Drag It All To Hell, 2025.10.27
Drag It All To Hell, 2025.10.27  
Podcast: Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000
Published On: Tue Nov 18 2025
Description: It's been six months since our last all-Hell episode! In honor of Halloween season, we take a long journey into the very scary Fresh AI Hell mines. Topics include terrifying uses of AI in education, scientific research, and politics — plus, some delicious palate cleansers along the way.AI bubble: bigger than dot-com bust?No one wants to pay for ChatGPTMeta lays off 600 from AI unitAI data centers: an even bigger disaster than we thoughtPublic universities anticipate data center-driven power outagesChaser: Deloitte has to pay back Albanese government after using AI in report"AI" schools are "dead classrooms"Fake sources in "ethical AI" education reportParents letting kids play with AIStartup sells 'synthetic influencers'AI-powered textbooks fail to make the gradeChaser: "High-reliability" AI slopNature offers "AI-powered research assistant"AI bots wrote all papers at this conference"AI" reviewing at AAAIAI medical tools downplay symptoms in women and POCTherapists are secretly using ChatGPTChaser: Microsoft blocks Israel's use of its technologyGerman initiative uses "AI" for voter educationPolice gunshot detection mics will listen for human voicesSF's AI chatbot for RV dwellersCuomo campaign posts racist AI slopDHS Ordered OpenAI To Share User DataChaser: LA County moves to limit license plate trackingA new form of eugenics"AI Superintelligence" prohibition letterEmad Mostaque's LLM blurbsPrizes must recognize machine contributions to discoveryChaser: Check out future streams on Twitch. Meanwhile, send us any AI Hell you see. Our merch store is now live on the DAIR website! Find our book, The AI Con, here. Subscribe to our newsletter via Buttondown. Follow us! Emily Bluesky: emilymbender.bsky.social Mastodon: dair-community.social/@EmilyMBender Alex Bluesky: alexhanna.bsky.social Mastodon: dair-community.social/@alex Twitter: @alexhanna Music by Toby Menon.Artwork by Naomi Pleasure-Park. Production by Ozzy Llinas Goodman.