July 2, 2024 • 24 mins
KFI's own Tech Reporter Rich DeMuro joins The Bill Handel Show for 'Tech Tuesday'! Rich talks about changes coming to Instagram, YouTube letting users request to take down content, Kaspersky anti-virus software, average internet prices in the US, and tips for reducing spam calls. The other age issue: Old voters are gaining power around the world.
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And this is I AM six fortyBill Handle here on a Tuesday morning,
July the second. The big newsHurricane Barrel, which is Burrel Beryl
is just going through the Caribbean ata Cat five one hundred and sixty miles
sustained WIN, one hundred and sixtymiles per hour sustained WIN. I mean
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that is devastating. Well the wordscatastrophic, that's the way it's being described.
And it is. As it goesover these Caribbean islands, it's just
wiping them out. NASA and SaintKitts and Nevis and that whole area just
gone. It's a shame. It'sa big one. It is really bad.
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The strongest hurricane at this point inthe season that we've ever had on
well they've ever had on record.We don't have to worry about it,
Okay. Sign for tech Talk withRich Demurrow. Rich heard every Saturday here
on KFI eleven am to two pm, right after Handle on the Law On
Saturdays. You can follow Rich onInstagram, at rich on Tech website,
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rich on tech dot TV and goodmorning Rich. Hey, good morning to
you. Bill. Oh, wegot an awful lot of going going on
this morning. Okay, it seemslike we're going to start every single segment
that we ever do with some kindof a story about AI, and we're
doing that this week too. Instagramand the way it's labeling AI posts,
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what's going on with that? Yeah, this is and look, you know,
AI is pretty much the hottest thinggoing in the industry right now.
There's you know, companies that aretrying to implement it and then also companies
reacting to it. So there's twoside to this whole thing, the push
towards this technology and also figuring outhow it all works. So Meta,
which owns Facebook and Instagram, theyhave this little label they've been slapping on
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posts that you make, and itwould say made with AI. If you
posted some sort of picture that maybeyou adjusted in some way, even if
it was a minor adjustment, itwould label it made with AI. And
people are like, wait a second, Like all I did was brighten it
up or change one little aspect.Why are you putting this AI label on
it. So now Meta after acouple of weeks is changing their tune.
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They're going to change it to AIinfo. So this is because you know,
photographers were saying, look, wewere using Photoshop to just do little
things, and we think this isclear because it's not necessarily AI, you
know, made with AI. It'sjust kind of AI enhanced and so small
change but kind of meaningful. Yeah. I don't get that. I don't
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understand how the algorithm knows that it'snot Photoshop and it's a in the manufacture
of that likeness. It's able tofigure that out. Yeah, it depends
on the program. So many ofthe mainstream programs at this point are putting
a water mark in the file itself. So when you make a change on
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Photoshop or with something like a GooglePhotos. A lot of these companies are
working. There's no standard just yet, but many of them do have a
flag that they put in what's calledthe metadata. That's the stuff that's inside
the file. It's the stuff thatmost people don't change or can't change,
and so once it's in there,the computer program, like when you upload
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it to Facebook, will look forthat flag. It'll say, okay,
this was created by Photoshop. There'sthat little flag that says it was AI
generated, and we'll place the labelon the photo, all right, So
Photoshop itself would have to in factput that watermark on there, the very
program itself, and then when it'suploaded, it carries that signature. Do
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I have that right? Yeah?And keep in mind that this is not
a perfect system. There is nostandard, and people can obviously change these
water marks. Some companies are puttingactual visual water marks on the image itself.
So if you generate an image ona Samsung phone using AI, there
will be a little kind of magicicon in the lower left hand corner.
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Let's see where else have I seenit? On Copilot, which is Microsoft's
image generator, and also Facebook's ownimage generator, will put a little label.
So you know, nobody really knowshow this is all going to shake
out in the future. We couldjust assume everything's going to be AI generated,
but some of these companies are takinga more proactive approach because you know,
they don't want the regulation from thegovernment. They want to say,
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hey, we can handle this stuffourselves, and that's what they're trying to
do. Obviously, it's all overthe place. Hey, in terms of
what's going on with AI and howwe're covering it and how it's growing.
Is it reaching the point where thestory is going to be what is not
using a I you know, forexample, talking about electronic equipment that has
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tubes in it where it's the outlier. It is just you have to really
look for that. Yeah, Ithink that's Uh. I think every single
product at this point that I've beencovering there is some aspect of AI to
it. And I think in thefuture, right now that's a selling point.
