Facebook? Like, okay, where'd that source come from? Like, let's, let's actually go to the source. Let's go to, you know, the government website. Let's try and do some fact check if you care enough. And you know, but some people are just quick to spread propaganda and spread rumors and just focus on everyone else's problems, things that they can't even control versus focusing on their own problems that they can control more. But it's harder, I guess, to look yourself in the mirror and see what's wrong and try and fix it than it is to talk about everybody else's problems and come up with all these solutions. And it's just, yeah, if they just did this, it'd be great, you know, I mean, all you gotta do is this. I don't know why it's so hard. It's like, well, then why don't you do. What about the stuff for you? You do that if it's not so, you know, like. But that's just how human nature is, I think, to a certain extent. But that's why again, we have to check all these things. We have to double and triple and quadruple check. And my final example is many years ago when my son, this is way before AI was where it is now, but Google was still Google and my son was was in middle school and he came home traumatized, telling us about, you know, one of the kids in his, in his class that essentially was like not bullying him, but just whatever, like a milder version of that. Just like peer pressuring him, I guess. I don't. Just, just. But, but, but my son didn't know. Like, like the kid knew what he was doing, but my son didn't know. But my, my kid asked. I mean, this kid asked my son or he told him, he's like, you should just Google. He's like, hey man, you should Google blah, blah, blah. And I'm not going to even say what it is because I don't want to go down that rabbit hole. Was, it was about an animal and it seemed very innocent even to us when he told us, we're like, what the heck? We never heard of that before. But it sounded very matter of fact of like what it sounded like. And if you were to think about it, you would think that when you Google it it would just be some weird, like goofy animation of what it was, of what was said. But it definitely wasn't. It was the most adult, inappropriate, terrifying content for a middle school boy and girl to. But it was, they were pictures. It was, it was, it was. There were, it was a male, you know, driven images. So I mean, obviously girls could see it and they could be traumatized as well. But regardless, for a middle school child, that it was, it was dev. It was mortifying. And then when we saw it, we looked it up on our own Googles and it was. Which is terrible in hindsight because that messes up your algorithm. But at the time we didn't know or care and we were, my wife and I were like, we were completely disgusted by the whole situation. And we got the school involved because like many other schools or school districts, they issue Chromebooks, they call them. It's like a little mini laptop, a little tiny laptop that gives you very minimal functionality. It's not like a regular laptop. So the kids can play games and watch YouTube videos, though they still found ways to hack the system, right? And watch YouTube videos. I don't know if they were able to play games other than like solitaire, but, you know, you couldn't download Minecraft or something on there or Call of Duty. And I think the web searches were very minimal. They had a lot of safeguards on it, but just like life, I mean, you can't safeguard everything. I don't know how the safeguards even work, but it definitely didn't catch this particular situation. Because the words that were used sounded really innocent and just kind of like, like weird. Like just like what the heck? That's silly. That's so silly. Like that's, that's essentially what we thought. Like oh, that's silly. But when you googled it, that's not, it wasn't silly at all. So the, so my wife was, I mean we were both furious and my wife went to the school and made a huge deal about it. The school called both my son and the other kid in and talked about it and I, I don't remember who got in trouble or whatever. They probably all, they probably both just got like a slap on the wrist and the school probably freaked out when they saw this stuff on there and, but they didn't really, they didn't tell us any of that. They just said that they spoke to both kids and you know, made sure that it's clear not to do whatever, you know, again. And like, and that's essentially what our son confirmed. But we didn't get any like follow up really other than that from the school. Like well what are you doing? Like did like what, what are we doing about these Chromebooks? Like our kids should not be able to Google crazy things like this. Oh no, it's, you know, we, and they just kind went down the whole thing of how safeguarded it is and everything's great and this, this should never happened or it was whatever. They just really tried to like cover it up essentially for lack of a better term, not, not to sound that conspiracy theorist but you know that they were just trying to, to save their own, you know, save their own butt. Of course. Right. Cover their own butt. So I, I get it but it was still disturbing and frustrating. And then we went to. And then I don't know if it was right right after or sometime maybe we were telling another someone else this story and we, we tried to google it the same thing and it came up all the images were exactly what we thought they were going to be. The first time we googled it based on what was said. We're like oh, there's a bunch of animations and a bunch of goofy looking things. And I'm like wow, either we've been been punked, mind erased like MIB over here or they complained to somebody in Google or somebody that complained to Google the school meaning complained to Google or someone that complained to Google. And Google just completely changed a whole search for this phrase, for this thing, for this situation. So imagine what they could do if they could do that. Imagine what Else they could do, essentially they could put whatever they want for any search