878 - You Will NEVER Regret Listening to this Episode feat. Max Read (10/21/24)

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🗓️ 22 October 2024

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Journalist Max Read joins us to discuss his new piece on the proliferation of “AI Slop”: unwanted, low quality, often surreal content flooding the internet and degrading its various platforms. We talk about the dystopian quality of the trend, the economic factors encouraging it, and how it portends poorly for the future of online. Max’s AI Slop piece: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/ai-generated-content-internet-online-slop-spam.html Subscribe to Max’s newsletter READ MAX at https://maxread.substack.com/ Order Matt’s Book (and check out the new merch!): https://chapotraphouse.store Come to our 11/4 Election Eve show in LA with E1: https://link.dice.fm/b1eb3de54f54

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0:00.0	The Oh, I'm going to be here. Ah. Hello everybody it's Monday October 21st and we've got some
0:38.0	Chappo coming at you I would like to kick off this show by reminding you about Matt's book and I think some of you may
0:46.6	have gotten the wrong idea about this book.
0:49.4	This book is an exclusive offer that is literally only available to order for the next 10 days.
0:56.8	This is how we match the printing to the orders, but your opportunity to have a copy of
1:02.4	Matt Kursman's book expires on October 31st.
1:06.6	So if you have not done, if you're not pre-ordered Matt Chrisman Civil War,
1:10.8	no Matt Chris in Spanish Civil War, if you have not done that by now, please do so or you will be
1:16.5	stricken from the Book of Life. Also inserting this a little later from the
1:21.3	edit because I just confirmed we are going to release
1:24.0	250 more signed copies of No Passeron, Matt Chrisman, Spanish Civil War.
1:30.0	They will be on sale at chapoo Traphouse. Store next Tuesday, October 29th, starting at 9 a.m. Pacific time, noon
1:39.5	eastern time. So I know a lot of you have been asking for another opportunity to get a signed copy of the book.
1:45.0	That will be the very last opportunity.
1:48.0	9 a.m. Pacific time, noon, eastern time, Tuesday, October 29th, Chappo Trap House
1:55.0	store, the book will be available until October 31st. Get your orders in now
2:00.6	because after that there will be no further chances. Okay back to
2:03.9	Will. I would also like to remind you that our live show in LA with E1 on November 4th
2:10.4	tickets still on sale and we'll provide the link to that in the show
2:14.4	description. And last but not least, I would like to, before we
2:18.6	officially start the show, note the passing of a great man, a man that influenced me a great deal, and certainly
2:27.4	was instrumental in the creation of this program Chappo Trap House.
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