Oct 9, 2026 · 54 min · 12 segments
Cyber Uncut returns to discuss AI giant conspiracies, data centre impacts, and the dead internet theory. Are AI giants like OpenAI having their agents hack things on purpose? Senior journalist Daniel…
Liam GarmanHostDaniel CroftHost
And the thing, and I know you and David often talk about AI, but the fact that everyone's using AI in their jobs, some of the content, some of the data I see people put up online is wild.
Some of the stuff people are producing, and, you know, you and I are probably, you know, on the creative side of the spectrum, journalists, content creators.
And you see plainly copyrighted or poorly put together content that people will just shill out.
And then it gets tons of engagement either by like, you know, kind of dead internet theory or it's people who are going, oh, you shouldn't be doing this because it's AI.
But, you know, on a security standpoint as well, we were discussing it yesterday.
How many AI-generated websites are out there? which are just completely automated.
So you could say, have an entire news website out there where news is automated off a prompt, which is then now being fed back into the ecosystem.
I mean, there are so many like Instagram pages now which are just complete crap, completely made up and thousands of bot commenters and it's given some level of authenticity in the algorithm, right? and I suppose that I understand that you and David turn this into a political you guys are you guys happy to go into politics we do I'll add another another opinion of this you know it was funny you know how do you how do you fact check how do you how can social media giants and how can tech giants really police this? We've been through so many iterations of social media policing where the first iteration of social media policing after the 2016 presidential election, where people like, okay, we got to do something about this, right? Especially with, and it's pretty well documented.
And one thing, I know I've spoken about this on podcasts, but years ago, and I think it's worth mentioning again, given the world that we're in, The 2016 presidential election was very unique in as much as my observations, because I did a thesis on this, is that whoever was going to win that election was going to be left with the poison chalice of accusations.
Because the IRA, very interestingly named Internet Research Agency out of St. Petersburg.
And the thing, and I know you and David often talk about AI, but the fact that everyone's using AI in their jobs, some of the content, some of the data I see people put up online is wild.
Some of the stuff people are producing, and, you know, you and I are probably, you know, on the creative side of the spectrum, journalists, content creators.
And you see plainly copyrighted or poorly put together content that people will just shill out.
And then it gets tons of engagement either by like, you know, kind of dead internet theory or it's people who are going, oh, you shouldn't be doing this because it's AI.
But, you know, on a security standpoint as well, we were discussing it yesterday.
How many AI-generated websites are out there? which are just completely automated.
So you could say, have an entire news website out there where news is automated off a prompt, which is then now being fed back into the ecosystem.
I mean, there are so many like Instagram pages now which are just complete crap, completely made up and thousands of bot commenters and it's given some level of authenticity in the algorithm, right? and I suppose that I understand that you and David turn this into a political you guys are you guys happy to go into politics we do I'll add another another opinion of this you know it was funny you know how do you how do you fact check how do you how can social media giants and how can tech giants really police this? We've been through so many iterations of social media policing where the first iteration of social media policing after the 2016 presidential election, where people like, okay, we got to do something about this, right? Especially with, and it's pretty well documented.
And one thing, I know I've spoken about this on podcasts, but years ago, and I think it's worth mentioning again, given the world that we're in, The 2016 presidential election was very unique in as much as my observations, because I did a thesis on this, is that whoever was going to win that election was going to be left with the poison chalice of accusations.
Because the IRA, very interestingly named Internet Research Agency out of St. Petersburg.
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