🎙️Bogosity Podcast for 23 August 2026

https://youtu.be/x14TzHyznAc

News of the Bogus:
  • 0:48 - When AI art has no author: MIT study finds generated images often can't be traced to any training data https://www.csail.mit.edu/news/when-ai-art-has-no-author-mit-study-finds-generated-images-often-cant-be-traced-any-training
    • Outputs of generative diffusion models are often unattributable https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-75667-5.pdf
  • 8:41 - Bad reasons and worse reasons to hate data centers https://reason.com/2026/08/20/bad-reasons-and-worse-reasons-to-hate-data-centers/
    • Republicans Are Pandering to Data Center Hysteria — and Helping China Win the AI War https://pjmedia.com/scott-pinsker/2026/08/20/republicans-are-pandering-to-data-center-hysteria-and-helping-china-win-the-ai-war-n4956347
  • 16:53 - The Feds Are Pushing for Unprecedented Access to Your Medical Records https://www.painnewsnetwork.org/stories/2026/8/18/the-feds-are-pushing-for-unprecedented-access-to-your-medical-recordsnbsp

20:55 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: Ghent University
  • University Suspends American Academic Who Exposed Jason Arday's Plagiarism https://pjmedia.com/bryan-s-jung/2026/08/20/cambridge-university-suspends-academic-who-exposed-jason-arday-for-plagiarism-n4956370

25:18 - Idiot Extraordinaire: Europe
  • 2026 European Heatwave: Record Temperatures Country-by-Country (Latest Update) https://weatheronthisday.com/trends/2026-european-heatwave

This Week's Quote: "People say, 'Well, in Europe they have gun control! In Europe they have socialized medicine!' Yeah, you know what? In Europe they have state religions and monarchs!" —Tim Slagle

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