{"podcast":{"title":"Privacy Please","slug":"privacy-please-26933","podcast_index_feed_id":26933,"rss_url":"https://rss.buzzsprout.com/622234.rss","website_url":"https://privacypleasepodcast.buzzsprout.com/","image_url":"https://storage.buzzsprout.com/e6hz3c1ml5i2zl3jykn4vuosppqk?.jpg","author":"A Problem Lounge Show","episode_count":277,"summary":"Welcome to \"Privacy Please,\" a podcast for anyone who wants to know more about data privacy and security. Join your hosts Cam and Gabe as they talk to experts, academics, authors, and activists to break down complex privacy topics in a way that's easy to understand. In today's connected world, our personal information is constantly being collected, analyzed, and sometimes exploited. We believe everyone has a right to understand how their data is being used and what they can do to protect their privacy. Please subscribe and help us reach more people! This podcast is part of The Problem Lounge network — conversations about the problems shaping our world, from digital privacy to everyday life.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-19T00:19:17.188275+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/privacy-please-26933"},"episode":{"title":"S7, E270 - The 40-Minute Hack That Stole the Blueprint for AI | The Mercor Breach","slug":"s7-e270-the-40-minute-hack-that-stole-the-blueprint-for-ai-the-mercor-breach","published_at":"2026-04-20T19:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/privacy-please-26933/s7-e270-the-40-minute-hack-that-stole-the-blueprint-for-ai-the-mercor-breach","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/privacy-please-26933","url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/622234/episodes/19028152-s7-e270-the-40-minute-hack-that-stole-the-blueprint-for-ai-the-mercor-breach.mp3","audio_url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/622234/episodes/19028152-s7-e270-the-40-minute-hack-that-stole-the-blueprint-for-ai-the-mercor-breach.mp3","summary":"Send us Fan Mail A normal data breach steals names and passwords. This one may have stolen the recipe for building the world’s most powerful AI models, and it happened through software most people will never notice until it breaks. We follow the Mercor breach from the first warning signs to the moment poisoned Python packages hit PyPI and spread in minutes across systems that were set to auto-update. We walk through what Mercor actually does in the AI economy, especially RLHF (Reinforc...","meta_description":"Send us Fan Mail A normal data breach steals names and passwords. This one may have stolen the recipe for building the world’s most powerful AI models, an…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":796,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/privacy-please-26933/episodes/s7-e270-the-40-minute-hack-that-stole-the-blueprint-for-ai-the-mercor-breach/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/privacy-please-26933/s7-e270-the-40-minute-hack-that-stole-the-blueprint-for-ai-the-mercor-breach.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}