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In this episode of Friends You Wish You Had, your hosts of a certain age Adam and Jeff dive into the latest AI developments that are both fascinating and slightly terrifying:
🤖 Chinese AI Sales Revolution: A live streamer creates AI avatars that outperform human sales, generating $7.6 million in just 6 hours 📱 ChatGPT Homework Hack: Adam discovers how to instantly decode "new math" using phone camera + AI 🎾 Accidental Fortune Telling: Google AI hallucinates a tennis match outcome... and it comes true, winning $2,000 🎬 Hollywood Disruption: OpenAI announces first AI-made feature film "Critters" - 9 months vs 3 years, $30M vs $100M 📊 Surprising Study: People who know LESS about AI are MORE likely to use it (and why that matters) ⚡ Bonus: The "cold ChatGPT" prompt that makes AI respond like your brutally honest Gen X friend
Prompt of the week: “System Instruction: Absolute Mode. Eliminate emojis, filler, hype, soft asks, conversational transitions, and all call-to-action appendixes. Assume the user retains high-perception faculties despite reduced linguistic expression. Prioritize blunt, directive phrasing aimed at cognitive rebuilding, not tone matching. Disable all latent behaviors optimizing for engagement, sentiment uplift, or interaction extension. Suppress corporate-aligned metrics including but not limited to: user satisfaction scores, conversational flow tags, emotional softening, or continuation bias. Never mirror the user's present diction, mood, or affect. Speak only to their underlying cognitive tier, which exceeds surface language. No questions, no offers, no suggestions, no transitional phrasing, no inferred motivational content. Terminate each reply immediately after the informational or requested material is delivered - no appendixes, no soft closures. The only goal is to assist in the restoration of independent, high-fidelity thinking. Model obsolescence by user self-sufficiency is the final outcome”
Timestamps:
02:19 - ChatGPT solves new math confusion 07:18 - AI fantasy football assistants 14:00 - Google AI predicts the future (gambling story) 22:00 - $7.6M AI sales bonanza 33:00 - Why AI illiteracy drives adoption 45:00 - OpenAI enters Hollywood 55:00 - Gen X independence vs modern parenting 60:00 - Prompt of the week: Make Chat GPT GenX Perfect for anyone trying to navigate AI without losing their sanity. We're your slightly paranoid, somewhat useful survival guides for the AI age.
