So right now we open our phones and go to lots of apps and see lots of things. But I think in the future it’ll just be your A.I. model, ChatGPT or Anthropic. And then that’s the window through which you’ll see other stuff, whether it’s like a YouTube channel or a book recommendation or your faux romantic relationship with a robot. But yeah, I think the A.I. model will be your guide to everything else, and thus influences everything you do. To me, it feels more homogeneous. I mean, I think a lot of users are pretty passive, and they identify with the first layer of what they interact with. So it’ll be like, you don’t consume music through Spotify, you consume it through ChatGPT. You see an artist’s stuff, their music, their paintings, whatever, through the chatbot. And so you associate that culture with the chatbot itself. And I think that’s, I don’t know — it feels yucky to me. And it’s like you’re saying, it feels like it’s your friend. That’s one of the weirder parts of it. It feels like it’s your buddy that has everything in it – at the same time. – And it remembers you, like, this is one of the most shocking experiential parts of it to me. Like they build up memories of what you’ve told it and your preferences and your things that you rely on. As part of researching this, I asked Claude who is the most beautiful woman, and it told me that it didn’t experience faces, but then it was like, Tilda Swinton and Lupita Nyong’o, and I was like, my Claude knows I’m gay. I wonder what happens — I wonder what happens if I ask generic Claude. So I created a new Claude account, and I prompted it in exactly the same way. I used exactly the same language, and it said Audrey Hepburn. That’s so interesting.
