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I'm a French jewel thief, but I got a bit of a problem. I don't have any jewels. So, I'm off for a little day trip to the Louvre to get some. The thing is though, the Louvre is world's most visited museum. It's home to humanity's rarest treasures like the Mona Lisa and even the French crown jewels. And so, to actually breach this security would require an absolute black ops cover of night oceans 11 level operation. Oh. Maybe not. Because in October 2025, four thieves literally committed daylight robbery at the museum. They rocked up to a window in a furniture lift wearing high viz vests during opening hours and they just
took the crown jewels. They hopped back into their lift, descended comically slowly back down to the ground before disappearing away on their scooters at 9:30 a.m. Just in time for a breakfast quason. See, the Louve had a bit of a tech problem. Their entire cyber security system was based on software almost as old as me with a 2014 audit finding that they were still using Windows 2000, which was well past the point of still getting security updates. And yeah, they did have CCTV. It was just facing the other direction. So, they had no view of this balcony being used to access the window. Okay. But still, these thieves
would have had to be something special, right? To be able to identify this critical blind spot. Oh, that's right. The password to the entire video surveillance network for the Louve was Lou. It was not a joke earlier, by the way. This actually happened. allowing them to drive off into the rush hour traffic with $102 million of jewels. The L's president, Lawrence Dar, was so appalled that she tried to resign the very next day. And I would still only call this a 5 out of 10 tech fail. Cuz it got me thinking, if an easy to guess password and four dudes in a furniture lift are enough to cause $12 million worth of damage, then how expensive can it get
when the mistakes get bigger? That's what I found out and I kind of wish I hadn't. Like you know Dyson, the company who makes your vacuum, your hand dryer, your haird dryer. Essentially, if it moves air, then Dyson will sell it to you for like $400. Well, in 2016, James Dyson decided that what he really wanted to move was people. So, he started secretly building an electric car. And look, it wasn't a crazy idea. Dyson specializes in high performance batteries and electric motors, and that's exactly what an EV needs, which is why they went big, developing a battery pack that could go 600 m on a single charge. We're still not seeing 600 m now, and this was 2019.
Not to mention a floating hologram heads-up display, seven seats, and a design that I think I'm physically attracted to. Oh, yeah, and the seats were ergonomically redesigned from scratch because Mr. Dyson personally hates the lack of lumbar support in normal cars. You can kind of see his point to be fair. Not our most comfortable getaway. The slight problem is Dyson ended up reworking so much that they eventually realized just to break even, they would have to sell each of these cars at today's equivalent of $275,000. I don't think we have enough jewels. And it took our good friend James burning through $900 million of his own personal money to come to this realization. At which point he had no choice but to scrap the entire
project, go home and sit on a chair that probably gave him back pain. 6 out of 10. Lads, we want some lunch. But sometimes the biggest cost of a mistake is to your reputation, like it was with Taco Bell. Because in 2025, this company implemented an AI powered drive-through system in over 500 of their restaurants, hoping to improve customer experience. And um let's just say it wasn't very good at taking orders. And what will you drink with that? I want a large mouth, too. And you drink. Oh, and my absolute favorite is when this guy asks, "Can I get 18,000 water cups, please?
