Anthropic’s 30-hour AI automation claim is collapsing under scrutiny — we tested Claude 4.5 vs GPT-5 and exposed where AI truly fails.
Without human feedback, it crashes around our “10-Minute Autonomy Rule.” Hunter Powers and Daniel Bishop dismantle the biggest AI automation myth of 2025—why the machines still need us.

They decode Claude 4.5’s hype, pit it against GPT-5, and rip into Meta’s humanoid robot ambitions. It’s funny, fast, and fearless: exactly how tech talk should be.

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⏱️ CHAPTERS

00:00 Anthropic’s 30-Hour Lie – What “AI automation” really means
04:22 Claude 4.5 vs GPT-5 – The 10-Minute Autonomy Rule & bug-loop failure
10:11 Feedback over Autonomy – Why AI still can’t code alone
17:05 Meta’s Robot Bet – World models, humanoids & automation theater
25:28 Digital Twins & The End of Work – UBI, job collapse & Hunter’s wager

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Trump AI Video Exposed: Deepfake propaganda, fake sombreros & how Sora 2 just made reality optional.

The Trump AI video isn’t just fake — it’s prophecy.
Unlabeled, unhinged, and posted from official accounts.
A deepfake presidency preview.

This week on They Might Be Self-Aware, Hunter and Daniel crack open AI propaganda itself — the fake sombreros, the racist undertones, and the terrifying truth:
half the viewers thought it was real.

Then it gets worse.
Sora 2 drops. OpenAI’s new text-to-video demo looks indistinguishable from footage. Add in Veo, cameos, and you’ve got something no one’s ready for — reality on demand.
We debate what happens when politics, art, and truth collapse into the same feed.

“You think someone would just go on the internet and tell lies?”
Yes. And now it’s photorealistic.

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⏱️ CHAPTERS

00:00 The Trump AI Video – Deepfake politics, fake sombreros & the new propaganda playbook
04:54 The Post-Truth Era – When official accounts blur fact, fiction & democracy
09:15 Sora 2 vs Veo – AI-generated video so real it breaks your eyes
19:21 Infinite Content, Zero Meaning – Feeds, cameos & the collapse of human art
28:33 Reality Is Optional Now – The AI arms race and what’s left to believe

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We let an AI binge our show and judge us on-air—then we argued about VR work prisons, robot wives, Devin the “AI engineer,” and whether copyright is dead.

Tonight’s fights & confessions (scan these):
• VR Work: Freedom or 996-style dystopia? Boss-mandated metaverse vs solo beach “vibe coding.”
• Is Gary real? The $47 voice—and why humans still beat AI at story.
• Self-Driving x Insurance: Will insurers kill autonomy… or themselves?
• Devin (AI engineer): Intern-tier useful or prod-level risk? Where we actually trust it.
• Personal Turing Test: What it takes to fool us in real life.
• AI Girlfriend Line: Would you date a robot in public?
• Sellout Math: Our $100M price to let AI run TMBSA forever.
• Simulation & Self-Awareness: Are we the test… or the tested?

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⏱️ CHAPTERS

00:00 Claude AI Interviews Us – The setup, the experiment & Daniel’s big idea
04:30 VR Work vs Dystopia – Autonomy, control & vibe coding on Mars
10:00 Is Gary Real? – The $47 voice actor, metrics & the illusion of humanity
12:45 Self-Driving Car Showdown – Insurance greed, automation & grave-digging
15:00 Devin the AI Engineer – Bugs, trust, and the intern-level AI coworker
17:55 The Turing Test Line – How to spot fake coworkers & digital ghosts
23:50 AI Spam & Deepfake Texts – Hunter’s “NP-complete” problem replies
28:50 Copyright Is Dead – Creativity after the apocalypse of IP
31:30 Dating Robots – AI girlfriends, addiction & the human connection line
36:15 Selling Our Digital Souls – Would we take $10M to become AI content?
40:00 Are We Self-Aware? – Simulation theory, AI memory & consciousness loops

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Hollywood’s Billion-Dollar AI Movie Mistake (Lionsgate): 0 Films. All Fallout.
AI movies were supposed to print money. Instead, Lionsgate’s Runway bet shipped nothing and walked into a copyright minefield. You’ll understand why AI “movies” flopped, where AI filmmaking still wins, and the one blocker Hollywood can’t ignore.

What we cover:

• The inside story of Lionsgate’s AI meltdown and zero-film deal.
• How Google Veo 3 is quietly powering AI video creators.
• The “Wizard of Oz” Sphere Vegas experiment and what it proves about AI cinema.
• Why James Cameron’s AI take split filmmakers.
• And the real future of AI tools for creators (and humans who still make things).

