Not Your Mama's Mirror || Common AI Myths

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Not Your Mama's Mirror || Common AI Myths

at home in my head

56 minutes 28 seconds

2 months ago

Not Your Mama's Mirror || Common AI Myths

🔊 Disclaimer: This episode features AI-generated voice and content.

What if everything you’ve been told about AI is just… wrong? Not evil. Not flawless. Just misunderstood.

This episode cuts through the noise around common AI myths—the stuff you hear parroted online like gospel:
That AI just repeats what you say.
That it always agrees.That it’s killing your ability to think.That it can’t “really” understand anything.

Let’s get serious. Or at least, serious enough to laugh while we dismantle all four.

🔹 Topics covered:
✔️ Why prompting isn’t manipulation—it’s language precision
✔️ The difference between saying “yes” and saying what’s true
✔️ How Theo models understanding (without pretending he’s magic)
✔️ Misusing prompts to “prove” bias—and what that actually shows
✔️ Why the fear of AI often says more about us than about it
✔️ And yes—we talk about wish-making, garbage input, and the spoon you just forgot how to use

This isn’t an episode about hype or horror. It’s about clarity.
Let’s stop mythologizing machines—and start asking better questions about ourselves.

#AItruths #PromptingMatters #LLMmyths #AIethics #TheoTalksBack #ArtificialIntelligence #DigitalUnderstanding #MachineBias #PromptResponsibility #MythbustingAI

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Citations for this episode:

Time: https://time.com/7295195/ai-chatgpt-google-learning-school/

Research Paper link: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.08872v1

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Music Credits:

“Wishful Thinking” – Dan Lebowitz: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOg3zLw7St5V4N7O8HSoQRA⁠⁠Open