Aug 20th 2025
Intelligent Machines 833
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AI Slop, Clankers, and Shrimp
Records live every Wednesday at 5:00pm Eastern / 2:00pm Pacific / 22:00 UTC.
Guests:
Rich Skrenta
- AI data wars push Reddit to block the Wayback Machine
- China Launches Three-Day Robot Olympics Featuring Football and Table Tennis
- US government agency drops Grok after MechaHitler backlash, report says
- Eli Lilly signs $1.3 billion deal with Superluminal to use AI to make obesity medicines
- The AI Was Fed Sloppy Code. It Turned Into Something Evil. | Quanta Magazine
- AI data centers made Americans' electricity bills 30% higher
- Sam Altman says ‘yes,’ AI is in a bubble
- Is the A.I. Sell-off the Start of Something Bigger?
- Thousands of Grok chats are now searchable on Google
- Opinion | Amy Klobuchar: I Knew A.I. Deepfakes Were a Problem. Then I Saw One of Myself.
- 2,178 Occult Books Now Digitized & Put Online, Thanks to the Ritman Library and Da Vinci Code Author Dan Brown
- Pluralistic: “Privacy preserving age verification” is bullshit (14 Aug 2025)
- How to use "skibidi" and other new slang added to Cambridge Dictionary
- YouTube Is Making a Play to Host the Oscars
- Leobait: Resisting AI Solutionism through Workplace Collective Action
- So ... is AI writing any good?
- Project Indigo
- We used AI to analyse three cities. It’s true: we now walk more quickly and socialise less
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Links
- AI data wars push Reddit to block the Wayback Machine
- China Launches Three-Day Robot Olympics Featuring Football and Table Tennis - Slashdot
- US government agency drops Grok after MechaHitler backlash, report says
- Eli Lilly signs $1.3 billion deal with Superluminal to use AI to make obesity medicines
- The AI Was Fed Sloppy Code. It Turned Into Something Evil. | Quanta Magazine
- AI data centers made Americans' electricity bills 30% higher
- Sam Altman says ‘yes,’ AI is in a bubble
- Is the A.I. Sell-off the Start of Something Bigger?
- Thousands of Grok chats are now searchable on Google
- Opinion | Amy Klobuchar: I Knew A.I. Deepfakes Were a Problem. Then I Saw One of Myself.
- 2,178 Occult Books Now Digitized & Put Online, Thanks to the Ritman Library and Da Vinci Code Author Dan Brown
- Pluralistic: “Privacy preserving age verification” is bullshit (14 Aug 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
- How to use "skibidi" and other new slang added to Cambridge Dictionary
- How to use "skibidi" and other new slang added to Cambridge Dictionary
- YouTube Is Making a Play to Host the Oscars
- Leobait: Resisting AI Solutionism through Workplace Collective Action
- So ... is AI writing any good?
- Project Indigo
- We used AI to analyse three cities. It’s true: we now walk more quickly and socialise less