Best Perry Carpenter N2k Networks Podcasts (2025)

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Is AI Getting Too Real? 1:09:35

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Welcome back to The FAIK Files! In this week's episode: OpenAI's models are reportedly resisting human commands to shut down A controversial new research paper questions whether AI systems actually "think" or just create an illusion of reasoning. How generative AI exploits the same psychological triggers as gambling—"just one more prompt, bro!" Goo…

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Truth Hurts. So We Lie. 16:08

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Ok. This one's pretty uncomfortable. It's about the lies we tell ourselves and why we believe them. We all like to think we’re rational. But the truth is, our minds are masters of defense... not just against deception, but against discomfort. In this issue, I explore the mental machinery behind "motivated reasoning" and "cognitive dissonance." Thes…

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The Costume of Truth: Why We Trust the Logo, the Lab Coat, and the Lanyard 13:44

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Not all deception hides in the shadows. Some of it walks right in — wearing a badge, a clipboard, or a lab coat. In the latest issue of Deceptive Minds, I explore one of the most powerful tools in the scammer’s playbook: credibility theater — the subtle art of looking legitimate enough to bypass your skepticism. Inside this issue: 🎭 Why we trust un…

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Artistically Inclined??? 1:07:37

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Welcome back to The FAIK Files! In this week's episode: Perry is on some kind of secret government mission??? Mason showcases a cool AI art project, and some behind-the-scenes processes of integrating AI elements into art. We explore some more eye-rolling and stupid uses of AI art, including in scientific publishing and the music industry And we in…

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Prove Yourself 1:21:38

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Welcome back to The FAIK Files! In this week's episode: Google wants to help people speak dolphin... and they have a new language model to prove it! Perry brings a couple fun headlines... And we interview Paul Vann and Justin Marciano of Validia.ai Check out Perry's new website, ⁠⁠⁠⁠The Deception Project⁠⁠⁠⁠ and newsletter, Deceptive Minds: a newsl…

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Feel First, Think Never: Your Emotions Are the Exploit 13:13

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If it made you panic, rage, or rush… it probably bypassed your cognitive defenses. In the latest issue of Deceptive Minds, I dig into the dark cognitive malware of emotional hijacking: how scammers, manipulators, and even well-meaning voices use fear, urgency, outrage, and hope to short-circuit your critical thinking. Inside: 🧠 Why your emotions be…

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Quantum Leaps, Corporate Chaos 1:11:28

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Welcome back to The FAIK Files! In this week's episode: Quantum computing is accelerating fast Professors staffed a fake company entirely with AI agents (spoiler: chaos) Microsoft is adding native AI agent support to Windows - what could go wrong? The Chicago Sun-Times accidentally printed an AI-generated summer reading list with books that don't e…

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Too Easy to Be True: The Fluency Trap and the Lie That Slides Right Past You 12:27

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Some lies try hard to fool you. Others just make it easy for you to believe them. That’s the danger of cognitive fluency: the simpler something feels, the more likely we are to think it’s true. In the latest issue of Deceptive Minds, I explore: Why fake documents with grainy photos often seem more real than verified ones How anti-intellectualism an…

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Strategic Ghosts, Synthetic Hosts 1:16:47

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Welcome back to The FAIK Files! In this week's episode: An Australian radio station created a fake Asian female host using AI The BBC resurrects Agatha Christie while a family member brings a murder victim to court We break down "Strategic Text Strings" - sequences of gibberish that can jailbreak AI systems AI recruitment tools might be making hiri…

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The Plausibility Effect 11:42

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Hey friends, Let’s start with a weird truth: People don’t fall for things because they’re true. They fall for things because they’re plausible. That’s the dark magic of deception — it doesn’t need to be airtight, or flawless, or even particularly clever. It just needs to feel true enough. Something your brain can accept without asking too many ques…

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AI "Friends" and Enemies 1:06:12

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Welcome back to The FAIK Files! In this week's episode: That AI bot may be an undercover AI cop Playing with Suno's "Cover" Feature Bad actors using Claude to orchestrate disinfo campaigns Does being honest about your AI use make people trust you less? AI companies are looking to cash-in on human loneliness Check out ⁠The Deception Project⁠ to lear…

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👁️ Look Here: Why Every Great Deception Starts with Stolen Attention 13:33

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Welcome to issue #3 of Deceptive Minds: a newsletter about how we are fooled, how we fool ourselves, and what we can do about it. In this week's episode: 🚨 Your attention is under attack! 🚨 From WWII rubber tanks to 2023’s phantom Paris bedbugs, the first strike of any scam is the same: steal your gaze, shape your reality. This issue of Deceptive M…

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AI's Behavioral Extremes 1:07:47

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Welcome back to The FAIK Files! In this week's episode: We explore the One Million Chessboards project, a massive collaborative web experiment where users can move pieces across a million shared chessboards in real-time Anthropic's model welfare research program, AI ethics, and the need for interpretability OpenAI's recent struggle with ChatGPT's p…

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Artifacts of Deception (Deceptive Minds - issue #2) 11:09

