Deep Fakes, Data Centers, and AI Slop — Are We Cooked?

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🗓️ 20 December 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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AI–everything everywhere all at once

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0:00.0	Trump's latest executive order has cleared regulation from the path of artificial intelligence.
0:07.1	Except, well, here's the thing. There was no regulation to begin with. So when you say that it was
0:13.2	clearing the path, there was no path. From WNYC in New York, this is on the media. I'm Michael
0:19.0	Onger. And I'm Brooke Gladstone. Meanwhile,
0:22.2	more and more data centers are needed to feed this ravenous AI beast. I mean, we've never seen
0:28.7	anything need this much electricity, need this much computing power. And then no matter how
0:35.2	much you give it, they always, always ask for more.
0:38.3	Plus, 2025 was the year of AI slop.
0:42.0	Sometimes it's even convincing.
0:44.3	It is not an intelligence thing.
0:46.2	It is not a class thing.
0:47.5	It is not an education thing.
0:49.2	And it's really important to kind of operate with humility because we can get taken in.
0:53.7	It's all coming up after this.
1:00.1	From WNYC in New York, this is on the media. I'm Michael Lohinger. And I'm Brooke Gladstone. In the week
1:07.1	since President Trump announced an executive order aimed at blocking states from regulating AI,
1:13.8	some members of his MAGA base have groused loudly.
1:18.4	Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.
1:20.4	First of all, an executive order can't block the states.
1:23.5	Clearly, we have a right to do this.
1:25.1	Governor Ron DeSantis outlined, new proposed legislation aimed at putting stronger safeguards on artificial intelligence.
1:31.3	By pushing a so-called AI Bill of Rights.
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