We're Out Sick (The REMIX)

This week, there' s no real episode! Instead, please enjoy this song-summary of what we had planned to cover today. If you want to dig in on your own, here's the sources we were planning to talk about: SEGMENT 1: YOUR BRAIN ON CHAT GPT Does LLM use build up "cognitive debt" and make you dumber? (Probably not TBH) Media page from the authors of the study: https://www.brainonllm.com The study itself: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.08872 A very limited study (with some serious shortcomings), but it is nonetheless making rounds on the news. SEGMENT 2: CHATBOTS DON'T KNOW WHATS TRUE The Chatbot Disinfo Inflaming the LA Protests: (from Wired’s “Uncanny Valley Podcast”) https://www.wired.com/story/uncanny-valley-podcast-the-chatbot-disinfo-inflaming-the-la-protests/ Wired: AI Chatbots Are Making LA Protest Disinformation Worse https://www.wired.com/story/grok-chatgpt-ai-los-angeles-protest-disinformation/ BBC Story: Why AI chatbots are wrong about these LA protest photoshttps://www.bbc.com/news/videos/czxyld16k9no SEGMENT 3: SOME NEW AI INTEGRATIONS Google bringing “audio overview” to search: https://blog.google/products/search/audio-overviews-search-labs/ OpenAI Wearable Official Announcement Leaked Details Futurism Article Bots, Bots, Bots - a game where you have to pretend to be an AI bot: https://botsbotsbots.vercel.app SEGMENT 4: THERAPY BOT SAYS "DO A LITTLE METH" ⁠https://www.livescience.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/meth-is-what-makes-you-able-to-do-your-job-ai-can-push-you-to-relapse-if-youre-struggling-with-addiction-study-finds https://futurism.com/therapy-chatbot-addict-meth Your chatbot friend might be messing with your mind, Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/05/31/ai-chatbots-user-influence-attention-chatgpt/ On Targeted Manipulation and Deception when Optimizing LLMs for User Feedback: https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.02306 Join our Discord server here: ⁠⁠https://faik.to/discord⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices