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  <title>Episode 280: We See You</title>
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  <description>This week Dave (https://dgshow.org/hosts/dave) and Gunnar (https://dgshow.org/hosts/gunnar) talk about diverse AI opinions and the wisdom of crowds!
Trinity (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_(nuclear_test)) and Low-background Steel (https://lowbackgroundsteel.ai/)  
Hardcore History (https://www.dancarlin.com/hardcore-history-series/)  
Slate Political Gabfest (https://slate.com/podcasts/political-gabfest)  
Google Vids (https://workspace.google.com/products/vids/)!  
Researchers find adding this one simple sentence to prompts makes AI models way more creative (https://venturebeat.com/ai/researchers-find-adding-this-one-simple-sentence-to-prompts-makes-ai-models)  
D&amp;amp;G This Week in Bad Ideas  
Kalshi Becomes CNN’s Official Prediction Market Partner After Raising $1B (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/kalshi-becomes-cnn-official-prediction-073203095.html)  
Should an AI copy of you help decide if you live or die? (https://arstechnica.com/features/2025/10/should-an-ai-copy-of-you-help-decide-if-you-live-or-die/)  
Rawlsian Theory of Justice (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Theory_of_Justice)  
Rawlsian Theory of Justice: The Musical (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Theory_of_Justice:_The_Musical)
Cutting Room Floor
Salami Advent Calendar (https://podnikovka.cz/uzeniny_c1032041986523153/salamy_c1032041986523167/adventni-salam_p6595)  
Nap Anywhere Pillow (https://www.uncommongoods.com/product/nap-anywhere-pillow)  
Linux Ported to WebAssembly, Boots in a Browser Tab (https://linux.slashdot.org/story/25/11/03/0610234/linux-ported-to-webassembly-boots-in-a-browser-tab)  
How a programmer got Doom to run on a space satellite and what happened next (https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-a-programmer-got-doom-to-run-on-a-space-satellite-and-what-happened-next/)  
I taught an octopus piano (It took 6 months) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcWnQ7fYzwI) 
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    <![CDATA[<p>This week <a href="https://dgshow.org/hosts/dave" rel="nofollow">Dave</a> and <a href="https://dgshow.org/hosts/gunnar" rel="nofollow">Gunnar</a> talk about diverse AI opinions and the wisdom of crowds!</p>

<ul>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_(nuclear_test)" rel="nofollow">Trinity</a> and <a href="https://lowbackgroundsteel.ai/" rel="nofollow">Low-background Steel</a><br>

<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.dancarlin.com/hardcore-history-series/" rel="nofollow">Hardcore History</a><br></li>
<li><a href="https://slate.com/podcasts/political-gabfest" rel="nofollow">Slate Political Gabfest</a><br></li>
</ul></li>
<li><a href="https://workspace.google.com/products/vids/" rel="nofollow">Google Vids</a>!<br></li>
<li><a href="https://venturebeat.com/ai/researchers-find-adding-this-one-simple-sentence-to-prompts-makes-ai-models" rel="nofollow">Researchers find adding this one simple sentence to prompts makes AI models way more creative</a><br></li>
<li>D&amp;G This Week in Bad Ideas<br>

<ul>
<li><a href="https://finance.yahoo.com/news/kalshi-becomes-cnn-official-prediction-073203095.html" rel="nofollow">Kalshi Becomes CNN’s Official Prediction Market Partner After Raising $1B</a><br></li>
<li><a href="https://arstechnica.com/features/2025/10/should-an-ai-copy-of-you-help-decide-if-you-live-or-die/" rel="nofollow">Should an AI copy of you help decide if you live or die?</a><br></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Theory_of_Justice" rel="nofollow">Rawlsian Theory of Justice</a><br></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Theory_of_Justice:_The_Musical" rel="nofollow">Rawlsian Theory of Justice: The Musical</a></li>
</ul></li>
</ul>