I think in the future I willbe doing stories where right now we're
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doing the stories about the dumb phonespeople going back to like flip phones and
stuff because they're anti all the notificationsand the technology and they want to be
more you know, well being focused. I think we're gonna see that with
AI, Like, hey, here'sa here's an artist or a photographer or
a writer that doesn't use AI togenerate their stuff. How how novel is
that? Yeah, it's completely crazy. Boy, that has changed. How
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long has AI been out there,by the way, what we think about
it in terms of the time thattechnology is moving forward, what's the timeline
when AI really just became a thing. Well, chat gbt was launched in
November twenty twenty two, so inthe public eye, that is the age
of AI. But obviously, youknow, Google and all these tech companies
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have been using AI for many,many years, probably a decade or more.
They just didn't term it that ain a big way. It was.
It used to be called machine learning, you know, neural networks,
all these other terms. But whenchat gbt launched, that was the first
sort of forward facing consumer product.Okay, so the actual inception of AI
slash machine learning, slash neural networkthat sort of thing. When did that
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first get into the market? Ohgosh, I mean they around forever?
Well forever what nineteen nineties, twothousands, I mean we're talking at least
I mean since Look, Google hasbeen using some sort of form of AI
since its inception. I mean,I think it's it's safe to say that
every tech company has been using ifthey're using computer networks, if they're using
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systems that they've trained on machine learning. It's been around for a long time.
So it's not it's just the brandingof it for the consumer. I
think, is the new AI aspect, and also the fact that we can
interact with these machines in a muchmore natural language. I think that's the
shift that we've seen recently. Butyeah, these things have been around for
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a long time. Okay, thathelps explain it. Put in perspective for
me at least. All Right,let's talk about Koperski. I didn't even
know what a Koperski was, butit's some kind of anti virus. Explain
what's going on with that. Yeah, it's actually pretty pretty popular antivirus.
You probably know, like McAfee andNorton. It's a along those lines.
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Okay, but yeah, Kaspersky,you know. But just given the name,
you can understand probably why the USis interested in banning this. So
ties to Russia, obviously, andthat's the problem. And so President by
and has banned the sale of thisantivirus software in the US effective immediately for
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new sales. And if you havethis already on your computer, which millions
do, existing users will have untilSeptember twenty ninth to find alternative software.
Now, the Department of Commerce,you know, it's kind of like the
TikTok treatment. They're saying, Look, we think this is a risk to
the United States national security, butyou know, they can't really give specifics
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on that, and Kasperski obviously deniesany issue with their software whatsoever. They
say this is all based on globalpolitics and not actually the quality of their
product. But you know, thisputs a lot of people in a tough
position because some have paid for thisfor the next year or two and now
you've got to switch to something different. So the recommendation is to uninstall this,
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and you can use Microsoft Defender,which is built into the computer,
or you can use a free alternativelike a vast Okay, well, let
me ask this. Where is Koperskibased out dead Is it Russia? Yeah?
I believe they are based in Russia. Yeah, okay, So I
mean that's there's an argument there.And when you talk about there are free
anti viral viruses out there versus paid, can you get just as good protection
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with a free one? You know, it's interesting a lot of the tech
folks are now recommending that you canjust get away with what's built into my
into Windows. So Windows has thisthing called Defender, and that's built into
Windows. And most people say that'sfine for the average person, But you
know, there's been so much talkabout anti virus over the years and paying
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for antivirus that most people I thinkstill prefer to pay because they feel like
they're getting more protection, and youdo get other things versus the free versus
paid paid. You might get,you know, more up to date virus
definitions, you might get more realtime scanning versus you know, a scan
that happens, you know, everyonce in a while. So there are
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some benefits to that. But Ithink the number one thing these days for
the average person is really clicking onphishing links. That's the number one thing
that's really nailing people. And someof these systems, even the antivirus,
they can't really detect those links inreal time. A lot of times your
browser does that, so if youuse something like micros, Google Chrome,
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it's using AI to actually sift throughlinks in like real time and figure out
if those are going to be bad. Hey, Internet prices and they're all
over the place, and boy doI know that because I broadcast from home
occasionally, as you know, andI have a dedicated line I think they
call it an IP line or ISPline, and it costs me hundreds of
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dollars a month, and I'd loveto know how I can save money.
Yeah, I'll be honest, youprobably don't even need that, but I
mean it's probably these days, it'sprobably overkill. But I think what you
have is a fixed IP address,which means your signal is constant, like
all the time. It doesn't doesn'tchange, which is good for doing a
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radio show from home. But anyway, so, the average price for internet,
and I'm sure you're paying more thanthis, is sixty three dollars a
month. This is from c neet. They did a kind of an analysis
of some of the popular providers.Equipment rental averages fifteen dollars a month,
which brings the total monthly to aboutseventy eight. Now Here in Los Angeles,
if you're in the urban areas,you probably have some pretty good choices
when it comes to Internet and speeds. Some people don't have such good options.
