Artificial Unintelligence with Perry Carpenter

American Hysteria

W!ZARD Studios

Society & Culture

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🗓️ 11 November 2024

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

Perry Carpenter is the author of the new book FAIK: A Practical Guide to Living in a World of Deepfakes, Disinformation, and AI-Generated Deceptions. For this episode, we are discussing what it means to live in a world where artificial intelligence is altering our reality more and more, how we can navigate a deeply uncertain digital future, and what it all has to do with human nature and the nature of folklore. Check out Perry book FAIK here Find The FAIK Files podcast on Apple and Spotify Find the Digital Folklore Podcast here Find Perry Carpenter on LinkedIn, Twitter, and 8th Layer Media Check out Perry's new op-ed with The Hill about our post-truth era Get tickets to our live show called A Massive Seance with You're Wrong About Become a Patron to support our show and get early ad-free episodes and bonus content Or subscribe to American Hysteria on Apple Podcasts Find us on Instagram @americanhysteriapodcast Leave us a message on our Urban Legends Hotline or get your mitts on some merch at americanhysteria.com Producer and Editor: Miranda Zickler Associate Producer: Riley Swedelius-Smith Hosted by Chelsey Weber-Smith Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What could possibly go wrong when two skeptical podcasters try to summon a ghost?
0:11.2	Join me, Sarah Marshall, of your wrong about.
0:13.9	And me, Chelsea Weber Smith of American Hysteria, for a historical, theatrical, ecstatic, spectacular for the living and dead.
0:26.4	Hold hands with your favorite disembodied voices for a spiritualist seance featuring mystifying tricks,
0:34.6	campfire conversation, special guests, and a dash of burlesque.
0:40.6	Plus, music from The Little Lies, the only Fleetwood Mac tribute band that may actually be
0:47.7	ghosts. Join us to release the phantoms of the past year and make room for the spirit of the new.
0:56.7	We promise that your mortal soul has never seen a podcast live show quite like this.
1:04.7	Unless it came last year. Then you've seen something like it.
1:09.0	Chelsea, when will we hold our seances and where? Well, Sarah,
1:14.4	December 3rd and 4th in Portland, Oregon at the Aladdin Theater, December 11th in Seattle,
1:20.4	Washington at the Moore Theater, January 11th in San Francisco, California at the Palace of
1:27.0	Fine Arts Theater, and January 24th in Los Francisco, California at the Palace of Fine Arts Theater, and January 24th in Los Angeles,
1:31.3	California at the Regent Theater.
1:36.3	Warning, may contain exorcisms.
1:53.7	We're getting to the point where everything is trying to appeal to the fact that as humans, we're story-driven creatures.
2:01.2	And we want to believe in a narrative, which is why conspiracy theories and urban legends and everything else are so powerful as well.
2:15.1	Harry Carpenter is the author of the new book, Fake, a practical guide to living in a world of deep fakes,
2:18.8	disinformation, and AI-generated deceptions.
2:26.5	Fake is spelled F-A-I-K because Perry's a clever guy.
2:34.1	He's also a podcaster who's created a companion to his book called The Fake Files, as well as another podcast called Digital Folklore,
2:37.0	which explored online culture, internet monsters, memes, urban legends, conspiracies, and viral
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