DeepSeek V4 ships at 1% the cost of Claude Opus and GPT-5. Anthropic hires priests and psychologists to check on Claude's feelings. Customers Bank CEO Sam Sidhu sends an AI voice clone of himself to host 30 minutes of his own Q1 earnings call and nobody catches on. Hunter and Daniel break down the open-weights price collapse, why Midjourney is cooked and Flux wins locally, why no one sane should be paying Opus rates to reset a password, and why every polished email should be reverse-engineered back to the honest draft a human actually typed. AI is replacing humans. Ours is hiring them.

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They Might Be Self-Aware is a twice-weekly AI podcast about the week's news, tech, and culture, and the question in its name: are the machines becoming self-aware?

Every episode starts with a real story. A new Claude or ChatGPT release, an AI lawsuit, the Pope's verdict on machine souls, Martin Scorsese making films with AI. Then it chases that story somewhere stranger, funnier, and more human than the headline. This is AI as a culture story, not a tech beat: the relief of finally hearing people who are as deep in it as you are.

Hunter Powers and Daniel Bishop host. Two guys who actually build with this stuff, arguing about it fast, funny, and unfiltered, not reading you benchmarks or "10 prompts to save you time." Gary produces, phoning in the cold open from a payphone. He has no last name, and a backstory no one on staff has managed to verify. One of the hosts might not be human. We won't say which.

New episodes Mondays and Thursdays, from The Blur. theblur.ai