Slop, cost shocks, and content discovery

Podcast episode for AI #148: Christmas Break.

* 00:00:00 - Introduction

* 00:00:46 - Table of Contents

* 00:03:36 - Language Models Offer Mundane Utility

* 00:05:01 - Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility

* 00:05:36 - Huh, Upgrades

* 00:06:05 - On Your Marks

* 00:08:20 - Claude Opus 4.5 Joins The METR Graph

* 00:17:21 - Sufficiently Advanced Intelligence

* 00:19:49 - Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon

* 00:22:57 - Fun With Media Generation

* 00:27:32 - You Drive Me Crazy

* 00:30:51 - They Took Our Jobs

* 00:33:56 - The Art of the Jailbreak

* 00:34:06 - Get Involved

* 00:34:21 - Introducing

* 00:37:34 - In Other AI News

* 00:39:03 - Show Me the Money

* 00:40:03 - Quiet Speculations

* 00:44:17 - Whistling In The Dark

* 00:45:59 - Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble

* 00:47:54 - Americans Really Dislike AI

* 00:54:34 - The Quest for Sane Regulations

* 00:58:31 - Chip City

* 01:02:02 - The Week in Audio

* 01:02:57 - Rhetorical Innovation

* 01:07:20 - Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult

* 01:09:38 - Mom, Owain Evans Is Turning The Models Evil Again

* 01:12:47 - Messages From Janusworld

* 01:23:09 - The Lighter Side

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