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(Nearly) everything that happened in AI this week
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- Jul 17, 2026
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Summary
Anthropic has just released the Spotify Wrapped equivalent of Claude. Claude Reflect claims it can help you optimise your AI use. But will a tool built by an AI company ever genuinely encourage you to use it less? Also on the program, the humans hired to train AI are secretly getting AI to do it. How does this "AI inbreeding" degrade quality? Meta launched a tool that would allow someone to generate pictures based on individual Instagram accounts. They've since gone back on this decision, but will this idea become a problem? And in case you missed it, we also cover the Prime Minister's announcement of the Office of AI in our headlines section. Fergus mentioned the book Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams. GUESTS: Fergus Halliday, journalist at Whistleout . David Braue, tech journalist at Information Age . ------------ This episode was produced on the lands of the Gadigal, Burramattagal, Darug, Gundungurra, and Wurundjeri peoples. ------------ Get in touch: We'd love to hear from you! Email us at [email protected] Find all the episodes of Download This Show on the ABC Listen App or wherever you get your podcasts.