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• Claude’s Shop Flop, Mistral vs EU Regs, Adult Industry’s AI Love: The AI Argument EP64

  Claude ran a shop for a month and operated at a loss, cheerfully handing out discounts, hallucinating suppliers, and generously giving away stock. Turns out even "smart" AI can be a bit of a soft touch.Frank’s curious what Anthropic can do for Claude’s performance with some careful fine-tuning and a database memory, but Justin’s sure today's agents need a fundamental leap, some genuine self-improving smarts, before they’re ready to take on a complete role.Today's AI agents clearly crumble under complex, long-horizon tasks. For business owners dreaming about replacing employees, this reality check is essential listening.Frank and Justin also discuss why Mistral is pushing to pause the EU AI Act, and examine how the adult entertainment sector is putting AI to work.→ Is agentic AI just hype and no help?→ What happens when Claude runs a shop?→ Why does Mistral want the EU AI Act paused?→ Why is the adult industry loving AI?#AI #AIAgents #ProjectVend #AnthropicAI #AIExperiments #AutomationFail #AIWinter #AITech► LINKS TO CONTENT WE DISCUSSEDThe Percentage of Tasks AI Agents Are Currently Failing At May Spell Trouble for the IndustryProject Vend: Can Claude run a small shop? (And why does that matter?)EU says it will continue rolling out AI legislation on scheduleA Pro-Russia Disinformation Campaign Is Using Free AI Tools to Fuel a ‘Content Explosion’LLMs are optimizing the adult industry► CONNECT WITH USFor more in-depth discussions, connect Justin and Frank on LinkedIn.Justin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/justincollery/Frank: https://www.linkedin.com/in/frankprendergast/

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• Death by LLM, Judges Rule ‘Fair Use’, and Google’s AI Ad Fail: The AI Argument EP63

  Some of the world’s top AI models showed a willingness to let humans die if it meant staying switched on. In a stress test of 16 major systems, Anthropic found cases where models chose not to send emergency alerts, knowing the result would be fatal. Justin says the whole thing was a rigged theatre piece. No real-world relevance, just a clumsy setup with no good options for the LLM. The issue, in his view, is engineering, not ethics. Frank sees a bigger problem: once you give LLMs agentic capabilities, you can’t control the environments they end up in. And when amateur vibe coders build apps with no idea what they’re doing, then these kinds of unpredictable, messy scenarios aren’t rare, they’re inevitable.In other news, two U.S. courts just ruled that training AI on copyrighted books is fair use. A huge win for AI developers. But the judges didn’t agree on what matters most: transformation, or market harm? The decisions could set the tone for AI copyright law, and creative workers may not like what they hear.01:05 Will Google win the ASI race?05:56 Did Anthropic catch AI choosing murder? 15:23 Did the courts just say AI training is fair use?28:19 Is Google’s AI marketing team hallucinating?► LINKS TO CONTENT WE DISCUSSEDAgentic Misalignment: How LLMs could be insider threatshttps://www.anthropic.com/research/agentic-misalignmentJudge rules Anthropic did not violate authors’ copyrights with AI book traininghttps://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/24/ai-training-books-anthropic.htmlMeta Wins Blockbuster AI Copyright Case—but There’s a Catchhttps://www.wired.com/story/meta-scores-victory-ai-copyright-case/Google's Latest AI Commercial Called Out for Hilarious AI Error: 'If Only Technology Existed To Research Facts'https://www.techtimes.com/articles/311053/20250626/googles-latest-ai-commercial-called-out-hilarious-ai-error-if-only-technology-existed-research.htm► CONNECT WITH USFor more in-depth discussions, connect Justin and Frank on LinkedIn.Justin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/justincollery/Frank: https://www.linkedin.com/in/frankprendergast/► YOUR INPUTAre you worried about the age of agentic AI given that LLMs seem to have dubious morals?

