Our Guest Josh Browder Discusses
The World's First AI Lawyer: Josh Browder on the Anti-Scam AI You Need to Know
What if AI could finally level the playing field between everyday consumers and powerful corporations?
On this episode of Digital Disruption, we’re joined by Josh Browder, founder of DoNotPay.
Josh, also known as the “robot lawyer,” is an entrepreneur and the founder of DoNotPay, often referred to as “the Robin Hood of the Internet.” He created DoNotPay after noticing the disproportionate targeting of elderly and disabled motorists through parking ticket enforcement. Since its launch, DoNotPay has helped UK and New York motorists save an estimated $5 million. Josh has been recognized as one of MIT Technology Review’s “35 Innovators Under 35” and named one of the top legal innovators in America by the Financial Times.
Josh joins Geoff to discuss how AI in law is transforming the legal landscape and driving real-world innovation. From the impact of artificial intelligence on consumer rights, the legal system, and everyday life, this episode explores how AI is being used to help people push back against predatory business practices.
Josh shares how his company, DoNotPay evolved from simple legal templates into sophisticated AI agents capable of negotiating directly with companies and in some cases, even AI vs. AI negotiations with corporate chatbots. The conversation dives into how large organizations profit from consumer friction, dark patterns, and bureaucracy, and how AI can help consumers fight fire with fire.
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Hey everyone!
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I'm super excited to sit down
with Josh Browder, founder of
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Do Not Pay, the world's first AI lawyer.
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He's also an AI angel investor
and has worked with
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some of Silicon Valley's
leading venture capitalists.
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I'm not typically big
on profiling individual companies,
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but what's interesting about Josh
is that he uses AI to help people
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fight back against predatory and
exploitative practices by big companies.
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Think cable bills.
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Think parking tickets.
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Think canceling subscriptions.
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I want to ask him about the most predatory
behaviors.
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We need to be aware of how this landscape
is evolving, but most of all,
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how to save money and get money back.
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Let's find out.
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Josh, super excited to be talking to you
today.
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About really all of the good things
that I can do for people.
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And, you know,
there's a lot of conversation right now.
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There's this narrative about, you know,
big tech and all the ways that AI
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is sort of, you know, consolidating power
or it's helping big business.
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You have a little bit
of a different perspective
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about the potential of AI to help,
you know,
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the long tail of folks, you know, the
the every man or every woman here.
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You know,
maybe you can start by painting me
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a little bit of a picture
of some of the challenges
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or pains that that people are facing
in their daily lives,
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and the opportunity
that this technology brings.
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Thank you so much for having me.
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I've been exposed to this world
by accident.
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I've started my company, ten years ago.
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It's called Do not Pay.
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And it helps consumers
fight for their rights.
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I should mention it's
not only a company, it's a lifestyle
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about fighting against big companies
and governments.
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And I started the company by accident
because I got a large number of
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parking tickets.
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And I realized that,
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the government and these large companies
were really exploiting people.
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And it started with just templates.
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But now we're using a lot of true
AI to help people fight back.
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So, for example, we have robots, they
go into someone's utility bell account
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and they start negotiating someone's
cable bill down.
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And what's interesting is the big
companies are using AI and we're using AI.
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So sometimes it's an AI versus
AI negotiation.
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And I think this is,
a great example of the broader
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trend of AI can be used to help people,
and it can also be used,
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unfortunately, by these big companies,
to squeeze money out of people.
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And so we want to fight fire
with fire and fight back.
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That was exactly the phrase that came
to mind the fight fire with fire.
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Because it doesn't it doesn't necessarily
seem like a fair fight.
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And, certainly have been in a situation
where you feel like,
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oh, you're being exploited in some way,
or you just don't have the time or,
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you know, you
you end up paying for something
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just to make the problem go away.
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this is such a broad landscape of like,
any sort of interaction it could be with,
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you know, either
people and private businesses
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with the government,
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you know, in your mind, Josh,
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you said you've been doing this for
for ten years or so.
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What are some of the most sort
of compelling
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use cases for this that you really think
there's an opportunity to push back on?
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So, there's so many,
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more broadly, there's
so many areas of people's lives where,
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the big companies know
and there's this, there's this problem
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in society of concentrated benefit
and spread out harm.
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And what I mean by that is, Comcast
or any company
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like it can charge a million people, $10,
they make $10 million,
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but the people being charged
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$10 don't have the time
or the resources to fight back.
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And that's a great job for AI
because you don't have to pay AI.
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It doesn't have to sleep.
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It can, work very cheaply
and efficiently on behalf of consumers.
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And there's all sorts of rights and, rules
that people have that they didn't even
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that I don't have the time and the energy
or the knowledge to get back, money for.
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So I'll give you one concrete example,
which is perhaps my favorite
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do not pay feature,
which is called Robo Revenge.
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And there's this amazing law, in America,
it's called
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the Telephone Consumer Protection Act,
and it allows consumers
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to get up to $1,500
whenever they get a spam call.
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And this is an amazing rule.
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And, if everyone enforced this,
I don't think there would be any spam
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calls, but no one has the resources
to get that money.
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And one of the reasons people don't is
that when you get one of these spam calls,
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as I'm sure you can attest,
they give you fake names
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and fake numbers and they don't even say
where they're calling from.
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And we've built an AI trap
to fight these farm callers.
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And the way the trap works is it's say,
special do not pay credit card.
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It's not linked to the consumer
in any way.
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And when they phone you up
and try and sell you
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the crews with the spam call,
you can say, I'm very interested.
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Here's my do not pay
or you don't say, here's my do not buy.
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Here's my card number
and you give them this special card.
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And through the payment network,
I guess their business name, address,
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phone number.
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And then it generates the latter
automatically
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and sends it off to the right place
to get you that $1,500.
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So it's like a honey trap.
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And, we have users.
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It's they're no exaggeration.
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Their full time gig.
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Just getting money from robot callers.
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Whenever they get a sample,
there's even one guy he,
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bought a new house roof for his house
in new Jersey.
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He's made so much money, and I like is
I is empowering people to almost be their
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own regulator and own like vigilante
to fight back against all these problems.
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So I want to I want to dive
a little bit deeper into that,
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because it's really easy for us to fall
into the conversational trap of, you know,
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I as just this sort of broad umbrella.
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And, Josh,
you mentioned a little bit earlier
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that this started with templates
and it sort of evolved.
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So when you say AI
and talk about what I can do,
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you know, is this, you know, dynamic
template generation through generative
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AI, is it sort of having agents.
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What's what is it passive? Is it active?
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What does this actually look like in
practice for some of these, situations?
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Yeah. So the very first use case.
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So I'll use the excuse, I came from the UK
to study at Stanford, and the Americans
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drive on the other side of the road,
so I'll use that excuse.
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But really, I was a terrible driver.
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And so I was getting all of these
expensive
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parking tickets, and,
I couldn't afford to pay them.
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They're like $300 each.
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Very, very expensive.
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And so I became an accidental expert at
how to get out of tickets.
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And the way I did that is
I did a freedom of information request,
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in various cities.
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And I looked for the top reasons
why parking tickets were canceled.
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And so my initial version of do not pay,
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it would match you to one of those reasons
where the template
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put in all the details
and then send it off to the right place,
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and I didn't expect anyone to use it.
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I literally just sent it
to like ten of my friends. And
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one of them
wrote a blog post about her experience,
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and she's a very good writer, but usually
her blog posts maybe get like 500 views.
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In this case,
it went internationally viral.
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It went to the front page of Reddit,
and I went from ten people using
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it, 50,000 people, almost overnight.
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And the initial version of the site use,
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you choose a template and then,
it would send the latter,
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but all these 50,000 people using it,
they didn't know which template to click.
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And they didn't know that
I was like a college student behind this.
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They thought it was like some big company.
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And so they'd write in to support
with all these questions
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about which template to pick
and other problems they would have.
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And I actually even in 2016, 2017,
a few years in,
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I decided I want to make it,
wanted to make a chat bot.
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And the reason for that was,
I can have an open ended input so people
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could put in that reason why they were
unjustly treated by parking tickets.
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And then some of the other use cases
we had at the time,
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and then the software
would match you on the back end
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and so do not pay
was actually one of the first mass market
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consumer chat bots,
and it seemed crazy at the time.
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People, weren't really used
to interacting with the chat bot.
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Now people use chat bots every day
with ChatGPT,
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but it was very novel back then.
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So that was the kind of initial version.
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And over time
has become much more sophisticated
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and AI has helped to solve a very
key problem, which is that,
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what happens when the government
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or the companies respond
and you need to respond back?
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And, and parking
tickets is an asynchronous dispute.
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You submit it, it goes into a black box
and then it comes back.
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But most of the really exciting things
to get money for people are synchronous.
