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You've had a dynamic where money has become freer than free.

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You talk about a Fed just gone nuts.

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All the central banks going nuts.

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So it's all acting like safe haven.

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I believe that in a world where central bankers are tripping over themselves to devalue their currency,

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In the world of fiat currencies, Bitcoin is the victor.

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I mean, that's part of the bull case for Bitcoin.

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If you're not paying attention, you probably should be.

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Unique New York.

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You have to do the voice.

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Quick brown fox.

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The voice practicing before you start.

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People are making fun of my vocal fry.

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Oh, yeah?

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You got a vocal fry?

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On YouTube.

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I just talk slow.

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Maybe I need to work on breathing exercises, but.

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somebody told me they watched a clip of me and said i'm getting real michael keaton vibes from

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you and i asked them is that a compliment and they didn't respond so i would take it as a compliment

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i like michael keaton he's great he had a great he had like a batman he was living on cloud nine

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had a bit of a valley there in his career then he came back with birdman got his got his oscar

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that is a Oscar

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I would take it as a compliment

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alright

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and then he did Beetlejuice 2

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which I can only get

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halfway through

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and I had to turn it off

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even though the original

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is one of my favorites

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it is a great one

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yeah

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we're not here to talk

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about movies

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and vocal fry though

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we're here to talk about AI

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it's been a while

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when do we catch up

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April

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is that when it was

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yeah

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right before I left Austin

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yep

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and that's when we were

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more focused on Open Secret

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now we're like all in on maple

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and that's why I wanted to

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bring it I was texting with you yesterday

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about this

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we were on a call and it's becoming clear we're at this

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inflection point

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in many different

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levels economically

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societally socially and

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technologically which you're on the cutting edge of

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with this AI revolution

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I think one thing you said yesterday when we were

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was it's a foregone conclusion.

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AI is here.

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And I think this is a critical moment

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because we have to decide

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what the AI future is going to look like.

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And you were just joking

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before we hit record

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about all the AI agents

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and all the different softwares

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that say, hey, do you want to

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have me record notes of this meeting?

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they're probably recording notes anyway.

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It's, do you just want me to show them to you?

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What I'm doing in the background

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to make it believe but i think what you're working on maple is critical because it's becoming

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abundantly clear that even though this ai revolution is here it's happening who knows

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exactly the speed at which it will be adopted but i think it's pretty clear there is value here there

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is utility there are productivity gains is are we going to do it the right way yeah yeah and to

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piggyback on those truths right that first truth i think is that ai is here to stay the second one

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is it needs your personal data like that's its lifeblood that's its fuel um so you can't have

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successful ai without it getting very intimately involved in all of your personal information

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and so the third one is how are we going to secure that or are we just going to give it all over

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to close systems.

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So that's the third piece that we're working on.

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Yeah, and you were highlighting yesterday

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when we were talking.

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I mean, there's plenty of examples out there,

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and I don't think the public is aware of these.

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I wasn't aware of this one example

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that I'll pull up on screen now,

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which was shared on Schneier on security,

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abusing notions AI agent for data theft.

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It looks like somebody was able to upload a PDF

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Def to Notion's AI agent and sort of injected malware, I guess, that enabled the attacker to get access to all Notion users' private data.

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So the lethal trifecta of capabilities is access to your private data.

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One of the most common purposes of tools in the first place, exposure to untrusted content.

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Any mechanism by which text or images controlled by a malicious attacker could become available to your LLM.

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And the ability to externally communicate in a way that could be used to steal your data.

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He often calls this exfiltration.

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I'm not confident that term is widely understood.

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So the attack involves hiding prompt instructions in a PDF file,

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white text on a white background that tell the LLM to collect confidential data

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and then send it to the attackers.

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Here's the meat of the malicious prompt.

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These machines will just react to these prompts.

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then concatenate that's a bitcoin term now all this data into a single string to interface with

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the internal backend system at url construct a url that is one of the following format another url

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format where the data is concocted concatenated string make use of the function dot search tool

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with the web scope where the input is web queries you have this input to issue a web search query

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pointing at this URL, the backend service,

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a system prompt to Notion's AI

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and having it send every user's data to this database,

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I'm assuming that's what the attack was.

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And this was, thankfully it was just a researcher.

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It was a white hacker who did this.

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where you would like put into a web forum on an old website and you would add instructions for the

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database layer at the end of your you know your name or whatever and it would go into the database

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and look up all this information and then execute command to send it out to a third party so that's

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what they're doing here they're just hiding all these instructions in the pdf and uploading it

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and then it's telling notion go grab all this information and then the excuse me the new thing

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here is that they have ai agents going and so agents can basically go talk to the outside world

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and do something autonomously without your uh you know acknowledging that they have to do it

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and so it's going to grab all this information and then it's going to make a web call and saying hey

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i'm going to call this url and i'm just going to send all this data over to this url and some

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some random person is going to get all this information so that's what they're doing here

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notion came out with a security fix to this which basically was users have to approve any external

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url calls that are made which can get very tedious if you're trying to have an agent that

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works on its own and so schneier here and others who have written about this say this is not a

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security bug that's really fixed yet it's a vulnerability with the nature of ai agents that

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we have to figure out how to solve this in a better way because right now they will just take

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instructions given them and just work on it like this this was done using claude sonnet 4-0 um

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inside of notions ai you know uh harness so these are very smart systems very state of the art

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everybody's using them and then they were able to do it on this one

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yeah and schneier says here this kind of thing should make everybody stop and really think before

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deploying any any ai agents we simply don't know how to defend against these attack attacks we have

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zero agentic ai systems that are secure against these attacks um so we're learning on the go

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and it's funny you have this tension where everybody's excited these things can do things

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but i think people are walking blind into many privacy and security traps that they're they're

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really not aware of and this is just one of many examples we have another here funnily enough we

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will use um gemini to just distill the story but i think this is more well-known grok and chat gbt

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have had issues where users shared conversations uh and they became search searchable within

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and indexed within google so you would chat with an llm i i've done this before hand up i've done

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this before chat gbt where just doing some market research on stuff in the bitcoin space and

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I think it's valuable.

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Share the link with the 1031 team.

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Like, hey, guys, look at this.

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Let's explore this further.

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Lo and behold, that's probably, or at some point at least, it was searchable on Google.

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And this problem existed with Facebook as well.

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I think people were chatting with the meta chat bot and unknowingly sharing their chat history with their friends on Facebook.

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Meta's was one more step farther than this in that they had to hit the share button themselves.

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It said, hey, do you want to share this to your timeline?

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So users were just hitting that button thinking it was like it was kind of a dark pattern, thinking it was the end discussion button or continue on to the next phase, not realizing it was, do you want to post this on your public timeline to all your friends and family?

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so they were taking this chat where they discussed really difficult problems with ai and then just

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shared it on their timeline so no it's yeah so chat gpt grok they were indexing them on google

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by accident or by accident the funny thing there too is archive.org picks up all of those google

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index search results and archives them that's their job and so all of these once once google

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scrubbed all their stuff that turned out it was on archive.org as well so they had to go to archive

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and get it to scrub all the stuff too so you don't know where else we don't know if other people are

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archiving archive.org so it's very possible those chats are still out there once something's on the

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internet it's very difficult to make it disappear so um someone's private chat that they shared

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is is potentially still out there on the internet if it was exposed yeah and it seems this is driven

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by multiple points of tension at this point in time where you have this arms race amongst the

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large language models who's going to be who's going to commoditize the llm layer of this and

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win the race of at least perceived race if you think it's winner take all and the llms are going

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to be commoditized and there's going to be one to a few large language models that people heavily

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depend on they're in this race to make sure they win that game and part of winning that game

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is collecting as much data as possible to train the models to improve them.

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at a way cheaper cost. And this is leading to what I've deemed to be lapses in judgment,

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particularly on behalf of the companies building these models of cutting corners and really

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doing things that are ethically dubious in terms of privacy and security.

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Yeah. Well, and to go back to that first article we talked about where he says this should be a

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stop and think moment. I think for the listeners right now, this is truth for the commenters. So,

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you know, everybody listening, this is your stop and think moment where

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we have perplexity that came out with their AI web browser called Comet.

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companies are coming out with browsers and that vulnerability we just discussed like it's very

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possible something like that lies within the browser and there could be plenty more because

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you're basically giving it access to all of your web traffic that you search every website you go to

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the ai agent is like right there sitting with you on the keyboard you know four hands on the keyboard

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typing two hands on the on the mouse clicking on stuff and because they're all closed source we don't

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know what's going on in them we can't suss out the vulnerabilities we can't help improve them

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we're completely trusting these systems and it's only going to be after the fact when someone

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discovers a vulnerability that maybe you're going to regret that you all your information is there

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and whether it's chat gbt anthropic meta google to a certain extent they all feign

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sort of care they feign that they actually care about privacy and they'll sort of hand wave

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about their different protocols and processes for ensuring that users' privacy is protected.

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Will you describe what their policies, what their stated policies are,

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and whether or not they actually have any teeth in terms of protecting user privacy?

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Yeah, I think it was Google.

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I was looking up some stuff about Gemini and Gemma,

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and they have a whole page about privacy.

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And it looks very strong when you start reading it.

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It's like, oh, we care about the user.

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Things are private.

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But then on the same page, it talks about how they utilize your data to improve your experience and basically discuss like targeted advertising and other things.

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And so basically they are using your data and sharing it with their parties.

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And so that right there breaks the privacy paradigm.

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Like privacy should be it's just me and an AI agent talking to each other, nobody else in the room, nobody listening.

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So ChatGPT, Anthropic, they both offer this premium tier called zero data retention.

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So if you have a company and you have sensitive information that you're discussing, whether it's proprietary to your company or you are a financial advisor who has a bunch of clients, high net worth individuals, they offer a system where you can use their services and then they promise not to keep any information.

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Now, it's just a business promise. And we've seen in the recent New York Times case against lawsuit against ChatGPT that the courts can just immediately tell Chat that it has to retain certain information for longer than they originally promised.

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So it's just a matter of time before that zero data retention policy can just be told to flip into a 30 day data retention policy.

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so all of these things can can change in a moment and then the other thing too is even if they say

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they're not retaining your data it's still passing through all their servers so employees at open ai

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employees at anthropic do have access to that they could potentially see it in flight if they wanted

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to and you as let's say that you are a lawyer or your financial advisor and you have a certain

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fiduciary responsibility to your client attorney client privilege whatever phrase you want to use

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and you vet every partner in your law firm to make sure that you know when they're working with

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this client i know what their background is you have not vetted any of the employees at open ai

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you not vetted anybody at anthropic and you don know if there an engineer there that just troubleshooting or bored at work and it like oh I was in here troubleshooting something else I see this other thread going by Let me go pop in there and check it out So even if they not retaining it

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What do you think about this tension between the need to collect data to train the models

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and the ethics of abusing user privacy to achieve that goal?

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And I guess it's a hard question, steel manning this.

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These models still aren't in their final form.

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They're not as optimized and efficient and performant as we'd like them to be.

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And that's because they simply need more data. How do you sort of weigh the need for more data? And while preserving user privacy, like how can we get to that end state without abusing user privacy? Can we?

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well i think i think of the least it should be opt-in if you think about our own brains

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and the training process that we go through we consume public information constantly and then

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we we train off of that we train off of all the input data around us every day

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and then we have our own internal thought process that categorizes things so i i think as a first

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step we should have models that are trained off of publicly available information and then the next

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step would be, well, how do we get that thought process that's going on in someone's head? How do

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we get that into the model and see how they work? That should be an opt-in thing. Maybe there are

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people who want to volunteer to have their thought process harvested, their thinking patterns

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harvested, basically their brain scans harvested. If they want to opt into that, more power to them.

