The FAIK Files

By Perry Carpenter | N2K NetworksSociety & Culture Technology

The FAIK Files episodes

July 18, 2025AI Oopsies!!
Welcome back to The FAIK Files!
In this week's episode:
Grok's triple threat of chaos - Elon Musk's AI chatbot continues identifying as Hitler, starts generating anime waifus, and somehow lands a $200 million Department of Defense contract

ChatGPT's accidental generosity - A seemingly innocent guessing game vulnerability leads users to extract free Windows OS keys and other unintended system access

McDonald's million-dollar security fail - The fast-food giant's AI hiring tool protecting 64 million job applicants with the ultra-secure password "123456"

AI safety reality check - We examine whether AI companies are actually prepared for the dangers of building human-level systems, according to new safety ratings and reports

***** NOTES AND REFERENCES *****
Grok Still Calls Itself Hitler, Adds Waifus & A 200 Million DoD Contract:
Rolling Stone: Grok, Elon Musk's AI Chatbot, Is Being Used to Generate Pornographic Images of Anime Characters: https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/grok-pornographic-anime-companion-department-of-defense-1235385034/

Time Magazine: Grok, Elon Musk's AI Chatbot, Has a Nazi Problem: https://time.com/7302790/grok-ai-chatbot-elon-musk/

X Thread where Grok still says it's Hitler: https://xcancel.com/goodside/status/1944266466875826617

NextGov: Pentagon Awards Multiple Companies $200M in Contracts for AI Tools: https://www.nextgov.com/acquisition/2025/07/pentagon-awards-multiple-companies-200m-contracts-ai-tools/406698/
ChatGPT Guessing Game Leads To Users Extracting Free Windows OS Keys & More:
Mozilla's 0din.ai vulnerability research program: https://0din.ai/blog/chatgpt-guessing-game-leads-to-users-extracting-free-windows-os-keys-more
McDonald's Hiring App Admin Login: "123456":
Ian Carroll's Blog Post: https://ian.sh/mcdonalds

CSO Online: McDonald's AI hiring tool's password '123456' exposes data of 64M applicants: https://www.csoonline.com/article/4020919/mcdonalds-ai-hiring-tools-password-123456-exposes-data-of-64m-applicants.html
Are AI companies taking AI safety seriously enough?:
The Guardian: AI firms 'unprepared' for dangers of building human-level systems, report warns: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/17/ai-firms-unprepared-for-dangers-of-building-human-level-systems-report-warns

Future of Life Institute: AI Safety Index: https://futureoflife.org/ai-safety-index-summer-2025/

SaferAI Ratings: https://ratings.safer-ai.org/

******* THE BOILERPLATE *******
About The FAIK Files:
The FAIK Files is an offshoot project from Perry Carpenter's most recent book, FAIK: A Practical Guide to Living in a World of Deepfakes, Disinformation, and AI-Generated Deceptions.
Get the Book: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠FAIK: A Practical Guide to Living in a World of Deepfakes, Disinformation, and AI-Generated Deceptions⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ (Amazon Associates link)

Check out the website for more info: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://thisbookisfaik.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠
Check out Perry & Mason's other show, the Digital Folklore Podcast:
Apple Podcasts: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/digital-folklore/id1657374458⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Spotify: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/2v1BelkrbSRSkHEP4cYffj?si=u4XTTY4pR4qEqh5zMNSVQA⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠
Want to connect with us? Here's how:
Connect with Perry:
LinkedIn: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/perrycarpenter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

X: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://x.com/perrycarpenter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

BlueSky: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bsky.app/profile/perrycarpenter.bsky.social⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠
Connect with Mason:
LinkedIn: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/mason-amadeus-a853a7242/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

BlueSky: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bsky.app/profile/wickedinterest.ing⁠

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1 hr 1 min
July 11, 2025Climbing Through the Context Window
Welcome back to The FAIK Files!
In this week's episode:
Meet Claude, Small Business Owner

