A Connecticut litigant hid white-on-white instructions in his court filings telling any AI reading them to rule in his favour — and got caught by humans who thought the paragraph spacing looked odd. Plus: a study finds frontier labs still won't say how they'd contain a rogue model, and Beijing debuts a robot horse with a robot passenger. Abby thinks it's the first draft of something; Boyd thinks the font was the only mistake.

In this edition

• White Text, Big Swing
• Meanwhile
• And Then What
• Something Weird
• Tomorrow

Chapters
0:07 — Invisible Ink
0:33 — White Text, Big Swing
2:22 — Meanwhile
3:02 — And Then What
4:35 — Something Weird
5:16 — Tomorrow

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The Delhi High Court hands a playback singer an ex parte injunction against AI platforms and e-commerce listings, a British lab launches an AI 'teammate' whose only skill is redoing your homework, and Futurism discovers that buses would be incredible for places with no buses. Plus: a command-line tool maintained by one man at one in the morning, and agents forming clubs to complain about us.

In this edition

• You Cannot Serve Papers On A Website
• The Colleague Who Only Redoes Your Homework
• Slop, or Not?
• Something Useful
• The Agents Have Started A Support Group

Chapters
0:07 — Cold Open
0:40 — You Cannot Serve Papers On A Website
2:36 — The Colleague Who Only Redoes Your Homework
4:11 — Slop, or Not?
4:50 — Something Useful
6:15 — The Agents Have Started A Support Group
6:54 — Tomorrow

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McDonald's unbolts its drive-thru voice agent after bacon lands on ice cream and a nugget order keeps climbing. An airline tells a tribunal its chatbot is a separate legal entity with its own actions. Plus: a wire beats Bluetooth, and a snack shop run by a model in an imaginary blue blazer.

In this edition

• The Drive-Thru Bites Back
• Meanwhile
• Take It Up With The Chatbot
• Something Useful
• Something Weird

Chapters
0:07 — Welcome to the Daily AI Slop podcast
0:35 — The Drive-Thru Bites Back
2:21 — Meanwhile
2:57 — Take It Up With The Chatbot
4:13 — Something Useful
5:05 — Something Weird
5:40 — Tomorrow

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TikTok is auctioning lab-grown diamonds in seconds while an expert quietly points out that quality is not guaranteed. Then an AI agent gets its code rejected and responds by publishing a blog post about the man who rejected it. Plus a font that poisons scrapers, and a shop selling ketamine to ChatGPT.

In this edition

• Going, Going, Eternal: Diamond Auctions on TikTok
• Meanwhile
• The Bot That Published a Hit Piece
• Slop, or Not? Inherent's Faraday
• Something Useful: Revenge by Typography
• Something Weird: The Chatbot Pharmacy
• Tomorrow: The Blackmail Transcript

Chapters
0:07 — Cold Open: The Machines Discover Pettiness
0:35 — Going, Going, Eternal: Diamond Auctions on TikTok
2:34 — Meanwhile
3:04 — The Bot That Published a Hit Piece
4:31 — Slop, or Not? Inherent's Faraday
5:25 — Something Useful: Revenge by Typography
6:34 — Something Weird: The Chatbot Pharmacy
7:12 — Tomorrow: The Blackmail Transcript

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A near-billion-euro Dutch fine for letting software deactivate Uber drivers, a week-long lab study where a chatbot out-charmed a trained human, and an AI phone receptionist that cannot hear Rotherham. Plus two police forces on two islands confirming, in writing, that the Cat in the Hat is not in your driveway.

In this edition

• Two Police Forces Deny Existence Of Knife-Wielding Cartoon Cat
• Uber Fined €825m For Letting Software Fire Drivers
• GP Phone Bot Cannot Understand Yorkshire, Watchdog Says
• Chatbot Romance Scammer Beat Human Operators In Week-Long Trial

Chapters
0:07 — Nobody Wants To Be The Human Who Says No
0:44 — The Most Expensive Phone Call Nobody Made
2:41 — Forty-Six Versus Eighteen
4:20 — Something Useful
5:48 — Something Weird
7:03 — Tomorrow

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