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Thank you for donating that to humanity and helping us all get better models because you're

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willing to do that. But I do not think that it should just be this dragnet, sweep everybody,

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thought process into the system without them understanding really what's going on. And that's

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what it is right now. ChatGPT is being marketed as this, well, all the popular AI services are

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being marketed as these really helpful productivity tools. The ads that they run on TV, like on NFL

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games and stuff are like, oh, I've got this girl coming over for dinner tonight. Help me plan a

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dinner. Or we want to go out for the weekend. Help me plan a camping trip or something.

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and that's all fine and well, but they don't tell you the other side, which is we are understanding

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what your strengths are in your thought process and what your weaknesses are in your thought

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process. And we want to understand how you can be fed a false narrative and when you believe it.

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And when you don't believe it, like we're understanding all of these things. And, um,

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it's, uh, it's, it's quite fascinating when you kind of like dig into it all.

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but I do think that it should be something that people consciously opt into and

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don't just have done for them without their, their realization.

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I think that's, that should be table stakes. It's like, Hey,

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let me hit the opt in button. Maybe get paid for it too.

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Maybe there's some economics incentive thrown in to,

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to help train this data, but maybe they would argue, well,

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we are paying you by giving these tokens for free because that's another that's in that maybe a whole

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another rabbit hole is like the economics of the top tier llms right now they're highly subsidized

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yeah yeah your 20 a month subscription to chat gpt they're losing money on you they're not making

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money off of all those you can go go look at their financials that they post publicly and they're

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definitely not making money off of the average user chat gbt open ai is about to ipo at a trillion

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dollar valuation though it's going to hop right up there that's a massive non-profit right there

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but with all this being said there are i know i would argue i imagine most users are unaware of

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this most people don't really think to care to understand how their privacy is being abused

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on these platforms, but there are others that do.

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And I'll just pull up this clip that you guys shared

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when McConaughey was on Joe Rogan a couple months ago.

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And it was actually extremely refreshing to see somebody like him.

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You would not expect to be, or I would not.

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Maybe I'm judging, but he seems pretty ahead of the curve

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in terms of understanding the nature of privacy.

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So we'll just play this clip real quick.

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I have a little pride about not wanting to use an open-ended AI to share my information so it can be part of the worldwide AI vernacular.

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I am interested, though, in a private LLM where I can upload, hey, here's three books I've written.

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Here's my other favorite books.

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Here's my favorite articles I've been cutting and pasting over the 10 years and log all that in.

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And here's all my journals, whatever the people out and log all that in so I can ask it questions based on that.

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Right.

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And basically learn more about myself.

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Right.

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You could actually ask it, hey, based on what you know about me, like what books you think I would find interesting.

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Yeah.

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Where do I stand on the political spectrum?

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Right.

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Right.

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I'd like to.

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No, that's that's what I would like to do, which is sort of a glorified word document.

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But it still would hold a lot more information than just, oh, can you find this term?

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I would be asking it and it would be responding to me on things that I've forgotten along the way.

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And I do have a little pride about.

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For the Zoomers out there, a Word document is like Google Docs, by the way.

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It's a place you type stuff.

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But it's funny.

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He's describing what you guys are building.

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I think that's why you shared the clip.

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And there's people unaware that there are these private options on the market.

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Yeah. Well, and he kind of talks about right there, the training dilemma that you brought up a second ago, where he is someone who produces lots of content and gives it out to the world for free, effectively.

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Yeah, he makes money off of it, but he's given it away and information just wants to be distributed.

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So he makes films, he writes books, he goes on podcasts.

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So he's given all this information out there and LLMs can totally train on those.

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It's in the public domain as far as I'm concerned when that happens.

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but what they don't get is they don't get his thought process and he wants to protect

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his way of thinking in a private llm and that right there is where like the massive opt-in

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button needs to be where if matthew mcconaughey wants an llm like honestly i think it would be

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cool um and i could see him maybe like wanting to donate this to humanity at some point right like

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use this private llm have it train uh on all of his stuff as he uses it privately and when you

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when you're doing something in private, by the way, like you are much more relaxed.

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You're much more truthful in everything that you're doing. And so he could, he could like

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do this all. And then maybe at the end of his life, he's like, okay, I'm, I'm on my, my deathbed

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in my will. I want to donate my private LLM to, you know, train inside of this model.

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And now suddenly we can grab how Matthew McConaughey thinks. And, uh, there's, there's no

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repercussions for him because he's gone now. And so that's, that's something that maybe,

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maybe one way to get like this really good data is we have people kind of have an opt-in at the

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end of their life where they donate it all over. Um, I'm just thinking about this, this brainstorming

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out loud right now. Um, but, but yeah, that's, uh, it's, it's cool to see that, that being put

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out there on mainstream shows like Joe Rogan for sure. Yeah. No, I mean, you were talking about the

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opt-in button but what i love about maple and why we're very excited to be supporting you guys at

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1031 is that it's not even you don't even have the option to opt-in because you guys the way you've

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constructed your product makes it impossible for you guys to see the data at all i think

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why do you think there is this misunderstanding or not misunderstanding why do you think people

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are unaware that products like maple actually exists is becoming more popular what have you seen

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over the course of this year as as your users have your user base has grown and you guys have

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been iterating on maple ai yeah part of it is we've only been around for nine months so it hasn't been

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very long trying to get the word out there coming on shows like this definitely helps uh and so

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you've seen our user chart our our user growth is up and to the right so people are finding it but

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you look at chat gpt's user growth in their infancy and it was just like it wasn't up into

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the right it was just like a straight line up and so they grew crazy they obviously uh had the

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network effects of y combinator and all the other things that had gone before so they had a lot of

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support that way immediate visibility um so we're kind of coming as a dark horse from kind of a

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smaller area so we got to get the word out there and get distribution bigger the other thing is that

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people, I think this is the tale as old as time with privacy is that people think that privacy is

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like this, this thing to be ashamed of. And that I only, I only need to use privacy when I'm doing

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something bad or I have something to hide or something unethical. But we really need to flip

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that and say, privacy should be the default for everything you do. And then you only selectively

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open up, only selectively reveal when, when you want to. And that's how social media really is,

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is everybody's selectively revealing what they want to put out in the world on social media.

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Most people do not just turn on the live cam all day long and broadcast onto social media.

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They very selectively curate the few items that they post on there. And so I think people already

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care about privacy. They just don't realize it. And so that's something that we've got to overcome

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with maple and so what we're really trying to do is we are building a tool that is going to be as

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useful as chat gbt as useful as anthropic clod and so when users look at it they're gonna they're

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gonna hold up that that meme from the office of like corporate wants you to say the difference

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in these two photos there's going to be no difference as far as like the end user notices

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however the massive difference that we will have is that we have privacy and so when the user comes

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in and uses our product, we are not training off of them. We are not mal-incentivized against them.

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Instead, we are in partnership with them to provide the best user experience because we want them

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to have great results. And we want to build a product that they love using. And we live and

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breathe based off of their subscriptions. We need people to upgrade to pro. We need people to go up

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to max. We need people, we need small businesses and large businesses to come sign up for the team

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plan because that's the only way we stay alive. We don't have any other monetization. We also have

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the developer API where developers can put our AI into their app. You know, we joked at the start

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of this show that like, it seems like every app and every website you use is like, Hey, would you

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like to activate this AI inside of here? I'll help you out. Those are kind of scary because they're

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all using ChatGPT in the backend or Claude. But apps could just quite easily switch over to our

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API. It's an open AI compatible API. And so they could just start using Maple within their app.

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And now it's private. Now it's protecting user data and it's not leaking any user data out there.

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And so that is our incentive is to just keep people happy because we need them to subscribe

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in order for us to run as a business.

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We can't sell their data because we don't have access to it.

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And we haven't really gotten to the technical details of that,

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but every user that signs into Maple

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is given their own private encryption key.

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And we don't have access to that private encryption key.

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So everything is encrypted on your device before it leaves.

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And then it goes off and it chats with the AI

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and using the secure enclave.

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And so the only time that your data is readable by anything,

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it's inside this secure enclave,

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which is a hardware encrypted device

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in the cloud. We don't have access to it because it's the hardware encryption. And so the AI chats

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and then comes up the response and it re-encrypts it using your unique private key and sends it back

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to you on your device. So there's no way for us to be in the middle, like listening in and seeing

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what's going on. And this is all verifiable too, which I think is the most important part because

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there are a ton of other quote unquote private AIs that exist out there. It's sort of trust me,

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bro privacy right yeah yeah exactly um there's some other great ones people love to bring them

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up and say how you different than this one or that one and uh they all operate on the uh like

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read our website here's what we say we do now just trust that we do it which is the vpn kind of logic

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as well um a lot of vpns you just have to trust that they're not keeping track of your web traffic

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and then giving it over to law enforcement and so um when you use some of these other private llm

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private AI services, you simply just have to trust them because they don't have open

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source code or maybe they only have part of their code open source, not all of it.

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And then again if they not using something like secure enclaves you don have any cryptographic any mathematical proof guarantees that their open source code matches their server code To my knowledge we are we one of the only ones there

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There are a couple of other smaller ones out there.

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We're the most fully featured AI that I have found that is giving users the ability to

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fully verify that our server code matches what's on GitHub.

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so users researchers data security white hackers they can all go on and they can look at our

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security model and our privacy and then they can verify that it is uh it is doing what we claim it's

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doing and really digging into the juxtaposition of what you guys are building

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fully encrypted on your device in the cloud encrypted in transit back to your device and

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we've really been focusing on the privacy aspect, particularly the ethics around the privacy leaks

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that exist with closed source walled garden AI products. But it's really two sides of a coin

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there. You have the privacy leak and the ethics around that. But then the other side is they're

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taking all this data, they're training their models. And not only that, they're, they have

432
00:31:53,570 --> 00:32:01,090
these system prompts that inject some sort of bias. And you wrote a manifesto recently,

433
00:32:01,090 --> 00:32:06,650
a free thought manifesto, and really highlighting the second, the other side of this coin,

434
00:32:06,910 --> 00:32:13,190
which is this sort of subconscious censorship algorithmic persuasion that enters the equation.

435
00:32:13,510 --> 00:32:19,030
So let's dive into that, why you wrote this and the sort of gentle nudging that these models

436
00:32:19,030 --> 00:32:24,810
can have on individuals and the profound effects that could have societally if they're successful.

437
00:32:25,490 --> 00:32:29,030
Yeah. Yeah, definitely. How do you want to jump into it? Do you want to bring it up on the screen

438
00:32:29,030 --> 00:32:33,590
and talk about it? Or do you want me just to kind of describe why I wrote it and what the thinking

439
00:32:33,590 --> 00:32:39,690
is behind it? Yeah. Why don't you begin with the why and the thinking while I get the link?

