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Artificial Insanity covers AI news, culture, society, and literacy for the non-techie. If you refuse to let tech billionaires do the thinking for you and want to understand AI without the boring tech bro lectures, come hither.Sophie and Jess have over 20 years of combined…
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Here a Bot. There a Bot. Everywhere a Bot Bot. (opens the original)
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This week, we go down the rabbit hole of the internet's worst-kept secret: bots. Cloudflare says over half the internet traffic out there isn't human anymore, and after this episode you'll believe it. We dig into Double Speed, an Andreessen Horowitz-backed company whose CEO openly admits, on camera, that he runs a legal bot farm, charging roughly $150 a bot for rented phone numbers, custom personas, and LLM-powered comments designed to slip past detection. And it doesn't stop at fake accounts: b
BONUS: AI Could Kill Us All in 10 Years (according to Jacob) (opens the original)
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BONUS EPISODE!!! With all the conspiracy theories floating around about Jacob Coxon (the AI researcher who resigned from Anthropic saying AI may kill us all within 10 years) we simply had to jump on the mic and yap through it. #ai #anthropic #airegulation
When Your Boss's Chatbot is Ruining Your Life... (opens the original)
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This week we cover the headlines (see the chapter markers below) before Jess has a total crash out over her personal experience dealing with corporate AI slop. CHAPTERS: 0:19 - Intro (this will be a rage episode) 5:42 - Does anyone know how we can sneak into the movie premiere of ‘Artificial’? 6:53 - New Elon doc apparently proves he’s miserable 9:35 - Temporary mass chatbot outage 11:54 - God Bless Bernie 13:04 - Should we be scared? 15:29 - Astra model release (who cares) 16:33 - Mamdani bans
$17 Billion, $30 Trillion, and Zero Honesty (reupload) (opens the original)
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Oopsie - accidentally uploaded the wrong file last night, so lets try this again! This week we have a grab bag of crazy AI headlines for you. First up: Meta settles for $17 billion over child-safety claims - but only pays 30% of it if TikTok and YouTube also cough up. The ruling also stirs up renewed surveillance concerns about age-verification laws. Then, Nvidia posts a blowout quarter while Anthropic pitches IPO investors on a $30 trillion total addressable market (bigger than the entire US GD
AI vs The Publishing Industry (opens the original)
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Unreliable AI detectors are turning into witch hunts in publishing. We dig into the story of a Black crime writer whose new book "Call Me, I’ll Hide the Body" landed a $2 million deal after a 14-way bidding war, only for his own literary agent to pull it over unverified whispers that he'd used AI, despite no proof and the author's flat denial. We connect it to the earlier case of "Shy Girl," a self-published book that blew up online, got picked up by a major publisher, and then got dropped once
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