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If you're in a rural location,you might only have DSL and satellite.
Those are much slower. But fiberis the fastest. And the thing
I like about fiber is that it'sthe same speed up and down. So
here in Los Angeles, we havea lot of people working in Hollywood,
a lot of people working with largevideo files, large audio files. Fiber
has the same speed up and downtypically, which means when you're uploading or
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downloading, it's going to be justas fast. So the ways to save
bill You can bring your own equipment, so you can you know, instead
of renting your modem, you canbuy your own. You can negotiate,
although a lot of providers are notnegotiating as much as they used to.
You can downgrade your plan. Ifyou think you have too much speed,
you can actually go to a cheaperplan that has a lower speed. Or
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if you're in the lucky area whereyou have more than one provider, you
can switch. And that's actually openedup bill. Because all these companies you'll
probably see them advertising, like VerizonHome Internet and T Mobile five G.
That's putting a little pressure on thecable companies because it used to be they
were the only game in town.Now, if you just have a basic
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need for your Internet, you couldeasily be serviced by a T Mobile five
G or a Verizon over the air. They're using cellular signals to actually deliver
internet to your house. Enter priceis going down in terms of internet providing
in general. I mean, Ithink for the speeds you're getting, they're
going down, that's generally, butI think overall they're going up. You
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know, people, nothing goes downmeaningfully. I think the speeds have gotten
Let's put it this way, yourspeeds have gotten faster for what you're paying
for. But I don't think youknow, we're seeing significantly lower prices than
we did. I think the speedsare just faster. Now. With that
said, the five G I justmentioned, those prices are very much cheaper.
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But even those prices are going upalready. I've noticed. All right,
Rich, thank you. This Saturday, right after my show that is
the Tech Show eight to eleven o'clock. Excuse me, eleven to two pm.
I'm eight to eleven right here Saturdaymorning. KFI on Instagram is at
rich on tech website, rich ontech dot TV. You have a good
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one, Rich. We'll catch overthe weekend. Thanks Bill. Now,
a couple things are happening around theworld that I want to share with you.
One of them is that the Westernworld is turning right wing. Now
when you talk about Russia, forexample, already has of course with putin
China no issue because of course theCommunist party is in charge. So we
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don't even worry about liberal conservative,but when you talk about the democracies of
the Western world, it's becoming alot more conservative. These democracies, even
though they're legitimate democracies, people votebecoming much more conservative. One of the
big reasons is demographics. People aregetting older, lasting longer. Birth rate
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is dropping, which means that theolder people who have immense power always have
you know why, because they vote. That is the largest single block of
voters that exist. And man,is that powerful? And what is the
first rule for any politician? Waybeyond putting the country first, making sure
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that he or she is a patriot, It's all about getting reelected. That's
all that matters. Why is aRepublican party so pro Trump? Why does
he control it? Very simple reason. You don't go against him. You're
primaried out. You go against them. It's over in terms of even the
primaries. Where that's it done?And what's the number one rule? You
get reelected. That's what it's allabout. So people, as they're getting
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older, they are their vote isbecoming more important because there's more of them.
And you know what older people tendto do. Older people tend to
vote much more conservatively. And whyis that. Well, when you're young,
you're a communist. That's probably themost liberal point of your life.
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I remember in college screaming about distributionof wealth, and you have to be
poor. I mean, you haveto spread the wealth, you have to
take care of poor people. Well, as you get older, you sort
of want to hang on your moneybecause first of all, you get some
and you don't want to take itaway. Hell, I've worked all these
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years. Do I want the governmentto take my money and give it to
those people? There were times whenI work seven days a week. I
know Neil does. There were timeswhen I worked fourteen, sixteen hours a
day, especially when I was buildingmy law practice. There were many times
that I worked all night, pulledall nighters. And do I want to
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share my money? No? No, I've worked damn hard and I would
like to keep most of my money. That's the way older people tend to
think in far greater numbers, andyounger people seemed to go the other way.
And the major problem when you're talkingabout a democracy, you've got to
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vote. It's not that complicated.You've got to vote. There was a
time when Hispanics, even though theywere a good chunk of the population had
no influence. Why is that becauseHispanics didn't vote. Now they've turned around
and go, oh, okay,it's time for a little political power.
