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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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00:35:55

AI Is Now Censoring Presidents, But 10X-ing Children

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2025/11/06

Trump AI: ChatGPT refuses to identify Trump—sparking a heated debate on AI censorship, safety, and who controls truth online.When OpenAI’s flagship model declines to recognize the sitting U.S. president, is that responsible alignment or the start of algorithmic censorship?How OpenAI’s policy blocks image recognition of public figures.Why Claude, Atlas, and Gemini diverge on “safety.”What it means for local and open-weights AI.The rise of AI ads and AI-driven education that’s “10×-ing” kids.No

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00:38:16

AI Creates 3-Eyed Monster & Plans To Upload Your Soul

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2025/10/31

AI Rapture: Soul Uploads, Job Loss & a 3-Eyed Monster. Inside this week’s wild dive into AI ethics, automation, and pinball’s first GenAI scandal.⏱️ CHAPTERS00:00 The AI Rapture Begins – Uploading souls, cult jokes & digital heaven04:52 The 3-Eyed Pinball Monster – Generative art scandal at Jersey Jack’s factory09:40 Soul Theft & AI Ethics – Stolen creativity, Frankenstein parallels & “soulless code”16:30 The Automation Paradox – Force multipliers, job loss & dark-factory futures23:20 The 10×

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00:29:24

We Built a Startup in 20 Minutes Using AI Agents

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2025/10/28

AI Agents Build Facebook in 20 Minutes?! Claude Code launches a full startup—auth, feed, likes, DB—before the coffee cools. Then we hire an AI CMO.AI agents built Facebook in 20 minutes. No code camp, no hype video—just Claude hammering away in a terminal while we watched the future write itself. Authentication, feed, likes, comments, database… all live before the coffee cooled. So yeah, we might’ve just built a startup in 20 minutes.Then we lost our minds and hired an AI Chief Marketing

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00:41:10

CEOs Are Lying About AI Stealing Your Job

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2025/10/24

AI jobs aren’t vanishing — CEOs are lying. We expose the exec spin, fake AI productivity, and real data they hope you never see.We unpack Salesforce’s 9k to 5k “AI efficiency” layoffs, OpenAI GPT-5, Claude 4.5, and the myths fueling automation panic. Subscribe for sharp takes, not PR.We DECODE:Exec Spin Decoder – what “AI transformation” really means in layoffsMyth vs Data – Yale & Brookings: no proof of mass job lossReceipts – Salesforce, SAP, & Anthropic’s creative accountingReality Check – GPT-5

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00:40:59

The Big Lie Behind AI Automation

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2025/10/21

Anthropic’s 30-hour AI automation claim is collapsing under scrutiny — we tested Claude 4.5 vs GPT-5 and exposed where AI truly fails.Without human feedback, it crashes around our “10-Minute Autonomy Rule.” Hunter Powers and Daniel Bishop dismantle the biggest AI automation myth of 2025—why the machines still need us.They decode Claude 4.5’s hype, pit it against GPT-5, and rip into Meta’s humanoid robot ambitions. It’s funny, fast, and fearless: exactly how tech talk should be.New every Monday &

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00:33:54

The Trump AI Video That Breaks Reality

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2025/10/16

Trump AI Video Exposed: Deepfake propaganda, fake sombreros & how Sora 2 just made reality optional.The Trump AI video isn’t just fake — it’s prophecy.Unlabeled, unhinged, and posted from official accounts.A deepfake presidency preview.This week on They Might Be Self-Aware, Hunter and Daniel crack open AI propaganda itself — the fake sombreros, the racist undertones, and the terrifying truth:half the viewers thought it was real.Then it gets worse.Sora 2 drops. OpenAI’s new text-to-video demo looks

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00:46:44

Claude AI Listened To 120 Episodes, Then It...

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2025/10/13

We let an AI binge our show and judge us on-air—then we argued about VR work prisons, robot wives, Devin the “AI engineer,” and whether copyright is dead.Tonight’s fights & confessions (scan these):• VR Work: Freedom or 996-style dystopia? Boss-mandated metaverse vs solo beach “vibe coding.”• Is Gary real? The $47 voice—and why humans still beat AI at story.• Self-Driving x Insurance: Will insurers kill autonomy… or themselves?• Devin (AI engineer): Intern-tier useful or prod-level risk? Where we

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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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