Jon Stewart hosted FTC (Federal Trade Commission) chair Lina Khan on his weekly Daily Show segment yesterday, but Stewart’s own revelations were just as interesting as Khan’s. During the sit-down, Stewart admitted that Apple asked him not to host Khan on a podcast, which was an extension of his The Problem with Jon Stewart Apple TV+ show at the time.

“I wanted to have you on a podcast and Apple asked us not to do it,” Stewart told Khan. “They literally said, ‘Please don’t talk to her.’”

In fact, the entire episode appeared to have a “things Apple would let us do” theme. Ahead of the Khan interview, Stewart did a segment on artificial intelligence he called “the false promise of AI,” effectively debunking altruistic claims of AI leaders and positing that it was strictly designed to replace human employees.

“They wouldn’t let us do even that dumb thing we just did in the first act on AI,” he told Khan. “Like, what is that sensitivity? Why are they so afraid to even have these conversations out in the public sphere?”

The Problem With Jon Stewart was abruptly cancelled ahead of its third season, reportedly following clashes over potential AI and China segments. That prompted US lawmakers to question Apple, seeking to know if the decision had anything to do with possible criticism of China.

    • @melechric
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      186 months ago

      This is any corporation.

      • themeatbridge
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        86 months ago

        This is capitalism. Profit above all.

        • @SupraMario
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          -96 months ago

          No this is all economic systems. People like power and money is power. Until we have replicators, nothing will change this fact .

          • @[email protected]
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            36 months ago

            Speak for yourself. I know a lot of wonderful humans who derive their happiness from witnessing happiness in others.

            • @SupraMario
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              -16 months ago

              Cool, what about the ones who don’t?

          • @njm1314
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            26 months ago

            Can’t have replicators with that thought process.

            • @SupraMario
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              06 months ago

              I think we will eventually get there but as with all advances in tech, it comes with someone trying to make money from it.

          • themeatbridge
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            06 months ago

            Spoken like a true capitalist. Money is one type of power. We have plenty now, and produce more than enough food and housing to feed and house the world. We don’t because we choose not to.

            • @SupraMario
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              06 months ago

              Ok? And? What’s your point? You’re literally confirming what I just said.

    • ditty
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      56 months ago

      I think Apple’s philosophy is more accurately “We love our users, we know what’s best for them and their opinions to the contrary don’t matter.”

      Yes, the actual reason Apple doesn’t enable features their users want is their pursuit of profits, but Apple never listen to their users it’s always top-down decision making that’s actively combative and restrictive

  • SteefLem
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    226 months ago

    Ai feels like the next .com bubble

    • @Addv4
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      126 months ago

      Probably is for the most part. I’ve been using copilot at work and while it is convenient (like auto complete on steroids), it is nowhere near where it could be used to do my job. I see it being parroted as a possiblity for businesses to cut their labor costs for some stock increases, but not much else.

      • @[email protected]
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        16 months ago

        It’s already replacing people’s jobs. If it’s not replacing your job, that’s great! But I give it just a year or two if nothing changes to protect workers.

    • @IsThisAnAI
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      Nah, there is real business use and efficiency gains to be had. But it’s not going to replace divisions of people without burning down the planet or a significantly more efficient approach.

      E.G - Being able to train it on your business data, processes, proposals, products, and enabling employees to gather information is extremely useful. “Copilot grab statement of objectives and place them in our company proposal template. Also grab our past performance data from similar projects and the proposal language.” Then you take it from there, remove the crap, rewrite what is good. That’s hours of tracking down shit saved. Companies are going to eat that up and rightly so.

      • @SpaceNoodle
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        26 months ago

        Sure, there are a few use cases just like there were a few websites left after the .com bubble burst.

    • littleblue✨
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      96 months ago

      It’s not even “AI”, FFS. They’re all LLMs in different costumes, being paraded around like cheat codes to world domination. 🤦🏽‍♂️

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        Before a bunch of people come at you…

        In the Machine Learning field, LLMs are in fact considered a kind of AI. So developers, researchers and so forth in the field all would be fine saying AI in these instances if they didn’t need to be more specific.

        I’m only posting to try to tell you in a “non-holier than thou internet way” because I also just found this out recently.

        • littleblue✨
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          While I appreciate the heads up, I’ve had far more people in the industry complaining about the intentional misnomer (some even consider it irresponsible) on the part of the media.

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    106 months ago

    Elsewhere in the segment, Khan discussed the FTC’s lawsuit against Amazon, stating that the FTC alleges the company is a monopoly maintained via illegal practices (exorbitant seller fees, shady ads). They also touched on the FTC’s lawsuit against Facebook, tech company collusion via AI, corporate consolidation, exorbitant drug prices and more.