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00:00I'm a French jewel thief, but I got a bit of a problem.
00:02I don't have any jewels.
00:05So, I'm off for a little day trip to the Louvre to get some.
00:09The thing is though, the Louvre is world's most visited museum.
00:14It's home to humanity's rarest treasures,
00:16like the Mona Lisa and even the French crown jewels.
00:19And so to actually breach this security
00:21would require an absolute black ops, cover of night,
00:24Ocean's 11 level operation.
00:28Oh.
00:30Maybe not.
00:32Because in October, 2025,
00:34four thieves literally committed daylight robbery at the museum.
00:38They rocked up to a window in a furniture lift,
00:40wearing high-vis vests during opening hours.
00:44And they just took the crown jewels.
00:46They hopped back into their lift,
00:48descended comically slowly back down to the ground
00:50before disappearing away on their scooters at 9.30 AM.
00:55Ooh.
00:57Just in time for a breakfast croissant.
00:59See, the Louvre had a bit of a tech problem.
01:03Their entire cybersecurity system was based on software almost as old as me,
01:07with a 2014 audit finding that they were still using Windows 2000,
01:12which was well past the point of still getting security updates.
01:15And yeah, they did have CCTV.
01:17It was just facing the other direction.
01:20So they had no view of this balcony being used to access the window.
01:24Okay, but still, these thieves would have had to be something special, right?
01:28To be able to identify this critical blind spot.
01:31Oh, that's right.
01:32The password to the entire video surveillance network for the Louvre was Louvre.
01:40It was not a joke earlier, by the way.
01:41This actually happened.
01:43Allowing them to drive off into the rush hour traffic with $102 million of jewels.
01:51The Louvre's president, Laurence Dakar, was so appalled that she tried to resign the very next day.
01:56And I would still only call this a 5 out of 10 tech fail.
01:59Because it got me thinking, if an easy to guess password and four dudes in a furniture lift
02:04are enough to cause $102 million worth of damage,
02:08then how expensive can it get when the mistakes get bigger?
02:12That's what I found out.
02:13And I kind of wish I hadn't.
02:15Like, you know Dyson, the company who makes your vacuum, your hand dryer, your hair dryer?
02:21Essentially, if it moves air, then Dyson will sell it to you for like $400.
02:25Well, in 2016, James Dyson decided that what he really wanted to move was people.
02:30So he started secretly building an electric car.
02:33And look, it wasn't a crazy idea.
02:36Dyson specializes in high performance batteries and electric motors.
02:40And that's exactly what an EV needs, which is why they went big.
02:44Developing a battery pack that could go 600 miles on a single charge.
02:48We're still not seeing 600 miles now.
02:50And this was 2019.
02:52Not to mention a floating hologram heads-up display, seven seats,
02:56and a design that I think I'm physically attracted to.
02:59Oh yeah, and the seats were ergonomically redesigned from scratch.
03:02Because Mr. Dyson personally hates the lack of lumbar support in normal cars.
03:08You can kind of see his point, to be fair.
03:11Not our most comfortable getaways.
03:13The slight problem is Dyson ended up reworking so much that they eventually realized just to
03:20break even, they would have to sell each of these cars at today's equivalent of $275,000.
03:28I don't think we have enough jewels.
03:30And it took our good friend James burning through $900 million of his own personal money
03:37to come to this realization.
03:39At which point he had no choice but to scrap the entire project,
03:43go home and sit on a chair that probably gave him back pain.
03:48Six out of ten.
03:49Lads, do we want some lunch?
03:52But sometimes the biggest cost of a mistake is to your reputation.
03:56Like it was with Taco Bell.
03:57Because in 2025, this company implemented an AI-powered drive-through system in
04:03over 500 of their restaurants.
04:05Hoping to improve customer experience.
04:08And, um, let's just say it wasn't very good at taking orders.
04:12And what will you drink with that?
04:15I want a long amount to do.
04:20Want your drink?
04:24Oh, and my absolute favorite is when this guy asks,
04:27Can I get 18,000 water cups, please?
04:36What can I get for you?
04:37The way that the system just instantly dies and hands it over to a human worker is class.
04:42And just a repost of this AI breakdown on YouTube is currently sitting at nearly 30 million views.