Tricking AI – two different ways

Shifting Policies Around AI Content

Dumpster Fire of the week: Grok goes full Nazi
Check out Perry's new website, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠The Deception Project⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and newsletter, Deceptive Minds: a newsletter about how we are fooled, how we fool ourselves, and what we can do about it. Subscribe on LinkedIn ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/build-relation/newsletter-follow?entityUrn=7319922626200510464⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠
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You can also join our Discord server here: ⁠⁠https://faik.to/discord⁠

*** NOTES AND REFERENCES ***
Meet Claude, Small Business Owner:
Anthropic Made Claude Run a Vending Machine Business: https://www.anthropic.com/research/project-vend-1

"Vending Bench" - A Benchmark for AI Models Doing Business: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2502.15840
Tricking AI – Two Different Ways:
'Positive Review Only': Researchers Hide AI Prompts in Papers: https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Technology/Artificial-intelligence/Positive-review-only-Researchers-hide-AI-prompts-in-papers

Researchers Jailbreak AI by Flooding It With Bullshit Jargon: https://www.404media.co/researchers-jailbreak-ai-by-flooding-it-with-bullshit-jargon/
Shifting Policies Around AI Content:
Denmark’s Personal Copyright Legislation:
Original Guardian Article: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jun/27/deepfakes-denmark-copyright-law-artificial-intelligence

NYT Article with More Details: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/world/europe/denmark-deepfake-copyright-ai-law.html

YouTube’s Changes to Monetization:
The Verge: https://www.theverge.com/news/703772/youtube-monetization-policy-update-ai-spam

The Policy (Stub): https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/10008196?hl=en#zippy=%2Ccommunity-guidelines

Video from YouTube Insider: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqMijeuaWik
AI Dumpster Fire of the Week:
Grok 3 Got a 'Politically Incorrect' Update Ahead of Grok 4's Launch: https://www.businessinsider.com/grok-3-politically-incorrect-texas-floods-antisemitic-grok-4-2025

Elon Musk’s Grok Is Calling for a New Holocaust: https://www.atlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/07/grok-anti-semitic-tweets/683463/

Musk’s AI Company Scrubs Inappropriate Posts After Grok Chatbot Makes Antisemitic Comments: https://www.wfla.com/news/national/musks-ai-company-scrubs-inappropriate-posts-after-grok-chatbot-makes-antisemitic-comments

******* THE BOILERPLATE *******
About The FAIK Files:
The FAIK Files is an offshoot project from Perry Carpenter's most recent book, FAIK: A Practical Guide to Living in a World of Deepfakes, Disinformation, and AI-Generated Deceptions.
Get the Book: ⁠⁠⁠⁠FAIK: A Practical Guide to Living in a World of Deepfakes, Disinformation, and AI-Generated Deceptions⁠⁠⁠⁠ (Amazon Associates link)

Check out the website for more info: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://thisbookisfaik.com⁠⁠⁠⁠
Check out Perry & Mason's other show, the Digital Folklore Podcast:
Apple Podcasts: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/digital-folklore/id1657374458⁠⁠⁠⁠

Spotify: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/2v1BelkrbSRSkHEP4cYffj?si=u4XTTY4pR4qEqh5zMNSVQA⁠⁠⁠⁠
Want to connect with us? Here's how:
Connect with Perry:
LinkedIn: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/perrycarpenter⁠⁠⁠⁠

X: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://x.com/perrycarpenter⁠⁠⁠⁠

BlueSky: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bsky.app/profile/perrycarpenter.bsky.social⁠⁠⁠⁠
Connect with Mason:
LinkedIn: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/mason-amadeus-a853a7242/⁠⁠⁠⁠

BlueSky: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bsky.app/profile/wickedinterest.ing⁠

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56 min
July 04, 2025Cognitive Inoculation: Winn Schwartau and the Metawar
Welcome back to The FAIK Files!
This week, we're sharing our interview with Winn Schwartau!
Winn Schwartau is a respected authority in information security and one of the earliest voices to warn about the risks of cyberwarfare. With a career spanning decades, he’s written extensively on topics like critical infrastructure vulnerabilities, time-based security, and the human factors behind digital threats. His work has shaped the way governments and organizations think about cybersecurity today.
You should check out his book The Art & Science of Metawar: How to Coexist With AI-Driven Reality Distortion, Disinformation, & Addiction in the Metaverse!

