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**Paul Roetzer** (0:00)
So, when you present an AI system's ideas and words as your own with no critical thought, that is AI plagiarism to me. It's like, that's the problem. It's not that you're using it to help you, it's that you're not putting any critical thinking into it yourself, and the words aren't yours.
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Welcome to episode 232 of The Artificial Intelligence Show. I'm your host, Paul Roetzer, along with my co-host, Mike Kaput. We are recording this at an unusual time, Mike. It is Friday, August 14th at about 2 PM Eastern time. We usually do this on Monday mornings. The week got crazy and then I'm gone Monday for an event.
Then shout out to Cathy McPhillips, our Chief Marketing Officer who sometimes joins us on AI Answers to co-host, who just delivered my laptop. I somehow forgot at the office today. So it has been like literally a crazy week. I was in the office this morning. We were working on some stuff, team meetings, and then I shoot home to my home office to do the podcast studio is, and I pull my laptop out 10 minutes where Mike and I are about to start recording this. I'm like, yeah, we got a problem.
So I messaged Mike, I'm like, it's my laptop by chance sitting at the office still.
So yes, thank you, Kathy, who was heading this direction anyway, worked out great. She was on her way to a coffee shop, and yeah, she ubered my computer to me, and so here we are recording. Otherwise, we would have been doing a Sunday morning thing, Mike. Yeah. Okay. So actually, semi-related to transition into this week is brought to us by Maicon, the AI Conference for Marketing and Business Leaders that is happening October 13th to the 15th. The meeting I was in this morning with Mike and Kathy and Ashley, and some of the others on our team, was talking about Maicon, and we decided to do something extra special for our podcast listeners during that meeting. So here we go. So shoot, if you have already registered for Maicon using the pod 100 offer, congratulations, you have already received what I'm about to explain. So the way Maicon works is Tuesday is pre-event workshop day. There's five workshops you can elect into when you're registering, and then the main conference is Wednesday and Thursday. So what we decided to do is on Thursday, which usually by that point I'm hiding in the team room just trying to decompress momentarily.
We are instead going to do a private lunch with me and Mike exclusively for podcast audience listeners. So what's going to happen here is if you register using the pod 100 code, we have a limited number of seats available for this lunch. But Mike and I are actually just going to hang out in the room and answer whatever questions the attendees have. So if you've already registered with pod 100 for Maicon, which again is October 13th to 15th, you're in. The team will reach out to you with details about it. We have a limited number of remaining seats left in that room. So if you go to maicon.ai, that's the event site, use pod 100 Not only are you going to get the $100 off the ticket, you're going to get to be a part of that exclusive lunch for podcast listeners. So never been a better time to get in at Maicon, or if you're not a marketer, tell the marketers in your organization about it. We'd love to have them join us. Ticket prices go up August 22nd. So best pricing happens now, and a chance to be in the room on that Thursday, October 15th. With me and Mike, it is a brand new thing. We've never tried this before, and we figure what the hell. Let's see how it goes. So VIP lunch, everything, all the lunch is provided. You just show up and network, and we'll just hang out and answer questions and talk about whatever you want to talk about. So again, maicon.ai. Mike, am I missing anything? Because like I said, this is about two hours old that we decided we're doing this.