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Artificial Insanity
Hosted by sophieandjess · EN
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 experience across television, film, animation, and tech, and now they're looking at what's next. And it's all leading toward one big, menty b.
We cut through the hype and get to what actually matters— the everyday hard-working person who wants to keep their job or just wants 30 more minutes with their kid at night.
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Was Fable 5 Selectively Punished?
2d ago00:49:18Tap to summarizeThe White House has figured out how to weaponize Anthropic's whole personality: turn the company's safety-consciousness into the very reason to punish it. This week's episode is about the governments decision to pull Fable 5. Which honestly seems a little suss after Anthropic spent months telling the Pentagon "no" to mass surveillance of Americans and fully autonomous weapons. The government tried to blacklist them, a judge called it retaliation, and now, conveniently, the feds have pulled Anthropic's two most powerful models over a "national security" threat that Anthropic says is a minor jailbreak available in half a dozen other models, including OpenAI's GPT-5.5. Same flaw, single target. We're not saying it's payback. We're just laying the facts on the table and letting you connect the dots.Follow us on IG: @artificialinsanitypodEmail us: artificialinsanitypodcast@gmail.com
Transcribe →The AI Bubble Prepares to Pop
1w ago00:58:44Tap to summarizeThree of the biggest AI companies in the world are heading to public markets, and the numbers are eye-watering. But does the hype match the reality? This week Sophie and Jess take on the most common arguments against an AI bubble burst, and put them to the test. Spoiler: the Amazon comparison doesn't hold up the way people think it does. Neither does Jevons Paradox. We're not financial advisors, but we do have opinions.Follow us on IG: @artificialinsanitypodEmail us: artificialinsanitypodcast@gmail.com#ai #bubble #spacex #openai #anthropic
Transcribe →AI Can Save Lives. We Still Don't Trust It.
2w ago00:52:28Tap to summarizeThis week we dig into several stories about AI doing things nobody explicitly signed off on. Google DeepMind quietly got its hands on the medical records of 1.6 million NHS patients (without consent) to build an app that actually worked. Netflix used AI deepfakes of grieving mothers in a true crime documentary and somehow made it worse. And Erin Brockovich is back, this time crowdsourcing a map of AI data centers that are being built in communities with zero transparency.#bigtech #artificialintelligence #ai
Transcribe →Hollywood to AI: Please Save Us
3w ago01:11:45Tap to summarizeHollywood is throwing a Hail Mary.... And apparently the plan is AI. Jess spent two days at the "AI on the Lot" conference at Amazon Studios so we didn't have to, and she came back with some bold promises from the people selling the dream. Sophie isn't buying it. Who are these mystery jobs actually for? What will they involve? Did anyone at this conference care about the environment? And has Hollywood noticed that audiences hate AI slop? Buckle up.#layoffs #hollywoodstudios #ai Follow us on IG: @artificialinsanitypodEmail us: artificialinsanitypodcast@gmail.com
Transcribe →Would you give up your data to find love?
May 2601:09:20Tap to summarizeBumble says Swiping is Out and AI Agents are In!First up this week, we talk about why we turned down our first brand deal offer. Then we cover Bumble's announcement that they are getting rid of the traditional swiping feature and implementing AI agents to do the matchmaking for their users. We do a deep dive into this and also discuss future of dating apps in the age of AI. Finally, we give you some rapid fire AI news headlines (because a LOT happened in AI over the last week.)
Transcribe →Smarter Tools, Dumber People - How AI is Affecting our Brains.
May 1900:52:41Tap to summarizeThis week's stories:🧠 The ChatGPT Dunning Kruger Effect: People are using AI to feel like instant experts, then dumping mountains of chat logs on everyone around them as "proof." We break down why this is happening and why it's kind of hilarious.🎓 Princeton Kills Its 133-Year-Old Honor Code: One of America's most prestigious universities just scrapped its honour code because AI cheating has made it basically unenforceable. The end of an era, folks.☕ ChatGPT's Starbucks Fail: A reporter from The Verge tested ChatGPT's shiny new Starbucks ordering feature. It went about as well as ordering a "venti AI latte with extra hallucination."💩 Someone Sold a Database of Poop Photos for $10K: Yes, really. The app PoopCheck had its entire poop image database sold on the Data Hoarder subreddit for ten thousand dollars. We have questions. Many questions.