And you get that simply by votingand voting for your candidates that you believe
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in. So we are more conservativeas we are getting older. This is
a story that came into Wall StreetJournal and actually looked at Britain. But
Britain is just an example of what'sgoing on throughout the Western democracies. There
are more people over sixty than thereare people under forty, and people under
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forty generally don't die. People oversixty do die. Macrone, for example,
in France, just got nailed.One of his big reasons is he
wanted to bring the retirement age fromsixty two to sixty four. We're sixty
five, and he got nailed forthat. He just lost so many well
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the first round his party just gotslaughtered. Why because you know, people
want to retire early. The peoplethat are over over forty, over sixty
are well, are really interested inkeeping their money. And the way you
keep your money is not letting peopleretire earlier. And you have to balance
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the budget. And McCrone said,we can't afford it, and you can't
say we don't afford it. Sowe're here at sixty five, all right,
and we retire at sixty five,and all of a sudden, we're
collecting unemployment. Excuse me, we'recollecting I sound starting to sound like Joe
Biden. We're collecting Medicare, weare collecting social Security, and it costs
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of fortune. And younger people theydon't care. They don't care. So
those of us who are baby boomersand are over sixty five. And by
the way, when they say whenyou hear the phrase, sixty five is
just a number, they're right,sixty five is just the number. It's
sixty five. That's the number.It's like dog years. How long is
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a dog year? It's one year. That's how long a dog year is.
They just last till they're fifteen.So when we hit sixty five,
we hit sixty five. But here'sthe problem. As I said, we're
getting older. My mother retired atsixty two. She died at ninety eight.
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And so you figure those numbers outhow much it cost you, how
much it cost me to support her? She should have died at ninety three,
that's when she went south. Butsince I was paying for her care
over and above social Security, shelasted five more years just to screw with
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me, and she succeeded beyond mywile ofest expectations. Years of that check
over and over again, and theonly thing she could do was smile as
she was screwing me over Why becauseI was paying those taxes and I wasn't
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receiving social Security. Okay, backwe go with the concept that older people
are voting more and more because thereare more older people. The world is
aging. The birth rate is dropping, certainly among industrialized nations, which means
there are simply more older people aroundbecause they're lasting longer and they vote conservatively,
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which means in many ways the worldis turning very right wing. So
storing in the Wall Street Journal andthey use England as an example of the
UK, but it's the same inall industrialized nation because older people just vote
more and get incredible power. Soin the run up to the election coming
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up on Thursday by elections in Britain, every major party backs the country's triple
lock guarantee for retirees that state pensioneffectively social security. There will outpace inflation
over the long term. Last year, their social Security their pincha their checks
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rose ten percent medium age in mediumage medium age wage for workers that was
between nineteen forty nine rose by fivepoint seven. Okay, so ten percent
bump versus six percent wage increase.This is for Social Security recipients or their
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version. This year another eight percentbump for elderly people. Why well,
because they vote and young young peoplejust don't care. And when they do
care, they're a bunch of communistsand they want us to simply give them
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money, and we're saying absolutely not. In twenty twenty two the US midterms,
two thirds of the citizens over sixtyfive voted. I mean that is
this is in the midterms. Twothirds voted, double the rate of eighteen
to twenty nine year olds. Well, when you have twice as many people
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voting, guess what happens, Youget more power. Social Security is the
third rail. No one screws withSocial Security. Medicare started in Lyndon Johnson's
presidency, and man, it wasa vicious fight. Get a politician today
anywhere on the spectrum and say howdo you feel about Medicare? Social Security
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is running out of money, juststraight out running out of money. Ask
a politician here, how do youfeel about so security, more taxes?
What do you think? How aboutthis fewer benefits? Try doing that and
get re elected. So as youget older, especially anybody over the age
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of sixty five, and that's boomerland, you know, keep in mind,
you've got more power than you everever could imagine. All right,
we're done, guys, I'm takingphone calls. Handle on the law off
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zero eleven fifty no breaks and nopatients on my part. Calls go very
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quickly as you can imagine, andyou can still listen to KFI right there
on the phone while you're waiting,and you're not going to be waiting long,
believe me. Eight seven seven fivetwo zero eleven fifty. Back we
come again tomorrow. That's January third, the day before the Did I say
January? Okay, sorry, Imisspoke. January is not the date.
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July fourth is Thursday. Let meokay, July fourth is Thursday. President.
Would you like to go back?Yeah? I would. Let me
Let me confuse Medicare. We madeMedicare happen, and July fourth is Thursday.
I'll figure this out. So tomorrowwe're coming back, starting with wake
up Call Heather Brooker and then sixo'clock Neil and I come aboard and as
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And this is I AM six fortyBill Handle here on a Tuesday morning,
July the second. The big newsHurricane Barrel, which is Burrel Beryl
is just going through the Caribbean ata Cat five one hundred and sixty miles
sustained WIN, one hundred and sixtymiles per hour sustained WIN. I mean
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that is devastating. Well the wordscatastrophic, that's the way it's being described.
