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Real Coffee with Scott Adams

Episode 3100 - The Scott Adams School 02/23/26

23 Feb 2026

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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?

0.031 - 4.975 Erica Zia

Good morning. You're back.

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5.836 - 7.217 Owen Gregorian

Good morning, everyone. Good morning, everyone.

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8.158 - 15.124 Erica Zia

All right, you guys, I have a little sound check. Do you hear an echo? We just want to make sure.

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16.345 - 29.076 Unknown

I'll wait for your comments. Hello, hello, hello. Hello, hello, any echo? We have a lie, a lie.

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31.992 - 36.002 Owen Gregorian

Looks like they're hearing the echo.

36.323 - 38.568 Erica Zia

Can echo? Uh-oh.

38.949 - 40.152 Robbie Starbuck

Uh-oh. Are we muted, Lindsay?

40.854 - 41.816 Erica Zia

Yes and echo.

41.896 - 48.292 Owen Gregorian

All right. Is the echo gone? Yeah, it is. All right. So if Robbie's on mute, then it won't echo.

Chapter 2: How does AI pose risks in today's society?

1622.577 - 1648.707 Robbie Starbuck

I think that it was handled really well by Meta. They understood that they don't want a biased AI. They want an AI that does a great job and is fair to people and tells the truth. And so, you know, I'm an advisor in Meta for full disclosure to everybody. I'm an advisor for the AI for that very reason, to ensure that there's not bias injected. And that goes for everybody.

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1648.727 - 1665.65 Robbie Starbuck

You know, like I said earlier, I don't care who this affects. I don't care if it's Democrats, Republicans, Independents. You know, if you're, you know, yellow with pink polka dots, I don't think that AI should be able to lie about you, harm you in any way, or misrepresent you. You know, I think they handled it the right way.

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1665.69 - 1684.378 Robbie Starbuck

It was my hope that Google would want to fix things and do the right thing. Unfortunately, Google has chosen a different path. But, you know, this happened independently of that situation. So it's a it's just wild. You know, for the best I can tell, the initial issue started with Google.

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Chapter 3: What is Robbie Starbuck's perspective on his congressional campaign?

1685.759 - 1701.023 Owen Gregorian

Yeah, and in terms of hallucinations, I would just say I totally agree that I don't think it could be a hallucination when it's so consistent. I mean, I do have a pretty, I think, decent technical understanding of how AI works and how hallucinations work.

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1701.765 - 1716.226 Owen Gregorian

And at least as I've understood the definition of what a hallucination is, is that it's mainly built on the randomness of the algorithm that these AIs depend on, where it... has probabilities of predicting what's the next word in this response I'm giving.

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1716.266 - 1732.965 Owen Gregorian

And it will often give you the most probable one, which would all be based on the training, but sometimes it will give you the second one or the third one or the fourth one. And so if that were what was happening, where it was just doing a hallucination, then it would only happen one time. It wouldn't happen over and over and over again.

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1733.005 - 1753.783 Owen Gregorian

And it certainly wouldn't give you like a complete fake article with all that. So to me, that does seem like a ridiculous defense. Um, And I don't know what legal standing that would even have because they are still defaming you. I mean, regardless of whether it's a hallucination or not, they built this thing and I don't think they can stand on something like section two 30.

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1754.044 - 1768.602 Owen Gregorian

Maybe Marcella knows more about that than me. But, um, section two 30 I think is, is where it's user generated content, but this is not user generated content. Google is publishing all this. So they're the ones that are defaming you over and over and over again. Every time someone asks about you knowingly.

1771.18 - 1794.461 Robbie Starbuck

Section 230 has no application here at all. I'd be surprised if they tried to apply it because they are the publisher of the content. And frankly, they probably don't want anything remotely capable of piercing the veil of Section 230. I do think there probably has to be an update, you know, in general. I think you've got to have broad ability to allow people to speak freely online.

1794.481 - 1814.691 Robbie Starbuck

But beyond that, you know, you have to have lines in the sand on malice and especially content that they're publishing through these AI chatbots. But yeah, you know, the absurdity of the hallucination defense is the fact that there's not anything that's like Robbie loves to save puppies, right? That's not in the bio on me.

1814.751 - 1832.727 Robbie Starbuck

It's not some, you know, some wonderful, there's no flowery happy lies in there, right? It's all negative stuff. It's all like, you know, he was on drugs, sold drugs, shot somebody, groomed actresses. That was another one that was like mind blowing to me.

1832.707 - 1856.219 Robbie Starbuck

um and so it it's very clear there's this like absolute negative tilt to it that even just that on its own you know throwing out the fact that it's consistent all the time It just like, I don't know how you get to the place where you could try to pretend it's a hallucination. I think you'd have to be a non-technically savvy person to buy the excuses to hallucination.

Chapter 4: How has Robbie Starbuck influenced corporate DEI policies?

3739.994 - 3754.257 Robbie Starbuck

And I'll be tuning in sometimes. You know, that's what I did with Scott. You know, unfortunately, with four kids and a farm and all of the projects we're doing, I don't get to do it every day. But it is... If I'm going to watch something in the morning, it's going to be this, just like it was with Scott.

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3755.018 - 3768.593 Erica Zia

We love that. We love that. On behalf of Owen and Marcella and myself and everybody, thank you, Robbie Starbuck. And everyone, you know, Robbie's the example. Scott was our example. Go out there and be useful. And to Scott.

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3770.775 - 3771.216 Owen Gregorian

To Scott.

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3772.577 - 3773.098 Erica Zia

See you tomorrow.

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