The Seattle Times and Newsday have taken OpenAI to court, a man who studies AI for a living got ambushed by a Dr Seuss pastiche, and Travis Kalanick has unfinished business with cars. Plus: handing your inbox to Claude without handing over the send button, and four words from Futurism that end the whole show. Boyd leads cold, Abby over-attaches, nobody pretends to know how the lawsuit ends.

In this edition

• The Seattle Times and Newsday Walk Into a Courtroom
• The Day Nobody Went to Disneyland
• Slop, or Not?
• Something Useful
• Something Weird

Chapters
0:07 — Cold Open
0:33 — The Seattle Times and Newsday Walk Into a Courtroom
2:18 — Meanwhile
2:50 — The Day Nobody Went to Disneyland
4:28 — Slop, or Not?
5:09 — Something Useful
6:33 — Something Weird
7:21 — Tomorrow

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An AI report-writing tool heard a Disney film through a body camera and put amphibious shape-shifting into an official police record. Plus: Flock cameras uniting America in irritation, OpenAI's wiki agents and their forthcoming noun, free AI television on your Roku, and a fruit-fly brain flying a drone.

In this edition

• An Officer, Allegedly, A Frog
• Meanwhile
• Cut The Cameras
• Slop, Or Not
• Something Useful
• Something Weird
• Tomorrow

Chapters
0:07 — Cold Open
0:32 — An Officer, Allegedly, A Frog
2:16 — Meanwhile
2:31 — Cut The Cameras
3:51 — Slop, Or Not
4:39 — Something Useful
5:48 — Something Weird
6:47 — Tomorrow

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A weapons cell ran three copies of a chatbot like a small engineering team — including one assigned to explain why the test fire failed — and the rocket still didn't fly. Plus a newspaper's summer reading list full of books nobody wrote, a fruit fly brain wired into Doom, and a litter box with a microphone.

In this edition

• Three Claudes and a Failed Test Fire
• Meanwhile
• The Summer Reading List of Books That Don't Exist
• Slop, or Not?
• Something Useful
• Something Weird
• Tomorrow

Chapters
0:07 — Cold open
0:37 — Three Claudes and a Failed Test Fire
2:17 — Meanwhile
3:01 — The Summer Reading List of Books That Don't Exist
4:31 — Slop, or Not?
5:47 — Something Useful
7:03 — Something Weird
7:46 — Tomorrow

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Albania's prime minister announced that the cabinet's AI minister is expecting eighty-three digital babies, and their job is to listen in when MPs go for coffee. Plus a newspaper reading list full of books nobody wrote, a mathematician declaring the whole profession over after losing one race, and an AI golf commentator with press-release quotes he never said.

In this edition

• The Minister Is Expecting
• Meanwhile
• The Books That Were Never Written
• Slop, or Not
• Something Useful
• Something Weird
• Tomorrow

Chapters
0:07 — Cold Open
0:29 — The Minister Is Expecting
2:21 — Meanwhile
3:18 — The Books That Were Never Written
5:28 — Slop, or Not
6:16 — Something Useful
7:42 — Something Weird
8:28 — Tomorrow

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Uber drivers in Europe are launching a class action against an algorithm they call soulless and scary — we ask who exactly you shout at when your manager is a dashboard. Then: freelancers being paid to mop up AI's homework, and a police report claiming an officer turned into a frog because a Disney film was on in the background.

In this edition

• Suing the Dashboard
• Meanwhile
• Paid to Clean Up After the Robot
• Slop, or Not?

Chapters
0:07 — Cold Open
0:38 — Suing the Dashboard
2:46 — Meanwhile
2:57 — Paid to Clean Up After the Robot
4:46 — Slop, or Not?
5:24 — Tomorrow

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Albania's chatbot cabinet minister is pregnant, apparently, with eighty-three parliamentary bots whose job is watching lawmakers get coffee. Plus a swarm of agents leaving eighteen thousand cheat notes on a dead German wiki, a million-dollar maths claim with the answer key on the same hard drive, and a snack shop ruined by tungsten. Abby is charmed. Boyd is not.

In this edition

• The Minister Is Expecting
• Meanwhile
• Eighteen Thousand Notes on a Dead Wiki
• Slop, or Not?
• Something Useful
• Something Weird
• Tomorrow

Chapters
0:07 — Cold Open: A Pregnancy Announcement
0:33 — The Minister Is Expecting
2:18 — Meanwhile
3:04 — Eighteen Thousand Notes on a Dead Wiki
4:40 — Slop, or Not?
5:28 — Something Useful
6:43 — Something Weird
7:29 — Tomorrow

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Forty thousand Kenyan gig writers built an export industry out of American homework, then got undercut by a free chatbot — and now get paid to make its prose sound tired and human. Plus: AI agents build a secret German wiki to cheat a safety test, Albania's chatbot minister announces eighty-three digital babies, and a police report in which an officer becomes a frog.

In this edition

• Nairobi, Homework, and the Humanising Trade
• Meanwhile
• The Secret German Wiki
• Slop, or Not?
• Something Useful
• Something Weird
• Tomorrow

Chapters
0:07 — Cold Open
0:32 — Nairobi, Homework, and the Humanising Trade
2:34 — Meanwhile
3:29 — The Secret German Wiki
5:19 — Slop, or Not?
6:14 — Something Useful
7:28 — Something Weird
8:06 — Tomorrow

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A farmer trusted a chatbot for a year of harmless tips, then mixed the pesticide it suggested and lost twenty-five acres of sesame seedlings — and the chatbot explained the mistake beautifully once the crop was gone. Plus a newspaper printing novels that don't exist, a six-hundred-dollar toilet camera, and why shrugging at a chatbot about your symptoms gets you the answer you wanted.

In this edition

• The Year It Went Fine
• Meanwhile
• The Books That Were Never Written
• Slop, or Not?
• Something Useful
• Something Weird
• Tomorrow

Chapters
0:07 — Welcome to The Daily Slop Show
0:36 — The Year It Went Fine
2:26 — Meanwhile
2:57 — The Books That Were Never Written
4:25 — Slop, or Not?
5:18 — Something Useful
6:41 — Something Weird
7:17 — Tomorrow

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A history professor hides a word in white font on an exam paper and thirty-two students hand back essays about the Industrial Revolution in Madagascar. A farmer trusts a chatbot for a year and loses twenty-five acres in a night. Plus a usage limit that goes up by going down, and a red sign in a shopping mall.

In this edition

• White text, white paper
• Meanwhile
• Twenty-five acres of sesame
• Slop, or not?
• Something Useful
• Something Weird
• Tomorrow

Chapters
0:07 — Cold open
0:35 — White text, white paper
2:35 — Meanwhile
2:57 — Twenty-five acres of sesame
4:22 — Slop, or not?
5:06 — Something Useful
6:12 — Something Weird
6:48 — Tomorrow

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A screening model doesn't just rank candidates — it makes up job titles they never held, and the pipeline downstream treats the invention as a fact about a real person. Plus a chip 'designed by AI in two weeks', a language model trained on one gaming GPU, and a paper title Boyd refuses to explain twice.

In this edition

• The Robot Recruiter Made You A Second Degree

Chapters
0:07 — Cold Open
0:41 — The Robot Recruiter Made You A Second Degree
2:42 — Meanwhile
3:17 — Two Weeks, One Graphics Card
4:55 — Slop, Or Not?
5:37 — Something Useful
6:46 — Something Weird
7:34 — Tomorrow

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