608: The Way of the Grift

Hello, summer; disinformation professor falsifies own data; AI is eating itself, recursion & model collapse looming; scammers, liars, grifters prosper; mandated return to office not working out great; Amazon's robot revolution; Congress limits AI usage; Vatican releases AI Ethics Handbook; Google violates its ad deal standards; Youtube disabling videos for ad-blocker use; Zoox!; IRL lied their asses off about users, still got $170 million from SoftBank; Aspartame & warm Mountain Dew; Star Trek; Silo; Reality; Fubar; the Machine; Apple News UI needs help; later, Stitcher; Google cancels Iris; mustaches and learning about being a woman; ElevenLabs Voice Library & the end of voice over actors; cosplaying mommy & arrested development; 4th of July Movie Marathon.Sponsors:1Password - Get a great deal on the only password manager recommended by Grumpy Old Geeks! gog.show/1passwordPrivate Internet Access - Go to GOG.Show/vpn and sign up today. For a limited time only, you can get OUR favorite VPN for as little as $2.03 a month.Show notes at https://gog.show/608FOLLOW UPHarvard professor who studies dishonesty is accused of falsifying dataThe Internet Isn’t Completely Weird Yet; AI Can Fix That “Model collapse” looms when AI trains on the output of other modelsTHE CURSE OF RECURSION: TRAINING ON GENERATED DATA MAKES MODELS FORGETThe Huge Power and Potential Danger of AI-Generated CodeIN THE NEWSWe're Now Finding Out The Damaging Results of The Mandated Return to Office — And It's Worse Than We Thought.Amazon’s New Robots Are Rolling Out an Automation RevolutionCongress is reportedly limiting staff use of AI models like ChatGPTThe Vatican Releases Its Own AI Ethics HandbookElon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg Contacted by Italy to Fight at ColosseumItalian culture ministry denies reports of Musk vs Zuckerberg fight in ColosseumGoogle Violated Its Standards in Ad Deals, Research FindsYouTube tests disabling videos for people using ad blockersZoox begins testing robotaxis on public roads in Las VegasSoftBank gave $170m to a social app whose users mostly didn't existAspartame to be named a possible cancer-causerMEDIA CANDYStar Trek: Strange New WorldsSiloIndiana Jones - Destined To Flop - The Critical DrinkerRealityFubarThe MachineMuscles & Mayhem: An Unauthorized Story of American GladiatorsTed Lasso charted a record-breaking billion minutes of viewing during finale weekAPPS & DOODADSChatGPT for iOS now lets paid subscribers use Bing right from the appSTITCHER FAREWELLGoogle is no longer building its own augmented reality glassesTHE DARK SIDE WITH DAVEThe CyberWireDave BittnerHacking HumansCaveatControl LoopElevenLabs - Introducing: Voice LibraryElevenLabs Voice LibraryCOSPLAYING THE MOMMY WARSJason’s 4th of July Birth Control Movie Marathon1. Hackers2. The Edge3. Shaun of the Dead4. Fight Club5. The Professional6. Pulp Fiction7. The Hunt for Red October8. Die Hard 39. Hard Boiled10. The CrowThe Electric Mayhem visit SpotifySee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.