Paul Stenhouse: ChatGPT is getting an Adults-Only mode and Spotify are working on a 'SongDNA' feature

ChatGPT is getting an Adults-Only mode

From December, verified adults, will be able to chat with AI in a much more adult way.  

To be verified you'll need to upload your ID and go through a verification process. Now, how often that verification is rechecked is yet to be know. Could you sign up for an account, then share your credentials? Do you need to scan your face before each session? Unclear. 

The company has a principle that they should "treat adult users like adults" -- which means letting them have more 'freedom' to chat about a wider range of topics. That also means removing some of the restrictions around mental health topics.  

Why does this matter? Some crazy stats from a resume.org survey of 1000: 

• 25% of Gen Z describe AI bots as their therapist or coach, a friend, or coworker 
• 34% admit to confiding in AI chatbots about things they’ve never told another person 
• 16% say they frequently discuss personal topics such as mental health or relationships with AI, while 33% say they do so occasionally. 

Spotify found to be working on a ‘SongDNA’ feature

The feature lets folks meet those behind the music - the writers, collaborators, vocalists, engineers, lyricists, producers, composers, and others who worked on a given track or album - and discover more of their work more easily.

Tidal has had an interactive credits feature for some time. 

Spotify hasn't announced the feature yet, but a reverse engineer found it in their app code. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:07):
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Speaker 2 (00:12):
Chat GPT is getting an adult's only mode? Why you
wonder well, I suggested it has something to do with
the fact that the company that.

Speaker 3 (00:20):
Owns chet GPT wants to make a little bit of money.
But our textbot pull steam House is here with all
of the details, I presume, Paul, for the sake of research,
you've had to download this new version.

Speaker 4 (00:31):
I don't think it's out yet, ah, because it all
hinges on verifying the factor an adult, right, And that's
the important part here. You're not alone in thinking that
maybe that's why they're starting to do this. It's like, oh,
I use a growth of stored we need to show
the investors things are still interesting. I don't know that

(00:52):
that's necessarily the case. I think the thesis of chat
GPT and open AI and what they're trying to do
is probably interesting enough, and you'll you can kind of
like connect the dots of where it might be able
to go without like fact ring in short term growth
around adults only mode. But I do think they talk
about one of their principles, and one of the principles

(01:14):
that open ar.

Speaker 2 (01:15):
Is making money is exactly that.

Speaker 4 (01:20):
You know re doing for the shiarholder. Treat adults, treat
adult users like adults, and I kind of like it, right,
and especially at the moment, it's difficult because you can't
prove who the adult is. You come prove who the
child is. So what they're going to do is allow
you to verify you are an adult and then that

(01:40):
will open up doors to treating you like an adult.

Speaker 2 (01:44):
Right.

Speaker 4 (01:44):
There are only one problem is that you do have
to submit your ID to go through the verification process.
So I just don't know if you really want to
put your adult thoughts and feelings right beside your ID.
That to me is just like a real look into
someone's brain, record it on paper, digital paper.

Speaker 2 (02:04):
That you want to go good. There's a very good point. Yeah,
I wonder, but you know what I feel like, it's
the sort of thing. Dare I say that people are
going to be a bit squeamish about it first oh
years to come. It will just be standards, you know.

Speaker 4 (02:17):
Well, okay, So one of the other reasons they want
to treat adults like adults and kind of go about
this freedom thing is that they blocked talking about mental
health on the platform and put some real restrictions around
it about what chap ChiPT could respond and without. Do
you want to hear some fun facts?

Speaker 2 (02:32):
Yea, yeah about gen Z Okay, okay.

Speaker 4 (02:35):
So a company called resume dot org surveyed one thousand
gen zs. Twenty five percent of gen Z describe AI
bots as their therapist or coach, a friend or co
worker twenty five percent. Thirty four percent admit to confiding
in AI chatbots about things that I've never told another person,

(02:55):
their deepest darkest secrets. A third of gen Z sixteen percent,
so they frequently discussed personal topics such as things like
mental health or relationships, and thirty three percent say they
do that occasionally. So we're talking about basically, like a
third of gen Z giving their deepest darkest secrets already

(03:16):
to me AI.

Speaker 2 (03:18):
Friends doesn't surprise me. Yeah, it doesn't surprise me one
little bit. This is the changing whorldpool. Hey, Spotify has
been found to be working on this thing called a
song DNA feature. What is it?

Speaker 4 (03:31):
Yeah, so this is It hasn't been released and one
of these kind of like researchers who dives into the
code and kind of sees what they're working on in
preview versions has found it. But think of it as
the people behind the music, right, the writers, collaborators, the engineers,
the vocalists, composers. They often don't really get seen. We
always just get the name of the person who's singing

(03:53):
the song, right, and so this will be a way
to sort of dive in potentially and be able to
actually understand who worked on it and then discover more
of their work more easily. It's something that titled the
music you probably no one's ever heard about.

Speaker 3 (04:08):
My head day for about a week head Yeah, yeah, exactly,
there we go.

Speaker 4 (04:12):
Because it had a really good price when it started,
and it had high fi, high definition sound. It's still
one of the only ones that has like this really
top notch sound. Anyway, it's very much more artist friendly.
They've been doing this for some time. Spotify is now
kind of getting into the game. But it is fun
because if you if you have an artist like saff
Calvin Harris, you're like I like Calvin Harris, well you
would be able to click on Calvin Harris and go well,

(04:32):
he's also written all of these other songs for all
these other pop stars and there are some like some
of the biggest pop songs are written by like the
same three people. And I think it's going to be
it's gonna be really interesting when that when you can
start with you know, people who kind of aren't necessarily
in the scene start to see how the scene is.

Speaker 2 (04:51):
Yeah, you can't see how the sausage is made a
little by day.

Speaker 4 (04:53):
Yeah, yeah, you're going behind the curtain.

Speaker 2 (04:55):
Thanks Paul, that's fascinating. Appreciate your time. That is our textbook,
Paul Stenhouse.

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