TEH 266: Are you an AI? Robot music… is it good or bad? Ditching VPN and saving photos.

In This Episode: Are you an AI? Robot music… is it good or bad? Ditching VPN and saving photos.

This week the TEH Podcast is hosted by Leo Notenboom, the “Chief Question Answerer” at Ask Leo!, and Gary Rosenzweig, the host and producer of MacMost, and mobile game developer at Clever Media.

(You’ll find longer Bios on the Hosts page.)

Top Stories

• 3:08 LN: “How Do I Know You’re Not AI?” – Article coming up “tomorrow” as we record this.
  • A problem that’s only going to get “worse”, for some definition of worse
  • As things improve, will it matter? Good content is good content regardless of the source, right?
• 7:00 GR: Starting to suspect PR pitches are using a lot of AI
  • Every one now starts with flattery
  • Suggestions can be totally of the wall
• 12:00 GR: AI Music
  • Needed music, Suno was easy and “safe”
  • What are the alternatives?
  • Music without soul? Or, not all art needs to be Art.
  • 15:00 Link to video montage: https://vimeo.com/1187110569/1742b3aeb4 
  • Cain Walker: https://www.youtube.com/@CainWalkerMusic real or AI?
• 27:00 LN: Anthropic’s Mythos: hype or legit concern?
  • Pronunciation controversy? 😏
  • Supposedly extra good at identifying vulnerabilities
    • “We have identified thousands of additional high- and critical-severity vulnerabilities that we are working on responsibly disclosing to open source maintainers and closed source vendors.”
  • Just as good at fixing?
  • Project “glasswing” – a select few, but you know it’ll get out
  • Not targeted at vulnerability detection, just a Really Good Model that happens to do this well. What else will it do well?
  • 30:00 Is this the future of AI Model releases?
  • Assessing Claude Mythos Preview’s cybersecurity capabilities – Anthropic
  • Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Finds Thousands of Zero-Day Flaws Across Major Systems – Hacker News
• 37:00 GR: Ditching VPN
  • I’m done wasting my vacation time
  • 46:00 LN: Didn’t work in the hospital either
• 47:00 GR: Travel: Real camera kept winning
  • Big sensor, big glass, viewfinder, but also mindfulness
  • 54:00 Dehazing… How I saved Machu Picchu

Ain’t it Cool

• 58:00 LN: The Boys – not for the faint of heart, but fascinating, and the subtle and not-so-subbtle digs to current events are great. (Daredevil also.)
• 59:00 GR: “Apple: The First 50 Years” by David Pogue

BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion

• 1:01:00 LN: How Do I Know You’re Not AI? – https://askleo.com/191783
• 1:02:00 GR: 10 Weird macOS Features That Are Somewhat Useful (2026)

Transcript

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Machu Picchu Machu Picchu as shot.  Click for larger image. Machu Picchu after “dehaze” applied. Click for larger image. Video

https://youtu.be/xqu_aV429rA