IM 836: I See OJ and He Looks Scared - Modern Oracles or Modern BS?
Intelligent Machines (Audio)
Leo Laporte
4.2 • 895 Ratings
🗓️ 10 September 2025
⏱️ 163 minutes
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Summary
AI isn't just the ultimate nonsense generator—it's also a powerful tool students and teachers can't afford to ignore. In this episode, professors Carl Bergstrom and Jevin West reveal how their new "BS Machines" curriculum helps the next generation stay sharp and skeptical in a world overflowing with synthetic "facts."
- Interview with Carl T. Bergstrom and Jevin D. West
- Warner Bros. Discovery Sues AI Giant Midjourney for Copyright Infringement In Major Legal Battle
- AI Watchdog
- At Least 15 Million YouTube Videos Have Been Snatched by AI Companies
- Most Scraped Websites of 2025
- AI surveillance should be banned while there is still time.
- Alterego
- I Hate My Friend
- R-Zero: Self-Evolving Reasoning LLM from Zero Data
- AI godfather Geoffrey Hinton says a girlfriend once broke up with him using a chatbot
- Business Insider yanked 40 essays with suspect bylines. Are they related?
- OpenAI's post on the paper
- Gina Trappani starts a new blog
- Schnitzel press
- NFL Debut on YouTube Draws 17.3 Million
- Set a two TikTok toilet limit to reduce haemorrhoid risk, doctors advise"
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau
Co-Host: Harper Reed
Guests: Carl T. Bergstrom and Jevin D. West
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| 0:00.0 | It's time for intelligent machines. |
| 0:02.7 | The show we talk about AI with Jeff Jarvis and Paris Martino. |
| 0:05.8 | Our guests this week have created a really useful website for students and anybody who wants to understand the good and the bad of AI. |
| 0:15.0 | Carl Bergstrom and Jevin West talk about the BS machines next. |
| 0:22.1 | Podcasts you love. |
| 0:23.8 | From people you trust. |
| 0:26.5 | This is Twit. |
| 0:30.5 | This is Intelligent Machines with Jeff Jarvis and Paris Martino. |
| 0:34.8 | Episode 836, recorded Wednesday, September 10th, 2025. |
| 0:40.2 | I see OJ, and he looks scared. |
| 0:43.7 | It's time for intelligent machines, the show where we talk about all the latest AI news, robotics, |
| 0:49.9 | and the little doohickeys all around you that are getting smarter and smarter and smarter. |
| 0:56.1 | Paris Martino is here, |
| 0:57.5 | and she's going to join us in a little bit. |
| 0:59.2 | She's investigative journalist at Consumer Reports. |
| 1:02.1 | Jeff Jarvis is also here, |
| 1:03.7 | Professor Journalism at the, |
| 1:05.8 | well, Emeritus at the City University of New York. |
| 1:08.9 | See, I avoided the mention of Craig Newmark's graduate school of journalism. |
| 1:13.7 | Oops! |
| 1:14.8 | It's stuck in there. |
| 1:16.9 | Author of the Gutenberg Paranthesis magazine. |
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