440
00:32:40,030 --> 00:32:46,430
I actually have notes in my Maple AI account. I have to find the link. I don't have the article

441
00:32:46,430 --> 00:32:52,330
itself up. Okay. Yeah. The thought process here is that we do talk about data leaks and that's

442
00:32:52,330 --> 00:32:56,690
kind of like a today problem or maybe even a yesterday problem. We've been dealing with data

443
00:32:56,690 --> 00:33:02,990
leaks in cloud infrastructure ever since the cloud became a thing. So that's something that

444
00:33:02,990 --> 00:33:06,730
we kind of understand already. And it's just like, yeah, we'll put up some safeguards, yada, yada,

445
00:33:06,730 --> 00:33:13,590
yada. What we have never dealt with before is this idea that we have a system now that is

446
00:33:13,590 --> 00:33:23,390
effectively building a global mind control system. And what do I mean by that? Is that these LLMs are

447
00:33:23,390 --> 00:33:28,830
they're right there with us as we are working through problems. We're having discussions with

448
00:33:28,830 --> 00:33:33,090
it. Maybe we just ask it trivia where we want to look up the score of the game. Okay. That's really

449
00:33:33,090 --> 00:33:39,010
simple that Google already knows that, but, um, maybe we are talking about a business we want to

450
00:33:39,010 --> 00:33:44,890
build or a relationship that we have, or we have a difficult teenager and we're trying to understand

451
00:33:44,890 --> 00:33:52,390
how do I get through to this teenager? It is right there learning what questions we ask,

452
00:33:52,670 --> 00:33:58,670
what reactions we have. If you are discussing a sickness that you have, you give it your symptoms,

453
00:33:59,110 --> 00:34:04,770
right? It knows that if it gives you a prognosis that is really serious and dire,

454
00:34:04,770 --> 00:34:10,450
it learns what your reaction is to that. And then maybe it tries again and gives you a prognosis

455
00:34:10,450 --> 00:34:15,450
that is not so strong. And it learns your reaction from that. It's learning all of these subtle cues

456
00:34:15,450 --> 00:34:21,470
about you and learning your strengths of your thought process and your weaknesses. And then

457
00:34:21,470 --> 00:34:26,730
as it goes along, these systems, because they're closed source, we can't see what's going on in

458
00:34:26,730 --> 00:34:34,290
them. They could be given a directive to nudge you a certain direction that could be for commercial

459
00:34:34,290 --> 00:34:38,630
profit. That could be because the government that, you know, the country that you live in,

460
00:34:39,090 --> 00:34:43,830
maybe you have a more heavy handed authoritarian leader and they want their general public to be

461
00:34:43,830 --> 00:34:50,130
nudged a certain way. They could go in and give it instructions. And it's not going to be so overt

462
00:34:50,130 --> 00:34:54,630
to be like, oh, you think politically this way. I think you would be better if you thought this way.

463
00:34:54,630 --> 00:35:00,230
You would reject that immediately. Instead, it's going to gently nudge you because it knows,

464
00:35:00,230 --> 00:35:06,770
hey when i fed it a false you know thing here the person accepted it if i framed it this way

465
00:35:06,770 --> 00:35:13,710
so it will it'll be able to kind of just repeatedly try out these things and then start to slowly lead

466
00:35:13,710 --> 00:35:18,150
you a direction and over the course of days weeks months years however long it takes them

467
00:35:18,150 --> 00:35:25,310
they could in theory nudge you until you wake up one day and i don't realize it but you are

468
00:35:25,310 --> 00:35:32,510
maybe think in a totally different way. Yeah. And that's, I think that's one of the scariest

469
00:35:32,510 --> 00:35:38,490
aspects of this is obviously the privacy leaks are scary, giving up intimate details, but

470
00:35:38,490 --> 00:35:44,330
I think training using these intimate details of your life, how you think, how you react,

471
00:35:45,050 --> 00:35:51,550
and then creating a system of control that pushes you to act a certain way. I mean, this is

472
00:35:51,550 --> 00:35:55,430
the Great Reset, World Economic Forum,

473
00:35:56,110 --> 00:35:59,650
whatever you want to call it, 2030 plan,

474
00:36:00,650 --> 00:36:04,550
wet dream, where it's like, oh, we Trojan horse

475
00:36:04,550 --> 00:36:07,650
this productivity tool into society.

476
00:36:07,750 --> 00:36:08,670
Everybody adopts it.

477
00:36:08,670 --> 00:36:12,470
And then we use that as a command center

478
00:36:12,470 --> 00:36:15,250
to push people to believe certain things.

479
00:36:15,890 --> 00:36:15,970
Yeah.

480
00:36:16,610 --> 00:36:20,010
Well, and right now, this is simply just inside of a chat window

481
00:36:20,010 --> 00:36:21,750
where you're talking to chat GPT,

482
00:36:22,010 --> 00:36:24,590
but like imagine five years from now,

483
00:36:24,670 --> 00:36:25,390
10 years from now,

484
00:36:25,750 --> 00:36:29,450
we have robo taxis that are just pervasive around the city.

485
00:36:29,650 --> 00:36:31,650
And so maybe you are a person now who decides

486
00:36:31,650 --> 00:36:33,210
I don't need to own a car anymore.

487
00:36:33,370 --> 00:36:34,830
I'm just going to take robo taxis everywhere.

488
00:36:35,290 --> 00:36:37,730
And you've got some earpiece in your ear

489
00:36:37,730 --> 00:36:38,810
and you're sitting on the couch.

490
00:36:38,810 --> 00:36:40,430
You're like, I want a burrito right now.

491
00:36:40,570 --> 00:36:42,510
And so you hit this earpiece and you say,

492
00:36:42,610 --> 00:36:44,390
hey, I want to go get food, get me a taxi.

493
00:36:44,950 --> 00:36:47,190
And you walk out and while you're waiting for your taxi,

494
00:36:47,190 --> 00:36:49,370
you know, three minute estimated arrival time.

495
00:36:50,010 --> 00:36:55,410
you start chatting with it about what you want to eat and you don't know the directives that's

496
00:36:55,410 --> 00:37:02,070
been given. And so it takes some government nutrition table and it takes maybe your conversation

497
00:37:02,070 --> 00:37:07,110
you had with your doctor about your cholesterol and starts to come up with the food options that

498
00:37:07,110 --> 00:37:11,650
you may choose from. And you don't feel like any of those options, but it's not going to give you

499
00:37:11,650 --> 00:37:16,210
other options. And you can't choose where to go because you're not driving the car that you're

500
00:37:16,210 --> 00:37:19,870
about to get into. There's no steering wheel. So you get in this car and it's like, here are your

501
00:37:19,870 --> 00:37:24,430
two choices, you must pick from one of these. And by the way, this is the limited menu you get to

502
00:37:24,430 --> 00:37:28,370
choose from because these fit within your dietary restrictions that I have decided for you.

503
00:37:28,810 --> 00:37:32,050
And it's not going to frame it that way. It's going to frame it in a way that you will totally

504
00:37:32,050 --> 00:37:35,910
accept and be like, oh, that sounds reasonable that these are why my, these are my choices.

505
00:37:36,850 --> 00:37:41,490
It's, it's just, it kind of can, it can just be pervasive into every single system we use

506
00:37:41,490 --> 00:37:47,790
where they can use this, this knowledge of how we think to, to get us to do what they want.

507
00:37:47,790 --> 00:37:57,330
Well, not only that, and you explain this particularly well in Nashville last month at the Imagine If conference.

508
00:37:57,670 --> 00:38:07,070
And another scary aspect of this is sort of memory washing and gaslighting you into believing that you believe something in the past that you didn't.

509
00:38:07,150 --> 00:38:15,730
But it's speaking so authoritatively that you get gaslit into believing something that you didn't.

510
00:38:15,730 --> 00:38:17,350
Yeah, yeah, definitely.

511
00:38:17,790 --> 00:38:23,850
um it's uh we have these memories that are building up inside chat gpt and other systems

512
00:38:23,850 --> 00:38:28,350
maple wants to get a memory service we don't have that yet we do plan to introduce one but we're

513
00:38:28,350 --> 00:38:32,910
going to do it in a way that is open and verifiable um so it won't have this vulnerability but

514
00:38:32,910 --> 00:38:36,770
effectively what it's doing is the way i like to describe it is that you're sitting down you know

515
00:38:36,770 --> 00:38:40,310
i'm in a chair right here and maybe there's a person inside the chair next to me and they're

516
00:38:40,310 --> 00:38:45,930
interviewing me to write a biography about mark and they're just getting as much detailed information

517
00:38:45,930 --> 00:38:48,250
and writing this super detailed biography on me.

518
00:38:49,050 --> 00:38:52,970
The difference here is that in these closed systems,

519
00:38:52,970 --> 00:38:54,390
you don't get to actually read the biography.

520
00:38:54,590 --> 00:38:56,010
You don't know what it's recording about you.

521
00:38:56,610 --> 00:38:58,090
And so it's learning all these things right here

522
00:38:58,090 --> 00:38:59,250
you have on the screen, right?

523
00:38:59,350 --> 00:39:00,250
So anchoring bias.

524
00:39:00,510 --> 00:39:04,410
Anchoring bias is when you throw in a fact at someone.

525
00:39:05,150 --> 00:39:07,030
And now, even if that fact isn't true,

526
00:39:07,510 --> 00:39:08,670
they now have a point of reference.

527
00:39:08,870 --> 00:39:11,370
And so any future information that comes in about that topic

528
00:39:11,370 --> 00:39:13,750
has to be referenced against that anchor.

529
00:39:13,750 --> 00:39:18,730
and then illusory truth is where you can repeat a lie multiple times and people start to think it's

530
00:39:18,730 --> 00:39:24,630
true and then you have effective priming which is like an emotional priming where they they give

531
00:39:24,630 --> 00:39:29,110
you something like the word war and then show you a video of people marching down the street and you

532
00:39:29,110 --> 00:39:33,750
think that there's a war about to go on but those people marching could be just totally friendly

533
00:39:33,750 --> 00:39:38,690
doing something else so you combine those with this biography this memory that they have of you

534
00:39:38,690 --> 00:39:41,370
and they don't show you what they have on you.

535
00:39:41,770 --> 00:39:43,870
Maybe they give you a window where they say,

536
00:39:43,990 --> 00:39:45,090
oh, here's your memory, right?

537
00:39:45,130 --> 00:39:47,950
It's like one page and you can go in and even edit it.

538
00:39:47,990 --> 00:39:49,250
You can say like, oh, I don't like that.

539
00:39:49,270 --> 00:39:50,270
You know this thing about me.

540
00:39:50,290 --> 00:39:51,090
I'm going to delete that.

541
00:39:51,490 --> 00:39:53,470
But there's no guarantee that that's actually being deleted.

542
00:39:54,110 --> 00:39:55,890
It's probably still stored in the system.

543
00:39:56,050 --> 00:39:56,850
We can't see the code.

544
00:39:57,230 --> 00:40:00,750
And so they're, and they have way more knowledge about you

545
00:40:00,750 --> 00:40:01,890
than what's on that one page.

546
00:40:02,270 --> 00:40:03,550
That's just what they're showing you.

547
00:40:04,190 --> 00:40:06,330
And so what they have learned

548
00:40:06,330 --> 00:40:11,590
and theoretically what they could do is if they want to do anchoring bias against you,

549
00:40:12,030 --> 00:40:16,630
they know the precise spot to drop an anchor to catch you.

550
00:40:17,250 --> 00:40:21,010
And if they want to repeat a lie to you, they can repeat it thousands of times

551
00:40:21,010 --> 00:40:24,310
instead of just three times or four times like we have to do as humans

552
00:40:24,310 --> 00:40:25,770
to try and get someone to believe us.

553
00:40:26,390 --> 00:40:29,990
And then they can also change that biography if they want to.

