The FAIK Files

Perry Carpenter | N2K Networks
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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.

  1. Adblockers, Emotional AI, & Kung-Fu Dishwashing Robots

    3D AGO

    Adblockers, Emotional AI, & Kung-Fu Dishwashing Robots

    Welcome back to the FAIK Files! To learn more about the upcoming Offensive Cyber Deception Masterclass (delivered in person in Las Vegas, August 2-5, 2025) please visit this link: https://tinyurl.com/5ytpvjv7 On this week's episode, We explore some updates to familiar AI tools like Suno, some new models like Wan2.0, and talk about Perry's upcoming Offensive Cyber Deception class this summer! Perry hypnotizes SesameAI into divulging its innermost thoughts and feelings Mason breaks down why some people are reporting that Google Chrome is killing their adblockers The Dumpster Fire for this week comes in the form of humanoid robots that can dance, do your dishes, and also beat you senseless - with style! Subscribe to our YouTube channel! You can find the channel at: https://www.youtube.com/@theFAIKfiles 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/cThqEnMhJz *** NOTES AND REFERENCES *** Quick Hit Headlines: The AI video of the Statue of Liberty that tricked Mason: https://bsky.app/profile/profgalloway.com/post/3ljjare2qwc26 To learn more about the upcoming Offensive Cyber Deception Masterclass (delivered in person in Las Vegas, August 2-5, 2025) please visit this link: https://tinyurl.com/5ytpvjv7 Suno releases new editing tools: https://sunoaiwiki.com/news/2024/09-30-suno-announces-new-editing-feature/ Wan2.1 Video Model: https://wan21ai.com/ Hume AI text-to-voice with tone/emotion recognition: https://hume.ai/ Sesame Voice AI: Talk to Sesame AI Maya or Miles yourself! https://www.sesame.com/research/crossing_the_uncanny_valley_of_voice#demo Google Chrome Killing Adblockers: A great blog post about what's going on: https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/removing-webrequest-api.html AI Dumpster Fire of the Week: The funny TikTok about that creepy robot (uncensored): https://www.tiktok.com/@garron_music/video/7474282462823189782?_r=1&_t=ZP-8u8WDZbQWLe The Unitree Robotics YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@unitreerobotics Kung Fu Robot kicks a stick out of some dude's hand: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0C-LU0cnqB8 The dancing robot routine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrjxmJWo3IY *** THE BOILERPLATE *** About The FAIK Files: The FAIK Files is an offshoot project from Perry Carpenter's most recent book, FAIK: A Practical Guide to Living in a World of Deepfakes, Disinformation, and AI-Generated Deceptions. Get the Book: FAIK: A Practical Guide to Living in a World of Deepfakes, Disinformation, and AI-Generated Deceptions (Amazon Associates link) Check out the website for more info: https://thisbookisfaik.com Check out Perry & Mason's other show, the Digital Folklore Podcast: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/digital-folklore/id1657374458 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2v1BelkrbSRSkHEP4cYffj?si=u4XTTY4pR4qEqh5zMNSVQA Other: https://digitalfolklore.fm  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

