{"podcast":{"title":"Conspirituality","slug":"conspirituality-582888","podcast_index_feed_id":582888,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/GLSS1122389842","website_url":"https://conspirituality.net/","image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/244201b2-c360-11ed-8a91-97e8b69444b5/image/Conspirituality_Show_Art__1_.png?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"Derek Beres, Matthew Remski, Julian Walker","episode_count":811,"summary":"Dismantling New Age cults, wellness grifters, and conspiracy-mad yogis. At best, the conspirituality movement attacks public health efforts in times of crisis. At worst, it fronts and recruits for the fever-dream of QAnon. As the alt-right and New Age horseshoe toward each other in a blur of disinformation, clear discourse, and good intentions get smothered. Charismatic influencers exploit their followers by co-opting conspiracy theories on a spectrum of intensity ranging from vaccines to child trafficking. In the process, spiritual beliefs that have nurtured creativity and meaning are transforming into memes of a quickly-globalizing paranoia. Conspirituality Podcast attempts to bring understanding to this landscape. A journalist, a cult researcher, and a philosophical skeptic discuss the stories, cognitive dissonances, and cultic dynamics tearing through the yoga, wellness, and new spirituality worlds. Mainstream outlets have noticed the problem. We crowd-source, research, analyze, and dream answers to it.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-26T20:20:18.804323+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/conspirituality-582888"},"episode":{"title":"308: The AI Slop Machine is Worse Than You Think [feat Mallory DeMille]","slug":"308-the-ai-slop-machine-is-worse-than-you-think-feat-mallory-demille","published_at":"2026-05-14T10:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/conspirituality-582888/308-the-ai-slop-machine-is-worse-than-you-think-feat-mallory-demille","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/conspirituality-582888","url":"https://pdst.fm/e/swap.fm/track/6bpBPtHL977KJxLX2zPs/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/GLSS9379628279.mp3?updated=1778621495","audio_url":"https://pdst.fm/e/swap.fm/track/6bpBPtHL977KJxLX2zPs/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/GLSS9379628279.mp3?updated=1778621495","summary":"Two months ago, we recorded Episode 291: My Chinese Buddhist Israeli AI Guru, surveying the growing field of AI slopfluencers churning out wellness supplements via Amazon affiliate links. At the time, we weren’t clear on who was behind these accounts. Then Mallory DeMille went down a YouTube and TikTok rabbit hole and found the men making millions from these accounts. Today we’re going to look at what they’re doing, how they’re doing it, and the cultural and racial dynamics at play in their slop. Show Notes An Amish Avatar and an A.I. Monk Are Pitching Supplements on Social Media Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices","meta_description":"Two months ago, we recorded Episode 291: My Chinese Buddhist Israeli AI Guru, surveying the growing field of AI slopfluencers churning out wellness supple…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3503,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/conspirituality-582888/episodes/308-the-ai-slop-machine-is-worse-than-you-think-feat-mallory-demille/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/conspirituality-582888/308-the-ai-slop-machine-is-worse-than-you-think-feat-mallory-demille.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}