******* THE BOILERPLATE *******

About The FAIK Files:
The FAIK Files is an offshoot project from Perry Carpenter's most recent book, FAIK: A Practical Guide to Living in a World of Deepfakes, Disinformation, and AI-Generated Deceptions.
Get the Book: ⁠⁠⁠⁠FAIK: A Practical Guide to Living in a World of Deepfakes, Disinformation, and AI-Generated Deceptions⁠⁠⁠⁠ (Amazon Associates link)

Check out the website for more info: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://thisbookisfaik.com⁠⁠⁠⁠
You can also join our Discord server here: ⁠https://faik.to/discord
Check out Perry & Mason's other show, the Digital Folklore Podcast:
Apple Podcasts: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/digital-folklore/id1657374458⁠⁠⁠⁠

Spotify: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/2v1BelkrbSRSkHEP4cYffj?si=u4XTTY4pR4qEqh5zMNSVQA⁠⁠⁠⁠
Want to connect with us? Here's how:

Connect with Perry:
Perry on LinkedIn: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/perrycarpenter⁠⁠⁠⁠

Perry on X: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://x.com/perrycarpenter⁠⁠⁠⁠

Perry on BlueSky: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bsky.app/profile/perrycarpenter.bsky.social⁠⁠⁠⁠
Connect with Mason:
Mason on LinkedIn: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/mason-amadeus-a853a7242/⁠⁠⁠⁠

Mason on BlueSky: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bsky.app/profile/wickedinterest.ing⁠

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50 min
June 27, 2025Making Bad Decisions? There's an AI for That
Welcome back to The FAIK Files!
In this week's episode:
Does ChatGPT make us dumber?

AI chatbots are amplifying disinformation

Anthropic's recent "fair use" court victory and what it actually means

Dumpster fire of the week: ChatGPT babysitters and therapy chatbots
Check out Perry's new website, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠The Deception Project⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and newsletter, Deceptive Minds: a newsletter about how we are fooled, how we fool ourselves, and what we can do about it. Subscribe on LinkedIn ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/build-relation/newsletter-follow?entityUrn=7319922626200510464⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠
Want to leave us a voicemail? Here's the magic link to do just that: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://sayhi.chat/FAIK⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠
You can also join our Discord server here: ⁠⁠https://faik.to/discord⁠

*** NOTES AND REFERENCES ***
Your Brain on ChatGPT:
The Times: Using ChatGPT for work? It might make you more stupid: https://www.thetimes.com/uk/technology-uk/article/using-chatgpt-for-work-it-might-make-you-more-stupid-dtvntprtk

Brain on LLM Study Website: https://www.brainonllm.com

Decision Intelligence Substack analysis: https://decision.substack.com/p/this-is-your-brain-on-chatgpt
Chatbots Don't Know What's TRUE:
Wired Uncanny Valley Podcast: The Chatbot Disinfo Inflaming the LA Protests: https://www.wired.com/story/uncanny-valley-podcast-the-chatbot-disinfo-inflaming-the-la-protests/

Wired: AI Chatbots Are Making LA Protest Disinformation Worse: https://www.wired.com/story/grok-chatgpt-ai-los-angeles-protest-disinformation/

BBC: Why AI chatbots are wrong about these LA protest photos: https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/czxyld16k9no
Anthropic's "Fair Use" Court Ruling & Implications:
AP News: https://apnews.com/article/anthropic-ai-fair-use-copyright-pirated-libraries-1e5cece51c2e4bd0bb21d94de2abb035

