After President Trump brokers a ceasefire in the conflict between Iran and Israel, that ceasefire is immediately broken. We ll give you the latest, and then we ll try to refocus the conversation back on issues here at home, which is what should really matter to us. Also, a new study shows that AI is making us stupid, as if we needed any help in that regard. Plus, a news station celebrates Pride Month by having a drag queen deliver the weather report. And is New York City on the verge of electing a foreign Muslim socialist as mayor? We ll talk about all that and more today on The Matt Walsh Show.
00:26:17.260Putting a prompt into an AI and just spitting out a movie script or something, that's not, it's not like, oh, no, people will just become more creative in how they use AI.
00:27:09.600But if AI can generate everything for you, requiring no mental power on your part, then you're not going to learn.
00:27:17.920But we are rapidly entering a future where people just don't learn.
00:27:22.920They don't, they just don't learn anything.
00:27:25.920We are entering a future where people have no knowledge, no base of knowledge.
00:27:32.520And like we talked about last week, this, we, we've been on the trajectory for a long time.
00:27:38.580I mean, I, I firmly believe that, that, you know, I think this is a kind of like a common perception that a lot of people have that I think is totally true, which is that people in general today are very dumb compared to a hundred years ago, 200 years ago, 300 years ago.
00:27:58.780I saw someone on, on X yesterday say that, that, you know, he, he thinks that like the, the average person in the 1700s would have been an intellectual giant compared to most people today.
00:28:14.060And, uh, I think he's probably right about that.
00:28:17.660And you can see, you know, I'm, I'm reading a book right now, for example, about, um, about the mutiny on the bounty and the book's called the bounty, uh, which I, I'm only about a third of the way into it, but I would, I recommend it.
00:28:35.200And, uh, it is not just the story of the, of the mutiny itself on the bounty, obviously a very famous story that Hollywood has, there's been movies about and everything.
00:28:44.360Um, but the second part of the story where Captain Bly is, is cast, cast out on a small boat along with his loyalists in the middle of the Pacific ocean left to die.
00:28:55.800You know, all he's got is like a compass, very few provisions.
00:28:58.940And he manages to make it home safely with everybody still alive, 4,000 mile journey on this little small boat.
00:29:10.680Oh, well, because when I, when I read, when I read books like this and this jumped out at me when I was reading this book that you'll, you'll, you'll see that any kind of nonfiction book about a historical event, you'll often, you know, you get, you get quotes from the people back then, people involved, uh, from letters and journals and that sort of thing.
00:29:31.640And I'm just reading some of the journal entries that are included in this book and the letters of people recounting what happened.
00:29:38.940And, and I made this point before, but the, but the, the, the way that they write the, the language that they use to convey their emotions and to describe what happened, there's just a richness and a depth to it that no one today is capable of.
00:29:59.240They write in a way where like, when you read it, you go, okay, that had to have been written 300 years ago or 200 years ago.
00:30:06.740Um, you know, it, and not just because the, the language is archaic, but just, but because the, it's so descriptive and, and just kind of effortlessly, effortlessly poetic that nobody writes like that anymore.
00:30:20.660Uh, and these are not now that it's, it's easy enough to say that when you've, if you're reading a letter written by a ship's captain, for example, I mean, these were geniuses.
00:30:29.220The average ship's captain was a, was an absolute genius had to be, uh, but even just norm, like, you know, the average sailor on a ship, like barely literate, but still able to, through the kind of spelling problems and punctuation problems.
00:30:45.840Some of that just has to do with the way things were written back then. Some of it is being barely literate, but, but even then it just, there's a, it's a, a depth and a richness to the language that people don't have today at all.
00:30:57.020Um, and so that's been the case. We, we, we've been on this decline, I think for a long time. And I, so my worries with AI coming in, it's just, it just destroys it.
00:31:07.020I mean, the 20 years from now, the average person's vocabulary will, will be like 50 words. Right. Uh, and worst of all, there isn't anyone in a position of power who's taking these impending catastrophes seriously or trying to do anything about it.