And it is. As it goesover these Caribbean islands, it's just
wiping them out. NASA and SaintKitts and Nevis and that whole area just
gone. It's a shame. It'sa big one. It is really bad.
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The strongest hurricane at this point inthe season that we've ever had on
well they've ever had on record.We don't have to worry about it,
Okay. Sign for tech Talk withRich Demurrow. Rich heard every Saturday here
on KFI eleven am to two pm, right after Handle on the Law On
Saturdays. You can follow Rich onInstagram, at rich on Tech website,
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rich on tech dot TV and goodmorning Rich. Hey, good morning to
you. Bill. Oh, wegot an awful lot of going going on
this morning. Okay, it seemslike we're going to start every single segment
that we ever do with some kindof a story about AI, and we're
doing that this week too. Instagramand the way it's labeling AI posts,
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what's going on with that? Yeah, this is and look, you know,
AI is pretty much the hottest thinggoing in the industry right now.
There's you know, companies that aretrying to implement it and then also companies
reacting to it. So there's twoside to this whole thing, the push
towards this technology and also figuring outhow it all works. So Meta,
which owns Facebook and Instagram, theyhave this little label they've been slapping on
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posts that you make, and itwould say made with AI. If you
posted some sort of picture that maybeyou adjusted in some way, even if
it was a minor adjustment, itwould label it made with AI. And
people are like, wait a second, Like all I did was brighten it
up or change one little aspect.Why are you putting this AI label on
it. So now Meta after acouple of weeks is changing their tune.
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They're going to change it to AIinfo. So this is because you know,
photographers were saying, look, wewere using Photoshop to just do little
things, and we think this isclear because it's not necessarily AI, you
know, made with AI. It'sjust kind of AI enhanced and so small
change but kind of meaningful. Yeah. I don't get that. I don't
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understand how the algorithm knows that it'snot Photoshop and it's a in the manufacture
of that likeness. It's able tofigure that out. Yeah, it depends
on the program. So many ofthe mainstream programs at this point are putting
a water mark in the file itself. So when you make a change on
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Photoshop or with something like a GooglePhotos. A lot of these companies are
working. There's no standard just yet, but many of them do have a
flag that they put in what's calledthe metadata. That's the stuff that's inside
the file. It's the stuff thatmost people don't change or can't change,
and so once it's in there,the computer program, like when you upload
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it to Facebook, will look forthat flag. It'll say, okay,
this was created by Photoshop. There'sthat little flag that says it was AI
generated, and we'll place the labelon the photo, all right, So
Photoshop itself would have to in factput that watermark on there, the very
program itself, and then when it'suploaded, it carries that signature. Do
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I have that right? Yeah?And keep in mind that this is not
a perfect system. There is nostandard, and people can obviously change these
water marks. Some companies are puttingactual visual water marks on the image itself.
So if you generate an image ona Samsung phone using AI, there
will be a little kind of magicicon in the lower left hand corner.
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Let's see where else have I seenit? On Copilot, which is Microsoft's
image generator, and also Facebook's ownimage generator, will put a little label.
So you know, nobody really knowshow this is all going to shake
out in the future. We couldjust assume everything's going to be AI generated,
but some of these companies are takinga more proactive approach because you know,
they don't want the regulation from thegovernment. They want to say,
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hey, we can handle this stuffourselves, and that's what they're trying to
do. Obviously, it's all overthe place. Hey, in terms of
what's going on with AI and howwe're covering it and how it's growing.
Is it reaching the point where thestory is going to be what is not
using a I you know, forexample, talking about electronic equipment that has
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tubes in it where it's the outlier. It is just you have to really
look for that. Yeah, Ithink that's Uh. I think every single
product at this point that I've beencovering there is some aspect of AI to
it. And I think in thefuture, right now that's a selling point.
I think in the future I willbe doing stories where right now we're
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doing the stories about the dumb phonespeople going back to like flip phones and
stuff because they're anti all the notificationsand the technology and they want to be
more you know, well being focused. I think we're gonna see that with
AI, Like, hey, here'sa here's an artist or a photographer or
a writer that doesn't use AI togenerate their stuff. How how novel is
that? Yeah, it's completely crazy. Boy, that has changed. How
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long has AI been out there,by the way, what we think about
it in terms of the time thattechnology is moving forward, what's the timeline
when AI really just became a thing. Well, chat gbt was launched in
November twenty twenty two, so inthe public eye, that is the age
of AI. But obviously, youknow, Google and all these tech companies
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have been using AI for many,many years, probably a decade or more.
