In episode 85 of The AI Fix, Graham discovers that Silicon Valley has the solution to your pet's mental health crisis, and Mark explains why AI godfather Yann LeCun thinks the entire AI industry is wrong about LLMs.

Also in this episode, OpenAI decides to ruin ChatGPT with ads; Sam Altman and Elon Musk and have a public spat over whose AI is more murderous; humanoid robots turn up at CES 2026 and answer of whether robots can fight—with a resounding "no"; and AI slop forces the beloved cURL project to shut down its bug bounty program.

Episode links:

• ChatGPT gets ads
• Billionaires Elon Musk, Sam Altman fight over whose tech killed more people
• Humanoid robots go for the knockout in high-tech fight night at CES
• I met a lot of weird robots at CES
• Curl shutters bug bounty program to stop AI slop
• Pet owners in the US could soon get help from a robot 'butler' who feeds and plays with fur babies while you work
• This robot companion is a cameraman for your pet
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• Checking Out The Aura At The Tuya Smart Booth CES 2026!
• Yann LeCun LinkedIn announcement
• The Decoder: LeCun exits Meta

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In episode 84 of The AI Fix, Graham and Mark stare straight into the digital abyss and ask the most important question of our age: "Is AI just a hungry ghost trapped in a jar?"

Also this week, we explore how a shadowy group of disgruntled insiders trying to destroy AI by poisoning its training data, how "vibe-coding" has stopped being a joke with even Linus Torvalds joining in, how Google’s AI health advice could have endangered lives, and why simply asking an AI the same question twice can turn it from clueless to near-omniscient.

Oh, and AI has managed to crack some famously unsolved maths problems in minutes, and Grok gains access to all of the Pentagon's networks? What could possibly go wrong?

Episode links:

• AI cracks fantastically hard maths problem.
• Google removes some AI Overviews after users’ health put at risk.
• Is AI just a hungry ghost trapped in a jar?
• Grok will be integrated into Pentagon networks later this month.
• Google reveals that you should always ask your AI twice.
• Employees waste 1.5 weeks a year ‘correcting’ AI output.
• Poison Fountain.
• AI industry insiders launch site to poison the data that feeds them.
• Small amount of poisoned data can influence AI models.
• Poison Fountain reddit thread.

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In episode 83 of The AI Fix, Graham reveals he's taken up lying to LLMs, and shows how a journalist exposed AI bluffers with a made-up idiom. Meanwhile Mark invents a "Godwin's Law" for AI, and explains how to ruin any LLM with humus.

Also in this episode, a marriage is declared invalid thanks to ChatGPT, an AI barman looks for a job in a quiet pub, OpenAI finally unveils ChatGPT Health, and why news of the death of Stack Overflow may be greatly exaggerated.

Episode links:

• GLYDE
• AI-guided hair clippers review
• Introducing ChatGPT Health
• Rechter zet streep door huwelijksakte, ambtenaar schreef tekst met ChatGPT
• Stack Overflow's forum is dead thanks to AI, but the company's still kicking... thanks to AI
• AI Barmen
• AI bartender at CES review
• I invented a fake idiom to test AI chatbots — only one called my bluff
• Weird Generalization and Inductive Backdoors: New Ways to Corrupt LLMs

The AI Fix

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