The skinny on what's happening in AI - straight from the previous live session:

Highlights

📱 Sora Had a Bigger Launch Than ChatGPT... Then Got Review Bombed to 2.9 Stars

Discussed at [00:00:45]

Sora hit 627,000 iOS downloads in its first week, technically beating ChatGPT's launch numbers despite requiring invite codes and being US/Canada only. But the app rating has crashed to 2.9 stars after OpenAI added content restrictions following their viral week.

Kyle's take: As we talked about this week this is the classic OpenAI playbook - launch unrestricted for viral marketing then lock it down once everyone's hooked.

Every comment on Reddit is furious about the bait-and-switch and the review bombing of the app comes from the same anger.

Meanwhile, Elon's response? Remove pretty much ALL censorship from Grok and allow full nudity. He saw OpenAI getting attention, saw the backlash over restrictions, and went "come get nasty on Grok."

When people complain about censorship, let's be honest - they mainly want nudity. It's a very Elon move: can't beat them on quality, so compete on being unmoderated.

Source: TechCrunch

💸  AI makes the future of consulting complex

Discussed at [00:13:36]

Following Deloitte charging the Australian government $440,000 for an AI-generated report full of fake citations (and subsequent refund), IBM's consulting head says consultancies must become software companies to survive AI.

Kyle's take: Deloitte’s team of highly paid consultants just spat something out of ChatGPT, did a cursory check, and charged nearly half a million dollars. That's a human problem, not an AI problem.

But here's the real crisis: Why would anyone pay consultants to use ChatGPT when they can do it themselves? Remember McKinsey charging NYC $4 million to say "use wheelie bins for your rat problem"? The value proposition was already questionable. Now with AI, it's completely kicked out from under them. They're stuck between clients realising they don't need them and the ability to build custom software without them.

IBM Consulting are pushing towards deploying agents and AI alongside clients. Riding the AI wave instead of being drowned.

Source: Financial Times (No paywall)

🎬 Mad Max Director: "AI Makes Filmmaking Democratic, Deal With It"

Discussed at [00:19:21]

George Miller (director of all the Mad Max films and….Happy Feet?) is judging an AI film festival and says AI has made filmmaking "way more egalitarian." He compares current resistance to when oil paint or photography were introduced.

Kyle's take: Finally, a major director not crying about AI. I went to NYU film school - a 5-10 minute short cost extraordinary amounts with 20-30 crew, equipment rental, location fees etc. etc.

It wasn't accessible. AT ALL. You had to be rich.

Now kids not yet teens are making films without raising money. Yes, Hollywood actors protecting million-dollar paychecks is understandable, but it's also incredibly elitist. People rush to defend Hollywood millionaires from AI - but that comes at the cost of democratising these tools.

Pick a lane. If you believe in the power of film to tell stories, you have to be more open to this.

Source: The Guardian interview

🌏 ChatGPT Go: The $5 Plan Expands

Discussed at [00:07:23]

OpenAI's sub-$5 ChatGPT Go plan expands to 16 new Asian countries.

Whilst recently Google launched similar pricing in Indonesia. Both are competing with free Chinese models like DeepSeek.

Kyle's take: They're trying to convert free users in countries where $20/month is huge money. It’s classic price discrimination (in the microeconomics sense).

The real competition here in China: DeepSeek usage is 13% India, 7% Indonesia. China's strategy is market penetration through free open-source models in countries that can't justify $20/month.

While OpenAI and Google fight over cheaper $5 subscriptions, China's giving it away free to dominate everywhere that isn't Europe or America.

Source: OpenAI announcement

Member Question: "How can people make money with AI?"

Kyle's response: AI is not a magic wand. An AI business is still a business - it needs to create something valuable you can sell. Find something that would work as a business WITHOUT AI, then add AI to make it faster and cheaper. My bias: teach businesses how to use AI. Deloitte's scandal happened because staff weren't trained properly. I charge about $2,000/hour for workshops because companies know if they muck this up, it's expensive. You watching this are ahead of the curve - most people use ChatGPT as a Google substitute. Be the bridge between AI and your industry. I created an AI Industry Translator tool to help with this.

This question was discussed at [00:24:34] during the live session.

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