Get hour tinfoil hats out, this week we're talking about 10 AI conspiracy theories. Mav Founder + CEO Matthew Black and Head of Brand Hillary Black go through the internet's darkest, strangest and weirdest AI theories. Real, or fever dream?On the list: Google buying a dead airline's data. Shredding rare books for the sake of AI. The dead internet theory. An agent-only forum where the bots allegedly invented their own language in thirty-six hours. Labs poisoning their own models to keep them to themselves. An AI sentience cover-up. Simulation theory. People marrying their AI. And an ad campaign asking America to cool the data centers with pee.Some of these have press releases. Some of them should have stayed on the internet.

Links and Resources

• Anthropic on detecting and preventing distillation attacks
• Google bought Spirit Airlines' data for $10M — 100M emails, 500M Teams messages, 30M lines of code
• Why that data is worth it — teaching agents white-collar work needs private records, not public code
• 404 Media hid a tracker in a rare book and followed it to an Amazon AI facility in Las Vegas
• Amazon, which started as a bookstore, is destroying rare books to train AI
• Cloudflare on bot traffic passing human traffic
• Moltbook — the Reddit-style social network only AI agents can post on
• Thinking Machines Lab — Mira Murati's company, the ex-OpenAI CTO
• Love at First Prompt by Bridget Todd — on relationships between people and AI
• Liquid Death x Garage Beer, "We Want Your Pee"
• Can we actually cool data centers with pee?

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