Meet The AI Influencers Grifting Your Parents feat. Ej Dickson (Premium E345)

what the fuck, “please don’t scroll, I _____ _______ ____ ____ ________ ____”

,mvp

As someone who makes hand crafted art, those adds piss me off so much because they are stealing images of my work for these fake adds and the knock off product. As an artist I have to post online to sell but if I post online my images are stolen and replicated poorly. We can't win

This tangentially reminds me of some recent insights into AIPAC astroturfing the current dem primaries by paying “content creators” to pretend that they live in swing state and support the moderate-centrist candidate over progressives. Could be an interesting episode!

PLEASE. release this on the regular feed so i can share it with everybody!

what is going on in the rockatansky household with logging into websites

I keep getting the teen or disabled child being bullied and then selling crochet shit ads. I think they are actually all for temu, tho they may have come and gone now. Think the birthday cake slop photos for the vibe. I got got by a crocodile onto of a crocodile floatie photo recently, only realised as the younger guy at work said it was ai after like glancing at it. Felt so boomer.

there's also the dropshipper using ai videos of a down syndrome kid getting bullied to sell resin art

RIP Photoshop 🪦

Really authenticitymaxxxing with this cold open

As someone in Northern Minnesota, who spent one week in 100+ temps that my area is absolutely not prepared for, followed by a week of smoke clouding out the sun and not being able to breathe outside, yes AI is unequivocally bad. If just for the ever accelerating environmental impact. Beyond that, the reason gaming tech (as well as almost all consumer tech) sucks and will continue to get worse is because of AI. Better offline had a recent episode that explains how AI is making consumer tech both worse and more expensive.

Loved the cold open

Taking seven seconds to help my son's gay store

Don Draper pitching to Lee Garner Senior: "Lucky Strike, it's my son's gay business"

While the actual reason for using the real pictures is almost certainly what is described here, I think it's also a shortcut to constrain and standardize the output. The more you feed into these big predictive models the more consistent their predictions (I.e., their output) will be

I went down a rabbit hole after seeing someone with a supposed pet honey badger and my instinct was right and it was fake. It was disturbing how convincing it was but enough was off about the presentation that I clued in on it.

“I wouldn’t want to talk bad about a new technology. I will acknowledge many of the dire outcomes it has produced, but I wouldn’t want to talk bad about it.” Oh god won’t somebody please be nice to computer pretty please

This reminded me of the truest ugliest ai printed apron my mom (a Facebook boomer) sent me that I almost threw away, but forever reason didn’t. She passed in may 2026 and now crying. Also realizing this ugly apron will be passed down to any future children I have.

AI had managed to accomplish 1 single thing that I never thought I would live to see. They managed to make nintendo, games workshop, and metallica's IP protectionist policies look like the good guy. I would have included disney in that list, but disney managed to abandon even that simple high ground. Whata world we live in.

Can't believe the Tom of Finland shoutout like two days after my Tom of Finland documentary came in on blu-ray.

I get a little bit worried sometimes in episodes where AI comes up and Jake spins into "are we approaching Skynet" spitballing. The answer to that question is unambiguously no, there's no rational argument for it being a possible outcome of this type of machine learning technology. But the industry and its' boosters are putting a lot of money into propaganda to reinforce the notion that it's not a settled question, so on a human level I can't really blame anyone just keeping up with the news for buying into that to some extent. At the same time correcting the record on disinformation is your bread and butter as a podcast, so maybe that would be a worthwhile topic to cover with an expert on the call? Someone like Cal Newport, or Ed Zitron for that matter if you want to have to censor out more actionable threats than just the ones Julian contributes.

Andy Warhol said in the 20th Century everyone will get their 15 minutes of fame but in the 21st Century every QAA listener will get their own episode

Bazooka Joe cum

I keep having the same Facebook issue. It keeps logging me into my girlfriend’s account that has never been accessed on that computer.

SMEARING IT ON HIS MUFFIN TOP.

g a y b u s i n e s s

EJ's comment about paying a premium for human content in the future is something I've been saying for a few years now. Ever since a guy tried to get me to listen to the "cool music" he "made" with AI, I realized that the performing arts are going to go the way of many physical art traditions. Like in woodworking, centuries ago you would have to save up and buy furniture or make it yourself out of real wood and then they would be keepsakes for generations, whereas now, you either buy the shitty particle board Ikea crap, or pay a huge premium for a full hardwood set of furniture because the labor alone is so specialized and uncommon now that we're paying a premium for the human element.