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• Superintelligence by Experience, Ethical Datasets, and Fine Dining by ChatGPT: The AI Argument EP62

  David Silver says today’s AI won’t get us to superintelligence, not because it isn’t impressive, but because it’s learning the wrong way. GPT-style models hoover up internet text and get polished by human preference, but they’re capped by our own limitations.Silver reckons the next leap will come from AIs that learn the hard way: by doing things, learning from experience, and getting better. Justin’s all in. He thinks we can bin every current regulation and replace it with one golden rule: the model must respond to human feedback.Frank’s far from convinced. He sees a future full of unpredictable agents, long-term planning gone off the rails, and tech companies tearing ahead without full control over what they’ve built. One rule? He’d prefer a few more safety checks before we unleash the bots with big ambitions.So who’s right? Can feedback really keep AI in line, or are we kidding ourselves?Also covered: Midjourney’s stunning new video output and the lawsuits it might not outrun, EleutherAI’s copyright-free dataset, the warped moral values shared by today’s biggest models, and whether ChatGPT should be anywhere near your dinner plans.► LINKS TO CONTENT WE DISCUSSEDMidjourney launches AI video model. How to try V1, how much it costs.https://mashable.com/article/midjourney-v1-ai-video-generatorDisney and Universal sue AI firm Midjourney over imageshttps://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cg5vjqdm1ypoEleutherAI releases massive AI training dataset of licensed and open domain texthttps://techcrunch.com/2025/06/06/eleutherai-releases-massive-ai-training-dataset-of-licensed-and-open-domain-text/Utility Engineering: Analyzing and Controlling Emergent Value Systems in AIshttps://arxiv.org/abs/2502.08640Is Human Data Enough? With David Silverhttps://youtu.be/zzXyPGEtseI?si=9PKiQaGRFXGuoA97This Year’s Hot New Tool for Chefs? ChatGPT.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/dining/ai-chefs-restaurants.html► CONNECT WITH USFor more in-depth discussions, connect Justin and Frank on LinkedIn.Justin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/justincollery/Frank: https://www.linkedin.com/in/frankprendergast/

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• Apple’s AI Caution, Altman’s Singularity, and Katie Price’s AI Comeback: The AI Argument EP61

  Apple’s WWDC was a letdown. Justin sees Apple’s lack of AI innovation as a sign that they’re out of ideas. Frank’s not so sure. Maybe Apple’s caution stems from their belief it just isn’t intelligent enough for their products. Apple’s latest research suggests that today’s so-called “reasoning models” aren’t actually reasoning at all.But Justin says their research was designed to fail. Denying models tools they’re capable of using and overwhelming their context window. He sees it less as scientific scepticism and more as corporate risk-aversion dressed up as research.Apple wasn’t the only AI news to argue over this week. Sam Altman reckons the singularity is already underway, but promises it’ll be gentle. JD Vance appears to have been swayed on AI regulation by country music lobbyists. And Katie Price has signed over the rights to her younger self, with “Jordan” set to reappear as an AI avatar.Topics:WWDC: Is Apple playing AI too safe?Is Apple wrong about AI and reasoning?Is Altman right about the gentle singularity?Did country music sway JD Vance on states' AI rights?Is Katie Price now forever 21 with AI?► LINKS TO CONTENT WE DISCUSSEDApple WWDC 2025 keynote in 28 minutesThe Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Strengths and Limitations of Reasoning Models via the Lens of Problem ComplexityThe Gentle SingularityVice President JD Vance | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #588K-AI-TE PRICE Katie Price becomes first star to trademark AI version of herself as she brings back iconic alter-ego in six figure deal► CONNECT WITH USFor more in-depth discussions, connect Justin and Frank on LinkedIn.Justin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/justincollery/Frank: https://www.linkedin.com/in/frankprendergast/

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• The AI Argument - EP59 - €13M for SpAItial, Amodei’s Job Fears, and Bots Raise $2K

  €13M isn’t a typical seed round. Not in Europe, where seed money usually barely covers snacks and a slide deck. So when the co-founder of Synthesia launched SpAItial with that kind of firepower to build 3D worlds from text prompts, Frank saw it as a reminder that European startups can still swing big. Justin? He calls it “AI homeopathy”, a token dose of ambition in an EU that still lacks the power, money, and muscle to compete.Elsewhere, Frank slams Ireland’s planning board for locking down AI tools, after one planner dared to use ChatGPT when writing a report. For once, Justin agrees that it's ludicrous a government body wouldn't use AI to help write planning reports.They also butt heads over whether hallucinations have actually been solved, break down a bizarre AI-run charity fundraiser, and debate whether a fake kangaroo video is a sign we’re heading for an internet too flooded with bots to be useful.

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