Pink Elephants: Amazon v. Perplexity, ChatBot Mental Health Report, NYC Mayoral Election

10/11/2025 1h 9min Episodio 12

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In this week's episode, we talk about Amazon's recent lawsuit against Perplexity for them masking user agents while browsing the Amazon site, OpenAI's report on mental health-related conversations with ChatGPT, Character ai's recent decision to prevent minors from using their chatbots entirely, a quick OpenAI speed round, Andrew Cuomo's AI mpreg Schoolhouse Rock ad, and Zohran Mamdani engaging with people as a human being.--Show notes:Amazon sues Perplexity https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/amazon-sues-perplexity-battle-ai-agent-accessNYC Mayoral Election + Social MediaCuomo AI slophttps://www.404media.co/ai-generated-mpreg-schoolhouse-rock-ad-attacking-mamdani-is-the-sad-poliaesthetic-of-our-time/ Mamdani's Community Grassroots campaignhttps://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/06/zohran-mamdani-new-york-zack-polanski-donald-trump-social-media-politics https://www.teenvogue.com/story/zohran-mamdanis-advice-for-election-results-anxiety-go-talk-to-your-neighbors Adam Conover video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKgNrshVdMw Chatbot mental health:Character.ai bans teens from chatbotshttps://blog.character.ai/u18-chat-announcement/ OpenAI report on their mental health effortshttps://openai.com/index/strengthening-chatgpt-responses-in-sensitive-conversations/Vs Q&A on livestream after restructuring: https://www.platformer.news/openai-restructuring-microsoft-altman/

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