George Butler

Do you think we should do a Trump one?

You know so much about it.

Yes.

I don't think we need that.

Right.

OK, quickly moving on from from David Brent's.

If that's possible, maybe we'll just remain Brent-esque for the rest of this podcast.

What's your big thing this week?

It's a tricky one because on one hand, we've experienced what it can do for us and if you took that away, people are going to go, oh no, but it did everything.

It wrote all my essays and all that kind of stuff.

Then on the flip side, it's a bit like the whole YouTube ad setup because you started off being able to skip ads or having no ads on YouTube.

You now have plenty of ads and people get quite annoyed with the fact that there's a load of ads because you're used to something.

So, you know, if ChatGPT turns around and says you have to pay £100 a month, you've been using it for free.

Is there not an element where you go, well... My other two questions for you, James, would be, firstly, do you see, you know, when Amazon brought in the Echo and they brought in their smart speaker for the first time,

The price was really low because they wanted to bring everyone into the Amazon ecosystem and they wanted your data, they wanted you to shop with them, they wanted you to subscribe to their services.

It's never really got more expensive.

You never really had to pay more to get that device.

Do you think there's an element here as well that, you know, open AI or anthropic or meta or whoever it may be, they want to keep you trapped in their ecosystem.

They want your data.

They want you using their services.