<p><strong>Cutting Room Floor</strong></p>

<ul>
<li><a href="https://podnikovka.cz/uzeniny_c1032041986523153/salamy_c1032041986523167/adventni-salam_p6595" rel="nofollow">Salami Advent Calendar</a><br></li>
<li><a href="https://www.uncommongoods.com/product/nap-anywhere-pillow" rel="nofollow">Nap Anywhere Pillow</a><br></li>
<li><a href="https://linux.slashdot.org/story/25/11/03/0610234/linux-ported-to-webassembly-boots-in-a-browser-tab" rel="nofollow">Linux Ported to WebAssembly, Boots in a Browser Tab</a><br></li>
<li><a href="https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-a-programmer-got-doom-to-run-on-a-space-satellite-and-what-happened-next/" rel="nofollow">How a programmer got Doom to run on a space satellite and what happened next</a><br></li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcWnQ7fYzwI" rel="nofollow">I taught an octopus piano (It took 6 months)</a></li>
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    <![CDATA[<p>This week <a href="https://dgshow.org/hosts/dave" rel="nofollow">Dave</a> and <a href="https://dgshow.org/hosts/gunnar" rel="nofollow">Gunnar</a> talk about diverse AI opinions and the wisdom of crowds!</p>

<ul>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_(nuclear_test)" rel="nofollow">Trinity</a> and <a href="https://lowbackgroundsteel.ai/" rel="nofollow">Low-background Steel</a><br>

<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.dancarlin.com/hardcore-history-series/" rel="nofollow">Hardcore History</a><br></li>
<li><a href="https://slate.com/podcasts/political-gabfest" rel="nofollow">Slate Political Gabfest</a><br></li>
</ul></li>
<li><a href="https://workspace.google.com/products/vids/" rel="nofollow">Google Vids</a>!<br></li>
<li><a href="https://venturebeat.com/ai/researchers-find-adding-this-one-simple-sentence-to-prompts-makes-ai-models" rel="nofollow">Researchers find adding this one simple sentence to prompts makes AI models way more creative</a><br></li>
<li>D&amp;G This Week in Bad Ideas<br>

<ul>
<li><a href="https://finance.yahoo.com/news/kalshi-becomes-cnn-official-prediction-073203095.html" rel="nofollow">Kalshi Becomes CNN’s Official Prediction Market Partner After Raising $1B</a><br></li>
<li><a href="https://arstechnica.com/features/2025/10/should-an-ai-copy-of-you-help-decide-if-you-live-or-die/" rel="nofollow">Should an AI copy of you help decide if you live or die?</a><br></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Theory_of_Justice" rel="nofollow">Rawlsian Theory of Justice</a><br></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Theory_of_Justice:_The_Musical" rel="nofollow">Rawlsian Theory of Justice: The Musical</a></li>
</ul></li>
</ul>