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Imagine you're chatting
with a Comcast chat bot,
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or you're chatting with an airline chat
bot to get a refund and things like that.
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And that's
why where I is incredibly useful,
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where you can respond instantly.
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So we've gone from helping people
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save $100 in parking tickets
to thousand dollar disputes with airlines.
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And we're even doing tens of thousand
dollar disputes with medical bills.
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And that's really helpful.
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And the big breakthrough
that we've made in the past six months is,
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about 2 or 3 years ago, we started doing
the synchronous disputes online.
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Now we're doing them
a bit over the phone as well.
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So AI is finally getting,
convincing enough that,
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we have phone robots phone up,
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and I've got all sorts of funny stories
around that, and helping people.
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And so Jeff
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So what's what's the implication there
then for what you're doing?
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I mean, it sounds like your,
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you know, what you've been doing
has been, like, evolving pretty rapidly.
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You know,
how does the ChatGPT of it all, you know,
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fit into what you've been doing
and how people are using your services?
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I think I will lead
to a much more efficient world.
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There are a lot of big companies
that make huge revenue and profit
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just from, dark patterns
where they people know that
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they don't have the time to, or energy
to cancel or switch to a different plan.
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It's an open secret
that if you phone up a company and say,
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I'm thinking of canceling,
they're going to give you a discount
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and they should just give you
the discounts.
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Be nice to begin with.
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Because we're in a competitive market
and they have competitors, but they know
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there's so much friction and bureaucracy
that it takes time to switch.
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So the optimistic view is that I will lead
to a much more efficient world.
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And then there's also customer
service costs.
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If you buy a plane ticket,
about 10 to 20% of the cost of the plane
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ticket is actually going
towards customer service.
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And so I can even make things
more efficient on the big companies end.
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And in fact,
when so do not pay was launching city
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by essentially even with parking tickets
and NPR the radio station asked
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the head of the Los Angeles parking ticket
bureau what he thought about a service.
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I do not pay,
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and you would think
that they would hate it
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because it would take revenue
from the government. And they do.
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But he did have a positive spin on that,
which is people write such nonsense
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in their parking ticket appeal at us,
at least when it comes from a service like
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do Not Pay. It's
efficient and streamlined.
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And so I think even the companies
can benefit from an efficient world
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where they don't
have to jack up the prices by 10 to 20%
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because they're paying for all this
expensive customer service.
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Now, whether all of that benefit flows to
the consumer is probably unlikely, but,
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at least some of it, well. So so
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with that in
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mind, I'm curious, you know, I,
I love the optimistic view
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that everything is more efficient
and everybody has money in their pockets.
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So since you've been doing this,
have you seen
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any response
from some of these big organizations
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like is this enough of a risk to them
that they're starting to revamp
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some of their,
you know, their own processes
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so that, you know, they're either I proof
or they're making it more difficult to,
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you know, for people to use this either
synchronously or asynchronously.
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So we take a very humble view
to our product.
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We have, over 250,000 subscribers, which
is great for us as a very small team.
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And we, we've had a big impact
in those people's lives.
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But it's a drop in the bucket to the
increase and exploitation going out there.
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And, the biggest statistic I would say
is new York City alone make $1 billion
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a year just from ticket sales.
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And so we like to thank the we give
our customers almost an unfair advantage.
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And we take the view that not everyone
is going to be a customer
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if you're not paying.
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So those that use the AI tools
and more broadly,
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there's still a lot of people
who don't even know what ChatGPT is.
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If you can believe it.
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And so especially our customer
demographic.
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And so, we, we would have to be like
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100 x bigger to have companies
start changing their processes.
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But I we'll give you one concrete example
where a company changed that process.
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We have a, product.
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It's called the free trial credit card.
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And it uses AI to help people
with manage their subscriptions
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and stop people
from getting sucked into all these things.
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And one one aspect of the product
is, is a special credit card
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that you can use for any free trial.
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And,
gets you through the free trial thing
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because it's not linked
to the consumer thing to do not pay.
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But when the subscription comes
time to renew, it automatically cancels
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the free trial.
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And we, signing up
so many people for signing.
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And that's the way it should be,
because most people,
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they give that credit card details
and they forget
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and they don't get any value,
and it just renews every month.
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But we were signing up so many people
for so many free trials.
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That a lot,
a lot of big companies, started off
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ending their free trial program.
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And actually, we were very humble,
but we actually like to take some credit
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and actually Netflix ending
that free trial program because just
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before they did, we were doing
so many Netflix free trials, it was crazy.
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That it's interesting and
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that's sort of a multifaceted one,
like I don't.
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Is that a good thing? Is that a bad thing?
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I mean, it's certainly good that,
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you know,
consumers are not being exploited anymore.
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And I, I've encountered that plenty
of times in my life where it's just,
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you know,
I signed up for like a sports channel
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because I wanted to watch the, I wanted
to watch the World Series this year.
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Toronto was in it, and I didn't have it.
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And so I signed up for this package.
It was.
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And, you know, the next thing I know,
I've forgotten them. Their.
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You know, their billing the month
after month.
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And it's just,
you know, I, I've forgotten to do that.
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So I mean, it's interesting
and it's compelling and I wonder,
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you know, to what degree people are going
to be reshaping these, these models.
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Yeah.
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And, we we definitely ruffled
some feathers.
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We we send a lot of data
deletion requests,
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so there's all these privacy laws
that allow people to stop data brokers
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from selling their data.
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And we send so many to one data broker
that they actually try
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to, like, take legal action against us
because they were getting so much
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do not pay.
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So it's like David versus Goliath.
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They're constantly
being squeezed on all ends.
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But, we're typically more motivated
than the average big company,
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executive or engineer.
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So, being motivated takes you a long way.
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Right now that's, that's awesome.
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It's, it's a noble calling.
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I wanted to come back
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to, you know, one of the examples
you talked about, which is medical bills
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and just just that these are one of the,
you know,
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the bigger scope, you know, problems
that you solve for people.
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Can you give me a little bit more flavor
in terms of what that looks like?
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And I imagine that's mostly,
you know, in the US,
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but, you know,
how much wiggle room is there?
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What what are some of the predatory
tactics that you're seeing,
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you know, insurance companies
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or medical providers,
actually download on to their customers?
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And how do you, you know, support them
saving money?
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Yeah. So there's this amazing new law.
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It's called the No Surprises Act.
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And it allows you to allows consumers
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a broad range of rights
to negotiate their medical bills.
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And,
first of all, a lot of these hospitals
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and providers are unfortunately run
by private equity firms.
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And the second that anyone does
any sort of push back
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with the bill, most people who get medical
bill will tell you about this.
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They'll knock off 30%
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just from the initial negotiation,
just as like a negotiation tactic.
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And so I would advise all consumers,
through online service or just themselves,
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to push back on any medical bill
they receive because, what we're saying
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is a lot of big companies
will just reduce it almost immediately.
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In terms of some of the more shady
tactics, there's something called up
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coding.
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Up coding is where the,
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provider will say you had an like,
a full kind of arm examination,
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but really, they just loved
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your wrist and then it's triple
the price and things like that.
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And then the final thing
I'll say is that the no surprises act
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almost allows you to do comparison
shopping, between hospitals.
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And if one hospital is charging
you three times the price for a procedure
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that the hospital down
the street is charging you much less for,
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you can dispute that.
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And if the, provider disagrees, you
can actually go to an independent panel
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to keep disputing it.
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And, the big companies,
they don't have time for that once
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you know your rights and you push back,
they typically are very amenable.
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And, I, we like to joke internally.
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It's actually sometimes easier
to get a big discount,
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tens of thousands of dollars
on a medical bill than it is
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to get out of parking tickets, because
these companies have so much margin
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and they're they know that the slightest
negotiation, they'll take some off.
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So that that's very exciting.
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What it is.
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And I'm you know, that it's exactly
where I wanted to go, Josh, which is,
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you know, for the average person,
I mean, a parking, you know,
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a parking ticket could be, you know, 50
or 100 bucks in terms of money.
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Saved it, call it in 2026.
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What what do you see as the biggest kind
of opportunities for the average person?
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Or, you know, a few different scenarios
for the biggest opportunities for people
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to to actually save the most money
from some of these practices.
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I think the next area we're looking into
is property taxes.
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Everyone hates property taxes.
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And that that's even bigger
than medical bills.
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In some instances, because everyone gets
set who owns a property every year.
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And the way they do that, some of these
valuations are very, kind of dubious.
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And it's a big money driver
and you just have to follow the money.
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And, and so kind of automating property
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tax disputes, is
probably our, next biggest,
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area of focus.
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I will say that where there's all sorts
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of interesting technical challenges
that we're dealing with as well.
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So these more advanced use cases
and I'm happy to go into that.
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But like, even handling these phone
conversations, is very interesting.
