AI Magic, Real-World Backlash: Disney, Borders, and Fading Strongmen

Foreign. Welcome to Filtered Disney is opening its vault to artificial intelligence, letting Sora users spin up new video clips with some of the most valuable characters and in entertainment history. Canada is rolling out the welcome app for frustrated US H1B workers just as Washington unveils a million dollar gold card for only the already wealthy. New US Plans could force foreign tourists to hand over years of social media history, raising questions about privacy, security and the future of a multi billion dollar travel industry Here in the US AI is reshaping politics and media, from buggy Washington Post robo podcast to Gavin Newsom's handcuffed Trump deep fakes and from Bulgaria's streets to Indiana's State House signs that pushback against strongman politics is starting to bite. All that and more today on Filtered. It's going to be a fun filled show broadcasting to you today from Vietnam. Welcome to Filtered with TJ Walker. Hi and welcome. Thanks for joining me today. I'm on location as you can see, not my usual studio setup. I am on assignment on assignment in Asia and in Vietnam right now. Headed to Taiwan tomorrow. But let's check in on the market vitals from Yesterday. S&P 500 closed at 6901. That's up 0.21%. Nasdaq Composite closed at 23593.86, down 0.25%. Always keep in mind the long term. Over the last 25 years, the S&P 500 has gone up 8.32% per year. The NASDAQ 100 has gone up 9.09% per year. So please, please always keep in mind the long haul. Okay, let's dive right in to issue one. A lot of big stories going on today. The first one about Disney. Disney opens its vault to artificial intelligence Disney's taking a major step into generative technology with a $1 billion investment in OpenAI and a three year deal allowing Sora users to generate short videos using more than 200 characters from Disney, Pixar, Marvel and Star Wars. Reporting from the New York Times notes that select fan created clips may even appear on Disney. CEO Bob Iger said the partnership quote marks an important moment for our history and will be handled thoughtfully and responsibly. But animators warn this could sideline creators. As one Animation Guild board member puts it, the artist who created these characters won't see a dime. The deal highlights a growing concern. If endless AI variations of old characters keep audiences satisfied, studios may invest even less in new storytelling. Okay, what's the bottom line here what's the real message? I'm so used to Disney going after a small nonprofit kindergarten for having Mickey Mouse on the wall. They were so protective of their AI, of their intellectual property, and now they're giving it for a chunk of the of the company. They're giving it to artificial intelligence to OpenAI. This is a head scratcher and it's got to be scary times if you're an animator or any creator for Disney. Let's dig a little deeper here. Again, the facts are, Disney's invested $1 billion into OpenAI. I tell you, Sam Altman might not the founder and CEO. Co founder and current CEO of OpenAI. He might not be the most brilliant technologist in the world, but wow, is he good at deal making. He is one of the best fundraisers in the history of the world. There's no doubt about it. This guy can talk anybody into anything. I mean, I hope if anybody sees him approaching me, tackle me, put a bag over my head and cart me away. Because this guy could talk anyone, including me, into giving him every penny they have. Apparently he's really good at it. Now Sora users will gain access to 200 + Disney, Pixar, Marvel and Star wars characters with this deal. It's a three year licensing deal with an exclusive first year. It's going to allow short 30 second AI videos, select fan videos, something that you might create. That I might create. Well, I'm not that creative when it comes to Disney characters. I'm not going to be doing it. But you could have your content streamed on Disney plus. Now they claim it's not going to use any actors, likenesses or voices included. Although you look at the history of OpenAI. Just ask Scarlett Johansson how well those promises are kept. Now the rules ban drugs. You can't show Mickey Mouse shooting up heroin or anything like that. No sex, no alcohol or Cross Co. IP mixing other things to keep in mind, Disney has sued Mid Journey for alleged character copying. In the past, Disney sent Google a cease and desist over AI training data. So this is a big deal. I think. Here's I think what is keeping content creators, cartoonist creatives who work at Disney up at night? They're thinking, oh, if they just put all of the library into OpenAI, what if that's so lucrative that Disney could essentially fire every employee and just cash checks? I mean, that has to be something. Whether that's realistic, I don't know. But that has to be something that is keeping folks awake at night. Here's According to the head of animation Guild. Roma Murphy, the artist who created these characters, won't see a dime. Is that same standard going to be applied to these videos? What will the psychological implications be for kids who watch them? Now, here's what the head of Disney said. Bob Iger. The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence marks an important moment for our industry. And through this collaboration with OpenAI, we will thoughtfully and responsibly extend the reach of our storytelling. Let me translate