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Let's talk about the OpenAI brand trip. I'm gonna do this in a calm and rational way, because if you guys know me and follow me, or even if you don't, you know that I used to be a journalist, and now I'm in the tech world doing social media. So I try to approach everything with, like, curiosity and some balance. Let's start here with, why would OpenAI send a bunch of influencers on a fancy trip to the Hudson Valley? I think the answer to that is obvious to all of us. But I'm gonna layer in some facts. So AI is deeply, deeply unpopular. Polls have shown this. People like Paul Krugman have dived into this because we've seen, like, graduation speakers get booed while when they talk about AI. AI is not anything that people are welcoming right now. At the same time, companies like OpenAI and Anthropic have absolutely massive valuations. So there are investors that are get a lot of money out of their investment on them. And in order to do that, they need the general public to use these tools. They're obviously hoping that influencers about all the capabilities of OpenAI that they will not only positively and get other people to use them. Let's talk about the backlash, though, specifically and for very afraid of AI. They also don't like things that they're seeing. You are someone that is optimising your life using AI tools, like, you are in somewhat of a bubble. Um, and I don't say that in a I work in tech, as I mentioned, I use AI tools for certain things. Um, but the vast majority of everyday people are not, like trying to find new ways to incorporate into their lives necessarily. And I think that a very small group of people is doing that, and the vast majority of people have a much more casual or non-existent relationship with a lot of these tools. In the backlash, I've also seen people talking about, like, Sam Altman's relationship with Donald Trump, what OpenAI is going to be used for or is used for. And also concerns around data centres and their impact on the environment. My thoughts? I actually think we're gonna see more even though there was backlash, I think that tech is a little bit late to things like using influencers and more modern ways of marketing. Saw them getting excited about storytellers and people that do marketing and social media well. Actually gonna see more of this, not less. And then here I have a question for for anyone that's really knowledgeable about this stuff. Do you think OpenAI is extra unpopular, people are not wanting to hear about any kind of AI tools? If it were for Anthropic, would be the same thing? Um, because also, these models are getting incorporated into a lot of other products. So I'm just curious, like, how literal or how direct you think the backlash would be to kind of, like, other tools that use those models to power them.