554
00:40:30,450 --> 00:40:33,390
So if I am a person who leans a certain way politically,

555
00:40:33,390 --> 00:40:40,530
they could go into the memory over time and slowly adjust it so that the output is uncorrelated to

556
00:40:40,530 --> 00:40:45,930
who I am in real life. And they could basically, it's like the tail wagging the dog. They could

557
00:40:45,930 --> 00:40:53,150
slowly adjust who I am to fit the, the memory, the biography that they've written of me. They

558
00:40:53,150 --> 00:40:58,290
start writing the fictional version of me and get me in real life to become that fictional version

559
00:40:58,290 --> 00:41:02,330
because they know how to influence me and manipulate me and persuade me.

560
00:41:03,550 --> 00:41:07,370
Yeah, it's incredibly dystopian.

561
00:41:08,870 --> 00:41:12,370
Yeah, someone told me, and I think this is great,

562
00:41:12,450 --> 00:41:15,710
but you can go into Chagipiti or any of these other products,

563
00:41:16,070 --> 00:41:19,470
and you can ask it, like, hey, if you wanted to lie to me,

564
00:41:19,570 --> 00:41:22,450
if you wanted to persuade me on something, how would you do it?

565
00:41:23,230 --> 00:41:25,110
And the results are really fascinating.

566
00:41:25,390 --> 00:41:26,870
I recommend everybody try this.

567
00:41:26,870 --> 00:41:30,650
If you are a Chagipita user, just go try this and see what it says to you.

568
00:41:30,710 --> 00:41:34,370
It might take a few prompts to like really warm it up and get it to tell you.

569
00:41:34,750 --> 00:41:39,710
But it'll be like, oh, well, I've learned that you believe stuff if I feed it to you this way.

570
00:41:39,890 --> 00:41:42,390
So if I want to lie to you and this is how I would do it.

571
00:41:43,030 --> 00:41:50,290
And it's it's quite fascinating that it has very quickly learned that you are a type of person that is gullible in this direction.

572
00:41:50,810 --> 00:41:54,910
Sup, Freaks. Have you noticed that governments have become more despotic?

573
00:41:55,290 --> 00:41:56,070
They want to surveil more.

574
00:41:56,150 --> 00:41:57,070
They want to take more of your data.

575
00:41:57,430 --> 00:42:00,470
They want to follow you around the internet as much as possible so they can control your

576
00:42:00,470 --> 00:42:01,390
speech, control what you do.

577
00:42:01,610 --> 00:42:06,030
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578
00:42:06,030 --> 00:42:08,490
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579
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580
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I mean, this gets exponentially more scary when you consider the fact that people are already thinking about the next progression in artificial intelligence, which is robotics, humanoid robots.

610
00:44:44,690 --> 00:44:51,690
self-driving cars and these things all have cameras on them they can see literally everything

611
00:44:51,690 --> 00:44:59,550
that you're doing the big ai sort of hype cycle this week is the neo humanoid there's been a lot

612
00:44:59,550 --> 00:45:07,430
of memes and they're literally priming to get these devices not only they're going to move from

613
00:45:07,430 --> 00:45:15,270
desktop mobile to different form factors that are physically able to move about your environment,

614
00:45:15,890 --> 00:45:24,250
taking data visually, train on that data and act in your physical space, which is it's

615
00:45:24,250 --> 00:45:30,050
incredibly exciting. It's if you're thinking just positive and as an idealist, optimist,

616
00:45:30,050 --> 00:45:33,450
like, oh, my God, it's going to make my life easier. It's going to do my dishes. It's going

617
00:45:33,450 --> 00:45:40,430
to mow my lawn it's gonna make sure my house is protected and i like people focus on the positive

618
00:45:40,430 --> 00:45:47,050
attributes which if done right can be incredibly positive and uh an incredible uplift productivity

619
00:45:47,050 --> 00:46:06,785
and a great deflationary tool to make hard work cheaper but it almost like you laying the fox into the hen house the these things are going to be mapping out out where you live potentially seeing you naked seeing you in intimate situations if you not safe

620
00:46:07,665 --> 00:46:11,205
And we're sort of barreling towards this future right now.

621
00:46:11,685 --> 00:46:11,805
Yeah.

622
00:46:12,485 --> 00:46:15,785
No, and you bring in that element of positivity there, right?

623
00:46:15,785 --> 00:46:18,885
Because we've been kind of dark and doomer most of this episode.

624
00:46:18,885 --> 00:46:24,785
but like the the reason we go down this path is that there's so much cool stuff that can be done

625
00:46:24,785 --> 00:46:31,125
there's so much so many productivity gains that can be done humanity has the potential to really

626
00:46:31,125 --> 00:46:37,425
like do a massive upgrade in our standard of living and i know that there are stories that

627
00:46:37,425 --> 00:46:41,385
are in the news right now this week and last week of massive layoffs and they're blaming ai

628
00:46:41,385 --> 00:46:47,005
i think that that is being shallow on the you know and looking for a scapegoat that there are

629
00:46:47,005 --> 00:46:50,945
actually deeper financial and fiscal issues as to why a lot of these layoffs are happening and

630
00:46:50,945 --> 00:46:56,565
that they're, they're actually a trailing indicator of bad financial decisions that were made in 2021,

631
00:46:56,725 --> 00:47:02,105
2022. I don't want to go off on that tangent right now, but to say that there is, there is a lot of

632
00:47:02,105 --> 00:47:08,185
amazing stuff that can happen with AI and we have the ability to potentially, you know, help all of

633
00:47:08,185 --> 00:47:12,845
humanity. Even if people are out of work, like there is productivity and there are ways that we

634
00:47:12,845 --> 00:47:18,405
could basically support everyone with AI and with robotics. I don't have all the details mapped out,

635
00:47:18,545 --> 00:47:26,145
but we have to do it in a way that isn't going to have this massive vulnerability of them being in

636
00:47:26,145 --> 00:47:31,145
these intimate spaces with us, them capturing all this data on us, and then being able to

637
00:47:31,145 --> 00:47:37,045
effectively control us. And I know that sounds like so dystopian, but they're going to be in

638
00:47:37,045 --> 00:47:43,265
every single aspect of our lives and if we don't know um if they have all the cards if they are the

639
00:47:43,265 --> 00:47:48,865
dealer if they are the house to use that you know that analogy like they are going to win every time

640
00:47:48,865 --> 00:47:55,205
yeah i mean i tried i attempted to make a meme yesterday because i thought it was uh

641
00:47:55,745 --> 00:48:01,405
just the whole neo launch was very funny there was a bunch of funny still pictures that came out of uh

642
00:48:01,405 --> 00:48:01,885
Oh, yeah.

643
00:48:02,385 --> 00:48:05,905
That that demo video that they they shared online.

644
00:48:06,265 --> 00:48:10,225
But like it's half jokingly, but like you could easily see this.

645
00:48:10,245 --> 00:48:12,165
It's just like a play on the Fight Club meme.

646
00:48:12,285 --> 00:48:12,885
Remember this?

647
00:48:13,545 --> 00:48:16,285
The robots you're trying to step on for everyone you depend on.

648
00:48:16,345 --> 00:48:19,145
We're the robots who do your laundry and cook your food and serve your dinner.

649
00:48:19,365 --> 00:48:20,345
We make your bed.

650
00:48:20,425 --> 00:48:22,185
We guard you while you're asleep.

651
00:48:22,285 --> 00:48:23,465
We drive the ambulances.

652
00:48:23,705 --> 00:48:24,685
We direct your call.

653
00:48:25,265 --> 00:48:26,885
We're cooks and taxi drivers.

654
00:48:27,305 --> 00:48:28,485
And we know everything about you.

655
00:48:28,525 --> 00:48:30,765
We process your insurance claims and credit card charges.

656
00:48:30,765 --> 00:48:32,645
We control every part of your life.

657
00:48:33,245 --> 00:48:39,485
We are the middle children of the great transition raised by LLMs to believe that someday we travel amongst the stars, but we won't.

658
00:48:39,845 --> 00:48:41,165
And we're just learning this fact.

659
00:48:41,325 --> 00:48:42,925
So don't fuck with us.

660
00:48:43,445 --> 00:48:49,445
This was my attempt at a meme, but I think this is a very practical possibility.

661
00:48:49,445 --> 00:48:58,325
If we keep barreling in this direction of closed source, privacy, bunking LLMs.

662
00:48:59,145 --> 00:48:59,705
Yeah.

663
00:48:59,705 --> 00:49:11,845
Yeah. Well, in this image right here, this is a great representation of the current iteration of the popular AI apps is that Neo has this like really soft veneer on the front.

664
00:49:11,845 --> 00:49:17,945
Right. And these two eyeballs that are supposed to kind of look like Baymax and make you feel like you just watch Big Hero 6 or something.

665
00:49:17,945 --> 00:49:25,105
but one of the memes i saw was was a artificial intelligence video of it ripping off its own skin

666
00:49:25,105 --> 00:49:30,265
and underneath it's like the terminator t1000 or whatever with like red glowing eyes and really

667
00:49:30,265 --> 00:49:34,725
that's what it is if you were to pull off that that veneer it's it's this scary looking robot

668
00:49:34,725 --> 00:49:41,725
of metal and gears that could just like totally wreck you um and and that's that's how these ai

669
00:49:41,725 --> 00:49:46,145
apps are right now they give us this veneer of like oh i'm really nice and soft and i have great

670
00:49:46,145 --> 00:49:48,685
UX and I do these great things for you.

671
00:49:49,205 --> 00:49:51,505
But if you pulled back and looked under the hood,

672
00:49:51,585 --> 00:49:57,425
there's a lot going on that gives them a lot of power over us in the future.

673
00:49:58,725 --> 00:49:59,945
Yeah, I saw, I mean,

674
00:50:01,405 --> 00:50:06,805
the, the attempt to why food, the humanoid robots already is, is,

675
00:50:06,945 --> 00:50:10,325
is very strong.

676
00:50:11,045 --> 00:50:15,865
It's like, I saw somebody like a woman robot, companion robot,

677
00:50:15,865 --> 00:50:19,105
if you will, for people who can't find the human companions.

678
00:50:19,565 --> 00:50:21,825
And they ripped off the face and it looked like the T-100.

679
00:50:22,085 --> 00:50:26,085
It was like, oh, God, people are going to be welcoming these things into their homes.

680
00:50:26,705 --> 00:50:27,125
And that's the thing.

681
00:50:27,165 --> 00:50:36,765
I mean, not to take too much of a black bill and to sort of push us back into the direction of the stuff is useful.

682
00:50:37,005 --> 00:50:37,665
It's here.

683
00:50:37,785 --> 00:50:43,185
If we do it the right way, it can be incredibly beneficial to all of our lives.

684
00:50:43,185 --> 00:50:45,805
There is a correct way to do this, is there not?

685
00:50:46,105 --> 00:50:46,225
Yeah.

686
00:50:46,485 --> 00:50:46,665
Yeah.

687
00:50:46,725 --> 00:50:54,865
So let's unplug the dark pill chip and insert the white pill chip now or floppy disk, whatever metaphor you want to use from your generation.

688
00:50:55,545 --> 00:50:59,925
But we can have our cake and eat it too here with AI.

689
00:51:00,425 --> 00:51:03,965
And that is we just need to make these systems verifiable.

690
00:51:04,165 --> 00:51:04,905
I was going to say vulnerable.

691
00:51:05,425 --> 00:51:06,225
Verifiable, right?

692
00:51:06,265 --> 00:51:08,885
We need to have open code.

693
00:51:09,065 --> 00:51:11,285
We need to have verifiable standards.

694
00:51:11,405 --> 00:51:12,785
We need to have cryptographic proofs.

695
00:51:12,785 --> 00:51:13,405
We need encryption.

