Victor Riparbelli
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We have the problem at Synthesia as well, right? We have basically a product internally for content moderation. The hard thing is you have what we call the green content. The content that everyone agrees is great. That's 99.9% of the content. You have the red content, hate speech, violence. Most people will agree that that's bad as well.
We have the problem at Synthesia as well, right? We have basically a product internally for content moderation. The hard thing is you have what we call the green content. The content that everyone agrees is great. That's 99.9% of the content. You have the red content, hate speech, violence. Most people will agree that that's bad as well.
Then you have all the gray middle, and that's where it gets difficult. I think this is the content that Sock is talking about here, where he's going to let off controls. This is essentially like you're making cryptocurrency content, for example. When is it a really enthusiastic entrepreneur who just started a new coin that he or she definitely thinks is going to change the world?
Then you have all the gray middle, and that's where it gets difficult. I think this is the content that Sock is talking about here, where he's going to let off controls. This is essentially like you're making cryptocurrency content, for example. When is it a really enthusiastic entrepreneur who just started a new coin that he or she definitely thinks is going to change the world?
Then you have all the gray middle, and that's where it gets difficult. I think this is the content that Sock is talking about here, where he's going to let off controls. This is essentially like you're making cryptocurrency content, for example. When is it a really enthusiastic entrepreneur who just started a new coin that he or she definitely thinks is going to change the world?
When is it an outright fraud of trying to get well-meaning people to dump their money into something they think is going to go up 10x? Those lines are very difficult to draw, right?
When is it an outright fraud of trying to get well-meaning people to dump their money into something they think is going to go up 10x? Those lines are very difficult to draw, right?
When is it an outright fraud of trying to get well-meaning people to dump their money into something they think is going to go up 10x? Those lines are very difficult to draw, right?
Yeah. So today we are, and that's a decision that we have made. We had a lot of discussion about this in terms of how do you, what's our approach to this problem? And for me, again, it comes back to the customers, right? We're an enterprise product. It's important that the avatar that we have are not seen to be used in all sorts of like wacky content online.
Yeah. So today we are, and that's a decision that we have made. We had a lot of discussion about this in terms of how do you, what's our approach to this problem? And for me, again, it comes back to the customers, right? We're an enterprise product. It's important that the avatar that we have are not seen to be used in all sorts of like wacky content online.
Yeah. So today we are, and that's a decision that we have made. We had a lot of discussion about this in terms of how do you, what's our approach to this problem? And for me, again, it comes back to the customers, right? We're an enterprise product. It's important that the avatar that we have are not seen to be used in all sorts of like wacky content online.
We don't, as a company, have, we don't see ourselves as having to uphold any kind of right of free speech. And frankly, from a business perspective, having someone pay me $30 a month to create very questionable conspiracy content, it's just not good business. So for me, all of those things kind of lined up, right?
We don't, as a company, have, we don't see ourselves as having to uphold any kind of right of free speech. And frankly, from a business perspective, having someone pay me $30 a month to create very questionable conspiracy content, it's just not good business. So for me, all of those things kind of lined up, right?
We don't, as a company, have, we don't see ourselves as having to uphold any kind of right of free speech. And frankly, from a business perspective, having someone pay me $30 a month to create very questionable conspiracy content, it's just not good business. So for me, all of those things kind of lined up, right?
Our enterprise clients, they don't want us to be affiliated with content that doesn't kind of like match the brand. And economically, it just doesn't make sense. So we've taken a very strict approach. Which means that we are actually going and being the arbiters of truth. And we definitely have people who are unhappy with that.
Our enterprise clients, they don't want us to be affiliated with content that doesn't kind of like match the brand. And economically, it just doesn't make sense. So we've taken a very strict approach. Which means that we are actually going and being the arbiters of truth. And we definitely have people who are unhappy with that.
Our enterprise clients, they don't want us to be affiliated with content that doesn't kind of like match the brand. And economically, it just doesn't make sense. So we've taken a very strict approach. Which means that we are actually going and being the arbiters of truth. And we definitely have people who are unhappy with that.
I think this is like classical VC brain. Too much focus on the technologies, right? Like, you know, you speak to a... I think there's a big misconception about Synthesia is that we're like an avatar company. And it's kind of a fair assumption to make because you go to a website, if you like, you know, see about us online or like... Advertising is a headline feature for the company, right?
I think this is like classical VC brain. Too much focus on the technologies, right? Like, you know, you speak to a... I think there's a big misconception about Synthesia is that we're like an avatar company. And it's kind of a fair assumption to make because you go to a website, if you like, you know, see about us online or like... Advertising is a headline feature for the company, right?
I think this is like classical VC brain. Too much focus on the technologies, right? Like, you know, you speak to a... I think there's a big misconception about Synthesia is that we're like an avatar company. And it's kind of a fair assumption to make because you go to a website, if you like, you know, see about us online or like... Advertising is a headline feature for the company, right?