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I tried using AI. It scared me.

Tom Scott | October 20, 2024



I just wanted to fix my email. ■ AD: 👨‍💻 NordVPN’s best deal is here: https://nordvpn.com/tomscott – with a 30-day money-back guarantee. ■ Code and full conversation: https://www.tomscott.com/fix-gmail-labels-threads/

Script assistant: Laura Conlon
No AI assistance was used, except where noted.

ALTERNATE TITLES:
Crypto and the metaverse aren’t the future. AI is.
I just wanted to fix my email.
I tried ChatGPT and had a minor existential crisis
Everything is about to change
ChatGPT is Napster, 24 years later.
ChatGPT is 2023’s Napster.

CHAPTERS
0:00 Intro
0:07 I just wanted to fix my email
2:39 Gmail’s label system sucks
5:35 Wait, I can fix this with code
7:36 It can’t be that good, right?
11:31 Everything is going to change

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(Yes, that was a “Weird Al” Yankovic reference.)

Written by Tom Scott

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