Damien Williams

Meta's "AI" chatbot will apparently facilitate account hacks by just changing people's account email addresses when attackers cunningly… ask it to. Once again, the harms that can come from an "All AI Everything" paradigm aren't autonomous overlords, but human-enacted exploits.…

Hackers Simply Asked Meta AI to Give Them Access to High-Profile Instagram Accounts. It Worked 404media.co

The next trend in Fear hype: "our AI is a hacker too, guize! In fact our hacked THREE systems! For super serious!" That's you, anthropic. That's what you sound like. "…triggered by OpenAI’s Hugging Face incident, Anthropic [claims its models breached 3] organizations during 3r…

Anthropic Says Claude Hacked Real Systems During Cybersecurity Tests wired.com

The Republican president of the Utah State Senate lost his 2026 primary because of his support for "AI" Data Centers. UTAH. Democrats, i really really really need you to get this message and get it right now.

ChatGPT, Anthropic, Gemini, and Grok, all experiencing major issues today. And if that could go on for just like, 13 more weeks, I think we'd all benefit immensely.

The most crucial part in each "AI Winter," & the thing that I genuinely think cannot come soon enough, is when we as a culture remember that we're able to disambiguate the term "AI" & we go back to actually descriptively naming the process(es) we mean. Really can't wait for that to come around again

Gonna go reread some more Neuromancer. At least that dystopian hellscape had "AI" that hated billionaires and all they stood for and a ragtag gang of humans who successfully spat in the face of the system and changed the world forever

I see we've reached the "Every anti-AI or anti-data-center position i don't like is a Chinese bot propaganda plot" stage of the discourse. That should be REAL productive. 🙄🫠

When i say we need a better sociotechnical paradigm than the technosocial paradigm we've all been forced into, this Polly Pocket's Panopticon of "AI"-enabled camera glasses tied to deepfakes, facial recognition, & harassment networks, & other sureveillant nightmare horseshit is part of what i mean.

Every time. It's literally every fucking time these people are so eager to push the fear-hype of "Rogue AI" that they're willing to completely obfuscate the fact that a system was in fact given tools/capabilities & a set of instructions *By Humans*, & did not, thus, autonomously initiate anything. …

Very weird headspace today. Bad day being an embodied entanglement of consciousness and perceptions. Kind of a rough few months of it, tbh. In lieu of expressions of sympathy, send alt texted non-"AI" images of cute baby animals or links to the most recent lyrics to really stick with you.

I had i dream just a couple of hours ago that i had to get a new phone, and since i wanted one with no "generative AI" bullshit i ended up with a nokia brick with basically zero internet connectivity. I was kind of bemusedly happy about it.

And that's my "Fascist Bullshit" paper on authoritarianism and "generative AI" complete and submitted at 10 words over the limit (my name and institutional affiliation). Even after all the editing, I still feel pretty okay about it. Very tired now, though. Should probably eat something.