They just didn't term it that ain a big way. It was.
It used to be called machine learning, you know, neural networks,
all these other terms. But whenchat gbt launched, that was the first
sort of forward facing consumer product.Okay, so the actual inception of AI
slash machine learning, slash neural networkthat sort of thing. When did that
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first get into the market? Ohgosh, I mean they around forever?
Well forever what nineteen nineties, twothousands, I mean we're talking at least
I mean since Look, Google hasbeen using some sort of form of AI
since its inception. I mean,I think it's it's safe to say that
every tech company has been using ifthey're using computer networks, if they're using
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systems that they've trained on machine learning. It's been around for a long time.
So it's not it's just the brandingof it for the consumer. I
think, is the new AI aspect, and also the fact that we can
interact with these machines in a muchmore natural language. I think that's the
shift that we've seen recently. Butyeah, these things have been around for
(07:23):
a long time. Okay, thathelps explain it. Put in perspective for
me at least. All Right,let's talk about Koperski. I didn't even
know what a Koperski was, butit's some kind of anti virus. Explain
what's going on with that. Yeah, it's actually pretty pretty popular antivirus.
You probably know, like McAfee andNorton. It's a along those lines.
(07:45):
Okay, but yeah, Kaspersky,you know. But just given the name,
you can understand probably why the USis interested in banning this. So
ties to Russia, obviously, andthat's the problem. And so President by
and has banned the sale of thisantivirus software in the US effective immediately for
(08:05):
new sales. And if you havethis already on your computer, which millions
do, existing users will have untilSeptember twenty ninth to find alternative software.
Now, the Department of Commerce,you know, it's kind of like the
TikTok treatment. They're saying, Look, we think this is a risk to
the United States national security, butyou know, they can't really give specifics
(08:26):
on that, and Kasperski obviously deniesany issue with their software whatsoever. They
say this is all based on globalpolitics and not actually the quality of their
product. But you know, thisputs a lot of people in a tough
position because some have paid for thisfor the next year or two and now
you've got to switch to something different. So the recommendation is to uninstall this,
(08:50):
and you can use Microsoft Defender,which is built into the computer,
or you can use a free alternativelike a vast Okay, well, let
me ask this. Where is Koperskibased out dead Is it Russia? Yeah?
I believe they are based in Russia. Yeah, okay, So I
mean that's there's an argument there.And when you talk about there are free
anti viral viruses out there versus paid, can you get just as good protection
(09:15):
with a free one? You know, it's interesting a lot of the tech
folks are now recommending that you canjust get away with what's built into my
into Windows. So Windows has thisthing called Defender, and that's built into
Windows. And most people say that'sfine for the average person, But you
know, there's been so much talkabout anti virus over the years and paying
(09:35):
for antivirus that most people I thinkstill prefer to pay because they feel like
they're getting more protection, and youdo get other things versus the free versus
paid paid. You might get,you know, more up to date virus
definitions, you might get more realtime scanning versus you know, a scan
that happens, you know, everyonce in a while. So there are
(09:56):
some benefits to that. But Ithink the number one thing these days for
the average person is really clicking onphishing links. That's the number one thing
that's really nailing people. And someof these systems, even the antivirus,
they can't really detect those links inreal time. A lot of times your
browser does that, so if youuse something like micros, Google Chrome,
(10:16):
it's using AI to actually sift throughlinks in like real time and figure out
if those are going to be bad. Hey, Internet prices and they're all
over the place, and boy doI know that because I broadcast from home
occasionally, as you know, andI have a dedicated line I think they
call it an IP line or ISPline, and it costs me hundreds of
(10:39):
dollars a month, and I'd loveto know how I can save money.
Yeah, I'll be honest, youprobably don't even need that, but I
mean it's probably these days, it'sprobably overkill. But I think what you
have is a fixed IP address,which means your signal is constant, like
all the time. It doesn't doesn'tchange, which is good for doing a
(11:00):
radio show from home. But anyway, so, the average price for internet,
and I'm sure you're paying more thanthis, is sixty three dollars a
month. This is from c neet. They did a kind of an analysis
of some of the popular providers.Equipment rental averages fifteen dollars a month,
which brings the total monthly to aboutseventy eight. Now Here in Los Angeles,
if you're in the urban areas,you probably have some pretty good choices
when it comes to Internet and speeds. Some people don't have such good options.
(11:26):
If you're in a rural location,you might only have DSL and satellite.
