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They Might Be Self-Aware

Daniel Bishop, Hunter Powers

"They Might Be Self-Aware" is your weekly tech frenzy with Hunter Powers and Daniel Bishop. Every Monday, these ex-co-workers, now tech savants, strip down the AI and technology revolution to its nuts and bolts. Forget the usual sermon. Hunter and Daniel are here to inject raw, unfiltered insight into AI"s labyrinth – from its radiant promises to its shadowy puzzles. Whether you"re AI-illiterate or a digital sage, their sharp banter will be your gateway to the heart of tech"s biggest quandary. Jack

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00:38:20

Hollywood's Billion Dollar AI Movie Mistake.

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2025/10/09

Hollywood’s Billion-Dollar AI Movie Mistake (Lionsgate): 0 Films. All Fallout.AI movies were supposed to print money. Instead, Lionsgate’s Runway bet shipped nothing and walked into a copyright minefield. You’ll understand why AI “movies” flopped, where AI filmmaking still wins, and the one blocker Hollywood can’t ignore.What we cover:The inside story of Lionsgate’s AI meltdown and zero-film deal.How Google Veo 3 is quietly powering AI video creators.The “Wizard of Oz” Sphere Vegas experiment and

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00:33:35

Google’s New AI Will Kill Photoshop (Nano Banana)

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2025/10/06

Google’s Nano Banana AI: Photoshop Killer or Just Hype?Google just dropped Nano Banana, an image-editing model so good it makes Photoshop blink. We fired it up inside Google AI Studio and the results? Equal parts magic and menace. This isn’t just a filter upgrade; it’s a creative quake. Designers, brace yourselves.Inside this episode, Hunter and Daniel wrestle with the question: is Google quietly ending Adobe’s reign, or birthing the next creative revolution? Along the way: a voice-recorder AI that

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00:30:57

I Buy Every Gadget. Here's Why I Refuse To Buy Meta's...

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2025/09/27

AI Glasses Privacy Nightmare — This week we dig into Meta AI glasses (the new Ray-Ban model with a built-in display and wristband gestures) and ask the hard question: are the headline features worth the trade-offs, or is this a privacy nightmare in your pocket… and on your face? We compare real-world use cases to today’s phone + earbuds workflows and explain why we’re refusing to buy—at least for now.Hunter and Daniel break down what Meta’s display actually does (notifications, translation overlays,

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00:36:11

Why OpenAI is Terrified of Its AI Therapist

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2025/09/23

AI therapy is here and OpenAI is terrified of it.This week on They Might Be Self-Aware, Hunter and Daniel break down the life-or-death stakes of letting Large Language Models play the role of therapist. Should ChatGPT ever be allowed to talk people through self-harm? Or is that legal and ethical liability too great for OpenAI to risk?We explore the explosive debate around AI therapy vs human therapists, OpenAI’s controversial age-gating model for self-harm conversations, and why lawsuits are forcing

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00:39:28

The AI Protection Racket Has Begun

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2025/09/19

AI protection rackets are here — and they could change everything. This week on They Might Be Self-Aware, Hunter Powers and Daniel Bishop break down the wild rise of the AI protection racket: hackers threatening to feed stolen data into AI models unless victims pay up. Is this the future of cybercrime — and your career?We dig into the blurred lines between AI slop, creative industries under siege, and what it means when copyright law, ransomware, and generative AI collide. From record labels signing

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00:35:43

Is Your AI Calling The Police On You?

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2025/09/16

Is Your AI Calling the Police On You? | ChatGPT Privacy, AI Monitoring & DebatesOpenAI has confirmed it will scan ChatGPT conversations for “problematic” content—and in extreme cases, report users to law enforcement. What does this mean for your privacy, your rights, and the future of AI safety? In this episode of They Might Be Self-Aware, Hunter Powers and Daniel Bishop dive into the growing concerns around ChatGPT privacy and whether AI tools are quietly becoming digital informants.We debate

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00:35:48

AI Just Became The World's Best Hacker

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2025/09/12

AI just became the world’s best hacker? In this week’s AI news breakdown, we dive into how modern models are crushing bug bounties and pen-tests, what “vibe hacking” means for real-world security, and why AI-assisted attacks (and defenses) are accelerating. We also unpack AI-generated misinformation (did that “drug boat” incident even happen?), Big Tech’s race to cut inference costs, and the ripple effects of copyright lawsuits and settlements on model training and the open internet.If you care