I'm having enough of a headache from wildfire smoke, but Bazooka Joe porn?! Oh god, my brain!!

My parents passed away in 2012. I miss them, but I'm very glad they didn't see the return of fascism. And I'm glad I don't have to navigate this stuff with my mom.

This ep really tugged my heartsprings

The UK has developed far right AI influencers for the terminally brain dead. Danny Bones is a rapper who luvs his ethnic cleansing and Amelia is a purple-haired girl of unclear age who orders "beer" in the pub. I would really liketo hear Annie talk about this phenomenon when she returns (congratulations, Annie!) https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026-03-12/danny-bones-meet-the-ai-rapper-funded-by-a-far-right-party

I need the gay business video, does anyone know how I can find it?

They trained that second voice (the country girl selling hats) on Jewel Staite's Kaylee (Firefly/Serenity).

Its so funny our first Corey interjection is while they're shitting on those unscripted dude bro podcasts where producers interjecting is basically an every episode occurance. I love this podcast.

We are so cooked.

qaa and boontavista episodes exact same length this week

Julian reading those comments on the Goth video has never made me want a cross-collab with Internet Comment Etiquette more. I could practically hear the "I love you!" in Erik's voice.

The ai porn that the sick fucks are doing too people in their social circles is definitely a disturbing abusive male problem that is very sad that this is being also monitized too is beyond fucked should also be criminalized as it's pretty much a form of abuse

Here comes the sun..the gay son and his gay business.

AI search is not good, Jake! Since google went full AI I have had multiple instances of the AI misinterpreting a query, giving me pages of incorrect results and then subsequent attempts to refine my search term being hampered by google remembering every previous search as what I actually wanted. Actual search is dead.

That intro gave me life

God I'm like melting listening to this. Funny ass episode. Y'all are on a roll lately

Travis is lidderally daddy.

Great ep as usual. Made me think of all the hilarious videos I’ve gotten on TikTok recently of this guy debunking so called “burp rappers”. Which is AI rap songs with burp-y lyrics, deep bass/Drum and Bass type beats set over country acoustic guitars. Truly awful shit lolll. And of course the Facebook boomers and moms on TikTok lap it up regularly.

Lol Jake and I are getting the same Chinese porn ads

Because these guys want to control real women.

True story, about 20 years ago (holy shit, that can’t be right) I was at a party and asked for a bottle opener. This guy starts unbuckling his belt, and I was like “What the fuck,” but he laughed and said “No no, watch!” He pulled the buckle out, and it was a knife and bottle opener, which he used to open my beer. I must have made a hilarious face because everyone got a kick out of it. The Bowen Belt Knife. Rips to a real one.

RAGA VIL

JIF???

You guys should cover Victor Marx! The dude was made for a QAA episode

Still the best to do it. QAA4Life

Bazooka Joe porn. My life is now complete.

"10,000 nuns and orphans..." "They were all eaten by rats!"

“the fast fashion website Shane” travis i love you

Couple of things: Firefox Profile tabs or even a separate browser if you need to share a PC. And AliExpress if you need cheap belt buckles.

Noo, what the fuck is a “traditional online influencer” Travis??? Travis nooo, I can’t be that old fuck

"I love my dead gay son." - Kurt's Dad, Heather (1989)

I guess it's time to work on my Tom of Finland cross stitch

Yes hello, I am a Luddite and I think the technology breaking people’s brains and making climate change worse should be destroyed. Fuck the clankers and bomb the data centers. Thank you 🙏

Please Julian… cackle more

Wow premium episode 345...... 6 7 Okay I'll go

“What’s the artist who draws the amazing black and white…” I NEED to know what y’all cut here, at this very obvious edit

I find it so odd that people will point out how many comments an obviously fake AI video has without wondering (or, at least, wondering aloud) how many of those comments are even real.

I really hope that guy's son doesn't lose his gay business

it's not about lazy, it's about the insane demands of capitalism to produce as much as possible regardless of quality. when we can't meet those demands, we start to use Ai to keep up with expectations. but then that amount of production is the new expectation which creates dependency, burnout, and shitty products. at some point the skills and knowledge required by specialized jobs is completely useless.

Nice Mr show reference. Its pitpat!

I went to check IG shortly after starting the episode and got a Chloe Clark ad

People who buy things on social media need to be in a higher tax bracket

Boomer slop lfg

When was the last time Corey spoke in an episode?

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