Those are much slower. But fiberis the fastest. And the thing
I like about fiber is that it'sthe same speed up and down. So
here in Los Angeles, we havea lot of people working in Hollywood,
a lot of people working with largevideo files, large audio files. Fiber
has the same speed up and downtypically, which means when you're uploading or
(11:48):
downloading, it's going to be justas fast. So the ways to save
bill You can bring your own equipment, so you can you know, instead
of renting your modem, you canbuy your own. You can negotiate,
although a lot of providers are notnegotiating as much as they used to.
You can downgrade your plan. Ifyou think you have too much speed,
you can actually go to a cheaperplan that has a lower speed. Or
(12:09):
if you're in the lucky area whereyou have more than one provider, you
can switch. And that's actually openedup bill. Because all these companies you'll
probably see them advertising, like VerizonHome Internet and T Mobile five G.
That's putting a little pressure on thecable companies because it used to be they
were the only game in town.Now, if you just have a basic
(12:30):
need for your Internet, you couldeasily be serviced by a T Mobile five
G or a Verizon over the air. They're using cellular signals to actually deliver
internet to your house. Enter priceis going down in terms of internet providing
in general. I mean, Ithink for the speeds you're getting, they're
going down, that's generally, butI think overall they're going up. You
(12:54):
know, people, nothing goes downmeaningfully. I think the speeds have gotten
Let's put it this way, yourspeeds have gotten faster for what you're paying
for. But I don't think youknow, we're seeing significantly lower prices than
we did. I think the speedsare just faster. Now. With that
said, the five G I justmentioned, those prices are very much cheaper.
(13:15):
But even those prices are going upalready. I've noticed. All right,
Rich, thank you. This Saturday, right after my show that is
the Tech Show eight to eleven o'clock. Excuse me, eleven to two pm.
I'm eight to eleven right here Saturdaymorning. KFI on Instagram is at
rich on tech website, rich ontech dot TV. You have a good
(13:35):
one, Rich. We'll catch overthe weekend. Thanks Bill. Now,
a couple things are happening around theworld that I want to share with you.
One of them is that the Westernworld is turning right wing. Now
when you talk about Russia, forexample, already has of course with putin
China no issue because of course theCommunist party is in charge. So we
(13:58):
don't even worry about liberal conservative,but when you talk about the democracies of
the Western world, it's becoming alot more conservative. These democracies, even
though they're legitimate democracies, people votebecoming much more conservative. One of the
big reasons is demographics. People aregetting older, lasting longer. Birth rate
(14:24):
is dropping, which means that theolder people who have immense power always have
you know why, because they vote. That is the largest single block of
voters that exist. And man,is that powerful? And what is the
first rule for any politician? Waybeyond putting the country first, making sure
(14:52):
that he or she is a patriot, It's all about getting reelected. That's
all that matters. Why is aRepublican party so pro Trump? Why does
he control it? Very simple reason. You don't go against him. You're
primaried out. You go against them. It's over in terms of even the
primaries. Where that's it done?And what's the number one rule? You
get reelected. That's what it's allabout. So people, as they're getting
(15:18):
older, they are their vote isbecoming more important because there's more of them.
And you know what older people tendto do. Older people tend to
vote much more conservatively. And whyis that. Well, when you're young,
you're a communist. That's probably themost liberal point of your life.
(15:41):
I remember in college screaming about distributionof wealth, and you have to be
poor. I mean, you haveto spread the wealth, you have to
take care of poor people. Well, as you get older, you sort
of want to hang on your moneybecause first of all, you get some
and you don't want to take itaway. Hell, I've worked all these
(16:03):
years. Do I want the governmentto take my money and give it to
those people? There were times whenI work seven days a week. I
know Neil does. There were timeswhen I worked fourteen, sixteen hours a
day, especially when I was buildingmy law practice. There were many times
that I worked all night, pulledall nighters. And do I want to
(16:26):
share my money? No? No, I've worked damn hard and I would
like to keep most of my money. That's the way older people tend to
think in far greater numbers, andyounger people seemed to go the other way.
And the major problem when you're talkingabout a democracy, you've got to
(16:47):
vote. It's not that complicated.You've got to vote. There was a
time when Hispanics, even though theywere a good chunk of the population had
no influence. Why is that becauseHispanics didn't vote. Now they've turned around
and go, oh, okay,it's time for a little political power.
