The Rise of Veo 3 (Premium E294)

A lot of the viral videos that you have to watch twice to really spot the ai ‘tells’ seem to follow the formula of an influencer recording in selfie mode, and I think that really speaks to the content that the software has been training on.

Julian's tone when he says "you can have it" to Jake about the Slimer video. The cadence of somebody who has found somebody eating out of the trash and they offered to share.

This fills me with deep despair

An AI Trump president long after he's dead is totally plausible.

I hate all of this.

Can you guys seriously stop doing AI dick sucking episodes? Just like the AI itself, this isnt getting better or more interesting each go around. Exact same slop you were panicking about like 5 episodes ago. Seriously considering upsubscribing for a while if you do another one of these.

We can married? 🤣🤣🤣

That’s storm trooper Vlog dialogue was so fucking bad, people are morons

We can married.... 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Guys, can you unlock this episode to share with my fellow creatives on the edge of nervous breakdown? Love the generate a bridge comment 🔥

I'm down for the Butlerian Jihad. The thinking machines must be destroyed. Replace them with Mentats.

I might not have opposible thumbs after listening to this.

The kangaroo at the airplane gate got my ass too 😖 I hate AI

Julian's nihilism is extra today. Jake's even picking up on it.

Hey fellas, I hate to be "well, actually" person, but saying terms like "finna," "unc," and "no cap" are gen z slang is incorrect and disrespectful; what you refer to as gen z slang are AAVE terms that white gen z people have stolen and misappropriated as a result of the increased availability of black people communicating between themselves via social media and using it for themselves (often incorrectly) because they think its cool, just as white people in America have done for hundreds of years. While I have enjoyed your podcast for years and have been a member of the Patreon for a while because you guys are usually good about research, this episode was incredibly disappointing and has made me reconsider my support. Perhaps my disappointment was exacerbated by my choice to listen to this episode on Juneteenth. It was honestly so bad that I had to turn the episode off and write this comment. This episode has made me seriously rethink my Patreon subscription as I do not want to financially support white people who casually, mindlessly, and frivolously participate in the continued theft and erasure of black culture in America. I sincerely hope that you do better in the future.

Hollywood giving influencers chance to “do it for real?” It is just happening now. A24 gave a 19 y/o director budget for making their new horror movie solely based on his creepy YouTube channel. https://www.worldofreel.com/blog/2025/6/11/a24-hires-19-year-old-youtuber-to-direct-the-backrooms-chiwetel-ejiofor-and-renate-reinsve-to-star

Ashamed to admit I lobe She, which is cave women complaining about stupid, patriarchal cave men. It's hilarious, even though I know many prehistoric groups were egalitarian or matriarchal.

This episode put me on a path to being as nihilistic as Julian. We’re really going to just replace every bit of humanity with the most insipid shit ever…

Another instance of prophetic sci-fi: in the novel Neuromancer (1984), an amnesic veteran with PTSD gets his personality "rebuilt" by an AI telling him who he "really" is and giving him secret assignments.

griftmaxxing

Jake is fully boomer Facebook parent brained

it might also be that AI makes influencer style videos because that’s what it’s pulling from like there’s probably thousands of more hours of selfie phone footage for it to use then cinematic camera shots. Seeing the entire world through the phone because that’s what it’s being fed

Found this thing called AI Bigfoot VLOG. Pretty funny honestly. Good take on HGTV with Bigfoot. That is the end of the rabbit hole for me though. Famous last words. Really need Jim Henson back.

I am now going to subscribe to this shit and start creating content. I am either going to grift so hard or go crazy after it tells me I am a god.

Julian asking why I am listening to this led me to briefly question my existence and then just go right back to listening to this.

I kept getting AI slop videos of the same subject- washing sea creatures. They show scientists on a boat hauling something up on deck, a whale, dolphin, shark, you get the idea. Whatever it is, it’s covered with a thick crust of barnacles. The scientists scrub and use a power washer to remove the crust, happy creature is released back into the water. WTF?

it's face looks like a dog, it's face is wrong, it looks nothing like a kangaroo's face

Just because it got missed in all the A.I. chat, anyone taking a kangaroo on a commercial flight deserves whatever punishment the airline can think up. I’d settle for them slipping heroin into your bag and sending you to Singapore. Wild animals are not pets and they’re definitely not your “emotional support”. Get a dog.

Ridiculous that anyone would fall for the alleged kangaroo video. It's a fucken wallaby.

‘Kangaroos don’t have opposable thumbs’ - have you never seen SKIPPY?

Lost opportunity to show Jesus descending into hell to wreck shit

AI content is worthless bc it Can’t Be Copyrighted!! All that remains is like and subscribe and low effort “courses.”

I was on this discord about spiritual practice and there were people using ai and it just feels... antithetical. Spirituality us supposed to be about connection: ai, the slop videos, the ground out content, where's the connection? Where's the earth or the people? Everytime I think about it for more than five seconds it makes me very sad.