The Court Ruling Document: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25982181-authors-v-anthropic-ruling/

Fast Company Analysis: https://www.fastcompany.com/91357755/anthropics-ai-copyright-win-is-more-complicated-than-it-looks

Stanford Fair Use Four Factors Test: https://fairuse.stanford.edu/overview/fair-use/four-factors/
AI Dumpster Fire of the Week:
LinkedIn Post: ChatGPT became a babysitter: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/pascal-hetzscholdt_quote-tired-parent-who-let-chatgpt-babysit-activity-7342594228297822208-UBHo/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios&rcm=ACoAAACFP34BmygIrgqg3f4FoDKNkg9fqXiChHc

Futurism: Therapy chatbot addict meth: https://futurism.com/therapy-chatbot-addict-meth

Washington Post: Your chatbot friend might be messing with your mind: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/05/31/ai-chatbots-user-influence-attention-chatgpt/

ArXiv Paper: On Targeted Manipulation and Deception when Optimizing LLMs for User Feedback: https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.02306
******* THE BOILERPLATE *******
About The FAIK Files:
The FAIK Files is an offshoot project from Perry Carpenter's most recent book, FAIK: A Practical Guide to Living in a World of Deepfakes, Disinformation, and AI-Generated Deceptions.
Get the Book: ⁠⁠⁠⁠FAIK: A Practical Guide to Living in a World of Deepfakes, Disinformation, and AI-Generated Deceptions⁠⁠⁠⁠ (Amazon Associates link)

Check out the website for more info: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://thisbookisfaik.com⁠⁠⁠⁠
Check out Perry & Mason's other show, the Digital Folklore Podcast:
Apple Podcasts: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/digital-folklore/id1657374458⁠⁠⁠⁠

Spotify: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/2v1BelkrbSRSkHEP4cYffj?si=u4XTTY4pR4qEqh5zMNSVQA⁠⁠⁠⁠
Want to connect with us? Here's how:
Connect with Perry:
LinkedIn: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/perrycarpenter⁠⁠⁠⁠

X: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://x.com/perrycarpenter⁠⁠⁠⁠

BlueSky: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bsky.app/profile/perrycarpenter.bsky.social⁠⁠⁠⁠
Connect with Mason:
LinkedIn: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/mason-amadeus-a853a7242/⁠⁠⁠⁠

BlueSky: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bsky.app/profile/wickedinterest.ing⁠

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1 hr 5 min
June 20, 2025We're Out Sick (The REMIX)
This week, there' s no real episode! Instead, please enjoy this song-summary of what we had planned to cover today.
If you want to dig in on your own, here's the sources we were planning to talk about:

SEGMENT 1: YOUR BRAIN ON CHAT GPT
Does LLM use build up "cognitive debt" and make you dumber? (Probably not TBH)

Media page from the authors of the study: https://www.brainonllm.com

The study itself: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.08872

A very limited study (with some serious shortcomings), but it is nonetheless making rounds on the news.
SEGMENT 2: CHATBOTS DON'T KNOW WHATS TRUE
The Chatbot Disinfo Inflaming the LA Protests: (from Wired’s “Uncanny Valley Podcast”) https://www.wired.com/story/uncanny-valley-podcast-the-chatbot-disinfo-inflaming-the-la-protests/

Wired: AI Chatbots Are Making LA Protest Disinformation Worse https://www.wired.com/story/grok-chatgpt-ai-los-angeles-protest-disinformation/

BBC Story: Why AI chatbots are wrong about these LA protest photoshttps://www.bbc.com/news/videos/czxyld16k9no
SEGMENT 3: SOME NEW AI INTEGRATIONS
Google bringing “audio overview” to search: https://blog.google/products/search/audio-overviews-search-labs/