04:48And so, responding to the fact that their AI's greatest achievement was becoming a meme,
04:52Taco Bell's chief digital officer, Dane Matthews, told the Wall Street Journal that
04:56they were going to think carefully about where not to use AI going forward.
05:01Gee, thanks Taco Bell.
05:03How did that not occur to you before?
05:06Having just watched McDonald's cancel their own AI drive-through after it went viral for putting
05:10bacon on ice cream and nine sweet teas in one order.
05:13They keep trying, they keep failing, and in the process they just keep funding their own funerals.
05:19Where's the rest?
05:20That's all they had left.
05:21What about yours?
05:22Oh, I had to cross them.
05:24Right.
05:26We should probably go then.
05:30But it's more embarrassing for Will Smith, who used AI to replace people, but just didn't even realize.
05:37Last year, he posted a video from his music tour, and do you notice anything a little off about it?
05:42Specifically the crowd that has clearly been edited with AI.
05:46It kind of looks like Will wasn't quite satisfied with the turnout, so decided to embellish it a little
05:50with some AI-generated concert goers, hoping no one would notice.
05:54Big fan of the guy, so moved by Will's music that he's wiping his tears through his glasses.
06:00The sign saying, from West Philly to West Swiggy.
06:03And especially the one claiming that Will helped them survive cancer.
06:06The idea of all of this being AI-generated was horrific news for Will Smith's, let's be honest,
06:14already waning reputation.
06:15With every comment, some sort of joke at his expense.
06:18Like, unreal concert man.
06:20Literally.
06:21And Will Smith has not only just melted his fans' hearts with his concert, but also melted their entire bodies.
06:27But the worst part, the entire fiasco was an accident.
06:31Turns out, the crowds were real.
06:32You can see them in phone footage from the gigs.
06:35And bafflingly, in photos posted by Smith himself.
06:38Where you can directly cross-reference things.
06:41Like the swiggy sign was there in his Switzerland show.
06:44Although it actually says swizzy.
06:45So most likely, Will's social media team just used an AI tool to put together the highlight reel.
06:52They fed in genuine photos and videos.
06:54But because the tool itself was AI, it introduced all of these unintended side effects.
06:59Either way, damage is done.
07:01Everyone thinks Will Smith faked a crowd to stoke his ego.
07:04He's the AI crowd guy now.
07:064 out of 10.
07:08Oh, that's hot.
07:10That's hot.
07:10But, speaking of men with image problems.
07:13You've probably seen Elon Musk's Tesla Optimus humanoid robot at this point.
07:18Even if it was only as a guy in a costume.
07:21Musk has stated that the Optimus robot will eventually account for 80% of Tesla's value.
07:27Which, gotta say, sounds like a ludicrous prediction.
07:30He's also claimed that Tesla currently has two of these Optimus robots actually working.
07:35So, when you see one out here serving drinks at a product demo.
07:38You're kind of expecting the real deal, right?
07:43Well...
07:50The fall was embarrassing enough.
07:52But it's actually the hand movement that got people talking.
07:55Look closer.
07:56Doesn't it look an awful lot like it's removing a headset?
07:59Kind of like the thing was actually being remote controlled by, say, a human operator.
08:05And Tesla have a track record of doing exactly this.
08:08Putting human operated robots out there.
08:11And deliberately being very lax about letting people know that these are not fully autonomous.
08:16Add in the fact that Musk is currently chasing a one trillion dollar payout from Tesla.
08:21Where one of the goals that he needs to hit is to ship a million bots.
08:25And it starts to make sense why he's doing way too much to convince you that the future is now.
08:30Maybe just hang on until you have a working prototype before showing it off?
08:34At least, that's what Nothing did when they wanted to impress customers
08:38with the camera on their new flagship Phone 3.
08:41Holding a bunch of demo events in stores.
08:43Five photographs were shown off on these in-store demo units with the text,
08:47Here's what our community has captured with the Phone 3.
08:50Do you wanna know what's crazy?
08:51Zoom into the reflection of this one, and you can actually see the DSLR camera,
08:57not Phone 3, that took it.
08:59And then, with a little internet sleuthing, fans came to realise that, in fact,
09:03every single one of these shots was, in fact, a publicly available stock photo.
