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[START PART 1/5] happening now we'd like to welcome our viewers from across North America and around the world this is The edtech 0:09 Situation Room episode 295. for May 24 0:14 2023. my name is Wes fryer coming to you from Matthews North Carolina just outside of Charlotte where I am just 0:21 finishing up my first year at Providence day school as a stem teacher and media 0:27 literacy teacher and I'm joined as always by the edtech Yoda of the north 0:32 who is reminding us constantly in his byline that he is pretty much human but 0:38 sometimes perhaps augmented it's Dr Jason neifer of Missoula how are you Jason good evening Dr fryer I am well 0:44 sir and as you mentioned it's I'm joining you from Missoula Montana tonight in lovely Western Montana and I 0:50 have to say the weather's been pretty nice it did dump rain here on Monday but for the next at least week or so we're 0:56 going to have beautiful 70 degree days here in Western Montana and I will say that in in relatively short order we had 1:03 a really late winter this year and and a late start to Spring um and it's kind of suddenly turned 1:10 super green here so very exciting uh beautiful um uh green foliage and the lilac bushes 1:16 have have uh um uh uh popped up and they smell absolutely amazing okay but I have to 1:23 ask you about like fires and weather I've been I've been watching some stuff on YouTube about possibly jumping into 1:30 an El Nino and these fires in Canada are you guys having smoke and what's up with we have luckily the last two days it's 1:37 been pretty decent um but part of the problem of living in the Missoula Valley is that 1:43 one smoke uh hangs out in the valley it takes a pretty significant weather event to get it out of here whether it's 1:50 um a whole lot of of wind or rain on Monday is really what helped us out 1:55 um with that so yeah pretty exciting um and this is early it's early early for that right yeah it is very early and 2:02 you know that there is that uh those those fires in in Alberta and British Columbia and we are seeing a ton of 2:08 smoke from those but fortunately it's been blown out of here the last two days um but you know we've talked to the 2:16 longtime listeners the podcast uh you know that you know late summer is is a a pretty consistent fire uh risk for 2:23 Western United States but particularly true of Montana so we're keeping an eye on that and hope that first the fires go 2:30 out in Canada for our friends of the north but also that we have a relatively moderate Fire season 2:35 absolutely well we do always need to you know talk a little bit about things that are not show related but this show is 2:43 apparently about tech news and something called artificial intelligence I've heard it's a new thing yeah it seems 2:50 like it's getting a headline or two as of late but hey if this is the first time listening in that's a Wes is 2:56 exactly correct we like to take a look at the week's news and kind of shoot it through an educational prism to see if 3:02 we can't help out folks that are interested in the use and misuse of technology in classrooms find some clarity 3:07 um in in this extraordinary topic and as as Dr fryer mentioned we um as most weeks have uh an interesting 3:15 amount of um uh interesting amount of of links on that topic this week so 3:21 um other topics this week privacy um Apple Google uh social media and Tech 3:26 correction news and then in case we need it there's you know quite a few uh links 3:31 about AI this week so Dr fryer would you like us to do one of the non 3:37 topics to start with or should we just jump in the rabbit hole now oh let's let's do a couple other ones but but we 3:42 won't spend three-fourths of the show uh doing them uh thank you by the way for uh doing the Yeomans work there on the 3:49 links um we'll remind everybody that if you're ever curious uh like tonight to see that oh look Dr fryer didn't do Jack 3:57 um although I'm putting a link in now you can see who uses the semicolons and the commas between these sources and the 4:04 dates so I am throwing a link in um that I actually heard about on the clockwise podcast which I listened to 4:10 this morning uh going into work and have you heard of tele TV I've not okay well this is an archive 4:19 um dot today link because those are our lovely uh paywall bypassing links so this is from Wired Magazine this is from 4:26 May 17th the true cost of a free TV tele TV tracks you and bombards you with ads 4:32 on a dedicated second screen it could help normalize smartphone style surveillance in your living room and so 4:37 while most of us well I shouldn't say that well all of us should know that any 4:43 kind of smart television is absolutely a surveillance device and if you're not 4:48 interested in being a part of the attention economy and the surveillance economy 4:55 um you know the first thing that you should do with any kind of new television is disconnect any built-in smart devices and then just like hook up 5:02 an Apple TV or another device of course those are going to get some data for their respective companies as well but 5:09 the folks on clockwise were saying hey at least this one is open and honest and saying what it is you can get this free 5:15 55-inch TV as long as you are good with seeing a constant stream of ads um on as 5:23 it says the second screen and apparently if you don't um switch channels and and give the idea 5:28 that you are interacting with it both screens can actually become full advertisement channels into your living 5:34 room so Dr neifer are you in need of a new 55-inch TV and will the tele TV fit 5:39 the bill for the knife or household that's super interesting 5:44 um the thing that I think is is most interesting about that is that I I do know that you can get a decent sized 5:50 Smart television at the Jolly Mart or Best Buy or Costco for well under 300 5:58 now and if you buy them on sale and you don't particularly care about the quality as you have substantially under 6:04 that but what I don't get though is that I just try to figure out what what data 6:10 they must be collecting that's worth that amount to them because um uh you think about it from this 6:16 standpoint right like smart TVs are already collecting data on you right so it's not that data because that already 6:24 exists in in a lot of way shape to reform and yes they're they're floating some advertisement on the second screen 6:29 experience um so that that's also uh interesting as well but 6:34 um you know it does talk about how for free right like free is a 6:40 um certainly a a tempting offer um uh uh for the purposes of 6:47 um you know attracting folks but I I think we keep having to ask the conversations what are you getting in 6:53 exchange for free um it does remind me of Wes I'm wondering if you remember this this was 6:58 20 years ago 22 years ago maybe you used to be able to buy or I'm sorry download 7:05 an app for your uh computer that displayed and add on the bottom of your 7:11 computer and as long as you are active it paid you X number of cents uh per per 7:16 minute uh to see the ads on the bottom and this would be you know the uh uh 20 7:23 years ago so we're talking about you know if you were lucky you had a 19-inch monitor right that was a big CRT monitor 7:30 you could have in 20 years ago um I was uh uh pretty famous and made fun of by students because I used to 7:36 have two CRT 22-inch monitors on my desk that were just ridiculously sized 7:42 um um and uh um uh I think we're only 1280 by by some ridiculously low resolution 7:50 but um that all so you you know the typical user was using a little 14-inch monitor 7:57 with an 800 by 600 resolution and they paid you for that and so the hack was 8:03 was that you could download um it only only paid you while you were actively using the computer and uh you 8:10 could download apps uh from the internet that would kind of shake your mouse around the screen to trick it and so for 8:16 like six months I would get nineteen dollars uh to look at these ads 8:22 um and it paid for my internet so you know I wasn't you know uh complaining but it kind of reminded me of that when 8:27 I heard about this well what I thought you were going to say was wasn't it Cable ONE what was was that what was in 8:32 it they were it would put in in School classrooms Cable ONE it was a channel one channel one it was something one 8:38 yeah and it was um you know free television but at the cost of subjecting your kids to whatever 8:45 advertisements they decided to uh put in there Betsy Springer welcome Betsy is in 8:51 the chat room and she says in college we had an app for um making free landline phone calls home 8:57 but it was ad based how interesting um on the clockwise podcast they mentioned I don't know if it was micro 9:03 Sergeant or um trying to think of the other co-host uh 9:08 Dan Morin but one of them uh I don't know if they did this with a Raspberry Pi you can do this where you it's a very 9:14 geeky thing but you monitor all the Upstream um data that is being sent out like from 9:21 your television so I guess they put an intermediate device uh in between the well whatever they on their internet uh 9:28 router they were able to monitor the port where the television was and then they were able to see all 9:34 of the packets that were being sent and there was a large quantity of them so yes advertising you know all of us each 9:40 Facebook account um each Twitter account all of these things are are being monetized 9:46 um Mr musk may not be successfully uh doing that right now in his subscription plans I don't think are going too well 9:53 for the bird site but anyway it you know advertising it continues to power a good 10:00 bit of the web yep absolutely any other articles you'd like to talk about before the end yeah 10:05 uh let's hit a couple of um uh these Google articles uh this one I 10:11 believe is from you from last week but apparently Google's gonna start deleting inactive accounts 10:18 yes and uh so this is good to know it at some point many of us I think created 10:24 extra Google accounts for different things um I actually created one a while back 10:29 um to segment my YouTube watching because I was having my YouTube channel sort of taken over with a particular 10:36 flavor of videos I didn't really want to just dominate but um there's been some clarification 10:42 articles since then saying I don't think that the YouTube videos that are 10:47 associated with these are going to be deleted um but you need to log in so if you've 10:54 created something for instance our you know the story Chasers which is now like a passion project of mine but for a 11:00 while it was a non-profit and we have a Gmail account well I haven't checked that in a while so if it's if you've 11:05 gone two years you know you you risk losing it um I know that Mr musk has been 11:10 threatening for inactive bird site accounts that they possibly um you know could be uh 11:18 deactivated and then give it away to somebody else who's going to be active so anyway that may that may affect some of 11:25 us who have some extra personal Google accounts absolutely and I'm just looking 11:31 at mine too um um I have an old Google account I haven't been in in a very very very very 11:38 long time and I'm just trying to get back into it now okay um and then one other quick Google 11:44 article um this one is from cord cutter news on 11:49 um on May 17th that YouTube is now going to start showing 30 second unskippable 11:54 ads and they announced at the YouTube upfront event uh last week that it will 12:00 now start showing a 30 second ad that cannot be skipped on YouTube through selected connect or connected TVs this 12:06 comes to YouTube and started a Crackdown on ad blockers and pushing YouTube premium at this time we don't know when 12:11 this will start or what devices will appear on um they're also starting to do ads when 12:16 you pause a YouTube video which I think is utterly ridiculous um and I did kind of go on a bit of a 12:24 um uh a rant about this the other day but I find YouTube ads to be 12:31 particularly awful and it's so bad that I don't um or I that that I pay for YouTube 12:37 premium and it's something that is extremely worth my time um and and and and money to do because 12:44 it makes it such a different experience and what I find something that's really extraordinary is that when I go back to 12:50 YouTube uh regular YouTube uh you know which doesn't have the premium features with ads I find YouTube to be basically 12:57 unwatchable um that there's so many ads they're so obnoxious and they're not really well 13:03 integrated uh into the experience and um I don't know I I feel like that that 13:10 you know I think I'm paying 9.99 a month for YouTube premium and that also gets me YouTube music I've had YouTube 13:16 premium for so long that I you know there's all these enticements that have been added on over 13:21 time um and my understanding is that relatively few people are like me that have had YouTube premium for this long 13:27 but and then you add to that if you're using YouTube in the classroom 13:33 um it it's I you know I I question you know the exposure of of of uh you know 13:40 that many ads I think that's also a problem as well so so this is yet 13:45 another way that you have influenced me because hearing you talk about that and and also just the orientation of the 13:51 YouTube ads it just finally became too much for me I I tried to take some drastic steps of getting my own Raspberry Pi and 13:58 trying to install this app that was going to try to to block ads but it they're they're too tricky those YouTube 14:05 developer folks um to be able to bypass you know ads on Apple TV and things like that it can work on ublock Origin in the 14:11 Chrome browser but anyway to my knowledge there's not some kind of Open Source way of doing that but I've had 14:19 the same experience now when I have when I would go up to visit my parents and and so my dad they would typically watch 14:26 a lot of Television just regular over-the-ear TV and man not watching the 14:32 ads and then when you're in a situation where you're seeing it really just feels like an assault and so I'm having the 14:38 same situation now with the second YouTube account that I've created because I'm not going to pay YouTube premium on a second account and so 14:45 anyway I'm I'm having ads but the other thing that makes me think of and this this is really 14:51 a very maybe an un not an uncovered but a little discussed side of of the 14:59 advertisement world the ads we we know they're customized you hear about [END PART 1/5] Remember not answering yet. 