Fast & Broken

Skill Issue: Agentic Coding Tools, Circular Funding Deals, Double Standards in Content Policy

Carly Rector — Mon, 18 May 2026 15:00:00 GMT

Today's show is cohosted by Oz Brown! Oz is nontraditional software engineer who went through bootcamp at Amazon after a history doing creative work, including voice acting, and customer support, including for Xbox. We talk about the philosophy and current state of agentic coding tools, the Anthropic-SpaceX deal and the state of circular funding, and the double standards in platform content policy and copyright enforcement.

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Show Notes:

State of AI coding tools

https://ramp.com/leading-indicators/ai-index-may-2026
Are software engineers' brains rotting https://www.404media.co/software-developers-say-ai-is-rotting-their-brains/

Circular finance

Kickstarter: https://www.comicsbeat.com/kickstarter-nsfw-ban-story/

Multiple Specialized Throbbing Brains: AI & Jobs, UBI, PSM

Carly Rector — Mon, 11 May 2026 15:00:00 GMT

This week I'm joined by Frank Kane, independent educator and one of the handful of people I know posting sane takes about AI on LinkedIn. We have the AI job loss conversation in the context of reporting that software engineer job listings are actually rising, go over recent developments in the realm of universal basic income (or similar things), and then talk about Anthropic's "Persona Selection Model" as a new framework for thinking about how LLM's work.

Find more about Frank at: https://www.sundog-education.com/

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Show Notes:

Is AI killing jobs? Update

UBI developments

https://www.platformer.news/ubi-ai-public-wealth-fund-musk-openai-bores/
OpenAI policy doc https://openai.com/index/industrial-policy-for-the-intelligence-age/
Elon Musk tweet https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2044990537145753894
Andrew Yang https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/24/podcasts/hardfork-tim-cook-yang-ubi.html
Alex Bores proposal https://www.alexbores.nyc/files/Bores-Dividend_Policy.pdf

Persona Selection Model

https://www.anthropic.com/research/persona-selection-model

Programming Note: Schedule & Format Changes

Carly Rector — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:04:02 GMT

There will be a hiatus in weekly episodes of this podcast and there may be some newer things coming soon!

Email podcast@graphenesoftware.com with suggestions or if you'd like to come on the pod!

Snake Oil: Block Layoffs, Netflix & WB, Anthropic RSP, Anthropic and OpenAI vs the DoD

Carly Rector — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 16:00:00 GMT

We start the episode with a less-than-lightning round through some events of the week, including Block's 40% layoffs, Netflix walking away from the Warner Bros acquisition, and Anthropic's updates to their Responsible Scaling Policy. Then we discuss at length the drama around Anthropic refusing the Department of Defense's contract terms, and OpenAI coming in to accept the deal a few hours later.

Show notes

Block lays off 40% of the company (~4000 people)

https://x.com/jack/status/2027129697092731343

Netflix walks away from Warner Bros deal

https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/26/media/netflix-paramount-wbd

Anthropic RSP updates

https://www.anthropic.com/news/responsible-scaling-policy-v3

Anthropic vs DoD

https://www.axios.com/2026/02/24/anthropic-pentagon-claude-hegseth-dario
"Incoherent" https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/26/incoherent-hegseths-anthropic-ultimatum-confounds-ai-policymakers-00800135
Dario Amodei's statement https://www.anthropic.com/news/statement-department-of-war
Google + Open AI Employee support https://www.axios.com/2026/02/27/google-openai-workers-push-for-military-ai-limits
OpenAI takes Anthropic's side? https://www.axios.com/2026/02/27/altman-openai-anthropic-pentagon
Trump & Hegseth tweets https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/27/trump-anthropic-claude-drop/
Dario Amodei responds https://www.anthropic.com/news/statement-comments-secretary-war
OpenAI reaches deal with DoD https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/technology/openai-agreement-pentagon-ai.html
Jeremy Lewin clarifies it was the "compromise" deal https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/28/pentagon-anthropic-fight-silicon-valley/
Opinion piece on Anthropic and DoD dealings with AI companies https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/28/the-trap-anthropic-built-for-itself/

Occam's Razor Split: Moves in Tech Regulation, OpenClaw Call-Out, Alpha School

Carly Rector — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 16:00:00 GMT

After a lightning round of updates in government interaction with tech, we discuss the fascinating case study of an OpenClaw agent writing a call-out blog post for an open source maintainer who rejected its pull request, and 404 Media's detailed investigation of Alpha School, the AI enabled school surrounded by hype.