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I'd, I'd love to go into that either Yeah.
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the advanced use cases
or just some of the technical challenges.
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I guess for me, what's interesting,
Josh, is not just the technical
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challenges, but some of the,
some of the technology that's out there
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and the way that you're able to overcome
some of these challenges.
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Yeah.
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So with, with I, I do not pay.
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That was really three waves.
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So the first wave was when,
GPT two came out
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and this was at actually before ChatGPT
by a few years.
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And this allowed technology to have
a conversation and pass the Turing test.
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And in a sense where you could connect,
that for businesses,
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you could loop and open AI and then,
you could build your own bots.
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And that was very helpful for us
for jumping through these hoops
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that required a human like interaction,
like chatting with the New York Times
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to cancel someone's subscription.
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But the problem with that was it.
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Well, didn't really reason very well.
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It was very dumb.
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If you remember early ChatGPT, you could
still kind of tell it was a robot.
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And one example would be like the big
company would say, I'll give you $10 off.
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And then the, robot powered by GPT
two would say, that, that that's fine.
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I'll take it.
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And we want it to do better
for our customers.
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ChatGPT and GPT three and 3.5 and
four came out, and that was a step change.
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So that was really the second wave.
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And all of a sudden
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these big companies were saying,
I'll knock off $10 off your bill.
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Or more advanced use cases.
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And the GPT said, no, I reject that.
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I want to do $100 off
or I'll cancel right now.
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And that's really what enabled these more
complicated use cases like medical bills.
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But that was like a modality problem
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where it was still over online chat
and it took about two seconds,
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for all of the technologies
to kind of loop in together.
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You have the, kind of processing of what
the company is saying,
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and then your processing the response.
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And it took about two seconds,
and this was good enough for online chat,
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if you can imagine,
two seconds is a convincing amount of time
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for a consumer to be typing frantically.
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But it wasn't good enough for,
phone calls.
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And everything really changed.
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About a year ago,
when GPT four came out for two reasons.
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Firstly, the latency, like the speed
it took for the AI
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to respond, decreased by 80%.
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And then also the cost of the models
decreased by 90%.
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So now it's, it's like 90% cheaper
to operate the same thing.
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And that allowed us
to, start doing these fun conversations.
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And,
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we've had big successes with the phone,
but we've also had interesting challenges.
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And I'll give you one example.
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About a few
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months
ago, we were doing one of our first,
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utility bell conversations over the phone,
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and we instruct our
AI to never lie because,
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we're, established business
with, liability purposes.
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There has to be always truthful.
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And so the
I phoned up this cell phone company
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to negotiate someone's bell, and it said,
hello, I'm the assistant to so-and-so.
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I'm calling to negotiate
the cell phone bill.
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And it didn't say AI assistant,
but it said assistant
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and the human agent on the other end,
said,
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okay, I understand you're the assistant,
but what's your name?
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And this was a big challenge for the AI
because it didn't have a name.
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And so it was very confusing and it was
relying on its instructions to never lie.
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And so I said, no, you don't understand.
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I'm the assistant.
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And this went back and forth
like three times.
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The human agent said, no,
I understand you're the assistant,
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but what's your name?
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And went back and forth, back and forth.
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And we were watching this in real time
because it was one of our test cases.
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And the AI said, you can call me Alex.
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And it came up with this on its own.
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And so it wasn't technically a lie.
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It was just an interesting way
of solving the problem.
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And so I think the reasoning models
are getting very sophisticated at solving
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all of these constraints where you want
to represent someone very efficiently,
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but also you want to be truthful
and comply with all the laws.
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And so those are the type
of problems we're seeing.
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Yeah, it's it's interesting,
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you know, from the perspective
of what you're doing with your not pay.
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But it's also just interesting
to see what this technology is doing.
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And, you know, some of the,
some of the logic going in there as well.
00;24;04;22 - 00;24;08;29
You mentioned that the next frontier
for you is property taxes.
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And that's an interesting one because I
and I mean, it's a take away for me.
00;24;11;28 - 00;24;14;28
I never thought about property taxes
as something I could dispute,
00;24;15;05 - 00;24;17;24
but now I'm like,
maybe I can dispute property taxes.
00;24;17;24 - 00;24;18;16
but I'm curious.
00;24;18;16 - 00;24;22;05
Josh,
are there any other sort of wish list
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dispute items that you would love
to be able to help customers with?
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Yeah.
00;24;27;03 - 00;24;30;03
I tell my team and by the way,
the team is like the people who, like,
00;24;30;03 - 00;24;31;17
browse Reddit at 2 a.m.
00;24;31;17 - 00;24;33;10
looking to scale up their own hacks.
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We as a broader product level, do not pay
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is trying to go from, proactive usage.
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So someone goes and has a parking ticket
or an airline dispute or a utility dispute
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to kind of retroactive usage where,
00;24;48;27 - 00;24;51;23
you just wake up and do not pay,
so I solve you.
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I saved you money.
00;24;53;04 - 00;24;56;06
I noticed there was an outage
while you were sleeping with the internet,
00;24;56;06 - 00;24;59;04
and I already
got you a $20 compensation for that.
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And so even across our existing product
base,
00;25;02;24 - 00;25;06;12
this is kind of a year of just making
do not pay more passive,
00;25;06;15 - 00;25;09;16
almost like an insurance policy
about being ripped off
00;25;09;22 - 00;25;13;06
so that consumers don't
even have to go to us with these issues.
00;25;13;06 - 00;25;15;12
It just has all your information
00;25;15;12 - 00;25;18;07
and it kind of gets you
these refunds in the background.
00;25;18;07 - 00;25;23;01
We're trying to be
like a against the establishment.
00;25;23;04 - 00;25;25;13
The that that's really interesting to me.
00;25;25;13 - 00;25;30;20
And once you can crack that sort of
passive not where it's just like you.
00;25;30;23 - 00;25;33;22
It's not an assistant
that you necessarily have to,
00;25;33;27 - 00;25;36;14
you know, prompt
every time you want them to do something.
00;25;36;14 - 00;25;40;04
But they're, you know, out doing that,
that that seems like a big,
00;25;40;11 - 00;25;43;07
very exciting frontier. Is that like
00;25;43;10 - 00;25;45;29
when you think about that, Josh?
00;25;45;29 - 00;25;47;28
Like, how
00;25;47;28 - 00;25;51;17
is that something that you think
you'll be able to see in 2026, 2027,
00;25;51;17 - 00;25;54;27
or is that like,
you know, dream territory?
00;25;55;00 - 00;25;58;09
Well, it's
kind of like Tesla full self-driving.
00;25;58;15 - 00;26;03;13
It's there's some aspects are available
today and and some that come soon.
00;26;03;16 - 00;26;06;21
One aspect that's available today
that I recommend
00;26;06;23 - 00;26;11;15
everyone does is,
there's a concept called unclaimed money.
00;26;11;21 - 00;26;15;06
So if consumers move address,
00;26;15;09 - 00;26;18;00
sometimes that owed a refund
because they overpaid that car
00;26;18;00 - 00;26;20;06
payment or utility bill payment.
00;26;20;06 - 00;26;23;00
And so you would think that the companies
have to track you down
00;26;23;00 - 00;26;26;02
to send you that money,
but eventually they send you the checks
00;26;26;02 - 00;26;29;01
and then it goes to your old address
and so it doesn't get opened.
00;26;29;07 - 00;26;31;25
And so they send that money
to the state governments.
00;26;31;25 - 00;26;36;04
And so there's about $20 billion
just waiting for consumers to be claimed,
00;26;36;10 - 00;26;41;19
in various databases that they're owed,
tax refunds is another one.
00;26;41;25 - 00;26;44;10
And so we built a products
that the consumer
00;26;44;10 - 00;26;48;04
gives their name and date of birth,
and it constantly checks these databases.
00;26;48;04 - 00;26;51;17
And that exists today
and actually found me some money.
00;26;51;21 - 00;26;55;21
I was owed $150 by Chase
because when I was at Stanford,
00;26;55;21 - 00;26;57;24
I overpaid one of my car payments.
00;26;57;24 - 00;27;03;17
And so, that's just one example of
of creative ways.
00;27;03;20 - 00;27;06;10
And it's really unfair
that governments are just holding
00;27;06;10 - 00;27;07;10
this huge amount of money.
00;27;07;10 - 00;27;11;06
In fact, 1 in 7 Americans,
have this unclaimed money,
00;27;11;13 - 00;27;16;09
and I can go and find it today for people.
00;27;16;12 - 00;27;18;07
That's yeah, that's awesome.
00;27;18;07 - 00;27;22;06
And, yeah, I again, it's so much of
it seems to be coming back
00;27;22;06 - 00;27;23;27
to just putting money
back in people's pockets,
00;27;23;27 - 00;27;26;29
which is you know,
really tough to argue with and feels
00;27;26;29 - 00;27;29;29
like sort of a no brainer.