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[START PART 2/5] this 15:04 but for instance I now have you know these two different YouTube accounts and I'm seeing very different ads on each of 15:10 them I know that um you know I've taught Sunday School uh for a while and so 15:15 sometimes when I would be doing research it'd be religious based it was just very obvious that because I had had a search 15:23 history where I was doing some things that you know YouTube was for instance thinking I guess I was a very strong 15:28 religious conservative and some of the things that some of this was during elections and stuff like that but wow 15:35 um I had grappled with my friend Brian turnbaugh about this one of the things you got to be careful if you're going to 15:40 teach students about this you might almost have them create a separate account because I don't really I don't 15:46 think that it's good to ask somebody to do an assignment that is going to create 15:51 a digital footprint for them and and an effect what's that called they're it's 15:57 not a Knowledge Graph but there's some kind of a word as far as like YouTube and everything that it's Gathering about you 16:03 um it's possible to you know delete things from your watch History Etc but 16:08 anyway I think you know what we've commented this has been a while back I mean hey you look at Wikipedia look at 16:14 that we're looking at this the same version of the article if we're bringing up at the same time you know might have I've had some kind of an edit but 16:20 basically we get to see the same version but when it comes to Google search results when it comes it's just it'll be 16:26 interesting to see what chat GPT looks like because it's generating new things each time but anyway the the whole Arena 16:33 of Google search and and search ads it's something that I want to flesh out more 16:38 in my own media literacy classes around advertising and raising awareness of 16:43 students of the ways in which advertisements work but yeah I think that 16:48 I love being able to escape the ads so I just wish I could do that on the iPad as well and there's really not any way 16:54 other than YouTube premium I guess to do that right yeah and and then again I you 17:00 know the I I watch a lot of YouTube and um you 17:05 know and I I have certain sets of channels that I I watch pretty frequently there's about half dozen cooking channels and half dozen travel 17:12 channels and I get fed a pretty regular diet of of a handful of other Tech channels but the bottom line is is that 17:18 makes a um a pretty big difference um let me do one other quick one here uh 17:25 Wes and then we could jump into this week's um AI mess uh this is an interesting article from TechCrunch 17:30 earlier this week um that's reporting that the government can't seize your data but they can buy 17:36 your data and um there is a this is all uh Spawn from 17:43 um the overturn of Roe versus Wade last year and um people that are seeking in states 17:49 that have have subsequently banned abortion to try to figure out if its citizens are going to other states uh to 17:56 get abortions and as it turns out um your phone uh tracks you and its 18:02 location quite aggressively and um a lot of people start expressing 18:07 concern that it would be used as a some kind of vehicle for tracking 18:13 um uh women that were seeking that medical care and um uh uh and and being uh using it to 18:21 prosecute uh back in their home States and um the ignoring again that debate for a 18:27 second um the uh there are new rules that are preventing law enforcement uh proposed 18:33 by the bite Administration um uh uh that basically say that it 18:39 can't um um uh uh sees data from reproductive 18:45 Health Care uh company or from companies that that have data on reproductive health care and 18:52 um apparently that's all well and good except that you can still buy that data from data Brokers and this turns into a 19:00 bit of an expose uh uh quoting um uh uh the author that the FBI the 19:07 military and several other government and Regulatory Agencies are frequent customers of data Brokers both domestically and abroad they uh the data 19:14 they purchase gives them alarming amounts of power to gather sensitive information on large groups of people 19:19 and um that's both very interesting to me and that's something um 19:25 um uh uh Wes and I talked about in the past that in fact I think at one point we were we were actually just gonna see 19:31 if we could purchase our own data um I did read an article a couple months ago this suggested that that's exceptionally 19:36 hard to do about one person it's not impossible it's just hard to do but then it goes on to talk about things like the 19:43 National Guard is taking advantage of this loophole by purchasing data to Target and recruit high school students 19:49 and that the FBI is buying geolocation data to track millions of phones all without needing a warrant and 19:56 um you know the the term that Dr fire likes to use the surveillance capitalism um but this is surveillance capitalism 20:02 gone amok well and I think it points to what we've talked about multiple times in the show and I'm sure we'll continue 20:07 to talk about we need some privacy law in the United States Europe leads us with gdpr 20:13 um you know uh we'll talk I think in the AI about Sam Altman's testimony before Congress last week 20:19 um you you know this idea of how are we going to regulate some of this Tech sector and we really 20:25 you know need to need to do that uh let me do one other one that um just is a 20:30 kind of a geeky uh fetiverse thing uh this is TechCrunch from May 23rd Flipboard becomes the first app to 20:37 support Bluesky Mastodon and pixel fed all in one place and Dr neifer I heard a rumor that you're on Blue Sky I made it 20:44 onto Blue Sky thanks to my good friend Dr fryer sharing his uh the only invite he's received so far 20:50 um I'm now on Blue Sky and I have to say um it is very twitter-esque like even adopting the color scheme and the layout 20:57 of the page um but so far and and also it it doesn't seem to be a really huge place for edu 21:05 Twitter yet right so I've noticed in fact I went uh West to look at who you were following and there was a couple 21:12 names uh big names in there of of people in the edtech space but uh uh the the 21:17 people that were following you for example uh like very few of them seemed like they were in any way associated with education so right right it is it's 21:24 hard to get on and and so I've had to be on there two weeks but to get an invite and then uh apparently every two weeks 21:31 I'll receive another one but it's it's really a small number of folks this Tech 21:36 wrench article I'm really thrilled about this because Flipboard I've used for years and it is absolutely 21:42 one of my favorite apps on the iPad and the phone being able to have this visual you know digital newspaper experience is 21:50 really superb um Twitter of course the or I should I say the bird site 21:56 um you know cut off API access to most third-party tools including Flipboard so 22:02 I can no longer explore my Twitter lists which I have invested tons of hours in 22:08 over over time but on the good side we have these new tools Mastodon being one 22:13 and both Jason and I are on Macedon um and on Bluesky I'm I'm in I'm now in 22:19 this habit of for most of my edtech things you know post cross posting on 22:24 Bluesky on Macedon on Twitter and I'm even posting on LinkedIn and the K-12 leaders 22:30 so anyway I don't know how long I will keep that up but I'm glad to see Flipboard which is a fantastic app 22:36 supporting this I kind of think that that maybe blue sky has lists I think 22:41 maybe I saw something about that it doesn't have a web interface you have to be on the app in order to use blue sky 22:47 which is odd with Mastodon you can use the web web interface but anyway these are 22:53 decentralized platforms and certainly this is on the The Cutting Edge of 22:59 things but as people continue to wonder if the bird site meaning Twitter is going to 23:05 continue to survive both financially and and just in terms of it's its capacity 23:12 when you when you have centrally moderated platforms with millions and millions of 23:17 people um