that, folks. Bob Iger is saying we're scared out of our mind. All of us are scared of this open AI thing. We're all afraid it's going to leave us in the dust. We're afraid we're going to become irrelevant, fired, our stock price is going to go to zero. So we're, we're latching onto this thing. We want some little piece of this rocket OpenAI before it just takes off and leaves us all in the dirt. That's really what he's saying. It may be a smart strategy, I don't know. But if you are our cartoonist, I think the message is create your own cartoons. Start posting on TikTok, as I do every day on YouTube, as I do every day on Facebook, as I do every day. Ideally you'll be more entertaining to kids than I am because I, I do not have a huge viewership among 60 year olds looking for entertainment. So I think that's got to be the real lesson for cartoonists, for creators, for people who want to do entertainment. The idea that the Disney's of the world are going to continue to cut your checks when they can just hand over old intellectual property to a company like AI and cash checks, I think that's fanciful to say the least. Okay, let's look at some other facts here. The AI variations lower development, core development cost for content. Well, no kidding, it reduces it to zero. If all you got to do is hand over to AI, Mickey Mouse and other cartoon characters where you're not doing any additional work work. This introduces quality control risk for the Disney brand because now since they are taking a billion dollar ownership stake and open. A funny thing about these big billion dollar high tech companies, you give them a billion dollars, suddenly you have their phone number. If you and I have any kind of problem with Facebook or YouTube, they, I don't know, let's say delete your channel in the middle of the night, which has happened to me, happened to me to my Instagram channel just a few weeks ago. It's gone. If you and I have a problem with a big high tech company, tough Luck. You have about as good a chance of getting somebody on the phone as you do of finding buried treasure in the Atlantic Ocean. In theory, it could happen. Not going to happen. So Disney is smart at that level, at least for a billion dollars. I'm pretty sure you might not even get Sam Altman's phone number for a billion dollars these days since his company is now valued at almost half a trillion. But you're going to get somebody's phone number. If there's a problem, if all of a sudden Mickey Mouse is doing inappropriate things with Minnie Mouse that children shouldn't be seeing, there's at least going to be someone to call you. And I don't have that protection with any big tech company, unfortunately. So I do think this is significant. The significance for you and for me is we've got to essentially do the same thing. We have to figure out how to use artificial intelligence, latch onto it so that we don't become irrelevant. I know some of you have seen my own ads. Sorry if that becomes tedious, but I do promote my own ads because I have an AI video clone. I don't want to be left in the dust. So I have an AI cloud. Fact. I'll run an ad in just a moment where I tell you, call TJ the AI clone the video clone. He can coach you, train you, rehearse you. A lot less expensive than if you want to hire me because it's free at least the first few times you go there. I think we all have to figure out how to, if not, come up with a whole video clone for yourself. At least a chatbot to automate your own expertise. The other thing is, anyone who has career aspirations of being a creator, of being a media creator, don't look to the Disney's of the world. If they give you some sweetheart deal, cash the check. I would certainly cash their check. But if your whole career aspiration plan is about work hard, do good work, create a portfolio, and hope someone at Disney hires you, put you on salary, I gotta tell you about a billion dollars worth of salary money just went into Sam Altman's pocket. So you gotta come up with plan B. Plan B is you gotta create your own media company. Now, that's what I'm doing. And I certainly don't mean to be so hubristic as to say everyone has to be like me. It's worked out for me in part because I was able to withstand the pain of losing money for 15 years when I started my own online content creation company for online training. Way back in 1998. It paid off, certainly in the last decade. But not everyone can afford to lose money for 15 years. And I don't know if that means you've got to wait tables or be a barista while you're hoping your first cartoon goes viral, I don't know. But the old plan of just do good work, have a nice portfolio and hope Disney gives you a salary. Not looking good at all. Back in a moment. We'll be right back after this break. Want more? Grab my 5 book success library for 9.95 at tjwalker.com books. It's the fastest way to level up your communication. Imagine being the most confident person in the room, whether you're on Zoom or on stage. That's what thousands of professionals are learning to do right now. 