OpenAI Wearable
Official Announcement

Leaked Details

Futurism Article
Bots, Bots, Bots - a game where you have to pretend to be an AI bot: https://botsbotsbots.vercel.app
SEGMENT 4: THERAPY BOT SAYS "DO A LITTLE METH"
⁠https://www.livescience.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/meth-is-what-makes-you-able-to-do-your-job-ai-can-push-you-to-relapse-if-youre-struggling-with-addiction-study-finds

https://futurism.com/therapy-chatbot-addict-meth

Your chatbot friend might be messing with your mind, Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/05/31/ai-chatbots-user-influence-attention-chatgpt/

On Targeted Manipulation and Deception when Optimizing LLMs for User Feedback: https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.02306
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3 min
June 13, 2025Is AI Getting Too Real?
Welcome back to The FAIK Files!
In this week's episode:
OpenAI's models are reportedly resisting human commands to shut down

A controversial new research paper questions whether AI systems actually "think" or just create an illusion of reasoning.

How generative AI exploits the same psychological triggers as gambling—"just one more prompt, bro!"

Google's VEO-3 and ElevenLabs 3 are creating deepfakes so convincing they're fooling both people and detection systems.
Check out Perry's new website, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠The Deception Project⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and newsletter, Deceptive Minds: a newsletter about how we are fooled, how we fool ourselves, and what we can do about it. Subscribe on LinkedIn ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/build-relation/newsletter-follow?entityUrn=7319922626200510464⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠
Want to leave us a voicemail? Here's the magic link to do just that: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://sayhi.chat/FAIK⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠
You can also join our Discord server here: ⁠⁠https://faik.to/discord⁠
******* NOTES AND REFERENCES *******
OpenAI's "Skynet Moment" - The Shutdown Problem:
Original Thread from X: https://xcancel.com/PalisadeAI/status/1926084635903025621

Article from ComputerWorld: https://www.computerworld.com/article/3999190/openais-skynet-moment-models-defy-human-commands-actively-resist-orders-to-shut-down.html

Mason's Favorite Video about the "Stop Button" problem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TYT1QfdfsM
Apple's "Illusion of Thinking" Research Paper:
Apple Research Paper: https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/illusion-of-thinking

Nate Jones' nuanced take: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9tYAvjkOQk

Wes Roth's similarly nuanced take (with an experiment): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVJem2iLKZ8
AI & Gambling Addiction - "Just One More Prompt":
Pivot To AI Blog: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/05/generative-ai-runs-on-gambling-addiction-just-one-more-prompt-bro/

Bonus - Fake AI Startups Exposed: https://www.peoplemattersglobal.com/news/technology/fake-ai-startups-founder-charged-for-fraudulent-ai-app-powered-by-human-labour-45154

https://infosecwriteups.com/the-billion-dollar-ai-lie-how-builder-ai-faked-growth-fooled-investors-and-got-caught-3af1464a5ffe
Google VEO-3 and ElevenLabs 3 - The New Era of Synthetic Media:
Perry's LinkedIn post about TikTok deepfakes: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7338301239539003393/

CNN Interview: https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/15/business/video/deepfake-detector-fooled-isabel-rosales-digvid

Perry's Google VEO 3 experiment: The Sandwich Incident: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvsFm1XII6U

ElevenLabs v3: https://elevenlabs.io/blog/v3-audiotags

******* THE BOILERPLATE *******
About The FAIK Files:
The FAIK Files is an offshoot project from Perry Carpenter's most recent book, FAIK: A Practical Guide to Living in a World of Deepfakes, Disinformation, and AI-Generated Deceptions.
Get the Book: ⁠⁠⁠FAIK: A Practical Guide to Living in a World of Deepfakes, Disinformation, and AI-Generated Deceptions⁠⁠⁠ (Amazon Associates link)

