Slop World Podcast

Lenovo just ran the largest AI facial recognition and biometric data collection in live sports history, at the 2026 World Cup, with FIFA's blessing. No fan voted for that. The receipts: sixteen host stadiums across the US, Mexico, and Canada, five to six million fans tracked on the ground, and $365 million in public money from DHS and FEMA. Anduril, Palantir, and Lockheed Martin all have a han...

88% of companies now use AI to screen resumes. A University of Maryland study ran 2,200 real pre-ChatGPT resumes through GPT-4o, Gemini, and Claude and found AI screening tools prefer AI-written applications 82% of the time. The job market is now an AI reading an AI, and the humans in between are getting filtered out. Juan sits down with Jess from Artificial Insanity to go through the receipts. En...

AI now has a lower net favorability rating than Trump, ICE, and the Republican Party. Net favorability sits at negative 20%, 57% of Americans say the risks outweigh the benefits, and only 18% of young people feel hopeful about it at all. Usage is still up, from 48% to 56% of Americans using it daily. We read the Reuters/Ipsos polling data and watched Scott Galloway's Diary of a CEO appearance so y...

Google IO 2026: Gemini Spark is an always-on AI agent with access to your Gmail, your calendar, your browsing history, and your credit card. It runs in the background, makes decisions, and takes action. Google put that in the onboarding disclaimer. The catch is that agents don't know when to stop. A Meta employee gave one access to her inbox to help manage it. It started wiping emails without her...

Klarna's CEO spent 2024 on a media tour telling anyone who would listen that AI had done the work of 700 full-time employees. By December of that year, headcount had dropped from 4,500 to 3,500, and he was on Bloomberg saying AI can already do every job humans do. In May 2025, he went back on Bloomberg and said the whole thing produced "lower quality." Now Klarna is rehiring. The catch: those jobs...

Derek Mobley applied to over 100 jobs through Workday's hiring system between 2017 and 2024. He was rejected every single time. According to Workday's own court filings, he wasn't the only one. The software has processed 1.1 billion rejections. One point one billion. A federal judge ruled in May 2025 that Workday isn't just a software vendor in this situation. The court found them to be an "agent"...

Mercor is a $10 billion AI staffing company that supplies the human workforce training ChatGPT, Meta's models, and Anthropic's Claude: doctors, lawyers, and journalists doing the reinforcement learning the labs would rather not advertise. Last month, hackers walked out with 4 terabytes of their data, including 40,000 Social Security numbers, passport scans, and W9 tax forms. Mercor said nothing. T...

Meta pushed keylogging software onto every U.S. employee's computer — keystrokes, mouse movements, screenshots, no opt-out — one month before 8,000 layoffs begin. The same employees generating the training data are being replaced by the AI agents they're training. Juan and Kate break down the internal memo sent to Meta Superintelligence Labs employees, the GDPR loophole that exempts EU workers ent...

OpenAI told employees to stop chasing side quests. Then they spent $200 million on a podcast and put their head of lobbying in charge. The memo came from Fidji Simo, OpenAI's CEO of AGI Deployment. She also cut the check. TBPN was the SportsCenter for tech bros. Silicon Valley's inside baseball show. $5 million in ad revenue in 2025. On pace to 6x that this year. Profitable. Independent. The place...

North Korea just scored big on a supply chain attack with the Axios hack. Not the news site — the actual code. Axios npm is a tiny library, downloaded 100 million times a week that lives inside almost every app on your phone. Your banking app. Your work tools. Your data. You've never heard of it, but you've definitely used it. Juan and Kate break down how the Lazarus Group phished one volunteer ma...

OpenAI shut down Sora six months after launch. The numbers tell the whole story: $5 billion in annual compute costs, $2.1 million in lifetime revenue, a deepfake crisis no guardrail could contain, and an IPO clock that made shutting it down the only rational move. Juan and Kate break down the full collapse — the Disney deal that evaporated before a single dollar changed hands, the celebrity lawsui...

160 official layoff filings. Zero cited AI. So why is every CEO suddenly blaming it? Researchers reviewed 160 NY State layoff filings — Amazon, Goldman Sachs, all of them — and not one cited AI as the reason. The real drivers: pandemic over-hiring, rising interest rates, and a stock market that rewards the framing. Juan and Kate follow the paper trail: Jack Dorsey cutting half of Block's workforce...

