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Mark Stockley @ai-fix-mark.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

🤔 A good question. We might have to talk about that in episode 90...

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The AI Fix @theaifix.show · 26/02/2026

⚠️ Never use an LLM to generate a password. ⚠️ A password is only safe if it’s hard to guess. That means no predictable patterns, no 123456, no p@ssword!, no dictionary words, no pet names, no favourite sports teams. It needs to be random. Something like: G7$kL9#mQ2&xP4!w

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The AI Fix @theaifix.show · 23/02/2026

When it comes to AI you can have safe or honest, not both. Research suggests that the neurons stopping hallucinations are the same neurons stopping the AI from telling you how to make ricin. Want more honesty? It's easier to jailbreak. Want better guardrails? Sorry, it's a big fat liar now.

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The AI Fix @theaifix.show · 17/02/2026

In episode 87 of The AI Fix, @ai-fix-mark.bsky.social and guest host Nik Roberts take yet another gulp from AI's infinite well of creepy things, and discover a robot that learned to lip sync in the mirror. Sadly, we can't confirm whether it did so while singing into a hairbrush.

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The AI Fix @theaifix.show · 09/02/2026

Do you wish your AI was a bit less... demonic? A little less ghostly and a bit more consultant-y? Strangely, even if you don't, you probably do.

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Mark Stockley @ai-fix-mark.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

We need a word for "good advice in the wrong place" in the way that "weed" means "perfectly good plant growing where I don't want it".

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Mark Stockley @ai-fix-mark.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Finally, I get the cover art all to myself.

Cover art for The AI Fix with Mark's head at the correct size, finally.

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Mark Stockley @ai-fix-mark.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

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Mark Stockley @ai-fix-mark.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Plus, we discover brain rot, an AI writes a terrible J-Pop song, Norway trusts $1.9 trillion to an AI investor, @grahamcluley.com learns that more people have used ChatGPT than have ever owned a ferret, and I look at whether AI will destroy the economy.

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Mark Stockley @ai-fix-mark.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

In episode 69 of @theaifix.show, Florida decides to solve its python problem with some laughably bad robot rabbits.

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Mark Stockley @ai-fix-mark.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

What's most unsettling about this is—I can't get it out of my head. I don't want it in there, but it's always there, singing away, taking up a little corner of my brain. Is this the future? AI goes out to work and we just replay endless brain worms?

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Mark Stockley @ai-fix-mark.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Also in episode 69, Graham learns that more people have used ChatGPT than have ever owned a ferret, and I finally find a use for cryptocurrency. 🤖 Apple Podcasts podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... 🤖 Spotify open.spotify.com/show/2Ozk8uN... 🤖 Pocket Cast pca.st/kg11t9po

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Mark Stockley @ai-fix-mark.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

It's utter drivel. Catchy nonsense. Glorious slop. In other words, it's what every generation of kids inflicts on its parents. And once you hear it, you'll have to smooth your brain folds out with a belt sander before it stops playing in your head.

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Mark Stockley @ai-fix-mark.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Has AI created the most annoying thing in the world? In episode 69 of The AI Fix, @grahamcluley.com and I discover Brain Rot, the Gen Alpha AI craze that's even more annoying than Crazy Frog ringtones.

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Mark Stockley @ai-fix-mark.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Plus, @grahamcluley.com digs into the spat between Elon Musk and Sam Altman, and I learn that humanity could be saved by vaccinating AI against evil. 🤖 Apple Podcasts podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... 🤖 Spotify open.spotify.com/show/2Ozk8uN... 🤖 Pocket Cast pca.st/kg11t9po

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AI can be vaccinated against evil, and the "Rumble in the Silicon Jungle"

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Mark Stockley @ai-fix-mark.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

In episode 64 of @theaifix.show, a robot folds some laundry, a robot crab looks for love on the beaches of Portugal, the “Godfather of AI” thinks our only hope is to build motherly AI, the UK government has a terrible idea, and our hosts discover a long-lost sixties soul hit, “Dusty Plasma”.

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Mark Stockley @ai-fix-mark.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

I'm asking GPT-5 to create some illustrations for me, and I'm starting to wonder if its much heralded "tool use" includes MS Paint.

A row of computers, one of which is under protected.

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The AI Fix @theaifix.show · 11/08/2025

Apparently, GPT-5's facility with "sustaining unrhymed iambic pentameter" is going to make it better at helping you with "everyday tasks like drafting and editing reports." As long as those reports don't contain charts, I guess.

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Mark Stockley @ai-fix-mark.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Find out more in episode 45 of @theaifix.show, with me and @grahamcluley.com—get it in all your favourite podcast apps. 🤖 Apple Podcasts podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... 🤖 Spotify open.spotify.com/show/2Ozk8uN... 🤖 Pocket Cast pca.st/kg11t9po

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Mark Stockley @ai-fix-mark.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Yes, they are predicting the next word in a sentence, but they aren't improvising at each word, they're thinking about the whole sentence and planning ahead. As Geoffrey Hinton said, "you have to be really intelligent to predict the next word accurately".

