Podcast Episodes

Shrimp Jesus

Episode 30

Shrimp Jesus. Shrimp Jesus. Shrimp Jesus. That is what the first story is about! We now have robust academic research into the mass of AI-generated garbage flooding Facebook. Jason takes us through w…

Published on 1 year, 9 months ago

How Hackers Steal Mountains of Oxy and Adderall

Episode 29

Somehow we filled a whole hour and it felt like five minutes! First Joseph explains his deep story on how hackers and fraudsters are injecting themselves into the electronic prescription system to or…

Published on 1 year, 9 months ago

The AI-Powered TikTok Hustlers

Episode 28

We go long (and play some bonus audio) for Jason's story inside the wild world of TikTok and Instagram hustlers who are using AI to swarm platforms with automatically generated garbage content. Some …

Published on 1 year, 9 months ago

Tumblr and WordPress to Sell Users’ Data to Train AI Tools

Tumblr and WordPress are set to sell posts to OpenAI and Midjourney. And cops are wearing body cameras in libraries. In this episode, Jason, Sam, and Emanuel try to explain what it means for OpenAI a…

Published on 1 year, 9 months ago

Byron Tau on the New U.S. Surveillance State

Episode 27

New format alert! We are experimenting with publishing additional interview episodes! These will not replace the normal weekly show. Rather, we'll upload an interview with people we find interesting …

Published on 1 year, 9 months ago

A Deepfake Nightmare + Vibrator Malware

Episode 26

A ton of stuff to talk about this week. We start with Jason and Emanuel's dive into how a deepfake nudify app rocked a high school. We got a copy of the police report, and more than anything else it …

Published on 1 year, 10 months ago

An Open Source Search Engine to Replace Google

Episode 25

We've got a real variety this week. First, Emanuel talks about Paradox.ai, a tool that massive brands like McDonald's, CVS, and FedEx are using to screen job applicants. It uses a bit of AI, but real…

Published on 1 year, 10 months ago

Inside a Fraud Factory

Episode 24

This week we start with Joseph's investigation into OnlyFake, an underground website that lets anyone generate convincing photos of fake IDs at the click of a mouse. Joseph successfully used one of t…

Published on 1 year, 10 months ago

This Is It. The Deepfake Reckoning

Episode 23

(I went in and fixed the audio issue! Please make sure your podcast client has the latest version downloaded. Okay, back to working on an investigation now, thank you for bearing with us) This week's…

Published on 1 year, 10 months ago

Why Google Is Shit Now

Episode 22

We're doing something a little different this episode. For the whole free section of the podcast, we're talking all about the degradation of Google. That includes AI-generated articles making their w…

Published on 1 year, 10 months ago