Wrapping Up a Hellish 2025, 2025.12.15

from Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 · host Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna

For our last recording of 2025, Emily and Alex take on a TIME article naming the "architects of AI" as their person of the year. We also look back at the year in AI nonsense, and share findings from our Fresh AI Hell Wrapped. Happy Hype-y New Year!References:"The Architects of AI Are TIME's 2025 Person of the Year"Stanford AI Index ReportAlso referenced:Original "Lunch Atop a Skyscraper" photo"The Number of People Using AI at Work Is Suddenly Falling"Fresh AI Hell:Fresh AI Hell, WrappedAdobe for Education outputs sexualized images"'Low Tech ChatGPT' on physical paper""Springer Nature retracts, removes nearly 40 publications that trained neural networks on 'bonkers' dataset"Hologram lecturers and robot sandwich-makers"'ChatGPT for Doctors' Startup Doubles Valuation to $12 Billion as Revenue Surges"No more ideas. Need AIdeas!"For the First Time, AI Analyzes Language as Well as a Human Expert""Woman Hailed as Hero for Smashing Man’s Meta Smart Glasses on Subway"Check out future streams on Twitch. Meanwhile, send us any AI Hell you see.Find our book The AI Con here, and MAIHT3k merch here.Subscribe to our newsletter via Buttondown.Follow us!EmilyBluesky: emilymbender.bsky.socialMastodon: dair-community.social/@EmilyMBenderAlexBluesky: alexhanna.bsky.socialMastodon: dair-community.social/@alexTwitter: @alexhannaMusic by Toby Menon.Artwork by Naomi Pleasure-Park. Production by Ozzy Llinas Goodman.

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