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This is the 2nd of two sample episodes/issues of Perry's audio newsletter. If you enjoy these and want to keep listening, go ahead and subscribe here. ----- Hey friends! Here's issue 2 of Deceptive Minds: a newsletter about how we are fooled, how we fool ourselves, and what we can do about it. 🔥 Since starting this newsletter last week, we're alrea…

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Introducing: Deceptive Minds (an audio newsletter experience) 5:49

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Hey listeners, Perry Carpenter here. I've got something exciting that I think you'll be interested in. It's the audio version of a newsletter that I recently started. The newsletter is called Deceptive Minds, and it's all about how we are fooled, how we fool ourselves, and what we can do about it. I'm dropping the first two episodes/issues in this…

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Artifacts of Deception (Deceptive Minds - issue #2) 12:09

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Hey friends! Here's issue 2 of Deceptive Minds: a newsletter about how we are fooled, how we fool ourselves, and what we can do about it. 🔥 Since starting this newsletter last week, we're already closing in on 3,000 subscribers to the print edition! 🔥 Huge thanks to everyone who's jumped in early! This week, I'm diving into what I call the “artifac…

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Deceptive Minds (the audio experience): Issue #1 7:17

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Hey listeners, Perry Carpenter here. Yeah, it's been a while since I've posted this feed, but I've got something exciting that I think you'll be interested in. It's the audio version of a newsletter that I recently started. The newsletter is called Deceptive Minds, and it's all about how we are fooled, how we fool ourselves, and what we can do abo…

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Civility & Other Dangerous Games 1:01:54

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Welcome back to The FAIK Files! In this week's episode: Why being polite to ChatGPT might be wasting Sam Altman's money Alarming advancements in deepfake technology and why even "super recognizers" can't keep up. We explain what a "vibe coder" is and why you probably don't want to become one. An Italian newspaper's claim to have published the world…

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Poisoned Tunes & Robot Phone Calls to Mom 1:06:20

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Welcome back to The FAIK Files! In this week's episode: Mason talks about AI powered spreadsheets! ... it's cooler than it sounds Perry & Mason cover a few fascinating AI headlines that caught our attention this week Mason takes us on a journey into musician Benn Jordan's innovative "Poisonify" project that disrupts AI training on music And our AI …

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Feed Drop: AI Hype & Skepticism - Me, Myself, and AI 28:48

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Subscribe to Me, Myself, and AI: https://sloanreview.mit.edu/audio-series/me-myself-and-ai/ Today we're sharing with you an episode of another show we like called Me, Myself, and AI. It's a podcast produced by MIT Sloan Management Review and Boston Consulting Group, where hosts Sam and Shervin interview various folks from all sorts of industries an…

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Functionally Useless, But Undeniably Cool 42:59

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Welcome back to the FAIK Files! In this episode: Mason fills in for Perry as best he can, with a mix of topics that all fall under the broad umbrella of "functionally useless, but cool". Well... except the last segment; that one is inarguably kind of un-cool. We play a little bit of a 100% AI-generated rendition of Quake 2, and discuss how it works…

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Prompt Wars, AI Cognition & Video Deception 57:19

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Welcome back to the FAIK Files! In this week's episode: We explore "Prompt Wars," an asynchronous multiplayer LLM competition where players craft prompts to battle against others in a fascinating game of AI manipulation We dive into Anthropic's latest research on AI cognition and circuit tracing - essentially digital neuroscience for large language…

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The Silence of the Cyber-Lambs 1:23:30

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Welcome back to the FAIK Files! In this episode: Perry cracks open a chaotic grab bag: A couple updates from Perry and the National Cybersecurity Alliance. Plus two new reality-bending image models that raise the bar again — this time with people that really look like people and text that actually looks like text! We sit down with former FBI specia…

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Why AI Still Can't Be Trusted ...And Neither Can We 59:20

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Welcome back to the FAIK Files! In this episode, we take a look at China's groundbreaking (yet controversial) requirement to label all AI-generated content. We also explore some unsettling experiments that show just how it is to manipulate an AI system's biases and opinions. Plus -- is reliance on AI making us dumber? And our AI Dumpster Fire of th…

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Speaking of Deception: AI Voice Scams, Creative Uses, & More 53:49

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Welcome back to the FAIK Files! This week, we explore the creative and mischievous ways AI voices can be created and used -- everything from simple voice cloning, to character acting, the legal issues in authenticating voice recording, to the full weaponization of AI voices for scams and information warfare. Interested in trying ElevenLabs? Please …

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Adblockers, Emotional AI, & Kung-Fu Dishwashing Robots 1:08:14

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Welcome back to the FAIK Files! To learn more about the upcoming Offensive Cyber Deception Masterclass (delivered in person in Las Vegas, August 2-5, 2025) please visit this link: https://tinyurl.com/5ytpvjv7 On this week's episode, We explore some updates to familiar AI tools like Suno, some new models like Wan2.0, and talk about Perry's upcoming …

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Behavior Models, Temperature Tweaks, and Safety Battles 1:05:07