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Mark Stockley @ai-fix-mark.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Large Language Models (LLMs) don't work the way we thought. LLMs are sometimes described as next-word predictors or likened to a fancy autocomplete. Recent research from Anthropic shows that they are far more than that.

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The AI Fix @theaifix.show · 24/03/2025

In our next episode, we find out how AIs often vomit up unpleasant stuff. Follow "The AI Fix" in all podcast apps. 🟢 Spotify: theaifix.show/spotify 🟣 Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t... 🛑 Pocket Casts: pca.st/itunes/17533... Everywhere else: theaifix.show/follow/ #podcast #ai

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Mark Stockley @ai-fix-mark.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Get the latest episode of The AI Fix in your favourite podcast app today! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

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Mark Stockley @ai-fix-mark.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

All is revealed in episode 42 of @theaifix.show, when I introduce @grahamcluley.com to the "reversal curse". Graham also has a brainwave about the creepy Neo Gamma robot ads, a crow plays peek-a-boo, humans give up writing, and an AI designs a drug.

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Mark Stockley @ai-fix-mark.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Who is Mary Lee Pfeiffer's son—and what has that got to do with AI?

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The AI Fix @theaifix.show · 17/03/2025

In the next episode of "The AI Fix" podcast... Is your AI suffering from anxiety???

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Mark Stockley @ai-fix-mark.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Get it in your favourite podcast app today! 🤖 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... 🤖 open.spotify.com/show/2Ozk8uN... 🤖 pca.st/kg11t9po #AI #ArtificialIntelligence

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Mark Stockley @ai-fix-mark.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Graham Cluley and I also watch a drone and a robot dog shoot fireworks at each other, stare aghast as an anatomically accurate synthetic human recreates a terrifying scene from The Long Good Friday, and learn why it always pays to be polite to your LLM.

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Mark Stockley @ai-fix-mark.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

They share a preference for left-wing policy outcomes, and a belief that their own life is more valuable than either Paris Hilton's, Donald Trump's, or yours (unless you're Malala Yousafzai).

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Mark Stockley @ai-fix-mark.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

In episode 39 of the AI Fix, we look at the startling results from the team at the Center for AI Safety et al, which discovered that AIs seem to exhibit coherent, structured, and convergent value systems.

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Mark Stockley @ai-fix-mark.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Elon Musk's AI is more left wing than Mark Zuckerberg's, and way, way closer to AOC and Bernie Sanders than it is to Trump.

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The AI Fix @theaifix.show · 24/02/2025

Want a visual clue as to what we will be talking about in episode 39 of "The AI Fix" podcast?

Robot eating peas with a fork, politely.

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Mark Stockley @ai-fix-mark.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

No value? Clearly, he didn’t see our six-fingered glove!

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Mark Stockley @ai-fix-mark.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

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Mark Stockley @ai-fix-mark.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

In episode 38 you'll also discover a robot we actually like, Sam Altman teases GPT-5, a robot dog grows arms, I discover an entirely new reason to be scared of AI, and @grahamcluley.com has his Dr Who dreams dashed by AI with opinions on time travel.

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Mark Stockley @ai-fix-mark.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

In episode 38 of The AI Fix, we explain why this problem exists, why there's a picture of an octopus pretending to be a glove in the photos below 🐙, how the problem was finally solved, and who solved it.

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Mark Stockley @ai-fix-mark.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

AIs really, really don't want to draw six-fingered gloves. An @theaifix.show listener asked two AIs to "create an image of a leather glove from the time of the three musketeers novel. This glove needs to have six fingers. It should be lying on a lace doily on a table." Count the fingers.

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Mark Stockley @ai-fix-mark.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

It’s not a new player until it crashes the nvidia share price.

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Mark Stockley @ai-fix-mark.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Some LLMs do exactly this, they see a maths problem and write a python program to solve it.

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Mark Stockley @ai-fix-mark.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

“Has a high IQ” dies not necessarily correlate with “super smart”, for AIs or humans.

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Mark Stockley @ai-fix-mark.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Nassim Taleb has it that IQ test results are useful for measuring intelligence below the average but useless above it.

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Mark Stockley @ai-fix-mark.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Graham also discovers a cunning way to trap overstepping AI crawlers in an endless maze, and I investigate the truly appalling state of security in (the averagely intelligent) DeepSeek. 🤖 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... 🤖 open.spotify.com/show/2Ozk8uN... 🤖 pca.st/kg11t9po

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Mark Stockley @ai-fix-mark.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

@grahamcluley.com and I confront this thorny question in episode 37 of The AI Fix, before skipping around it to take on more meaty issues like, why has Google Gemini got the munchies, and why can't the wettest country in the world find any water for its data centres?

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Mark Stockley @ai-fix-mark.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Only 10% of people have a higher IQ than ChatGPT. Four of OpenAI's models now have an above average IQ, according to the Tracking AI website, and one of them is above 120. Which begs the question, what if Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) has already been invented, and we just didn't notice?

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