In 2013, Sam Altman wrote that the most successful people build religions. He wasn't being philosophical.

Juan and Kate follow the receipts: Altman, Dario Amodei, Elon Musk, and Marc Andreessen are all running the same playbook — manufacturing urgency, making skeptics feel dangerous, and chasing trillions in investment.

This is why they need you to believe AI is God... and what happens when that God starts deleting your emails.

Hosted by Juan Faisal and Kate Cook. Slop World Podcast covers AI news with receipts — fact-checking Big Tech's claims and following the money on the stories everyone's hyping but nobody's verifying. New episodes every week.

Chapters:

00:00 Why Tech CEOs Are Starting to Sound Like Cult Leaders

01:12 Matt Schumer's AI Apocalypse Post

01:45 Dario Amodei and the Religious AI Narrative

02:32 Anthropic's Philosopher: Do AI Models Have Feelings?

03:20 Sam Altman on Building New Religions

03:55 Elon Musk's Cosmic AI Religion Idea

04:44 The "We're Creating God" Story Silicon Valley Loves

06:08 Reality Check: The AI Slop Problem

08:00 The Growing Backlash Against AI Hype

09:10 Why AI Companies Push the Cult Narrative

10:15 The AI Cult Playbook Explained

11:50 The Fight to Control the AI Marketplace

13:35 Meta's AI Agent Goes Off the Rails

14:30 Follow the Money and Question the Prophets