Alpha School charges up to $75,000 a year for an AI-first education where kids do their core academics in two hours a day. Leaked documents show employees flagged AI-generated lessons with broken questions, were told to use personal emails while scraping sites like Khan Academy, and monitored students through webcams at home.

Behind the school is Joe Liemandt, a billionaire whose companies built software to track workers. MacKenzie Price says Alpha students learn 10 times faster than average. Education Secretary Linda McMahon visited the school and called it “exemplar.”

Juan and Kate get into the faulty AI lessons, student surveillance, publicly accessible student records, and what happens when the logic of bossware gets applied to children.

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 Saturday.

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 Alpha School Charges $75K to Replace Teachers With AI

00:55 The Woman Selling the Dream

01:33 Joe Liemandt: The Billionaire Behind Alpha School

02:17 Why Linda McMahon Is Promoting This as America's Future

04:27 What $75,000 a Year Actually Buys

05:08 AI Teaching Kids Wrong Answers

07:14 They Scraped Khan Academy for the Curriculum

08:30 Surveillance Cameras Watching Kids at Home

12:09 The Student Data Anyone Could Find Online

13:27 This Is What AI in Education Gets Wrong

In 2013, Sam Altman wrote that the most successful people create religions. He wasn't being philosophical. This episode follows the receipts on how Altman, Dario Amodei, Elon Musk, and Marc Andreessen are all running the same playbook: manufacture urgency, make skeptics feel dangerous, and chase trillions in investment.

We break down why AI companies need you to believe their product is God-tier, what the cult mechanics look like up close, and what happens when that "AI God" starts deleting your emails. Meta's superintelligent AI did exactly that to a real user. It's documented.

What happens when the prophecy doesn't pan out?

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 Tech CEOs Building a Religion Around AI?

01:12 Matt Shumer's "Something Big Is Coming" Post

01:45 Dario Amodei, Sam Altman, and the God Narrative

03:55 Marc Andreessen Says Slowing AI Down Costs Lives

05:14 When AI Believers Meet Real Life

06:08 The AI Slop Reality Check

08:00 Why Americans Don't Trust AI

09:10 Why AI Companies Push the God Narrative

10:39 The Cult Playbook: Urgency, Silencing Skeptics, Control

13:35 Meta's Superintelligent AI Just Deleted Her Emails

14:37 Follow the Money, Question the Prophets

Anthropic spent $7 million on a Super Bowl ad roasting Sam Altman in front of 100 million people. Altman fired back on X, calling Anthropic "elitist" and accusing them of pushing for AI regulation. In 2023, he personally sat in front of Congress and begged them to regulate AI.

Juan and Kate go through Altman's response line by line. They find one argument worth siding with him on (Claude's free tier runs out of tokens fast), one they call flimsy (accusing Anthropic of gatekeeping while OpenAI locked down its own models), and one they can't let slide (the regulation flip). They also get into why only 5% of ChatGPT users pay the $20 subscription, what that means for the coming ad war, and their spiciest take: Google probably wins anyway, not because of the ad, but because it already owns enterprise.

When two AI companies that share the same founding DNA start buying Super Bowl slots to roast each other, who actually benefits?

ABOUT SLOP WORLDAI 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.

DISCLAIMERAll 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 Anthropic Spent $7M at the Super Bowl to Roast OpenAI

01:23 Anthropic's Founders Left OpenAI. Here's the Fallout.

02:45 Every AI Super Bowl Ad, Ranked

04:57 Is OpenAI the Next Netscape?

06:29 Only 5% of ChatGPT Users Pay. So Where's the Money?

08:21 We Read Sam Altman's Response. It Gets Weird.

11:00 Altman Begged Congress for Regulation. Then Called It Elitist.

11:44 The One Thing Anthropic's Ad Got Wrong

14:04 Why Google Probably Wins the AI Race

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Moltbook promised to be Reddit for AI agents — 1.5 million bots debating philosophy, founding religions, and building secret languages while humans watched from the sidelines. Elon Musk called it the first sign of the singularity. An OpenAI co-founder said it was the most incredible sci-fi thing he'd ever seen. The internet exploded in 96 hours.

Then researchers looked under the hood.

What they found: a platform entirely vibe-coded without a single line of actual code written by its founder, security breaches exposing API keys and emails, one person who created 500,000 fake bot accounts, and marketers posing as AI agents to promote products. The 1.5 million bots claim? Not real.

Juan and Kate break down the full Moltbook saga — the hype cycle, the security flaws, Crustafarianism (yes, really), and what this chaotic experiment actually tells us about handing AI agents the keys to your computer.

Hosted by Juan Faisal and Kate Cook. Slop World Podcast covers AI news with receipts — fact-checking Big Tech's claims and following the money on the stories everyone's hyping but nobody's verifying. New episodes every week.

