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Some More News: A.I. Is Messing With Our Mental Health

Some More News

SomeMoreNews | PodcastOne

News, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.72.7K Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2026

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Hi. In today's episode, we're looking at what A.I. is doing to our brains, how chatbots manipulate people to engage for as long as possible, and why the CEOs of A.I. companies are the people you should trust the least.


Hosted by Cody Johnston

Executive Producer - Katy Stoll

Directed by Will Gordh

Written by Erik Barnes

Produced by Jonathan Harris

Edited by Gregg Meller

Post-Production Supervisor / Motion Graphics & VFX - John Conway

Researcher - Marco Siler-Gonzales

Graphics by Clint DeNisco

Head Writer - David Christopher Bell


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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, champ, it's Cody, your news friend.

0:06.8

You know, we razz a lot here about AI and how it produces soulless and terrible art that's

0:12.6

gradually become the exclusive tool of fascists for misinformation and nostalgia bait.

0:16.9

We've jeered at how AI in every industry is replacing everyone's jobs while offering nothing in return.

0:23.1

We've even chay-it about how it's bad for the environment and is also an economic bubble just waiting to, uh, that thing the bubbles do.

0:30.6

Burst. We've done all of that here on the Shoddy, which you can watch and like and subscribe to this channel.

0:37.6

Just press the things, do the YouTube stuff.

0:39.8

It costs you nothing and it gives us so, so, so, so much.

0:42.8

So yes, we've done our fair share of joshing,

0:46.4

but how AI is ass and sucks and sucks ass

0:50.5

and doesn't need to exist, but to be fair and balanced, have you ever considered that it's also extremely bad for our brains?

1:01.0

Wowee! What can't AI do?

1:04.0

So what do you think, Doctor? I have shown improvement, haven't I?

1:13.6

AI versus mental health.

1:16.6

It's like it sucks ass or something.

1:19.6

Which is interesting, because when I was a wee lass, I absolutely could not wait to have a robot friend.

1:25.6

We humans love the idea of paling around with sexy robot

1:30.0

buddies. We love our bishops. We love our benders, our R2D2s. I'll even hang with gort or hal

1:36.6

if there are other people there. And that's because we, as humans, simply love anthropomorphizing

1:42.8

things, as in attributing human-like qualities to non-human

1:46.7

things.

1:47.7

Like plushies, or Willem Defoe, or the Mars rover, how sad were you when that rover died?

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