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00:32:31

AI Will Replace Salesmen, Truckers, and Your Grandma

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2025/09/08

AI kills insurance? In this week’s episode, we break down how full self-driving could shrink (or even upend) the auto-insurance business, why lawmakers will slow-roll it, and what that means for you. Then we zoom out: AI sales agents, robo-negotiations, and the strange new market for “dead bots” that let you talk to a digital version of grandma.If you care about where AI hits real wallets and weird places like digital souls, this one's for you.We open with the road to autonomy: why the “final push”

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00:34:14

The One Reason AI Is NOT A Bubble

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2025/09/05

⏱️ CHAPTERS0:00 Intro — Is AI a bubble?0:58 “Bubble Boy” & defining in a bubble vs is a bubble2:33 Core thesis: why AI isn’t a bubble5:39 The “2% found, 98% to go” upside6:58 Safety & public risk perception as adoption throttle10:06 Guardrails and refusal/cutoff features (Anthropic, OpenAI)12:09 Government buyers & model reliability (+ $1 offers)15:34 Grok’s Spicy Mode: the real risk—deepfakes18:39 Meta AI characters, minors & parental controls26:28 Policy & economics: Illinois therapy ban;

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00:30:01

Brain Chips Aren't For Health, They're For AI Ads

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2025/08/29

⏱️ CHAPTERS0:00 Loading Universe 1192:00 Would you put ChatGPT in your brain?6:00 Neuralink chips that “read your thoughts”8:40 Sam Altman vs Elon Musk (Neuralink, Grok, OpenAI)12:30 Ads in ChatGPT – “tastefully integrated”16:00 GPU shortages & GPT-5 performance questions19:20 AI bubble talk: venture capital cycles & reckoning ahead22:50 Meta’s billion-dollar bets and AI layoffs25:40 The rise of AI advertising & hidden bias28:50 Wrap-up

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00:31:20

Why We Offered 40 Billion For AI Supremacy | Chrome...

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2025/08/25

CHAPTERS0:00 Welcome to the AI Wasteland2:00 Claude Prompt Hacks for Script Writing5:10 AI as Co-Writer: From D&D to Directing10:00 Trix the Rabbit, But Legally Distinct12:00 Perplexity’s Comet Browser in Action15:30 Chrome Extensions & The $40B Offer20:00 Text-to-Speech & AI Accent Changers23:00 Duolingo’s AI Outrage (That Wasn’t)27:00 AI in Hollywood & The Future of Jobs30:00 Final Thoughts & Call to Action

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00:34:53

Did GPT-5 Lose OpenAI's Crown? | Competition, Spicy...

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2025/08/22

CHAPTERS0:00 Intro – GPT‑5, Claude's Funeral, and AI Burnout2:15 Why GPT‑5 Disappointed (and Ticked Off) Hunter5:10 Terse Replies, Token Saving & Capacity Games8:00 Slow, Hallucinating, and Losing Trust10:00 Fake Graphs, Benchmark Spin, and “Routing”13:40 Who’s Actually Winning? (Spoiler: Not OpenAI)17:00 Asymptotic LLMs, and the Future of Intelligence20:00 GPT‑5 vs Claude vs Gemini vs Sora23:00 ChatGPT Psychosis, Artificial Friends, and Lawsuits26:00 GPT‑5 Coding Failures & Looping Bugs30:00 Outro

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00:25:42

AI death hits different: Claude 3 dies, gets funeral...

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2025/08/18

CHAPTERS:0:00 Gods, Ghosts & Algorithmic Lunatics2:00 Vibe Coding: Claude, Gemini & Dart7:30 Claude 3.0’s Death & the AI Funeral10:00 Should AI Death Be Emotional?13:00 Claude vs. OpenAI: Refusals, Hallucinations & Guilt16:00 Jailbreaking LLMs with Screenplay Prompts20:00 Should Open Weights Models Be Preserved?24:00 Our Favorite Local LLMs (Qwen, etc.)25:30 Subscribe Free – We’re Like Open Weights, But Better

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00:39:18

Is GPT-5 doomed by falling developer trust? We need...

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2025/08/14

CHAPTERS:0:00 Intro – Music Generators & 11Labs Advances2:15 OpenAI vs ElevenLabs: Voice, Music & Translation5:43 AI Agents in the Real World: Gurbling, Babelfish & Tools8:28 GPT-5 Rumors & Why Benchmarks May Not Matter13:50 Assistant Over Chatbot – The Push for Agentic AI18:20 Smart Home Integration: The Missing Piece21:00 Devin AI: Real-World Use Case, Setup, and PR Workflow28:00 Developer Trust Decline – Stack Overflow Data31:30 AI “Almost Right” Code: Tech Debt and Risk36:00 Test Sabotage? How

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00:28:34

Coding AIs face a John Henry showdown? Marathon dev...