For more on OpenClaw: https://carlyrector.substack.com/p/openclaw-mj-rathbun-and-falling-back

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Show Notes:

Regulation lightning round

CFTC threatens States over prediction markets
- https://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/PressReleases/9183-26
- https://x.com/govcox/status/2023795059980988874
Dario Amodei meets with senators about chip sales to China
- https://www.axios.com/2026/02/10/anthropic-ceo-china-chip-ban
Data center energy costs
Hegseth threatens Anthropic
- https://www.axios.com/2026/02/16/anthropic-defense-department-relationship-hegseth

OpenClaw writes a hit piece

Alpha School

Render Farm in the Bathroom: Discord Age Verification, SpaceXXX, Iron Lung

Carly Rector — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 16:00:00 GMT

We almost managed to not talk about AI today. This week's topics include the backlash to Discord rolling out age verification worldwide, SpaceX acquiring xAI and Elon Musk's new moon-based visions, and the story the success of Iron Lung tells about independent filmmaking.

Show Notes

Discord Age Verification

SpaceX acquires xAI (which acquired X), Elon Musk wants a catapult to the moon

Iron Lung

U Mad, Bro?: Claude's Super Bowl Ad, Moltbook Mania, the SaaSpocalypse, Anthropic Documents Unsealed

Carly Rector — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 16:00:00 GMT

In this accidentally all-Anthropic installment, we discuss Anthropic's firing shots at OpenAI with their new anti-ads ads, the AI tools blowing up this past week (Moltbook and the SaaSpocalypse), and insights into Anthropic's copyright strategy from documents recently unsealed from their settled lawsuit.

Show Notes:

Anthropic Super Bowl ad disses ads in ChatGPT

This week's hype: Moltbook mania, SaaSPocalypse

Anthropic and Copyright

Emotional B.O.: US TikTok Issues, Social Media Addiction Suits, Is OpenAI Losing the Race?

Carly Rector — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 16:00:00 GMT

Sign the petition to call on tech leaders to speak out against ICE and Border Patrol's actions in Minnesota: https://iceout.tech/

This week we discuss accusations of censorship by the newly-divested US TikTok, landmark lawsuits using a product safety argument against social media companies, and the trend of bad signs for OpenAI.

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Show Notes:

TikTok

Social media addiction and product safety lawsuits

Is OpenAI losing the race?

A Little Too Roko's Basilisk: AI at Davos, Razer at CES, Claude's Constitution

Carly Rector — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 16:00:00 GMT

This week, we talk about comments from Dario Amodei and Satya Nadella at the World Economic Forum, Razer CEO Min-Ling Tan's interview with Nilay Patel of the Verge, and Anthropic's official release of Claude's Constitution, previously referred to on this podcast as the soul doc.

Show Notes:

AI at Davos

Razer CEO says Gamers Love AI, they just don't know it

Claude Constitution released under Creative Commons

https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-new-constitution

Optimistic Dichotomy: Grok and Society, Claude Code and Claude Cowork

Carly Rector — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 16:00:00 GMT

In this episode, we review developments in the Grok deepfake epidemic and examine its implications on society at large, and then discuss the wave of excitement over Claude Code and the launch of Claude Cowork.

Show Notes:

Grok Updates

Claude Code + Claude Cowork

Batteries in the Basement: Grok Deepfakes, War Prediction Markets, Data Center Demand Response

Carly Rector — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 16:00:00 GMT

In this episode, we discuss our depression and anger at the current torrent of nonconsensual nudification generated by Grok on X, a $400k Polymarket win on Maduro's deposition and Congress's response, and ways data centers can be connected to the grid earlier by prioritizing workloads.

