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Hey, everybody.
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Welcome back to High Level Listening.
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Today's lesson is for those of you who are ready to move beyond everyday small talk and start having more real,
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modern, and slightly deeper conversations in English,
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especially if you're in the B1 level and you really want to push through and achieve that B2.
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Yeah, that's exactly what we're working on today.
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This is a B2 level conversation,
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which means you'll hear more nuanced opinions,
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more specific vocabulary, and maybe some ideas that are a bit more complex or abstract.
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But this will still be a natural conversation.
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And we think this is a great way to pick up new words
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and phrases about topical issues with subtitles and captions to help you,
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plus the chance to pause,
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rewind and listen again so you don't get lost.
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We also have all of our B2 level conversation study guides
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that will help you stretch from small talk to deeper topics
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in our conversational English study guide in the link in the description below.
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That has PDF transcripts, dictionaries,
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and so you can really feel confident in today's lesson.
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Yes, so today's topic is something that everyone is talking about right now.
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It's AI, artificial intelligence.
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And we'll also cover AI-generated content.
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Yeah, it's funny, kind of over the past couple of years,
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I think there's been a lot of confusion in kind of the generic name AI.
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And there's definitely been a shift in the way that most people use the word in day-to-day language.
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It's starting to be more of an umbrella term
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or kind of a catch-all phrase for all sorts of words and technology that we've used in the past,
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even if those things aren't actually AI.
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Words like CGI and computer animation,
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you know, kind of like the computer graphics.
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Some styles of cartoons, drawings and styles are also being called AI,
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even if a real person manually or physically created them.
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Yes, I know what you mean.
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It's taking over the phrase.
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When we looked at a photo that had been changed or manipulated,
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we used to say, oh,
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it's Photoshopped or someone Photoshopped this.
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But nowadays, I think people say, oh, it's AI.
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Oh, that's just AI.
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It's fake.
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yeah and another example is chatbots
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if you need help from your bank your phone company
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and you need to talk to someone you probably won't chat to a real person you'll chat to AI
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or to say oh they've replaced the customer service team with AI oh I talked to the AI
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and it didn't help me so it's replacing everything I know it's kind of weird it's
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so the the term AI just kind of has lots of different meanings now.
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Even anything that's fake on the internet,
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fake news, disinformation, misinformation, people are in general,
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they're just calling it AI or my new favorite phrase from the past couple of years, AI slop.
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And you might have seen this as a comment.
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Is this real or is this more AI slop?
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Yeah, slop is that low quality,
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obviously AI slop videos, pictures.
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So yeah, there's obviously a lot of negativity around AI.
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And we'll dive deeper into that topic and talk about AI-generated content or the slop.
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And yeah, we've structured today.
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So we'll start with sharing real experiences.
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And then we'll talk about if we agree or disagree with opinions we've heard with a little debate.
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And then share some deeper insights with articles that we've read.
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And by the end, hopefully you'll feel a bit more confident discussing this topic naturally using B2 level English.
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Okay, so we're going to start by sharing some of our own opinions.
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We were talking about this with a couple of friends the other day,
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and one of them made a really interesting point that kind of stuck with me.
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She said that it's getting harder to tell what's real anymore.
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It's getting harder to tell what's real anymore.
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and that really succinctly captured something I think a lot of people are starting to notice.
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She explained a little bit more that when she scrolls online now,
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everything feels slightly off, like it's been polished and optimized,
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but not genuinely thought through or the details are a little off.
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It's not obviously bad, like maybe the very first look,
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but it doesn't really feel fully authentic either.
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She kind of went on to say that she'll read a post
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or watch a video that sounds and looks really convincing at first,
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but then it kind of falls apart the more you think about it or the more you look at it.
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The ideas are there again,
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the big picture is there.
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The structure is there, but there's no real depth behind it.
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And it's something kind of creepy,
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a little bit weird, maybe even awkward.
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And nothing really makes it memorable or worth coming back to.
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It's just there.
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It just exists.
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It feels generic, kind of repetitive and kind of hollow in a way, really empty.
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Like it's been generated for the sole purpose to imitate rather than actually provide information or education.
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I think she kind of described it as a constant stream of content that looks good on the surface,
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but really lacks substance underneath.
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Yes, there is a name,
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I remember, for that feeling when you watch something that's robotic or fake or digital,
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and that strange feeling you get,
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it's called the uncanny valley.