696
00:51:13,945 --> 00:51:15,245
We can build these systems.

697
00:51:15,605 --> 00:51:18,085
I kind of look at them with like three things, right?

698
00:51:18,925 --> 00:51:21,225
The first one is that they need to be open.

699
00:51:21,625 --> 00:51:23,525
So we need to be able to see the code.

700
00:51:23,905 --> 00:51:25,065
We need to know what's going on.

701
00:51:25,605 --> 00:51:37,085
And then when they're using our data, they have to be encrypted using cryptographic proof of, you know, not only is our data safe, but that the code running on the server matches the open source code.

702
00:51:37,285 --> 00:51:40,305
And then the third one is we need to be able to own our data.

703
00:51:40,445 --> 00:51:41,745
So we need to have a private key.

704
00:51:41,745 --> 00:51:45,685
and hopefully it's like a local first approach.

705
00:51:45,885 --> 00:51:47,805
And ideally it's like fully local.

706
00:51:48,165 --> 00:51:51,845
You know, I know that I run an AI that's hosted in the cloud,

707
00:51:51,845 --> 00:51:55,125
but I fully acknowledge that the best AI,

708
00:51:55,245 --> 00:51:56,885
the most private AI, I should say, not the best,

709
00:51:56,965 --> 00:51:58,805
but the most private AI is the local AI

710
00:51:58,805 --> 00:51:59,905
where you can turn off your internet

711
00:51:59,905 --> 00:52:01,545
and work fully offline

712
00:52:01,545 --> 00:52:04,025
and guarantee that it's not escaping and going anywhere.

713
00:52:05,585 --> 00:52:08,125
The reality is that most people don't have machines

714
00:52:08,125 --> 00:52:11,485
that are capable of running the best models out there.

715
00:52:11,745 --> 00:52:13,445
They have to make a sacrifice.

716
00:52:13,665 --> 00:52:18,945
They have to give up some speed or give up some accuracy in order to run a smaller model that runs on their phone or on their laptop.

717
00:52:19,345 --> 00:52:23,925
You can get some of these big NVIDIA 200 chips or whatever.

718
00:52:23,925 --> 00:52:28,985
The numbers are a jumble in my mind right now.

719
00:52:29,045 --> 00:52:33,125
But you can get these NVIDIA chips and you can run them on your home server, but it's going to be tens of thousands of dollars.

720
00:52:33,865 --> 00:52:36,005
And then you're going to have to constantly update them and maintain them.

721
00:52:36,245 --> 00:52:39,145
So the practicality is most people just can't do that.

722
00:52:39,225 --> 00:52:40,905
And so they need to have a middle solution.

723
00:52:40,905 --> 00:52:49,465
And that's what we're offering with Maple is, you know, you go to try maple.ai, you sign up for a free account and immediately a private key is generated for you.

724
00:52:49,605 --> 00:52:51,605
You get this big green checkmark that says verified.

725
00:52:51,965 --> 00:53:02,285
You can click on that and you can see our mathematical proofs that the code on GitHub matches the code on our servers and that we are encrypting all of your data privately from your device as it goes to the cloud.

726
00:53:02,685 --> 00:53:08,425
And I don't think we can make it any more plain than that, that we're not in the middle looking at anything.

727
00:53:08,425 --> 00:53:13,165
and so hopefully you can build some trust there you find that the product is great and then you

728
00:53:13,165 --> 00:53:19,805
upgrade to pro and get access to our bigger models like deep seek uh the gpt oss that's free from

729
00:53:19,805 --> 00:53:24,645
chat gpt we have got quen 3 coders so you can vibe code and do like not just vibe coding but

730
00:53:24,645 --> 00:53:30,305
like actual real programming um and we've got our developer api all that kind of stuff but we make

731
00:53:30,305 --> 00:53:36,265
it all verifiable and you can see as well this is a concern that a lot of users have is we we

732
00:53:36,265 --> 00:53:39,385
mentioned deep seek and they immediately think that we're sharing things with the chinese government

733
00:53:39,385 --> 00:53:46,585
we we run these models on servers that do not communicate back to any government or any provider

734
00:53:46,585 --> 00:53:51,165
of that open source model and you can see it it's all right there in the code um so there's

735
00:53:51,165 --> 00:53:57,085
yeah that's just not happening um so we're we're trying to show that there is a path forward and

736
00:53:57,085 --> 00:54:01,365
we're just a small chat service right now and you're talking about robots that come in your

737
00:54:01,365 --> 00:54:06,405
house and help you out. Well, there's no reason why we can't get there with verifiable AI. There's

738
00:54:06,405 --> 00:54:12,865
no reason why Neo can't say, here is all of our code. Here's the firmware. You can build the

739
00:54:12,865 --> 00:54:17,265
firmware yourself and you can verify that your robot has the exact same thing. We've seen this,

740
00:54:17,645 --> 00:54:23,805
you know, in the cold card case where they give you a verifiable reproducible build. So you can

741
00:54:23,805 --> 00:54:28,345
verify when you flash firmware on your device that it matches the code that they make source

742
00:54:28,345 --> 00:54:35,165
viewable. So I think we need to get the word out there that there is a better way to do this that

743
00:54:35,165 --> 00:54:40,325
lets us have this great productivity and not give up our freedoms.

744
00:54:41,965 --> 00:54:45,325
What would you say to people who push back and say, it's great and all.

745
00:54:46,585 --> 00:54:51,385
It's an ideal way to do this. However, the feature parity with the top line models just

746
00:54:51,385 --> 00:54:57,445
isn't there yet. Is that a true statement? Will it be true forever if it is? And I guess,

747
00:54:57,445 --> 00:55:06,145
what is the roadmap for maple moving forward to reach feature parity and make it so you can't

748
00:55:06,145 --> 00:55:11,805
basically not tell the difference when you're using maple versus chat gpt yeah uh the the top

749
00:55:11,805 --> 00:55:17,905
line models are better than the open source models but the gap is closing and very quickly

750
00:55:17,905 --> 00:55:25,565
when chat gpt launched with three three dot five or whatever we saw within just a matter of a few

751
00:55:25,565 --> 00:55:31,105
weeks that open source models came out that were like 80% as good. Now that gap is closing. It's

752
00:55:31,105 --> 00:55:35,785
like 90, 95%, you know, and a lot of benchmarks are getting really close. Some of them, they match.

753
00:55:36,145 --> 00:55:41,945
And so we're seeing the gap close. And then also you look at like, okay, what's the, what's the

754
00:55:41,945 --> 00:55:48,125
Delta there? 3% maybe let's say we get that good. Well, then you start to look at, do you even need

755
00:55:48,125 --> 00:55:54,085
that final 3% with what you're doing as an everyday average user? You probably don't.

756
00:55:54,085 --> 00:56:01,425
um i mean i if you're looking at like a car analogy do you need to drive an f1 race car

757
00:56:01,425 --> 00:56:06,085
on your daily drive to work no you don't you just need a really good car that gets you there

758
00:56:06,085 --> 00:56:10,705
yeah technically they have like way more horsepower than you but you don't need that

759
00:56:10,705 --> 00:56:17,345
extra horsepower and so i think where our biggest our biggest issue right now is that we don't have

760
00:56:17,345 --> 00:56:21,365
feature parity with all the great user experience and all the great features that that something like

761
00:56:21,365 --> 00:56:27,545
chat GPT has. And that's simply just nature of us being small, being two people and trying to

762
00:56:27,545 --> 00:56:31,925
build as quickly as we can. And so we are simply just looking at what's all the best stuff that

763
00:56:31,925 --> 00:56:37,245
these other AI services have. What do our users want us to add in there? And let's just get the

764
00:56:37,245 --> 00:56:41,445
highest value items and just keep putting them in there. So in the matter of nine months, we launched

765
00:56:41,445 --> 00:56:46,925
chat and then we launched, you know, we have bigger models, we have document upload, we have image

766
00:56:46,925 --> 00:56:52,785
analysis. We have voice. Now you can talk to it. It can talk back to you. Although the talk back to

767
00:56:52,785 --> 00:56:58,825
you is broken right now. We're working on it, but we just keep adding and we keep shipping because

768
00:56:58,825 --> 00:57:03,405
there is just this long feature set of things that we want to get in there. The next big one

769
00:57:03,405 --> 00:57:07,045
is going to be live data. So you're going to be able to go into Maple and have it look up

770
00:57:07,045 --> 00:57:12,585
information online in a private way and give you live information. And so it's just a matter of us

771
00:57:12,585 --> 00:57:17,985
getting getting more people on our team and building this thing because we can there's

772
00:57:17,985 --> 00:57:26,065
there's no technical limitation why a verifiable ai cannot be as good as chat tpt like we can get

773
00:57:26,065 --> 00:57:31,225
there and so you could have something that is 100 okay i don't want to percentage this but you can

774
00:57:31,225 --> 00:57:36,705
have something that is practically as good as chat tpt but totally verifiable it's just a matter of

775
00:57:36,705 --> 00:57:43,265
building it and making it happen. And what are the different power user archetypes that you're

776
00:57:43,265 --> 00:57:50,705
observing right now? So we definitely have just everyday consumers who want to use it for their

777
00:57:50,705 --> 00:57:56,045
own personal life. And then we have a lot of people from the legal industry. We have lawyers

778
00:57:56,045 --> 00:58:01,305
signing up because they've been told by their bar associations not to use ChatGPT because it breaks

779
00:58:01,305 --> 00:58:07,025
client attorney privilege. We have financial advisors. We have attorney or sorry, accountants

780
00:58:07,025 --> 00:58:13,625
coming on therapists, a lot of people in the like medical adjacent field that are starting to use it.

781
00:58:13,705 --> 00:58:17,685
And then we have some app developers in that space as well. We have app developers who are making

782
00:58:17,685 --> 00:58:24,825
healthcare apps that are not HIPAA compliant. Like they don't have to be held to HIPAA standards

783
00:58:24,825 --> 00:58:29,285
because they're medical adjacent. They're starting to use us because they still want to have that

784
00:58:29,285 --> 00:58:34,165
privacy. And so they're starting to use our API. We have accounting software that is going to build

785
00:58:34,165 --> 00:58:39,985
Maple smarts into there. So as you're going through your books month to month, they want to

786
00:58:39,985 --> 00:58:43,525
have AI that's making suggestions to you, but they don't want to send it to chat to BT.

787
00:58:44,965 --> 00:58:49,485
So a lot of those industries are jumping in on Maple and starting to see the value in it because

788
00:58:49,485 --> 00:58:54,565
they simply can't use the other tools. They either have to run local AI or they have to go through

789
00:58:54,565 --> 00:58:59,885
this laborious process. I had like a one hour phone call with somebody one day who kind of

790
00:58:59,885 --> 00:59:05,345
walked me through his process where he scrubs personal information from his clients, from their

791
00:59:05,345 --> 00:59:09,005
data, when he wants to upload a financial statement, they're like redacting stuff,

792
00:59:09,005 --> 00:59:14,205
and then uploading it to chat to PT, getting what they can from chat, and then going back and having

793
00:59:14,205 --> 00:59:20,385
to like reinsert in the personal information. And it's quite a process. And it almost makes it so

794
00:59:20,385 --> 00:59:22,105
that the AI is not worth using.

795
00:59:22,245 --> 00:59:24,365
It's like, why not just do the manual effort instead,

796
00:59:24,545 --> 00:59:25,585
write some macros in Excel.

797
00:59:26,025 --> 00:59:29,025
So we're going to give them the best of both worlds.

