2023-02-13

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Tom Scott

I just wanted to fix my email. ■ AD: 👨‍💻 NordVPN's best deal is here: https://nordvpn.com/tomscott - with a 30-day money-back guarantee. ■ Code and full conversation: https://www.tomscott.com/fix-gmail-labels-threads/

Script assistant: Laura Conlon

No AI assistance was used, except where noted.

ALTERNATE TITLES:

Crypto and the metaverse aren't the future. AI is.

I just wanted to fix my email.

I tried ChatGPT and had a minor existential crisis

Everything is about to change

ChatGPT is Napster, 24 years later.

ChatGPT is 2023's Napster.

CHAPTERS

0:00 Intro

0:07 I just wanted to fix my email

2:39 Gmail's label system sucks

5:35 Wait, I can fix this with code

7:36 It can't be that good, right?

11:31 Everything is going to change

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(Yes, that was a "Weird Al" Yankovic reference.)