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Show Notes:

Grok Deepfakes

Polymarket Betting

Data Center Demand Response

https://www.wsj.com/business/energy-oil/ai-data-center-blackouts-electric-grid-1fed9803?mod=itp_wsj

Lock the Bubble: 2026 AI IPOs, AI in the 2026 Midterms, Insights from Amazon Retail

Carly Rector — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 16:00:00 GMT

In our first episode of the year, we talk about some 2026 outlook topics: potential IPOs from OpenAI and Anthropic, and AI backlash in the US midterm elections. In the latter part of the podcast, we take a look back at what years working in Amazon retail personalization can teach us about capitalism.

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Show Notes:

Opening comments

2026 IPOs

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/banks-pitching-mega-ipos-seek-limit-mass-selling?rc=1ccjma&shared=9b682272889a4db9

AI in 2026 Congressional Races

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/ai-backlash-shape-midterm-elections?rc=1ccjma&shared=9a5b0b7f2da9609f

https://qz.com/alex-bores-new-york-congress-race-ai-safety

Seymour Cash: Disney-OpenAI Deal, AI Water Use Discourse, Larian Backlash & AI Leadership

Carly Rector — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 16:00:00 GMT

This week, we discuss the deal between Disney and OpenAI, including the interesting specifics of the financials and the challenge of implementing Disney's guardrails. Then, we discuss the complex issue of AI water use and how it's overblown in online discourse. Finally, we talk about how a lot of negative backlash to AI is actually backlash to decision's from leadership. At the end, we touch briefly on Anthropic's updates to their Project Vend, where they have Claude run a store.

Fast & Broken will be off next week for the holidays. See you in the new year!

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Show Notes:

Disney-OpenAI deal

AI Water Use Discourse

AI backlash: tech vs leadership

Anthropic CISO forces Claude on his Discord server

https://www.404media.co/anthropic-exec-forces-ai-chatbot-on-gay-discord-community-members-flee/

https://www.anthropic.com/research/project-vend-2

Strong Air Quotes: AI Coding Productivity, Polymarket War Betting, Australia's Social Media Ban

Carly Rector — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 16:00:00 GMT

In this episode, we discuss research from DX and Anthropic on how much benefit enterprises are seeing from AI coding tools, the Polymarket bet on the Russia-Ukraine war that was probably gamed, and Australia's ban on under-16 users for a number of social media platforms going into effect.

Industry AI usage reports:

DX Q4 impact report: https://getdx.com/uploads/ai-assisted-engineering-q4-impact-report.pdf
Anthropic state of AI agents report https://claude.com/blog/how-enterprises-are-building-ai-agents-in-2026

Ukraine's frontline map edited to win a Polymarket bet

https://www.404media.co/unauthorized-edit-to-ukraines-frontline-maps-point-to-polymarkets-war-betting

Australia's under-16 social media ban goes into effect

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/dec/09/australia-under-16-social-media-ban-begins-apps-listed

AI Vibes: Seattle Hates AI?, Social Media Polarization Research, Claude's Soul Document

Carly Rector — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 16:00:00 GMT

This week, we hit the viral discourse that everyone in Seattle hates AI, new research on how social media effects emotional affect and political polarization, and talk about Claude 4.5 Opus's "soul document."

