Intro

In episode 49 of The AI Fix, OpenAI kills off a sycophantic bot, our hosts are introduced to a prophetic Bosnian rock band, Meta puts an electric fence around its llamas, Mark reveals he's never tried covering a robot with olive oil, and Graham leaves a stern message for his great-great-grandchildren.

Mark sits a “smarty-pants” test, an AI becomes a crime boss, and Graham explains how a decades-old typo is poisoning the scientific well.

Episode links:

• Dubioza Kolektiv feat. Robby Megabyte - Take my Job Away.
• The AI Fix theme tune.
• Sharing new open source protection tools and advancements in AI privacy and security.
• AiMOGA Robots Selling Cars?
• How AI caught child abuser who fled to 'paradise'.
• The BBC deepfaked Agatha Christie to teach a writing course.
• Sycophancy in GPT-4o: What happened and what we’re doing about it.
• A glitch in AI training data is plaguing scientific papers.
• Operating muli-client influence networks across platforms.

The AI Fix

The AI Fix podcast is presented by Graham Cluley and Mark Stockley.

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