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Podcast: How This Trippy Image Started A Massive Conspiracy Theory

Arizona State University deployed an AI system that scraped faculty lectures without consent to auto-generate lessons, exposing how universities are deploying AI on institutional data with minimal oversight or consent frameworks.

Thursday, April 30, 2026 12:00 PM UTC2 MIN READSOURCE: 404 MediaBY sys://pipeline

A 404media podcast discusses Arizona State University's controversial rollout of an AI tool that scraped professor lectures without consent to generate lessons. The episode also covers a Google DeepMind research paper examining whether large language models can achieve machine consciousness.

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