1.13 - Inescapable Podcast - Cheat, Lie, Win

A cruise ship leaves Argentina on April 1st with a hantavirus outbreak on board.A cruise ship leaves Argentina on April 1st with a hantavirus outbreak on board. Three passengers are dead, the ship is stuck in Cape Verde, and 23 infected travellers have scattered across the world. The media is already calling it the next pandemic. We're not buying it. The bigger story this week is AI and cheating. A Columbia student built a suite of tools to cheat through his entire degree, used them to land big tech internship interviews, then got put on probation for selling access to other students. It turns out his professors were grading with AI the whole time anyway. Now there's hardware that feeds live answers into your ear during job interviews, and a startup raised millions selling exactly that. We get into what it means that deception has gone from shameful to a product with a pitch deck. Also this week: the Met Gala's annual parade of costumed degeneracy, Western scholars and the decolonisation of history, new footage from the Titanic debris field, men who snap and drive bulldozers into things, and a robot Buddhist monk in South Korea. WATCH ON YOUTUBE Links Cruise passengers tell of life on board stranded ship after hantavirus outbreak - BBC News 23 hantavirus cruise passengers returned home to ‘all corners,’ including Australia — and one is already sick | news.com.au — Australia’s leading news site for latest headlines KLM air stewardess 'infected with hantavirus' after contact with fatal victim on flight - Daily Star CIA Docs: U.S. Ran MK-ULTRA Experiments on Korean War POWs Using AI for Just 10 Minutes Might Make You Lazy and Dumb, Study Shows | WIRED Rampant AI Cheating Is Ruining Education Alarmingly Fast Gamer on X: "@Mericamemed https://t.co/avfgGJ7LEX" / X Is Cluely Scamming Investors? The $120M Red Flags - YouTube Cluely (Cheating Tool for Literally Everything) - YouTube A Kid With a Fake Mustache Tricked an Online Age-Verification Tool | WIRED Met Gala urine bottle protest targets Jeff Bezos The Rock Claims The "Most Masculine Men" Wear a Skirt While Sporting One at Met Gala - Geeks + Gamers Yet Another Wasted Met Gala - The Atlantic AI told users it was sentient - it caused them to have delusions - BBC News