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Reporting from the New York Times quotes Industry Minister Melanie Jolly saying, quote, as other countries constrain academic freedoms, I wonder who she's talking about. And undermine cutting edge research. Canada is investing and doubling down on science. Meanwhile, the US has debuted its gold card offering and yes, it does have a picture of President Trump right on it. It's offering expedited residency only to immigrants who can pay $1 million plus a $15,000 fee. The contrast is stark. Canada promises stability and opportunity. The US Is limiting entry to the already rich. As Jolly also told the Times, if you want to live in the best country on earth, come to Canada. The question is whether America is now pricing out the next generation of innovators. Okay, what's the real message here? Canada Pretty smart. They see a real opportunity. They're seeing Americans push out their best and brightest, roll up the welcome mat, no longer letting in striving, really smart, aggressive, well educated young people who are at the beginning of their career, Canada saying, we want them. United States is saying, if you're old and you've already hit a jackpot and you're ready to just sit around the pool, come to us. This is not a good thing for America's long term intellectual infrastructure. Let's dig a little deeper here. Now, I am not against letting some people in who can pay a million dollar fee. I think every country should have the right to decide, you know, various criteria of who they want in. And, and the United States already lets more people in to its country every year than all other countries combined. At least we did until the last year or so. So the United States has already historically been generous there, but it's obviously changing. So here's the real problem. America is successful in part. Yes, we have a great landmass. Yes, we have good ports. Yes, we're blessed to not have enemies to the north or south invading us all the time. Unfortunately, most countries around the world do. But we've also benefited extraordinarily from the fact that we attracted the best and the brightest from all over the world regularly. Now, let me remind you some of the people who came to the United States in the past who would not have been able to pay a million dollars. They wouldn't be eligible if they were trying to get in today. Sergey Brin, okay, he immigrated as a child from the Soviet Union. Do we really want to say, gosh, Sergey, you don't have a million dollars. Go create Google for Putin. Would that have been a good thing? I don't think so. Elon Musk. Now, I have a beef or two with Elon Musk, as I'm sure some of you do as well. But he wasn't fabulously wealthy when he came here as a student many decades ago. Andrew Carnegie, he came penniless from Scotland. So you don't want U.S. steel, okay? Jerry Gang came from Yahoo, arrived from Taiwan, not even speaking English. So again, here's the problem with saying you got to pay a million dollars to get in. You're getting people who've already won the lottery. What incentive do they have to work hard? Elon Musk came here, he was really hungry. Sergey Brin came here, he was hungry. Else. Andy Grove, founder of Intel, I'm sure you've heard of him. Fled Hungary with limited resources. Ariana Huffington struck it big with the Huffington Post. She didn't Come here rich when she came to the United States, the founder of ebay, child of immigrants, not a millionaire when he came in. Patrick and John Collison Founder Stripe they were students, not wealthy investors. We want, sure, we want rich people to come here and spend money, spend money on restaurants and services. Yeah, nothing wrong with that. But when it's crowding out hungry, ambitious, smart people making it difficult for them, that's a real problem. Now you can say, well tj, these people can just get sponsored. Google can sponsor them, Amazon can spot. Yeah, they could. The problem is many of the most ambitious young people in the world don't want to go work for some big company that's already figured out. They have their own, own dreams, their own plans, their own vision, and they're willing to eat the ramen noodles to make it happen. Those people are now going to do it in Canada. I hate to tell you, I've seen this firsthand. Some of you've heard me mention I, I had a student of mine, a free intern, then a paid intern, then an employee of mine from Afghanistan, someone I've now had a relationship with for a decade as a mentor and as someone who's had a working relationship. I sponsored him to come to the United States. He did gain entry to the United States. He left not because he was thrown into prison the way they did in Pakistan. To him, he left because Canada welcomed him with open arms. He's smart, he's ambitious, he's hard working, he creates online courses, software programs, and he left for Canada. So this is a huge, huge problem. America is a rich country. Depending on the metrics, it's no longer really has the largest economy if you really look at gross national product, because China has so many more people. But by many metrics, the United States is still the wealthiest country in the world. Well, why is that? Yes, we have the biggest tech companies in the world. All the big tech companies are, almost all of them. They're based here. They're not coming out of France or Germany. Sorry. So we have big tech companies, we have great universities, at least for a little while longer. We have wealth. We have the dollar. The US dollar is still a reserve currency. So all of these things are assets the United States has. But it also has intellectual power, it has human resources, capital that other countries don't have because they don't let other people come in. By and large, they're much, much more restrictive. And now we're seeing this tossed