<p><strong>Cutting Room Floor</strong></p>

<ul>
<li><a href="https://podnikovka.cz/uzeniny_c1032041986523153/salamy_c1032041986523167/adventni-salam_p6595" rel="nofollow">Salami Advent Calendar</a><br></li>
<li><a href="https://www.uncommongoods.com/product/nap-anywhere-pillow" rel="nofollow">Nap Anywhere Pillow</a><br></li>
<li><a href="https://linux.slashdot.org/story/25/11/03/0610234/linux-ported-to-webassembly-boots-in-a-browser-tab" rel="nofollow">Linux Ported to WebAssembly, Boots in a Browser Tab</a><br></li>
<li><a href="https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-a-programmer-got-doom-to-run-on-a-space-satellite-and-what-happened-next/" rel="nofollow">How a programmer got Doom to run on a space satellite and what happened next</a><br></li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcWnQ7fYzwI" rel="nofollow">I taught an octopus piano (It took 6 months)</a></li>
</ul>]]>
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  <title>Episode 248: Get the Most Out of Your Memories</title>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 04 Oct 2023 06:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
  <author>David Egts &amp; Gunnar Hellekson</author>
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  <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
  <itunes:author>David Egts &amp; Gunnar Hellekson</itunes:author>
  <itunes:subtitle>This week Dave and Gunnar talk about open source generative AI and how to poison them.</itunes:subtitle>
  <itunes:duration>34:03</itunes:duration>
  <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
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  <description>This week Dave (https://dgshow.org/hosts/dave) and Gunnar (https://dgshow.org/hosts/gunnar) talk about open source generative AI and how to poison them.
Iceland (https://www.visiticeland.com/)
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider-Man:_Across_the_Spider-Verse)
Delete (https://www.netflix.com/watch/81565131?trackId=255824129) on Netflix
Is A.I. the Future of Astrology? (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/04/style/astrology-co-star-ai.html)
AI replacing psychics as 'fortune telling' droids put tarot readers out of work (https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/weird-news/ai-replacing-psychics-fortune-telling-30659524)
Open source generative AI
Hugging Face releases its own version of ChatGPT (https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/25/hugging-face-releases-its-own-version-of-chatgpt/)
FreedomGPT (https://www.freedomgpt.com/)
GPT4All (https://gpt4all.io/index.html)
Researchers Demonstrate AI ‘Supply Chain’ Disinfo Attack With 'PoisonGPT' (https://www.vice.com/en/article/xgwgn4/researchers-demonstrate-ai-supply-chain-disinfo-attack-with-poisongpt)
AI writing assistants can cause biased thinking in their users (https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/05/ai-writing-assistants-can-cause-biased-thinking-in-their-users/)
Magic Editor in Google Photos: New AI editing features for reimagining your photos (https://www.blog.google/products/photos/google-photos-magic-editor-pixel-io-2023/)
The Photo Book That Captured How the Soviet Regime Made the Truth Disappear (https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/the-photo-book-that-captured-how-the-soviet-regime-made-the-truth-disappear)
Cutting Room Floor
* Fictional Brands Archive (https://fictionalbrandsarchive.com/)
* Retro MacOS desktop blanket trades pixels for thread, and it looks Mac-nificent (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/06/retro-macos-desktop-blanket-trades-pixels-for-thread-and-it-looks-mac-nificent/)
* The Toronto Recursive History Project (https://readtheplaque.com/plaque/the-toronto-recursive-history-project)
We Give Thanks
* The D&amp;amp;G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics! 
</description>
  <itunes:keywords>Iceland, Spider-Man, Spider-Verse, Delete, Netflix, astrology, AI, Hugging Face, FreedomGPT, GPT4All, open source, PoisonGPT, supply chain attacks, AI writing assistance, bias, AI bias, Magic Editor, Google, Google Photos, Stalin, fictional brands, blankets, Toronto, recursion, plaques</itunes:keywords>
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    <![CDATA[<p>This week <a href="https://dgshow.org/hosts/dave" rel="nofollow">Dave</a> and <a href="https://dgshow.org/hosts/gunnar" rel="nofollow">Gunnar</a> talk about open source generative AI and how to poison them.</p>

<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.visiticeland.com/" rel="nofollow">Iceland</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider-Man:_Across_the_Spider-Verse" rel="nofollow">Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.netflix.com/watch/81565131?trackId=255824129" rel="nofollow">Delete</a> on Netflix</li>
<li><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/04/style/astrology-co-star-ai.html" rel="nofollow">Is A.I. the Future of Astrology?</a>

<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/weird-news/ai-replacing-psychics-fortune-telling-30659524" rel="nofollow">AI replacing psychics as &#39;fortune telling&#39; droids put tarot readers out of work</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li>Open source generative AI

<ul>
<li><a href="https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/25/hugging-face-releases-its-own-version-of-chatgpt/" rel="nofollow">Hugging Face releases its own version of ChatGPT</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.freedomgpt.com/" rel="nofollow">FreedomGPT</a></li>
<li><a href="https://gpt4all.io/index.html" rel="nofollow">GPT4All</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li><a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/xgwgn4/researchers-demonstrate-ai-supply-chain-disinfo-attack-with-poisongpt" rel="nofollow">Researchers Demonstrate AI ‘Supply Chain’ Disinfo Attack With &#39;PoisonGPT&#39;</a></li>
<li><a href="https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/05/ai-writing-assistants-can-cause-biased-thinking-in-their-users/" rel="nofollow">AI writing assistants can cause biased thinking in their users</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.blog.google/products/photos/google-photos-magic-editor-pixel-io-2023/" rel="nofollow">Magic Editor in Google Photos: New AI editing features for reimagining your photos</a>