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Show Notes:
Everyone in Seattle hates AI

https://www.geekwire.com/2025/viral-rant-on-why-everyone-in-seattle-hates-ai-strikes-a-nerve-sparks-debate-over-citys-tech-vibe/

Reranking partisan animosity in algorithmic social media feeds alters affective polarization

https://www.science.org/doi/epdf/10.1126/science.adu5584

Claude 4.5 Opus's soul document

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/vpNG99GhbBoLov9og/claude-4-5-opus-soul-document
Anthropic confirmation: https://x.com/Aman daAskell/status/1995610567923695633?s=20

Ref: https://www.anthropic.com/research/claude-character

Dry Wine Tasting: Recent AI Research from MIT and Anthropic

Carly Rector — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 16:00:00 GMT

It's an all AI research week, as we talk about the MIT Iceberg Index - a measure job exposure to AI on a per-task basis - an Anthropic study on the economic impacts of productivity improvements using a similar per-task measurement, and an Anthropic study which showed that models that learn to cheat on one thing can show bad behavior in other areas as well.

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Show Notes:

MIT Iceberg Index - AI's Economic Impact and Large Population Models (LPMs)

Estimating AI productivity gains from Claude conversations

https://www.anthropic.com/research/estimating-productivity-gains

Anthropic safety research on reward hacking

https://www.anthropic.com/research/emergent-misalignment-reward-hacking
c.f Golden Gate Claude https://www.anthropic.com/news/golden-gate-claude

A Burrito: Exec Order on State AI Regulation, Cloudflare's Postmortem, Consensus Investing

Carly Rector — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 16:00:00 GMT

This week, we discuss the leaked draft executive order focused on federal pre-emption of state AI regulation and its baked-in assumption that LLMs are magic truth machines, the recent Cloudflare outage and the CEO's hand in putting together the detailed postmortem blog, and the trend in venture capital to fund things that are less adventurous.

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Show Notes:

Exec order to stop state AI regulation

Cloudflare postmortem

VC consensus

30% Earthworm: Anthropic's Political Bias Eval, AI Smut, Marc Andreessen vs the Pope

Carly Rector — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 16:00:00 GMT

We start this episode with a shoutout to the closure of Teen Vogue. In the main episode, we discuss Anthropic's recently released open-source evaluation of an LLM's "political even-handedness," a recent opinion article from a founder of an AI chatbot platform and whether the problem is the smut, and Marc Andreessen deleting his quote-tweet of the pope and the techno-optimist viewpoint overall.

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Show notes:

Teen Vogue's closure

https://thisislaborwise.com/teen-vogues-closure-worker-consciousness/

Anthropic's political bias eval

https://www.anthropic.com/news/political-even-handedness

Romantic chatbots and fiction vs reality

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/stopped-worrying-learned-love-bots

Marc Andreessen deletes tweet mocking the pope

https://gizmodo.com/marc-andreessen-deletes-post-criticizing-the-pope-after-backlash-2000683985

The techno-optimist manifesto: https://a16z.com/the-techno-optimist-manifesto/

Pink Elephants: Amazon v. Perplexity, ChatBot Mental Health Report, NYC Mayoral Election

Carly Rector — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 16:00:00 GMT

In this week's episode, we talk about Amazon's recent lawsuit against Perplexity for them masking user agents while browsing the Amazon site, OpenAI's report on mental health-related conversations with ChatGPT, Character ai's recent decision to prevent minors from using their chatbots entirely, a quick OpenAI speed round, Andrew Cuomo's AI mpreg Schoolhouse Rock ad, and Zohran Mamdani engaging with people as a human being.

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Show notes:
Amazon sues Perplexity

https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/amazon-sues-perplexity-battle-ai-agent-access

NYC Mayoral Election + Social Media
- Cuomo AI slop
  - https://www.404media.co/ai-generated-mpreg-schoolhouse-rock-ad-attacking-mamdani-is-the-sad-poliaesthetic-of-our-time/
- Mamdani's Community Grassroots campaign
Chatbot mental health:
- Character.ai bans teens from chatbots
  - https://blog.character.ai/u18-chat-announcement/
- OpenAI report on their mental health efforts
  - https://openai.com/index/strengthening-chatgpt-responses-in-sensitive-conversations/
- Vs Q&A on livestream after restructuring: https://www.platformer.news/openai-restructuring-microsoft-altman/

Gambling is Fun: Truth Predict, Grokipedia, Python Software Foundation Diversity Win

Carly Rector — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 19:38:23 GMT

This week, we discuss Trump Media's Truth Social platform adding prediction markets, Elon Musk's Wikipedia-clone ego project, and an example of an organization standing on its principles and refusing federal funding.