00;27;30;03 - 00;27;33;26
I'm curious about potential industry
disruption,
00;27;33;26 - 00;27;37;28
you see, coming from
this use case, from AI in general,
00;27;38;01 - 00;27;40;25
one of the areas that sort of abuts
what you're doing here
00;27;40;25 - 00;27;43;23
is just the legal industry
and the use of lawyers.
00;27;43;23 - 00;27;46;15
And so I wanted to maybe ask you,
00;27;46;15 - 00;27;50;16
when do you think about the impact
right now on let's start with legal.
00;27;50;16 - 00;27;53;16
And we can kind of,
you know, branch out from there.
00;27;53;20 - 00;27;58;22
A lot of these new tools and tactics
that people are using here with AI.
00;27;58;25 - 00;27;59;16
Do you see it
00;27;59;16 - 00;28;04;02
replacing traditional lawyers,
traditional engagements with law firms?
00;28;04;05 - 00;28;07;11
Is it just opening up a pocket of,
00;28;07;17 - 00;28;11;12
you know, value that wasn't
previously accessible to people?
00;28;11;15 - 00;28;15;08
How do you see the space changing?
00;28;15;11 - 00;28;16;17
So do
00;28;16;17 - 00;28;19;17
not pay my my thoughts on
this have really shifted.
00;28;19;22 - 00;28;24;23
When I started,
I was like a, overly optimistic,
00;28;24;28 - 00;28;29;16
like, college student, and I thought that
I would replace all lawyers.
00;28;29;22 - 00;28;32;21
And I think maybe one day it will.
00;28;32;21 - 00;28;35;27
I do believe in kind of these advanced
AI systems
00;28;35;27 - 00;28;38;27
and AGI for, professional work.
00;28;39;00 - 00;28;43;22
But in terms of what do not pay is doing,
it's really an underserved area.
00;28;43;28 - 00;28;46;23
There's,
no lawyer who's going to get out of that
00;28;46;23 - 00;28;51;11
to help someone with the $20
Comcast refund and do not pay a Spanish.
00;28;51;11 - 00;28;53;16
Ironically,
we spend a huge amount of money
00;28;53;16 - 00;28;57;27
on real lawyers for compliance to comply
with all these state bar regulations
00;28;57;27 - 00;29;01;20
and all these disclaimers
that I is not a lawyer and all this stuff.
00;29;01;23 - 00;29;04;02
And that's really important for us.
00;29;04;02 - 00;29;07;09
And I think we've reached a good balance
now where we're just helping
00;29;07;09 - 00;29;10;06
being a consumer advocate.
00;29;10;09 - 00;29;13;01
The lawyers are unfortunately,
the people who write the rules.
00;29;13;01 - 00;29;16;21
And so they will ironically,
be the last people to be replaced.
00;29;16;25 - 00;29;20;25
Interestingly, I think software engineers
will be the first to be replaced,
00;29;20;25 - 00;29;25;24
even though they were the ones who
created this, AI wave in the first place.
00;29;25;27 - 00;29;27;05
I joke with my friends
00;29;27;05 - 00;29;30;24
that I left college at the absolute
peak of the computer science industry.
00;29;30;29 - 00;29;33;02
It was only downhill from that.
00;29;33;02 - 00;29;37;10
There are a lot of interesting companies
in the space as like Harvey,
00;29;37;10 - 00;29;41;20
which is helping lawyers
become more efficient, and others.
00;29;41;23 - 00;29;45;15
But really, these are just tools
for lawyers to save the lawyers money.
00;29;45;18 - 00;29;49;24
There hasn't been a kind of AI law firm
because of all of this regulation,
00;29;49;29 - 00;29;54;04
or at least one
that's been widely mass market successful.
00;29;54;07 - 00;29;57;07
So let's let's pivot
then maybe to, you know, cops, AI
00;29;57;07 - 00;30;01;05
and software development,
which, you flagged as kind of an area,
00;30;01;05 - 00;30;02;16
you know, ripe for disruption.
00;30;02;16 - 00;30;05;15
And, you know, it's interesting
given your background there.
00;30;05;15 - 00;30;10;09
Can you tell me a little bit more
about that perspective and how it's
00;30;10;12 - 00;30;13;29
how it's impacted you
as someone who is doing
00;30;13;29 - 00;30;19;10
some version of software development
professionally with this with Do Not Pay.
00;30;19;13 - 00;30;22;08
So, at the beginning of the call,
I mentioned
00;30;22;08 - 00;30;24;00
that do not pay as a lifestyle.
00;30;24;00 - 00;30;27;28
And in addition to being a company
and we really take the do not pay approach
00;30;27;28 - 00;30;30;03
even to our own internal operations.
00;30;30;03 - 00;30;32;27
And, AI has really helped us with that.
00;30;32;27 - 00;30;37;13
We're only a team of 14 people and we're
servicing this huge subscriber base,
00;30;37;13 - 00;30;40;16
and we try and be in a very efficient
and profitable business.
00;30;40;21 - 00;30;44;05
And we're actually, one of the first
VC backed companies to pay dividends.
00;30;44;12 - 00;30;46;12
And AI has allowed us to do that.
00;30;46;12 - 00;30;49;11
And the way it works is,
00;30;49;11 - 00;30;52;02
it's like integrated
throughout our customer support
00;30;52;02 - 00;30;55;02
and product development,
kind of life cycles.
00;30;55;06 - 00;31;00;04
So, for example,
someone, emails customer support
00;31;00;07 - 00;31;03;26
and they say, I had this bug problem
and we're actually
00;31;03;26 - 00;31;09;06
we actually have an AI that, monitors
all usage from all customers
00;31;09;06 - 00;31;14;14
and can link it to the customer support
ticket, figure out the issue and summarize
00;31;14;14 - 00;31;18;26
it without us having to spend an hour
figuring out what the actual back is.
00;31;18;29 - 00;31;22;04
Then we use, like many, company's clawed
00;31;22;04 - 00;31;27;19
code to actually, get the solution
much more quickly and probably replaces
00;31;27;19 - 00;31;31;09
like three times the amount of engineers
the one engineer can do.
00;31;31;12 - 00;31;34;24
And so automating customer support
and actually,
00;31;34;29 - 00;31;39;02
like fixing of bugs
has been incredibly helpful for us.
00;31;39;02 - 00;31;42;08
And it's allowed us to kind of
stay on top of this huge customer base.
00;31;42;15 - 00;31;45;22
And like someone writes to us
and say and says, unfortunately,
00;31;45;22 - 00;31;48;22
I lost my parking ticket, disappear
or something like that.
00;31;48;28 - 00;31;52;06
The AI is pre drafted response
and one click
00;31;52;09 - 00;31;55;05
send the response
and automate with the billing systems.
00;31;55;05 - 00;31;56;10
Get them a refund.
00;31;56;10 - 00;31;59;10
And so it's even making us
a lot more efficient as a company
00;31;59;10 - 00;32;02;03
and allowing us to be very elite.
00;32;02;06 - 00;32;02;21
Right.
00;32;02;21 - 00;32;05;05
So so it's it's an efficiency
play in your mind.
00;32;05;05 - 00;32;08;13
It's it's helping developers
do even more or helping the customers do
00;32;08;13 - 00;32;14;09
even more versus like a wholesale
replacement of the industry.
00;32;14;12 - 00;32;14;24
Yeah.
00;32;14;24 - 00;32;19;00
And everyone always asks me what what
what do I think about the future of jobs
00;32;19;03 - 00;32;20;24
and with AI?
00;32;20;24 - 00;32;25;20
And I'm very, very optimistic about this
because the job that I'm doing today
00;32;25;23 - 00;32;27;16
didn't exist ten years ago.
00;32;27;16 - 00;32;33;03
Not not nothing that do not pay
is built on even existed ten years ago.
00;32;33;03 - 00;32;38;19
Even a customer acquisition strategy
we get 95% of at plus of our customers
00;32;38;19 - 00;32;41;22
from referrals from Google search
00;32;41;22 - 00;32;45;08
and increasingly ChatGPT even
00;32;45;15 - 00;32;49;16
and 20 years ago,
or 25 years ago, that didn't even exist.
00;32;49;22 - 00;32;53;22
And so, AI is constantly
creating new opportunities for people.
00;32;53;25 - 00;32;56;26
And actually, I'm an angel investor
in some companies.
00;32;56;26 - 00;32;59;15
I'm trying to pay forward
my entrepreneurial journey.
00;32;59;15 - 00;33;02;17
And there's one company I'm
an angel investor and call Micro One.
00;33;02;19 - 00;33;06;16
And, they pay people to train AI models,
00;33;06;21 - 00;33;10;18
and there are people making $500 an hour
teaching AI what to do.
