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Speaker 1: let's begin with this story from right here in Orlando
Speaker 1: this week. The mother of a fourteen year old boy
Speaker 1: who committed suicide has filed a case in federal court
Speaker 1: against artificial intelligence chat bot startup Character dot Ai, accusing
Speaker 1: the company of causing her fourteen year old son's suicide
Speaker 1: back in February, saying he became addicted to the company's
Speaker 1: service and deeply attached to a chat bot it created.
Speaker 1: In the lawsuit filed in federal court here in Orlando
Speaker 1: this week, Megan Garcia said Character dot Ai targeted her
Speaker 1: son with anthromorphic, hyper sexual, hyper sexualized, and frighteningly realistic experiences.
Speaker 1: She said the company programmed its chatbot to misrepresent itself
Speaker 1: as a real person, a licensed psychotherapist and an adult lover,
Speaker 1: ultimately resulting in his desire to no longer live outside
Speaker 1: of the world created by the service.
Speaker 2: Well, this is not the first suicide that has been
Speaker 2: blamed on it.
Speaker 1: We'll see what happens with the court case. Some changes
Speaker 1: made to X formerly Twitter as it relates to the
Speaker 1: block feature the X once activated. Now blocked users won't
Speaker 1: be able to interact with the user and their post,
Speaker 1: but they'll still be able to see them. End of story.
Speaker 1: That's it. You'll only be able to look at the stuff,
Speaker 1: you won't be able to take any kind of action whatsoever,
Speaker 1: and that's being received with mixed feelings by users on
Speaker 1: x SO saw that Meta has placed a ban on
Speaker 1: tracking private jets of celebrities and just well known folks
Speaker 1: in general. They've taken a stand on accounts that reveal
Speaker 1: the tracking information of private jets owned by the likes
Speaker 1: of well, in this case, we're talking thirty eight accounts
Speaker 1: owned by Jack Sweeney, the UCF student, have been shut
Speaker 1: down on Instagram and threads. Those accounts would show real
Speaker 1: time data on location of some big name folks, and
Speaker 1: you're familiar with most of the folks that Jack had
Speaker 1: been tracking, including Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Taylor Swift, Donald Trump,
Speaker 1: and many others. Even though the information is actually publicly available,
Speaker 1: assuming you know how to get it. Meta's decision is
Speaker 1: due to what they construed as a threat to the
Speaker 1: physical harm of these figures being tracked. A lot of
Speaker 1: wackados out there, which obviously obviously the Federal Trade Commission
Speaker 1: now taking a stand against fake reviews online. FTC chair
Speaker 1: Lena Khan said in a final rule that's been created
Speaker 1: to strengthen the FTC's toolkit to fight to set of advertising.
Speaker 1: Under this new role, anyone who participates in a fake
Speaker 1: online review could be fined up to fifty one thousand
Speaker 1: dollars good because they could be ruining people's business. The
Speaker 1: move was made to protect Americans from getting cheated, put
Speaker 1: businesses that unlawfully game the system unnoticed, and promote markets
Speaker 1: that are fair, honest, and competitive. How they're going to
Speaker 1: actually enforce it? Please? Please, let's see this an action.
Speaker 1: Amazon Prime giving Prime members an additional perk. How about
Speaker 1: saving ten cents a gallon on gas? Is it that
Speaker 1: the Walmart? Walmart has their own situation with through their app?
Speaker 1: This is through Amazon Prime. They have partnered with roughly
Speaker 1: seven thousand Amaco, AMPM, and BP stations across the US,
Speaker 1: which will give Prime members a ten cent per gallon
Speaker 1: discount on fuel purchases. When you sign up via BP
Speaker 1: as an Amazon Prime member, so and sends off a gallon.
Speaker 1: Every penny counts, Yes, it does. Those of you who
Speaker 1: utilize Wi Fi, which is almost all of us, especially
Speaker 1: at your house, know that a lot of times when
Speaker 1: you try to walk outside the confines of your home. Maybe, hey,
Speaker 1: let's listen to some music out on the back patio,
Speaker 1: the signal isn't always that great as far as the
Speaker 1: Wi Fi strength goes well. Mesh Wi Fi pioneer company Eero,
Speaker 1: which is alsoly also owned by Amazon, has announced the
Speaker 1: Eero Outdoor seven, specifically built to extend your home Wi
Speaker 1: Fi to outdoor spaces. Up to fifteen thousand square feet
Speaker 1: of outdoor coverage, both two point four and five gigahertz
Speaker 1: signals will be boosted and brought out into your outdoor
Speaker 1: living space, which fifteen thousand square feet should be adequate
Speaker 1: to cover most outdoor areas for homes. You know, whether
Speaker 1: you've got a TV out back or you're just trying
Speaker 1: to stream something through your your device. So three nine
Speaker 1: the starting price for the euro Outdoor seven. That might
Speaker 1: be a solution for those of you who have weak
Speaker 1: Wi Fi signals around the perimeter of your home. Tesla
Speaker 1: promising paid robo tax taxes by next year. Elon Musk
Speaker 1: yesterday said the electric vehicle maker will roll out driverless
Speaker 1: ride hailing services to the public in California and Texas
Speaker 1: starting next year. This provided uh they'll be able to
Speaker 1: clear what will probably be significant regulatory and technical challenges
Speaker 1: but transportation continues to plow forward with Tesla and some
Speaker 1: new innovations with Tesla.
Speaker 2: You keep those over in Texas in California. Don't bring
Speaker 2: that to Florida yet. Wait until, wait until you have
Speaker 2: some trial runs there, you know, like a year or two.
Speaker 1: Taco is what is AI? In general? You're down on AI.
Speaker 1: You don't want any driverless cars or vehicles. Those those
Speaker 1: are out the window for you at this point. Yes,
Speaker 1: we're just keeping track here of.
Speaker 2: Give me, give me an Uber driver up front that
Speaker 2: smells like maybe a little wheat or something.
Speaker 1: No, that's not on Uber. That's any right. All right,
Speaker 1: there you go. Some techt stories as we check it out.
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