What can I get for you?" The way that the system just instantly dies and hands it over to a human worker is class. And just a repost of this AI breakdown on YouTube is currently sitting at nearly 30 million views. And so responding to the fact that their AI's greatest achievement was becoming a meme, Taco Bell's chief digital officer, Dne Matthews, told the Wall Street Journal that they were going to think carefully about where not to use AI going forward. Gee, thanks Taco Bell. How did that not occur to you before, having just watched McDonald's cancel their own AI drive-thru after it went viral for putting bacon on ice cream and nine sweet teas in one order? They keep trying. They keep failing. And in the
process, they just keep funding their own funerals. Where's the rest? It's all they had left. What about yours? Thought I had a question. Right. We should probably go then. But it's more embarrassing for Will Smith, who used AI to replace people, but just didn't even realize. Last year, he posted a video from his music tour. And do you notice anything a little off about it? specifically the crowd that has clearly been edited with AI. Kind of looks like Will wasn't quite satisfied with the turnout, so decided to embellish it a little with some AI generated concert goers, hoping no one would notice. Big fan of the guy. So
moved by Will's music that he's wiping his tears through his glasses. The sign saying from West Philly to West Swiggy, and especially the one claiming that Will helped them survive cancer. The idea of all of this being AI generated was horrific news for Will Smith's, let's be honest, already waning reputation with every comment some sort of joke at his expense. Like unreal concert man, literally. And Will Smith has not only just melted his fans hearts with this concert, but also melted their entire bodies. But the worst part, the entire fiasco was an accident. Turns out the crowds were real. You can see them in phone footage from the gigs. And bafflingly in photos posted by Smith
himself where you can directly cross reference things like the Swiggy sign was there in his Switzerland show, although it actually says Swizzy. So most likely Will's social media team just used an AI tool to put together the highlight reel. They fed in genuine photos and videos, but because the tool itself was AI, it introduced all of these unintended side effects. Either way, damage is done. Everyone thinks Will Smith faked a crowd to stoke his ego. He's the AI crowd guy now. Four out of 10. Oh, that's hot. But speaking of men with image problems, you've probably seen Elon Musk's Tesla Optimus humanoid robot at this point, even if it was only as a guy in a costume. Musk has stated that the Optimus robot will eventually account
for 80% of Tesla's value, which got to say sounds like a ludicrous prediction. He's also claimed that Tesla currently has two of these Optimus robots actually working. So, when you see one out here serving drinks at a product demo, you kind of expecting the real deal, right? Well, um, the fall was embarrassing enough, but it's actually the hand movement that got people talking. Look closer. Doesn't it look an awful lot like it's removing a headset? Kind of like the thing was actually being remote controlled by say a human operator. And Tesla have a track record of doing exactly this, putting human operated robots out there and deliberately being very lax about letting people know that these are not
fully autonomous. Add in the fact that Musk is currently chasing a $1 trillion payout from Tesla where one of the goals that he needs to hit is to ship a million bots. And it starts to make sense why he's doing way too much to convince you that the future is now. Maybe just hang on until you have a working prototype before showing it off. At least that's what Nothing did when they wanted to impress customers with the camera on their new flagship phone 3 holding a bunch of demo events in stores. Five photographs were shown off on these intore demo units with the text, "Here's what our community has captured with the phone 3." But do you want to know what's crazy? zoom into the
reflection of this one and you can actually see the DSLR camera, not phone 3, that took it. And then with a little internet soouththing, fans came to realize that in fact every single one of these shots was in fact a publicly available stock photo. Nothing eventually came out to claim that they were just placeholder images that they had intended to replace, but that the units had gotten to stores before that happened. Malicious or not though, this is a pretty costly, extremely avoidable PR moment to be having while being the underdog just as you release your first ever flagship smartphone. But Nvidia has definitely lost a lot more rep and didn't have a huge amount to lose in the first place ever since they pivoted their focus towards
providing graphics cards to giant AI companies, kind of ignoring their original customers, the gamers. But then instead of deciding that it was time to listen to the players, Nvidia just decided to go full-on friendly fire with DLSS5. So DLSS, which stands for deep learning super sampling, has been one of Nvidia's superpowers for a long time. It's basically a smart graphics technology, which means that instead of each generation having to keep doubling the amount of hardware they're giving you, they can instead upgrade the resolution and the frame rates in your games using clever machine learning tricks. However, the latest version, DLSS 5, goes one step further to upgrade even the
lighting and the textures, too, which sounds fantastic, right? Who doesn't want a prettier game? But let's actually think about it for a second. This scene of Grace from Resident Evil Recreum is a scene of her heading to investigate the house where her mom was murdered in front of her eyes. But Nvidia's AI slop filter doesn't know that. It just sees a face that looks a little dark and traumatized. uses its training data, which tells it that faces look better when they're yassified with blush and eyeliner like your resident ego, but in the process completely flies in the face of the possibly months that the developers spent handcrafting the very deliberate way that they wanted her to
look in the scene. Or why does the professor from Hogwarts Legacy need more wrinkles? Guys, it really feels like this is just AI seeing an older person, then going through the thousands of stock photos it's been trained on to make her more old. It's funny because CEO Jensen Hang responded to the overwhelming backlash, arguing that it's not about just putting an AI filter over everything and that instead DLSS 5 is meant to be integrated with the artist. And so it's it's about giving the artist the tool of AI, which made it extra awkward when it came out that the developers of these games found out at the same time as the public that their games were being altered in this way. Five out of 10. Nvidia's gamer
cred was already in the bin. Now it's in hell. And while we're down there, there's a few fails so far where there's been some mystery as to whether or not it's been a deliberately perpetrated crime or not. Not so much the case with ransomware, a type of malware that locks you out of accessing your data so that criminals behind the attack can sell it back to you. But at least there are companies out there like Digital Mint who specialize in negotiating those ransom payments down, right? You know, people who truly understand the criminal mind. Yeah, about that. In 2023, it was actually employees from inside these companies who used this specialized knowledge to carry out their own attacks. They targeted at least five
American firms. They stole the data and demanded millions in return. But this is where it gets truly unhinged. When those victims panicked and they called Digital Mint up for help, who did Digital Mint assign to the cases? Well, none other than one of the guys that attacked them, Angelo Martino, who in basically the human embodiment of the evil Kermit meme, had managed to put himself in a position where he was playing both sides and negotiating with himself. Must have been some tough negotiations because he managed to get all five of these companies to pay up. One of them even paid $26.8 million and it was a nonprofit.