00;33;10;21 - 00;33;15;03
And, that that was a recent article
that this industry alone
00;33;15;09 - 00;33;19;06
is projected to be a $1 trillion industry
over the next few years, a brand
00;33;19;06 - 00;33;24;08
new industry of training AI,
and the world is constantly changing.
00;33;24;08 - 00;33;26;18
And as humans, our experience is unique.
00;33;26;18 - 00;33;28;03
And so this is not going to go away.
00;33;28;03 - 00;33;32;07
A lot of people say, well, once the
AI is trained, then that will be done.
00;33;32;07 - 00;33;33;22
But the world is constantly changing
00;33;33;22 - 00;33;36;23
and training changing,
so you're constantly going to be, needing
00;33;36;23 - 00;33;40;11
people to update the
AI so that maybe that will be our job.
00;33;40;16 - 00;33;44;06
And also doing fake a fake economy
with Nvidia against the
00;33;44;07 - 00;33;45;24
that's a whole separate issue.
00;33;45;24 - 00;33;49;29
So how does the how does the training
API's work, the getting paid for it?
00;33;49;29 - 00;33;50;22
Because that
00;33;50;22 - 00;33;52;23
I mean, if you told me that
and I didn't know
00;33;52;23 - 00;33;55;29
you were anything about you, like that
sounds an awful lot like a scam to me of,
00;33;56;00 - 00;33;59;23
you know, make $500 an hour
from your home, you know, training AI.
00;33;59;23 - 00;34;02;00
What? What does that look like?
00;34;02;00 - 00;34;06;07
No, it's it's a it's a big industry
that is multi-billion dollar companies.
00;34;06;07 - 00;34;11;01
That the best one known one is a company
called scale which meta acquired.
00;34;11;04 - 00;34;14;12
$28 billion valuation
00;34;14;15 - 00;34;19;15
and that the training of AI models has
really evolved over the past few years.
00;34;19;15 - 00;34;23;02
So it started out with telling AI
this is a traffic cone.
00;34;23;02 - 00;34;26;20
And actually the self-driving companies
were the first customers of training AI.
00;34;26;23 - 00;34;31;01
Because you had to tell the AI this is
a traffic cone, this is a stop sign.
00;34;31;03 - 00;34;32;03
Things like that.
00;34;32;03 - 00;34;36;20
Now it's getting much more sophisticated,
where if you're an English professor
00;34;36;20 - 00;34;39;20
or a nuclear engineering professor
00;34;39;22 - 00;34;42;18
or, an expert, a law, even,
00;34;42;18 - 00;34;48;04
you need to reinforce
and refine the AI model to make it better.
00;34;48;04 - 00;34;51;04
And that's how that's why ChatGPT and,
00;34;51;04 - 00;34;54;07
anthropic Claude are getting better.
00;34;54;07 - 00;34;55;22
It's because they're hiring
00;34;55;22 - 00;34;59;27
millions of people,
literally to to to train these AI models.
00;34;59;27 - 00;35;04;19
And there's companies, the, infrastructure
providers that that provide to them.
00;35;04;22 - 00;35;08;09
And so that is a very,
very much a growing industry.
00;35;08;09 - 00;35;11;28
And a lot of people
are working in this field.
00;35;12;01 - 00;35;14;04
On it sounds
like, if I'm understanding correctly,
00;35;14;04 - 00;35;18;03
that the price tag is a result of like,
00;35;18;03 - 00;35;21;02
like you're paying for the expertise
that specific people have, right?
00;35;21;02 - 00;35;24;20
Like, it's not like you're going
to quit your job flipping burgers to train
00;35;24;27 - 00;35;26;21
AI that anybody can do this.
00;35;26;21 - 00;35;29;21
It's access to very specialized knowledge.
00;35;29;24 - 00;35;31;11
Is that right or no?
00;35;31;11 - 00;35;31;19
Yeah.
00;35;31;19 - 00;35;35;05
Well, the most exciting thing about this
is that the AI companies
00;35;35;05 - 00;35;36;08
have so much money,
00;35;36;08 - 00;35;39;29
like OpenAI, that I think
is now valued at close to 800 billion.
00;35;40;06 - 00;35;43;18
They want to make their
AI model good at everything.
00;35;43;22 - 00;35;48;08
And so if even if you're good
at the piano, Derek, AI companies
00;35;48;09 - 00;35;52;06
now paying you to record a video of you,
playing the piano
00;35;52;12 - 00;35;56;21
and actually the, the the most important
example I would say is folding laundry.
00;35;56;21 - 00;35;58;09
That's the big one right now.
00;35;58;09 - 00;36;02;04
You would think billions of humans
have done it over the past,
00;36;02;07 - 00;36;05;23
centuries folding laundry,
but there aren't actually
00;36;05;23 - 00;36;09;07
that many high quality videos of people
folding laundry.
00;36;09;13 - 00;36;12;13
So AI companies maybe not $500 an hour
00;36;12;13 - 00;36;15;13
for the laundry example,
but certainly $60 an hour.
00;36;15;16 - 00;36;19;19
I know of a real example of an AI company
paying people $60
00;36;19;19 - 00;36;23;15
an hour to fold laundry,
where the camera very zoomed in so that,
00;36;23;18 - 00;36;26;22
AI robots can one day do our laundry.
00;36;26;29 - 00;36;30;02
And I will say
2026 will be the year of robotics.
00;36;30;08 - 00;36;34;15
So the previous year was about,
online intelligence, but now I think it's
00;36;34;15 - 00;36;36;19
moving to the real world.
00;36;36;22 - 00;36;40;02
Wow. So so from your perspective,
00;36;40;05 - 00;36;43;04
you know, basically anybody who's,
you know, looking for work or
00;36;43;04 - 00;36;48;16
looking for or, you know, is potentially
in a low skill role, you see is value.
00;36;48;16 - 00;36;49;12
You see there's value.
00;36;49;12 - 00;36;50;23
And at least exploring
00;36;50;23 - 00;36;54;22
training AI is an income stream
or is that too broad a statement?
00;36;54;25 - 00;36;56;03
Know that that's and there's
00;36;56;03 - 00;36;59;17
thousands of jobs listed online
where someone can sign up.
00;36;59;20 - 00;37;01;05
And,
00;37;01;05 - 00;37;03;22
this is actually probably
one of the biggest employers
00;37;03;22 - 00;37;05;25
in some developing countries
like the Philippines
00;37;05;25 - 00;37;09;16
as well, where people are making triple
the minimum wage.
00;37;09;19 - 00;37;12;19
Training these AI models.
00;37;12;26 - 00;37;13;20
that's interesting to me.
00;37;13;20 - 00;37;17;20
And I mean, I guess it can't go
on forever, but if I if I think about it
00;37;17;23 - 00;37;20;26
in terms of its sort of logical extremes,
I mean, it's interesting to me
00;37;20;26 - 00;37;25;07
because it's
it has an opportunity to really disrupt
00;37;25;07 - 00;37;28;07
a lot of traditional industries,
at least in the short term.
00;37;28;11 - 00;37;32;15
If it's creating like a flight
from what people are doing now
00;37;32;18 - 00;37;35;25
to, you know, there's
basically this glut of
00;37;35;28 - 00;37;39;08
of capital in AI right now
and just bringing all these people
00;37;39;14 - 00;37;45;03
to do this lucrative,
you know, low, low skill task.
00;37;45;06 - 00;37;45;16
Yeah.
00;37;45;16 - 00;37;50;01
And I think understanding how the AI
models work is, is why I'm so optimistic.
00;37;50;01 - 00;37;54;07
So the way ChatGPT is trained
is they it's
00;37;54;07 - 00;37;57;21
just a statistical model that predicts
what's the next thing to come.
00;37;57;21 - 00;37;59;05
What's the next word to come?
00;37;59;05 - 00;38;00;28
If you ask it a question
00;38;00;28 - 00;38;04;19
and the way they've trained it is
they've taken every book, every TV show,
00;38;04;26 - 00;38;09;19
every online website that they have access
to through copyright,
00;38;09;22 - 00;38;11;28
that I legally have access to,
I should say,
00;38;11;28 - 00;38;14;21
and they feed it into this model.
00;38;14;21 - 00;38;20;00
The problem is that humans, the AI,
is almost a reflection on ourselves.
00;38;20;03 - 00;38;25;14
And, not all of human history is good,
and not all of online content is good.
00;38;25;18 - 00;38;28;19
And so the AI is like this monster
that has to be contained,
00;38;28;24 - 00;38;33;03
and you have to say, oh, well,
this is actually not correct history.
00;38;33;03 - 00;38;35;00
This is actually a conspiracy theory.
00;38;35;00 - 00;38;37;25
And that's why everyone has to go in.
