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A Little Bit Of Science

Poetry for AI Hacking, Flatulent Foods as Aphrodisiacs and Penile Tuberculosis

09 Dec 2025

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A Rome-based research team discovered poetry can jailbreak AI systems by bypassing safety filters that normal prompts can't crack, making verse a genuine cybersecurity vulnerability. Medieval physicians believed flatulent foods like beans and onions were aphrodisiacs because intestinal gas supposedly enhanced sexual performance, Palmer Luckey, the tech billionaire behind Oculus, now advocates for submarines that tunnel through Earth's crust for national defense, while a Dublin man contracted penile tuberculosis from working with deer in a rarely documented case of genital TB. Poetry defeats AI security by exploiting how language models process poetic structure, proving Aristotle's warnings about poets in governance were surprisingly futuristic. Medieval fart-based aphrodisiacs never worked but show humanity's eternal optimism for simple bedroom solutions, while Luckey's crust-submarine idea sounds insane until you remember he actually made VR mainstream. The Dublin TB case demonstrates that tuberculosis can infect any body part and that working with animals carries risks nobody considers - including your genitals contracting lung diseases. The biggest threats to AI are poets, the worst aphrodisiacs involved intestinal wind, crust submarines might actually happen, and deer can give you dick tuberculosis. Science is weird, history is weirder, and Palmer Luckey wants to make it weirder still.   CHAPTERS: 00:00 Introduction 02:07 Plato's Republic and AI Poetry 03:54 The Power of Poetry in AI 07:59 Historical Aphrodisiacs and Fertility 19:01 Simultaneous Orgasms and Farting 19:36 Windy Meats and Fertility Myths 24:19 Palmer Luckey and Virtual Reality 31:00 Penile Tuberculosis: A Rare Case 36:50 Smart Toilets and Privacy Concerns SOURCES: ‘End-to-end encrypted’ smart toilet camera is not actually end-to-end encrypted Scientists Discover “Universal” Jailbreak for Nearly Every AI, and the Way It Works Will Hurt Your Brain Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak Mechanism in Large Language Models Palmer Luckey on the Future of Warfare Beans, ale & 'windy meats': surprising 17th-century aphrodisiac When Beans were the Food of Lust Why you don’t want to get tuberculosis on your penisSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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