<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/the-photo-book-that-captured-how-the-soviet-regime-made-the-truth-disappear" rel="nofollow">The Photo Book That Captured How the Soviet Regime Made the Truth Disappear</a></li>
</ul></li>
</ul>

<p><strong>Cutting Room Floor</strong></p>

<ul>
<li><a href="https://fictionalbrandsarchive.com/" rel="nofollow">Fictional Brands Archive</a></li>
<li><a href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/06/retro-macos-desktop-blanket-trades-pixels-for-thread-and-it-looks-mac-nificent/" rel="nofollow">Retro MacOS desktop blanket trades pixels for thread, and it looks Mac-nificent</a></li>
<li><a href="https://readtheplaque.com/plaque/the-toronto-recursive-history-project" rel="nofollow">The Toronto Recursive History Project</a></li>
</ul>

<p><strong>We Give Thanks</strong></p>

<ul>
<li>The D&amp;G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!</li>
</ul>]]>
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  <itunes:summary>
    <![CDATA[<p>This week <a href="https://dgshow.org/hosts/dave" rel="nofollow">Dave</a> and <a href="https://dgshow.org/hosts/gunnar" rel="nofollow">Gunnar</a> talk about open source generative AI and how to poison them.</p>

<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.visiticeland.com/" rel="nofollow">Iceland</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider-Man:_Across_the_Spider-Verse" rel="nofollow">Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.netflix.com/watch/81565131?trackId=255824129" rel="nofollow">Delete</a> on Netflix</li>
<li><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/04/style/astrology-co-star-ai.html" rel="nofollow">Is A.I. the Future of Astrology?</a>

<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/weird-news/ai-replacing-psychics-fortune-telling-30659524" rel="nofollow">AI replacing psychics as &#39;fortune telling&#39; droids put tarot readers out of work</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li>Open source generative AI

<ul>
<li><a href="https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/25/hugging-face-releases-its-own-version-of-chatgpt/" rel="nofollow">Hugging Face releases its own version of ChatGPT</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.freedomgpt.com/" rel="nofollow">FreedomGPT</a></li>
<li><a href="https://gpt4all.io/index.html" rel="nofollow">GPT4All</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li><a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/xgwgn4/researchers-demonstrate-ai-supply-chain-disinfo-attack-with-poisongpt" rel="nofollow">Researchers Demonstrate AI ‘Supply Chain’ Disinfo Attack With &#39;PoisonGPT&#39;</a></li>
<li><a href="https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/05/ai-writing-assistants-can-cause-biased-thinking-in-their-users/" rel="nofollow">AI writing assistants can cause biased thinking in their users</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.blog.google/products/photos/google-photos-magic-editor-pixel-io-2023/" rel="nofollow">Magic Editor in Google Photos: New AI editing features for reimagining your photos</a>

<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/the-photo-book-that-captured-how-the-soviet-regime-made-the-truth-disappear" rel="nofollow">The Photo Book That Captured How the Soviet Regime Made the Truth Disappear</a></li>
</ul></li>
</ul>

<p><strong>Cutting Room Floor</strong></p>

<ul>
<li><a href="https://fictionalbrandsarchive.com/" rel="nofollow">Fictional Brands Archive</a></li>
<li><a href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/06/retro-macos-desktop-blanket-trades-pixels-for-thread-and-it-looks-mac-nificent/" rel="nofollow">Retro MacOS desktop blanket trades pixels for thread, and it looks Mac-nificent</a></li>
<li><a href="https://readtheplaque.com/plaque/the-toronto-recursive-history-project" rel="nofollow">The Toronto Recursive History Project</a></li>
</ul>

<p><strong>We Give Thanks</strong></p>

<ul>
<li>The D&amp;G Show Slack Clubhouse for the discussion topics!</li>
</ul>]]>
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