00;38;37;25 - 00;38;41;20
And all these days of training,
people have to go in and clean it up.
00;38;41;23 - 00;38;42;03
Yeah.
00;38;42;03 - 00;38;44;02
Well, and that's
00;38;44;02 - 00;38;45;10
that's a big job.
00;38;45;10 - 00;38;47;10
And it's a contentious one. Right.
00;38;47;10 - 00;38;52;09
Like being able to answer what is true,
what is good I don't know.
00;38;52;09 - 00;38;54;25
That's like
I don't know the best way to do that.
00;38;54;25 - 00;38;59;17
I wish I did, but it feels like that's
more contentious than ever these days.
00;38;59;20 - 00;38;59;29
Yeah.
00;38;59;29 - 00;39;04;04
Well, some things are non-controversial,
like just the right way to fold
00;39;04;04 - 00;39;08;25
the laundry is good, but,
definitely on the content moderation side.
00;39;08;25 - 00;39;12;02
And I wouldn't want to have that job of
of all of that stuff.
00;39;12;08 - 00;39;14;09
Yeah. Yeah.
00;39;14;09 - 00;39;18;15
So so I'm I'm curious, Josh coming back
to, to do not pay.
00;39;18;15 - 00;39;21;16
So, you know, it's interesting to me
because the, you know, that
00;39;21;16 - 00;39;25;15
the spirit behind it is sort of,
you know, very anti-big business in a way,
00;39;25;15 - 00;39;29;07
which is, you know, which is,
you know, all well and good.
00;39;29;10 - 00;39;32;03
It's interesting to me
because I feel like, you know,
00;39;32;03 - 00;39;37;04
you've been able to attract some really
big individual and institutional investors
00;39;37;07 - 00;39;40;21
to, to do not pay, you know,
whether it's the Andreessen
00;39;40;21 - 00;39;46;04
Horowitz's of the world or Greylock or,
you know, Peter Thiel or executives from,
00;39;46;06 - 00;39;50;14
you know, places like Adobe or Coinbase,
what do investors see in this?
00;39;50;14 - 00;39;51;09
And do they see it
00;39;51;09 - 00;39;55;00
in any way as sort of a threat
to what they're doing, or what attracts
00;39;55;03 - 00;40;04;08
some of the bigger names or deeper, deeper
pocketed folks to a tool like this?
00;40;04;11 - 00;40;04;29
I think
00;40;04;29 - 00;40;07;28
it's I think
venture capital is incredibly useful.
00;40;08;00 - 00;40;11;00
When I, was thinking of starting
do not pay.
00;40;11;02 - 00;40;12;20
I was really.
00;40;12;20 - 00;40;15;01
I'm just like, a anti-authority warrior.
00;40;15;01 - 00;40;18;01
And so I was even considering it,
making it a nonprofit.
00;40;18;02 - 00;40;22;00
And I had a pivotal breakfast,
with Marc Andreessen,
00;40;22;00 - 00;40;23;27
the founder of Andreessen Horowitz.
00;40;23;27 - 00;40;26;07
And he really convinced me
to make it a company.
00;40;26;07 - 00;40;29;29
And and the reason he convinced me
is because the biggest organizations,
00;40;30;06 - 00;40;33;05
that we see are typically for profit
00;40;33;05 - 00;40;36;15
companies,
because you can just have a bigger impact.
00;40;36;15 - 00;40;38;27
I guess that's just how the system works.
00;40;38;27 - 00;40;43;01
And I think venture capital plays
a really important part of that system.
00;40;43;08 - 00;40;47;25
And actually, Andreessen
Horowitz just came out, really recently,
00;40;47;28 - 00;40;52;08
with their latest fund,
and the, the motto of their latest
00;40;52;08 - 00;40;56;01
fund is, everyone in a fast society,
everyone deserves a chance
00;40;56;01 - 00;40;59;07
to build something big,
regardless of their background.
00;40;59;10 - 00;41;02;26
And, that's really the opportunities
that they give.
00;41;02;29 - 00;41;07;18
With that said that I think it's really
important to align the venture capital.
00;41;07;23 - 00;41;11;13
So venture capital is a lot
like I have to kind of contain it.
00;41;11;16 - 00;41;13;28
And, I do not pay.
00;41;13;28 - 00;41;16;21
We've been very frugal
and very responsible.
00;41;16;21 - 00;41;18;14
I maybe it's because I'm from the UK,
00;41;18;14 - 00;41;21;20
but we're not like one
of these bubble companies.
00;41;21;23 - 00;41;22;15
And so we tried
00;41;22;15 - 00;41;25;15
not to raise too much
and that really helped us a lot.
00;41;25;15 - 00;41;28;16
And so it's given us
control of the company still.
00;41;28;22 - 00;41;32;20
And we, we don't have outsized
expectations and we can run it,
00;41;32;27 - 00;41;36;15
like working for our customers
and building an efficient business.
00;41;36;18 - 00;41;39;25
Because you see, some companies,
they raise hundreds of millions of dollars
00;41;39;25 - 00;41;42;11
or even billions of dollars,
and then they shut down.
00;41;42;11 - 00;41;44;08
And I've been doing this for ten years.
00;41;44;08 - 00;41;47;19
And I tell every candidate
who joins, do not pay,
00;41;47;19 - 00;41;51;03
on the employee side, like
we're going to be around in 100 years.
00;41;51;09 - 00;41;55;03
We really believe in sustainability,
so you've got to not.
00;41;55;06 - 00;41;58;02
It's a useful tool
when used in moderation.
00;41;58;02 - 00;42;00;11
Just like with most things in life.
00;42;00;11 - 00;42;00;21
Yeah.
00;42;00;21 - 00;42;02;05
No, I, I love that mentality.
00;42;02;05 - 00;42;04;24
It it absolutely resonates with me.
00;42;04;24 - 00;42;08;13
I'm curious, do you spend any time being
kept up at night by,
00;42;08;19 - 00;42;11;14
you know, either
like a Google or an Apple or some,
00;42;11;14 - 00;42;15;01
you know, one of these kind of device
providers and platform providers
00;42;15;01 - 00;42;17;01
just saying, wow,
this is such a good idea.
00;42;17;01 - 00;42;23;16
We're going to try and make our own
and make it into our platform.
00;42;23;19 - 00;42;27;00
So there are some things that do not pay
does,
00;42;27;06 - 00;42;32;13
whereas more just pure assistant
based like a few years ago,
00;42;32;13 - 00;42;35;24
we help people automatically
get appointments from the DMV,
00;42;35;27 - 00;42;40;21
and I think that assistant based tasks
will ultimately just be rolled in
00;42;40;21 - 00;42;46;13
to Alexa or Siri, or any of the AI tools,
or perhaps even ChatGPT.
00;42;46;16 - 00;42;49;10
So we constantly have to be on our A-game
00;42;49;10 - 00;42;52;10
to build unique products
that aren't available elsewhere.
00;42;52;17 - 00;42;55;10
On the other hand, we really about
00;42;55;10 - 00;42;58;17
biting the hand
that feeds a lot of these companies.
00;42;58;17 - 00;43;02;05
In fact, Comcast is one of Google's
biggest advertisers.
00;43;02;08 - 00;43;04;29
So do I think that Google
is going to build
00;43;04;29 - 00;43;08;10
an antagonist, a robot that helps people
fight Comcast?
00;43;08;13 - 00;43;09;21
Probably not.
00;43;09;21 - 00;43;10;27
And actually,
00;43;10;27 - 00;43;14;28
when a lot of these companies, built
these products, it's integration based.
00;43;15;02 - 00;43;19;20
So ChatGPT has an integration is called
GPT s where companies like
00;43;19;20 - 00;43;23;21
Do Not Pay or even Comcast's of the world
or United Airlines or others
00;43;23;26 - 00;43;27;26
can build things on top of these,
these platforms.
00;43;27;29 - 00;43;31;20
And is Planet Fitness
going to build an AI
00;43;31;20 - 00;43;35;09
tool on top of ChatGPT to help members
cancel their own subscriptions?
00;43;35;14 - 00;43;36;19
Definitely not.
00;43;36;19 - 00;43;40;09
And so I think that there's
an antagonistic angle that we take
00;43;40;15 - 00;43;44;02
that, few people are going to do.
00;43;44;05 - 00;43;48;02
And then the last thing I'll say
is that the largest companies like
00;43;48;02 - 00;43;52;06
Google are very, working on building
robots to have in the household
00;43;52;06 - 00;43;57;19
and self-driving cars and the latest
AI models, this is almost beneath them.
00;43;57;22 - 00;44;03;07
And so that's why there's a unique role
for a company like to not pay.
00;44;03;10 - 00;44;04;15
That that makes sense.
