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We have talked about AI a lot on this podcast and we plan on talking about it more. It’s the future, whether you like it or not. Personally, I don’t think the problem is going to be AI. I think the problem, as usual, is going to be people.

https://youtu.be/86nhP8tvbLY?si=179uCtun2WcHLHNz

I am a music fan and watch many of the big music theory channels on YouTube. Rhett Shull is a musician and YouTuber who has been around the platform for a very long time. In one of his most recent videos, he noticed that YouTube seems to be adding some type of AI filter to his videos and it’s not just his videos. In this video he shows several examples and while it looks like YouTube might be using the AI filter to enhance video clarity the most interesting part about it is that he didn’t approve it.

That’s right, it looks like YouTube is adding AI to people’s video without their permission or notification.

And that to me is the rub.

Mike, you’re our AI guru what do you make of this?

[Kick to Mike]

Christina, from an ethics standpoint, what are your thoughts?

[kick to Christina]

Next, we are back to the world of TTRPGs with a little fun article from EN World.

https://www.enworld.org/threads/with-alien-earth-about-to-hit-our-screens-here-for-free-are-a5es-xenid-monster-stats.714828/

In preparation for the new Alien series Alien Earth on Hulu, EN World shows some screen shots from the just kickstarted Voidrunners Codex. This new 5E supplement from EN Publishing, the same company that brings you EN World, is a Sci-Fi supplement for D&D Fifth Edition and in their upcoming release they have not one, not two, but 6 pages dedicated to our favorite space monster.

Now I bring this up, because some of you might be interested in just such a supplement, and that’s cool. But personally, I wanted an opportunity to yell at the Disney Corporation and 20th Century Fox for completely ruining what should have been one of the greatest film franchises in the history of film. I mean seriously, Alien is a masterclass of storytelling and Aliens flipped the script by turning horror into an action/thriller. Then the studio dropped the ball on what should have been a solid David Fincher directed Alien 3. What little good was in that movie was completely excised in Alien Resurrection, then the god-awful Alien vs. Predator films, don’t get me started on Prometheus, and Covenant and Romulus just doubled down on the Prometheus crap…And then I tried to watch Alien Earth. It’s written by children. Stupid, lazy, and barely literate children.

Christina, talk me off the ledge.

[Kick to Christina]

Mike, what are your thoughts?

[Kick to Mike]

And there you have it, all the news you’ve already heard.