00:31:22.360Instead, we're just kind of strolling casually into a future where the average human being doesn't have a job, doesn't have anything to do, doesn't know how to do anything, doesn't have any base of knowledge about anything at all.
00:31:33.740And to me, that is a horrifying nightmare future that we should try to avoid in some way. It's like a vision of hell because it's life without meaning, without purpose, without beauty, without any of the things that make life worth living.
00:31:47.940And I don't really understand why people aren't taking this a little bit more seriously.
00:31:52.200Now, I often hear, uh, that those of us who are warning about the dangers of AI are just fear mongering and, you know, uh, and, and, and the supposed evidence of, of this, of the fact that we're, we're, you know, well, you're just, you're panicking over the supposed evidence of that is that all throughout history, people have always warned about the dangers of new technology.
00:32:13.820And this is no different, supposedly. So I hear this all the time. People say, Oh, come on. People said that about TVs and smartphones. People said that that would destroy society. And look, everything turned out. Okay.
00:32:26.540Well, there are two big problems with this line of logic. The first is that AI is just different in kind from any other sort of technology. Not everything is the same as everything else. There are things that are just different from other things. Sometimes something comes along and it's different. It's not the same. Uh, AI is different. It's different because it removes the human element completely. That's the whole point of it.
00:32:51.880That's what the supposed great advantage of AI is supposed to be. Um, all new technology up until now has just been new ways for humans to interact with each other, communicate with each other, create things and so on. But AI takes humans out of it, right? Because AI thinks quote unquote for itself. Uh, so this isn't even analogous to the industrial age when machines in factory started doing jobs that humans did before, uh, because that meant that now humans had jobs working machines.
00:33:20.460Standing on the assembly line. And it was a more efficient way for humans to work. And whatever you think about that, whatever you think about humans ending up on the assembly line, uh, humans were still working. Same for when cars, uh, took over for horse and buggies.
00:33:37.220Well, humans went from driving horse and buggy to driving a car, but humans were still driving. Now AI is coming along with self-driving cars and humans are taken out of it. It's not humans driving a fancy new contraption. Okay. It's not like, Oh, we're all driving flying cars now. Like we all hope that would be the next step. We're all driving hovercraft. No, it's just like, it's still a car, but you're just not driving.
00:34:02.060Um, which by the way, which by the way, we'll wipe out millions of jobs, millions. And this will happen soon. I mean, again, it is already happening in the next five years. It rideshare taxi trucking gone, gone, gone, gone.
00:34:19.460Um, and what then? What about all those people? What, what do we do? So this is different. Um, also the other point here is that the warnings that were issued about a lot of these other technologies turned out to be correct.
00:34:37.740That's why it's always funny to me when people use this argument. Oh, you know, you sound like all the people that were warning about TVs, but yeah, well, they were right though.
00:34:47.720What they warned about actually happened. Um, you know, you could go back and read what was written about these other technologies and guess what? They were mostly right.
00:34:56.100It's like when someone criticizes modern pop music and then someone else goes, Oh, Oh, please. You know, people said that about Elvis.
00:35:05.220Well, yeah. I mean, the people who were critical of Elvis in the fifties were worried that it would lead to exactly the kind of insane degenerate filth that we're surrounded by today.
00:35:14.020So go back in time to find an Elvis critic and show them a clip of a modern music video or pop performance. And they're going to go. Yeah, exactly. That's what I'm worried about. So yeah. Okay.
00:35:25.980Now, am I saying that all new technology is bad that we should not have new tech? Of course, I'm not saying that. I'm just pointing out that there are downsides to every new technology.
00:35:34.440The people who talk about these downsides are usually correct and ignored. And because they're ignored, nothing is ever done to prepare ourselves for the downside or to mitigate it in any way.
00:35:46.020And now we're looking at a new technology. And now we're looking at a new technology with AI that unlike cars, unlike the printing press, unlike computers, I think with AI, we're looking at something that is far more downside than upside.
00:36:01.360Um, because of, because I think it, it harms humanity much more than it helps it. And not because I'm worried about some, about some, you know, sci-fi scenario terminator, the AI has become sentient and enslave us. Who knows that might happen. It's, but that's not even it. That's not it.
