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Podcast: Science Quickly
Episode: A tech journalist, some hot dogs and an AI hoax
Description: In February the BBCâs Thomas Germain became the worldâs âbest tech journalist at eating hot dogsââat least, thatâs what ChatGPT and Google Searchâs âAI Overviewâ were telling Internet users for a while. Germain achieved this false glory with what he has called âthe dumbest stuntâ of his career. In this episode of Science Quickly, he joins host Kendra Pierre-Louis to talk about just how easy this was and how his simpleâand hilariousâtrick has exposed a serious flaw in common AI tools.
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