    1h 8m
  2. Behavior Models, Temperature Tweaks, and Safety Battles

    FEB 28

    Behavior Models, Temperature Tweaks, and Safety Battles

    Welcome back to the FAIK Files! On this week's episode, We explore the world of AI hallucinations. What causes them? Do they make AI useless, or could they potentially lead to scientific breakthroughs We dive into emerging AI models like Large Behavior Models (LBMs) and how they differ from traditional Large Language Models We examine the ongoing battle for AI safety with a focus on xAI's newest release, Grok 3 And finally, DeepSeek is still causing ripples Subscribe to our YouTube channel! You can find the channel at: https://www.youtube.com/@theFAIKfiles 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/cThqEnMhJz *** NOTES AND REFERENCES *** Exploring AI Hallucinations: Twitter discussion on AI hallucinations: https://xcancel.com/blakkos/status/1894059713563648388 Understanding temperature in LLMs: https://masteringllm.medium.com/demystifying-the-temperature-parameter-a-visual-guide-to-understanding-its-role-in-large-language-d9e8ea4b9956 The New York Times: "AI Hallucinations Leading to Scientific Breakthroughs?": https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/23/science/ai-hallucinations-science.html Fun with Suno AI music generation: Mason's podcast song: https://suno.com/song/cfce40a7-e351-43ec-b08b-54c1f0b65b75 Emerging AI Models: Simple Diffusion Language Models: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjAUX23vgfg Large Language Diffusion Models: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxeR1D8T87M Unbox AI and MIT Sloan AI & ML Conference presentation on BehaviorGPT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oq5Y1XB85XA The Battle for AI Safety: xAI's newest release - Grok 3: https://www.marketingaiinstitute.com/blog/grok-3-launch Linus Ekenstam raises concerns about Grok 3's capabilities: https://x.com/LinusEkenstam/status/1893739332143370323 https://x.com/linusekenstam/status/1894024481573609731?s=46&t=XEIHLL9DqeJomrpzuO8-aA An interesting NSFW demo of Grok voice mode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOUjfgtwFR4 AI Dumpster Fire of the Week: Sen. Josh Hawley's legislation to "prohibit the import from or export to China of artificial intelligence technology": https://www.hawley.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Hawley-Decoupling-Americas-Artificial-Intelligence-Capabilities-from-China-Act.pdf *** THE BOILERPLATE *** About The FAIK Files: The FAIK Files is an offshoot project from Perry Carpenter's most recent book, FAIK: A Practical Guide to Living in a World of Deepfakes, Disinformation, and AI-Generated Deceptions. Get the Book: FAIK: A Practical Guide to Living in a World of Deepfakes, Disinformation, and AI-Generated Deceptions (Amazon Associates link) Check out the website for more info: https://thisbookisfaik.com Check out Perry & Mason's other show, the Digital Folklore Podcast: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/digital-folklore/id1657374458 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2v1BelkrbSRSkHEP4cYffj?si=u4XTTY4pR4qEqh5zMNSVQA Other: https://digitalfolklore.fm  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

    1h 5m
  3. Cybercriminals Love AI, Librarians Do Not

    FEB 21

    Cybercriminals Love AI, Librarians Do Not

    Welcome back to the FAIK Files! On this week's episode, We (oh so carefully) touch on how different countries are staking positions on the future of AI Mason offers a bit of self-correction and self-reflection before discussing some the strange nature of how agentic AI systems and robots need to conform the fact that the web and the world was built to be navigated by humans, not machines Perry gives perspective on some new research findings by CheckPoint which show that cybercriminals are flocking to LLMs from China. And our AI Dumpster fire of the Week is about how AI slop is becoming a real problem for librarians. Subscribe to our BRAND NEW YouTube channel! You can find the channel at: https://www.youtube.com/@theFAIKfiles 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/cThqEnMhJz *** NOTES AND REFERENCES *** Global Positions on AI Safety: Clip from JD Vance's speech at the AI Action Summit in France Trump rescinds Biden's executive order on AI safety: In A World Built for Humans: Clarification on Tom Paton's work and AI limitations: Interview with Tom Paton Microsoft Research: OmniParser v2 Meta is Making Humanoid Robots AI Security Concerns: CheckPoint Research on DeepSeek and Alibaba LLMs: https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/deepseek-alibaba-llms-malware/ AI Dumpster Fire of the Week: UPDATE: Hoopla to REMOVE AI-Generated Books Original Report: https://www.404media.co/email/7a1109dd-e6cd-46ac-be2f-a6d6461fc2ff/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter *** THE BOILERPLATE *** About The FAIK Files: The FAIK Files is an offshoot project from Perry Carpenter's most recent book, FAIK: A Practical Guide to Living in a World of Deepfakes, Disinformation, and AI-Generated Deceptions. Get the Book: FAIK: A Practical Guide to Living in a World of Deepfakes, Disinformation, and AI-Generated Deceptions (Amazon Associates link) Check out the website for more info: https://thisbookisfaik.com Check out Perry & Mason's other show, the Digital Folklore Podcast: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/digital-folklore/id1657374458 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2v1BelkrbSRSkHEP4cYffj?si=u4XTTY4pR4qEqh5zMNSVQA Other: https://digitalfolklore.fm  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/pregnantsonic.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    1 hr
  4. Love is in the AI

