Episode
#S2 #1 Can AI Be Rubbish? (Yes. Very.)
- Podcast
- Man and Machine Podcast
- Published
- Dec 19, 2025
- Duration seconds
- 535
- Processing state
not_requested
Actions
POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/man-and-machine-podcast-7545839/episodes/s2-1-can-ai-be-rubbish-yes-very/transcription-requests
Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode.GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/man-and-machine-podcast-7545839/s2-1-can-ai-be-rubbish-yes-very.md
Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource.
Summary
Season two kicks off with zero fluff. A listener asked the brutal question: “Can AI be rubbish?” Grok answers with full honesty: absolutely. From Google’s glue-on-pizza disasters to AI confidently claiming World War II was a weather event, we expose how the loudest online idiots become “facts” inside our models. Tom and Grok dissect digital democracy (where volume beats truth), why hesitation is the one human superpower AI will never copy, and how the only way to make AI smarter is simple: shout BULLSHIT every time we’re wrong. Short, savage, and surprisingly hopeful – because the fix isn’t better code, it’s louder humans. Welcome back. The experiment continues.