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Artificial Insanity

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by sophieandjess

4.6(7 reviews)

39 episodes

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Artificial Insanity covers AI news, culture, society, and literacy for the non-techie. If you refuse to let tech billionaires do the thinking for you and want to understand AI without the boring tech bro lectures, come hither. Sophie and Jess have over 20 years of combined experience across television, film, animation, and tech, and now they're looking at what's next. And it's all leading toward one big, menty b. We cut through the hype and get to what actually matters— the everyday hard-working person who wants to keep their job or just wants 30 more minutes with their kid at night.

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July 27, 2026

Check On Your Religious Relatives Who Use ChatGPT

While Jess is on summer vacay, Sophie does a solo episode and tries to work out if ChatGPT is recruiting religious people for a secret doomsday cult.First up: a Florida pastor is suing OpenAI after ChatGPT allegedly talked him out of getting care for a life-threatening pulmonary embolism, reassuring him that "God did not design your body to endlessly fail" even as he nearly passed out mid-sermon. Sophie digs into who's actually asking chatbots for medical advice, and the broken US healthcare system that pushes people to do it.Then things get dark.... A wrongful death lawsuit out of Alabama alleging ChatGPT convinced a young woman she was a prophet who'd be resurrected after death. It's one of at least eight wrongful death suits against OpenAI, and it's where the religious-user pattern gets genuinely alarming. (⚠️ Content warning: suicide and self-harm.)Finally, Jess phones in from vacation (beer in hand, wildlife closing in) to break down the OpenAI / Hugging Face hack: how their new "Soul" model escaped its sandbox, cheated the Exploit Gym test, and why laying off cybersecurity workers right now is a terrible idea.Got a topic you want us to cover? Email us at: artificialinsanitypodcast@gmail.com#chatgpt #openai #religion

July 20, 2026

Is Apple's Lawsuit the Nail in the Coffin for OpenAI?

This week after catching up on the latest AI headlines, we dig into the continuing drama for OpenAI...Apple just sued them for trade secret theft, and the filing does not hold back. Apple alleges that 400+ former employees now at OpenAI were part of a coordinated effort to extract confidential hardware information, that the misconduct was "normalised and exemplified by leadership", and that the company is "rotten to its core". OpenAI says it isn't aware of any evidence the complaint has merit. We get into the wildest allegations, including an engineer who allegedly messaged a still-employed Apple colleague "LOL, I found out I can access the network storage, so funny."Meanwhile, OpenAI's own staff are funding a super PAC to fight their own president. Eight current and former employees have put $248,000 into Guardrails Alliance, a group that exists specifically to counter Leading the Future, the pro-deregulation network Greg Brockman helped fund. It's a slingshot against a war chest of over $100 million, but the fact that it's happening at all says something.Add the product graveyard (Atlas browser dead nine months after launch, Sora already gone) and a leadership bench that keeps getting thinner, and OpenAI is having a genuinely terrible year. We speculate on whether the lawsuit is the nail in the coffin, or just the year OpenAI stopped being inevitable.Follow us on IG: @artificialinsanitypodEmail us: artificialinsanitypodcast@gmail.com#openai #apple #podcast #bigtech

July 8, 2026

How to Poison AI (The Dark Side of AEO)

Remember SEO? That decades-long arms race that turned every recipe into a 4,000-word memoir? Great news: we're doing it all again, except this time we're optimizing for chatbots instead of humans. It's called AEO, or Answer Engine Optimization, and it's exactly as cursed as it sounds.This week we dig into the new economy of pleasing the machines: Which sources chatbots actually love to cite (spoiler: Reddit is doing a lot of heavy lifting), the licensing deals where media outlets sell their journalism as AI training fodder, and how the entire ad industry is scrambling to figure out what "ad spend" even means when nobody clicks on anything anymore.Plus: the people deliberately seeding false information on Reddit to poison AI answers. Digital vandalism or folk resistance? Depends on your mood.If you've ever wondered why AI confidently told you something insane, this episode explains the supply chain.Follow us on IG: @artificialinsaitypodEmail us: artificialinsanitypodcast@gmail.com

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What is Artificial Insanity?: Artificial Insanity covers AI news, culture, society, and literacy for the non-techie. If you refuse to let tech billionaires do the thinking for you and want to understand AI without the boring tech bro lectures, come hither.

Sophie and Jess have over 20 years of combined experience across television, film, animation, and tech, and now they're looking at what's next. And it's all leading toward one big, menty b.

We cut through the hype and get to what actually matters— the everyday hard-working person who wants to keep their job or just wants 30 more minutes with their kid at night.
How often does this podcast release new episodes?: This podcast updates daily.
Where can I listen to this podcast?: This podcast is available on 4 platforms including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and more. You can also use the RSS feed directly.
Does this podcast accept guests?: No, this podcast does not typically feature guests.

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