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A live stream glitches and chat loves it. Is imperfection the last thing AI can't fake convincingly, or just its next feature?

ASKED BY · Paul Walhus · AUSTIN, TEXAS · 27 OCT 2026 · ▶ 00:40:35

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He acknowledges that AI can fake glitches and imperfections, but notes that AI still has imperfections of its own; he uses AI regularly for various tasks in production.

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40:19why aren't they handheld and right it's because because i can't i don't have kids i don't have people who can do that right i just don't it's not yeah this is this is your real world out there It's the next question. Paul Valhus is up next in Austin, Texas. A live stream glitches and chat loves it. Is imperfection the last thing AI can't fake convincingly or just its next feature?

40:46I mean, AI can can can is pretty good at faking glitches and things. Yeah. Yeah, AI, there's nothing like, I love AI and use it all the time, but it definitely can have some imperfections. That's just, it's a huge subject. And I would, let's not go too far down that rabbit hole tonight. But do you see things that you know you can use and grab a hold of in the world of our new AI realities?

41:16I guess what I'm asking is in the little things that you try to fix or whatever, vibe coding, things like that, how much of that's creeping into this very realistic on the ground wired world endeavor that you got going on yeah i i mean a everyone who's followed me knows that i am always tinkering doing something building something with ai and um now i've got it i've actually got a pile of these

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