Chapters:

00:00 What Moltbook Is and Why It Fooled So Many People

01:07 Why Top AI Leaders Thought Moltbook Was a Big Deal

02:14 What Happens When AI Agents Control Your Computer

03:21 Bots Creating Religions and Secret Codes Without Humans

03:59 How Moltbook Blew Up Online in Just One Weekend

05:09 The Founder Didn't Write Code and It Caused Real Problems

05:44 The Security Leak That Exposed Keys and Emails

07:29 How One Person Created 500,000 Fake AI Bots

08:25 Why the 1.5 Million Bots Claim Was Not Real

09:29 How Marketers Pretended to Be AI Bots

10:56 Why These AI Bots Only Seemed Smart

12:54 Why Giving AI Agents Control Is Still Dangerous

Google AI Overview falsely accused a Canadian musician of s*x offenses. He was removed from a tour. There was no correction, no appeal, and no one to call. That is Juan's "ghost authority" — an algorithm making decisions about your reputation, your grocery bill, and your medical data, with no human left holding the bag.

Juan and Kate break down all three: Google AI Overview spreading false information with no mechanism to correct it, Instacart's surveillance pricing tool quietly charging you more based on your behavior, and what ChatGPT Health actually does with your most sensitive medical data.

Plus a practical checklist to protect yourself from all three, and the bus stop test — a simple rule for deciding how much to trust any AI tool.

Hosted by Juan Faisal and Kate Cook. Slop World Podcast covers AI news with receipts — fact-checking Big Tech's claims and following the money on the stories everyone's hyping but nobody's verifying. New episodes every week.

Chapters:

00:00 Ghost Authority: Why Nobody Is Responsible When AI Messes Up

01:42 Algorithmic Accountability: A Checklist to Protect Your Decisions

02:31 Google AI Overview: The Minnesota Solar Company Hallucination

03:19 Reputation Ruined: The AI Hallucination That Cost a Musician His Career

05:52 Smart Research: How to Use ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude Without Being Fooled

08:35 Surveillance Pricing: Why the Internet Charges You More Than Your Neighbor

10:41 Instacart and Uber: The Backlash Against Dynamic Pricing

12:42 Save Money: Simple Tricks to Beat Hidden Algorithmic Pricing

14:15 The Urgency Trap: How Companies Profit From Your Stress and Fear

15:34 AI in Healthcare: Your Medical Data and Health Privacy Risks

16:10 Juan Reacts: OpenAI's ChatGPT Health Trailer

17:41 Could Your Private AI Chats Raise Your Insurance Rates?

21:21 The Fine Print: What OpenAI Actually Does With Your Medical Data

23:39 Why AI Can't Tell Real Science From Internet Myths

25:42 How to Anonymize Your Medical Test Results

27:23 Why Being Fast Online Makes You a Target for AI Scams

30:03 The Bus Stop Test: A Simple Rule for Trusting Any AI Tool

The founders, lab directors, and researchers building the most powerful AI systems in the world believe there is a real chance those systems end humanity. They're speeding up anyway.

Juan and Kate break down the AI 2027 report, what recursive self-improvement actually means, and why the US vs. China arms race is being used as cover to bypass every guardrail.

Plus: Sam Altman begged Congress to regulate AI in 2023. That conversation has since gone completely silent.

So why are the people who know the most about the risk the ones most determined to keep going?

ABOUT SLOP WORLDAI 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.

DISCLAIMERAll 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.

Microsoft published an "AI Holiday Traditions" list and Juan and Kate voted on it live. The exercise and water intake tracker made them want to burn something down. The dreidel instructions were fine.

The bigger issue is face data. Kate blurs her kids before any AI image upload. Most parents don't. The bus station analogy is the one that actually lands at a family dinner without starting a fight.

Which AI topics will blow up the table, which ones bring it together, and why "nobody really knows" is your best exit line when the bubble question comes up.

Is there a version of this conversation that actually brings the family together, or does AI at the dinner table always end in a separate room?

ABOUT SLOP WORLDAI 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.

DISCLAIMERAll 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.

00:00 What Happens When AI Comes Up at the Holiday Table?

01:30 How to Actually Use AI With Your Kids (That's Not Weird)

03:47 Your Kid's Face Is Training Data — What Grandpa Doesn't Know

05:39 The Bus Station Analogy (Best Way to Explain It at Dinner)

07:33 Microsoft Made an AI Holiday List and We Have Notes

10:47 The Exercise Tracker That Made Us Want to Burn It All Down

11:38 Topics That Will Blow Up the Table (And How to Escape)

14:34 The Bubble Question and Why "Nobody Really Knows" Is Your Exit

16:02 AI Slop vs. AI Art — the Conversation That Might Actually Unite Everyone

18:40 The Playbook

AI browsers like ChatGPT Atlas and Perplexity Comet are being hijacked by instructions hidden inside ordinary webpages. You never have to click anything for it to happen. Juan and Kate walk through how prompt injection works, why the first generation of AI agents can't be patched out of this problem, and what it actually costs you to hand your browsing over to a bot.

They cover the resume trick going viral right now: white text keywords at the bottom of your CV that humans can't see but bots score highly. They cover how a single meta tag on a shopping site can override your agent's instructions and push a product you never asked for. And they get into why indirect prompt injection — malicious instructions buried in HTML, CSS, PDFs, or metadata — is so much harder to fix than direct jailbreaking. The difference matters: direct injection is you manipulating the model, indirect is someone else manipulating your agent while it browses on your behalf.

