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Anthropic released a new constitution for Claude. I encourage those interested to read the document, either in whole or in part. I intend to cover it on its own soon. There was also actual talk about coordinating on a conditional pause or slowdown from both DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, which I also plan to cover later. Claude Code continues to be the talk of the town, the weekly report on that is here. OpenAI responded by planning ads for the cheap and free versions of ChatGPT. There was also a fun but meaningful incident involving ChatGPT Self Portraits. Table of Contents Language Models Offer Mundane Utility. Call in the tone police. Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility. He who lives by the pattern. Huh, Upgrades. Claude health integrations, ChatGPT $8/month option. Gemini Personalized Intelligence. Signs of both remain somewhat lacking. Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon. Get that bathtub viking. Fun With Media Generation. Studio Ghibli pics are back, baby. We’re Proud To Announce The Torment Nexus. Ads come to ChatGPT. They Took Our Jobs. Find a game plan. Don’t count on [...] ---Outline:(00:52) Language Models Offer Mundane Utility(01:25) Language Models Don't Offer Mundane Utility(01:55) Huh, Upgrades(02:48) Gemini Personalized Intelligence(07:06) Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon(10:34) Fun With Media Generation(11:35) We're Proud To Announce The Torment Nexus(18:58) They Took Our Jobs(25:29) The Revolution of Rising Expectations(26:30) Get Involved(27:52) A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer(30:30) In Other AI News(32:57) Axis of Assistance(39:58) Show Me the Money(40:39) California In Crisis(42:14) Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble(43:57) Quiet Speculations(52:32) Elon Musk Versus OpenAI(56:31) The Quest for Sane Regulations(01:03:30) Chip City(01:08:57) The Week in Audio(01:14:19) Rhetorical Innovation(01:19:47) Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult(01:23:06) Alignment Is Not Primarily About a Metric(01:30:43) How To Be a Safe Robot(01:37:52) Living In China(01:41:05) Claude 3 Opus Lives(01:41:23) People Are Worried About AI Killing Everyone(01:42:42) Messages From Janusworld(01:43:53) Everyone Is Confused About AI Consciousness(01:45:36) The Lighter Side --- First published: January 22nd, 2026 Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/pCkYfhYcwFLELoYQf/ai-152-brought-to-you-by-the-torment-nexus --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO. ---Images from the article:Apple Podcasts and Spotify do not show images in the episode description. Try Pocket Casts, or another podcast app.