Transcribe →Are these Tech Oligarchs Bitchier than the Real Housewives?
May 1201:14:38Tap to summarizeThe boys are at it AGAIN. 🍿This week: Peter Thiel, fresh off destroying Gawker, is back with a new scheme to push him closer to world domination. It's called Objection.ai: an AI-powered "truth tribunal" where tech billionaires can pay to have a robot jury investigate journalists who say mean things about them. Co-founded by the same lawyer who helped Thiel bankrupt Gawker, critics say it's less about truth and more about making it terrifying to report on powerful men with thin skin. We explain how it works and why it's somehow even worse than it sounds.Then, bust out the popcorn to watch Silicon Valley's best cat fight: We cover the start of the Elon VS Altman trial.And finally, a palate cleanser: Oracle employees staging a quiet rebellion against mass layoffs from the inside.
Transcribe →Is AI conscious? We said no. They got mad.
Apr 3000:51:08Tap to summarizeWe made one video saying Claude probably isn't conscious. The comments? Absolute chaos.Turns out, people have feelings about AI feelings.... And they're not shy about sharing them. So we're back to dig into the wildest arguments from both sides! We'll cover:- Why our last video sent certain corners of the internet into a spiral- The actual philosophical debate around AI consciousness (yes, it's a real thing)- The most unhinged and most compelling arguments we received- Whether any of it changed our mindsWhether you think Claude is a sentient being or a very expensive autocomplete - this one's for you.Follow us on IG: @artificialinsanitypod Email: artificialinsanitypodcast@gmail.com
Transcribe →Hollywood Stars Are Grooming Us To GET ON BOARD with AI
Apr 2800:23:23Tap to summarizeLast week, Reese Witherspoon got many of her fans VERY fired up when she posted an instagram reel urging women to start learning A.I.But Reese is just one of many entrepreneurial Hollywood stars who are getting in on the AI grift. They can smell the money from a mile away. Meanwhile Disney just replaced 1000 artists with AI and studios are laying off thousands of film crew members in the hopes that AI can create movies at a fraction of the cost.#reesewitherspoon #ai #aiethics #layoffs
Transcribe →Eat The Rich 2.0: Why Young People Are Declaring War on the AI Elite
Apr 2100:56:25Tap to summarizeTwo attacks. Three days apart. Both targeting the most powerful man in AI.Sam Altman's San Francisco home was hit twice in a single week - first when a 20-year-old hurled a Molotov cocktail at his front gate, then when a 23-year-old and a 25-year-old allegedly fired a gun near his property. All three suspects: Gen Z, all in their 20s. And the attacks came just days after an explosive New Yorker investigation by Ronan Farrow raised serious questions about Altman's trustworthiness - with one anonymous board member describing him as combining a strong desire to be liked with "a sociopathic lack of concern for the consequences that may come from deceiving someone."So who is Sam Altman and why is a generation of young people so willing to direct their rage at him?Nearly two-thirds of Americans believe AI will lead to fewer jobs over the next 20 years, and the leaders of AI companies largely agree. When the people most threatened by that future are young, broke, and watching billionaires get richer by the day, something has to give. We draw a direct line from Luigi Mangione - the folk hero of the wealth-gap era - to what's now unfolding at the gates of Silicon Valley. Online, some users compared the Altman attacker directly to Mangione, calling both men "heroes."Are we entering a new era of class rage? Is "Eat the Rich" moving from meme to movement? We get into all of it.#samaltman #ai #jobloss #eattherich #wealthgap Follow us on IG @artificialinsanitypodEmail us: artificialinsanitypodcast@gmail.com
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