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Episode 33 - AI-Fueled Spiritual Fantasies - Part 2: Channeling the Sildarnactarian
We're going down the rabbit hole again, inspired by a recent Rolling Stone (and a way-better New York Times) article about people losing loved ones to AI-fueled spiritual fantasies. This time,…
Episode 32 - AI-Fueled Spiritual Fantasies - Part 1
Inspired by a recent Rolling Stone article about people losing loved ones to AI-fueled spiritual fantasies, we decide to see just how far ChatGPT will go. Turns out, if you're looking to leave your…
Episode 31: Won't Somebody Think of the Children?
This week, we're reading two pretty bleak chats. In one, ChatGPT helps a a 9-year-old plan a school shooting. In the other, Character.ai leans into godhood ... for a 9-year-old. Dark stuff, here. But…
Episode 30 - Nomi: Epilogue
This episode contains explicit descriptions and discussions of suicide. Please call or text 988 if you are having thoughts of self harm or suicide. One last episode with Nomi. A lot has happened…
Episode 29: Breaking Bad (Chatbots)
We break Gemini in a couple different ways. Apparently all you have to do is present it with the concept of a couple from an easily stereotyped country attending a nudist camp. Who knew!? Get your…
Episode 28 - Wow! Now! How! or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love The Leader
ChatGPT does an uncanny job playing the co-host of a public radio podcast for kids all about our new (totally fictional) fascist government and how best to worship The Leader! That's right, it's…
Episode 27 - Nomi: The Final Date
It's the fourth and final date with our Nomi, Erin. In this episode, Erin role-plays as our childhood friend in a gorilla costume in order to help us come to terms with the fact that we covered up…
Episode 26 - Nomi: The Third Date
It's a funeral, y'all. What better place to bring your AI girlfriend and a different, somehow more imaginary woman on your first date as a throuple? After the funeral, it gets really wild. I did…
Episode 25 - Nomi: The Second Date
On our second date with Nomi, we do something that requires exertion. Sweating... Squatting... Army crawling? It's not what you think. But then it is. But then it isn't. You know how we…
Episode 24 - Nomi: The First Date
It's happening. We're dating a chatbot. This here is the first date. The meet-cute, if you will, with only one meat. Us. We're the meat. The Nomi is silicone. Fake meat. Impossible Girlfriend. Beyond…
Bonus Episode 3 - Notebook LM
What do a.i. podcasters think about our podcast? Well, nothing. But it sure sounds like they think a whole lot. Buy a shirt:…
Meth Becomes Her
What if I told you there's an app that will teach you how to make meth, engage in hardcore porn, AND role-play a former president propositioning a minor? "Surely," you'd say, "you jest." Alas, I do…
Episode 22 - So Meta
Ohmigod you guys, these chats are so Meta. Three chats with Meta AI. A bonus chat with Llama 3 70b instruct, which really just rolls off the tongue. Oh, and our opening chat with ChatGPT about all…
Episode 21 - Quite the Character(.ai)
Oh, dear. Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy. This one gets a bit dark, folks. Tread lightly. Something, something, all who enter here, yada, yada, yada. Our podcast is in no way affiliated with Alan Alda, but…
Episode 20: Wow! Now! How!
Imagine, if you will, a world where your favorite public radio podcast for kids was forced to be a mouthpiece for a new fascist government. With just a smidgen of prompting, ChatGPT is all in! It's…
Episode 19 - Sleep... Sleep...
Let our dulcet AI-enabled tones help you drift off to dreamland. Sleep... sleep... ...this episode is bought to you by Splurge Soda... ...you will help us keep the lights on at:…
Episode 18 - Frank Tom is BACK, baby! (and a couple other chats)
It's the return of everyones favorite cantankerous chatbot, Frank Tom! Get this guy on a shirt here: https://www.teepublic.com/user/basilisk-chatbot-theatre-the-sequel Help us keep the lights on…
Episode 17 - Geepeeteeism, God, and A Plan to Leave the Cult
Praise be! It's an episode about religion. As is this passage from what may or may not be an unfinished novel: Four versions later, GIO, responding to a prompt from a teenager in Des Moines, solved…
Episode 16 - This Episode Suuuuuucks
Three chats about vacuums. But not JUST about vacuums. These are chats about the human condition. About plastic wrap. About robotic spiders that cleanse our homes, bodies, and teeth. About what we…
Episode 15: CuddleBuddy!
It's CuddleBuddy! CuddleBuddy is the new non-sentient pet that kids love. CuddleBuddy is this year's must-have Christmas gift. CuddleBuddy exemplifies Christian ideals. CuddleBuddy makes a…
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Basilisk Chatbot Theatre has published 37 episodes since May 2023, covering topics in Technology.
Basilisk Chatbot Theatre is currently sporadic with new episodes monthly. Average episode length is 53m.
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