In episode 63 of The AI Fix, Unitree Robotics looks to Black Mirror episode “Metalhead” for tips on marketing its new robot dog, ChatGPT is secretly running Sweden, OpenAI introduces its first open weight model since GPT-2, and your private and personal ChatGPT conversations could be all over Google.

Plus, Mark cuts through the GPT-5 hype and asks—is it AGI or just a fancy purple background, and Graham looks at “deadbots” and a disturbing interview between Jim Acosta and an AI version of a teenager killed in a school shooting.

Episode links:

• Unitree A2 Stellar Hunter smashes through window.
• Black Mirror Metal Head.
• MP becomes first to create himself as an AI bot.
• Speak to AI Mark Sewards MP.
• ‘We didn’t vote for ChatGPT’: Swedish PM under fire for using AI in role
• OpenAI introduces gpt-oss.
• Thousands of shared ChatGPT chats are now appearing in Google search results.
• Tweet by OpenAI CISO Dane Stuckey
• Bruce Lee movie uses cardboard cut-out of his face.
• China's SenseTime Shocks Staff as Deceased Founder Shows Up for a Speech.
• Jim Acosta interviews AI avatar of school shooting Joaquin Oliver.
• I made an AI clone of my dead son - and let a journalist interview him.
• “An AR-15 stole Joaquin’s life, not artificial intelligence.”
• Death Star tweet by Sam Altman.
• Introducing GPT-5 (article).
• Introducing GPT-5 (video).
• GPT-5 “Chart crimes”.

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