we're pulling a Channel 5 and doing some old fashioned street interviews. I wanted to hear what a random sample of people thinks about AI, and we're on the streets of Los Angeles, taking votes ; .LOOK I understand that the 'ai good vs ai bad' debate is a binary I shouldn't force and I should know as a nonbinary person, but I did it anyway. ill add a third option for people in the middle next time.Interviewing artists about AI (2025) [2 parts] https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLA383A4ytar1v2mcR9ZiKXXueD270V2PQ&si=YtS_hSc_-6W5U7MBInterviewing Artists about AI LIVE (2026) https://www.youtube.com/live/OM78ytCouxE?si=OYKkBYx5liSzyucmThanks to @calvinbmx for filming the zoomy cam : https://www.youtube.com/@calvinbmxSupport the pod on partreon! https://www.patreon.com/user?u=2277997My Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@ghrondo?_t=ZT-907AfWiFC1N&_r=1 If you have inside info on what happened during The Glaze Days of April of 2025 when chatGPT 4o went off the rails and want to anonymously help me: glazedays@protonmail.me If you're not worried about anonymity, my normal email: wonderfulcolor@gmail.comai description for seo:"People on Hollywood Boulevard call AI diabolical, useful, destructive, and flat-out bad for art, culture, and the planet. Ryan Manning takes the debate to the streets of LA to find out what real people actually think about the technology everyone is arguing about.What starts as a simple good-or-bad question turns into a sharp, funny, and unexpectedly revealing look at the fears underneath the AI backlash. You hear from artists, students, workers, and skeptics who worry about environmental costs, job replacement, kids relying on bots, and the way AI may be making people lazier, less creative, and more disconnected from each other.You'll hear why some people still use it every day for research, coding, content, flyers, and schoolwork, even while admitting they feel guilty about it. Others argue it should be regulated like a union issue, used only as a tool, or maybe kept far away from young people until they are older. One woman says she believes God is telling her not to use it at all.Ryan also brings in perspectives from the creative world, where AI is both a shortcut and a threat, and from people who think the conversation is more complicated than the online outrage suggests. The result is a street-level snapshot of the AI culture war, with real tension between convenience, ethics, taste, and survival.If you want a blunt, funny, and surprisingly thoughtful tour of how everyday people feel about AI right now, this episode is for you. It is part social experiment, part cultural temperature check, and part warning about where this technology is taking us next."
