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AI Is Absurd (And So Are We)

June 16, 2026 Andrew Elliott 1:22:31

🤖 Note: This blurb was written by AI (Claude).

The episode image was generated by AI. The irony is not lost on us.

Yes, we’re still alive. And yes, we’ve finally dragged ourselves back to the microphone to talk about the thing everyone won’t shut up about — AI.

In this edition, Andrew and Nic dive headfirst into the world of large language models, and specifically Anthropic’s Claude, which Nic has become rather fond of (don’t tell ChatGPT). Most people think AI begins and ends with ChatGPT, but as the lads discover, there are thousands of models out there — some useful, some preachy, and at least one that seems to have found Jesus. They compare notes on Claude, Grok, Gab, Perplexity, and others, while asking the important questions: can you spot AI-generated content? (Spoiler: yes, and the em dashes are a giveaway.) Is ChatGPT 5 actually worse than its predecessors? (Andrew thinks so.) And is Gab AI the most religious chatbot on the internet? (Almost certainly.)

They also get into Anthropic’s interesting PR moves — including a very public contract dispute with the Trump administration over autonomous weapons — and the release of their new model, Mythos, which is apparently very good at finding software vulnerabilities and is being quietly tested by major tech companies under something called Project Glass Wing. The graphs look impressive. The lads are sceptical. From the AI arms race in cybersecurity, to using Claude to overhaul an entire company’s training documentation in a fraction of the time, to the age-old question of whether the robots are coming for your job (short answer: maybe, but probably the boring bits first) — this one covers a lot of ground. Oh, and they apologise for not recording more often. Again.

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Terrain Theory, Covid Memories and AI Kate

June 20, 2024 Nic Elliott 02:14:21

Andrew finally gets ill, but upon analysis, we can’t help but conclude that his experience still supports terrain theory.

We talk about people on all sides of the political and covid spectrum, discussing Chris Cuomo’s marathon debate with Dave Smith and how Brian Rose’s experience with David Icke got him deplatformed, and led to him to change his mind on the government reaction.

We then move onto two of our favourite subjects: religion, and voting. Which one makes you more of a normie? The jury is still out, but we analyse normie behaviour and and how it also pertains to Princess Kate, and whether she is now composed entirely of AI, much like the twin tower planes.

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Dark Psychology

February 13, 2024 Andrew Elliott 02:11:10

This episode, we talk about a whole bunch of stuff. But, unintentionally almost all of it leads to psychology. Dark psychology. We talk about religion, and how it can incentivise evil. We talk about the spread of good & evil in society and why you should probably expect the same spread at the elite level. Or at the very least, you shouldn’t expect less evil people up there in vice wielding territory.

We then move onto the trans agenda and how fighting this particular type of control may be more important than you might think. Is it just a distraction? Or could there me more at stake than meets the eye?

From there, we talk about different trans identities and how the current batch aren’t actually that original, and they lack both style and substance compared with the people they’re copying.

After that, we move from transgenderism to transhumanism, incorporating AI. But is it really AI? Just how intelligent are the current batch of LLMs? And was that Elon Musk phoning into the Alex Jones show the other day, pretending to be a normal punter, to give his opinion on it?

If that isn’t enough, we chat about the recent Vladimir Putin interview with Tucker Carlson. The only interview a western journalist has had with the Russian leader since the war began. We also touch a little on cancel culture and comebacks and how Tucker instantly became bigger than he ever was.

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