09:08Nothing eventually came out to claim that they were just placeholder images
09:11that they had intended to replace, but that the units had gotten to stores before that happened.
09:16Malicious or not, though, this is a pretty costly, extremely avoidable PR moment
09:21to be having, while being the underdog, just as you release your first ever flagship smartphone.
09:27But Nvidia has definitely lost a lot more rep.
09:31And didn't have a huge amount to lose in the first place,
09:33ever since they pivoted their focus towards providing graphics cards to giant AI companies,
09:38kind of ignoring their original customers, the gamers.
09:41But then, instead of deciding that it was time to listen to the players,
09:45Nvidia just decided to go full-on friendly fire with DLSS 5.
09:51So DLSS, which stands for Deep Learning Super Sampling, has been one of Nvidia's superpowers for a long time.
09:57It's basically a smart graphics technology, which means that, instead of each generation having to
10:02keep doubling the amount of hardware they're giving you, they can instead upgrade the resolution and
10:07the frame rates in your games using clever machine learning tricks.
10:11However, the latest version, DLSS 5, goes one step further, to upgrade even the lighting and the textures too.
10:19Which sounds fantastic, right? Who doesn't want a prettier game?
10:22But let's actually think about it for a second.
10:24This scene of Grace from Resident Evil Requiem is a scene of her heading to investigate the house
10:29where her mum was murdered in front of her eyes.
10:32But Nvidia's AI slot filter doesn't know that.
10:36It just sees a face that looks a little dark and traumatized, uses its training data,
10:40which tells it that faces look better when they're yassified with blush and eyeliner like your
10:45resident ego, but in the process completely flies in the face of the possibly months that the
10:51developers spent hand crafting the very deliberate way that they wanted her to look in the scene.
10:56Or, why does the professor from Hogwarts Legacy need more wrinkles?
11:00Guys, it really feels like this is just AI seeing an older person,
11:04than going through the thousands of stock photos it's been trained on to make her more… old.
11:10It's funny because CEO Jensen Huang responded to the overwhelming backlash,
11:15arguing that it's not about just putting an AI filter over everything,
11:18and that instead DLSS 5 is meant to be integrated with the artist.
11:22And so it's about giving the artist the tool of AI.
11:26Which made it extra awkward when it came out that the developers of these games
11:30found out at the same time as the public that their games were being altered in this way.
11:365 out of 10.
11:38Nvidia's gamer cred was already in the bin.
11:41Now it's in hell.
11:43And while we're down there, there's a few fails so far where there's been some mystery as to whether
11:48or not it's been a deliberately perpetrated crime or not.
11:51Not so much the case with ransomware, a type of malware that locks you out of accessing your data
11:57so that criminals behind the attack can sell it back to you.
12:00But at least there are companies out there like Digital Mint who
12:03specialize in negotiating those ransom payments down.
12:07Right?
12:08You know, people who truly understand the criminal mind.
12:12Yeah, about that.
12:13In 2023, it was actually employees from inside these companies who used this specialized knowledge
12:19to carry out their own attacks.
12:21They targeted at least five American firms.
12:24They stole the data and demanded millions in return.
12:26But this is where it gets truly unhinged.
12:29When those victims panicked and they called Digital Mint up for help,
12:32who did Digital Mint assign to the cases?
12:35Well, none other than one of the guys that attacked them.
12:39Angelo Martino, who in basically the human embodiment of the evil Kermit meme,
12:44had managed to put himself in a position where he was playing both sides
12:48and negotiating with himself.
12:50There must have been some tough negotiations because he managed to get all five of these
12:55companies to pay up.
12:56One of them even paid $26.8 million and it was a non-profit.
13:01What?
13:03Definitely a non-profit now.
13:05Can you believe that just months before,
13:07Digital Mint featured one of these guys in their employee spotlight?
13:10And I quote,
13:16They had no idea how right they were.
13:18And basically, everyone lost here.
13:20The ransomed firms ended up paying out $75 million.
13:24No one's ever going to call up Digital Mint again without thinking twice.
13:28And the three employees involved have been charged with up to 20 years in prison each.
13:33Six hours and fail.
13:35But where it goes beyond funny into just straight up terrifying is when a man named
13:40Sammy Azduffal developed an app to allow him to control his DJI Romo robot vacuum
13:45using a PS5 controller.