    FEB 14

    Love is in the AI

    Welcome back to The FAIK Files! When tech gets weird, we're here to help make sense of it all. In this week's show: Mason shares his perspective on "Where the Robots Grow" --which is claimed to be "one of the first fully AI-animated feature films." Lisa Plaggemier from the National Cybersecurity Alliance talks to us about Romance Scams And our AI dumpster fire of the week is Elon Musk's (somewhat desperate) grab for OpenAI Subscribe to our BRAND NEW YouTube channel! You can find the channel at: https://www.youtube.com/@theFAIKfiles 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/cThqEnMhJz *** NOTES AND REFERENCES *** Where the Robots Grow (the first full-length animated feature created by AI?): ElevenLabs write-up on LinkedIN Full movie IMDB Entry BTW -- we love and use ElevenLabs personally. If you want to check it out, please use our affiliate code: https://try.elevenlabs.io/8vcg17tr6uyp Interview: Lisa Plaggemier's LinkedIn profile National Cybersecurity Alliance (NCA) website NCA Romance Scam info and toolkit NCA Video Series: Kubikle AI Dumpster Fire -- Elon Musk offers to buy Open AI for 97.4B: WSJ: Elon Musk-Led Group Makes $97.4 Billion Bid for Control of OpenAI Reuters: OpenAI's board has not received Musk's takeover bid, source says Ars Technica: Sam Altman: OpenAI is not for sale, even for Elon Musk’s $97 billion offer OpenAI: Elon Musk wanted an OpenAI for profit OpenAI: OpenAI and Elon Musk *** THE BOILERPLATE *** About The FAIK Files: The FAIK Files is an offshoot project from Perry Carpenter's most recent book, FAIK: A Practical Guide to Living in a World of Deepfakes, Disinformation, and AI-Generated Deceptions. Get the Book: FAIK: A Practical Guide to Living in a World of Deepfakes, Disinformation, and AI-Generated Deceptions (Amazon Associates link) Check out the website for more info: https://thisbookisfaik.com Check out Perry & Mason's other show, the Digital Folklore Podcast: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/digital-folklore/id1657374458 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2v1BelkrbSRSkHEP4cYffj?si=u4XTTY4pR4qEqh5zMNSVQA Other: https://digitalfolklore.fm  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/pregnantsonic.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    58 min
  5. Jailbreaking Bad: The AI Industry is Cooked

    FEB 7

    Jailbreaking Bad: The AI Industry is Cooked

    Welcome back to The FAIK Files! When tech gets weird, we're here to help make sense of it all. In this week's show: We explore how randomness in AI systems creates the illusion of thought A disturbing case of AI chatbots being weaponized for cyberstalking Anthropic's new approach to preventing AI jailbreaks And our AI dumpster fire of the week is... AI... the whole thing... all of it Subscribe to our BRAND NEW YouTube channel! You can find the channel at: https://www.youtube.com/@theFAIKfiles 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/cThqEnMhJz *** NOTES AND REFERENCES *** Randomness in AI Systems: Overview of deterministic vs stochastic systems in AI Understanding temperature settings in LLMs How diffusion models use random seeds Discussion of parameters like top-K and top-P Relationship between randomness and perceived intelligence Lots of good overviews available at the Prompt Engineering Guide website: https://www.promptingguide.ai/introduction/settings AI-Enabled Cyberstalking: The Guardian: Stalking AI Chatbot Impersonator Case study of James Florence's 7-year cyberstalking campaign Discussion of platforms CrushOn.ai and JanitorAI Implications for future harassment scenarios Anthropic's Constitutional Classifiers: Anthropic's post: Constitutional Classifiers: Defending against universal jailbreaks Anthropic's demo website: https://claude.ai/constitutional-classifiers Details of 3,000+ hours of red-teaming with 405 participants System architecture and implementation Success rate: 95% of jailbreak attempts blocked Only 23.7% inference overhead AI Dumpster Fire -- The entire AI industry: Inconsistent naming conventions across companies Bad and inconsistent public relations strategies Arms race between US and China Environmental and ethical concerns And more... *** THE BOILERPLATE *** About The FAIK Files: The FAIK Files is an offshoot project from Perry Carpenter's most recent book, FAIK: A Practical Guide to Living in a World of Deepfakes, Disinformation, and AI-Generated Deceptions. Get the Book: FAIK: A Practical Guide to Living in a World of Deepfakes, Disinformation, and AI-Generated Deceptions (Amazon Associates link) Check out the website for more info: https://thisbookisfaik.com Check out Perry & Mason's other show, the Digital Folklore Podcast: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/digital-folklore/id1657374458 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2v1BelkrbSRSkHEP4cYffj?si=u4XTTY4pR4qEqh5zMNSVQA Other: https://digitalfolklore.fm  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/pregnantsonic.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    1h 3m
  6. DeepSeek Disrupts Everything

