Drag It All To Hell, 2025.10.27

It's been six months since our last all-Hell episode! In honor of Halloween season, we take a long journey into the very scary Fresh AI Hell mines. Topics include terrifying uses of AI in education, scientific research, and politics — plus, some delicious palate cleansers along the way.
AI bubble: bigger than dot-com bust? (tinyurl.com/bdhwcfam)
No one wants to pay for ChatGPT (tinyurl.com/mvhsddw8)
Meta lays off 600 from AI unit (tinyurl.com/bd7akdu8)
AI data centers: an even bigger disaster than we thought (tinyurl.com/3mmds8ue)
Public universities anticipate data center-driven power outages (tinyurl.com/yc5kcpsb)
Chaser: Deloitte has to pay back Albanese government after using AI in report (tinyurl.com/4crnsm25)
"AI" schools are "dead classrooms" (tinyurl.com/ywadxb8x)
Fake sources in "ethical AI" education report (tinyurl.com/yet4s3ua)
Parents letting kids play with AI (tinyurl.com/56uhmnn9)
Startup sells 'synthetic influencers' (archive.is/FPZX4)
AI-powered textbooks fail to make the grade (tinyurl.com/4xtbykt2)
Chaser: "High-reliability" AI slop (tinyurl.com/bddjsnm2)
Nature offers "AI-powered research assistant" (tinyurl.com/2etbr7v6)
AI bots wrote all papers at this conference (tinyurl.com/yck6f6hx)
"AI" reviewing at AAAI (tinyurl.com/6vxxrmy7)
AI medical tools downplay symptoms in women and POC (archive.is/bIpNh)
Therapists are secretly using ChatGPT (archive.is/XRIwW)
Chaser: Microsoft blocks Israel's use of its technology (tinyurl.com/55w72yj6)
German initiative uses "AI" for voter education (tinyurl.com/w89j5v7c)
Police gunshot detection mics will listen for human voices (tinyurl.com/4sw25j2u)
SF's AI chatbot for RV dwellers (tinyurl.com/4fzhh2cb)
Cuomo campaign posts racist AI slop (tinyurl.com/5985scw9)
DHS Ordered OpenAI To Share User Data (tinyurl.com/2rtp3knx)
Chaser: LA County moves to limit license plate tracking (tinyurl.com/bdemvsh6)
A new form of eugenics (tinyurl.com/tffc9mn2)
"AI Superintelligence" prohibition letter (tinyurl.com/vbsy5ftw)
Emad Mostaque's LLM blurbs (tinyurl.com/3jhdhv6z)
Prizes must recognize machine contributions to discovery (tinyurl.com/ybw86jku)
Chaser: The hot new trend in marketing: hating on AI (tinyurl.com/3ydxaar5)
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Music by Toby Menon.
Artwork by Naomi Pleasure-Park (naomipleasurepark.com).
Production by Ozzy Llinas Goodman.