SIO478: This AI Is Not My Girlfriend, It's My... Social Agent...

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Thomas Smith

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4.6 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

It's part 2 with Alejandro and Julia from theluddite.org! We get the worst AI "research" of all, we talk big picture, and then Alejandro and Julia give us some tools for spotting bad AI research and coverage on our own!

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to serious inquiries only.
0:14.7	This is episode 478.
0:16.5	I'm your host, Thomas Smith.
0:18.0	All right, this is a part two of the really fascinating AI discussion with Alejandro and
0:22.9	Julia from the Luddite.org.
0:25.2	Make sure you caught part one, if not, go back a tick in your podcast player.
0:30.2	We're going to get more into some terrible studies, including probably the ultimate silliest and
0:36.0	worst AI study, and really dig into the big picture of
0:40.3	what's going on here from an anti-capitalist perspective or capitalist critical at the very
0:45.3	least. Alessandro and Julia will also give us some key things to look for in AI coverage
0:50.5	to make sure we don't kind of fall for the hype and the bogus stuff. A really useful
0:55.5	little toolkit. All right. Well, we'll take our break and then we'll get on over to it. Hey, please
0:59.9	support the show. And thank you so much to the patrons who make the show happen. Patreon.com
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1:12.2	ads all right thank you so much and let's get on over to part two with Alejandro and Julia
1:21.5	do you want to go back to the nature Study? Yeah, let's do it.
1:28.1	I love this one.
1:28.9	This is one of my favorites.
1:29.9	This one's really good because it really brings together a bunch of the pieces that we've
1:34.2	talked about in like a couple of the other studies.
1:36.1	So on Nature.com from almost exactly one year ago to the day, actually.
1:40.6	I just pasted it for you if you want to do us the honor.
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