Episode Details

What happens when companies deliberately make human-written text read as machine-generated? This episode breaks down the "pseudobot" text generator — a system prompt that strips warmth, adds procedural stiffness, and turns personal communication into automated-sounding output using nothing more than a small, cheap model. Then the conversation shifts from mechanism to evidence, hunting for real-world cases where the impulse to hide humans behind an AI curtain has already shown up: Amazon's Just Walk Out and its thousand human reviewers, AI detector false positives that force people to prove their humanity, and the well-documented practice of AI washing. The through-line is accountability — you can't argue with a machine, so making a person sound like one is a very effective way to make a decision feel final. Episode #612376 — open it directly at myweirdprompts.com/612376