...as host Sandi Toksvig rails against AI

Two QI ‘elves’ have lauded a food-based podcast,  Lunchbox Env– a sister for the hit  No Such Thing As A Fish

Manu Henriot and Jack Chambers are joined by chef and food writer Rosie MacKean for the show about surprising food facts and bizarre culinary traditions. 

QI founder John Lloyd said: ‘Lunching with the elves is a unique experience because they're as interested in talking about their food as eating it. Finding out that the tip of asparagus is called a 'squib', or that scientists have patented a new type of seaweed that tastes like bacon, is what makes Manu, Jack and Rosie the perfect bread-fellows (the literal translation of the word companions")’

Meanwhile, Sandi Toksvig has joined the protests at government plans which will allow Big Tech to use creators’ work to train AI models without payment or permission. 

She said the ‘opt-out’ proposals ‘gives tech companies an incredible ability to take what they like, when they like, without informing or compensating the writers of the work they use to train their models’

Writing on the website of the Writer’s Guild Of Great Britain, of which she is president, she added: ‘It gives AI companies, who are mainly based in the US, the ability to create systems based on the intellectual property of millions of creatives for their own commercial gain, without any requirement to share their profits.’

Published: 24 Feb 2025