away and it's not going to hurt us in the next six Months or maybe even a year. But ask yourself, look at your 401ks right now and ask yourself, how would it look if we could go back 20 years or 25 years and no Google in it, no Microsoft in it, no. No Amazon in it? How would your 401k look? I can tell you it would be down way way. We would see mediocre growth at best. You wouldn't be seeing 9, 10% a year growth in your stock portfolio for the last generation. You'd see things probably flat or maybe 1, 2, 3% if we had decided not to let aggressive, hungry and frankly poor immigrants into this country who wanted opportunity and were willing to work hard. So again, the problem is, if you got an extra million dollars in cash sitting around, okay, maybe you could still be an active or a productive real estate developer or something. But in my experience, when people have a million dollars to buy a ticket in somewhere, a nightclub, a golf club, any kind of club, and let's face it, the United States is an exclusive club these days. It means you probably have about $10 million total net worth. And it's very, very rare to see someone worth $10 million who's willing to work seven days a week, 20 hours a day to create the next big thing. And that is the problem with this Trump golden ticket. It's, it's really limiting us to people who've already made it. What makes America great, what makes, what makes our economy so thriving, is we provide an opportunity for the most aggressive, intelligent, hardworking, ambitious people in the world to make it here. And our new policies are essentially saying, no, sorry, go be aggressive. Go do your startup in another country. We'll get you on the tail end when you're spending a lot more time thinking about how to decorate your third home rather than how to create a company that could employ thousands or hundreds of thousands of people. Okay, coming up in just a moment, we'll be talking about other things the United States is doing to chase people away. Namely, make it really, really uncomfortable for tourists to come in America. That in just a moment filtered is brought to you by the following. Want to advertise here? You better be legit. No crypto, no junk food, no supplements. Go to tjwalker.com advertise. Want to become a better speaker, leader or communicator? Start with the TJ Walker Success Library. It's five of my most practical books covering everything from public speaking, speaking to meeting, interviews, and persuasive messaging, all for only $9.95. I've trained presidents and Fortune 500 CEOs. 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Policies that deter visitors could hit states like Florida, where I'm based, where Disney World and a lot of a lot of Trump supporters are based there. It's where Disney World alone anchors a tourism sector worth more than $100 billion a year, according to some estimates. As immigration attorney Bo Cooper warned, the new method involves looking at online speech and then denying travel based on discretion and policy. Another expert added that the system has chilled free speech and invaded the privacy of innocent travelers. Okay, what's the real message here? This administration proposal to look at visitors coming to our country, to look at their social media feeds for the last five years to say if they said anything you don't like? That's the dumbest idea ever. Why not just say America is closed for all tourism, Come back in three years. Let's dig a little deeper here. Now this is getting out. I can tell you. I was on a tour. I'm currently on assignment and on vacation in Vietnam. I was on a tour, a tour group yesterday and talking to a couple from Great Britain. They love to travel. They travel all over the world. They were talking about this. They're like, wow, that sounds crazy. And these did not seem like radicals to me. One gentleman ran a restaurant. His wife worked as an executive at a pharmaceutical company. These were not people, a part of some radical political regime changing faction. These were mainstream, successful capitalists in Europe who have a lot of spending money, discretionary money to go on vacations. And I can tell you right now, they are disinclined to come to the United States. The idea of someone going through every single social media post and and what's going to be the criteria to get you banned? You made fun of dear Leader. So now you can't come to the United states and spend 10, 20, maybe $30,000 on a luxury vacation for you and your family. It's odd. Now, it is true that if you're in another country, you don't have First Amendment rights, but it really sends a chilling message to people and a very contradictory message, though. We're the, we're the land of the free freedom of speech. Government should not have overreach telling people what to say and what to think and then say, oh, but you said something. We don't like criticizing someone. So we're not going to let you in to the United States to go to Disney World or go to Disneyland or go to see the Dallas Cowboys football team. I'm trying not to say New York City because some people might say, yeah, we don't want to support those liberals in New York City or California. So I'm mixing it up here, folks, because there's a lot of oxes, oxen, I should say, to be gored if this actually becomes reality, telling foreigners they can't come and spend money in the United States. Now the. Let's look at some more of the facts here. The