What? Definitely a nonprofit. Now, can you believe that just months before Digital Mint featured one of these guys in their employee spotlight? And I quote, "We bridged the gap between good, hardworking people and bad actors. They had no idea how right they were." And basically, everyone lost here. The ransomed firms ended up paying out $75 million. No one's ever going to call up Digital Mint again without thinking twice. And the three employees involved have been charged with up to 20 years in prison each. Six out of 10 fail. But where it goes beyond funny into just straight up terrifying is when a man named Sammy Azu developed an app to allow him to control his DJI Romo robot
vacuum using a PS5 controller simply cuz he said sounded fun. But that's not the scary part. Unfortunately, Azdu didn't realize his own coding power. The custom remote control app he built pretty quickly using clawed AI code accidentally granted him control of over 7,000 DJI robot vacuum cleaners across 24 countries the second it connected to DJI servers. How? Because instead of DJI encrypting the data from its devices like they should have, it was literally laid out to him in plain text. Zero authentication required, allowing him complete access. So, okay, he could now vacuum anyone's house on a whim. That feels like a doofenz level scheme. Evil, but uh ultimately harmless until you
realize that these robots all had cameras and microphones. And that he also happened to have access to the live feeds from them. Not to mention the floor plan of each house that the vacuums had mapped out with all of their sensors and their location too via their IP addresses. Thankfully, he was a nice guy about it. He immediately reported the floor to DJI and they immediately rewarded him with a 30k payout. But just imagine how catastrophic this could have been if he wasn't a nice guy. Remember, as Dufo didn't hack into DJI servers or do anything complex. He simply became god of all roboax by accident. And it's just mad to think that someone can so easily stumble into so much personal
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if you wanted. Now, at least Sammy had the decency to feel bad about his accidental data theft. Can't say the same for chat GPT, which is meant to revolutionize search by accessing everything on the internet and bringing it to you. Now, that would require having the rights to a lot of content that would end up expensive and timeconuming to acquire. So, naturally, OpenAI just ignores that part. Why go fast and break things? Of course. Who needs the law when you have a ridiculously ballooned valuation? So, it's a shock to absolutely no one then that a group of authors and publishers are suing OpenAI for copyright infringement. But it's what's happened as part of their investigation that's been the dramatic upset because the group managed to acquire leaked Slack
messages and emails from OpenAI in which their employees openly discussed the mass deletion of two data sets the AI was trained on that they knew consisted of pirated books. hilariously named books one and books two, by the way, in case it was unclear. So, not only did they have other people's pirated data, but they knew full well that what they were doing was wrong and tried to dispose of the evidence. So, a New York district court has now ordered OpenAI to hand over those messages. And if those messages demonstrate willful infringement, and I don't really see how they couldn't, this could take the damages anywhere from $750 per piece of stolen work to possibly $150,000 per work. An insane amount on the scale
of data that these guys are working with. We don't know the total fines they could face yet, but we can get some idea from a recent lawsuit against Anthropic for similar copyright infringement, which saw them settling for $1.5 billion. Settling 7 out of 10. But while the exact consequences of that are still up in the air, OpenAI has recently had an even bigger oopsy that's already cost them some very real, very large dollars. See, in 2025, the company announced a noble new mission that doom scrolling wasn't bad enough as it was, and that what humanity really needed was an entirely new short form video app called Sora that let you doom scroll content
that was entirely AI generated, a slop talk, if you will. And to kick off the fun while downplaying the dystopian impending threat of anyone being able to create a deep fake in like two clicks, Sam Alman gave all users global permission to create videos using his own likeness, which of course immediately backfired with a litany of embarrassing videos mocking the guy like this one of him begging for GPUs at a doorbell camera. I can't train anything. Please, if you have anything, A100s, 3090s, I'll take them. Physically stealing art from Studio Gibli. I'll give them back.
