Evan Ratliff
12 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Feb 12, 2025 by Evan Ratliff · said 5 times in 2 episodes since 2025 · across every show →
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Feb 12, 2025 neutral
Ratliff Prompted His AI Voice Clone to Engage With Telemarketers
“I told it, like, accept any offer. Like, participate in any insurance plan. Like, whatever. It was prompted to be very accepting. So when someone calls with a health insurance or a new roof or whatever they're gonna call with, it's gonna engage them all the wa…”
Feb 12, 2025 bearish
Extended LLM Interactions Expose Generic Predictive Training Over Sentience
“The more that you talk to it, the more generic it feels to you. The more you can actually feel The training data, the sort of, like, distilling down the training data and the predictive aspect. Like, oh, it's trying to predict what a human would say in this gi…”
Feb 12, 2025 positive
Ratliff's AI Bot Disarmed Suspicion by Accusing Humans of Being AI
“It just puts someone off guards, you know, saying, If it asks like, hey, am I talking to an AI? I do it with the scammer sometimes. Hey, is this an AI? And they'll be like, no, this is a real person. But I think it kind of turns your brain around to where, whe…”
Feb 12, 2025 neutral
LLMs Flatten Chronology by Remixing Decades-Old Events With Recent Ones
“What it was doing as these chatbots do is it was actually remixing the knowledge that it had. So it would take problems that I had given it chronologically that happened 20 years ago for me and sort of project them into the present and mix them with something …”
Feb 12, 2025 neutral
Children Are Far Less Unsettled by AI Voices Than Adults
“My theory, which I think was borne out, was like, that maybe the kids wouldn't be weirded out by it in the same way that adults are, because they've grown up with Synthetic voices. Like, they've heard Siri. They've heard Google giving directions. Like, all tha…”
Feb 12, 2025 neutral
Social Politeness Prevents Humans From Calling Out Suspected AI Voices
“It's also, it's quite rude to suggest to someone that they sound like an AI. So people err on the side of caution and don't say, hey, you sound like an AI, because that would be very insulting to someone who's like, no, actually I'm human.”
Feb 12, 2025 neutral
Feb 12, 2025 negative
Many AI Products Solve Niche Executive Issues Irrelevant to Most
“I feel like that use case, to me, it comes with a lot of the issues that a lot of AI products to me come with, which is that they, the people who have designed them generally have one set of problems that do not apply to most humans on the face of this earth.”
Feb 12, 2025 neutral
Ratliff Used Voice AI Technologies Without Companies' Prior Knowledge
“I didn't work with them. I, everybody's technology that I used without their knowledge, which is both to protect me and them. Like, I use these calling platforms and other technologies, and none of them knew until I called and interviewed them that I had used …”
Feb 12, 2025 positive
Feb 12, 2025 neutral