⏱️ CHAPTERS

00:00 AI Movies vs Reality – Lionsgate’s billion-dollar gamble and 0-film result
03:55 Google Veo 3 & Sphere Vegas – Out-painting Oz and the tech actually working
07:10 The Lionsgate Fail – Copyright chaos and Hollywood’s AI hangover
13:05 Is AI Creative? – Cameron’s quote vs Hunter & Daniel’s take
17:40 The Future of AI Filmmaking – Tools > “AI Movies,” and why humans still matter

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Google’s Nano Banana AI: Photoshop Killer or Just Hype?
Google just dropped Nano Banana, an image-editing model so good it makes Photoshop blink. We fired it up inside Google AI Studio and the results? Equal parts magic and menace. This isn’t just a filter upgrade; it’s a creative quake. Designers, brace yourselves.

Inside this episode, Hunter and Daniel wrestle with the question: is Google quietly ending Adobe’s reign, or birthing the next creative revolution? Along the way: a voice-recorder AI that tiptoes the line between genius and illegal recording, the rise of AI schlock, and why Figma AI and Napkin AI might actually out-innovate the giants.

We cover: Nano Banana’s wild image generation • Google AI Studio secrets • Figma vs Adobe showdown • AI ethics & recording consent • GPT-5-High’s “surgical code” trick.

⏱️ CHAPTERS

00:00 AI Gadget Confessions – Voice recorders, lost devices & the Star-Wars aesthetic
03:10 Recording Consent & “AI Schlock” – Ethics, legality, and bottom-of-the-barrel AI gadgets
11:35 GPT-5-High in Cursor – When paying per query is actually worth it
14:20 Google’s Nano Banana Revolution – Next-gen image editing, cheap runs & “Photoshop killer” talk
21:20 Figma, MCP & Napkin AI – Adobe’s future, integrated AI design, and where this all leads

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AI Glasses Privacy Nightmare — This week we dig into Meta AI glasses (the new Ray-Ban model with a built-in display and wristband gestures) and ask the hard question: are the headline features worth the trade-offs, or is this a privacy nightmare in your pocket… and on your face? We compare real-world use cases to today’s phone + earbuds workflows and explain why we’re refusing to buy—at least for now.

Hunter and Daniel break down what Meta’s display actually does (notifications, translation overlays, video calling), how the wristband gesture control feels in practice, and why the camera-forward design still raises public-space privacy concerns. We contrast AI translation glasses with on-device tools (Lens/Translate, iOS equivalents), talk notification hygiene for focus and productivity, and outline what it would take to win us over: dual-eye, media-grade AR displays that can replace phone-first interactions. We also evaluate the $800 price point, the “looks like real Ray-Bans” advantage, where Apple or others could leapfrog, and the handful of use cases (captioning, cooking assistants, travel translation) that actually make sense today. If you’re researching Meta glasses reviews, smart glasses 2024, or AI glasses vs Apple, this is your field guide to what’s hype, what’s helpful, and what’s still half-baked.

⏱️ CHAPTERS

0:00 Meta’s AI Glasses Explained – Display, translation overlays & wristband control
6:16 The Privacy Problem – Cameras, public perception & “glassholes” 2.0
9:50 Why Hunter Refuses to Buy – Notifications, calls, and feature fatigue
14:16 The Future We Want – Dual-eye AR, Apple’s rumored glasses & real utility
24:36 Price, Adoption & Alternatives – $800 value, AirPods AI, and what’s next

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AI therapy is here and OpenAI is terrified of it.
This week on They Might Be Self-Aware, Hunter and Daniel break down the life-or-death stakes of letting Large Language Models play the role of therapist. Should ChatGPT ever be allowed to talk people through self-harm? Or is that legal and ethical liability too great for OpenAI to risk?

We explore the explosive debate around AI therapy vs human therapists, OpenAI’s controversial age-gating model for self-harm conversations, and why lawsuits are forcing companies to walk a tightrope between saving lives and avoiding blame. Along the way, we tackle Anthropic’s ban on domestic surveillance, the growing fears of an AGI job apocalypse, and the rise of AI in dating and religion.

Whether you see AI as savior or doom, this episode delivers a no-holds-barred look at the frontier of mental health, surveillance, and humanity’s biggest gamble.

⏱️ CHAPTERS

00:00 Intro – Egos, Algorithms & Madness
01:40 OpenAI age-gating self-harm chats
05:10 AI lawsuits & the risk of AI therapy
09:45 Should ChatGPT replace human therapists?
11:20 Anthropic bans AI from domestic surveillance
15:00 The race toward AGI – danger or hype?
16:55 AI jobs crisis: mass layoffs & automation
22:00 Pareto principle & Twitter layoffs
23:50 Hunger strike against AGI
25:40 AI in personal life: dating, religion & fear

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AI protection rackets are here — and they could change everything. This week on They Might Be Self-Aware, Hunter Powers and Daniel Bishop break down the wild rise of the AI protection racket: hackers threatening to feed stolen data into AI models unless victims pay up. Is this the future of cybercrime — and your career?

