Oz Veloshian

I mean, is this game over for the Enhanced Games?

Or do you see them bouncing back from this damn squib as far as the market's concerned?

Yeah, I guess we were talking at the beginning of the episode, Chris, before you joined, about the Pope's encyclical on AI.

And part of what he was talking about at length was the Tower of Babel and the idea of hubris and just the language that the Enhanced Games kind of founders and CEOs and people around you use.

is quite millennial with a capital M, like end of times millennial, right?

I mean, there's a sort of religiosity to what they're trying to do.

I was wondering if you could just reflect a little bit on that.

Chris Gaimardi, thank you.

We're going to take a short break now.

When we come back, Kyle and Natasha will stick around to talk about who had the best and worst week in tech.

Kyle and Natasha, welcome back.

I mean, there's an argument to say the Enhanced Games had the worst week in tech.

Another candidate is Character AI.

Have either of you been following this?

Well, first tell us what it is, Kyle, and why you're obsessed, and then I'll destroy your dreams.

I think

Character.ai has responded to this, and some of their power users think they have overcorrected, according to Reddit.

One post had the headline, "...make them flirty again.

I'm not looking to chat with an avoidant no-feelings bad boy, nor with a stuttering blushy goody boy, yet you somehow managed to mix these up in the worst way possible into a single bot."

So essentially, they've turned the dial down on how they interact with users.