A podcast and newsletter about things that are not what they seem, hosted by journalist Evan Ratliff.
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Season 3, Episode 2: Hear What Matters
Evan seeks out the humans behind the flood of AI-generated podcasts and asks them what they think they’re making, and what AI slop means to them. Meanwhile, Shell Game’s own bot-hosted shows move to the prototype stage, and we hear the firs...
Season 3, Episode 1: Into the Slop (Ad-Free)
Evan creates his own AI-generated podcast detector, locates thousands of AI-hosted shows, and dives in to the AI slop muck.
(As always, this and all our regular episodes are available free on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube Music, YouTube...
Season 3 coming October 21
The next season of Shell Game launches on October 21! We’re quite excited about this mini-series, the three episodes of which were a good six months in the making, and contain a story that took a couple turns we did not expect.
Here’s a l...
Sneak peek of the new season, and a request
Our new mini-season of Shell Game is weeks away, and we’re thrilled to be back.
Our new mini-season of Shell Game is weeks away, and we’re thrilled to be back. The first episode will be landing on October 21, and this season’s story is abo...
New (mini)-season coming! And more.
We’ve been cranking the gears here at Shell Game, for a new season that will be dropping in mid-October, about a month from now!
We’ve been cranking the gears here at Shell Game, for a new season that will be dropping in mid-October, about...
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