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2025/08/11

CHAPTERS:0:00 Intro – Dancing on the edge of the singularity1:10 Human vs AI: The 10-hour coding duel in Tokyo2:30 Why Psyho's win may not mean much for long3:15 Magnus Carlsen beats ChatGPT (but it’s complicated)4:45 The John Henry analogy: A new tech folklore?7:00 Human augmentation vs obsolescence: Who decides?10:45 AI pricing creep: Delta and dynamic fares14:00 Consumer surplus and algorithmic value extraction17:00 Ethical dilemmas of income-based pricing20:45 Coke at $18? The personalization

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00:40:35

Agentic AI Invades Real Life: Can ChatGPT Agents Book...

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2025/08/07

CHAPTERS:0:00 Intro: Clowns and Algorithms1:30 AI Booking for Solar Installers (Real Demo)4:45 ChatGPT Agent Succeeds—Then Surprises10:20 Can It Book Flights Too?13:35 Letting AI Plan an Entire Weekend18:00 Travel Agents Reimagined by AI22:15 Danger Zones: LLMs Calling in Your Name24:00 OpenAI Agent vs Operator vs Real Use26:00 Vibe Coding Disasters: Replit and Supabase30:30 The “AI Intern” Theory of Automation34:00 Why Human Review Still Matters39:00 Wrap-up & What’s Next

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00:37:23

Zuckerberg's Superintelligence Scam? Personal AI...

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2025/08/04

CHAPTERS:0:00 Welcome to the Algorithm Rodeo1:00 Microsoft’s AI Job Risk List — Hits & Misses5:45 Translators, Historians, and Flight Attendants: AI-Replaceable?10:45 The AI Sin Eater & Human Yell Rights14:00 Zuckerberg’s Superintelligence Plan: Genius or Grift?18:15 Personal AI or Personal Data Farm?23:00 Meta’s Endgame — Free AI… or $$$ AI?26:00 Tesla's Grok & AI in Your Car29:00 AI Adoption Stats — Who’s Really Using It for Work?33:00 Should Every Company Require AI First-Pass Workflows?36:00 The

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00:39:24

What happens when Elon's NSFW anime AI waifu gets a...

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2025/07/29

CHAPTERS:0:00 Mecha Hitlers and Mayhem1:05 What Is Grok 4?2:30 Elon’s AI Edgelord: Shock Value by Design4:25 Grok’s Anime Companion & “NSFW” Features6:30 Why the US Government Signed a Deal Anyway10:00 Should AI Be Allowed to Say No?12:15 Grok vs ChatGPT: Bias, Intelligence & Danger15:00 China’s Kimi K2 and the Rise of Mega Models19:30 Government Contracts: Benchmarking or Backroom Deals?23:00 AI Risks in S&P 500 Disclosures26:00 Will AI Replace Human Jobs (Like Yours)?29:00 Dev Tools, AGI

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00:33:13

This AI Wrote a 100-Page Book In 10 Hours

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2025/07/25

CHAPTERS:00:00 - Intro: Feasting on the Silicon Carnage01:07 - Are AI Tools Creating Productivity Gods?02:09 - How I Misused an AI for a Creative Project05:15 - The AI Starts Building a TEAM (Sub-Agents)06:20 - The SHOCKING Result: A 100-Page Book in 10 Hours09:52 - The Secret to Making This a Repeatable Process13:19 - PRO TIP: AI Burt Reynolds Will Read To You14:36 - The Promise of a True AI Personal Assistant16:18 - The Future is AI Web Browsers (Perplexity Comet)22:08 - What Would We ACTUALLY

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00:54:36

This Engineer Scammed 8 Companies For Free Paychecks

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2025/07/21

CHAPTERS:00:00 - Is Nvidia's $4 TRILLION Valuation a Lie?02:54 - We're Living in a Simulation (The Stock Market)04:58 - The Insane Power of Nvidia's GPUs06:47 - Microsoft & Meta's MASSIVE Tech Layoffs09:03 - Microsoft Fired Them, Then Offered AI Therapy13:17 - The Engineer Who Scammed 8 Companies18:14 - His Scam: Eight Jobs, ZERO Work22:14 - How AI is Making Scams Unstoppable26:17 - Hackathons are a SCAM (Here's Why)33:38 - The REAL Definition of AGI36:07 - The Ultimate Test: Can AI Make Money?47:19

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