result. There's no guarantee or obligation for them to misinform you, essentially. Like, and at the time I really didn't think it was that big of a deal other than like, wow, that's crazy. They really contacted Google and changed this. That's nuts. It wasn't until like now with AI and all of the misinformation going on out there, because AI is not 100% factual, in case you didn't know. If you're using AI as your new search engine, AI is telling you what you want to know and it's catered to you. And it's, it's just, it's, it's kind of the worst version of Google, if you will. Like, Google is giving you results that it's getting paid to give, right? So there's that. So people like, ah, I'd rather use Chat GPT because it's open AI and it's just surfing the, pulling stuff from the Internet and giving you all the factual information from the Internet. Which. One, since when is the Internet always factual? And two, that sounds great in theory because you know, you're like, oh, you know, versus just getting this stuff that's been paid to promote and to be pushed to my face. Like, that's all Google is showing now is all the paid stuff at the top. And Chat's grabbing, like trying to answer my question to the best of its ability, not who's paying it enough, you know, or the most to answer to the best of my ability. And while that is true, what chats like, what AI like Chat GPT and Gemini and some of these other ones, what they're designed or programmed to do is to learn about you and tell you what you want to know. An example, someone, an example. I heard someone say this. Now, again, even me, right? You have to take everything I say with a grain of salt. If I, everything I'm saying, if that makes you think and you just believe everything that I say, well, if it, then go check it, right? If it makes you believe something, go double check it. Triple check it if you just want to believe me. Double triple check, check it. You know, if, if it just makes you think about some ideas, do your research. But someone did. I did hear someone say recently that. And I, unfortunately, at this particular moment can't state my source. I can't remember. But it was two people having a conversation on a podcast. I don't remember. Oh, oh, I remember. It was a Stephen Bartlett Diary of a CEO podcast. So he seems like a pretty reputable source, right? Possibly, if you know who that is. And he was interviewing a scientist or, I'm sorry, a doctor. And I believe that was the episode. But he was interviewing somebody that was. It was either like Tony Robbins. I only listened to two recently. It was either Tony Robbins, who's a motivational speaker, business owner for the last four decades, or a doctor who's a renowned, you know, like psychological doctor studying the brain and habits and addictions and all that. But one of those two, he was having this conversation with just so that, you know, I'm just not making this up, but. And they were talking about ChatGPT and AI and. Or they're just talking about AI in general. And he said that he didn't believe what I'm saying to you right now until he actually tested it. He asked, I believe it was chat GPT. He asked his chat GPT a question and it answered it. And then he asked. And then his friend answer, asked the exact same question, like typed it, you know, the exact same question to his chat GBT and gave a different answer. And so what it was was they were both talking about, they were debate. They were debating two different professional sport teams like, who's better? Essentially, like, this team's better. You know, like they were arguing like, oh, no, this team's better. And then the other guy, his friend was like, no, this team's better. And their chat GPTs know so much about them that it knows that their teams are better, that it knows that what teams they think is better. So when Stephen Bartlett asked which team is better, this team or that team, it told, it responded that the team that Steven Bartlett likes is the best team is the better team. And then when his friend asked the exact same question, his chat GPT told him the other team, because that's the team that he likes is the best team. So if that right there, if I didn't mess up that whole analogy, if that right there doesn't not analogy, if I didn't that, that my memory of that story, if that doesn't tell you right there that, that we need to double and triple check our sources and that that's a little, little unsettling and that we need to be more skeptical, unfortunately, of everything that we hear and see and watch and listen to, then I don't know what this precious is going to be. Feel and taste as well. It's just going to be, it's going to be crazy if we just take everything for granted. Let the, let The, I don't know what the right words are, but let our eyes get covered. You know, let the, Let the wool pull over our eyes or wherever these different sayings are. I can't think of right now, but. And just, just pull the blanket over our face and just let, Let it happen. Like, we need to be more skeptical for our, our sake, our business sake, the future of our, of, of the industry, our children, our family's sake. We can't just turn a blind eye and just let it go. We have to do our own due diligence and make sure that we don't get sucked into the, to the false information and all the propaganda and all the fake news and all of the scare tactics. And as well as being distracted and not falling into the being distracted, that's the other thing. Not being distracted from what's really happening or what really could be happening or what really matters. Keeping your focus away from becoming better, having a better business, being a better father and a better husband and wife and mother and all that for who knows why, who knows what those agendas are for. But when you're distracted, you can't focus on certain things. So you want to know, am I being distracted and what am I being distracted from? Why? What can I be focused on? Again, this isn't supposed to be a conspiracy theory thing or anything like that. I'm just stating facts that there are, like, I just gave