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Oh, that's what that means real okay yeah
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but you know it's not something's wrong something's missing like
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when they make it I don't know what it is I can't pinpoint it exactly okay uncanny uncanny valley yeah
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that feeling but yeah uh if we're talking about pictures and
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and images uh videos especially they're not perfect
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but they're already convincing enough to trick a lot of people including my mom and the older generation.
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My mum sends me videos with lots of laughing emojis,
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and the videos she sends me are blatantly AI.
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There's artifacts in the videos.
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Artifacts are those like glitches where somebody's got six fingers on one hand,
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and she sent me one of all these cats in someone's bed,
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and there's a cat with two heads,
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and there's a cat that's extremely large compared to the other ones,
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I think you sent it to me and she's petting it the wrong way as well.
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Yeah, right.
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So there's all these giveaways or these little artifacts or glitches.
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But to the untrained eye or just at a glance, it's real enough.
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And when people are scrolling on their phones,
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they just look for a few seconds anyway.
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And yeah, it's only when you look closer that you start to see the weird glitches.
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And that's fine when it's just an innocent, silly video.
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but I think with older people it's only going to get worse.
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It worries me about my mum because if that fools her and it's quite rudimentary now,
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as AI gets more and more sophisticated,
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more lifelike and more believable,
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she will have no idea if what she's seeing is real or not.
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And even I'm starting to struggle with some things as well.
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Even with the news.
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I remember there was some news in Mexico recently of an airport on fire.
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That was fake.
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It wasn't a real video,
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but enough people believed it for it to circulate through news channels and caused panic.
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And it's only going to get worse as AI evolves and gets even better.
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So yeah, I like to think of myself as someone who can spot AI pretty easily.
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But even for me, I'm starting to doubt myself and it's starting to get harder.
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So yeah, I agree.
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It's getting harder to tell what's real anymore.
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So our second point that we kind of wanted to make was that people are overreacting.
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AI is just a tool.
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So it just really depends on how it's being used.
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Yeah.
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So again, we were talking about this with our friend and he had a slightly different perspective.
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It's worth mentioning that this comes up quite a lot in these discussions.
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He basically argued that people are overreacting and it's just a tool.
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It is something to assist you and help you.
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If people are using it to produce low quality content,
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then it's not really the fault of the technology,
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but it's the person using it.
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And he said that it can also be quite helpful in certain contexts,
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like you can use AI to summarize information,
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to improve clarity if you're writing something,
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or help you organize your thoughts if you're trying to plan something,
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which I think is a fair point.
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I do have a friend who works as a software developer and he uses AI as well,
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but he embraces it as a tool.
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It helps him code faster,
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but he still has to supervise it because the AI still makes mistakes.
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So he's kind of got the best of both worlds.
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He's got the speed of the AI and he's got his own expertise.
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And importantly, it hasn't made him obsolete.
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He hasn't lost his job because AI has taken it from him.
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His knowledge is still critical.
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I kind of see that,
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but at the same time,
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that's really mostly talking about the ones that are language models, right?
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Like ChatGPT and Claude, right?
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These are language models.
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They're helping you interpret data,
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summarize things, and help you speak more succinctly.
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Okay, but it does feel like it oversimplifies what's actually happening
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because the issue isn't just out the occasional user using ChatGPT for fun
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or to summarize an email or a small business owner creating a post
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or a social media post or something that benefits their small business.
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What's really changed is the sheer volume and the speed at which this content is now being produced.
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Nobody's fact checking.
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Nobody's looking back to make sure that things are correct.
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And a lot of it isn't really created to help the small business owner or help somebody in their job.
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It's just meant to capture your attention.
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It's clickbait, right?
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So like, for instance, especially like in our job,
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if you search something like B2 Level English on the YouTube search,
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and you get search results that are pretty much 90 to 95% AI generated content with faceless videos,
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AI generated pictures, and then on top of that,
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AI generated voiceovers with zero real people involved.
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And is that what people really want?
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I mean, maybe a couple of those videos were popular at the beginning,
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but do some people even realize that these people aren't real at all?
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A lot of them are realistic photos.
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Even the voiceover sounds okay.
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And I bet if you're a non-native speaker,
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you would hear it and think,
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oh, maybe that's a real person.
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But they're not.
