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Laundering Lies: How AI Hallucinations Become Recorded History
(0:00) Pre-Show
(1:30) Laundering Lies: How Hallucinations Become Recorded History
(4:45) How Poisoned Is the Well?
(11:55) Is the Problem Getting Bigger or Smaller?
(15:35) The Band-Aids & Brakes
(22:02) Fixing the Knowledge Pipeline
(26:24) cj’s recommendation: theoldrobots.com
(28:06) Jeff’s Recommendation: Shrinking: Season 3 (2026)
Remember copy machines and making a copy of a copy? Turns out generative AI is doing the exact same thing to the entire sum of human knowledge, except much faster and with way more confidence.
Humanity spent thousands of years building a library of knowledge, only to hand the keys to algorithms that swallow their own garbage and regurgitate it as gospel. In this episode, the guys explore why the open web is turning into a digital landfill of hallucinated facts, "digital lead paint", and synthetic garbage.
From AI models telling people wrong math just to be sycophantic, to companies spending fortunes on PhDs and pre-2022 books to clean up the well, the hosts tackle the four big questions of AI entropy.
Sure, They're a Blast...But are Bazookas, Mortars and Other Destructive Devices Legal? (https://www.militarytrader.com/militaria-collectibles/sure-theyre-a-blast)
Bazooka (chewing gum) - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bazooka_(chewing_gum))
The Old Robots Web Site (https://www.theoldrobots.com/index2.html)
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(0:00) Pre-Show
(0:43) Open
(1:25) cj's week:
(2:54) Jeff's Week:
(7:20) Headline: Error 404: Samsung Refrigerators Cold Not Found
(19:35) Headline: Bye-Bye Bot Farms: Ukrainian Drone Strikes Take Down Russian Data Centers
(24:11) Headline: YouTuber Turns the Tables, Builds License Plate Reader That Only Tracks Police
(28:54) The Samsung Bespoke AI Refrigerator
What happens when your $3,600 refrigerator has an existential crisis? This week, Jeff and CJ dive into the smart home apocalypse after a botched Samsung software update turned luxury Bespoke AI fridges into giant, room-temperature paperweights.
And if that wasn’t hot enough, hackers across Europe decided to test their sous-vide skills by remotely cranking supermarket freezer systems up to a sweltering 122 degrees Fahrenheit.
Meanwhile, Ukraine launched symmetrical drone strikes against Russian data centers, taking down critical tech hubs and causing automated internet troll traffic to plummet overnight by over 88 percent. It turns out the fastest way to silence an army of online bots isn’t a mute button—it’s blowing up their server racks.
Finally, the surveillance state gets a taste of its own medicine when a clever Canadian software engineer builds a DIY license plate reader designed to track police cars instead of citizens.
Throw in hot air balloon fiestas sponsored by Big Oil and the perils of in-flight turbulence, and you have another classic episode of tech gone wonderfully wrong.
Owners mourn spoiled food after firmware update bricks Samsung smart fridges - Ars Technica (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/09/owners-mourn-spoiled-food-after-firmware-update-bricks-samsung-smart-fridges/)
'Unprecedented' Cyberattack cripples supermarket fridges across Europe as hackers activate automatic defrosting — delivery and store prices also impacted by incident | Tom's Hardware (https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/unprecedented-cyberattack-cripples-supermarket-fridges-across-europe-as-hackers-activate-automatic-defrosting-delivery-and-store-prices-also-impacted-by-incident)
Ukraine’s drones knock out AI data center belonging to "Russia’s (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/10/ukraines-drones-knock-out-ai-data-center-belonging-to-russias-google/)
Google" - Ars Technica (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/10/ukraines-drones-knock-out-ai-data-center-belonging-to-russias-google/)
Canadian YouTuber builds 'Flock-like' camera to exclusively track police vehicles, gets a visit from police — officers visit his home to express privacy concerns | Tom's Hardware (https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/canadian-youtuber-builds-flock-like-camera-to-exclusively-track-police-vehicles-officers-visit-his-home-to-express-privacy-concerns)
I Investigated Flock Cameras. Then Police Came to My Door. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncCf00M7Axk)
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6 Oct 2026
HEADLINES: Alien Radio Signals, Arnold's Robot Fondue & AI Job Panic Canceled?
(0:00) Pre-Show
(0:27) Open
(1:05) National Coaches Day
(2:06) cj's week: Vaccinations & Heat
(6:35) Jeff's Week: Dodgers, Happy, & Sad
(10:28) Headline: For The First Time A Distant Planet Has Been Found to Emit Radio Signals
(14:28) Headline: Robot Fondue: Training Robots to Melt Themselves Down
(19:18) Headline: No, The Robots Are Not Stealing Your Job
(24:37) Tomy Omnibot
This week, space decides to flex on us again. Scientists picked up radio signals coming from Beta Pictoris b - a planet ten times the size of Jupiter with a magnetic field so intense it’s basically bragging about its atmospheric shield. Reaffirming, once again, that space is huge and terrifying at the same time.
Meanwhile, robotics company Figure AI took retirement advice from Arnold Schwarzenegger himself and sent their obsolete humanoid robots to a 75-ton pool of molten steel in Finland. That’s right: autonomous robots were trained to jump off a ledge and plunge into liquid metal like a scene straight out of Terminator 2, complete with a robotic thumbs-up on the way down. What could possibly go wrong?!
Finally, we unpack a new study bursting the bubble on the AI job apocalypse. Turns out artificial intelligence isn't displacing recent college graduates, so grab your resumes - human employment lives to see another day, for now!
Scientists Detect Radio Signals From an Exoplanet for the First Time in History | WIRED (https://www.wired.com/story/scientists-detect-radio-signals-from-exoplanet-for-first-time-in-history/)
Scientists Detect Radio Signals From an Exoplanet for the First Time in History - Reddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1wqfues/comment/pc4d9gv/)
F.02 Decommission (https://www.figure.ai/news/f-02-decommission)
AI robot company decommissioned its robots ‘Terminator-style’ in a 75-ton vat of molten steel (https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/robotics/ai-robot-company-decommissioned-its-robots-terminator-style-in-a-75-ton-vat-of-molten-steel-arnold-schwarzenegger-suggested-melting-them-one-robot-held-up-a-thumbs-up-sign-as-it-sank-into-molten-metal)
Figure AI Trains Retired Robots to Dive Into Molten Steel (https://gizmodo.com/figure-ai-trains-retired-robots-to-dive-into-molten-steel-2000820643)
AI was supposed to hit new grads hard. So far, unemployment data says otherwise. - Ars Technica (https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/09/ai-was-supposed-to-hit-new-grads-hard-so-far-unemployment-data-says-otherwise/)
Horde of Obsolete Humanoid Robots Made to Hurl Themselves Into Vat of Liquid Steel for Total Obliteration (https://futurism.com/future-society/horde-obsolete-humanoid-robots-jump-vat-liquid-steel)
Omnibot - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omnibot)
Tomy Omnibot 1986 TV commercial (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E94aFLO5Ht0)
The Old Robot's Web Site - Posters (https://www.theoldrobots.com/posters.html)
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