And you get that simply by votingand voting for your candidates that you believe
(17:11):
in. So we are more conservativeas we are getting older. This is
a story that came into Wall StreetJournal and actually looked at Britain. But
Britain is just an example of what'sgoing on throughout the Western democracies. There
are more people over sixty than thereare people under forty, and people under
(17:36):
forty generally don't die. People oversixty do die. Macrone, for example,
in France, just got nailed.One of his big reasons is he
wanted to bring the retirement age fromsixty two to sixty four. We're sixty
five, and he got nailed forthat. He just lost so many well
(17:56):
the first round his party just gotslaughtered. Why because you know, people
want to retire early. The peoplethat are over over forty, over sixty
are well, are really interested inkeeping their money. And the way you
keep your money is not letting peopleretire earlier. And you have to balance
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the budget. And McCrone said,we can't afford it, and you can't
say we don't afford it. Sowe're here at sixty five, all right,
and we retire at sixty five,and all of a sudden, we're
collecting unemployment. Excuse me, we'recollecting I sound starting to sound like Joe
Biden. We're collecting Medicare, weare collecting social Security, and it costs
(18:44):
of fortune. And younger people theydon't care. They don't care. So
those of us who are baby boomersand are over sixty five. And by
the way, when they say whenyou hear the phrase, sixty five is
just a number, they're right,sixty five is just the number. It's
sixty five. That's the number.It's like dog years. How long is
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a dog year? It's one year. That's how long a dog year is.
They just last till they're fifteen.So when we hit sixty five,
we hit sixty five. But here'sthe problem. As I said, we're
getting older. My mother retired atsixty two. She died at ninety eight.
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And so you figure those numbers outhow much it cost you, how
much it cost me to support her? She should have died at ninety three,
that's when she went south. Butsince I was paying for her care
over and above social Security, shelasted five more years just to screw with
(19:52):
me, and she succeeded beyond mywile ofest expectations. Years of that check
over and over again, and theonly thing she could do was smile as
she was screwing me over Why becauseI was paying those taxes and I wasn't
(20:14):
receiving social Security. Okay, backwe go with the concept that older people
are voting more and more because thereare more older people. The world is
aging. The birth rate is dropping, certainly among industrialized nations, which means
there are simply more older people aroundbecause they're lasting longer and they vote conservatively,
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which means in many ways the worldis turning very right wing. So
storing in the Wall Street Journal andthey use England as an example of the
UK, but it's the same inall industrialized nation because older people just vote
more and get incredible power. Soin the run up to the election coming
(20:59):
up on Thursday by elections in Britain, every major party backs the country's triple
lock guarantee for retirees that state pensioneffectively social security. There will outpace inflation
over the long term. Last year, their social Security their pincha their checks
(21:19):
rose ten percent medium age in mediumage medium age wage for workers that was
between nineteen forty nine rose by fivepoint seven. Okay, so ten percent
bump versus six percent wage increase.This is for Social Security recipients or their
(21:42):
version. This year another eight percentbump for elderly people. Why well,
because they vote and young young peoplejust don't care. And when they do
care, they're a bunch of communistsand they want us to simply give them
(22:06):
money, and we're saying absolutely not. In twenty twenty two the US midterms,
two thirds of the citizens over sixtyfive voted. I mean that is
this is in the midterms. Twothirds voted, double the rate of eighteen
to twenty nine year olds. Well, when you have twice as many people
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voting, guess what happens, Youget more power. Social Security is the
third rail. No one screws withSocial Security. Medicare started in Lyndon Johnson's
presidency, and man, it wasa vicious fight. Get a politician today
anywhere on the spectrum and say howdo you feel about Medicare? Social Security
(22:53):
is running out of money, juststraight out running out of money. Ask
a politician here, how do youfeel about so security, more taxes?
What do you think? How aboutthis fewer benefits? Try doing that and
get re elected. So as youget older, especially anybody over the age
(23:14):
of sixty five, and that's boomerland, you know, keep in mind,
you've got more power than you everever could imagine. All right,
we're done, guys, I'm takingphone calls. Handle on the law off
the air eight seven seven five twozero eleven fifty eight seven seven five two
zero eleven fifty no breaks and nopatients on my part. Calls go very
(23:36):
quickly as you can imagine, andyou can still listen to KFI right there
on the phone while you're waiting,and you're not going to be waiting long,
believe me. Eight seven seven fivetwo zero eleven fifty. Back we
come again tomorrow. That's January third, the day before the Did I say
January? Okay, sorry, Imisspoke. January is not the date.
(24:02):
July fourth is Thursday. Let meokay, July fourth is Thursday. President.
Would you like to go back?Yeah? I would. Let me
Let me confuse Medicare. We madeMedicare happen, and July fourth is Thursday.
I'll figure this out. So tomorrowwe're coming back, starting with wake
up Call Heather Brooker and then sixo'clock Neil and I come aboard and as
(24:23):
always, Cono never goes home asdoes and never going home catching tomorrow.
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