AI lobotomies, and bots scam scam bots

In episode six of The AI Fix, our hosts discover an unusual place to put a traffic cone, Mark learns why Americans should pretend to be from Brazil, and Graham discovers a way to make any situation much, much worse.

Graham inflicts his terrible Australian accent on Mark while explaining bot-on-bot crime, and Mark tells Graham how to lobotomise an AI that's obsessed with bridges.

Episode links:

• AI chatbots are as good as NY Times agony aunt.
• Meta banned from mining data for AI in Brazil.
• Figma disables its AI design feature that appeared to be ripping off Apple’s Weather app.
• Google’s emissions climb nearly 50% in five years due to AI energy demand.
• Phoenix police officer pulls over a driverless Waymo car for driving on the wrong side of the road.
• San Francisco group placing traffic cones on self-driving cars to disable them.
• AI trains on kids’ photos even when parents use strict privacy settings.
• Amazon pulls the plug on its Astro for Business robot.
• Elderly internet scam victim accused of robbing Ohio bank with gun as a ‘remedy for her situation’.
• Lenny - The Telemarketing Troll.
• Microsoft scammer tells Lenny to shut up!
• Real criminals, fake victims: how chatbots are being deployed in the global fight against phone scammers.
• Mapping the Mind of a Large Language Model.

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