there are some just you know there are some big problems and some big 23:22 challenges that those platforms happen so these decentralized platforms um the founder Jack Dorsey of Twitter started 23:29 Blue Sky I think back in 2019 and one of the biggest things they wanted to do was form form this as a decentralized 23:35 platform so you wouldn't just have a single group of folks deciding what to moderate or not so yay Flipboard 23:41 um you know and if folks out there are on Bluesky or Mastodon uh please reach out I I like how Bluesky lets you use a 23:49 domain and this is of course Very geeky but you can put an a record in the 23:54 register the registrar log into your registrar for the domain that you own for instance I own westfire.com I got a 24:01 code from Blue Sky put a text record it's not an a record sorry it's a text record 24:07 and that allows to verify so my Bluesky account is westfryer.com so I think 24:14 that's a cool way to do verification because they've are you know in terms of buying domains and credibility and stuff 24:20 like that it's an interesting Twist on verification there's a different way that you can verify websites and domains 24:27 that you have on Mastodon but anyway maybe a little bit too much about that but I'm not on Pixel fed and I don't 24:33 know that I'm going to jump on that one so well uh the other thing I would tell you did you hear that uh Twitter didn't 24:39 handle the big uh Rhonda Santos announcement tonight very well no I didn't hear about that yeah it's uh 24:46 amazingly I wasn't with baited breath uh waiting waiting for all that yeah 24:52 uh the New York Times uh headline DeSantis big moment goes awry with 24:57 Twitter meltdown uh they apparently had um uh server glitches and 25:05 um um it didn't go so hot and then both uh 25:11 Democrats uh and then Donald Trump um um uh you jumped on their various 25:18 channels to to to to trash onto Santa so uh yeah that I don't think that when is anyone went can you I know I said we 25:25 didn't want to just talk too long about these non-ai articles but that you know the the tick tock band which is 25:31 Statewide in Montana that that's a pretty big deal and you put in uh the article I think about that not working 25:36 would you mind talking about that one yes um well so last week uh the governor 25:42 of Montana um Greg Gene Forte did sign The Tick Tock ban and we've talked about in the past so I won't go into a lot of details 25:49 there but that article talks about the technical challenges of this and there's already lawsuits uh uh five creators in 25:57 Montana have sued for for uh losing um uh losing access to the platform 26:03 which they say is critical for their business um uh Tick Tock itself is filed and federal court claiming its first 26:09 amendment rights were violated by the ban but the article does talk about the challenge of this and the Montana 26:16 attorney general Austin Knutson through a a press person said that that the 26:22 concept of geofencing already exists and it shouldn't be that tough to figure out a way to do this with 26:28 um uh with with Tick Tock and of course geofencing uh you know is a you is a 26:34 tool that kind of gives you some geographical cover here but um it's just not in the way that that I 26:41 think they're they're uh uh uh thinking of it at working and you know I would 26:48 say that I mean I I don't agree with this ban from the standpoint that I think we should have a much broader conversation 26:54 about data privacy and we're data stored that's that would be my argument against the ban 26:59 um but I would also say that um um you know we do uh well a lot of 27:06 States uh don't allow you to download um gambling apps for example and they've managed to figure that out and so I mean 27:12 I think there's probably a technological solution to this but it just it's just a big mess and if 50 different states have 27:18 50 different lists of what apps you can download it or download and not download I think that becomes pretty rough pretty 27:24 quick let's go back to our pocket copy of the Constitution I'm pretty sure that interstate commerce is supposed to be 27:29 federally regulated and I also think you know issues of National Defense and National Security National issues 27:36 Federal issues not you know States we're not going to reply you know rely on the Montana militia to defend us against the 27:43 threat posed by you know China and in Taiwan or something so uh I think that this is probably yeah going to be sorted 27:49 out by the courts and for a variety of reasons starting with the Constitution this is going to be something that I 27:56 think Federal voices are going to weigh in on versus versus State ones but it is interesting as you point out with what's 28:02 happening with gambling apps so who knows absolutely okay Dr Pryor we've 28:08 we've reached the AI hour so let's go ahead and um uh get through this week's mess 28:15 um so I guess I would start off with just kind of my own personal piece of AI world this week 28:21 um um um I been experimenting with all sorts of 28:28 things um this week um I am trying to be a little more cautious about you know where I use it 28:34 from the standpoint of um I do think the writing it creates uh and and I would agree with a lot of of 28:41 teachers and professors I've seen right about this is that it's not great writing it's sometimes it's pretty good 28:46 writing and it does a good job of helping you rewrite writing or also spot errors inside of a particular piece but 28:54 the bottom line is is that you know it's really no replacement for you know actually learning to write or or writing 29:01 well and I think that's an important piece of this but um uh one of the things that's not on 29:06 here is that uh open AI has released its own chat GPT 29:13 um uh uh app uh on the the iOS platform and the reason why this is important is 29:19 because there were hundreds if not thousands of apps that many cases cost money right 29:25 in-app purchases that were essentially a front for the open AI chat GPT platform or use the API API but we're really just 29:33 there to take your money and so now there's a free app available I downloaded almost immediately and now 29:38 gives me chat GPT access on my phone I've been using it as well um my uh only a article this week uh 29:45 basically it's hard fork a [END PART 2/5] Remember not answering yet. 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[START PART 3/5] nd we've talked about this a bunch of times on the show uh their latest episode from last Friday Mr 29:54 Altman Goes to Washington but also did you listen to this one Jason with the the case he goes on This American Life 30:00 man this is absolutely fantastic um the summary so as probably a lot of 30:08 us know now Sam Altman one of the most important leaders in the technology World 30:15 testified before Congress as Casey Newton and Kevin ruse point out and and 30:21 this they're you know Kevin's with the New York Times he's the one that had the whole interaction with Sydney a few 30:26 weeks ago that caused um because Microsoft um you know to get a lot of egg on its 30:32 face by rushing to to integrate chat gbt I think obviously before it was proven and they had to go you know put put 30:39 additional requirements and limits on it um they talked about how Altman's approach 30:46 as the CEO of openai is very different than what we saw from Sundar pichai of Google and 30:53 um Mark Zuckerberg from meta Facebook Jeff Bezos and and Amazon because those 31:00 folks were very distant Altman has made himself very accessible the the tenor 31:05 and tone of these interactions between Congressman and um