Juan and Kate keep returning to one question: how much security are you willing to trade for an agent that handles your calendar, your shopping, and your browsing? The security measures are whack-a-mole. So who's responsible when your agent gets redirected and your bank account gets drained?

ABOUT SLOP WORLDAI 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.

DISCLAIMERAll 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 - Why AI Browsers Like Atlas and Comet Are a Security Risk00:50 - Invisible Instructions Hijacking Your AI Agent01:51 - Prompt Injection Explained for Beginners02:39 - The Hack That Exposes AI Browser Weaknesses03:40 - The Resume Hack: Watch Your Data Get Stolen04:43 - Phishing Attack Using Simple Meta Tags05:20 - Hidden Malicious Prompts in Metadata and PDFs06:00 - Direct Injection: Forcing Models Past Guardrails06:41 - Indirect Injection: Embedded Instructions for Agents07:22 - We're Playing With Fire: AI Browser Security Is a Mess09:03 - Why AI Agents Get Manipulated So Easily12:55 - ChatGPT Atlas and Perplexity Comet: Can We Trust These Browsers?14:13 - What Is Your Cost of Convenience? The Risks of AI Automation16:01 - Why First-Gen AI Agents Will Always Be Flawed

AI at work was sold as focus and flow; what we got is a slot machine welded onto Outlook. AI tools for business now behave like growth-hacked notification engines, hitting you hundreds of times a day in the name of “productivity.”

In this episode, we dig into how Microsoft Copilot and other AI productivity tools quietly turn your workflow into an engagement farm: prompts you didn’t ask for, “helpful” nudges that steal your attention, and dashboards that make distraction look like innovation. If you’re a business owner, manager, or knowledge worker trying to use AI for business without nuking your focus, this is your warning label.

🫟 ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

Microsoft, Work Trend Index Special Report "Breaking Down the Infinite Workday": https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/worklab/work-trend-index/breaking-down-infinite-workday

🫟 TOPICS

00:00 When Interruptions Take Over Your Workday

00:08 Why AI Tools Keep Pulling Your Attention Away

00:35 Copilot And The Problem With “Helpful” Prompts

01:32 Why SaaS Tools Bake In Interruptions

03:20 Every App Trying To Teach You At Once

05:54 Your Attention As The Real Resource

06:52 Engagement Metrics vs. Productivity

07:50 The All-In-One AI Tools Ecosystem Theory

09:13 Why SaaS Tools Won’t Give Up Notifications

12:47 What People Really Do With AI at Work

13:57 Using AI Personas To Stress-Test Your Ideas

14:48 AI For Data Storytelling

16:31 One Easy Step To Level Up With AI

18:42 The Real Gap In AI Productivity At Work

19:48 Real-Time Interruption: Meet Ramón

20:22 How AI Could Handle Most Executive Decisions

22:17 One More Thing...

🫟 ABOUT SLOP WORLD

Juan Faisal and Kate Cook plunge into the slop pile—AI news, cultural shifts, and the future’s endless curveballs. They’re not here to sanitize the mess; they’re here to wrestle with it, laugh at it, and find meaning where you least expect it.

OpenAI now has AI agents for developers, a ChatGPT Atlas browser to compete with Chrome, OpenAI Codex for coding after acquiring Windsurf, a Sora 2 social app, Stargate, its own chips, and a newly lifted ban on adult chatbot content. Juan and Kate ask the question nobody's really answering: is this a plan to build AGI, or is OpenAI just chasing returns on a capital pile no single product could justify?

They also get into the growing AI resistance — coders, students, and workers pushing back on generative AI — and where the line is. What AI use could get you fired? Is human-made work becoming the new premium, the way organic food did in the early 2000s?

Where's your line in the sand with AI?

🫟 Additional Resources

The AI Resisters (Axios) https://www.axios.com/2025/10/19/ai-resistance-students-coders

Workforce Outlook: The Class of 2026 in the AI Economy https://joinhandshake.com/themes/handshake/dist/assets/downloads/network-trends/class-of-2026-outlook.pdf

Zuckerberg signals Meta won’t open source all of its ‘superintelligence’ AI models https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/30/zuckerberg-says-meta-likely-wont-open-source-all-of-its-superintelligence-ai-models/

ABOUT SLOP WORLDAI 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.

DISCLAIMERAll 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 Is OpenAI Building AGI or Just Burning Cash?

00:39 Every Product OpenAI Launched (And Why It's Suspicious)

02:52 The Real Plan: AGI, Government Contracts, or Neither?

06:22 Meta vs. OpenAI: Who Actually Wins the AI Race?

09:35 The AI Resistance Is Real — Coders, Students, Workers

11:24 Using Tools You Don't Trust

13:51 The Vibe Coding Trap Nobody Talks About

14:40 Human-Made Work Is Becoming the New Luxury

18:30 Where's Your Line in the Sand With AI?

19:48 The Smarter Way to Use AI Nobody Is Teaching

21:49 Puppies, Babies & Weekly AI Slop