13:47Simply because he said, sounded fun.
13:49But that's not the scary part.
13:50Unfortunately, Azduffal didn't realize his own coding power.
13:54The custom remote control app he'd built pretty quickly using clawed AI code,
13:58accidentally granted him control of over 7,000 DJI robot vacuum cleaners across 24 countries
14:06the second it connected to DJI servers.
14:08How?
14:09Because instead of DJI encrypting the data from its devices like they should have,
14:13it was literally laid out to him in plain text.
14:16Zero authentication required.
14:18Allowing him complete access.
14:20So, okay, he could now vacuum anyone's house on a whim.
14:24That feels like a doofenshmirtz level scheme.
14:26Evil, but ultimately harmless.
14:29Until you realize that these robots all had cameras and microphones,
14:33and that he also happened to have access to the live feeds from them.
14:37Not to mention the floor plan of each house that the vacuums had mapped out with all of their sensors,
14:41and their location too, via their IP addresses.
14:45Thankfully, he was a nice guy about it.
14:46He immediately reported the floor to DJI, and they immediately rewarded him with a 30k payout.
14:52But just imagine how catastrophic this could have been if he wasn't a nice guy.
14:57Remember, as Doofle didn't hack into DJI servers or do anything complex,
15:01he simply became god of all Robovax by accident.
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15:51Now at least Sammy had the decency to feel bad about his accidental data theft.
15:55Can't say the same for ChatGPT, which is meant to revolutionise search
15:59by accessing everything on the internet and bringing it to you.
16:03Now that would require having the rights to a lot of content
16:06that would end up expensive and time consuming to acquire.
16:09So naturally OpenAI just ignores that part.
16:11Why?
16:12Go fast and break things, of course.
16:15Who needs the law when you have a ridiculously ballooned valuation?
16:18So it's a shock to absolutely no one then,
16:21that a group of authors and publishers are suing OpenAI for copyright infringement.
16:25But it's what's happened as part of their investigation that's been the dramatic upset.
16:30Because the group managed to acquire leaked Slack messages and emails from OpenAI,
16:34in which their employees openly discussed the mass deletion of two data sets the AI was trained on.
16:40That they knew consisted of pirated books.
16:44Hilariously named Books 1 and Books 2, by the way, in case it was unclear.
16:48So not only did they have other people's pirated data,
16:52but they knew full well that what they were doing was wrong.
16:55And tried to dispose of the evidence.
16:57So a New York district court has now ordered OpenAI to hand over those messages.
17:02And if those messages demonstrate willful infringement,
17:05and I don't really see how they couldn't,
17:08this could take the damages anywhere from $750 per piece of stolen work,
17:14to possibly $150,000 per work.
17:17An insane amount on the scale of data that these guys are working with.
17:21We don't know the total fines they could face yet, but we can get some idea from a recent lawsuit
17:26against Anthropic for similar copyright infringement,
17:29which saw them settling for $1.5 billion.
17:34Settling.
17:357 out of 10.
17:36But while the exact consequences of that are still up in the air,
17:40OpenAI has recently had an even bigger oopsie,
17:42that's already cost them some very real, very large dollars.
17:46See, in 2025 the company announced a noble new mission,
17:50that doomscrolling wasn't bad enough as it was,
17:53and that what humanity really needed was an entirely new short form video app called Sora,
17:58that lets you doomscroll content that was entirely AI generated.
18:02A...slop talk, if you will.
18:04And to kick off the fun,
18:06while downplaying the dystopian impending threat of anyone being able to create a deep fake in like
18:11two clicks, Sam Altman gave all users global permission to create videos using his own likeness.
18:18Which of course immediately backfired with a litany of embarrassing videos mocking the guy.
18:23Like this one of him begging for GPUs at a doorbell camera.
18:26I can't train anything.
18:27Please, if you have anything, A100s, 3090s, I'll take them.
18:29Physically stealing art from Studio Ghibli.
18:32Give them back!
18:33Nope, too late.
18:33Hey, come back here!
18:34Free art, baby!
18:35Or this one of Altman hosting a Hunger Games-style competition,
18:39forcing contestants to fight over literal slop.
18:42And then of course this, which I present without comment.