Check out the website for more info: ⁠⁠⁠https://thisbookisfaik.com⁠⁠⁠
Check out Perry & Mason's other show, the Digital Folklore Podcast:
Apple Podcasts: ⁠⁠⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/digital-folklore/id1657374458⁠⁠⁠

Spotify: ⁠⁠⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/2v1BelkrbSRSkHEP4cYffj?si=u4XTTY4pR4qEqh5zMNSVQA⁠⁠⁠
Want to connect with us? Here's how:

Connect with Perry:
Perry on LinkedIn: ⁠⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/perrycarpenter⁠⁠⁠

Perry on X: ⁠⁠⁠https://x.com/perrycarpenter⁠⁠⁠

Perry on BlueSky: ⁠⁠⁠https://bsky.app/profile/perrycarpenter.bsky.social⁠⁠⁠
Connect with Mason:
Mason on LinkedIn: ⁠⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/mason-amadeus-a853a7242/⁠⁠⁠

Mason on BlueSky: ⁠⁠⁠https://bsky.app/profile/wickedinterest.ing⁠

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1 hr 10 min
June 06, 2025Artistically Inclined???
Welcome back to The FAIK Files!
In this week's episode:
Perry is on some kind of secret government mission???

Mason showcases a cool AI art project, and some behind-the-scenes processes of integrating AI elements into art.

We explore some more eye-rolling and stupid uses of AI art, including in scientific publishing and the music industry

And we interview Chris Machowski, artist and overall creative powerhouse behind RansomWear.net⁠
Check out Perry's new website, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠The Deception Project⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and newsletter, Deceptive Minds: a newsletter about how we are fooled, how we fool ourselves, and what we can do about it. Subscribe on LinkedIn ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/build-relation/newsletter-follow?entityUrn=7319922626200510464⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Want to leave us a voicemail? Here's the magic link to do just that: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://sayhi.chat/FAIK⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠
You can also join our Discord server here: ⁠⁠https://faik.to/discord⁠
******* NOTES AND REFERENCES *******
AI Usage in Artistic Projects - The Good:
Neural Viz YT Series: Unanswered Oddities youtube.com/watch?v=YGyvLlPad8Q

AI Texture Generation: Polycam https://poly.cam/tools/ai-texture-generator

AI Texture & Depth: Dream Texture https://github.com/carson-katri/dream-textures

AI Usage in Artistic Projects - The Bad:
Scientific Illustrators call out AI: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01527-9

Timbaland’s AI Artist “TaTa”: https://archive.md/20250605163855/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/timbaland-new-artist-tata-ai-1235356185/

Ethically sourced training corpus "Common Pile": https://archive.is/20250605163557/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/06/05/tech-brief-ai-copyright-report/

US Copyrightability report (Jan 29 2025): https://www.copyright.gov/ai/Copyright-and-Artificial-Intelligence-Part-2-Copyrightability-Report.pdf
Chris Machowski of RansomWear (and many other projects!):
Chris's Art/Merch Shop RansomWear: https://ransomwear.net/

Chris's Personal Website: https://www.chrismachowski.com/

8th Layer Insights (Chris did the art!): https://thecyberwire.com/podcasts/8th-layer-insights
******* THE BOILERPLATE *******
About The FAIK Files:
The FAIK Files is an offshoot project from Perry Carpenter's most recent book, FAIK: A Practical Guide to Living in a World of Deepfakes, Disinformation, and AI-Generated Deceptions.
Get the Book: ⁠⁠FAIK: A Practical Guide to Living in a World of Deepfakes, Disinformation, and AI-Generated Deceptions⁠⁠ (Amazon Associates link)

Check out the website for more info: ⁠⁠https://thisbookisfaik.com⁠⁠
Check out Perry & Mason's other show, the Digital Folklore Podcast:
Apple Podcasts: ⁠⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/digital-folklore/id1657374458⁠⁠

Spotify: ⁠⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/2v1BelkrbSRSkHEP4cYffj?si=u4XTTY4pR4qEqh5zMNSVQA⁠⁠
Want to connect with us? Here's how:

Connect with Perry:
Perry on LinkedIn: ⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/perrycarpenter⁠⁠

Perry on X: ⁠⁠https://x.com/perrycarpenter⁠⁠

Perry on BlueSky: ⁠⁠https://bsky.app/profile/perrycarpenter.bsky.social⁠⁠
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1 hr 8 min
May 30, 2025Prove Yourself
Welcome back to The FAIK Files!
In this week's episode:
Google wants to help people speak dolphin... and they have a new language model to prove it!