proposal, and I should say it's just a proposal, would require 10 years of emails. First of all, how do you even gather up 10 years of email? I look at the email I've received and sent the last 10 days. Who wants to go through that? And who wants anyone reading every email you've sent? I know I don't. Now, we've seen people have their entire careers destroyed because of emails. And a lot of people I know are thinking, wow, that could be me. If someone saw every email. Now, I, I don't think there's any email I have that would make a foreign government. Well, with a few authoritarian exceptions because they don't like any criticism. I don't think I have any email that would make any serious country that cares about individual light rights think I would be a danger to come in. But I could tell you there are plenty of emails I've sent that I wouldn't want any human being, certainly a government official who doesn't know me, reading. What do you think? Would you really want anyone reading every email you've sent in the last 10 years? That sounds bizarre. Now there's also something called a $250 visa integrity fee. Sounds like a bribe to me. Anytime you want to get a bribe and you're Slapping on a label like integrity sounds pretty bizarre to me. Okay. According to Sophia Cope at the Electronics Frontier foundation, quote, it has not been proven at finding terrorists and other bad guys, but it has chilled the free speech and invaded the privacy of innocent travelers along with that of their American family, friends and colleagues. I guess she's referencing where this has happened in other places. A few other stats to keep in mind. As I mentioned, according to some estimates, U.S. tourism generates as much as $200 billion in money to this country. And if you're going to increase screenings, a couple of things. A, presumably they're going to keep some people from coming in. We don't get their money anymore. B, some people are going to say, I don't even want to bother with this. These people sound like extremists. They talk about land of the free. This sounds like land of the totalitarians. So it's going to have a big, big negative impact. Long approval delays may push travelers toward Europe or Canada. Guess what? Canada is a great place. I love it there. Even though I'll have to tell you another time. I was deported from Canada once, but we don't have time for that. Canada is a fantastic country. And Europe. Anyone who talks about how awful Europe is, I can tell you, has never been to Europe. Does the United States want to emulate every aspect of Europe and their. Their economic growth rate or their tax rates? Not necessarily. It's a great place to visit. Absolutely. Now, some other facts coming in. This could increase political friction with US Allies like France and Germany. It adds a lot of uncertainty to major events like the World cup and the entire travel industry. As if they didn't have enough trouble. I mean, some of them are just now recovering from all the losses they suffered during COVID and now they got to think about discouraging millions of visitors. This sounds like an absolutely horrific idea. I wish I could say it's an aberration coming out of Washington D.C. but you and I know that's not the case. TJ I'm TJ Walker. This is filters. This is your show where we look at the top, typically five stories of the day, and then we filter them through the lens of communication skills, personal development skills, and frankly, common sense. Together, you and I are trying to make sense of the world, try to figure out what's really going on. What do we need to know? What are the messages we're being told by people in authority and companies and brands? And what's the real message underneath it all? That's what this show is about. If you find it useful, please leave a comment. Subscribe Follow if you're new listening on the podcast. 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Okay, When AI Talks Politics, who can you trust? The Washington Post has rolled out personalized AI generated podcast, but the launch has been rocky. Semaphore reports that the bots have mispronounced names. Now confession. I've done that occasionally, so I guess if human beings can do it, AI bots can do it as well. They've misattributed quotes and even invented lines, prompting alarm inside the newsroom. The Washington Post head of standards called the errors quote frustrating for all of us. While one editor wrote that the product deliberately warps its own journalism at scale, at the same time, AI is fueling sharper partisan warfare. After the White House used SZA's big boys over an ice cuffing session video, California Governor Gavin Newsom answered with his own AI generated clip showing Donald Trump, Pete Hegseth, and Stephen Miller in handcuffs. You've got to look at I'm not going to show it here for a variety of reasons, but look at it. It is disturbing at some level. Some of you may find it wildly amusing, some of you may find it troubling, some of you may find it both. But it is a sign of times to come together. The episodes show newsrooms and politicians racing to weaponize synthetic audio and video while accuracy, consent and trust struggle to keep up. Okay, so this relates to one of our stories earlier today about Disney giving away all of its characters to OpenAI. We are seeing company after company, big, medium and small. I guess I'm included, giving their content to the AI powers that be, creating content, hoping