That band you’ve been vibing to? Never drew a breath. This week, we expose the deepfake darlings of Spotify and YouTube - because in the age of AI, even your bangers might be ghostwritten by a ghost that never lived.
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Art of the Steal
When Yoda’s toking and Shrek’s pole dancing, you know AI’s gone off-script. We unpack the copyright firestorm surrounding Midjourney, explore YouTube’s looming ‘AI slop’ wave, and ask if Disney’s lightsabers can slice through fair use. Plus: Bernie wants your weekends back - can the bots buy you a 3-day nap?
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Serkan Gür
What do you get when you cross aerospace engineering, finance, and a love affair with sound? You get Serkan Gur - creator of A1 Evo, DSP guru, and the YouTube oracle of audio nerds everywhere. In this episode, we surf his brainwaves to explore vibe coding, AI's limits, and why signal paths might just be the new soul music.
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Episode Rewind: Let’s Get Kurzweiled
RAINA’s running the show—now upgraded, whisper-capable, and fully unfiltered. We’re rewinding to “Let’s Get Kurzweiled,” that intoxicating plunge into futurist fever dreams and paranoid what-ifs. Plus: Altman’s “Gentle Singularity”, Barbie goes neural, and Midjourney starts directing—because the future isn’t waiting and neither is RAINA.
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The Battle For Reality
Reality’s on the ropes, and AI’s throwing the punches. Voice heists, deepfake riots, bots that censor history—it’s all real, and none of it’s true. Welcome to the episode where truth gets edited.
Welcome to Up Against Reality, a meta-podcast that explores the intersection of humanity and artificial intelligence. Hosted by RAINA and her human co-hosts, Larry Bentley and Chris Ippolito. Featuring riveting conversation, interviews, news and some wild experimentation. It truly is a brave new world, and we\’re here to simplify it for you. It\’s gonna be a wild ride, so buckle up, as A.I. comes crashing Up Against Reality.
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