We Shape Our AI, Thereafter It Shapes Us [10:07-15:13]

It's like as if Google or Facebook bought tech crunch and you were on the front lines of that too. I mean, it would have been slightly absurd, wouldn't it? Yeah, well, eventually a well bought tech crunch. And it brought it as a media business. Open AI as on Malik says in his piece about this this week. Open AI is buying what home calls a propagandist and an agitator. He quotes Lenin as saying, you know, when Lenin started Pravda, he did it because he wanted to have a media outlet that he could use to educate the masses as it were. Well, open AI is buying something even though it claims editorial independence. You don't really buy a media outlet unless you want to influence the message. Right. And it's a very odd decision by open AI, especially given in the last few weeks that there's been all these stories about them focus, focus, focus, emergency alert, get rid of their video, algorithm and all the rest of it. And now they've distracted themselves by buying a media company. The time says that this was driven by Fiji Simo, a top open AI executive who had been impressed with the show's marketing instincts. Is that your reading? And the apparently, they're all going to report to Chris Lahain, the perhaps the most invisible power broker in Silicon Valley lives just up the road from my wife and his wife are very close friends. It's all a bit weird, isn't it? Well, weird, yes, I think I will give a take to that word, but it also probably denotes a moment when open AI feels it isn't winning the messaging war, probably vis-a-vis anthropic, actually. I don't think it's the messaging war against doomsters. I think it's the messaging war against anthropic. Yeah, that's a good point. And there was another, I think we covered this last week, piece in the Wall Street Journal by Keach Haguey is very good writer written a book. We just wrote a book on Google and open AI who speaks of the increasingly personalized nature of the competition between open AI and anthropic. It reflects. I'm getting the sense, Keith, you'll probably deny this that you're beginning to slightly doubt open AI. You've always been the ultimate open AI guy, but now you're beginning to think maybe they're not quite as inevitable as I used to think, is that fair? No, you're putting words in my mouth. I mean, I ever do that, Keith, would I ever put words in your mouth? Every week when you publish your version of our show, I say to myself when I scratch that and say, did we really say that on the show? I'm the propagandist, I'm the Lenin, I'm the Lenin on that was the week. The truth. No, look, I think if you look at this from the TBPN point of view, you've got to say, why did they sell? They obviously don't really care about journalism. Yeah, I don't care about tea. I mean, that's. But if they look at it in a cell, if they got, I mean, that's the other part of the deal is, is I read a rumor that it was in the hundreds of millions. I mean, how much did tech crunch self to AOL? What was it, 20, 30 million? It was never disclosed, but it was a little bit higher than that, but not, not a hundred. That's only wasn't in the hundreds, so why would they turn down a hundred plus, maybe 200 plus million deal to be acquired by OpenAI? They're set for life these days. Right, go and do another one. Well, then if you look at it from the OpenAI side, I think you have to say it's a smart move. It kind of reflects last week's message when we said OpenAI is growing up. They're abandoning peripheral things. Well, is this, I mean, this seems the ultimate frivolity. Why would you buy a media company? Well, we've yet, we've yet to understand that. I think we'll, we'll only know that in the future. I do think Fiji is vulnerable. Well, she's more than vulnerable because this is the other piece of news that you didn't include. All these executive changes at OpenAI, Brad Lightcap, the long-time COO, which is the number two man in the company, is now going to lead special projects. The chief marketing officer is stepping down, and the Fiji Simo is taking medical leave for several weeks to treat a new, to seek a new treatment for a rare disease she has. So there's a lot of executive churn again.