I have to say the just listening to the Zoomer influencer Bible stuff on the pod the jokes don't really land. I just envision Boomers leaving all the LMAO type comments.

They made AI Teenjus

I think it's mildly worthy of mention also that the guy making the "what if bible characters were influencers" guy has more grey hair than I do (I'm 35), and likewise, at least on instagram, most of the replies seem to be from people who are also at least as old as I am. It seems to be less actually what "the kids" are into, and more millennials doing some sort of weird pantomime of hat they think will appeal to zoomers, mostly for the benefit of other millennials and gen-xers. Real "how do you do, fellow kids" type shit.

For Serena

High Fructose Corn Agar

See you in the PavlovVR TDM servers Jake!

man, if ai slop is already gaining this much traction as standalone entertainment then it won't be long before the prompt-writing process is also automated & instead of pyramid schemes selling how-to-prompt tips it's just incorporated into the media feed algorithm itself, so that everyone gets custom slop just for them forever without ever having to make a single choice, not even of what to click on

Was chomping to make Julian’s point about how the streaming services’ profit incentives have already created this content for years.. soy banter directly leading to the death of humanity… I feel quite vindicated in my turn to only consuming anti-art for the last decade. This shit really threatens your taste less when you genuinely enjoy seeing someone who doesn’t know a single chord push an amp to feedback and play the guitar with a hammer more than watching a virtuoso or… anyone who knows how to play the instrument well at all.

Oh baby, there's no such thing as a uniquely human feature. Other animals can have opposable thumbs, be bipedal, exhibit culture, or use tools. Hell, we're on the precipice of discovering that other animals have language.

Incredibly funny for Julian to get his green card and stop calling for specific assassinations

No Jake I actually didn’t know about the Stormtrooper vlog stuff because I avoid AI shit like the plague

I feel like an exotic abd strange animal like a kangaroo is probably easier to pass off as real using AI because while of course everyone knows what a kangaroo is and would recognize it in a picture, it's not a an animal most people see every day, even in pictures. So if some proportions are off or if the eyes are weird or if it's doing something it's not supposed to be able to like hold a ticket a lot of people would reason "Well, maybe that's just a detail I didn't know about kangaroos".

You guys GOTTA put some of this AI info in the main feed so we can share it with the folks in our life who really falling down the AI hole.

Would have been great to hear about prompt theory.. check it out..

Suicide by podcast - it was bound to happen.

Julian actin real high and mighty about knowing kangaroos don’t have opposable thumbs when he didn’t know Turing was gay lol

Never have a clip of Kate Langbroek ever again. Please 🙏

Was that a Paul Tassi appearance on my favorite podcast?

I feel like a Jake being blown about randomly in the info storm... not everyone can be a Julian with his esoteric thumb knowledge

In defense of marsupials, several have opposable thumbs. Koalas and possums both have opposable thumbs.

When the first Bible video started playing I actually said out loud, "I hate this. I'm so angry you're making me listen to this." Thankfully I was alone in my car because it was reflexive

Now that Disney and Universal are suing Midjourney over copyright infringement and Star Wars is one of the IPs listed in the lawsuit, I find myself in the weird position of rooting for them to also go after Google's AI model.

This episode inflicted a lot of damage upon my already decrepit body and mind. Thanks!

Love and episode where Travis loses his mind. Real throwback

Everything we believe is unique to humans ends up having exceptions, so...who knows. Opposable thumbs aren't even that special; most primates have them, as do koalas, possums, chameleons, and some frogs. Pandas have sixth digits that aren't thumbs but function similarly and are opposable.

Bro… there have already been several fan shows based on Star Wars stormtroopers.

This is an all-timer QAA Psychic Damage episode

Yoda Voice* Extra hour of content on the Patreon, there is.

The stupid stormtroopers thing was a fan film back in the 2000s called "Troops." Surprised jake hasnt heard of it

I'm only 17 mins into it and this might be the most depressing episode yet

this episode is a.i.

Okay… I’ll admit it the line: ‘day two in the tomb waiting for God to respawn me… there is no wifi’ made me laugh.

My prediction? The future of fanfic movies is going to be wild. Copyright law and original creatives be damned.

Maybe I am an optimist, but I suspect that the Shrek DP content will continue to be made in loving detail by honest perverts.

Before the AI kangaroo, there was Skippy the Bush Kangaroo. So real.

why is julian keeping liv away from us for so many episodes? free liv agar

Jake Jake can you hear me I need you to check out the “Bigfoot: it’s Bears” theory

Ag Livgar

Don’t worry gentlemen, the content is always fantastic regardless the medium 💜

Thought it was bedtime, guess I was wrong!

I fell for the kangaroo video 100%. I’m fucked.

Liv agar

W for staying up way too late.