We dig into the blurred lines between AI slop, creative industries under siege, and what it means when copyright law, ransomware, and generative AI collide. From record labels signing AI artists to AI podcasts flooding the web by the thousands, we ask: is the internet turning into a dead marketplace of synthetic content?

Meanwhile, Tesla’s new master plan sparks suspicion it was written by Grok AI, while the UK Parliament delivers speeches that sound suspiciously like ChatGPT boilerplate. And what happens when political theater literally becomes AI theater? Would you pay to watch robots on Broadway — or Cirque du Soleil run by Boston Dynamics?

Whether you’re worried about AI replacing your job, curious about how AI teleprompters will shape politics, or just wondering how far this digital theater will go, this episode uncovers the cracks forming at the foundation of human creativity.

⏱️ CHAPTERS

00:00 Strange Times on the AI Frontier
01:07 Record Labels Sign AI Artists
04:32 Copyright Loopholes & AI Music Ownership
07:30 Wondery’s AI Podcast Factory (3,000 Episodes a Week)
11:44 Ransomware Threats: Pay Up or Be Replaced by AI
16:00 The Birth of the AI Protection Racket
21:05 Tesla’s Grok and AI-Written Master Plans
25:27 UK Parliament & ChatGPT Speeches
30:23 Political Theater, AI Teleprompters & The Rise of AI Theater
34:45 Robots on Stage: Cirque du Soleil Meets Boston Dynamics
38:48 Wrap-Up & Subscribe

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Is Your AI Calling the Police On You? | ChatGPT Privacy, AI Monitoring & Debates

OpenAI has confirmed it will scan ChatGPT conversations for “problematic” content—and in extreme cases, report users to law enforcement. What does this mean for your privacy, your rights, and the future of AI safety? In this episode of They Might Be Self-Aware, Hunter Powers and Daniel Bishop dive into the growing concerns around ChatGPT privacy and whether AI tools are quietly becoming digital informants.

We debate whether AI monitoring is necessary for safety or a slippery slope toward AI Big Brother. Along the way, we share stories about suspicious emails, bug bounty scams, and how even innocent prompts could one day be used to build a legal case against you. We also explore Columbia University’s experiment with Sway AI, an artificial intelligence “moderator” for debates, and ask if this is a preview of political debates being run by robots.

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⏱️ CHAPTERS

00:00 Welcome to the AI Jungle
02:00 Suspicious “AI Bug Bounty” Email
06:45 ChatGPT Privacy Concerns & Monitoring
09:00 OpenAI Scanning & Reporting to Police
14:30 Should AI Intervene on Self-Harm?
18:00 The Slippery Slope of AI Surveillance
22:00 Sway AI – Debates Moderated by Artificial Intelligence
27:30 Could an AI Moderate U.S. Presidential Debates?
34:00 Wrap-Up & Subscribe

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AI just became the world’s best hacker? In this week’s AI news breakdown, we dive into how modern models are crushing bug bounties and pen-tests, what “vibe hacking” means for real-world security, and why AI-assisted attacks (and defenses) are accelerating. We also unpack AI-generated misinformation (did that “drug boat” incident even happen?), Big Tech’s race to cut inference costs, and the ripple effects of copyright lawsuits and settlements on model training and the open internet.

If you care about cybersecurity, AI safety, and where the AI economy is actually heading, this episode gives you concrete stories, trade-offs, and what to watch next—from leaderboard-climbing LLM agents to companies walking back “AI-everywhere” plans after customer support backfires. We balance the doom with the pragmatic: how white-hat teams can use the same tools to harden systems by default, why chaptered “key moments” matter in news, and how publishing and IP norms are being re-written in real time.

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⏱️ CHAPTERS

00:00 Intro — what’s real anymore?
01:24 AI-generated “news” & dead-internet theory
06:06 From misinformation to international incidents
06:46 Vibe coding → “vibe hacking”
09:11 Bug bounties & LLMs climb leaderboards (white-hat vs black-hat)
12:35 Defense by default: scanners, checks, and secure-by-design
14:28 Corporate AI walkbacks: chatbots, dev productivity & reality
20:05 AI costs & efficiency: Google’s 33× claim + energy per prompt
22:32 Data & law: book lawsuits, Anthropic settlement, open Internet?
29:09 IP vs stagnation + the books-vs-summaries debate

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