Fostering a better understanding of technology, social media, and the news. Created and produced by Nikolas Harter.
Latest episodes
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8 min
When Media Outlets Copy/Paste Each Other's Lies
Late last year, a study released by MIT attempted to track what skills AI tools could perform, and calculated the "wage value" of those skills. Media outlets cherry-picked a statis…
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11 min
The Sci-fi Origins of AI Psychosis
Sam Altman tried to make ChatGPT like Samantha, the fictional AI-voice assistant from the movie Her, and it made people go insane. AI psychosis (AKA chatbot psychosis or chatbot-re…
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7 min
Synthetic Influencers Are On the Rise
Users on Reddit are trading strategies for how to make fake models and influencers with AI. They call it "AI UGC" as in, "AI User-generated Content." Of course, most of these synth…
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9 min
Why Anthropomorphizing AI is Problematic
Media outlets are complicit in a process which amplifies the central lie that underpins the AI boom (bubble). By anthropomorphizing LLMs, AI companies and media outlets sell a stor…
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6 min
Eras of AI: The Chatbot from 1966
MIT Professor Joseph Weizenbaum created the first AI chatbot in 1967. He called it, ELIZA. The professor wanted to show that people would never mistake a computer for a person if t…
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5 min
Eras of AI: The Road to ChatGPT
A competition called ImageNet kicked off our current era of AI, and led to everything from ChatGPT, to self-driving cars, to eerily good recommendation algorithms. ImageNet was a c…
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6 min
An Insane Take on the AI Bubble
My mom sent me an opinion article from The New York Times titled, "AI is a Bubble, and Maybe That's OK." It's decidedly not OK and delusional takes like this are what have brought…
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5 min
A Likely Outcome of the AI Bubble
In the map of possibilities for what will happen with the AI bubble, there is a middle road, where AI fails to deliver on its promise to replace workers en masse, but it's still go…
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4 min
Free Your Feed Trailer
The origin story of Free Your Feed as told by creator Nikolas Harter. SOURCES The Tech Won't Save Us podcast that kicked off the journey: https://www.techwontsave.us/episode/277_ge…