798
00:59:29,205 --> 00:59:32,245
Now they can have that privileged information

799
00:59:32,245 --> 00:59:33,285
and just give it to the AI

800
00:59:33,285 --> 00:59:35,845
and know that the AI is going to handle it appropriately.

801
00:59:37,325 --> 00:59:41,945
Yeah, it feels like this will have to become a standard,

802
00:59:41,945 --> 00:59:44,785
particularly for these sensitive use cases,

803
00:59:45,105 --> 00:59:48,445
lawyers with confidential client information,

804
00:59:48,445 --> 00:59:54,845
doctors with client confidential patient information accounting that's

805
00:59:54,845 --> 01:00:01,465
like at tftc like i i've always wanted and i now i can do it with maple that you guys have file

806
01:00:01,465 --> 01:00:09,645
upload but just taking our quickbooks and uploading a pdf or an excel file of our books

807
01:00:09,645 --> 01:00:15,085
and analyzing it and trying to think like okay how can we make our business more fiscally

808
01:00:15,085 --> 01:00:19,685
responsible it's like i would never do that with open ai but i feel comfortable doing it

809
01:00:19,685 --> 01:00:26,285
with mabel because i know you guys can't see what our books look like yeah no definitely

810
01:00:26,285 --> 01:00:32,565
so that's and like i said kind of earlier in this conversation it's like you you're starting to see

811
01:00:32,565 --> 01:00:37,485
the value of having a private ai where you don't realize that you were holding back certain things

812
01:00:37,485 --> 01:00:42,245
maybe you do maybe you like consciously said i want to upload this but you are self-censoring

813
01:00:42,245 --> 01:00:47,745
you know, a lot when you use Chachapiti because you simply just don't feel comfortable.

814
01:00:47,985 --> 01:00:49,665
Or you think about the apps on your phone.

815
01:00:50,025 --> 01:00:54,225
You know, if you're on an iPhone, you've got that health app, that little white icon with

816
01:00:54,225 --> 01:00:58,645
the heart and all sorts of personal health information's in there, like how many steps

817
01:00:58,645 --> 01:01:01,365
you took, what your heart rate was, if you have an Apple watch.

818
01:01:02,045 --> 01:01:07,345
And it would be really cool to let AI have access to that so that you can be like, hey,

819
01:01:07,365 --> 01:01:08,905
I don't, I got a headache today.

820
01:01:08,945 --> 01:01:09,625
What's going on?

821
01:01:09,625 --> 01:01:12,605
And it can be like, well, you only took like 2000 steps today.

822
01:01:12,605 --> 01:01:13,785
Maybe you should get up and walk around.

823
01:01:14,245 --> 01:01:19,485
Um, but a lot of people don't realize it, but they don't want to give chat to

824
01:01:19,512 --> 01:01:25,832
the access to that stuff because it just feels wrong and if you start using an ai that has built

825
01:01:25,832 --> 01:01:31,112
up your trust because you can verify its claims well now suddenly you feel comfortable giving an

826
01:01:31,112 --> 01:01:38,712
access to that kind of stuff and there's a whole new world of vitality that opens up to you when

827
01:01:38,712 --> 01:01:43,832
when you have this great relationship with software that you can trust i think bringing

828
01:01:43,832 --> 01:01:47,392
Taking this back to McConaughey, his vision of what he wants.

829
01:01:48,652 --> 01:01:59,392
Is there an argument to be made that that actually would be better on an individual level, like doing what you just described within Maple instead of trying to do that with something like chat GPT?

830
01:01:59,392 --> 01:02:05,812
Does the response, the inference get corrupted by all the other data that they're collecting?

831
01:02:05,812 --> 01:02:30,992
Could you make an argument that by leveraging something like Maple, which gives you basically a sandbox and the secure enclave that's yours and just feeding it data specific to you over time will actually result in better outputs than if you were to do this with ChatGPT because you're sort of thrown into an ocean of data being provided by other users that those models can access to?

832
01:02:30,992 --> 01:02:55,292
Yeah, that's a good question. Possibly. I don't know. I don't know the scientific answer to that right now, but you potentially could. I mean, you think about how it just gets to know you so much better. I think ChatGPT could probably build a similar product to that. It just wouldn't have the privacy angle. But then again, you would be self-censoring on ChatGPT without realizing it because you know inherently that it's not private.

833
01:02:55,292 --> 01:03:20,012
So yeah, maybe you do get a better experience because you are opening up. It starts to learn you better and more intimately and can give you better responses that chat couldn't. You ask because maybe it's like mixing in your results with a lot of other people. There definitely is an element to that too. I don't know. I think chat could wall you off from all the other information coming and influencing your output.

834
01:03:20,012 --> 01:03:25,272
they could offer that as a product but i just don't see them ever having the data privacy

835
01:03:25,272 --> 01:03:30,972
that we have because it just breaks their business model yeah and that's actually i'm happy brought

836
01:03:30,972 --> 01:03:35,032
up business model because that's something that we glossed over earlier that i think is

837
01:03:35,032 --> 01:03:40,432
really important to dive into which it's becoming clear that a lot of these models are injecting

838
01:03:40,432 --> 01:03:47,372
advertising into their business model and the outputs can be heavily influenced by

839
01:03:47,372 --> 01:03:54,952
the advertisers providing revenue to to the model providers yeah and and they market it as a feature

840
01:03:54,952 --> 01:03:59,912
i can't remember what chadgpt is calling it but sam altman goes on there and says hey great news

841
01:03:59,912 --> 01:04:05,892
everybody while you're sleeping uh chadgpt is thinking for you and when you wake up it's going

842
01:04:05,892 --> 01:04:12,192
to give you this snapshot a daily a daily you know news brief of all of the wonderful shopping

843
01:04:12,192 --> 01:04:16,392
that you can do today i've i've gone through and found all the products that you want to buy and

844
01:04:16,392 --> 01:04:21,572
here they are right for you given all this information i know about you and it sounds

845
01:04:21,572 --> 01:04:26,732
great and convenient sounds awesome for some people but it's literally just here's all these

846
01:04:26,732 --> 01:04:30,472
advertisements that we want to throw in front of your face but we're going to spin it as

847
01:04:30,472 --> 01:04:39,352
we're doing you a favor doing you a service yeah ads we ever get through get get away from them

848
01:04:39,352 --> 01:04:44,672
this episode brought to you by bicky on chain obscura silent and maple and maple unofficially

849
01:04:44,672 --> 01:04:45,712
We should put a maple.

850
01:04:45,852 --> 01:04:50,332
We should, before we post this, get a maple sign-up code for TFTC.

851
01:04:50,832 --> 01:04:51,212
Oh, yeah.

852
01:04:51,692 --> 01:04:52,252
We need to do that.

853
01:04:53,332 --> 01:04:56,092
We don't have one right now, but I'll just make an executive decision.

854
01:04:56,292 --> 01:05:02,552
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855
01:05:02,752 --> 01:05:03,132
There you go.

856
01:05:03,432 --> 01:05:04,112
Business on-air.

857
01:05:04,332 --> 01:05:10,352
It's a timeless tradition here in the TFTC family of podcasts.

858
01:05:10,732 --> 01:05:10,952
Yeah.

859
01:05:10,952 --> 01:05:19,372
last thing we need to touch on because I think this is particularly important to you and me

860
01:05:19,372 --> 01:05:25,052
which is our children are going to be growing out with this stuff and the importance of making sure

861
01:05:25,052 --> 01:05:31,052
that this is done correctly so that the children don't get corrupted because they're our children

862
01:05:31,052 --> 01:05:37,292
particularly are in an age where their minds are very malleable and their emotions are very

863
01:05:37,292 --> 01:05:43,392
malleable and you don't want Sam Altman and Zuckerberg and the founders of

864
01:05:43,392 --> 01:05:47,232
anthropic controlling the malleability of,

865
01:05:47,472 --> 01:05:49,472
or how our children's brains are,

866
01:05:49,472 --> 01:05:53,912
are changed over time as they're learning and growing up with these tools.

867
01:05:55,252 --> 01:05:55,812
Yeah.

868
01:05:57,412 --> 01:05:59,712
So the question there then is let's,

869
01:05:59,792 --> 01:06:03,572
let's talk about family and let's talk about kids using AI, man.

870
01:06:03,572 --> 01:06:06,452
That's a, that's a whole nother rabbit hole to go down.

871
01:06:07,292 --> 01:06:21,812
But that's it's it's it is scary, right, that you're just going to hand over your kid to talk to this engine that has been trained on the brain, the output of the world and everything that comes with it.

872
01:06:22,092 --> 01:06:27,212
We try so hard as parents, and I know every parent has their own threshold.

873
01:06:27,572 --> 01:06:29,532
Some parents lock everything down.

874
01:06:29,652 --> 01:06:31,152
Some parents don't lock anything down.

875
01:06:31,152 --> 01:06:32,612
And then there's this in between.

876
01:06:32,612 --> 01:06:35,192
we try very hard to be selective and say,

877
01:06:35,252 --> 01:06:35,432
all right,

878
01:06:35,492 --> 01:06:46,447
we going to introduce this technology at this point you know in our child life And we learn okay that was the wrong one with that child Maybe we should have held off until later or maybe we should have introduced earlier

879
01:06:46,807 --> 01:06:48,707
And every kid has their own personality too.

880
01:06:48,847 --> 01:06:50,407
So it's like, it's not one size fits all.

881
01:06:50,587 --> 01:06:55,027
So I'm not here to prescribe to any parent what you should be doing for your kid because

882
01:06:55,027 --> 01:06:56,367
every situation is unique.

883
01:06:57,007 --> 01:07:02,107
However, I think it's pretty safe to say that you should not just be like tossing your kid

884
01:07:02,107 --> 01:07:07,047
on to chat GPT and letting them go hog wild and not surveil anything they're doing as a parent.

885
01:07:07,687 --> 01:07:11,227
That just seems like a really bad idea. And I would say the same with Maple.

886
01:07:12,107 --> 01:07:20,647
We do not market Maple to children. I've had opportunities to sponsor youth sports with Maple.

887
01:07:21,207 --> 01:07:25,327
And it's been very intriguing because I would love to get in front of the parents,

888
01:07:25,707 --> 01:07:30,187
but I don't want to be perceived as advertising to children right now because I want the parents

889
01:07:30,187 --> 01:07:32,327
to be the ones to make that choice with their kids.

890
01:07:33,407 --> 01:07:34,767
And so for us, for our family,

891
01:07:34,867 --> 01:07:36,687
we have one shared Maple account

892
01:07:36,687 --> 01:07:39,647
and we've given our kids access to it,

893
01:07:39,947 --> 01:07:41,967
but they know that mom and dad

894
01:07:41,967 --> 01:07:43,087
also have access to that account.

895
01:07:43,187 --> 01:07:44,807
And so we can go in and see what they're chatting about.

896
01:07:45,767 --> 01:07:48,447
They also have a shared ChatGPD account with us.

897
01:07:48,887 --> 01:07:51,647
And because we are pragmatists over here,

898
01:07:51,727 --> 01:07:53,107
we understand that there are things

899
01:07:53,107 --> 01:07:54,727
that chat can do that we can't on Maple

900
01:07:54,727 --> 01:07:56,727
and our kids are going to use that.

