Slop World Podcast

Slop World Podcast

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 Saturday.

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Episoder(34)

You Don’t Need AI for That: Sam Altman and the Dumbest AI Use Cases

You Don’t Need AI for That: Sam Altman and the Dumbest AI Use Cases

Sam Altman thinks the ChatGPT use case that changes everything is turning your family calendar into a daily podcast for your kids on the drive to school. That is, until someone replied asking a simple...

15 Aug 21min

Workday’s AI Hiring Lawsuit Is Testing the “Just a Tool” Defense

Workday’s AI Hiring Lawsuit Is Testing the “Just a Tool” Defense

One of Derek Mobley’s rejection emails arrived at 1:50 in the morning, less than an hour after he applied through Workday. His lawsuit has since grown into a nationwide age-discrimination collective i...

8 Aug 16min

Meta AI Layoff Lawsuit: Workers Can’t See How the Algorithm Was Used

Meta AI Layoff Lawsuit: Workers Can’t See How the Algorithm Was Used

A pregnant Meta employee says she was laid off two days before giving birth. Another manager was cut sixteen days into approved medical leave. A third says they were warned: take the leave and you’ll ...

1 Aug 14min

Apple Sues OpenAI as Sam Altman Chases a $1 Trillion Valuation

Apple Sues OpenAI as Sam Altman Chases a $1 Trillion Valuation

Apple is suing OpenAI over allegations that its hardware team stole trade secrets while recruiting former Apple employees. The lawsuit claims job candidates were told to bring parts from unreleased Ap...

25 Jul 18min

Uber Told Everyone to Use AI. They Blew the Budget in 4 Months.

Uber Told Everyone to Use AI. They Blew the Budget in 4 Months.

Uber told its engineers to use AI aggressively and built an internal leaderboard ranking teams by usage. By April, the company had burned through its entire 2026 AI coding budget.Uber responded by cap...

18 Jul 15min

LAUSD Paid AllHere $3 Million for an AI Chatbot. The CEO Got Arrested for Fraud.

LAUSD Paid AllHere $3 Million for an AI Chatbot. The CEO Got Arrested for Fraud.

A $3 million AI chatbot for LA's public schools lasted 90 days. This week, the superintendent who championed it resigned, four months after the FBI raided his home and office. The company behind the b...

11 Jul 13min

The Real Reason FIFA & Lenovo Built AI Command Centers for World Cup 2026

The Real Reason FIFA & Lenovo Built AI Command Centers for World Cup 2026

Lenovo just ran the largest AI facial recognition and biometric data collection in live sports history, at the 2026 World Cup, with FIFA's blessing. No fan voted for that.The receipts: sixteen host st...

2 Jul 20min

Why AI Resume Screeners Prefer AI-Written Resumes, with Jess from Artificial Insanity

Why AI Resume Screeners Prefer AI-Written Resumes, with Jess from Artificial Insanity

A study ran 2,200 real, pre-ChatGPT resumes through AI hiring models and found something absurd: GPT-4o preferred resumes written by GPT-4o 82% of the time.Juan sits down with Jess from Artificial Ins...

13 Jun 26min

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