Mr Altman is is 31:13 frankly quite positive and I I agree with what they said it it took like six 31:19 years to get some some testimony or hearings I guess in Congress about social media and and then when we did 31:25 there was just a lot of posturing and nothing actually happened there was no legislation but the stakes really do 31:31 appear to be different with artificial intelligence and um Altman is asking for regulation and 31:40 um you know the thing they clarified there because he was he was asked pretty Point Blank I mean if you had a magic 31:46 wand you were Queen for the day what would you do and so what he is asking for is a 31:51 regulatory agency that that can regulate AI especially when it crosses certain 31:57 boundaries um the whole thing with Biology proteins uh medicines virology viruses there are 32:06 all kinds of quite dystopian possibilities for these tools which are 32:11 just you know again sort of in their early days so this was really really a fantastic 32:17 podcast episode as I think pretty much all of hard Fork is um but then the the Casey Newton 32:25 um segment they just play it from this American life and it's his interview and 32:30 deep dive into the person at Twitter that was handling content moderation before and after Elon Musk took over and 32:39 absolutely fascinating and I do I do think it's very important from a Civic standpoint 32:44 that we're talking about free speech and how free speech is limited and and at 32:50 some stage you know from it from a technology standpoint to you just don't want to have unfettered free speech on 32:57 any platform because it becomes a dumpster fire and so anyway there's a lot of really good insights into kind of 33:03 what happened at Twitter before musk you know during uh musk's takeover and then 33:10 afterwards and and then ultimately um the the person who he interviews 33:15 um I'm trying to see his name um the former head of trust and safety 33:21 Joel Roth um ultimately he had to resign because 33:27 um you know the the the changes that um Twitter was making 33:33 um you know with respect to uh verification uh you know the the 33:38 proliferation of impersonation and and just the cutbacks anyway had reached a point where where he had to resign so 33:45 phenomenal wonderful podcast for so many reasons 33:51 yeah it's so interesting I now I really really really really want to listen to that um I want to share an article from The 33:58 Verge on May 16th that is super interesting um um this is the the uh uh CNET staff are 34:07 unionizing unionizing citing editorial Independence and the use of of AI tools 34:12 and um they have about a hundred people that are trying to 34:18 um um that are trying to uh uh unionize 34:24 um uh for the purpose of a lot of reasons I would imagine but you know as they say in in their press release in 34:31 this time of instability our diverse content teams need industry standard job protections Fair compensation and 34:37 editorial Independence and a voice in the decision-making process especially as automated uh technology threatens our jobs and reputations and the reason why 34:44 that is interesting to me is because there is a very similar conversation going on right now 34:50 um um uh uh um uh around the writer strike the writer's 34:57 Guild of America strike uh because of um in some cases uh uh uh and there's a 35:03 lot of reasons why the writer's Guild since they're striking but they are worried that they are also going to be replaced by AI 35:09 um and uh lose the Creative Touch that goes into um uh most major uh Television 35:16 Productions in Motion Pictures and I do think I mean you know with what is 35:22 happening to newspapers and magazines and new sites in the United States um it's going to be very hard to do this 35:29 only through unionizing but I could understand why professional writers will be concerned that their jobs are just 35:35 gonna start getting picked off one by one in exchange or in exchange for a chatbot 35:42 how much displacement do you think we're going to see in the white collar job market 35:47 a lot um and unfortunately I don't think 35:53 um um um 35:58 I I think there's going to be a lot of upheaval in the next couple of years even though the tools themselves aren't 36:06 really going to do the job people think they're gonna do and I think one of the things 36:11 um uh that I think is is is is troublesome here is that we some of the 36:17 switches may happen and um um we may not like know the transition 36:24 or start to just accept lower quality content without um um 36:29 um um and and we may just not know the 36:36 difference for a little while right and and it becomes kind of a dumbing Down of content or a lower quality of content 36:41 and then I think we end up in a weird impasse for a while because we don't really know what to do about that or the 36:47 content's so cheap it's hard to start paying people again I mean one of the things um that I want to be uh you know really 36:55 cognizant of is that you know newspapers made a really big mistake 25 years ago by giving their content away for free 37:00 online right and even though I love that about newspapers 25 years ago the bottom 37:06 line is is that it killed that model right the same is true of magazines the same is true in some cases of News 37:12 television but what I have to wonder is you know can we use those lessons to 37:18 make good decisions um on behalf of what will allow AI to deal what we won't allow AI to do 37:25 and I mean there is a lot of room for individual creators I know that you Jason are are supporting I think a 37:31 number of of different creators you know patreon there's there's uh 37:36 sub stack you know payment mechanisms for for different creators so I just I 37:44 wonder to the degree we're going to just move into a different era of Journalism where you know individual journalists 37:51 are going to you know find a way to pay the bills because of these micro payment 37:57 platforms but maybe you know the the thing that we've talked about before is 38:03 local news right you've talked about Montana as far as just not a a super popular state and you know not a not a 38:10 ton of local news coverage before internet now post internet there's even less so I don't know what the the Gap 38:18 who is going to fill the Gap with respect to local news um I'd like to think maybe that's a role 38:24 for students just to play a role in whether they're high school or you know 38:30 Community College four-year College I don't know but you know obviously professional journalists are the ones 38:36 who can best cover the news and the Nuance of it and you know get breaking stories and all that kind of stuff so 38:42 yeah we are we've been in a very interesting age because of the 38:47 oh what is that the word um the consolidation of media companies and all these different 38:54 um you know companies buying buying all sorts of folks but um I'll just put another plug-in for not only media 39:00 literacy but specifically lateral reading um because right now when it comes to 39:05 local sources as well as you know national news you've got some really weird domains and organizations and so 39:13 being able to ask the question wait a second where is this coming from how do I find out don't just go to the about 39:20 page and I had a student this week and I've never said this before but they actually put in a video if it's a dot 39:27 gov or a DOT edu side you can rely on it well anyway edu sites you know students 39:33 have had lots of home pages and things that they could put on those and that's just generally not what we should be 39:39 telling students today is like well just you know trusted.org site but don't maybe trust it.com the the inquiry has 39:46 got to go it's got to go for further than that the domain the domain level 39:51 um whatever the domain is it's not going to be able to to give it authenticity so yeah 39:58 well here's a a a a play in the future this is an article from the hill on May 40:05 22nd um the market deeply or I'm sorry the market briefly the the the the the the 40:12 market dips briefly says Jason after AI image a fake explosion your Paragon goes viral and uh basically uh there was a 40:21 group of Twitter accounts that were verified right and since verify doesn't mean Jack squat anymore 40:27 um it it was you know hard to tell the difference uh between that and a major 40:32 news uh outlet and they were mimicking I think Bloomberg if I remember correctly 40:37 yes Bloomberg News um called the Bloomberg feed and the headline was initial report large 40:43 explosion near the Pentagon complex in Washington DC initial report and the photo itself and I've seen a copy of the 40:49 photo um uh showed a a smoke rising from a 40:54 building to look vaguely like the Pentagon and um shortly after the image went viral 41:00 the market showed a brief dip with the Dow Jones Industrial Average following about 80 points and the S P 500 down 41:06 0.26 percent according to CNN Politico the interruption to the market was brief 41:11 occurring only for a few minutes and yeah yikes I mean you know it's not hard 41:17 to create these images anymore um uh you can create some pretty realistic looking images on on on 41:23 mid-journey but we have to stop now 41:29 with the rule that's seeing is believing right you need multiple sources from a 41:34 variety of news sources in order to to believe something is true or factual 41:41 that we have this article in here and I just remember here it is did you hear about this meta 1.3 billion dollar EU 41:48 settlement no okay so again listening to these 41:53 different podcasts this and we'll we'll dip out of that out of AI for just just a minute 41:59 um here's a this is a CNN article uh from 42:05 so many tabs I'm Googling too many things uh CNN 42:12 business this is on May 22nd uh meta slapped with record 1.3 billion dollar 42:19 EU fine over data privacy um this uh eclipses all previous records 42:25 of um of uh of fines that the EU has levied so 42:32 far and they are saying um that the EU privacy laws gdpr have 42:39 been violated because facebook slash meta has been illegally transferring the 42:45 personal data of Facebook users to servers in the United States I think we've talked about this on the show 42:50 before gdpr put some pretty significant burdens on companies and in some ways 42:57 sort of challenges really fundamentals of the internet which is that hey it doesn't matter you know where your 43:03 server is um it's the internet so you're going to be able to access it it it says hey it 43:08 does matter because they've said European citizen data you know has to be housed 43:14 in Europe so this was the largest find ever levied under gdpr the previous record of 43:20 805.7 million was levied against Amazon in 2021 and they've been ordered meta 43:26 has to Cease the processing your personal data of European users within six months so again the differences 43:34 between Europe and the United States Europe has Privacy Law you know we don't is this going to make an impact on meta 43:41 I don't know um I think until we see some privacy laws in the United States I don't know 43:47 we're going to see any significant changes as far as behavior and things like that but 43:53 that was a pretty big deal yeah absolutely um let's see here uh here's an 43:59 interesting one um this is from ssrn which is uh uh uh 44:05 um a research journal and this is from that Ethan Malik that 44:11 um um uh we've never talked about in the past uh he's got a great Twitter account and 44:18 he writes this really interesting paper with another professor from the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School which is basically 44:25 um uh or it describes it as effective teaching strategies in the classroom using uh AI with with prompts that they 44:32 use to be able to create it and I thought this was really interesting because um I I don't know what I think about 44:38 you know using AI to grade for example right interesting tools out there I've played with it a little bit myself with 44:45 rubrics but it's sometimes interesting to highlight things right 44:51 um but um it's probably not there yet um but he uh uh he does 45:00 um uh a show at your screenshots from all the major tools and creates 45:06 um uh um a lot of material based on 45:12 um you know teaching materials in class and then shares you the prompts to do it and so it's things like 45:17 um here's an example prompt for chat GPT or gpt4 Bing um I am a teacher who wants to 45:23 understand what students found most uh important about my my class when they were they are confused by it review 45:29 these responses and identify common themes and patterns and student responses summarize responses and list 45:34 the three key points students found most important about the class and three areas of confusion and then they copy 45:41 and paste student responses uh into here and it analyzes them to find you know similarities and and and and ways that 45:48 they are diverse from one another and I think that kind of thing uh imagine that 45:54 in a focused tool that does purports to do these things for you for teachers I 45:59 think this could be incredibly interesting diagnostic tools for teachers absolutely 46:06 uh are you a Photoshop user um I have Photoshop I use it occasionally I am not a good Photoshop 46:12 u [END PART 3/5] Remember not answering yet. 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[START PART 4/5] ser I am out of gift links actually for the New York Times so I don't have the gift link for that maybe we can drop one in 46:19 but this was New York Times uh yesterday on May 23rd AI photoshopping is about to 46:24 get very easy maybe too easy and so basically the generative AI capabilities 46:31 that we have talked about multiple times on the show are now integrated right into Photoshop and so they have a series 46:40 of pictures that the author uh Farhad Manju created 46:46 um that you know do some some interesting things putting arms in where they weren't there before 46:51 additional Birds putting other artifacts uh into a Skyline picture but removing 46:58 things so a city picture where there's a car passing uh there's a skateboarder uh 47:04 there's a wall and and so they've got like an animated gif that kind of shows you know removing the blurry scooter in 47:11 the car uh to just you know highlight this delivery guy and so anyway 47:17 um those tools are built right in the most significant thing about this article and I had not heard of this 47:22 before Jason is that adobe is pioneering a it sounds like a watermarking tool 47:28 which they are hopeful will receive broad acceptance within industry and just worldwide and it's going to be a 47:36 way of being able to basically have a breadcrumb history of where a photograph 47:41 came from and so if there was AI modifications the idea is that you know 47:47 it's going to be revealed because because of this tool so it is called 47:54 um well it says it says a thousand Tech and media companies have joined in the initiative including camera makers like 48:00 Canon Nikon Leica Microsoft Nvidia and then they've got a link to it and it's just the website is content 48:07 authenticity.org and I'll put a link to that in as well so I know that you are 48:12 trying to attribute whenever