Slop World Podcast30 Sep 2025

Anthropic and OpenAI Are Building AI Co-Workers. What Are We Supposed to Do?

Anthropic and OpenAI are reportedly building actual AI co-workers, not chatbots. Digital staff trained on Salesforce, Zendesk, and your internal enterprise tools, modeled on real subject matter experts. Juan and Kate dig into what that means for your job, your paycheck, and whether you're already training your replacement for free.

They also get into prompt injection: what happens when your AI agent visits a malicious website mid-task and gets new instructions baked into the page. And they spin up Google's NotebookLM to ask whether AI-generated podcasts are a new creative format or just content with no point of view.

Is AI bringing in a genuinely new way of making things, or is it just slop with a pretty cover on it?

ABOUT SLOP WORLD

AI news with receipts. Juan Faisal and Kate Cook fact-check the claims Big Tech is making about AI, follow the money, and break down what it actually means for your job, your data, and your daily life. From leaked data and corporate cover-ups to AI schools, stolen identities, and layoff headlines that don't add up, we cover the AI stories that everyone's hyping but nobody's verifying. New episodes every Thursday.

DISCLAIMER

All content is commentary and opinion based on publicly available documents, interviews, and verifiable sources. References to "scams," "grifts," or related terms reflect our editorial opinion, not legal conclusions. Anyone featured who believes a statement is inaccurate may contact us.

CHAPTERS

00:00 Are AI Co-Workers Coming for Your Job?

00:44 Anthropic and OpenAI's Secret Digital Staff Program

04:35 Prompt Injection: The Hack That Breaks AI Agents

06:35 Are You Already Training Your Replacement for Free?

08:33 NotebookLM and the Rise of AI Podcasts

14:30 The Weirdest AI Content on the Internet Right Now

17:04 AI Slop vs. Haters

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