NO, TOO LATE. HEY, COME BACK HERE. FREE YARD, BABY. OR THIS one of Altman hosting a Hunger Game style competition, forcing contestants to fight over literal slop. And then, of course, this, which I present without comment. Meow. Turns out Super Sam did this to himself for absolutely nothing because Sora shut down just 6 months after starting. Let me try and put into perspective just how much of a flop this slop was. Sora generated in total $2.1 million in revenue. Sora was costing them at peak usage around $15 million per day to run. All while the user base was collapsing under their feet with a 66% drop in just the first 90 days. And as if that wasn't already enough damage, OpenAI also in the process of losing
Sora lost an investment deal with Disney. Disney was going to pay OpenAI for a stake in the company, which would have also given Sora users access to 200 plus characters from across the entire Disney universe. How much was Disney going to pay them? $1 billion. Whoops. Now, you already know that in 2022, Elon Musk purchased Twitter for mountains of money. We've been living with the consequences ever since. But there is one consequence that you might have missed. that Musk is now being sued by the investors who originally put their money behind that deal. And the reason is one of the funniest things I've ever seen in a courtroom. So, do you remember when Musk was trying to wiggle out of buying Twitter? He had
already committed at this point, but he was trying to pull away because he said too many of its users were actually bots, not people. And by the way, he said this on Twitter publicly in tweets. Well, those tweets tanked Twitter's stock price. That made all of these investors panic. They believed him. They assumed that the whole thing was falling apart and so they hurriedly sold the shares they had, losing millions compared to what they paid for them. But the deal wasn't off. Twitter took Elon to court and forced him to buy Twitter anyway at the original agreed price of $5420 per share. But all those investors who sold their shares at a loss, they
never got their money back. Which leads us to now where a California jury has declared Musk liable for misleading them with his own tweets. tweets which he himself described under oath as stupid tweets. I just can't make this stuff up. The man who bought Twitter to protect free speech is being sued for what he freely said stupidly for up to $2.6 billion. And if you think that's a lot of money, then you're not ready for the metaverse. Do you remember when Facebook rebranded to Meta out of nowhere and made a massive bet on our near future becoming almost exclusively virtual reality? the hub for which was meant to be Horizon Worlds, an online VR world where you can hang out with all your
other friends who definitely have a Quest headset. Now, because they were trying to take VR from merely something that people use to play games into this alternate reality where we'll all one day live and work as well as play, it was important to have the infrastructure for users to visit different worlds and create their own for whatever use they might want. Like for instance, taking a fake selfie in front of a fake 240p Eiffel Tower while trying not to let the fake existential dread creep in too much. Wait, no, the dread was real. Well, it seems like Meta are starting to catch up with the rest of us who already know that no one's interested in hanging out in VR, whether it gives us legs or
not, because this year they announced that they were removing Horizon Worlds from the Quest app store, deciding instead to focus 100% of their effort on mobile instead. Cuz yes, this is exactly what the phone user base has been yearning for. But then a glimmer of hope for the roughly four remaining Horizon Worlds fans meta did a U-turn and announced that in fact, no, we're going to be keeping VR access to the platform after all, just according to them to support the fans who've reached out. Must have been a long day going through all of those emails. But Horizon Worlds, as embarrassing as it is, is just one tiny part of the metaverse's failure. Because amidst the fallout, we've also
come to learn the total amount of money that the whole metaverse project has lost Meta. And you're going to want to sit down for this one. We've seen millions this video. We've even seen a couple of billion, but Meta burned through $80 billion. That's pretty much what it would cost to end world hunger for a year. What did it get spent on this? Cheers, Zuck. I got to get out of here.