Grammarly built AI clones of Stephen King, Carl Sagan, and hundreds of journalists, then charged users $12 a month for "expert writing feedback" from those clones. Not one of those writers consented, was paid, or was even told their name and voice were being sold. Some tested their own AI clones and found them giving advice bad enough to damage their professional reputations. The company's respons...

Alpha School charges $75,000 a year to replace human teachers with AI. What parents don't see in the marketing: faulty lesson plans with multiple-choice questions where none of the answers make sense, a curriculum built by scraping Khan Academy using personal employee email addresses to avoid getting caught, and webcams monitoring students at home — flagging kids for wearing pajamas or pausing to...

In 2013, Sam Altman wrote that the most successful people create religions. He wasn't being philosophical. This episode follows the receipts on how Altman, Dario Amodei, Elon Musk, and Marc Andreessen are all running the same playbook: manufacture urgency, make skeptics feel dangerous, and chase trillions in investment. We break down why AI companies need you to believe their product is God-tier,...

Anthropic spent $7 million on a Super Bowl ad roasting Sam Altman in front of 100 million people. Altman fired back on X, calling Anthropic "elitist" and accusing them of pushing for AI regulation. In 2023, he personally sat in front of Congress and begged them to regulate AI. Juan and Kate go through Altman's response line by line. They find one argument worth siding with him on (Claude's free ti...

Title is your best on the channel, keep it exactly as is. Moltbook promised to be Reddit for AI agents — 1.5 million bots debating philosophy, founding religions, and building secret languages while humans watched from the sidelines. Elon Musk called it the first sign of the singularity. An OpenAI co-founder said it was the most incredible sci-fi thing he'd ever seen. The internet exploded in 96 h...

Google AI Overview falsely accused a Canadian musician of s*x offenses. He was removed from a tour. There was no correction, no appeal, and no one to call. That is Juan's "ghost authority" — an algorithm making decisions about your reputation, your grocery bill, and your medical data, with no human left holding the bag. Juan and Kate break down all three: Google AI Overview spreading false informa...

The founders, lab directors, and researchers building the most powerful AI systems in the world believe there is a real chance those systems end humanity. They're speeding up anyway. Juan and Kate break down the AI 2027 report, what recursive self-improvement actually means, and why the US vs. China arms race is being used as cover to bypass every guardrail. Plus: Sam Altman begged Congress to reg...

Microsoft published an "AI Holiday Traditions" list and Juan and Kate voted on it live. The exercise and water intake tracker made them want to burn something down. The dreidel instructions were fine. The bigger issue is face data. Kate blurs her kids before any AI image upload. Most parents don't. The bus station analogy is the one that actually lands at a family dinner without starting a fight....

AI browsers like ChatGPT Atlas and Perplexity Comet are being hijacked by instructions hidden inside ordinary webpages. You never have to click anything for it to happen. Juan and Kate walk through how prompt injection works, why the first generation of AI agents can't be patched out of this problem, and what it actually costs you to hand your browsing over to a bot. They cover the resume trick go...

AI at work was sold as focus and flow; what we got is a slot machine welded onto Outlook. AI tools for business now behave like growth-hacked notification engines, hitting you hundreds of times a day in the name of “productivity.” In this episode, we dig into how Microsoft Copilot and other AI productivity tools quietly turn your workflow into an engagement farm: prompts you didn’t ask for, “helpf...

OpenAI now has AI agents for developers, a ChatGPT Atlas browser to compete with Chrome, OpenAI Codex for coding after acquiring Windsurf, a Sora 2 social app, Stargate, its own chips, and a newly lifted ban on adult chatbot content. Juan and Kate ask the question nobody's really answering: is this a plan to build AGI, or is OpenAI just chasing returns on a capital pile no single product could jus...

AI-generated work slop is spreading, and it’s turning offices into zombie zones. In this Halloween Special, Juan and Kate dig into how automation at work and AI productivity tools are creating “zombie workers,” why Sam Altman is flirting with the D3ad Internet Theory, and how corporate AI culture is quietly eroding creativity. Watch the full episode for a very special Halloween-themed curated slop...

October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month, and Juan and Kate talk about one of the most controversial aspects in the AI arms race: SECURITY. From the rise of “vibe coding” (AI that writes your code for you), to AI-powered scams, they unpack how the "move fast and break things" approach is opening -once again?- the door to major exploits, both in computers and humans. 🫟 About Slop World Juan and Ka...