Perry brings a couple fun headlines...

And we interview Paul Vann and Justin Marciano of Validia.ai
Check out Perry's new website, ⁠⁠⁠⁠The Deception Project⁠⁠⁠⁠ and newsletter, Deceptive Minds: a newsletter about how we are fooled, how we fool ourselves, and what we can do about it. Subscribe on LinkedIn ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/build-relation/newsletter-follow?entityUrn=7319922626200510464⁠⁠⁠⁠

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******* NOTES AND REFERENCES *******
Google is helping researchers trying to speak dolphin:
Google's DolphinGemma project: https://blog.google/technology/ai/dolphingemma/
Quick-hit items:
Authors Are Accidentally Leaving AI Prompts In their Novels: https://www.404media.co/authors-are-accidentally-leaving-ai-prompts-in-their-novels/

What AI detection tools got wrong in the case of a photo tweeted by a French politician: https://observers.france24.com/en/france/20250521-artificial-intelligence-detection-tools-real-image-melenchon-reliability
Validia AI Interview with Paul Vann & Justin Marciano:
Validia AI: https://validia.ai

Paul Vann, Co-Founder & CTO

Justin Marciano, Co-Founder & CEO

Specializing in "live identity authentication in the virtual workspace"

Know Your Employee (KYE) technology for real-time identity verification

Winners of the 2024 Okta Startup Competition
******* THE BOILERPLATE *******
About The FAIK Files:
The FAIK Files is an offshoot project from Perry Carpenter's most recent book, FAIK: A Practical Guide to Living in a World of Deepfakes, Disinformation, and AI-Generated Deceptions.
Get the Book: ⁠FAIK: A Practical Guide to Living in a World of Deepfakes, Disinformation, and AI-Generated Deceptions⁠ (Amazon Associates link)

Check out the website for more info: ⁠https://thisbookisfaik.com⁠
Check out Perry & Mason's other show, the Digital Folklore Podcast:
Apple Podcasts: ⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/digital-folklore/id1657374458⁠

Spotify: ⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/2v1BelkrbSRSkHEP4cYffj?si=u4XTTY4pR4qEqh5zMNSVQA⁠
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1 hr 22 min
May 23, 2025Quantum Leaps, Corporate Chaos
Welcome back to The FAIK Files!
In this week's episode:
Quantum computing is accelerating fast

Professors staffed a fake company entirely with AI agents (spoiler: chaos)

Microsoft is adding native AI agent support to Windows - what could go wrong?

The Chicago Sun-Times accidentally printed an AI-generated summer reading list with books that don't exist
Check out ⁠⁠⁠The Deception Project⁠⁠⁠ to learn about our upcoming ⁠⁠⁠Offensive Cyber Deception Masterclass⁠⁠⁠ and more.
Also check out Perry's new newsletter, Deceptive Minds: a newsletter about how we are fooled, how we fool ourselves, and what we can do about it. Subscribe on LinkedIn ⁠⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/build-relation/newsletter-follow?entityUrn=7319922626200510464⁠⁠⁠

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

Post-Quantum Cryptography:
D-Wave Launches Commercially Available Quantum Computer

NVIDIA Powers World's Largest Quantum Research Computer

NIST - What is Post-Quantum Cryptography

Microsoft Brings Post-Quantum Cryptography to Windows and Linux

First Successful Demonstration of Quantum Error Correction

Visualising Quantum Computation
AI Agent Company Disaster:
Research Paper - The Agent Company

