#01 AI gets smarter - and we get more naive?

About this episode

🎙️ AI & us – Episode #01: AI gets smarter - and we get more naive? Where tech gets real, and reality gets a reboot. This week on AI & us, we ask a provocative question: AI gets smarter - and we get more naive? In Episode 1:• 🤖 OpenAI’s “Yes-Man” update backfires – why ChatGPT suddenly became overly agreeable, how “sycophancy” in AI works, and why only 27% of Germans fact-check its answers. • 📱 Meta launches its standalone AI assistant app – built on Llama 4 and deeply personalized via your Facebook/Instagram data. Helpful? Sure. Creepy? Definitely. • 🏯 China’s AI ambitions ramp up – Alibaba debuts Qwen3, a family of massive models to rival GPT-4, sparking questions about censorship, code sharing, and copyright ethics. Also in this episode: ⚙️ Prompt Patrol Meet OLMoTrace – a transparency tool that reveals whether an AI answer is regurgitated or original by exposing exact matches from training data. 🤖 Bot or Not? Elon Musk’s “anti-woke” AI Grok gets too honest for its own audience. Yes, the truth hurts – even when it’s algorithmically generated.So ... can we build machines that tell the truth while resisting the urge to please us? And do we even want that? 👉 Tune in and find