The FAIK Files

By: Perry Carpenter | N2K Networks
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  • 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.
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  • AI "Friends" and Enemies

    AI "Friends" and Enemies
    May 9 2025
    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 more. Also check out Perry's new newsletter, Deceptive Minds: a newsletter about how we are fooled, how we fool ourselves, and what we can do about it. Subscribe on LinkedIn ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/build-relation/newsletter-follow?entityUrn=7319922626200510464⁠ Want to leave us a voicemail? Here's the magic link to do just that: ⁠https://sayhi.chat/FAIK⁠ You can also join our Discord server here: ⁠https://discord.gg/cU7wepaz⁠ ***** NOTES AND REFERENCES ***** UNDERCOVER AI COPS, FAKE PROTESTORS: WIRED & 404 Media Joint Investigation: Exclusive: Police Are Creating Fake AI Personas to Trick Suspects Online This investigation reveals how law enforcement agencies are using AI to create fake personas to surveil and interact with suspects online SWEET AND SOUR (TWO STORIES): Suno's New "Cover" Feature: Claude AI Exploited to Operate 100+ Fake Political Personas in Global Influence Campaign: https://thehackernews.com/2025/05/claude-ai-exploited-to-operate-100-fake.html BEING HONEST ABOUT AI USAGE MAKES PEOPLE TRUST YOU LESS?: The Article: Being honest about using AI at work makes people trust you less, research finds The Research Paper: The impact of artificial intelligence disclosure on trustworthiness perceptions AI Workforce Projections: Fiverr CEO Says AI Will Take Your Job - Here's What to Do ECH FOUNDERS TRY TO SOLVE OUR LONELINESS PROBLEM…: New AI Wearable 'Friend' Unveiled To Cure Loneliness; Internet Asks Why Isn't It An App? New research shows link between ChatGPT use and loneliness YouTube video (AI friend experiment): This intense AI anger is what experts warned of Mark Zuckerberg – Meta's AGI Plan (Dwarkesh Patel podcast) Mark Zuckerberg tried to convince us he was human. Sorry, ZuckBot: you've failed Mark Zuckerberg Lays Out HELLISH Vision For Future Of Friendship HOW AI AND HUMAN BEHAVIORS SHAPE PSYCHOSOCIAL EFFECTS OF CHATBOT USE: A LONGITUDINAL RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED STUDY Want to connect with us? Here's how: Connect with Perry: Perry on LinkedIn: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/perrycarpenter⁠ Perry on X: ⁠https://x.com/perrycarpenter⁠ Perry on BlueSky: ⁠https://bsky.app/profile/perrycarpenter.bsky.social⁠ Connect with Mason: Mason on LinkedIn: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/mason-amadeus-a853a7242/⁠ Mason on BlueSky: ⁠https://bsky.app/profile/wickedinterest.ing Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 hr and 6 mins
  • AI's Behavioral Extremes

    AI's Behavioral Extremes
    May 2 2025
    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 sycophantic Meta's troubling chatbot sex problem: Social Media, LLMS, sex, and Zuckerberg -- what could go wrong? Check out The Deception Project to learn about our upcoming Offensive Cyber Deception Masterclass and more. Also check out Perry's new newsletter, Deceptive Minds: a newsletter about how we are fooled, how we fool ourselves, and what we can do about it. Subscribe on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/build-relation/newsletter-follow?entityUrn=7319922626200510464 Want to leave us a voicemail? Here's the magic link to do just that: https://sayhi.chat/FAIK You can also join our Discord server here: https://discord.gg/cU7wepaz ***** NOTES AND REFERENCES ***** ONE MILLION CHESS BOARDS: One Million Chessboards website: https://onemillionchessboards.com/ Creator's blog post explaining the project: https://eieio.games/blog/one-million-chessboards/ Nolen Royalty's previous viral project, One Million Checkboxes: https://corecursive.com/one-million-checkboxes-with-nolen-royalty/ AI Cheating at Chess - Time Magazine report: https://time.com/7259395/ai-chess-cheating-palisade-research/ ANTHROPIC'S MODEL WELFARE RESEARCH: Exploring Model Welfare - Anthropic's research announcement: https://www.anthropic.com/research/exploring-model-welfare YouTube interview, "Could AI Models be Conscious?": https://youtu.be/pyXouxa0WnY?si=1yK4YkMbE5iW9SC0 Dario Amodei on interpretability: https://x.com/DarioAmodei/status/1915515160607023391 The Urgency of Interpretability (Dario's blog): https://www.darioamodei.com/post/the-urgency-of-interpretability Axios report on AI sentience research: https://www.axios.com/2025/04/29/anthropic-ai-sentient-rights THE PERSONALITY CRISIS OF CHATGPT: OpenAI rolls back sycophantic ChatGPT update: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/04/openai-rolls-back-update-that-made-chatgpt-a-sycophantic-mess/ Sam Altman's tweet about the issue: https://xcancel.com/sama/status/1917291637962858735 Stanford HAI research on LLM personality: https://hai.stanford.edu/news/large-language-models-just-want-to-be-liked META'S CHATBOT SEX PROBLEM: Wall Street Journal investigation: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/meta-ai-chatbots-sex-a25311bf Want to connect with us? Here's how: Connect with Perry: Perry on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/perrycarpenter Perry on X: https://x.com/perrycarpenter Perry on BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/perrycarpenter.bsky.social Connect with Mason: Mason on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mason-amadeus-a853a7242/ Mason on BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/wickedinterest.ing Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 hr and 8 mins
  • Artifacts of Deception (Deceptive Minds - issue #2)

    Artifacts of Deception (Deceptive Minds - issue #2)
    Apr 29 2025
    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 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 “artifacts of deception,” and why the flashy stuff (deepfakes, fake emails, cloned voices) isn’t the real trick you need to watch for. Hope you enjoy this exploration into the hidden mechanics of how deception *really* works. Here we go… — Perry ⁠The Deception Project Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    11 mins
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