OpenAI’s gone full YOLO: agents that work for you, a Sora app that feels like TikTok, an AI browser that wants to replace Chrome, and a new “adult freedom” stance. Juan and Kate dig into the logic, or lack of it, behind OpenAI’s everything-everywhere strategy, and why even its biggest users are starting to push back.
Additional Resources
The AI Resisters (Axios) https://www.axios.com/2025/10/19/ai-resistance-students-coders
Workforce Outlook: The Class of 2026 in the AI Economy https://joinhandshake.com/themes/handshake/dist/assets/downloads/network-trends/class-of-2026-outlook.pdf
Zuckerberg signals Meta won’t open source all of its ‘superintelligence’ AI models https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/30/zuckerberg-says-meta-likely-wont-open-source-all-of-its-superintelligence-ai-models/
Topics
00:00 – Intro
00:07 – OpenAI’s new playbook: agents, Sora, and Stargate
00:39 – AI agents everywhere: from dev tools to browsers
02:52 – Building AGI or burning cash? What’s OpenAI’s real plan?
06:00 – The difference between open source and closed AI models
06:22 – Meta vs OpenAI: Competing to own AI’s Future
09:35 – The rise of AI resistance: workers, coders, students push back
11:24 – Using AI tools you don’t trust
13:51 – The vibe-coding trap
14:40 – Human-made content becoming the new luxury
18:30 – Where’s your line in the sand with AI? Ethics and trust
19:48 – Smarter ways to use AI
21:49 – Puppies & babies, our weekly fix of Slop
About Slop World
Juan Faisal and Kate Cook plunge into the slop pile—AI news, cultural shifts, and the future’s endless curveballs. They’re not here to sanitize the mess; they’re here to wrestle with it, laugh at it, and find meaning where you least expect it.