to cash in or at least not become completely irrelevant. Now, the Washington Post has a lot of very articulate, intelligent people who do podcasts. Washington Post even has its own fast TV network. So they're used to creating video and audio. They have their own podcast. They want more. And I have to think, while I've not talked to their publisher, they're thinking, we got to prepare for a day when all of a sudden other people are putting out 10 million AI podcast a second. We're going to get lost. We're going to drown in that. See if we're not also creating a lot. The problem is sometimes the content messes up. Now, confession. I know this firsthand. I have my own AI generated video audio clone. Sometimes it gives information that's not correct. Now I correct it. If I'm alerted to that, I can go in and say, don't ever say that again. I can correct it, but sometimes it's made mistakes. I apologize. I let you. I do let you know it's a possibility. Now, what you're watching right now and what you're listening to right now is coming from a real person. I'm TJ Walker. This is real. We're doing it live on tick tock, YouTube, Facebook, every other social media platform. But confession time. I do use artificial intelligence to write the typically the first 120 words of a segment of a new segment. I am feeding it a story from a reputable news source like the Wall Street Journal OR Reuters, asking ChatGPT to rewrite it, condense it, give attribution to the source, and then I use that to summarize the story to start off the conversation. And I read typically from a teleprompter. I don't have one today because I'm on the road, but it is occasionally messed things up. It is referred to President Trump as former President Trump. Well, he's not former President Trump at the moment. I realize a lot of people are looking forward to him gaining that title again, but it's factually incorrect and I've caught it before it came out of my mouth. So I try to correct things. But we are living in a time when more and more big companies and individuals are using the power of AI to create content. And the real danger, of course, I mean the biggest example of danger is a leader of a superpower seen in a video, in a way that looks like it's completely new and real coming from the White House or from the Kremlin saying, we begin bombing an enemy and everyone thinks it's real. And then that country said, well, time for mutually assured destruction. Their leader is saying, they're bombing us. We have no choice, we have to bomb it. And it was all AI generated. Now, you could say maybe there are intelligence forces within governments that are powerful enough to have nukes to check on that, but it certainly could cause riots, it could cause hysteria, it could cause lynch mobs to really attack people. Now, as much as I find Governor Gavin Newsom entertaining, interesting and articulate and deserving the position right now to be seen as if not the leader of the Democratic Party, sort of certainly one of the top tier candidates for 2028, and certainly someone who deserves the title of a leader of the Democratic Party. I am a little bit troubled by the use of AI video showing current political leaders in power doing things that they're not doing now. He's showing President Trump, War Secretary Pete Hegseth, Stephen Miller, handcuffed, sitting in the street, sitting on a curb, being taken away to jail, presumably in the back of a car. And obviously this hasn't happened. I don't think it's going to fool that many people. And depending upon your politics, it's wildly amusing. My concern is for other political campaigns where the candidates are not as well known. Let's say it's a highly contested congressional race, and let's face it, in most congressional districts in America, people don't even know anyone running for Congress. They don't even know what they look like. So if it's a close race and at the last minute, let's say I'm running against you and you're a great person, honest, ethical, and we're completely tied in, in the polls. And I'm panicking because I don't want to lose. And I just show you a video of you beating and lighting your next door neighbor's dog on fire. And I just use AI video to do it. And I'm sending this out the night before the election. Look what the, you know, candidate Smithers has done. Vote for TJ he loves dogs and he'll take care of your dogs. That could change votes. People would be so outraged again if they don't know if they've never heard of you before. They don't know me. They don't know you. And they see this video of you and it looks just like you, a real person. And I perhaps put a Nice news label. So it seems like the most reputable news organization in your town. Showing could change a lot of votes. It could change minds. And in close elections you don't have to change that many votes to change the entire outcome. So this is why I think we may need some regulation. Regulation doesn't solve every problem. It cannot get rid of every piece of unethical activity in the world. But this gets down to the fundamental pipes, if you want to think of it that way, of democracy. If people don't really know what's going on with candidates, with their positions, their statements, their facts, their accomplishments, their bag, if they don't really know what's real, then the entire premise of democracy and voters making informed decisions is out the window. That's the real problem here. Let's look at