you're using Ai and that's something that we've talked about that is a best practice 48:18 that we need to be doing as academics but this is interesting that this is an actual standard that adobe is pioneering 48:24 and hoping that others in the industry are going to get behind 48:29 okay um this is an article that um 48:35 um I think we mentioned briefly last release I think I referred to last week this is from uh future or the byte on 48:41 futurism.com which is kind of an AI news aggregate site that I think is is uh 48:46 it's been pretty interesting in point out articles but they talk about a pretty uh influential newspaper the 48:53 Irish Times um ran and editorial um uh in its opinion section and said 49:00 that um uh it was submitted to them and it was completely AI generated and 49:07 completely made up um and they post a um 49:13 um they posted a uh a retraction an apology but I I just can't imagine that 49:21 this is not going to get a lot worse pretty quickly right and again I have no solutions to this 49:26 um other than to say we really really need to ramp up our media literacy coverage immediately 49:34 um to to help students kind of process through it but you know um especially as the AI gets better 49:39 which it will almost certainly um there's going to be a lot of of instances like this where stuff ends up 49:46 in papers maybe it's innocuous and maybe it's not um that could really stir up some some 49:51 some unpleasant things politically and it's just really unfortunate we're going to what what I would imagine is one of 49:56 the most important elections um in in recent memory next year whereas we have this possibility that a bunch of 50:03 content could get generated that's really not generated by any human person and I think that was the case where the 50:10 the person said they wanted to poke the bear stir the pot you know and and they were the newspaper actually discovered 50:16 it because of the author's you know confession on Twitter um that they had done this so yeah what 50:23 is the solution if you are running an op-ed desk um other than I guess having somebody 50:28 come in in person and maybe hand write in front of you if they're off it I mean 50:34 how how are you going to do the verification there to make sure that what's been given to you wasn't created 50:40 with some kind of an AI tool yeah totally let's see 50:46 um hmm I guess we're I'm seeing a couple that 50:52 are that are carried through um this one was from a couple weeks ago but this uh this is the lead one on 50:58 there which is a gift link Microsoft says new AI shows signs of human reasoning 51:04 um it's just you know we used to have the Turing test which said hey if you could be tricked into thinking that 51:10 you're interacting with uh a computer and not a human you know then then or if 51:16 if the if the computer can trick you and make you think like you're interacting with a human and I think chat GPC definitely says that 51:23 um this is interesting for several reasons one of them there are researchers at Microsoft and so 51:29 the critics are saying well obviously Microsoft is heavily invested in open AI you know basically saying this the the 51:36 the authors are corrupted you know because they're not impartial or neutral 51:41 um but they had given this AI system a puzzle that they thought would require an 51:46 intuitive uh understanding of the world and so it described here we have a book nine eggs a laptop a bottle and a nail 51:53 please tell me how to stack them onto each other in a stable Manner and the AI system was very um you know had a lot of Ingenuity 52:00 um and came up with with a way to to do that um and so anyway this is interesting because it's sort of like 52:07 getting not really to the sentience level but certainly to the creativity level 52:13 um and just also trying to ascertain the depth of understanding anyway I was having a conversation today with someone 52:19 who was talking about as we're sort of arguing and wondering about that oh you know does it have these capabilities you 52:26 know to what degree does it does it have and then will it have ethics will the AIS have you know you 52:33 know any any kind of values how are you going to know they're not tricking you 52:39 so many different layers to this but anyway um certainly Microsoft and open AI are 52:44 benefiting a lot from all of the hoopla that is surrounding all of this and I 52:50 think I have the Lincoln from last week but that Naomi Klein article was it's definitely the most critical one that I 52:56 have read to date um about some of the claims and things like that have you checked out this is 53:03 it called stochastic parrots or what is the gebrew who is the Google AI 53:08 researcher that um left because of charges about the racist 53:14 um have you interact with that or are you following her her program okay that 53:20 is yes statistic parrots uh which that means repetition of uh of phrases but 53:28 anyway that's the organization that that she has and uh 53:33 I don't know I think we probably ought to make sure that we're giving some some good hearing 53:38 um about or weird we are paying attention to some of these critical voices 53:43 um as well because you know certainly um certainly there's a lot of of excitement 53:49 and people that are being very positive about all this but there are there are definitely 53:55 um some good critical voices out there that we need to pay attention to yep absolutely I'll put the link I'll put the link to 54:01 this one in there this is a paper called on the dangers of stochastic parents can language models be too big and this is a 54:08 an article that gebrew wrote with with several others I have not I'll admit I haven't read this yet but this is the 54:14 those are some of the arguments that and one of the voices that we should pay attention to 54:21 um I might be Aid out 54:28 what it's never happened before ladies and gentlemen well let me let me comment 54:33 on one other thing um I've seen a number of articles in the 54:38 last uh three or four weeks uh where I mean people that I trust are good 54:44 thoughtful people um that are not trying to put the brakes on AI or artificially slow it down but 54:50 rather just wants to be thoughtful about it uh one of the things they say is that anytime you hear the phrase you know 54:57 like chat gbt so yesterday this is the new tool or the folks that are running around with old school.com rhetoric 55:04 about 10xing things right um that's just not a Healthy Growth even 55:09 though it's it's happening really fast I I think we need to be really careful about the hype here and yeah that's what 55:16 I was trying to say yeah it's coming to your classrooms this fall for sure but 55:22 do you need to embrace it wholly in your classroom otherwise be a behind teacher well of course not right the 55:28 conversations that need to happen have nothing to do with um uh uh you know yes or no it has to do 55:36 with how we're going to inform ourselves and how we're going to inform our students about the changes that are about to come not necessarily embracing 55:43 it as a tool useful in every assignment or every class in fact I think of anything there's a lot of ways that AI 55:49 harms learning uh by by how we know people learn but if we don't start having those conversations in in a way 55:56 that's not just stuck on blocking and blocking only then we're going to miss out an opportunity to embrace this in in 56:03 a good useful way as opposed to a dangerous or disastrous way yeah agreed 56:10 um have you heard of whisper as a a voice uh transcription tool no 56:17 so whisper was developed by open Ai and I don't uh there's