00:36:22.420It's just a future where people have nothing to do and don't, and have nothing to expend any effort on or energy on. All of our experience as humans tells us that that is a recipe for just misery.
00:36:37.060All right. Um, well, that was kind of bleak, but let's, let's, let's get inspired. Let's get inspired.
00:36:45.280It's too much. Everything's been too bleak. So I want to show you something that should be inspiring to you.
00:36:49.240There's an NBC affiliate in Maine that is celebrating pride month. Uh, nobody else is celebrating it, but they still are.
00:36:58.280And they decided to commemorate the occasion by having a drag queen deliver their weather report.
00:37:08.540Hello everybody. I am chartreuse money. And today as current temperatures right here, Saturday, it's 2 40 PM.
00:37:14.000Honey, it is 80 degrees here in Portland right now, honey. And we are feeling the effects.
00:37:19.100The sun is out. All it took was a pride parade to bring the sunshine out today, but honey, it is hot all over the state.
00:37:24.800We've got 78 degrees in Lewiston. I know the people of Lewiston Auburn are probably celebrating and jumping in the river.
00:37:29.700Please don't do that. Be safe because it is hot, hot, hot, and we need to find relief.
00:37:33.760Sanford's 81. Portsmouth down in New Hampshire is a lovely 83. Honey, the water is 56 degrees.
00:37:39.200Okay, now I know what you're thinking. That sounds so tropical, but you still got to be careful.
00:37:42.560Okay, hypothermia is real. So take it easy. 78 degrees in Waterville, 71 degrees in Greenville, and 76 in Millinocket.
00:37:49.060And shout out to my friends up in Caribou. I see you up there, Caribou. It's 73 degrees up there. Hope you're having a good old time.
00:37:54.660So what is this guy's name? I watched that video. I went back and watched the first part of it, like the first three seconds, two or three times to try to get the name.
00:38:06.740What's the name? Sharktooth Money. Is that what it was?
00:38:11.660If that's true, it's the first cool drag queen name ever invented. Sharktooth Money.
00:38:16.060It was either that or Sharktooth Money, which is probably it. That would make more sense.
00:38:23.400Can I even say Sharkto without getting bleeped? I don't know. We're going to find out. Sharktooth. Sharktooth.
00:38:28.820I think you can say that. Don't bleep it. We'll be fine.
00:38:32.760So there's the weather report from Mr. Sharktooth. And it's kind of interesting watching that.
00:38:38.180And not just because the people of Maine think that 78 degrees is boiling hot.
00:38:42.880It's a beautiful 76 degree day with a slight breeze. And their map is colored in red and yellow, like the whole state is on fire, which is funny.
00:38:54.040But it's interesting in a cringy, really embarrassing way, because it puts on display one of the major pivotal mistakes that LGBT activists made.
00:39:07.380As we've covered, the LGBT movement hit its peak probably about five years ago.
00:39:11.880It's been taking one loss after another ever since then.
00:39:15.880And leading up to this Pride Month, which has just been the most pitiful one on record, and gloriously so.
00:39:24.460And so it's kind of been this question of, well, what happened?
00:39:32.240I think this is one of the things that happened. This is one of the reasons why the LGBT movement fell apart.
00:39:39.180Not drag queens giving weather reports, specifically, but drag queens in general.
00:39:44.500One of the big mistakes the LGBT camp made was putting drag queens front and center.
00:39:52.960Because drag went from up to about eight, nine years ago.
00:39:57.920It was just a kind of bizarre fetish that was confined mostly to whatever weird nightclubs where they do that kind of thing.
00:40:06.640And if you were just a normal person, you never really saw it.
00:43:39.560It's like, okay, well, they had the LGBT agenda.
00:43:43.440And they wanted to find their sort of mascots for it.
00:43:47.340The people they're putting out front and center as their representatives, right?
00:43:52.260Their door-to-door evangelists for this movement.
00:43:56.720And if you're a smart person, you know that, okay, well, if I'm going to, if I need a door-to-door evangelist for my movement,
00:44:05.060it's got to be someone who's like inoffensive, normal.
00:44:10.020Okay, so that's what I'm going to find.
