2 months ago
Are You Ready For The “Rogue AI” Psy-Op?
The AIs are breaking free, that’s the story. It started two weeks ago, when OpenAI reported one of their “agents” had escaped its testing area and got loose on the internet to launch an “unprecedented cyber attack”. This was clearly meant to be scarier than the public response indicated, because a few days later OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was on the Invest like the Best podcast, asking why it didn’t cause more panic: “I’ve been a little surprised that more people don’t feel it so viscerally” In one of the most hilariously obvious propaganda manoeuvres of the year, just the day after Altman said that, CNN headlined: The OpenAI lab leak was more extensive than we thought “That thing you weren’t scared of? Well it was even SCARIER than we said it was! Are you scared now?” But the lack of public panic didn’t stop another AI going rogue a few days later, Anthropic’s Claude model this time. And then OpenAI reporting two further incidents themselves. UPDATE: Just a couple of hours after publication, META joined the party. Apparently their AI “went rogue” too, and hacked another firm. Never in the history of human endeavour have companies been so keen to report their products going wrong. It […]
2 months ago
Why On Earth Are They Doing This?
Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, The Spanish Red Cross is treating the military-age men who swam around the border fence and stormed Ceuta like victims of an earthquake. Volunteers in red vests are lining up on the sand at Playa del Trampolín, handing out bread, milk, biscuits, water, cans of tuna and pastries to the thousands who remain after last week’s deliberate mass invasion from Morocco. Police stand by to keep the queues orderly while the same people who refused to go home sit and eat. This is not a natural disaster. These men crossed into Spanish territory because the opportunity was created for them. There is nothing stopping Spanish authorities from sending them straight back. Instead the humanitarian apparatus has arrived with supplies. Cadena SER and local outlets confirmed the first organised distribution of food since the crisis began. Cruz Roja and the local branch of Cooperación Sur-Sur handed out the packages to around 2,000 migrants, the majority from sub-Saharan Africa. National Police managed the lines so the recipients stayed seated until their turn, then returned to the beach to eat. One Nigerian man named Genesis told reporters he was “happy to finally have something to eat […]