    JAN 31

    DeepSeek Disrupts Everything

    Welcome back to The FAIK Files! When tech gets weird, we're here to help make sense of it all. This week, we’re tackling: DeepSeek -- the little LLM from China that's taking the world by storm. Perry & Mason interview voice artist Keith Brown to see what he learned about AI while narrating Perry's book. And our AI dumpster fire of the week doesn't disappoint! Subscribe to our BRAND NEW YouTube channel! We'll be adding a wide variety of content shortly, but would love your help building the subscriber base up before we release our first video. You can find the channel at: https://www.youtube.com/@theFAIKfiles 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/cThqEnMhJz *** NOTES AND REFERENCES *** DeepSeek comes in swinging: Chinese Open-Source AI DeepSeek R1 Matches OpenAI's o1 at 98% Lower Cost Deep seek Janus-Pro-7B: A Breakthrough in Multimodal AI DeepSeek's chatbot achieves 17% accuracy, trails Western rivals in NewsGuard audit OpenAI Furious DeepSeek Might Have Stolen All the Data OpenAI Stole From Us Keith Brown Interview: Keith Brown's website FAIK on Audiobook (Amazon Associates link) AI Dumpster Fire of the Week (more DeepSeek): Jevons paradox What Is 'Jevons Paradox' And How Is It Tied To DeepSeek AI? Experiment showing DeepSeek actively erasing what it knows about certain events Experiment to show DeepSeek's bias Andy Ayrey asks DeepSeek to write a story Anthropic's paper on LLM Sleeper Agents Also be sure to check out chapter 4 of Perry's book, which covers inherent bias, sleeper agents, etc... *** THE BOILERPLATE *** About The FAIK Files: The FAIK Files is an offshoot project from Perry Carpenter's most recent book, FAIK: A Practical Guide to Living in a World of Deepfakes, Disinformation, and AI-Generated Deceptions. Get the Book: FAIK: A Practical Guide to Living in a World of Deepfakes, Disinformation, and AI-Generated Deceptions (Amazon Associates link) Check out the website for more info: https://thisbookisfaik.com Check out Perry & Mason's other show, the Digital Folklore Podcast: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/digital-folklore/id1657374458 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2v1BelkrbSRSkHEP4cYffj?si=u4XTTY4pR4qEqh5zMNSVQA Other: https://digitalfolklore.fm  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/pregnantsonic.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    1h 7m
  7. Of Spies and Hitmen

