In episode 18 of The AI Fix our hosts discover that OpenAI's Advanced Voice mode is too emotional for Europeans, a listener writes a Viking saga about LinkedIn, ChatGPT is a terrible doctor, and the voice of Meta AI takes to Meta's platforms to complain about Meta AI reading things people post on Meta's platforms.

Mark discovers what Darth Vader really said on Cloud City, Graham rummages through ChatGPT's false memories, and our hosts find out why AIs need an inner critic.

Episode links:

• ChatGPT is awful at diagnosing medical conditions.
• OpenAI’s advanced voice mode is finally out…or is it?
• James McAvoy and Tom Brady fall for 'Goodbye Meta AI' hoax.
• Kristen Bell told Instagram to ‘get rid of AI’ before she became its official voice.
• Google has released two new versions of Gemini 1.5.
• "They stole my voice with AI."
• "The dark side of AI voice cloning (Elecrow responds)"
• OpenAI in throes of executive exodus as three walk at once.
• False memory.
• Examples and explanation of the Mandela Effect.
• The Mandela Effect: How False Memories Trick Your Brain Into Believing.
• Lost in the mall technique.
• Memory and new controls for ChatGPT.
• Hacker plants false memories in ChatGPT to steal user data in perpetuity.
• Spyware Injection Into ChatGPT's Long-Term Memory.
• Microsoft claims its new tool can correct AI hallucinations, but experts advise caution.
• The End of AI Hallucinations: A Big Breakthrough in Accuracy for AI Application Developers.

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In episode 17 of The AI Fix, our hosts meet the worst newsreaders in the world, Graham learns about Big Trak and is shocked by a food delivery robot, Mark explains why he won't be dressing as a pirate, ChatGPT angelically removes a peanut butter sandwich from a VCR, and everyone thinks they've got Ebola.

Graham explains how his career in fashion came to an end, LinkedIn morphs into a feather-duster-wielding polyphase avatron with an insatiable appetite for B2B sales, and Mark delves into the intricate tapestry of terrible AI writing.

Episode links:

• Internet in a frenzy over AI purple apples.
• Historic Newspaper Uses Janky AI Newscasters Instead of Human Journalists.
• TGI Today AI-powered news report.
• Content Creators in the Adult Industry Want a Say in AI Rules.
• Delivery Robot Knocked Over Pedestrian, Company Offered ‘Promo Codes’ to Apologize.
• 20% of doctors are using ChatGPT to treat patients.
• LinkedIn is training AI models on your data.
• Control whether LinkedIn uses your data to train generative AI models that are used for content creation on LinkedIn.
• ICO statement on changes to LinkedIn AI data policy.
• Delving into ChatGPT usage in academic writing through excess vocabulary.
• How Much Research Is Being Written by Large Language Models?

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The AI Fix podcast is presented by Graham Cluley and Mark Stockley.

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