So, where's your X account from?
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17 segmentsWhat's going on, everyone? It's Bluff here, and we're driving through the States in the BluffMobile, and the best thing that we can do is play our favorite casino-style games on SpinQuest. They have over a thousand games, including Live Dealer Blackjack and Crops, with tons of slots and unlimited options. You can get a $30 coin pack for just $10 for new users. Sign up today. Go to SpinQuest.com right now. SpinQuest is a free-to-play social casino. Avoid where prohibited. Visitspinquest.com for more details. All right, let's spend a couple of minutes on the Legacy Retirement Group.com phone line with Mike Dubusky, ABC News Technology Reporter. We call it Tech Tuesday with Mike. So President Trump signed an executive order yesterday promoting the use of AI. How far does this go? What is he trying to do here? Yeah, so this is a new program called a Genesis mission that the president signed yesterday. That's the branding they have for it. And it is a program that ostensibly encourages the use of artificial intelligence within scientific research. They're trying to bring together tech companies like OpenAI, but the academic world as well that works on these sort of very complicated projects, projects where the use of generative artificial intelligence could potentially play a major role. As part of this, the Department of Energy is actually developing their own AI platform that uses federal scientific data to train AI models, and that's something that scientific researchers can go to as a resource, they say. So it's part of the Trump administration's larger effort to encourage the use of artificial intelligence, now touching the academic sector. But, guys, the larger news on the Trump administration's AI efforts could come potentially before the end of the week. There's been rumors that the president will find a new executive order that would put a halt to AI legislation at the state level. We've seen a number of AI state laws crop up in the last few years as states try to grapple with this very influential and potentially dangerous technology. Now the Trump administration reportedly wants to stop that from happening, but in favor of creating a more cohesive federal legislation governing the use of artificial intelligence. This would discourage... states from passing their own state-level AI laws and again create this sort of federal framework for these AI companies to work from. This is something that we've heard from tech companies like OpenAI and Google and others, but they want something that we've seen from the Trump administration's AI action plan in the past that was shown earlier this year. However, the tractors to all this say that this essentially amounts to a free ride. for tech companies gives them far too much leeway to make and develop this very influential technology. But again, we'll have to wait and see what the president does here. The rumor is that this could be signed before the end of the week. I'm generally in favor of limiting, you know, federal overreach and federal regulations on things like this and leaving it up to individual states, generally speaking, Mike. But in this case... I kind of get it because we don't really know what we've got yet. I think with AI, we know what the potential is for it. And if there's a bunch of different laws and a bunch of different states, well, this is okay in Ohio, but it's not okay in Indiana or, you know, Pennsylvania, that could really pose some problems legally.
Yeah, certainly. And again, that's what we hear from the tech companies, is that, you know, we are in a race to develop the best artificial intelligence in the world. Specifically, we're in a race with China. And having to negotiate a patchwork of laws across the country, some of which may be contradictory, really impedes that progress. And we've seen a number of laws crop up in the last few years, guys. California, Colorado, Utah, and Texas. have all paths sweeping AI legislation aimed at limiting the collection of personal data from AI companies, forcing AI companies to be more transparent with the data they collect. Beyond that, there are also regulations at the state level around using AI to do things like generate deep fakes of political figures and generate non-consensual pornography. So some really substantive efforts at the state level of the state level. But again, nothing passed by Congress at the federal level. Even still, Florida Governor Ronda Sant has called this move, this potential move by the president's federal government overreach that would stop state's ability to protect against predatory applications that target children. Democratic Senator Ed Markey says the move amounts to President Trump siding with his billionaire buddies in Silicon Valley. So there is bipartisan pushback to this. And there is some evidence to suggest that the Trump administration might be backing away. from this executive order, Reuters reported a few days ago that they're reconsidering the timing of this, but haven't gone further than that. So we're just going to have to wait and see. It could be a very interesting week. It is interesting, and I think you could probably take into consideration some of the individual state's concerns. And keep those protections in place, like Ron DeSantis outlined in the federal laws and the federal rules there. So, yeah, very interesting. Speaking with Mike Duboskey from ABC on technology, X made some changes to its account location settings. So when you log in, it kind of knows where you're logging in from. What are the changes? Yeah, not only do you know where, or does X know where you're logging in from, so does everybody else. This was the major change to their location policy over the last few days, and it sparked a lot of controversy. You can now go to any account that you follow, any account on the platform, and find out where they're posting from. The company says that this was an effort to be more transparent about their accounts and you have more insight into kind of who you're following on this platform. made use of that and found that the accounts that they were following did not, you know, posts from the places they were expecting, specifically political accounts, guys. These are accounts that post regularly about American politics. They are, you know, sided with both sides in many cases, but they are found to have been posting from places like Nigeria and Southeast Asia. For example, there's one account called, you know, 200,000 had 200,000 followers last week. It was called American Voice. This update rolled out and followers found it was being run from somewhere in South Asia. Now the account has been deleted. There is an account with more than a million followers that posted about President Trump's daughter, Ivanka Trump, sort of a news account in that case. And according to this feature, it's based in Nigeria. So, again, it really underscores, guys, just how many foreign accounts, you know, do post on this platform. And just how confusing it can be to rely on those accounts to get your news because they often don't come from sources that you would expect them.
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