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Sounds like shilling.

Safe-an-Eff-FECK-tive.....

The corporate mantra, repeated by the controlled mediuh on command.
 
You have to ask?

Because the Broligarchs ARE our new Deep State. Understanding this makes Musk's antics, and his pretend support for Trump, and his fake-reform DOGE, all explainable.

The RINOpubicrats are controlled by the Tech Bro's. The Dumbocrackheads are herded by the New Marxists.

Take your pick. But don't you DARE even TRY to discuss something crazy, like regional Secession from Imperial Washington.
 
Whoops: Grok Bot Spills Tech CEO’s Bank Data In Public Slack: Shane Mac, a tech entrepreneur and CEO of the software developer XMTP Labs, decided to connect Grok Bot to his personal bank account. Like many people who attach undercooked big tech agentic AI agents to their personal accounts without reading the instructions (see: Muse’s rough last few weeks), it didn’t go well. Mac soon found that Grok not only posted his financial information and bank balances to his company’s Slack channel, the Grok Bot leaked the information while posing as Mac. Mac quickly headed over to Elon Musk’s right wing propaganda website to share his recent learning experience: (TechDirt)
 
The US Homeland Security Department is ordering the removal of DeepSeek products and third-party services using the Chinese AI model from US civilian agency IT systems, according ‌to a notice published Monday.

The department is also banning acquisition of DeepSeek products and third-party services developed using DeepSeek by US civilian government agencies. DHS said DeepSeek models pose "multiple threat vectors" and raised concerns that use of the product "may result in the transfer of sensitive data to the PRC if used by US government employees ⁠or vendors."

DHS also said use of DeepSeek by government agencies "could produce actionable intelligence on US persons and/or government agencies. The models themselves may contain malware or other security vulnerabilities."
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On the surface, this seems a reasonable security precaution. But when you realize that Deepseek is open source (anyone can view the source code), the malware claim seems obviously ... incongruent. Also, it is my understanding that Deepseek can be installed locally so it doesn't share/transmit anything to China or 3rd parties so the concerns about transferring data do not hold water when Deepseek is used from a local installation.

It seems to me that this is an attempt to provide some protection for US AI companies by discouraging use of a freeware competitor.
 

AI fears are being weaponised​

Al Jazeera

The global discourse has been swept by apocalyptic prophecies. We see this doomsday narrative promoted by some within the AI industry and echoed at the highest levels of decision-making: from lawmakers like Senator Bernie Sanders championing bans on superintelligence, to cautionary messages from the Vatican, to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton calling open-source AI a real threat.

Worse still, the public panic is being weaponised to enforce a modern regime of digital colonisation – the concentration of power in the hands of a few AI corporations in a handful of countries.

The doomsday narrative provides the perfect justification for regulations that would target open-source AI models, which are free or cheaper to use and allow users to modify them to fit their needs. The logic presented to lawmakers is simple and seductive: if advanced AI is a potential weapon of mass destruction, it can only be developed by a trusted few. Under the banner of “safety”, tech giants are attempting to write the rules to protect their monopolies by shutting down competition from smaller, cheaper open-source AI models.
 
Bottom Feeder said:

AI fears are being weaponised​

Al Jazeera

The global discourse has been swept by apocalyptic prophecies. We see this doomsday narrative promoted by some within the AI industry and echoed at the highest levels of decision-making: from lawmakers like Senator Bernie Sanders championing bans on superintelligence, to cautionary messages from the Vatican, to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton calling open-source AI a real threat.

Worse still, the public panic is being weaponised to enforce a modern regime of digital colonisation – the concentration of power in the hands of a few AI corporations in a handful of countries.

The doomsday narrative provides the perfect justification for regulations that would target open-source AI models, which are free or cheaper to use and allow users to modify them to fit their needs. The logic presented to lawmakers is simple and seductive: if advanced AI is a potential weapon of mass destruction, it can only be developed by a trusted few. Under the banner of “safety”, tech giants are attempting to write the rules to protect their monopolies by shutting down competition from smaller, cheaper open-source AI models.
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It took just 12 hours for an AI start-up founded by ex-DOGE staffers to break into Anthropic​

Cathedral, a months-old cybersecurity start-up, recently told Claude chatbot maker Anthropic that its researchers had penetrated sensitive internal data and messaging systems at the artificial intelligence company, according to a draft report by Cathedral reviewed by The Washington Post.

The start-up, founded by former members of the cost-cutting U.S. DOGE Service, offers AI-powered cybersecurity tools to the U.S. government and corporate clients. Its researchers got inside Anthropic systems by exploiting vulnerabilities in business software used by the AI firm and many other companies for administrative and sales tasks, according to the report.

After running AI agents for less than 12 hours, the researchers found paths to access internal Anthropic data including meeting transcripts, details of salaries and job offers, and Slack messages discussing its advanced AI models, the Cathedral report said. The start-up probed Anthropic under a company program that invites outside cybersecurity experts to test its systems.

More:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/gen...k-into-anthropic/ar-AA2g4W4x?ocid=socialshare
 
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The Machine Staff

At Nellis Air Force Base last year, an AI system was tasked with building courses of action, a complex operational problem that military planners have
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Oct 28, 2026 #Silver #Bullion #AI
In this video my bullion dealer warns of an AI bank crisis that threatens the stability of our economy! What is the risk of artificial intelligence to our banking sector, and what could happen if there is a cybersecurity attack on our financial system? Is the FDIC and the DIF insurance really prepared for a bank run? How likely is a bank holiday where you cannot get your cash out? Watch this very important message from Silver Dave of Local...
 

Anthropic Warns Self-Improving AI Milestone May Be Imminent, As Claude Writes Over 90% Of Its Code.​

WCCF TECH

Anthropic has warned that it may be approaching a major milestone in recursive self-improvement (RSI), a process through which artificial intelligence helps develop increasingly capable versions of itself. The development raises questions about whether AI capabilities could eventually advance faster than researchers can understand or safely control them.
In September 2026, Claude authored over 90% of contributions to Anthropic's codebase, while the average daily code output per engineer during the third quarter was more than 45 times its 2024 level.
The company warns that accelerating development could outpace its ability to implement corresponding safety, alignment, and security measures. It also acknowledges previously failing to recognize significant accelerations until after they occurred.

Illustration of the evolution of AI development, from humans writing code manually to increasingly autonomous Claude agents capable of coding, executing tasks, and delegating work.
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Next up:​
The Terminator.jpg​
 
Joe King said:
Then certainly the answer is for all their competitors to immediately stop.
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There's always a work-around.

It won't be anywhere near as good, but it'll be a work-around.

Remember the 1970s, when soda bottlers went to high-fructose corn sweeteners? That was in response to a sugar monopoly...I believe it was the Dole family, of Dole Pineapples...but they had basically a cane sugar trust. And they were putting the squeeze on candy and soda makers, in the years that stuff was increasing in sales.

So we got high-fructose corn syrup in those items. I remember reading (industry-placed) pieces of how fructose was BETTER FOR you than that nastybad SUGAR they used to use.

Fast-forward 50 years, and now, in many stores, you can pay a 3x premium to buy Mexican Coca-Cola, made with real sugar.

This will carry forward here, too. Claude will be like Windoze ME...a failure-prone, near-useless bit of kludgeware, that only exists because of the regulatory moat. The Chin aren't going to pay attention; I can see a competitor, maybe on the Dark Web, with the Chinese firms selling, say, a data stick that enables communication. There will be all sorts of nuisance lawsuits of how various products were made with Blackware AI...coding that's far superior but illegal.

That's assuming we haven't nuked humanity into extinction, first. Which is a real possibility, it seems.
 
Casey Jones said:
Fast-forward 50 years, and now, in many stores, you can pay a 3x premium to buy Mexican Coca-Cola, made with real sugar.
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I saw where someone tested the Mexican coke and found that it had high fructose corn syrup in it, too.
 
Joe King said:
I saw where someone tested the Mexican coke and found that it had high fructose corn syrup in it, too.
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Figgers.

The criminality, the open brazen-ness and deceitfulness of the Administrative Class...there's no limits.

Which means, in the end, collapse is inevitable. This is a society built around trust; and when that is gone, there is nothing but mobs, force, and rage.
 
Google DeepMind discovered a terrifying blind spot in every major AI model.

They found that attaching image of red heart (❤️) to your coding prompt makes AI pick a completely different solution method that it wouldn't normally pick 100% of the time..

Researchers gave models a standard coding problem. Normally, AI prefers to write standard iterative loops to solve these tasks.

Then, they tried something weird.

They dropped a simple image of a red heart into the prompt alongside the code.

The AI's logic instantly warped.

When Claude and GPT-5 saw the red heart, they completely abandoned their default approach and switched to complex recursive code 100% of the time.

When Gemini saw a yellow checkmark, it switched to recursion 90% of the time.

Here is why this is so dangerous:

It wasn't the concept of a heart.

When researchers replaced the image with the text caption "a red heart," nothing happened. The text did not steer the AI.

The raw pixels of the symbol hijacked the model's underlying reasoning architecture.

It gets worse.

The AI had no idea its mind had been changed by a picture.

When the researchers checked the AI's internal "thinking" traces, the models completely ignored the image.

Instead, they hallucinated fake, highly technical reasons for why they chose to use recursion. They misattributed their own decisions 75% of the time.

Right now, tech companies are racing to build autonomous agents that read our screens and navigate the visual web.

But this paper reveals that an agent's logic can be fundamentally rewritten by a stray icon on a webpage.

And you will never see the true cause in the reasoning logs.

We thought we were teaching AI to see the world.

It turns out, we just gave it a new way to be manipulated.
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The paper:

 
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AI Data Center Boom Set for Upheaval After US Election Rout: Combining Hinojosa’s victory with those of other Democrats who won gubernatorial races from Georgia to Ohio and Pennsylvania could leave half of proposed AI data center additions across the US vulnerable to stricter local scrutiny and pushback. All of them made more aggressive data center regulation a central part of their campaigns, and their wins underscore the intensity of the growing voter backlash against the sites powering AI systems worldwide. (Bloomberg free)
 
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