308: The AI Slop Machine is Worse Than You Think [feat Mallory DeMille]

308: The AI Slop Machine is Worse Than You Think [feat Mallory DeMille]

Two months ago, we recorded Episode 291: My Chinese Buddhist Israeli AI Guru, surveying the growing field of AI slopfluencers churning out wellness supplements via Amazon affiliate links. At the time, we weren’t clear on who was behind these accounts. Then Mallory DeMille went down a YouTube and TikTok rabbit hole and found the men making millions from these accounts. Today we’re going to look at what they’re doing, how they’re doing it, and the cultural and racial dynamics at play in their slop. Show Notes An Amish Avatar and an A.I. Monk Are Pitching Supplements on Social Media Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tämä jakso on lisätty Podme-palveluun avoimen RSS-syötteen kautta eikä se ole Podmen omaa tuotantoa. Siksi jakso saattaa sisältää mainontaa.

Jaksot(847)

Brief: The Cultural Marxism Conspiracy Theory (w/AJA Woods)

Brief: The Cultural Marxism Conspiracy Theory (w/AJA Woods)

AJA Woods (The Cultural Marxism Conspiracy) joins Matthew to trace how "cultural Marxism" mutated from Nazi "cultural Bolshevism" and the British Union of Fascists' attacks on modernist art, through L...

12 Syys 42min

325: Long COVID Profiteers

325: Long COVID Profiteers

Conspiracy theorists have decided Novak Djokovic has long COVID — despite no evidence — because he's become an anti-vax icon courted by RFK Jr. and Dr. Oz. So we thought it was high time for a long CO...

10 Syys 1h 13min

DROP: Kennedy Chooses Erectile Dysfunction Over Postpartum Research

DROP: Kennedy Chooses Erectile Dysfunction Over Postpartum Research

Heading into the holiday weekend, RFK Jr terminated almost all grants dedicated to the Office of Minority Health. Now, $38 million over four years will be redirected from postpartum screenings and ass...

8 Syys 12min

Bonus Sample: How Oprah and Art Bell Red-Pilled 1990’s Normie America

Bonus Sample: How Oprah and Art Bell Red-Pilled 1990’s Normie America

Listen to the full episode The 1990s were a special time in American media. Female-coded, liberal-leaning, daytime TV talk shows like the Oprah Winfrey Show normalized past-life regression, alien abd...

7 Syys 9min

Book Club: The Nerd Reich

Book Club: The Nerd Reich

Support the podcast and listen ad-free Gil Duran's exceptional new book, The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy, explains how technofascists like Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, Curt...

5 Syys 27min

324: Then They Came for Dolly

324: Then They Came for Dolly

Listen ad-free The irreplaceable Dolly Parton died on August 25 after a brief battle with cancer. Social media was filled with loving tributes to an incredible artist and devoted philanthropist. A mi...

3 Syys 46min

Bonus Sample: Piker, the Zhongshan Suit, and Left Melancholy

Bonus Sample: Piker, the Zhongshan Suit, and Left Melancholy

Listen to the full episode There’s a lot going on when Hasan Piker wears a Zhongshan suit and praises Maoism. Matthew uses Wendy Brown's 1999 essay "Resisting Left Melancholy", which cites Walter Ben...

31 Elo 5min

Book Club: Plastic Shaman

Book Club: Plastic Shaman

During James Arthur Ray’s 2009 Spiritual Warrior retreat in Sedona, the self-proclaimed spiritual teacher exhorted participants to “play full-on” in order to overcome their limiting beliefs and fear o...

29 Elo 36min

Suosittua kategoriassa Tiede

rss-mita-tulisi-tietaa
tiedekulma-podcast
rss-poliisin-mieli
utelias-mieli
rss-duodecim-lehti
hippokrateen-vastaanotolla
filocast-filosofian-perusteet
rss-totuuden-liepeilla
rss-lihavuudesta-podcast
rss-bios-podcast
rss-ruoka-murroksessa
rss-tiedetta-vai-tarinaa
rss-vaasan-yliopiston-podcastit
rss-ja-ihminen-loi-alyn-aalto-yliopiston-tekoalypodcast