The FAIK Files

By: Perry Carpenter | N2K Networks
  • Summary

  • The FAIK Files explores the mysterious and often wacky intersection of AI, technology, and humanity. From cognitive warfare to digital deception, we examine how AI is reshaping our reality through news, research, and real-world examples. Join us for a thought-provoking journey into a world where anything can be faked, truth is increasingly elusive, and human nature meets artificial intelligence head-on.
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Episodes
  • Love is in the AI
    Feb 14 2025
    Welcome back to The FAIK Files! When tech gets weird, we're here to help make sense of it all. In this week's show: Mason shares his perspective on "Where the Robots Grow" --which is claimed to be "one of the first fully AI-animated feature films." Lisa Plaggemier from the National Cybersecurity Alliance talks to us about Romance Scams And our AI dumpster fire of the week is Elon Musk's (somewhat desperate) grab for OpenAI Subscribe to our BRAND NEW YouTube channel! You can find the channel at: https://www.youtube.com/@theFAIKfiles 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://discord.gg/cThqEnMhJz *** NOTES AND REFERENCES *** Where the Robots Grow (the first full-length animated feature created by AI?): ElevenLabs write-up on LinkedIN Full movie IMDB Entry BTW -- we love and use ElevenLabs personally. If you want to check it out, please use our affiliate code: https://try.elevenlabs.io/8vcg17tr6uyp Interview: Lisa Plaggemier's LinkedIn profile National Cybersecurity Alliance (NCA) website NCA Romance Scam info and toolkit NCA Video Series: Kubikle AI Dumpster Fire -- Elon Musk offers to buy Open AI for 97.4B: WSJ: Elon Musk-Led Group Makes $97.4 Billion Bid for Control of OpenAI Reuters: OpenAI's board has not received Musk's takeover bid, source says Ars Technica: Sam Altman: OpenAI is not for sale, even for Elon Musk’s $97 billion offer OpenAI: Elon Musk wanted an OpenAI for profit OpenAI: OpenAI and Elon Musk *** 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 Other: https://digitalfolklore.fm 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/pregnantsonic.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    58 mins
  • Jailbreaking Bad: The AI Industry is Cooked
    Feb 7 2025
    Welcome back to The FAIK Files! When tech gets weird, we're here to help make sense of it all. In this week's show: We explore how randomness in AI systems creates the illusion of thought A disturbing case of AI chatbots being weaponized for cyberstalking Anthropic's new approach to preventing AI jailbreaks And our AI dumpster fire of the week is... AI... the whole thing... all of it Subscribe to our BRAND NEW YouTube channel! You can find the channel at: https://www.youtube.com/@theFAIKfiles 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://discord.gg/cThqEnMhJz *** NOTES AND REFERENCES *** Randomness in AI Systems: Overview of deterministic vs stochastic systems in AI Understanding temperature settings in LLMs How diffusion models use random seeds Discussion of parameters like top-K and top-P Relationship between randomness and perceived intelligence Lots of good overviews available at the Prompt Engineering Guide website: https://www.promptingguide.ai/introduction/settings AI-Enabled Cyberstalking: The Guardian: Stalking AI Chatbot Impersonator Case study of James Florence's 7-year cyberstalking campaign Discussion of platforms CrushOn.ai and JanitorAI Implications for future harassment scenarios Anthropic's Constitutional Classifiers: Anthropic's post: Constitutional Classifiers: Defending against universal jailbreaks Anthropic's demo website: https://claude.ai/constitutional-classifiers Details of 3,000+ hours of red-teaming with 405 participants System architecture and implementation Success rate: 95% of jailbreak attempts blocked Only 23.7% inference overhead AI Dumpster Fire -- The entire AI industry: Inconsistent naming conventions across companies Bad and inconsistent public relations strategies Arms race between US and China Environmental and ethical concerns And more... *** 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 Other: https://digitalfolklore.fm 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/pregnantsonic.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 hr and 3 mins
  • DeepSeek Disrupts Everything
    Jan 31 2025
    Welcome back to The FAIK Files! When tech gets weird, we're here to help make sense of it all. This week, we’re tackling: DeepSeek -- the little LLM from China that's taking the world by storm. Perry & Mason interview voice artist Keith Brown to see what he learned about AI while narrating Perry's book. And our AI dumpster fire of the week doesn't disappoint! Subscribe to our BRAND NEW YouTube channel! We'll be adding a wide variety of content shortly, but would love your help building the subscriber base up before we release our first video. You can find the channel at: https://www.youtube.com/@theFAIKfiles 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://discord.gg/cThqEnMhJz *** NOTES AND REFERENCES *** DeepSeek comes in swinging: Chinese Open-Source AI DeepSeek R1 Matches OpenAI's o1 at 98% Lower Cost Deep seek Janus-Pro-7B: A Breakthrough in Multimodal AI DeepSeek's chatbot achieves 17% accuracy, trails Western rivals in NewsGuard audit OpenAI Furious DeepSeek Might Have Stolen All the Data OpenAI Stole From Us Keith Brown Interview: Keith Brown's website FAIK on Audiobook (Amazon Associates link) AI Dumpster Fire of the Week (more DeepSeek): Jevons paradox What Is 'Jevons Paradox' And How Is It Tied To DeepSeek AI? Experiment showing DeepSeek actively erasing what it knows about certain events Experiment to show DeepSeek's bias Andy Ayrey asks DeepSeek to write a story Anthropic's paper on LLM Sleeper Agents Also be sure to check out chapter 4 of Perry's book, which covers inherent bias, sleeper agents, etc... *** 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 Other: https://digitalfolklore.fm 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/pregnantsonic.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 hr and 7 mins

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