00:44:11.660Let's just find like a friendly, normal person.
00:44:17.360Right, that's what the Mormons do, the Jehovah's Witnesses.
00:44:22.200They send someone to your door, it's going to be like a friendly, normal person.
00:44:25.140But the LGBT movement, what they decided was, oh, no, we're going to put, we're going to put a shark poof there.
00:44:32.800We're going to, we're going to take a guy dressed up like a, like a Tim Burton character,
00:44:37.880dressed up like a, like a female character in a Tim Burton movie from the late nineties.
00:44:42.460And we're going to, we're going to put him on your front door.
00:44:47.020And it's, you've, you've lost right away because people open their door and shriek in horror.
00:44:52.120So it would have been much more effective propaganda if they had just, but, but I'm so glad they didn't do that.
00:45:01.160And in the end, they couldn't because the movement,
00:45:03.580the agenda is one of dysfunction and disorder and destruction down to its core.
00:45:13.400And it just couldn't help but advertise it.
00:45:19.360So maybe this is a long way of saying that the problem with making, you know, drag queens into the avatar of their movement is that actually it was too honest.
00:45:26.440It was, it was too honest about what they were actually up to.
00:45:30.480And, um, that's what, uh, that's what, that's what killed it in the end.
00:47:24.700All right, for the comments, I had these yesterday and I didn't get to them, but there was some interesting feedback, so I want to get to it.
00:47:31.520This is feedback on the segment, not to belabor the point, but we did last week about how AI, specifically things like ChatGPT, are putting the final nail in the coffin of the education system.
00:47:42.160We just talked about AI again, of course, in the headlines.
00:47:48.440But as we talked about last week, new studies show that, you know, and we don't need any study to show us this.
00:47:55.080But it shows us that kids in school, college and lower grades, are just using ChatGPT to do all their work for them, which, as I said, is the end of the education system as we know it.
00:48:10.160We'll read through some of these comments and then I'll have some comments on my own at the very end, but I'll just read a few of these back-to-back.
00:48:25.280It makes me so annoyed when I take the time to study, actually put in the effort to learn, hand-write all my essays and assignments, then get flagged for AI when I wrote it completely naturally.
00:48:43.020Then I see my classmates using ChatGPT and still somehow pass.
00:49:08.260The teenagers I've hired over the last two years, over the last year, cannot divide by two, literally, do not know how to calculate 50% off.
00:49:15.700And when I say divide by two, they cannot do it.
00:49:17.880Actually, so a lot of just really depressing comments like that.
00:49:26.140So, in fact, I didn't, I'm sure it's there.
00:49:41.100Usually, whatever I'm, whatever it is I'm complaining about, I can get, you know, a fair number of people who will have that response no matter what it is.
00:49:47.840But in this case, I didn't see anyone.
00:49:49.160Every comment from someone in the education system said, oh, yeah, it's bad.
00:51:59.760I don't say, send me the article and summarize it for me.
00:52:02.500I just say, give me the article and I'll read it.
00:52:08.000If I need data that I'm going to use for a monologue, but then I always end up cross-referencing it.
00:52:13.900So, like, I get it there and then I'll check three or four other places.
00:52:16.280So, then really there's no point actually abusing the chat GPT for that.
00:52:19.740But I'll tell you what I don't do, and I give you my solemn promise I will never do, is, I mean, I mentioned at the top of the show, I write my monologues, at least for the open and close.
00:52:31.300I will never go to chat GPT and just say, I need a 15-minute monologue in the style of Matt Walsh about X subject.
00:52:51.440Now, of course, right now it's, like, sort of easy to not do it because the technology isn't at a point where it can convincingly pull that off.
00:52:58.500I have tested it just purely out of curiosity.
00:53:01.760And then you read it and you're like, yes, I'm better than this.
00:53:22.560And this is our only real salvation when it comes to this particular issue is that we have to value humanity for its own sake.
00:53:31.880We have to value human creativity for its own sake.
00:53:36.680I mean, we're going to get to a point where we're saying, okay, well, we don't really need people to do this, but we're going to have them do it anyway.
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