George Butler
speaker
8,338 appearances
39 recordings
4 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 6d ago
George Butler’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 39 in all, peaking in Jun 2026 with 11.
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The the company have agreed to acquire Hugging Face, who, if I remember rightly, were caught up in the anthropic hacking scandal where where the the latest version of Claude kind of was it Clawed?
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It was well, it was one of the anthropic models, kind of hacked out and and hacked Hugging Face.
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Uh they've been in the in the press a lot at the moment, and um they've now been taken over.
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Now, I think a few years ago.
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If a business was taken over for thirteen billion dollars, it would be quite widely talked about.
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Yeah.
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This doesn't no no one seems to care.
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They seem to kind of be looking in in numerous different ways to kind of diversify out of just being the chipmaker, uh, which I think is is very interesting.
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Um kind of a small bit of business, uh despite the multi-billion price tag for uh the world's biggest company.
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No.
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There we go.
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James.
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There is no real way to segue into this next story, other than and then by saying, I think over the last few weeks following um the very sad the death of Dolly Parton, seeing some of the amazing stories and tributes about Dolly kind of made me realise that um the big tech, I mean the whole world, but uh certainly the the kind of the big tech industry could do with.
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A bit more Dolly, people who were genuinely um entrepreneurial, but also very caring and inspiring, and kind of just by all accounts great people.
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Now, that does lead me on to this story, which I think is quite sad and actually reflective of some of the issues that we do face um in this kind of AI era, where Dolly Parton's sister has kind of come out and basically.
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begged fans to stop the AI slot, the AI garbage being generated with the late Dolly Parton.
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I'm not sure about that, James, to to I I would disagree with you on that one.
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I I d I don't think anyone no one no one goes out of their way to make a respectful tribute to AI's slop.
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Like if you were to post a clip from nine to five or something like that, very that could be a respectful th but to like to generate the image of someone who's passed and I think it's weird, it's freaky, it's it's not right.
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I mean, ugh.
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