Superintelligent hosts Mike Elgan and Emily Forlini explore the link between churning homemade butter and the craving for authenticity in the new world of fake AI everything. They talk about Google’s new Gmail AI features as the most recent example of companies pushing everyone to use AI for communication. The hosts allow themselves to be influenced by influencer and Instagram chief Adam Mosseri, who says that in 2026 influencers will need to prove their humanity by posting authentic content and disclosing how they use AI.

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Amira’s home-made cultured butter

Google adding an AI inbox, ai overviews to gmail. does anybody want this?

‘Apple Intelligence’ won’t send your data to far-flung servers (for the most part)

Adam Mosseri’s post on authenticity in an AI world

In an AI-perfect world, it’s time to prove you’re human

This retiree’s 30 AI girlfriends kept loneliness at bay—until one’s dark secret shatters the illusion

After ‘digital undressing’ criticism, Elon Musk’s Grok limits some image generation to paid subscribers

BeReal

Twitter and Pinterest founders launch app as antidote to social media

Steve Miller’s high school speech clip from Jimmy Kimmel

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Artificial Intelligence, AI, Homemade Butter, Google Gemini, Gmail AI, Smart Reply, Apple Intelligence, Deepfakes, Grok, Adam Mosseri, Social Media Authenticity, Tangle App, Vibe Coding, Doom Coding, Sam Altman, Handwritten Notes, Robot Vacuums, NanoBanana, Photo Colorization, Digital Wellness, Tech Ethics, Future of Work, Steve Miller, Cultured Buttermilk, Email Automation

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We used Gemini Pro 3 via Kagi (my son and our producer, Kevin, works at Kagi) to 1) generate keywords from the transcript (most of which we used); 2) suggest topics to link to (some of which we used); and 3) write a first draft of the show summary paragraph (which we heavily edited). We recorded and edited the episode using Riverside and used Riverside’s “Magic Audio” (which boosts and normalizes the audio).

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