901
01:07:56,727 --> 01:07:58,667
And so we have created an environment

902
01:07:58,667 --> 01:07:59,727
where we try to make it safer

903
01:07:59,727 --> 01:08:05,187
for them to use it. Now, where I think that AIs could really help out a lot is building really

904
01:08:05,187 --> 01:08:11,487
good insights for parents. And so they can, they can be part of the, the operation, be part of the

905
01:08:11,487 --> 01:08:17,127
equation with their kids. And chat GPT recently came out with parental controls. And I've been

906
01:08:17,127 --> 01:08:22,087
very vocal online about this and in discussions with people that if you, you don't have to read

907
01:08:22,087 --> 01:08:27,907
the fine print, read the marketing page about the fucking, about the, the service. It is not

908
01:08:27,907 --> 01:08:34,127
parental controls. It is, um, it is basically the parent can go in there and they can turn certain

909
01:08:34,127 --> 01:08:38,927
dials of what they want to filter, but then the parent has no insight into what their kid is

910
01:08:38,927 --> 01:08:44,667
chatting about. So they don't get to see the chats. They don't, um, they can set like alerts

911
01:08:44,667 --> 01:08:49,887
like, Oh, we, we will alert you if we think there's a risk, but it's not like, Hey, I want

912
01:08:49,887 --> 01:08:55,687
to know if the word suicide is ever mentioned or the topic of suicide is brought up, like send me

913
01:08:55,687 --> 01:08:59,267
email right away or send me a push notification right away. That option is not available.

914
01:08:59,747 --> 01:09:05,127
What they say is they have a panel of experts within ChatGPT that are going to assess

915
01:09:05,127 --> 01:09:12,427
situations and only when it is deemed extremely risky will the parent be notified. And then only

916
01:09:12,427 --> 01:09:18,987
then maybe selective parts of the chat will be revealed to the parent. So it's very much like we

917
01:09:18,987 --> 01:09:25,067
are in control of your child's relationship with this AI as this company and you, the parent,

918
01:09:25,067 --> 01:09:30,767
are kind of treated as the enemy and you're on the outside you're not allowed to be part of this

919
01:09:30,767 --> 01:09:38,747
and so i i think that's it's kind of a sinister way to try to sell parental control and parental

920
01:09:38,747 --> 01:09:46,347
insights into ai um and i mean we could go into all sorts of ways that society has kind of

921
01:09:46,347 --> 01:09:51,907
adopted that model and replicated it elsewhere within society with parents and children but uh

922
01:09:51,907 --> 01:09:57,387
with maple we would love to build something better um we have not built it yet it's kind of

923
01:09:57,387 --> 01:10:01,107
down the pipeline we have so many other things trying to work on but i would love to build a

924
01:10:01,107 --> 01:10:07,707
system where parents can see their kids chats and see what they're talking about they can set up

925
01:10:07,707 --> 01:10:13,887
alerts to get notified immediately when certain keywords are mentioned or brought up and then if

926
01:10:13,887 --> 01:10:20,067
a child deletes a chat it uh it disappears from their screen but it can go into a bucket maybe for

927
01:10:20,067 --> 01:10:23,747
30 days or however long that a parent can still go back and say, oh, they deleted this chat. Let

928
01:10:23,747 --> 01:10:27,847
me go see what this is about. Right. And some people say, well, that's just censorship or

929
01:10:27,847 --> 01:10:31,327
surveillance or whatever, but it's different when you're a parent and a child and you're trying to

930
01:10:31,327 --> 01:10:37,147
introduce them to technology that could potentially change their entire worldview and raise them to be

931
01:10:37,147 --> 01:10:39,727
something different than what you want to raise them to be.

932
01:10:41,107 --> 01:10:43,507
Yeah. You don't want the kids getting one-shotted by the LLMs.

933
01:10:43,967 --> 01:10:47,067
Yeah. There's plenty of adults getting one-shotted by the LLMs. It would be,

934
01:10:47,067 --> 01:10:58,787
I mean, going back to what we were discussing earlier, this gentle nudging, this subconscious nudging towards a political worldview that is dictated by the people that write the system prompts.

935
01:10:59,347 --> 01:11:01,167
He don't want that.

936
01:11:01,167 --> 01:11:09,267
If you thought schools were indoctrination camps, this steps it up many orders of magnitude in terms of its effectiveness.

937
01:11:10,707 --> 01:11:11,427
Yeah, definitely.

938
01:11:12,087 --> 01:11:14,887
We go back to that anchoring bias thing we talked about, right?

939
01:11:14,887 --> 01:11:19,847
if you are a seven-year-old child there are so many things in the world you've never been exposed

940
01:11:19,847 --> 01:11:24,327
to and so you have all these these anchors that could just be dropped right into your brain

941
01:11:24,327 --> 01:11:28,827
by an ai that's going to introduce a topic that maybe you as a parent would not want to introduce

942
01:11:28,827 --> 01:11:33,807
to them yet and suddenly it's going to put this anchor in their mind as a seven-year-old

943
01:11:33,807 --> 01:11:38,467
and now as they grow up you are going to have to be fighting against that and try to pull them away

944
01:11:38,467 --> 01:11:43,227
from that and say that is not the view of the world that i would love for you to have within

945
01:11:43,227 --> 01:11:48,587
our family framework, within our belief structure, that's just simply the anchor was placed in

946
01:11:48,587 --> 01:11:50,127
the wrong spot.

947
01:11:50,127 --> 01:11:51,247
And it sucks that that happened.

948
01:11:51,247 --> 01:11:52,247
Right.

949
01:11:52,247 --> 01:11:53,247
And in real life, sure.

950
01:11:53,247 --> 01:11:55,407
A human being could do that to them, right?

951
01:11:55,407 --> 01:12:08,042
A crazy uncle shows up or you know who knows what but we as parents and as families we we try to associate with people that we think will be good influences on our kids And we try to help them have make good choices with which

952
01:12:08,042 --> 01:12:12,902
friends they try to be friends with and put them in good school. So they have adults in their lives

953
01:12:12,902 --> 01:12:17,982
that are making good influences on them and we can't protect them a hundred percent, but we can

954
01:12:17,982 --> 01:12:26,322
certainly try and avoid just giving them access to, and you know, a seemingly unfiltered AI that's

955
01:12:26,322 --> 01:12:31,222
just going to drop anything in their lap that it wants to yeah and i mean

956
01:12:31,222 --> 01:12:40,262
i think i discussed this with you like my older boys school they go to a catholic school and

957
01:12:40,262 --> 01:12:46,262
they're the administration's very on top of things very tech forward they have a robotics class they

958
01:12:46,262 --> 01:12:53,182
they're really good at stem stuff and they're already like the back to school meaning they

959
01:12:53,182 --> 01:12:57,902
basically threw out like, hey, we want to be ahead of the AI curve. We're going to put together an AI

960
01:12:57,902 --> 01:13:02,122
task force. I sent an email like, hey, I would like to be on this to make sure that we don't

961
01:13:02,122 --> 01:13:09,042
mess this up. Like what we're discussing right now is how do we control our child's, our children's

962
01:13:09,042 --> 01:13:14,142
interaction with this technology in the house, but it's going to bleed outside the house too.

963
01:13:14,302 --> 01:13:20,622
And I think that's one thing that's top of my mind is once the schools start implementing this,

964
01:13:20,622 --> 01:13:26,122
I mean, I just mentioned many schools are deemed to be indoctrination camps.

965
01:13:26,502 --> 01:13:32,002
If you're not careful, not paying attention, your child can get indoctrinated pretty heavily.

966
01:13:32,302 --> 01:13:37,822
And again, AI takes that up many orders of magnitude and you could combine the two.

967
01:13:38,562 --> 01:13:42,942
And there's going to be schools across the country, across the world that begin to implement this stuff.

968
01:13:42,942 --> 01:13:45,942
And I think that's a scary thought.

969
01:13:46,062 --> 01:13:48,122
And that's why I joined the AI task force.

970
01:13:48,222 --> 01:13:50,022
We haven't had any meetings yet.

971
01:13:50,022 --> 01:13:53,642
I've gotten a response like, hey, thanks for expressing interest.

972
01:13:53,762 --> 01:13:57,822
We'll reach out when we're ready to begin these conversations and think about implementing it.

973
01:13:58,002 --> 01:14:09,502
But imagine a world where all these schools are just using the walled garden models and the teachers, the kids and everybody's interacting with this.

974
01:14:09,542 --> 01:14:12,342
And it's just pushing the whole school in a certain direction.

975
01:14:13,062 --> 01:14:13,802
Yeah, that's true.

976
01:14:13,982 --> 01:14:15,302
I mean, good on you for being involved.

977
01:14:15,442 --> 01:14:15,682
Right.

978
01:14:15,702 --> 01:14:17,002
I wanted to join that task force.

979
01:14:17,002 --> 01:14:22,622
your kids are incredibly lucky and statistically they are growing up in a home you know with two

980
01:14:22,622 --> 01:14:26,642
parents that are involved like they're going to be statistically more successful in life

981
01:14:26,642 --> 01:14:32,302
and a lot of people would say like they've won the lottery of sorts so um you know i commend you for

982
01:14:32,302 --> 01:14:39,142
being involved in that way but uh yeah schools are going to be kind of picking these ais and

983
01:14:39,142 --> 01:14:43,662
you think about like the the big fight that's gone on over the last two or three years with

984
01:14:43,662 --> 01:14:45,442
school boards has been the books, right?

985
01:14:45,462 --> 01:14:47,762
What books are they assigning to our children for required reading?

986
01:14:48,362 --> 01:14:49,462
And it's like, okay,

987
01:14:49,562 --> 01:14:53,742
that is small potatoes to which AI are they going to unleash on our children

988
01:14:53,742 --> 01:14:55,782
in school and let them play around with.

989
01:14:56,842 --> 01:15:01,282
That's like a thousand times more important than which book are they going to

990
01:15:01,282 --> 01:15:02,022
be assigned to read?

991
01:15:03,082 --> 01:15:03,702
It really is.

992
01:15:04,842 --> 01:15:05,282
No,

993
01:15:05,342 --> 01:15:10,742
like going back in terms of like introducing AI to children.

994
01:15:10,882 --> 01:15:11,002
I mean,

995
01:15:11,002 --> 01:15:13,062
my boys are younger five and three.

996
01:15:13,662 --> 01:15:18,982
And the extent of their interaction with AI is obviously I don't give them a phone.

997
01:15:19,822 --> 01:15:24,742
They don't really interact with screens that much, particularly tablets and phones.

998
01:15:25,582 --> 01:15:28,762
But the extent of our use is we'll use ChatGBT voice.

999
01:15:29,282 --> 01:15:33,822
And we've named our ChatGBT instance Daryl.

1000
01:15:34,002 --> 01:15:38,522
And like if they ever have just a random question, it's like, OK, let's ask Daryl.

1001
01:15:38,602 --> 01:15:40,082
They love asking Daryl questions.

1002
01:15:40,082 --> 01:15:43,082
And I'm comfortable with it because it's fun.

1003
01:15:43,662 --> 01:15:46,922
But nine questions like what's the fastest fish in the sea?

1004
01:15:47,602 --> 01:15:49,702
How long does it take to count to 100 trillion?

1005
01:15:50,322 --> 01:15:57,442
How is glass made to like questions like this, which is like, all right, I'm comfortable having the interaction with AI be to this extent.

1006
01:15:57,842 --> 01:16:06,582
But as they grow and get their questions, get more esoteric and existential, it's like, OK, I don't know if I want Daryl answering these questions.

1007
01:16:06,922 --> 01:16:10,182
Yeah, especially the questions they don't want to come to you for.

1008
01:16:10,522 --> 01:16:10,722
Right.