a few more facts here going on with this, with this issue. Regulatory and industry standards for AI use in journalism and politics remain thin. There's no doubt about it. It's going to have to, there's going to have to be some regulation, at least at the higher levels because otherwise our, the fabric of our society could just be ripped apart. Now we've already seen in other countries sometimes it's not even AI stuff, it's just people posting. Hey, people of this religion are killing somebody of our religion and here's where they live. Boom. They are attacked and in some cases death. It's happened because of situations on Facebook and other social media. The AI generated video could in fact make it much, much worse. I'll be keeping my eye on it. What do you think you can post your comments? I do typically respond to comments questions within about 48 hours of posting. And I'm a little bit behind this week because I've been doing a lot of international travel. But please, if you hear anything you like, hear anything you don't like, hear anything you want to disagree with, post your comments right now on the show. 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The reason I'm here and my main background is in helping people all over the globe improve communication skills and personal development skills. I have 12 million student enrollments for my online course. So we end the show each day by taking questions from you, my students, on something that doesn't relate to the news. Sometimes I get sick of the news. I'm sure you can get sick of the news. Let's step away from it and focus on something that can make us be more successful. So if you are shaping the news or you're just quietly doing your own work in your own community, you'll have more skills. So this question comes from Praship, who is a student in my course, the Complete Job Interviewing Skills Masterclass course. The question is what new interviewing strategies in the updated course can help candidates stand out in today's competitive job market? Well, presupp, if you're in a job interview, the number one thing I can think of is be relevant to today. It means don't just use AI to find out what's new with the company or if they're in the news, what they've done. You should be doing that, obviously. Maybe come to the table with suggestions on how you can help that company using AI. Now, they may have already thought of it. They may think it's a bad idea. But for example, if I were hiring a new trainer for Media Training Worldwide, my corporation, and someone came to me and said, hey, here's what I liked about what you did and here's what I like about your books and all the things that maybe other applicants said. But they then said, okay. And I asked ChatGPT what would be 10 great ways of marketing myself if I worked as a trainer for Media Training Worldwide and came up with this idea? This idea, this idea. And the two I'm most excited about are, and you were in the job interview talking to me like that, you'd get my attention because you'd be showing that you care about me and my business. You'd be showing that you're not just giving lip service to AI, but you're used to using it, flying it, and you're trying to think about what are the Best ideas AI has to help my own bottom line. That's something I think anyone can do these days. Is there a chance someone might think you're presumptuous or the ideas are bad? Yeah. But I would remind you, praship, your number one danger, number one mistake everyone makes in a job interview. The most common mistake is not being memorable at all. The person interviewing you interviewed nine other people in the last two days. Now the weekend has come, they've got to give an assessment to their boss about who to hire, who should be the top three applicants, and they don't remember the thing you said. So I'm willing to take that risk and I think you should be as well. So that's my big advice to you is think about how you can come to the table in a job interview where you're actively giving ideas to the person interviewing you about how you can do a job for them better, how you can help the organization. And if there's some new wrinkle using AI or any other tool, let them know you're thinking about how to use every tool available in a cutting edge way without larding up your speech with cliches like cutting edge. And let them know you want to use every tool possible to advance their organization. Do that and I think you'll stand out. Preshup. I wish you good luck with your next job interview and thanks so much for the question. So I'm TJ Walker. Thanks for joining me today. I appreciate you spending time with me. If you are One of my TikTok friends, you saw this live and everyone else did as well. So I appreciate you doing that. And if you are watching this on demand, well, we had some big mistakes today. I had no microphone, so all people saw was my mouth moving. Probably not riveting teeth. Probably didn't beat Joe Rogan or a Mr. Beast today when there was no audio. But that's a part of what makes doing live tv, live radio, live podcasting exciting is you can't necessarily control all the variables. What you can do if you do it repeatedly is build a comfort level, build a confidence level, and build a track record over time so that people know in general you're doing your best and delivering quality content for them. Thanks so much. See you tomorrow. Welcome to Filtered. Disney is opening its vault.