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Show Notes:
Truth Social is adding prediction markets

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-28/trump-media-plans-to-enter-booming-prediction-markets-business

Grokipedia

https://www.404media.co/grokipedia-is-the-antithesis-of-everything-that-makes-wikipedia-good-useful-and-human/

Python Software Foundation refuses $1.5M federal funding for anti-DEI requirement

Fun and Sexy: Anthropic x Trump Admin, Twitch Livestreaming, Elon Musk's Robot Army

Carly Rector — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 15:00:00 GMT

In this episode, we discuss Twitter beef between Jack Clark and David Sacks prompting an official Anthropic response, Twitch and the future of livestreaming, and how plausible it is that Elon Musk will have the robot army he claimed on Tesla's quarterly earning's call.

Scintillating Economic Policy: OpenAI updates, Anthropic policy research, Private vs Public Markets

Carly Rector — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 15:00:00 GMT

In this episode, we take a moment to run through updates on OpenAI topics from our last episode, before launching into two different economic policy topics - policy proposals Anthropic has gathered to address AI's economic fallout, and the debates on how to fix incentives in public markets.

Show notes:
OpenAI segment

OpenAI Hour: Apps in ChatGPT, Sora Drama, Circular Funding, and Amazon Enshittification

Carly Rector — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 15:00:00 GMT

This week we get into all the news from OpenAI, including third-party apps in ChatGPT, developments in the Sora AI video app's copyright policies, and the announced deal with AMD and how it's part of a pattern of circular funding deals. In the last third of the podcast, we talk about Cory Doctorow's Enshittification principle and how Amazon developed into what it is now.

Show Notes:
Apps in ChatGPT

Sora updates

Circular funding deals

Enshittification

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/05/way-past-its-prime-how-did-amazon-get-so-rubbish

AI Slop Pile: Jimmy Kimmel, Vibes & Sora, UBI studies

Carly Rector — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 15:00:00 GMT

This week, we talk about the saga of Jimmy Kimmel's suspension and reinstatement and what it means for the state of media, OpenAI and Meta's new AI video feeds, and proof universal basic income won't mean people stop working and what it could really mean for society.

Show Notes:
Kimmel's ratings: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/business/media/jimmy-kimmel-ratings.html
Kimmel's return monologue on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1tjh_ZO_tY
Brendan Carr on Benny Johnson's podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTyX9JC-rhA

Vibes: https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/25/meta-launches-vibes-a-short-form-video-feed-of-ai-slop/
Sora: https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/30/openai-is-launching-the-sora-app-its-own-tiktok-competitor-alongside-the-sora-2-model/
On Sora's copyright opt-out: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openais-new-sora-video-generator-to-require-copyright-holders-to-opt-out-071d8b2a

WSJ: https://www.wsj.com/economy/a-guaranteed-income-wont-stop-people-from-wanting-to-work-03c4ab31
Ireland pilot: https://www.gov.ie/en/department-of-culture-communications-and-sport/press-releases/basic-income-for-the-arts-pilot-produced-over-100-million-in-social-and-economic-benefits/

Problem Solving: Art & Technology, the TikTok Deal, Sora's Training Data

Carly Rector — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 15:00:00 GMT

This week, we discuss takeaways from Christie's Art x Technology panel event, the motivations behind the TikTok divesture, and a recent Washington Post article about OpenAI's video generator, Sora.

Show notes:
Christie's event: https://www.christies.com/en/events/art-tech-summit-seattle-2025/programme

Articles on the TikTok deal:
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-09-18/tiktok-deal-doesn-t-appear-to-satisfy-users-or-the-law

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/tiktok-u-s-s-new-investor-lineup-remains-flux

https://www.wsj.com/tech/tiktok-deal-us-china-details-b383abe4

Washington Post article: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2025/openai-training-data-sora/

Mandatory Human School: Podcasts and Youtube, AI Efficiency Gains, AI in Humanities Education

Carly Rector — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 15:00:00 GMT

This week we discuss YouTube product announcements, what it's like making a podcast, disillusioning results in AI efficiency gains, and what humanities education will look like in the AI-powered future.