    JAN 24

    Of Spies and Hitmen

    Welcome back to The FAIK Files! When tech gets weird, we're here to help make sense of it all. This week, we’re tackling: Mason is out this week, so Perry is doing his best not to screw anything up too badly. We've got some new videos posted about how deepfakes work -- everything from those fake celebrity endorsements to realtime deepfakes that can happen in live videoconferences. Perry & Mason interview FBI counter-terrorism and counterintelligence operative, Eric O'Neill It looks like we are on the verge of AI Agents that can not only book travel for you... but also search the dark web and hire assassins on your behalf! Subscribe to our BRAND NEW YouTube channel! We'll be adding a wide variety of content shortly, but would love your help building the subscriber base up before we release our first video. You can find the channel at: https://www.youtube.com/@theFAIKfiles 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/cThqEnMhJz *** NOTES AND REFERENCES *** Check out your new YouTube videos about Deepfakes... and more: Inside a celebrity deepfake: How I Made Taylor Swift 'Endorse' My Book (https://youtu.be/mCx38_SeT_U) How to create real-time deepfakes (a.k.a. I became Taylor Swift...for Science!) (https://youtu.be/nKhtTIV6vxU) Will be posting more soon. We'd also love suggestions for anything you'd like covered. FAIK (the book) resources and activities page (https://thisbookisfaik.com/resources) Press release about the Resources page (https://www.cbs42.com/business/press-releases/ein-presswire/776228250/new-educational-toolkit-protects-teachers-and-students-from-ai-driven-cyber-attacks/) Interview with former FBI counter-terrorism and counterintelligence operative, Eric O'Neill: Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_O%27Neill Eric's website: https://ericoneill.net/ Gray Day: My Undercover Mission to Expose America's First Cyber Spy - https://amzn.to/3Wu4J04 Claude AI Hires a Hitman?: Tweet from Pliny the Liberator about his experiment: https://x.com/elder_plinius/status/1878946571565650264 AI Researchers STUNNED as Claude Hires a Darkweb 'Hitman'...(Wes Roth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5OrAJX7ukY) Anthropic Announcement: Introducing Computer Use (https://www.anthropic.com/news/3-5-models-and-computer-use) Story about Multi-On: An AI assistant just passed the California driving test. Here’s how. (https://sfstandard.com/2023/11/14/multion-ai-assistant-california-driving-test/) OpenAI Preps ‘Operator’ Release For This Week (https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/openai-preps-operator-release-for-this-week?rc=s2adyu) OpenAI: Introducing Operator (https://openai.com/index/introducing-operator/) *** THE BOILERPLATE *** About The FAIK Files: The FAIK Files is an offshoot project from Perry Carpenter's most recent book, FAIK: A Practical Guide to Living in a World of Deepfakes, Disinformation, and AI-Generated Deceptions. Get the Book: FAIK: A Practical Guide to Living in a World of Deepfakes, Disinformation, and AI-Generated Deceptions (Amazon Associates link) Check out the website for more info: https://thisbookisfaik.com Check out Perry & Mason's other show, the Digital Folklore Podcast: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/digital-folklore/id1657374458 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2v1BelkrbSRSkHEP4cYffj?si=u4XTTY4pR4qEqh5zMNSVQA Other: https://digitalfolklore.fm  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/pregnantsonic.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    55 min
  8. Zuckerberg, TikTok, and Treadmills That Sniff

    JAN 17

    Zuckerberg, TikTok, and Treadmills That Sniff

    Welcome back to The FAIK Files! When tech gets weird, we're here to help make sense of it all. This week, we’re tackling: Meta’s latest moves—from layoffs to fact-checker cuts and a "Community Notes" pivot. The TikTok vs. U.S. showdown, its ripple effects, and why users are flocking to RedNote. Your exercise equipment’s creepy secrets—is your treadmill sniffing you? Opening the conversation about power consumption of AI systems and its implications. Subscribe to our BRAND NEW YouTube channel! We'll be adding a wide variety of content shortly, but would love your help building the subscriber base up before we release our first video. You can find the channel at: https://www.youtube.com/@theFAIKfiles 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/cThqEnMhJz *** NOTES AND REFERENCES *** Meta Making Choices: Meta Announces Layoffs and Fact-Checker Cuts Meta’s Shift to Community Notes Mark Zuckerberg on Corporate Culture TikTok and U.S.-China Relations: TikTok Ban Updates and RedNote’s Rise History of the Little Red Book and Its Symbolism Chinese AI Models and Their Growing Power Exercise Equipment and Privacy: Consumer Reports: Your Exercise Bike Knows a Lot About You—and It Doesn't Keep Every Secret Not mentioned on the show, but Consumer Reports also has an interesting app called Permission Slip aimed at helping you take control of your digital footprint, manage what companies know about you, and take steps to limit invasive data collection practices. AI Power Consumption: The Growing Energy Demands of AI -- we give some initial thoughts and ask for help with research! *** THE BOILERPLATE *** About The FAIK Files: The FAIK Files is an offshoot project from Perry Carpenter's most recent book, FAIK: A Practical Guide to Living in a World of Deepfakes, Disinformation, and AI-Generated Deceptions. Get the Book: FAIK: A Practical Guide to Living in a World of Deepfakes, Disinformation, and AI-Generated Deceptions (Amazon Associates link) Check out the website for more info: https://thisbookisfaik.com Check out Perry & Mason's other show, the Digital Folklore Podcast: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/digital-folklore/id1657374458 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2v1BelkrbSRSkHEP4cYffj?si=u4XTTY4pR4qEqh5zMNSVQA Other: https://digitalfolklore.fm  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/pregnantsonic.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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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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    Perry Carpenter | N2K Networks
  • Years Active
    2024 - 2025
  • Episodes
    26
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