18:48Turns out Super Sam did this to himself for absolutely nothing.
18:53Because Sora shut down just six months after starting.
18:56Let me try and put into perspective just how much of a flop this slop was.
19:01Sora generated in total $2.1 million in revenue.
19:05Sora was costing them, at peak usage, around $15 million per day to run.
19:13All while the user base was collapsing under their feet with a 66% drop in just the first 90
19:20days.
19:21And as if that wasn't already enough damage,
19:23OpenAI also, in the process of losing Sora, lost an investment deal with Disney.
19:28Disney was going to pay OpenAI for a stake in the company.
19:30Which would have also given Sora users access to 200 plus characters from across the entire Disney universe.
19:37How much was Disney going to pay them?
19:40One billion dollars.
19:43Whoops.
19:45Now, you already know that in 2022, Elon Musk purchased Twitter for mountains of money.
19:51We've been living with the consequences ever since.
19:54But there is one consequence that you might have missed.
19:56That Musk is now being sued by the investors who originally put their money behind that deal.
20:01And the reason is one of the funniest things I've ever seen in a courtroom.
20:05So, do you remember when Musk was trying to wiggle out of buying Twitter?
20:09He'd already committed at this point.
20:10But he was trying to pull away because he said too many of its users were actually bots, not people.
20:16And by the way, he said this on Twitter.
20:18Publicly.
20:19In tweets.
20:20Well, those tweets tanked Twitter's stock price.
20:23That made all of these investors panic.
20:25They believed him.
20:26They assumed that the whole thing was falling apart.
20:28And so they hurriedly sold the shares they had.
20:31Losing millions compared to what they paid for them.
20:33But the deal wasn't off.
20:35Twitter took Elon to court and forced him to buy Twitter anyway.
20:39At the original agreed price of $54.20 per share.
20:43But all those investors who sold their shares at a loss, they never got their money back.
20:48Which leads us to now.
20:49Where a California jury has declared Musk liable for misleading them.
20:54With his own tweets.
20:55Tweets which he himself described under oath as stupid tweets.
21:01I just can't make this stuff up.
21:03The man who bought Twitter to protect free speech is being sued for what he freely said.
21:09Stupidly.
21:09For up to $2.6 billion.
21:13And if you think that's a lot of money, then you're not ready for the Metaverse.
21:17Do you remember when Facebook rebranded to Meta out of nowhere?
21:20And made a massive bet on our near future becoming almost exclusively virtual reality.
21:24The hub for which was meant to be Horizon Worlds.
21:27An online VR world where you can hang out with all your other friends who definitely have a Quest headset.
21:33Now because they were trying to take VR from merely something that people use to play games
21:37into this alternate reality where we'll all one day live and work as well as play,
21:43it was important to have the infrastructure for users to visit different worlds and create their own
21:49for whatever use they might want.
21:51Like for instance, taking a fake selfie in front of a fake 240p Eiffel Tower
21:56while trying not to let the fake existential dread creep in too much.
22:01Wait no, the dread was real.
22:04Well, it seems like Meta are starting to catch up with the rest of us who already know that no
22:08one's
22:08interested in hanging out in VR, whether it gives us legs or not.
22:11Because this year they announced that they were removing Horizon Worlds from the Quest App Store,
22:16deciding instead to focus 100% of their effort on mobile instead.
22:20Because yes, this is exactly what the phone user base has been yearning for.
22:25But then, a glimmer of hope for the roughly four remaining Horizon Worlds fans,
22:30Meta did a U-turn and announced that in fact, no, we're going to be keeping VR access to the
22:34platform
22:35after all, just according to them to support the fans who've reached out.
22:40Must have been a long day going through all of those emails.
22:42But Horizon Worlds, as embarrassing as it is, is just one tiny part of the metaverse's failure.
22:47Because amidst the fallout, we've also come to learn the total amount of money that the whole
22:53metaverse project has lost Meta. And you're going to want to sit down for this one.
22:58We've seen millions this video. We've even seen a couple of billion.
23:01But Meta burned through 80 billion dollars.
23:05That's pretty much what it would cost to end world hunger for a year.
23:10What did it get spent on? This.
23:14Cheers, Zuck.
23:17I gotta get out of here.
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