The Agent Company Website

Futurism article

Yahoo Tech article

Business Insider coverage
Microsoft Adding MCP to Windows:
Microsoft Blog Post - Securing the Model Context Protocol

Reddit Discussion with Screenshots
Chicago Sun-Times AI Reading List Fail:
404 Media - AI-Generated Summer Reading List

404 Media Follow-up - Made by Hearst
******* THE BOILERPLATE *******
About The FAIK Files:
The FAIK Files is an offshoot project from Perry Carpenter's most recent book, FAIK: A Practical Guide to Living in a World of Deepfakes, Disinformation, and AI-Generated Deceptions.
Get the Book: FAIK: A Practical Guide to Living in a World of Deepfakes, Disinformation, and AI-Generated Deceptions (Amazon Associates link)

Check out the website for more info: https://thisbookisfaik.com
Check out Perry & Mason's other show, the Digital Folklore Podcast:
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/digital-folklore/id1657374458

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2v1BelkrbSRSkHEP4cYffj?si=u4XTTY4pR4qEqh5zMNSVQA
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1 hr 12 min
May 16, 2025Strategic Ghosts, Synthetic Hosts
Welcome back to The FAIK Files!
In this week's episode:
An Australian radio station created a fake Asian female host using AI

The BBC resurrects Agatha Christie while a family member brings a murder victim to court

We break down "Strategic Text Strings" - sequences of gibberish that can jailbreak AI systems

AI recruitment tools might be making hiring worse, not better
Check out ⁠⁠The Deception Project⁠⁠ to learn about our upcoming ⁠⁠Offensive Cyber Deception Masterclass⁠⁠ and more.
Also check out Perry's new newsletter, Deceptive Minds: a newsletter about how we are fooled, how we fool ourselves, and what we can do about it. Subscribe on LinkedIn ⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/build-relation/newsletter-follow?entityUrn=7319922626200510464⁠⁠

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***** NOTES AND REFERENCES *****
Faking Diversity - AI Radio Host Controversy:
Mediaweek article: https://www.mediaweek.com.au/backlash-over-arn-use-of-ai-radio-host-modelled-on-asian-woman/

Original Blog Source: https://www.thecarpet.com.au/p/meet-thy-the-radio-host-i-dont-think

Follow-Up with audio clips: https://www.thecarpet.com.au/p/radios-most-cynical-ai-experiment

Mason's insights on radio industry cost-cutting and the vanishing of part-time jobs post-COVID
AI Resurrections:
BBC resurrects Agatha Christie to teach writing: https://www.thetimes.com/culture/books/article/agatha-christie-ai-bbc-maestro-jeremy-vine-9t5nqvz69

Family member resurrects murder victim to speak in court: https://www.404media.co/i-loved-that-ai-judge-moved-by-ai-generated-avatar-of-man-killed-in-road-rage-incident/
Strategic Text Strings & Jailbreaking AI:
Previous episode on "AI SEO Optimization": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wm1yAfTjKzY

Harvard Business School article: https://www.library.hbs.edu/working-knowledge/gen-ai-marketing-how-some-gibberish-code-can-give-products-an-edge

Research paper: "Manipulating Large Language Models to Increase Product Visibility": https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.07981

Broken Hill: https://bishopfox.com/blog/brokenhill-attack-tool-largelanguagemodels-llm

Broken Hill Github: https://github.com/BishopFox/BrokenHill

Universal and Transferable Adversarial Attacks on Aligned Language Models: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2307.15043
AI Dumpster Fire of the Week - AI in Recruitment:
404 Media article on AI recruiter: https://www.404media.co/ai-recruiter-apriora-tiktok/

Testing "AI Interviewers" with HeyGen (https://HeyGen.com/) and Tavus (https://www.tavus.io/)

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1 hr 17 min

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