TEH 259: AI is still dumb. Who's in charge of TikTok? The death of Gmail Import.

In This Episode: AI is still dumb. Who’s in charge of TikTok? The death of Gmail Import.

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This week the TEH Podcast is hosted by Leo Notenboom, the “Chief Question Answerer” at Ask Leo!, and Gary Rosenzweig, the host and producer of MacMost, and mobile game developer at Clever Media.

(You’ll find longer Bios on the Hosts page.)

Top Stories

0:30 LN: Been playing with Jan https://www.jan.ai/
- 2:15 So MANY online AIs: ChatGPT, Copilot, Claude, Gemini, & others
- 3:35 Privacy-focused: Proton’s Lumo
- Self-hosted: Jan (ultimate privacy?) – biggest complication is figuring out what LLM model to use
- 9:00 GR: Claud bot
- 10:00 Don’t let AI decide things for you
14:40 GR: Who owns TikTok now?
- 15:50 TikTok is now owned (80%) by an investor group
- Oracle houses data (Larry Ellison)
- Was owned by Chinese ByteDance before (still 20%)
- Should you keep watching? (honestly can’t decide)
- 21:00 Alternatives: YouTube Shorts is getting better, Instagram
26:00 GR: mobile journalism tips
- 30:00 Practice “quick draw” filming with your mobile phone
- Familiarize yourself with your camera resolution and upload settings
  - LN: auto-backup to cloud
- 37:00 Remember if a friend is filming, you film too. Heck, film them filming things.
44:00 LN: The death of “Check mail from other accounts:” took me down a path
- FastMail
- 48:00 Proton mail for security
- 53:00 Google Workspace for Nonprofits