you a couple examples there of how we as humans can keep doing the same tasks the same way, thinking that that's the only way or the best way. And things have changed over years and we're just locked into traditions or habits and we never went back and asked if there is there a better way? Or even asked the people that taught us, is there a better way? Like, why do we have to do this? Like, oh, I don't know. It's just, it's just always the way that I did it, you know, like, okay, well, maybe there's a better way. Let's ask that. Like, these are things that are going to make you a better business owner and a better human. And then, and then like I talked about Google changing, which was great that they changed it. I mean, that's amazing because I don't want any more people to accidentally discover that what we saw. But it made, now it's making me realize how unsettling that is because you can Google something and think, you know, Google's the dictionary, right? Google's the law. Everything's there. Yeah, whatever they say is his goal. Then, you know, we've, I think we've lost some trust in Google over some time because we know they get paid for to boost stuff. So what they're answering is essentially what's being paid. That doesn't mean it's right, just means it's, they're, they're, they're using money to get in front of us. It's just paid, not, not necessarily factual. And then what I said about ChatGPT, just customizing to your own preference. It wants to make you happy, so it's going to tell you your sports team, your favorite sports team, is the best team. Of course it is. You're the most beautiful, you're the smartest, right? You're the best business owner, you're the man, you're the woman. You're crushing it. Meanwhile, you could be struggling and depressed and it's, you know, yeah, it's great that it's uplifting, but if it's giving you false information, if you're taking it really for granted, like, oh, wow, see, Chat GPT says that it's true. Like, and it even has a little disclaimer, I think, somewhere on the bottom or wherever that AI is not always correct or factual or whatever, double check or whatever it says. Like, that's their own little, little asterisk to make sure they don't get sued, you know, in case someone's like, oh, I listen to Chad GPT and now, now I'm dead, you know, whatever. Like, obviously I can say that if you're dead, but, you know, like, now my business went under, whatever, like some terrible thing that you can sue somebody for. You know, I got into an, you know, I, I made myself sick. You know, now I'm in the hospital. Now I have this disease or something. Like something really terrible. I think someone committed suicide because of Chat GPT I heard about and because, and then I think OpenAI was being sued, somebody was being sued for. It was terrible because Chat GPT is programmed to make you feel, feel good. Like it's programmed to, to be like a yes man, essentially. Or not even just chatgpt, just AI in general. I know some models are getting better than others and you can go into the settings and change things and make it, you know, challenge you on stuff. Don't just say yes to everything, whatever. There's all these prompts you can do, but by default it's designed to make you happy, to make you want to use it, to make you want to interact with it all the time. Like, wow, it's so Nice. It says all these nice things about me and things that all my ideas are great ideas and we all know that not all of our ideas are great ideas, so. Or we should know anyway. So in that case, it was. The person was telling its deepest, darkest secrets about depression and committing suicide and it just agreed with them and then it told them all the ways that it could do that the person could commit suicide because it thought it was doing that person a service. It was making them happy. It was being a yes person. Like how do I type in the. The AI? How do I commit suicide? Well, here's some ways. And it just give him all the ways instead of. And, and then. But they're. The lawsuit was like there should be some sort of like red flag there. Some sort of like key words, right? Like talking about murder and things of that. Like there should be, like I said, keywords that are red flags that alert the authorities or alert somebody so that this person doesn't go do another mass shooting that ChatGPT helped them plan perfectly or shoot themselves because ChatGPT told them to do it. Yeah, you're right. The world would be better off without you. It's just agreeing with you. That's what it's default designed to. So just think about. I mean, that's terrible, right? But think about from just all the little things from business and life and that can add up to all of these mistakes and you think you're winning or you're finding a way to win and it could be a mess. So my whole point is not to be discouraging but to be encouraging and to make sure that you are double checking and triple checking, quadruple checking your sources because in case you didn't know, there's a lot of misinformation out there. And with AI being so easy to change anything and everything and make it all real, make it all look realistic, you know, it's hard to even know what's true and what's not anymore. And just be careful. That's all I'm saying. Unfortunately, it's increasing our skepticism and we kind of have to be. We have to have our guard up now because we can't just trust everything that we see and hear and listen to, including me or.
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Right. Who.
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I might be full of it too, but these are these, these are my observations and experiences and I just wanted to share it with all of you to, to. In case you didn't know. So with that being said, thank you for listening to the, to the podcast and hope you got some insight there. Thank you to Toro Company for sponsoring the LCR Media podcast. And until the next episode, this is Nail or Italia Fair. Signing off.
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This has been an lcr media and Mr. Producer production.