Wow If True

Wow If True

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Wow If True is your one-stop internet culture shop, explaining how what’s happening online shapes the real world. And we’re the internet experts and real-life besties to unravel it: tech culture journalist Amanda Silberling and science fiction author slash attorney Isabel J. Kim, Esq. More importantly, we’re the only podcast that will mention Neopets and horizontal mergers in the same episode. New episode every other Wednesday.

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episode 118: Will the real Velvet Sundown please stand up artwork
118: Will the real Velvet Sundown please stand up

Isabel and Amanda talk about two very different kinds of AI grift. In one, a man pretends to be real social media for the (probably) AI band "The Velvet Sundown." In another, Soham Parekh simply gets employed by every single AI startup at once. Sources The Velvet Sundown: https://medium.com/@andrew.frelon/i-am-andrew-frelon-the-guy-running-the-fake-velvet-sundown-twitter-fcab2b7e471b Soham: https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/03/everyone-in-tech-has-an-opinion-about-soham-parekh/ [https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/03/everyone-in-tech-has-an-opinion-about-soham-parekh/] Find Us Online  Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/wowiftrue.bsky.social [https://bsky.app/profile/wowiftrue.bsky.social] Twitter: https://twitter.com/wowiftruepod [https://twitter.com/wowiftruepod] Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wowiftrue [https://www.instagram.com/wowiftrue] Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/wowiftrue [https://www.patreon.com/wowiftrue] Website: https://wowiftrue.com/ [https://wowiftrue.com/] Email: wowiftruepod@gmail.com About Us  Wow If True was created by Isabel J. Kim [http://isabel.kim/] and Amanda Silberling [http://amandasilberling.com/]. Our editors are Allison Mills and David Newtown. Wow If True is a member of Multitude [https://multitude.productions/], a podcast collective, production studio and ad sales provider. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy [https://art19.com/privacy] and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info [https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info].

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episode 117: AI Boyfriends artwork
117: AI Boyfriends

Isabel and Amanda throw out their other plans and instead talk about the subreddit “myboyfriendisAI” which is about, you guessed it, AI boyfriends and other types of digital partners. We also discuss Meta’s not-amazing practices and the LLM paper doing the rounds on the AI hater part of the internet, with Iz’s human partner weighing in.  See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy [https://art19.com/privacy] and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info [https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info].

25 jun 2025 - 1 h 3 min
episode 116: Q+A (Unexpected Wet) artwork
116: Q+A (Unexpected Wet)

You had questions. We have answers. We tell you about: the most "white lady" email we have sent; our screen time; fears of unexpected wet; life hacks for 29-year-olds specifically; Amanda's undying love for HBO Girls; cursed food content; political memes and earnestness; is there any good use of AI; and, unfortunately, not the 1944 US-Mexico Water Treaty. Find Us Online  Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/wowiftrue.bsky.social [https://bsky.app/profile/wowiftrue.bsky.social] Twitter: https://twitter.com/wowiftruepod [https://twitter.com/wowiftruepod] Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wowiftrue [https://www.instagram.com/wowiftrue] Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/wowiftrue [https://www.patreon.com/wowiftrue] Website: https://wowiftrue.com/ [https://wowiftrue.com/] Email: wowiftruepod@gmail.com About Us  Wow If True was created by Isabel J. Kim [http://isabel.kim/] and Amanda Silberling [http://amandasilberling.com/]. Our editors are Allison Mills and David Newtown. Wow If True is a member of Multitude [https://multitude.productions/], a podcast collective, production studio and ad sales provider. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy [https://art19.com/privacy] and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info [https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info].

11 jun 2025 - 55 min
episode 115: Bad uses for AI (and olive oil) artwork
115: Bad uses for AI (and olive oil)

We explore all the ways that various AIs are going weird—sycophantic, white genocide focused, blackmailing its users, and not trusting Chargers fans. Also, we talk way too much about Sam Altman's olive oil choices, the Hugos, and Isabel talks for fifteen minutes about trying to get the internet installed. Which, hey, this is a podcast about the internet. And that includes calling Verizon. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy [https://art19.com/privacy] and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info [https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info].

28 mei 2025 - 51 min
episode 114: We cannot doxx the Pope artwork
114: We cannot doxx the Pope

New pope! But why has this thousands-of-years-old process of choosing a new pope been... weirdly online? We're talking about that Vatican's bad OPSEC, the Pope's Twitter, the chimney livestream, and PopeCrave. Yes, we did find out later that the Pope is a White Sox fan. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy [https://art19.com/privacy] and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info [https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info].

14 mei 2025 - 49 min
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