Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchAI Slop Summer
We start this week with Jason's couple of stories about how the Chicago Sun-Times printed a summer guide that was basically all AI-generated. Jason spoke to the person behind it. After the break, a b…
Published on 7 months ago
AI Avatar of Killed Man Testifies in Court
We start this week with Jason and Matthew's story about an AI avatar that testified in court. It might be a sign of things to come. After the break, well, well, well, Meta is developing facial recogn…
Published on 7 months, 1 week ago
The Trump Admin's Signal Clone Was Hacked
We start this week's episode with our massive story on TeleMessage, the Signal clone the Trump administration uses to archive messages which was hacked. We have more detail than anyone else on that s…
Published on 7 months, 2 weeks ago
Meta's AI Chatbots Are a Disaster
This week we start with Sam's very in-depth story on Meta's AI chatbots, and how they're essentially posing as licensed therapists. After the break, Jason breaks down the wildly unethical AI-powered …
Published on 7 months, 3 weeks ago
Cops Are Using AI Bots to Surveil People
We start this week with Emanuel and Jason's big story on Massive Blue, a company that is selling AI-powered undercover bots posing as protesters and children to the cops. After the break, Sam tells u…
Published on 7 months, 4 weeks ago
AI Slop Is Breaking the Internet as We Know It (Live at SXSW)
Jason, Sam, and Blood in the Machine's Brian Merchant discuss how AI slop has taken over the internet, how it is a brute-force attack against the algorithms that control what we see on social media, …
Published on 8 months ago
Inside the ICE Deportation Tool
This week we start with a couple of Jason and Joseph's stories about the tool ICE uses to lookup an incredible amount of information about people. After the break, Joseph explains how he tested an AI…
Published on 8 months ago
How a $2,000 'Made in the USA' Phone Is Manufactured
Earlier this week we wrote an article called “A US-Made iPhone Is Pure Fantasy." The long and short of it is that Trump’s dream of moving all high tech manufacturing to the US is extremely difficult …
Published on 8 months, 1 week ago
The FBI Secretly Ran a Massive Money Laundering Ring
We start this week with Joseph's story revealing how the FBI secretly ran a massive money laundering ring to catch drug traffickers and hackers. After the break, we run through a bunch of tariff stor…
Published on 8 months, 1 week ago
OpenAI's Studio Ghibli AI: 'An Insult to Life Itself'
Jason, Sam, and Emanuel talk about Miyazaki being turned into a meme, the guys suing OnlyFans after being surprised to learn they were not actually talking to models, and the depravity of "brainrot" …
Published on 8 months, 2 weeks ago