Podcast: AI Slop Summer

We start this week with Jason's couple of stories about how the Chicago Sun-Times printed a summer guide that was basically all AI-generated. Jason spoke to the person behind it. After the break, a bunch of documents show that schools were simply not ready for AI. In the subscribers-only section, we chat all about Star Wars and those funny little guys.

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• Chicago Sun-Times Prints AI-Generated Summer Reading List With Books That Don't Exist
• Viral AI-Generated Summer Guide Printed by Chicago Sun-Times Was Made by Magazine Giant Hearst
• American Schools Were Deeply Unprepared for ChatGPT, Public Records Show
• Star Wars Shows the Future of AI Special Effects and It Sucks