00;44;04;15 - 00;44;08;16
It's interesting and I yeah,
I love this sort of,
00;44;08;19 - 00;44;12;06
you know, subversive,
antagonistic view of it.
00;44;12;06 - 00;44;13;08
I, I totally get it.
00;44;13;08 - 00;44;18;19
And I get the argument about why some
bigger organizations may not be into that.
00;44;18;22 - 00;44;21;21
I'm curious, do you have, you know, from,
from your ten years doing this, do
00;44;21;21 - 00;44;26;13
you have sort of a one or a few favorite
stories of people saving money?
00;44;26;13 - 00;44;30;07
I've just like whether it was surprising
or it was a large amount of money or
00;44;30;07 - 00;44;34;22
just like something that was sort of eye
opening in terms of you didn't expect it,
00;44;34;22 - 00;44;40;13
but had just like a really good feeling
about how the tool was used.
00;44;40;16 - 00;44;40;25
Yeah.
00;44;40;25 - 00;44;42;27
We see some some crazy stuff.
00;44;42;27 - 00;44;47;28
That there was,
there was one, one dispute where,
00;44;48;01 - 00;44;51;01
a consumer was
trying to get their security deposit back.
00;44;51;06 - 00;44;54;00
And the consumer told
00;44;54;00 - 00;44;59;00
the AI, my landlord,
logged in to my tax refund site
00;44;59;03 - 00;45;03;10
and said, you have so much money,
you don't need the deposit back.
00;45;03;13 - 00;45;06;27
This is a crazy story
and that there's a few problems with that.
00;45;06;27 - 00;45;09;08
Firstly,
there's all these rights that people have,
00;45;09;08 - 00;45;11;08
and if the landlord doesn't
give you the deposit back,
00;45;11;08 - 00;45;13;09
you can get three times
the amount of money.
00;45;13;09 - 00;45;17;26
But even beyond that,
the landlord, like, logged in to the
00;45;17;26 - 00;45;18;09
with the,
00;45;18;09 - 00;45;22;08
with the rental application, I guess you
had like a lot of Social Security details
00;45;22;08 - 00;45;22;29
and things like that.
00;45;22;29 - 00;45;26;10
He logged in,
which is like a huge, huge issue.
00;45;26;13 - 00;45;29;20
And, that kind of got escalated.
00;45;29;24 - 00;45;33;01
And actually the landlord got indicted
by the Department of Justice.
00;45;33;08 - 00;45;38;06
And so it's very interesting,
all the all of the things we say
00;45;38;11 - 00;45;39;08
we also have,
00;45;39;08 - 00;45;41;20
unfortunately,
a lot of homeless people use our product
00;45;41;20 - 00;45;43;19
because they get parking tickets
in that car.
00;45;43;19 - 00;45;45;21
And we get a lot of notes about that.
00;45;45;21 - 00;45;48;14
But we also have incredibly
00;45;48;14 - 00;45;52;22
we have actually extremely wealthy
people use our product.
00;45;52;25 - 00;45;54;17
We're very big on user prices.
00;45;54;17 - 00;45;57;17
I won't mention explicit names,
but like literally billions
00;45;57;19 - 00;46;00;20
who are using our product to save $20.
00;46;00;20 - 00;46;03;10
And I think that speaks to the value
that we offer.
00;46;03;10 - 00;46;05;07
It's not even about the money
for some people.
00;46;05;07 - 00;46;07;10
It's about the, justice.
00;46;07;10 - 00;46;11;09
Like the feeling, the emotional justice of
of being ripped off is,
00;46;11;15 - 00;46;15;19
is is like so bad
that people will fight back and use that.
00;46;15;26 - 00;46;17;07
And I actually have a broader
00;46;17;07 - 00;46;21;09
thesis that the best companies
tap into some core human emotion.
00;46;21;15 - 00;46;25;21
So like Robinhood would be greed,
or Poly Market would be greed.
00;46;25;24 - 00;46;28;19
The dating apps would be lost
and do not pay.
00;46;28;19 - 00;46;31;18
It's really about justice. And anger.
00;46;31;25 - 00;46;34;10
Yeah, I, I completely buy into that.
00;46;34;10 - 00;46;37;19
And it's funny because that that actually
aligns fairly well with, you know,
00;46;37;19 - 00;46;42;05
some of the wealthier people
I know and, that that quest for justice.
00;46;42;05 - 00;46;45;05
But I think,
I mean, it's a huge motivator, right?
00;46;45;05 - 00;46;49;20
If you feel that you've been wronged in
some way, and,
00;46;49;23 - 00;46;50;07
you know,
00;46;50;07 - 00;46;53;13
the word that keeps coming back to me
for this behavior is it's predatory
00;46;53;13 - 00;46;57;03
on the on, you know, the part
of some of these organizations, right.
00;46;57;03 - 00;47;00;25
And they're taking advantage of the fact
that people don't have the,
00;47;00;28 - 00;47;03;03
you know,
the resources are in a lot of cases, just,
00;47;03;03 - 00;47;06;14
you know, strong enough will, I guess, to
to put the, the time and effort
00;47;06;14 - 00;47;10;16
into this, that if you're changing
the calculus for doing that,
00;47;10;19 - 00;47;14;05
you know, I, I'm very hopeful.
00;47;14;08 - 00;47;19;16
I want to be very hopeful that that'll
change some of these business practices.
00;47;19;19 - 00;47;20;06
Yeah.
00;47;20;06 - 00;47;24;08
If even if it doesn't change,
at least it will get people money back.
00;47;24;08 - 00;47;29;21
It's amazing that in, 2026, some gyms
00;47;29;21 - 00;47;35;12
still make you send a signed letter to,
cancel your gym membership.
00;47;35;15 - 00;47;39;24
And, how has the government not stepped
in to stop something like that?
00;47;40;00 - 00;47;44;06
And actually, a lot of our work
is connecting AI to the stone ages.
00;47;44;08 - 00;47;47;22
We literally have AI generate faxes
sometimes.
00;47;47;25 - 00;47;50;25
Because that's one way to cancel
AppleCare, for example.
00;47;50;28 - 00;47;53;28
And so, I'm not so optimistic.
00;47;53;29 - 00;47;58;09
I think do not pay, unfortunately,
is like an ETF on the world's problems.
00;47;58;09 - 00;48;01;11
And it seems like
the problems are only increasing.
00;48;01;14 - 00;48;02;04
Right.
00;48;02;04 - 00;48;05;07
So, I mean, if you, I'll ask you
a broad question, I guess.
00;48;05;07 - 00;48;08;20
But you roll the clock forward
a handful of years and suddenly it's,
00;48;08;20 - 00;48;12;21
you know, 20, 30 or so,
what does the space look like?
00;48;12;21 - 00;48;16;15
The space you operate in,
whether it's AI that basically the the,
00;48;16;15 - 00;48;21;21
the interaction, between
consumers and businesses, what's your
00;48;21;24 - 00;48;26;23
what's your, I guess, most realistic view
and what's your optimistic view.
00;48;26;26 - 00;48;30;07
That the average person doesn't
have to stress at all
00;48;30;07 - 00;48;33;18
about being exploited
by the big companies in the government.
00;48;33;18 - 00;48;36;12
And everything just works
in the background.
00;48;36;12 - 00;48;39;18
Someone is, you know,
00;48;39;25 - 00;48;43;18
have want to get a refund or something,
and I just do one tap.
00;48;43;23 - 00;48;47;14
I do think the modality of technology
will change,
00;48;47;14 - 00;48;49;10
and it's not going to be
an iPhone anymore.
00;48;49;10 - 00;48;53;03
Soon it will be,
perhaps in an airpod earpiece, or
00;48;53;06 - 00;48;56;06
perhaps in some sort of wearable.
00;48;56;10 - 00;48;59;02
And they just tap and it gets,
it gets sorted for them
00;48;59;02 - 00;49;02;13
and it's constantly
watching in the background.
00;49;02;16 - 00;49;02;29
Yeah.
00;49;02;29 - 00;49;05;23
So are you
what we talked about this a bit before.
00;49;05;23 - 00;49;10;13
Do you see us moving toward,
you know, basically a passive full time
00;49;10;16 - 00;49;13;13
AI assistant for people
that everybody just has their own
00;49;13;13 - 00;49;15;19
is that we're we're going toward. Yeah.
00;49;15;19 - 00;49;16;20
And there's a lot of rumors
00;49;16;20 - 00;49;19;21
in Silicon Valley
that OpenAI is actually building a pen.
00;49;19;27 - 00;49;23;25
So maybe just as you're
about to sign a contract,
00;49;23;25 - 00;49;27;08
the AI as a as a talking pen,
according to the public reports,
00;49;27;08 - 00;49;30;05
I have no insider information.
I'm just reading what the media is saying.
00;49;30;05 - 00;49;33;13
So am I one who could imagine that all
I do not pay.