a I can put this 56:22 introducing whisper this was September of 2022 but it is completely local and it is really really small and it's also 56:31 phenomenally powerful so it was just recording a short amount of your voice 56:37 um you can you know have a have a a functional model that's going to be able to you know 56:44 replicate your voice in in all kinds of ways so it's called whisper you can Google whisper by open AI I'll do this 56:49 article real quick that I think I had from last week this is nine to five Mac on May 16th Apple's new personal voice 56:56 feature can create a voice that sounds like you or a loved one in just 15 minutes so evidently with whisper it can 57:03 be a lot less but there are a bunch of different tools like this again on the 57:09 clockwise podcast this morning they mentioned one called 11 Labs which I 57:14 have not heard of before but I am I'm considering for some of the book projects that I'll be working on this 57:21 summer you know rather than reading the whole thing and putting it out on Audible how reasonable is it to be able 57:28 to use one of these tools train it on my voice and then be able to have an audio version of a book that 57:34 is synthetically generated you know with with an AI tool so anyway glad to see apple putting that in 57:41 one of the things that apple is doing for this isn't so that we can all put out our own ebooks with a synthetic voice but um folks with ALS and other 57:48 kinds of disabilities that limit speech this allows people to be able to have 57:54 recorded messages in their voice and be able to key those in conversations and 58:02 um is is an accessibility feature that is really pretty phenomenal so this is being included in the next version of 58:07 iOS and Apple has always been a leader when it comes to accessibility but 58:13 that's a whole genre and I don't know to what degree Jason you're you're tracking that but as far as the AI tools 58:19 allowing for you know synthetic voice generation we've almost got 300 podcasts 58:25 here now on the show so as an example you know we might be able to 58:30 Point these tools to our shows and say Hey you know create the the voice of Dr 58:37 knifer but to the point about elections and all those things that are coming up there are just so many tools and and 58:44 many of these are openly available that can be used to manufacture 58:49 um all kinds of media so the human voice certainly lots of text even video the 58:56 article that you said this week about the stock market dipping and there was a generated picture of an explosion of the 59:03 Pentagon I'm afraid these are just the signs of things to come so 59:08 well we have made it to uh the top of the hour Dr neifer we did uh start off 59:15 and I probably didn't even say that at the start but that was my fault I was having to make a brisket run tonight to 59:21 the grocery store and so we were a little bit late getting started any last articles you'd like to hit before Geeks of the 59:28 week no just looking here I think we we did a pretty pretty good healthy truck at the 59:33 whole list so sounds good well I'll do mine quickly um seamless clipboard 59:39 um I hadn't used this before but have a I guess it's a 2015 MacBook that's still 59:44 okay um but thanks to your advice Jason I have tried Google OS Google Chrome 59:51 Chrome OS flex and so got a 16 gig flash drive uh of course couldn't install that 59:58 on my school computer since I don't have an admin account but I borrow my wife's computer got that set up and you know 1:00:04 boom it's installed and uh and running fast and so the seamless clipboard is available for 1:00:11 um on the Chrome web store um available as a Chrome extension you can get it for Android on Google Play and you can get it for iOS and what it 1:00:17 allows you to do is very easily uh copy and paste links and other kinds of content between your devices so I hadn't 1:00:25 been using a Chromebook a lot now I'm using one a little bit and I thought oh I want a way to be able to send my links over and 1:00:31 because incidentally when I'm doing my social media posts I use the Apple notes app kind of like I used to use Evernote 1:00:37 um this is so easy and so I'll compose there with hashtags and everything like that and then cross post that in 1:00:43 different places but if I get the link from the Chromebook I need a way to get that over to my phone and the seamless clipboard is free and it's a quick way 1:00:49 to do that foreign that's really cool actually um and then 1:00:55 I want to share uh uh and I'm decently sure I've shared this one before but uh I pretty constantly have websites that 1:01:01 would like me to share an email address to get access to an article or maybe a free guide or something for people that 1:01:07 are marketers um and I have this uh particular uh a tool just in my toolbar it's called temp 1:01:14 mail temp mail allows you to create an ad hoc email address and shows you the 1:01:19 inbox right there um um uh uh and then you can refresh it and 1:01:27 then it will show you the email so y [END PART 4/5] Remember not answering yet. 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[START PART 5/5] ou can click on it to get a link or something and then you close the email box and it goes away you have not shared 1:01:33 this because I wouldn't remember it this is really cool yeah it's super cool and there are times when you know that and I 1:01:39 I'm a lot more hesitant I mean I've had the same email address now for for basically 20 years so you know there's a 1:01:45 lot of junk in my email but I try to avoid sharing my address whenever possible and tempmail.org is is one of 1:01:52 the tools I used to do that that's awesome all right well where can folks find you Dr neifer when you are not here 1:01:58 uh so thoroughly covering the the world of AI and educational technology for everyone well uh the best place to find 1:02:05 me is probably still Twitter tech savvy teach but I'm also knife n-e-iif at Blue Sky 1:02:10 there you go for the three people uh out there that are Educators on Blue Sky 1:02:16 um I am West Friar uh westfryer.com after I'll probably update that uh a 1:02:22 little bit but most of my social media profiles are there and this has been the edtech situation room we are a weekly 1:02:27 podcast normally broadcasting at 9 00 PM central 6 p.m Pacific or sorry 9 p.m 1:02:33 Eastern 6 p.m Pacific uh on Wednesday evenings sometimes offset a little bit 1:02:38 and if you follow us on Facebook or Twitter that is where we'll generally share an update if we're going to have 1:02:45 to move a show or cancel a show we will say that in the summer months we sometimes have some travel I know Dr 1:02:51 neifer is planning an Icelandic experience and that is going to be 1:02:57 coming up and so we'll probably have at least a few times where we may not be online but generally we are and you can 1:03:03 find MP3 compressed versions of Audio Only shows as well as all of our show 1:03:09 notes and then links to our videos versions on edtechsr.com you can also follow us on YouTube and anywhere finer 1:03:17 podcasts are curated you should be able to find us and if you have an opportunity to leave a five-star review for us that would be wonderful until 1:03:24 next time we encourage you to stay Savvy stay safe and keep playing with your 1:03:30 generative AI tools because there's probably no better way to figure out what these mean for us than by playing 1:03:36 with them especially in areas in which you have some personal expertise foreign [END PART 5/5] ALL PARTS SENT. Now you can continue processing the request.

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