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I probably wouldn't notice if I wasn't currently aware of how much these videos are taking over the internet.
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yeah i agree i think
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that is a great example of the slop as well slop isn't just low quality
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but it's an incredible volume
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and a huge amount of videos like there are channels posting 10 videos every day
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because you can just generate slop like it's just coming out of a pipe
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and yeah i agree i I don't like it
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when AI content is given the same platform as real people doing real work that's completely authentic.
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So yeah, I guess you can try and control what you consume.
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But how much responsibility can I have when I swipe to another video?
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I have no idea if it's going to be real or AI.
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I can't choose what goes on my feed.
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So I don't like that.
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Yeah, a lot of big platforms of prioritizing AI equal to real creators.
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Okay, so to dig a little bit deeper,
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we're going to bring in some articles and things that we've read.
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This finally leads us into what was probably the most interesting point that someone brought up,
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which is that it isn't just about content quality, okay?
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It's not just about these little pictures and personal usage, right?
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It's about how it's starting to affect the way that we think.
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One of our more tech-savvy friends mentioned that when you're constantly exposed to this fast,
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simplified, and slightly superficial content,
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your expectations start to shift.
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You start to lose your tolerance for anything that requires deeper focus
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or sustained attention because your brain becomes used to these quick,
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easily digestible, easily creatable information, right?
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It felt like a subtle change at first,
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but I think it really has a huge impact over time.
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Now, I can say that I've definitely noticed that in myself personally,
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especially when I try to read something more detailed or complex.
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There's kind of this impulse to skim it,
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just kind of skip ahead or just move on entirely,
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just swipe through entirely.
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Or worse, just use ChatGPT to summarize the information.
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Almost every email platform has its own AI that will summarize information for you.
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Now, I recently read this article in Time Magazine where they were reviewing a study done by MIT.
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And basically what happened is they took a group of people ages 18 to 40
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and split them into three groups to write a very formal style SAT exam.
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That's kind of our high school exam that goes into college.
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One group used ChatGPT, one used Google search,
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and one used nothing at all.
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And MIT researchers found, and I quote,
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that of the three groups,
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ChatGPT users had the lowest brain engagement and,
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get this, consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels.
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They went on to say that over the course of several months,
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ChatGPT users got lazier with each subsequent essay,
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often resorting to copy and paste by the end of the study.
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Ouch.
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And in just a few months, right?
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I mean, ChatGPT, we've been using that for a couple of years now.
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Imagine what it's doing to students who are even younger than us.
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I mean, I'm already getting a little lazy.
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Imagine what it's doing to students and people with no work ethic at all.
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Yeah, clearly people starting to use it as a crutch,
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something they can rely on.
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Why do all the thinking when the AI can think for me. For me.
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Yeah, right.
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And I guess our brains are always looking for the laziest,
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most efficient route to do things.
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We call it efficiency, don't we?
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Right.
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Yeah.
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That's what I call it.
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I call it efficiency, but maybe it's being lazy.
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Right.
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Yeah.
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It is slightly concerning to think if you're at school and you need to be developing your critical thinking skills,
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you need to engage with your own thoughts,
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not be spoon fed things.
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But yeah, I can criticize it all I like,
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but it's already affecting me.
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I'm becoming more impatient in terms of doing research.
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Sometimes I'll search for something in Google and if I don't get the answer immediately from Gemini,
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ChatGPT, I'm like, oh, now I have to sift through lots of different links on Google.
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It feels like such a chore to go out and do my own research.
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So my tolerance for this deeper focus and sustained focus has definitely been lowered.
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I know I can just ask ChatGPT or Gemini,
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get an answer instantly, even if it's not perfect.
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And then what's worse is that I've noticed that even the prompts that I write,
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the sort of questions I ask ChatGPT,
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those are getting simpler and lazier as well.
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I remember when I first tried ChatGPT,
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I would really like hold its hand and say,
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alter the image so that the people are more realistic with wrinkles
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and textures on their clothes but after using it for
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so long and realizing how capable it is I just say make it more real
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and it just does it so it's even affecting the way I talk to the AI is getting lazier because
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sometimes I don't even correct spelling mistakes and it still gets what I mean which is as impressive as it is terrifying.
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I think the other thing that's affecting the way I think is also affecting my vocabulary.
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There are definitely words that I keep seeing from AI
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and now I think they're starting to enter the lexicon generally as well.
