The FAIK Files
The FAIK Files explores the mysterious and often wacky intersection of AI, technology, and humanity. From cognitive warfare to digital deception, we examine how AI is reshaping our reality through news, research, and real-world examples. Join us for a thought-provoking journey into a world where anything can be faked, truth is increasingly elusive, and human nature meets artificial intelligence head-on.
Episodes
July 18, 2025 • 61 mins
Welcome back to The FAIK Files!
In this week's episode:
Grok's triple threat of chaos - Elon Musk's AI chatbot continues identifying as Hitler, starts generating anime waifus, and somehow lands a $200 million Department of Defense contract
ChatGPT's accidental generosity - A seemingly innocent guessing game vulnerability leads users to extract free Windows OS keys and other unintended system access
McDonald's million-...
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July 11, 2025 • 56 mins
Welcome back to The FAIK Files!
In this week's episode:
Meet Claude, Small Business Owner
Tricking AI – two different ways
Shifting Policies Around AI Content
Dumpster Fire of the week: Grok goes full Nazi
Check out Perry's new website, The Deception Project and newsletter, Deceptive Minds: a newsletter about how we are fooled, how we fool ourselves, and what we can do about it. Subscribe on LinkedIn ...
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July 4, 2025 • 50 mins
Welcome back to The FAIK Files!
This week, we're sharing our interview with Winn Schwartau!
Winn Schwartau is a respected authority in information security and one of the earliest voices to warn about the risks of cyberwarfare. With a career spanning decades, he’s written extensively on topics like critical infrastructure vulnerabilities, time-based security, and the human factors behind digital threats. His work has shaped the w...
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June 27, 2025 • 64 mins
Welcome back to The FAIK Files!
In this week's episode:
Does ChatGPT make us dumber?
AI chatbots are amplifying disinformation
Anthropic's recent "fair use" court victory and what it actually means
Dumpster fire of the week: ChatGPT babysitters and therapy chatbots
Check out Perry's new website, The Deception Project and newsletter, Deceptive Minds: a newsletter about how we are fooled, how we fool ou...
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June 20, 2025 • 2 mins
This week, there' s no real episode! Instead, please enjoy this song-summary of what we had planned to cover today.
If you want to dig in on your own, here's the sources we were planning to talk about:
SEGMENT 1: YOUR BRAIN ON CHAT GPT
Does LLM use build up "cognitive debt" and make you dumber? (Probably not TBH)
Media page from the authors of the study: https://www.brainonllm.com
The study itself: https://arxiv.org/...
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June 13, 2025 • 69 mins
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!"
Google's VEO-3 and ElevenLabs 3 are creating deepfakes so convincing they'...
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June 6, 2025 • 67 mins
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 interview Chris Machowski, artist and overall creative powerhouse behind ...
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May 30, 2025 • 81 mins
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 newsletter about how we are fooled, how we fool ourselves, and what we can ...
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May 23, 2025 • 71 mins
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 exist
Check out The Deception Project to learn about our upcomin...
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May 16, 2025 • 76 mins
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 hiring worse, not better
Check out The Deception Project to learn ab...
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May 9, 2025 • 66 mins
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 learn about our upcoming Offensive Cyber Deception Masterclass and ...
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May 2, 2025 • 67 mins
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 personality crisis as they roll back an update that made the AI too sycoph...
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April 28, 2025 • 11 mins
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.
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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 eve...
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April 28, 2025 • 5 mins
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 feed so you can decide if you like it and might be interested in subscribing to t...
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April 25, 2025 • 61 mins
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's first AI-generated edition.
Check out The Deception Project to l...
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April 18, 2025 • 66 mins
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 Dumpster Fire of the Week: AI Chatbots that will call your parents so...
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April 14, 2025 • 28 mins
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 and walks of life about the constantly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence...
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April 11, 2025 • 42 mins
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 under the hood - as well as the general reaction to it.
A software engin...
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April 4, 2025 • 57 mins
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 models
Mason shares his AI BodgeLab experiment creating a low-effort po...
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March 28, 2025 • 83 mins
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 special agent, Cameron Malin.— a deception expert and behavioral profiler who help...
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