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Welcome back to the FAIK Files! On this week's episode, We explore the world of AI hallucinations. What causes them? Do they make AI useless, or could they potentially lead to scientific breakthroughs We dive into emerging AI models like Large Behavior Models (LBMs) and how they differ from traditional Large Language Models We examine the ongoing b…

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Cybercriminals Love AI, Librarians Do Not 59:59

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Welcome back to the FAIK Files! On this week's episode, We (oh so carefully) touch on how different countries are staking positions on the future of AI Mason offers a bit of self-correction and self-reflection before discussing some the strange nature of how agentic AI systems and robots need to conform the fact that the web and the world was built…

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Love is in the AI 57:43

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Welcome back to The FAIK Files! When tech gets weird, we're here to help make sense of it all. In this week's show: Mason shares his perspective on "Where the Robots Grow" --which is claimed to be "one of the first fully AI-animated feature films." Lisa Plaggemier from the National Cybersecurity Alliance talks to us about Romance Scams And our AI d…

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Jailbreaking Bad: The AI Industry is Cooked 1:03:01

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Welcome back to The FAIK Files! When tech gets weird, we're here to help make sense of it all. In this week's show: We explore how randomness in AI systems creates the illusion of thought A disturbing case of AI chatbots being weaponized for cyberstalking Anthropic's new approach to preventing AI jailbreaks And our AI dumpster fire of the week is..…

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DeepSeek Disrupts Everything 1:06:56

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Welcome back to The FAIK Files! When tech gets weird, we're here to help make sense of it all. This week, we’re tackling: DeepSeek -- the little LLM from China that's taking the world by storm. Perry & Mason interview voice artist Keith Brown to see what he learned about AI while narrating Perry's book. And our AI dumpster fire of the week doesn't …

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Of Spies and Hitmen 54:56

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Welcome back to The FAIK Files! When tech gets weird, we're here to help make sense of it all. This week, we’re tackling: Mason is out this week, so Perry is doing his best not to screw anything up too badly. We've got some new videos posted about how deepfakes work -- everything from those fake celebrity endorsements to realtime deepfakes that can…

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Zuckerberg, TikTok, and Treadmills That Sniff 53:01

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Welcome back to The FAIK Files! When tech gets weird, we're here to help make sense of it all. This week, we’re tackling: Meta’s latest moves—from layoffs to fact-checker cuts and a "Community Notes" pivot. The TikTok vs. U.S. showdown, its ripple effects, and why users are flocking to RedNote. Your exercise equipment’s creepy secrets—is your tread…

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Weapons, Whispers, and AI Gone Rogue 56:32

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Welcome back to The FAIK Files: the show that keeps you informed on all things artificial intelligence and natural nonsense. In this week's episode, we explore: AI companies' partnerships with US defense contractors, including OpenAI's recent deal with Anduril Industries How ElevenLabs' voice cloning technology was exploited for Russian propaganda …

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The Intersection of AI and Authenticity 48:39

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Welcome back to the show that keeps you informed on all things artificial intelligence and natural nonsense. In this episode, Perry & Mason talk about the challenges of watermarking AI content, trends in AI music generation (and how Spotify is capitalizing on them), OpenAI's new Genesis physics engine, and an AI company that doesn't know how to rea…

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The FAIK Files | Holiday Special: AI Safety Update 40:24

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Note: We're posting Perry's new show, "The FAIK Files", to this feed through the end of 2024. This will give you a chance to get a feel for the new show and subscribe to the new feed if you want to keep following in 2025. Welcome back to the show that keeps you informed on all things artificial intelligence and natural nonsense. In our holiday epis…

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Holiday Special: AI Safety Update 40:00

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Welcome back to the show that keeps you informed on all things artificial intelligence and natural nonsense. In our holiday episode, Mason opens a rather unique Christmas present from Perry, we invite a special guest to help explain the infamous "Paperclip Maximizer" thought experiment, and we discuss an interesting (and somewhat disturbing) new AI…

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The FAIK Files | The Butcher Will Scam You Now 1:01:23

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Note: We're posting Perry's new show, "The FAIK Files", to this feed through the end of the year. This will give you a chance to get a feel for the new show and subscribe to the new feed if you want to keep following in 2025. Welcome back to the show that keeps you informed on all things artificial intelligence and natural nonsense. Warning: today'…

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The Butcher Will Scam You Now 1:01:23

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Welcome back to the show that keeps you informed on all things artificial intelligence and natural nonsense. Warning: today's episode gets a bit dark as we chat with seasoned prosecutor and founder of Operation Shamrock, Erin West, about a devastating combination of attacks known as "Pig Butchering" scams. We go deep into how they work and what we …

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AI Gone Wild: Worrisome Leaks, Misguided Conspiracies, and More 54:53

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Welcome back to The FAIK Files--- the show about artificial intelligence and natural nonsense! In this week's episode: Mason shares how ChatGPT became an unexpected hero in solving his home networking and studio challenges Perry dives into the mysterious case of "David Mayer" and how a simple ChatGPT privacy patch sparked widespread conspiracy theo…