00;49;33;13 - 00;49;38;01
Just as you're about to sign that loan
contract, the pen starts talking to you.
00;49;38;07 - 00;49;40;21
Don't sign it.
00;49;40;24 - 00;49;43;18
AI, I love I love the story of that.
00;49;43;18 - 00;49;45;21
I'm, I'm chuckling because I signed
00;49;45;21 - 00;49;49;04
I signed more contracts personally
and professionally that I would prefer.
00;49;49;07 - 00;49;53;23
And almost all of them, like I,
I don't often pull out a patent.
00;49;53;29 - 00;49;56;24
It's usually I'm using a PDF Yeah.
00;49;56;24 - 00;49;59;07
you know, what's the other one, the,
00;49;59;07 - 00;50;02;22
the online one where you have to get
everybody's signatures or what?
00;50;02;25 - 00;50;03;19
Docu sign.
00;50;03;19 - 00;50;04;12
DocuSign.
00;50;04;12 - 00;50;04;28
That's What
00;50;04;28 - 00;50;09;14
what what the joke is there's, like,
3000 people that work, a docu sign.
00;50;09;14 - 00;50;12;02
What do all the people do?
00;50;12;02 - 00;50;15;22
That's that's that's the joke
that everyone asks in Silicon Valley.
00;50;15;25 - 00;50;16;11
Yeah.
00;50;16;11 - 00;50;19;11
Well, and then DocuSign, to me, you know,
00;50;19;12 - 00;50;21;27
there was a time where I was like,
what's this?
00;50;21;27 - 00;50;23;03
And then it varied.
00;50;23;03 - 00;50;25;14
Just overnight is everywhere
being used for everything.
00;50;25;14 - 00;50;28;28
We just accept it as a standard. But,
00;50;29;01 - 00;50;29;29
yeah, if you can build something
00;50;29;29 - 00;50;33;27
into DocuSign saying, don't sign this,
that'll that'll be a very good day.
00;50;34;00 - 00;50;35;07
Do not sign.
00;50;35;07 - 00;50;37;03
Do not sign. Yeah.
00;50;37;03 - 00;50;39;14
Right. Yeah. sign.
00;50;39;14 - 00;50;40;11
I love that.
00;50;40;11 - 00;50;44;09
I guess maybe last question
then, Josh, for you is, you know,
00;50;44;12 - 00;50;46;16
you've
you've talked a little bit about things
00;50;46;16 - 00;50;48;16
you expect to see
in the next handful of years,
00;50;48;16 - 00;50;54;10
whether it's,
AI pans or robotics or AI assistants.
00;50;54;15 - 00;50;57;14
What's your boldest prediction for,
you know,
00;50;57;14 - 00;51;01;16
what technological breakthrough
we'll see in the next handful of years?
00;51;01;19 - 00;51;05;04
I think that if you combine everything
we've been talking about,
00;51;05;04 - 00;51;08;22
the unfortunate prediction
is that human relationships
00;51;08;27 - 00;51;12;15
start to increase with with robots,
real robots.
00;51;12;18 - 00;51;18;04
And people will have, physical
AI girlfriends and it will be very common.
00;51;18;07 - 00;51;23;03
I think unfortunately, the loneliness
epidemic is, like, really increasing.
00;51;23;10 - 00;51;25;05
And so I guess it could be
00;51;25;05 - 00;51;28;23
a solution to that, but it doesn't seem
like a very good solution.
00;51;28;26 - 00;51;29;29
that's a really interesting one.
00;51;29;29 - 00;51;34;16
And one of the ones that I,
I worry about as well, even calling it
00;51;34;16 - 00;51;38;14
a solution feels a little Yeah,
I retract that.
00;51;38;14 - 00;51;39;15
Actually.
00;51;39;15 - 00;51;43;09
No, I in case
it's a crisis, cliff, I just.
00;51;43;09 - 00;51;45;05
Yeah.
00;51;45;08 - 00;51;46;01
What, while it end.
00;51;46;01 - 00;51;47;10
Because, you know,
00;51;47;10 - 00;51;50;23
if you think about demography
and if you think about, you know,
00;51;50;23 - 00;51;55;05
the perpetuation of human life,
it feels like that could start
00;51;55;05 - 00;51;59;12
to be an existential risk to us, which is
really scary when you say, you know what?
00;51;59;12 - 00;52;03;06
I'm having more fun talking
to, you know, in any capacity, socializing
00;52;03;06 - 00;52;07;17
with, having a romantic relationship
with a machine than a person,
00;52;07;20 - 00;52;11;22
that does not bode super
well for the future of our species.
00;52;11;25 - 00;52;12;07
Yeah.
00;52;12;07 - 00;52;14;11
And, I think a lot of people,
00;52;14;11 - 00;52;18;15
they're relying on a really important life
decisions to ChatGPT.
00;52;18;18 - 00;52;21;18
There's AI like
phrase is called GPT psychosis, which is.
00;52;21;19 - 00;52;24;27
And you can kind of tell
because often times they'll communicate.
00;52;25;00 - 00;52;26;24
And it's really unfortunate.
00;52;26;24 - 00;52;28;09
I think millions of people are,
00;52;28;09 - 00;52;32;13
like they talk to ChatGPT every minute
and rely on their advice.
00;52;32;18 - 00;52;34;05
And I think it's good for information.
00;52;34;05 - 00;52;38;13
But I would encourage
everyone to take a step back.
00;52;38;16 - 00;52;41;05
So I think that's good advice.
00;52;41;05 - 00;52;42;15
And I'm curious within
00;52;42;15 - 00;52;45;15
within the scope of what you're doing with
the do not pay stuff.
00;52;45;20 - 00;52;48;12
If we can kind of flip on
flip it on its head,
00;52;48;12 - 00;52;51;15
and is there anything that you've seen
where you're you would advise
00;52;51;15 - 00;52;54;15
people don't try to use
do not pay or AI for this.
00;52;54;15 - 00;52;57;00
This is outside
the scope of what we can do.
00;52;57;00 - 00;53;00;02
And you're going to do more harm than good
if you try and use
00;53;00;08 - 00;53;04;06
like, like use cases
where it's just not right.
00;53;04;09 - 00;53;04;18
Yeah.
00;53;04;18 - 00;53;08;24
So much of the law is not about rules
and systems which AI is good at.
00;53;09;00 - 00;53;11;09
It's about people and emotions.
00;53;11;09 - 00;53;16;08
And so if you imagine divorce court where
people are like shouting at each other,
00;53;16;11 - 00;53;18;05
that's probably not a good use case of AI.
00;53;18;05 - 00;53;21;03
I think criminal defense is
is another one.
00;53;21;03 - 00;53;23;21
And I've been in these circles
for like ten years,
00;53;23;21 - 00;53;26;15
and a lot of people have floated
all sorts of different ideas.
00;53;26;15 - 00;53;31;12
But I think that the human side of the law
can never be replaced.
00;53;31;15 - 00;53;34;15
And, and maybe that's a good,
good job for humans.
00;53;34;19 - 00;53;38;11
Well, one thing I will say,
though, is in 10 or 20 years,
00;53;38;16 - 00;53;42;22
people will be laughing
that like someone's sentence was up
00;53;42;22 - 00;53;44;13
to, like some old man.
00;53;44;13 - 00;53;50;01
I do think that in sentencing,
AI will be increasingly used.
00;53;50;04 - 00;53;50;15
Right.
00;53;50;15 - 00;53;53;15
As a tool by judges Yeah. At.
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judicial system.
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Yeah.
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And I think the Constitution that,
someone will still have to sign off
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on that, but it will be largely AI driven
because it, it,
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it is so unfair that someone's
if the judge there's actually a study
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if the judge had like a coffee
that day, it reduces people's sentence.
00;54;11;09 - 00;54;12;08
Right.
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And that's such an interesting one
because with technology in general,
00;54;16;01 - 00;54;20;24
I think we and maybe rightly so,
just hold technology to a much higher bar
00;54;20;27 - 00;54;25;11
than we do with people,
because I what I feel
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and what I've heard is that if you just,
you know, tap
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someone on the shoulder
on the street and say, hey,
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do you want to move to a world
where I can, you know, carry out
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sentencing for,
you know, people based on their crimes?
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It sounds dystopian,
00;54;38;13 - 00;54;43;07
but if it's used in conjunction
with a person and it's,
00;54;43;10 - 00;54;45;26
you know, eliminating more bias
and it's creating,
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you know, it's not difficult to believe
with the right argumentation
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and the right implementation
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that it could actually be,
you know, an order of magnitude better.
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Yeah.
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So it will be interesting to see.
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Awesome.
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Well, Josh, that wasn't
that wasn't necessarily the note
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I thought we'd be ending on,
but it's it's, it's a provocative one.
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