Episode 330 of the Transatlantic Cable podcast kicks things off with talk around the potential for A.I poisoning, which could allow malicious actors to turn AI chatbots into 'sleeper agents'. From there the team talk about eBay and a truly bizarre story involving spiders, cockroaches and death threats, as well as China's crackdown on casino's, which has led to an underground boom in crypto-casinos.

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• AI poisoning could turn open models into destructive "sleeper agents"
• Defending reality: Truth in an age of synthetic media
• eBay pays $3m fine in blogger harassment case
• China's gambling crackdown spawned wave of illegal online casinos