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So the word game changer comes up all the time now
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because AI seems to use it a lot and I think people read it and then they start using it as well.
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So I start seeing and reading it in articles.
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And it makes me doubt whether it's written by a real person or whether it's AI.
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Delve is another word that I didn't hear that often.
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Then AI came out.
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And then suddenly I see delve and dive into topics.
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I see it in articles and in posts everywhere.
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So it's even affecting the way we communicate,
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or at least the way I do.
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It's crazy.
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Is AI affecting us or are we affecting AI?
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I guess that's the big question now at the end of the day.
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So there you have it.
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There are definitely a lot of different perspectives on this and
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that it's exactly what makes it such a good topic for our B2 conversation at this level.
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Yeah, let us know what you think in the comments.
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You don't need to express yourself perfectly,
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but just try sharing your own experiences with AI or tell us
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if you feel the same way as we do or
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if you agree with any of the opinions you had in this video.
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Yeah, and if you're tired of all the AI slop,
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thank you for listening and studying with us here today.
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We are absolutely real people.
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Look, we have all 10 fingers.
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AI can't do this.
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AI can't do this, no. So we'll see you very soon for another episode here on High Level Listening.
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Bye-bye.
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Thank you.
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背景與上下文
在今天的課程中，我們的目標是幫助那些想要突破日常閒聊，開始進行更真實、現代和稍微深入的英語對話的學習者。對於B1水平的學習者來說，這是一個理想的機會，尤其是當你渴望達到B2水平時。今天的討論主題是人工智慧（AI）及其生成的內容，這是當下每個人都在談論的話題。在這場對話中，你將接觸到更多細緻入微的觀點和更特定的詞彙，使你的英語表達更加流利和自信。
日常交流中的五個短語
- 人工智慧 - AI（Artificial Intelligence）是一個涵蓋廣泛技術的術語。
- 換句話說 - 在對話中，這個短語可以幫助你表達相同的觀點，用不同的方式說。
- 照片編輯 - 用於描述經過編輯或處理的照片，通常以“Photoshop”來表示。
- 客服聊天機器人 - 描述在需要幫助時，通常與其溝通的AI系統。
- 虛假資訊 - 通常用來形容不準確或誤導的資訊，在當今網路上頻繁出現。
逐步跟讀指南
為了提升你的英語發音和對話能力，我們可以使用shadowspeak技巧來幫助你學習。從這個影片中，你可以按照以下步驟進行：
- 觀看影片 - 在觀看時，專注聽每個短語和表達的發音。
- 暫停和重放 - 在遇到覺得難以理解的部分時，可以暫停或重放，你可以在shadow speech中重複這些內容。
- 模仿發音 - 嘗試用你的聲音重複聽到的每個短語，注意語調和節奏，力求做到自然。
- 逐漸增加複雜性 - 隨著你對基本短語的掌握，嘗試向更復雜的句子挑戰，讓自己的交流更加流利。
- 記錄與反饋 - 將你跟讀的錄音與原影片進行比較，找出需要改進的地方，以提高英語發音。
運用shadowing技巧，讓你在學習過程中感受到成就感，逐步掌握更深刻的交流技巧，為你達到B2水平打下基礎！
影片中的語法
說話人最常用的結構，並附上影片中的原話：
| 結構 | 影片中的用法 |
|---|---|
| 現在完成時 have/has + 過去分詞 — 過去發生但與現在仍有關聯的事 | there's been · there's definitely been · they've replaced |
| 被動語態 be + 過去分詞 — 強調發生了什麼，而不是誰做的 | being called · had been changed · been polished |
| 定語從句 who / which + 從句 — 補充說明人或事物 | someone who can · friend who works · students who are |
什麼是跟讀法？
跟讀法 (Shadowing) 是一種有科學依據的語言學習技巧，最初開發用於專業口譯員的培訓，並由多語言者Alexander Arguelles博士普及。這個方法簡單而強大：您在聽英語母語原聲的同時立即大聲重複——就像是一個延遲1-2秒緊跟說話者的影子。與被動聽力或語法練習不同，跟讀法強迫您的大腦和口腔肌肉同時處理並模模擬實的講話模式。研究表明它能顯著提高發音準確性，語調，節奏，連讀，聽力理解和口語流利度——使其成為雅思口語備考和真實英語交流最有效的方法之一。