Show notes:
Made on Youtube announcements: https://blog.google/products/youtube/made-on-youtube-2025/

Study on AI developer efficiency: https://metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-early-2025-ai-experienced-os-dev-study/
95% of AI pilots fail: https://fortune.com/2025/08/18/mit-report-95-percent-generative-ai-pilots-at-companies-failing-cfo/?ref=platformer.news
Are we in an AI bubble: https://www.theatlantic.com/economy/archive/2025/09/ai-bubble-us-economy/684128/

Will the Humanities Survive Artificial Intelligence? https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/will-the-humanities-survive-artificial-intelligence
Graham Burnett on Hard Fork: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/podcasts/hardfork-education-alpha-school.html

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Prediction Markets, More on AI Copyright, Factions of AI Discourse

Carly Rector — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 15:00:00 GMT

In this episode, we give an overview of prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket and discuss insider trading and skewed incentives, give an update on Anthropic's copyright settlement and some new suits filed, and give a basic overview of AI skeptics, boomers and doomers.

Show notes:
The Taylor Swift Wedding Trade: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/newsletters/2025-08-27/the-taylor-swift-wedding-trade
Trump death bets:
https://www.citationneeded.news/trump-death-bets/
Bill Ackman's trade for Eric Adams:
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/newsletters/2025-09-08/bill-ackman-has-a-trade-for-eric-adams

Anthropic settlement:
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-to-pay-at-least-1-5-billion-in-landmark-copyright-settlement-with-authors-bfcdd57b?mod=djem10point
Author suit against Apple:
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/apple-sued-by-authors-over-use-books-ai-training-2025-09-05
Warner Bros. suit against Midjourney: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/warner-bros-discovery-sues-ai-company-copyright-infringement-1236361610

Boomer vs Doomer overview: https://impact.ed.ac.uk/opinion/openai-sam-altman-war-doomers-boomers/
AI as normal technology: https://knightcolumbia.org/content/ai-as-normal-technology

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Meta's Romantic RP Bots, AI-Enhanced Youtube Shorts, The Cult of Anthropic

Carly Rector — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 23:02:59 GMT

This week we discuss Meta's dubious chatbot content standards, YouTube altering creators' shorts with AI, a beginner's primer on Anthropic, and perspectives on copyright in AI training.

Show Notes:
Reuters report on Meta's internal standards doc

YouTube's AI "upscaling"

The Information - The Cult of Anthropic

Anthropic's copyright lawsuit settlement

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VO for AI, Tea App Hacks, AI Psychosis

Carly Rector — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 22:47:50 GMT

This week, we discuss voice actors selling their careers to train AI, the history of "Are We Dating the Same Guy?" and the Tea App, and the new phenomenon of "AI psychosis."

Show Notes:

404 Media on the Faustian Bargain for voice actors
AI protections within the SAG-AFTRA agreement

404 Media reporting on the Tea App breaches and
the broader history of the app

Psychology Today on AI psychosis
Research on AI sycophancy
Taylor Lorenz: ChatGPT is become a religion
OpenAI on their rollback of 4o extra-sycophant version

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Woke AI, Cloudflare vs Perplexity, Online Age Verification

Carly Rector — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 22:38:27 GMT

In this inaugural episode, we jump right in and discuss Woke AI and the related Trump executive order, the conflict between Cloudflare and Perplexity over web crawling, and the UK Online Safety Act and age verification online more broadly.

Show Notes:
Read the executive order
Grok's Mecha-Hitler episode
Meta hires Robby Starbuck
Peter Thiel on Woke AI

Cloudflare's accusation blog
Perplexity's response

Reaction to UK Online Safety Act age verification

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