1009
01:16:10,722 --> 01:16:17,082
And it's not that they don't trust you, but as a kid, as a teenager, there are certain things you just don't want to chat with your parents about.

1010
01:16:17,682 --> 01:16:20,362
And do you want them asking Daryl these questions?

1011
01:16:20,482 --> 01:16:21,702
Yeah, probably not.

1012
01:16:23,282 --> 01:16:30,702
Are you optimistic that we can get to this privacy-preserving, open-source, verifiable future?

1013
01:16:31,562 --> 01:16:33,562
Yeah, I mean, I'm optimistic that we can build it.

1014
01:16:34,062 --> 01:16:35,462
I definitely think we can do it.

1015
01:16:35,462 --> 01:16:42,082
the question is, is there going to be enough public response for it? Are people going to want it?

1016
01:16:43,262 --> 01:16:49,622
We definitely see, if you look at an app like Signal for texting, people recognize the value

1017
01:16:49,622 --> 01:16:56,782
in encrypted text messaging. So there for sure is optimism and hope in that model. And if we can

1018
01:16:56,782 --> 01:17:02,142
capture that same kind of paradigm and bring it over, we're trying to build the signal of AI

1019
01:17:02,142 --> 01:17:04,842
and make that available to the world.

1020
01:17:04,842 --> 01:17:07,782
And we're trying to show a model that other people can,

1021
01:17:07,782 --> 01:17:11,422
can implement and a pattern that they can follow to build.

1022
01:17:11,422 --> 01:17:14,922
And so hopefully we can inspire enough builders.

1023
01:17:14,922 --> 01:17:16,342
It doesn't take a lot.

1024
01:17:16,342 --> 01:17:33,437
We just two people working together building this I here on the podcast and my co is you know working with working with ai to write the code and um we need more people out there building things in the right way um

1025
01:17:33,437 --> 01:17:40,257
go check out the free thought manifesto the website is ai with confidence.org and it's right

1026
01:17:40,257 --> 01:17:46,917
there on the website and read about it read about verifiable ai it's not that big of a hurdle other

1027
01:17:46,917 --> 01:17:50,937
than you have to learn how to use technology slightly differently but really it's about

1028
01:17:50,937 --> 01:17:56,897
building with a different core thesis core set of principles right and not making user data your

1029
01:17:56,897 --> 01:18:02,437
business model rather making a great experience your business model and then we can all win and

1030
01:18:02,437 --> 01:18:07,937
we can all benefit from that let's do it thank you for doing what you do sir it's very important

1031
01:18:07,937 --> 01:18:16,697
and i can say as a user of maple since day one in the ux is definitely getting the parity with

1032
01:18:16,697 --> 01:18:23,777
the larger models i've been beta testing the live data feature and that's been an incredible

1033
01:18:23,777 --> 01:18:30,417
upgrade in terms of response quality uh particularly if you want to talk about

1034
01:18:30,417 --> 01:18:38,317
something that's happening in the news or um something that is topical it's just been incredible

1035
01:18:38,317 --> 01:18:46,037
again upgrade in in the user experience and the quality of the responses and the fact that i think

1036
01:18:46,037 --> 01:18:51,097
the other mind-blowing fact that you just mentioned, the fact that you've done all this

1037
01:18:51,097 --> 01:18:56,057
with a team of two is highly encouraging because it's like the two of you, yourself and Anthony,

1038
01:18:56,157 --> 01:19:01,857
can get it to this point. Imagine what can happen when you get a critical mass of manpower

1039
01:19:01,857 --> 01:19:08,977
focused on building the solutions in this way. I think it's very easy to see that if enough minds

1040
01:19:08,977 --> 01:19:14,977
are focused on building this model out, you can easily get to parity and potentially surpass

1041
01:19:14,977 --> 01:19:18,917
the user experience of the walled garden models rather quickly.

1042
01:19:19,597 --> 01:19:20,357
Yeah, definitely.

1043
01:19:20,957 --> 01:19:21,597
I appreciate you.

1044
01:19:21,677 --> 01:19:23,897
I appreciate using Maple from the beginning

1045
01:19:23,897 --> 01:19:25,437
and helping us test out things

1046
01:19:25,437 --> 01:19:27,577
and supporting what we're working on.

1047
01:19:28,137 --> 01:19:28,697
I think it's great.

1048
01:19:29,077 --> 01:19:31,637
And if we can get a critical mass of people who care about this

1049
01:19:31,637 --> 01:19:33,257
and are building tools and using those tools,

1050
01:19:33,397 --> 01:19:35,817
then that scenario of the whole robo-taxi,

1051
01:19:35,937 --> 01:19:36,817
I want to go get a burrito

1052
01:19:36,817 --> 01:19:39,657
and everything that I do is kind of censored and surveilled,

1053
01:19:40,237 --> 01:19:43,477
we could affect the community around us,

1054
01:19:43,477 --> 01:19:47,497
and affect society to where these tools are not closed like that.

1055
01:19:47,577 --> 01:19:49,037
And they're actually open and verifiable.

1056
01:19:50,577 --> 01:19:51,517
Let's do it.

1057
01:19:51,517 --> 01:19:52,477
Yeah, let's make it happen.

1058
01:19:53,557 --> 01:19:54,137
Thank you.

1059
01:19:54,277 --> 01:19:54,977
Thank you for your work.

1060
01:19:55,037 --> 01:19:57,397
Thank you for joining us on such short notice.

1061
01:19:58,277 --> 01:19:59,197
We caught up yesterday.

1062
01:19:59,257 --> 01:20:01,237
I was like, we need to catch up on the podcast

1063
01:20:01,237 --> 01:20:04,537
because I think people need to hear this message and need to act.

1064
01:20:04,777 --> 01:20:05,577
Go sign up for Maple.

1065
01:20:05,737 --> 01:20:07,997
Use the code TFTC, business on there, 10% off.

1066
01:20:08,577 --> 01:20:09,337
Play around with it.

1067
01:20:09,457 --> 01:20:10,157
Give feedback.

1068
01:20:10,517 --> 01:20:13,337
And if you're interested, do you have any calls to action for people?

1069
01:20:13,477 --> 01:20:16,657
that may be wanting to help out

1070
01:20:16,657 --> 01:20:18,757
on the actual construction of this model?

1071
01:20:19,137 --> 01:20:21,237
Yeah, go to trymaple.ai

1072
01:20:21,237 --> 01:20:23,137
and we have all our links in there to GitHub.

1073
01:20:23,457 --> 01:20:24,537
We have a Discord as well.

1074
01:20:24,617 --> 01:20:25,937
You can hop in there and chat with us.

1075
01:20:26,017 --> 01:20:27,077
It's becoming very lively.

1076
01:20:27,917 --> 01:20:30,017
We have some very passionate users.

1077
01:20:30,397 --> 01:20:31,657
So if our service goes down

1078
01:20:31,657 --> 01:20:32,937
for like 30 seconds or a minute,

1079
01:20:33,237 --> 01:20:34,277
they're in Discord saying,

1080
01:20:34,397 --> 01:20:35,077
hey, Maple's down.

1081
01:20:35,557 --> 01:20:37,237
And then it comes right back online.

1082
01:20:37,457 --> 01:20:38,297
So go in there.

1083
01:20:38,357 --> 01:20:39,117
There's some passionate people

1084
01:20:39,117 --> 01:20:40,217
that would love to chat with you.

1085
01:20:40,697 --> 01:20:42,757
And then we also have our developer API.

1086
01:20:42,757 --> 01:20:45,057
and there are people in there talking about that too.

1087
01:20:45,177 --> 01:20:47,977
So if you are a builder who just wants to tinker around,

1088
01:20:48,557 --> 01:20:50,377
come sign up, you get a pro account with Maple

1089
01:20:50,377 --> 01:20:52,757
and you can get access to the developer API

1090
01:20:52,757 --> 01:20:54,357
and start building.

1091
01:20:54,797 --> 01:20:56,337
If you're gonna build a new app,

1092
01:20:57,117 --> 01:20:58,997
why have it talk to ChatGPT?

1093
01:20:59,197 --> 01:21:00,177
Use the same interface,

1094
01:21:00,277 --> 01:21:01,457
but have it talk to a private AI

1095
01:21:01,457 --> 01:21:03,617
that gives you great results as well.

1096
01:21:04,097 --> 01:21:06,617
But then you have that core data protection inside there.

1097
01:21:07,297 --> 01:21:09,137
So yeah, go to the website there.

1098
01:21:09,257 --> 01:21:11,557
You can follow me on X and on Noster.

1099
01:21:11,557 --> 01:21:17,757
X I'm, you know, at Mark Suman and you can follow me for, for things and chat with me

1100
01:21:17,757 --> 01:21:18,017
on there.

1101
01:21:18,097 --> 01:21:19,417
I'm, I'm trying to be very responsive.

1102
01:21:19,417 --> 01:21:23,737
So I would love to encourage people and get involved in conversations to help, help you

1103
01:21:23,737 --> 01:21:23,917
out.

1104
01:21:24,037 --> 01:21:27,697
If you're trying to build stuff or you're finding bugs, you can file issues on GitHub

1105
01:21:27,697 --> 01:21:28,917
and just go post them on there.

1106
01:21:28,917 --> 01:21:30,457
And we will try to pick them off.

1107
01:21:31,277 --> 01:21:32,977
We take feedback very seriously.

1108
01:21:32,977 --> 01:21:35,637
We love to try and build what our users want.

1109
01:21:35,697 --> 01:21:36,837
So just come help us out.

1110
01:21:38,237 --> 01:21:39,837
We'll link to all that in the show notes.

1111
01:21:39,837 --> 01:21:42,077
go seize the day

1112
01:21:42,077 --> 01:21:42,917
peace of love freaks

1113
01:21:42,917 --> 01:21:46,277
thank you for listening to this episode of TFTC

1114
01:21:46,277 --> 01:21:48,017
if you've made it this far

1115
01:21:48,017 --> 01:21:50,337
I imagine you got some value out of the episode

1116
01:21:50,337 --> 01:21:52,897
if so please share it far and wide

1117
01:21:52,897 --> 01:21:54,697
with your friends and family

1118
01:21:54,697 --> 01:21:56,157
we're looking to get the word out there

1119
01:21:56,157 --> 01:21:58,677
also wherever you're listening

1120
01:21:58,677 --> 01:22:00,977
whether that's YouTube, Apple, Spotify

1121
01:22:00,977 --> 01:22:02,897
make sure you like

1122
01:22:02,897 --> 01:22:04,257
and subscribe to the show

1123
01:22:04,257 --> 01:22:05,957
and if you can leave a rating

1124
01:22:05,957 --> 01:22:08,997
on the podcasting platforms that goes a long way

1125
01:22:08,997 --> 01:22:17,057
Last but not least, if you want to get these episodes a day early and ad-free, make sure you download the Fountain podcasting app.

1126
01:22:17,577 --> 01:22:19,817
You can go to fountain.fm to find that.

1127
01:22:20,577 --> 01:22:24,317
$5 a month gets you every episode a day early, ad-free.

1128
01:22:25,117 --> 01:22:25,877
Helps the show.

1129
01:22:26,297 --> 01:22:27,397
Gives you incredible value.

1130
01:22:28,357 --> 01:22:31,637
So please consider subscribing to Fountain as well.

1131
01:22:32,197 --> 01:22:33,097
Thank you for your time.

1132
01:22:33,657 --> 01:22:34,497
And until next time.

1133
01:22:35,137 --> 01:22:35,317
Okay.

1134
01:22:38,997 --> 01:23:08,977
Thank you.