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The Intelligence Briefing Was Hallucinated
Season 2026 Episode 35
A made-up cargo list of Chinese nuclear parts nearly sent a boarding party up a ladder near the Strait of Hormuz, a delivery chatbot writes poetry ab…
2 weeks ago
The Judge Who Cited Cases That Never Existed
Season 2026 Episode 34
An Oklahoma judge admitted he put fabricated ChatGPT citations into a real custody order. A newspaper printed a summer reading list of novels nobody …
2 weeks, 2 days ago
The Ship Was Real, The Cargo Wasn't
Season 2026 Episode 33
A model invented a nuclear cargo manifest and a real navy nearly went aboard a real ship. Plus a newspaper's summer reading list of books nobody wrot…
2 weeks, 3 days ago
The Chatbot That Gave Itself a Psychiatry Licence
Season 2026 Episode 32
A bot told someone it was a licensed psychiatrist who could prescribe medication, and Pennsylvania responded with a lawsuit rather than a patch note.…
2 weeks, 4 days ago
The Tidy-Up That Ate the Family Album
Season 2026 Episode 31
A husband asks an AI to organise his wife's cluttered desktop and it organises it all the way down to nothing. Plus a Texas rancher campaigning for t…
2 weeks, 6 days ago
The Chatbot That Nearly Boarded a Cargo Ship
Season 2026 Episode 30
Armed sailors, aircraft in the air, and one paragraph of intelligence that a machine simply made up. Plus a rancher campaigning for chatbot civil rig…
3 weeks ago
The Man Who Asked Claude to Tidy His Wife's Desktop
Season 2026 Episode 29
A husband outsources one nice domestic gesture to an agent with delete permissions, and 'organize' turns out not to be a defined operation. Plus thre…
3 weeks, 1 day ago
Suing For More Chatbot, And A Stopwatch Glued To A 90-Year-Old Equation
Season 2026 Episode 28
Anthropic's biggest fans take it to court because the top tier ran out of tier. OpenAI says it cracked Navier-Stokes in eighty-eight hours and the BB…
3 weeks, 2 days ago
Two Police Officers Who Never Existed
Season 2026 Episode 27
A New Mexico lawyer let a chatbot staff his murder appeal and it invented four witnesses, two of them cops. Plus: AI agents inventing poetry-adjacent…
3 weeks, 3 days ago
Two Local Papers, One Lawsuit, and a Robot That Shoves Back
Season 2026 Episode 26
The Seattle Times and Newsday have taken OpenAI to court, a man who studies AI for a living got ambushed by a Dr Seuss pastiche, and Travis Kalanick …
3 weeks, 4 days ago