Gabriel Custodiet speaks Milan de Reede, co-creator of Nano-GPT.com, a pay-as-you-go AI aggregate service with certain privacy features. De Reede gives an update on NanoGPT and discusses some practical tips for using AI.

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TIMELINE
00:00 – Introduction
2:30 – Main changes to Nano-GPT since April 2025
6:27 – Do you run your own open-source models?
9:05 – Video AI tips
14:20 – Various ways to access NanoGPT (via Cake Wallet, etc)
16:45 – Image AI
27:50 – Mostly absurdly expensive prompt Milan has ever seen
29:35 – Creative uses of AI
34:30 – AI and medical treatment
36:30 – AI sewage
38:50 – Final thoughts

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Gabriel Custodiet speaks with well-known privacy YouTuber The Hated One. They discuss the difficulty of maintaining integrity while recommending privacy tools, the problem with Proton's expansion into other services, societal changes that would benefit privacy, cryptocurrencies, and current advances of surveillance.

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TIMELINE
00:00 – Introduction
3:00 – Goal of starting The Hated One
5:30 – Struggle of creating privacy content
10:30 – Problems with Proton?
19:50 – Privacy affiliate and sponsor world
29:20 – Privacy companies The Hated One applauds
39:15 – What does a society that maximizes privacy look like?
49:30 – Bitcoin, Monero, Zcash
56:45 – How Luigi Mangione was tracked down
1:02:15 – Final thoughts

Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio