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Open AI killed a billion dollar deal, a man stole eight million from Spotify,
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a motorcycle bug is building an AI version of himself.
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Welcome to another completely normal week in AI. Let's discuss.
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Welcome to the most prolific AI marketing podcast on the internet right now,
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the inner nutshell podcast. This is the daily 10 minute podcast where I take out all of the
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techie talk around generative AI and focus on what the everyday person, content creator,
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and marketing wants to hear. I've only got 10 minutes so I can only focus on one subject.
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And it's Friday. It's Friday. Yes, it's Friday. And this is why I talk about the news.
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What's been going on in the world of AI this week? And to be honest, there's only one place to start.
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That is Rest in Peace. Sora. The tool that everyone was going crazy for, I think the beginning
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of 2024, I remember seeing the trailers and what it can do. And it was a huge leap in the world
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of AI video and showed other people what's possible. The problem that they had was they just had
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trailers. And by the time it was released 10 months later in 2020, well, tumors towards Christmas
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of 2024, about four or five other tools had come out and could do that. So Sora was always playing
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catch up and eventually playing catch up caught up to them. Now, when it was finally released to
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people, it done really well. It hit number one on the app store. It clocked up millions of downloads.
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And this was just in under five days. And recently, and I mentioned this probably about six
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months ago, they had a Disney deal on the table worth a billion dollars. But still open AI pulled the
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plug just mumps in. The reason? Economics. So it always usually goes down to money. And so it's
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just costing them a lot of money. It's just unsustainable. And they're probably looking to IPO soon.
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So with an IPO on the horizon, the compute costs had to go somewhere more profitable.
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And you might say a billion dollar deal from Disney is profitable. But
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but long term, I don't know, that billion dollars will go quite quick. Now, the tech is not
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being buried though. They've shut down Sora, but the actual tech is not being buried. Apparently,
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it's being directed or redirected into training robots. So the future of Sora is not necessarily
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going to be the next short film. It could be in a warehouse somewhere learning how to pick up boxes.
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Because chat GPT in other news this week, what they're doing or open AI is merging chat GPT,
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their browser or a built in browser. I'm not sure if it's Atlas or another one that they're working
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on. And the code generator into a single desktop app. So the days of tabs switching between your AI
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and your work are kind of fading fast. That's what they want to do. You're seeing more and more
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AI companies really focus on the apps. So right now, just looking on my laptop, I've got the whisper
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app open. I've got the Claude app open. I've got the original chat GPT app open. Today, I had to
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sign up to Manus's app because you're getting more credits or crit. Well, you could do a job for
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half the amount of credits that you spend if you download or if you do it via their new app. So
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it looks like they're really pushing for desktop apps and chat GPT. And one of the reasons why
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they stopped Sora is because they want to focus on some of the more what they believe profitable
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projects. And it looks like combining everyone and everyone in the ecosystem because they see it
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works for Apple. They're going to think it's going to be worth it for them. So this is less of a
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feature update. It's more of a platform land grab. But by stopping Sora at the same time,
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that is a coincidence. Bright dance. They've quietly dropped one of the most capable AI video
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models on the market right now, which is C dance 2.0. The platform I've been talking about for a
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number of weeks now. Ever since we started seeing it online and what it was capable of doing.
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Also, the last two weeks on the news I've been talking about it being sued and being stopped in
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season desists from everyone as well. But I don't think I stop in them because you can get C dance
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inside CapCut. And CapCut's already got millions of creators editing every day.
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CapCut will support your text, image, audio, prompts and inputs. Meaning the days of building
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video from scratches getting shorter and shorter and shorter. So I'm looking forward to playing
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with this within CapCut. This might be another reason why Sora stopped because they're struggling
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to compete with the likes of C dance. And Google, even though Google for the last year pretty much
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has dominated the video space with their VO model. They need to watch out because a lot of the
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big directors and producers, they're switching to C dance from what I'm seeing. Now this next
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new story I shared today on my WhatsApp group. Now if you don't know, I've got a WhatsApp broadcast
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list where every day I keep you up to date with the news. So if you want to stay up to date with
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the news, rather than once a week, if you want to know every day what's going on, join my WhatsApp
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community. Now it's a community not a group. So only I compost. So if you join, you're not getting
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50, 60 notifications every two hours. It's just one usually round about midday every week day.
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And it's just three or four pieces of the news. So if you want to find it, go to my website
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AndrewMiles Davis.com Davis Spelt DAV IS. Go to the menu bar at the top, go to resources,
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click on WhatsApp and you can join in. And as I said, one of the news I'll be sharing today
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is a man who stole eight million pounds from Spotify using AI. Got caught. So this 54-year-old man
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from North Carolina, he created hundreds of thousands of AI-generated songs, built thousands of
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butter counts and streamed his own music billions of times to collect royalty from Spotify, Apple
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and Amazon. He made over eight million dollars doing this before he got caught, of course.
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Now he's gone to court and he's actually pleaded guilty. He's pleaded guilty to wire fraud
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and will be sentenced this summer. So I'll keep you up to date with what he actually got.
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But this is the first federal conviction of its kind. And I can't see it being the last.
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Talking about a guy that's been in court a lot this week, Mark Zuckerberg. Now,
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he is secretly training a personal AI agent, not for meta customer service or meta customers,
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not for developers, but of himself. And he wants to do this to help him run the company.
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He wants this agent to read his emails, summarize what needs attention, handle all this pressure
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of being CEO so he can focus on bigger decisions. Now, whether that excites or unsettles you,
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depends entirely on how much you trust this man. He's already running one of the most powerful
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companies on Earth. So to have an AI co-pilot that thinks like him is a good thing or is that a bad
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thing? Further low, you decide. But the concept, I can see a lot more people doing. Imagine having
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an AI version of you to help you work or to help you do other things that you know when you've
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always said, ah, could do with an extra pair of hands. That's why he's doing it.
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Talking about an extra pair of hands, the head of BlackRock. Now, I'm going to talk about BlackRock,
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but don't worry, I'm not going to go into some of the things that you might hear about BlackRock,
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but the head of BlackRock, which if you don't know is the world's largest asset manager.
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He told the BBC recently that, well, this week, that society overdid the push towards the
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university degrees and white collar careers, and AI is now proving that point. His message,
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really more plumbers, more electricians, fewer lawyers, and BlackRock, you know, they're putting
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their money where their mouth is and they're putting $100 million into skill trade programs to back
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up what he's saying. Now, I don't know about the whole AI is now proving a point because society
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pushed people towards the university degree because they've been doing that for the last 30,
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40 years. So I'd very much doubt 30, 40 years ago, people were thinking when that was happening,
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people were saying, oh, it's not worth it because AI is going to come along and replace jobs.
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I'd very much doubt that. But it does have a point about skilled labour. And last week I spoke
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about jobs that's been affected and jobs that won't. So plumbers, skilled trades people,
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electricians, they'll be charging soon what lawyers charge now. But will they be working on a
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Friday? No. A Gartner analyst suggested banning Microsoft co-pilot on Friday afternoons.
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Why? Because by then, people are too tired to check what it actually produces.
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This is not a technical problem. This seems to be a human one. And he believes that
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because we're too tired to check the output, it will still create things that are factually fine,
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but culturally offensive. And nobody's going to catch this. I'm not sure about that one.
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But, like I've always said, time will tell. So in a nutshell, that was the news this week.