Climate Woes, AI Watermarks, and Synthetic Slop

This week Ian and Michael discuss I Eat the Stars and the rather uncomfortable business of coming to terms with climate change, including whether feeling better about an increasingly alarming future is actually enough. The conversation then turns to AI watermarking and the difficulty of telling what is machine-generated as the internet fills with increasingly synthetic content and whether we're simply accelerating our way towards a world in which nobody knows quite what is real anymore. (This description was generated with the help of AI - yes, we see the irony)