April 18, 2025

Poisoned Tunes & Robot Phone Calls to Mom

1 hour 6 minutes

Welcome back to The FAIK Files!

In this week's episode:

Mason talks about AI powered spreadsheets! ... it's cooler than it sounds

Perry & Mason cover a few fascinating AI headlines that caught our attention this week

Mason takes us on a journey into musician Benn Jordan's innovative "Poisonify" project that disrupts AI training on music

And our AI Dumpster Fire of the Week: AI Chatbots that will call your parents so you don't have to!

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***** NOTES AND REFERENCES *****

AI Race Dominance & Personal Updates:

Google's DeepMind creates AI that developed its own improved reinforcement learning guidelines: https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1jzw1z8/google_deepminds_new_ai_used_rl_to_create_its_own

Gemini integration with Google Sheets: https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1jzyzgw/gemini_now_works_in_google_sheets

Three Interesting AI Headlines:

Ethical AI training data initiative - FAIRLY TRAINED: https://www.fairlytrained.org

Ed Newton-Rex TED Talk on ethical AI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9d0p96N1iw

Concerns about energy policy and AI: https://www.theverge.com/energy/646011/trump-says-the-future-of-ai-is-powered-by-coal

Humanoid Robot Half Marathon Postponed Due to Weather: https://www.reuters.com/technology/worlds-first-humanoid-robot-half-marathon-postponed-due-windy-weather-2025-04-10/

Sam Altman interview at the 2025 TED conference in Vancouver: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MWT_doo68k

OpenAI updates its system for evaluating AI risks: https://www.axios.com/2025/04/15/openai-risks-frameworks-changes

Benn Jordan's Poisonify & AI Music Protection:

Benn Jordan's video explaining Poisonify: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMYm2d9bmEA

VoiceSwap - Jordan's ethical AI music company: https://voiceswap.ai

Harmony Cloak research: https://mosis.eecs.utk.edu/harmonycloak.html

Similar technologies: Nightshade and Glaze (adversarial noise approaches)

AI Dumpster Fire of the Week:

AI service that calls your elderly parents: https://www.404media.co/i-tested-the-ai-that-calls-your-elderly-parents-if-you-cant-bothered/

Research showing AI chatbots may negatively impact mental health: https://www.media.mit.edu/publications/how-ai-and-human-behaviors-shape-psychosocial-effects-of-chatbot-use-a-longitudinal-controlled-study/

Academic paper on mental impacts of talking to chatbots: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2503.17473

Experiment where someone replaced all their relationships with chatbots: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZg1FHT9gA0

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