Monster House Presents

It's actually quite unlike anything we've ever seen before.

A giant hairy creature, part ape, part mad.

In Larkness, a 24-mile long bottomless lake in the highlands of Scotland.

It's a creature known as the Loch Ness Monster.

It's a creature known as the science show about monsters.

I'm Blake Smith.

And I'm Karen Stolznor.

Hey, welcome back to part two of our two-part chat with Dr. Phillips Center about his new book,

The Real Story of Dinosaurs and Dragons.

It's funny how sometimes when an idea is in your mind,

you'll start seeing it everywhere. And psychology will tell you that's a kind of observation bias,

your brain looking for patterns. This gets even worse when internet ecosystems like Google,

scour your emails looking for patterns that might interest you, or when news outlets discover

a story is getting a lot of traffic, and reporters start posting similar stories,

which creates this public feeling that something must be going on.

And that's going to be exacerbated even more soon by the advertising arbitrage system,

which is forming a deeply lucrative relationship with large language models

that can generate hot articles from thin air with convincing photos.

Oh, we're in for a ride, folks, and I don't think we can stop it from happening, because at

present, the ecosystem of content generation has become uncoupled from any value for whether

the said content is, for lack of a better word, bullshit or not.

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