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The Daily Show: Ears Edition

TDS Time Machine | Best of Lewis Black in 2024

Tue, 17 Dec 2024

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From AI stereotyping to Elon's Cypertruck and new-age summer camps for kids, here's everything that pissed off Lewis Black in 2024. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Chapter 1: What highlights can we expect from Lewis Black in 2024?

65.185 - 80.535 Unidentified Speaker (Brief Interjection)

When we prompted the technology to generate a photo of a person receiving social services, it generated only non-white and primarily darker-skinned people. Results for a productive person, meanwhile, were uniformly male, majority white, and dressed in suits for corporate jobs.

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81.215 - 88.44 Unidentified Speaker (Brief Interjection)

Stable diffusion drew negative attention when requests for a Latina produced images of women in suggestive poses wearing little to no clothing.

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88.86 - 126.503 Lewis Black

Are you shitting me? J.I. isn't a supercomputer. It's just a horny teenager. And who knew being a white guy in a suit automatically makes you a productive person? That's right. Me, Hunter Biden, and Don Jr., all productive members of society, and only one of us can handle my cocaine. You're all going to hell.

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126.523 - 138.715 Lewis Black

Now, the good news is Google did address these issues by giving their AI some much-needed diversity training. The bad news is they may have taken it too far.

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Google has paused the image generation ability of its AI Gemini after major backlash from conservatives over historically inaccurate depictions of races.

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For example, creating diverse images of the US founding fathers. So a different kind of diversity problem that Google admits.

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Last week, users began to notice the Google Gemini's image generator inserting people of color into scenarios that didn't make sense, like responding to a prompt for an image of a German World War II soldier with a picture of an Asian woman or a black man.

169.028 - 203.487 Lewis Black

Finally! Every time I'm watching a World War II film, I'm thinking, boy, these Gestapo could use some diversity. I mean, why are you trying to show me a black Nazi? Kanye wasn't alive back then. And I love the idea of a black George Washington. Imagine a man who's both the slave and the slave owner. I'm working on the screenplay now, and it's screaming Oscar.

203.887 - 235.041 Lewis Black

And Pacino better remember my f***ing name. Old people suck. I know, I know. Lin-Manuel Miranda already gave us a black George Washington, so maybe it's time for something new. Like, how about George Washington as a centaur? You're probably thinking, well, so what if AI can't remember the past? Well, don't worry. It's so woke, it'll also destroy the future.

Chapter 2: How is AI perpetuating stereotypes?

362.127 - 398.307 Lewis Black

That way, when you try to give it some bullshit assignment, it'll always give you the correct answer, which is go f*** yourself. Now, that's what I call progress. Progress. Cars used to be a way to let people know you were cool, or in the case of your friend's dad, to let people know you were having a midlife crisis. And in recent years, one of the coolest cars you could buy was the Tesla.

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398.767 - 414.96 Lewis Black

Not only was it a status symbol, but it was electric. It was like a compost bin that you could drink and drive in. LAUGHTER For a while, Tesla's stock price was skyrocketing, but now it's sliding down like half of Mitch McConnell's face.

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The numbers are in, and Tesla has fallen short of expectations. Elon Musk's electric vehicle company releasing its first quarter earnings, showing its biggest revenue drop in over a decade. In the first three months of the year, car sales dropping 8.5%, adding to a plummeting stock price that so far this year has gone down over 40%.

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437.025 - 466.526 Lewis Black

Holy shit. Down 40%. The only thing worth less than Tesla stock is a fully grown adult at P. Diddy's house. Stop it. That's the least of the problems. But don't worry, Tesla owner. Elon Musk has a perfectly reasonable, dumb as fuck explanation for this.

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We should be thought of as an AI robotics company. If you value Tesla as just like an auto company, you would just have to fundamentally, it's just the wrong framework.

478.484 - 508.81 Lewis Black

Sorry, Elon, my mistake. All this time I thought your company that sold cars was a car company. God, one of us must be a real f***ing idiot. So Tesla's clearly in the shitter, and the thing that was supposed to save it was the Cybertruck, a vehicle that looks like what happens when you inbreed DeLoreans. But unfortunately, the Cybertruck appears to be cyber .

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Tesla recalling its entire fleet of Cybertrucks, nearly 4,000 in all. The company says the accelerator pedal could get stuck, causing the pickup to unintentionally speed up, risking a crash.

521.664 - 562.521 Lewis Black

Well, remember, it's not a car crash. It's an AI crash. Open your mind, man. Seriously, though, you recalled all of them? None were okay? Even with the Baldwin's, they made one good one. I'm not going to say which one. I don't want to get shot. And this is just the... And this is just the latest problem with RoboCop's f***ing wagon, because that thing's been shitting the bed since day one.

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We've gotten a lot of tales of malfunction. So, for example, vehicles dying after traveling just one mile.

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