Oz Woloshyn

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Welcome to Tech Stuff.

I'm Oz Voloshin, and I have a confession to make.

Since co-founding my own business, Kaleidoscope, I almost always have a LinkedIn tab open on my browser and find myself checking it multiple times a day.

And if you spend any time on LinkedIn, you know it's impossible to ignore the flood of viral posts about how AI is changing the world.

But in the back of my mind, I've had this nagging question.

How many of these anxiety-inducing posts about AI are actually written by AI?

Today, I'm joined by Evan Ratliff, host of the hit podcast Shell Game, which I'm proud to say is on the Kaleidoscope network.

And Evan's here to tell us about a bizarre and revealing LinkedIn AI caper.

He wrote about it for Wired with the headline, My AI Agent Co-Founder Conquered LinkedIn.

Then it got banned.

Evan, welcome back to Tech Stuff.

It's always great to be back.

Good to see you.

Many of our listeners are, of course, familiar with Shell Game.

But for those who aren't, can you just lay out what we need to know about Shell Game and Kyle and your relationship?

But because you were making a podcast as well as a startup, you did something which not all agentic AI small business owners do, which is basically to turn your AI agents, to give them personas, names, and even voices and video avatars, right?