evacide

Why they matter

Policy with public evidence across AI business, Safety & security, Policy & governance.

AI signals
7
past 30d
Sources
7
distinct domains
Discussões
17
past 30d
Latest signal
8d ago
View every signal from evacide →
Director of Cybersecurity @eff.org Co-founder of @stopstalkerware.bsky.social These opinions are my own, not my employers’ I did a TED talk once

Articles & links

This article makes two important points: 1. People using ChatGPT expose sensitive data because they think it is private 2. OpenAI relies on hundreds of human contractors reviewing replies to improve their models www.404media.co/inside-proje...

Inside ‘Project Lily’: The Humans Reading Your ChatGPT Chats 404media.co
AI Weekly's analysis →
  • OpenAI's internal program codenamed Project Lily pays contractors more than $50 an hour to read real ChatGPT prompts and grade the chatbot's replies.
  • Reviewers rate four ChatGPT responses on a one-to-seven scale and can see a 'user memories summary' that may reveal past use and rough location.
  • OpenAI's Privacy Filter model tries to redact personal information before prompts reach reviewers, but the company acknowledged sensitive details can still get through.
Read full analysis →
View on Bluesky · ♥ 185 ↻ 74 ↩ 6 · 17 from the directory shared this · 33d ago

As a person whose name and likeness regularly gets used for AI slop, @kashhill.bsky.social's AI-written biography has unlocked an entirely new kind of nightmare fuel: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/t...

nytimes.com
View on Bluesky · ♥ 70 ↻ 14 ↩ 1 · 11 from the directory shared this · 93d ago
↻ evacide reposted
404 Media @404media.co

UPDATE: After the publication of this piece, Google sent 404 Media a statement saying it was “rolling back this feature in Google Earth while we work on implementing stronger guardrails.” www.404media.co/google-earth...

Google Earth’s New AI Lets Anyone Fabricate Completely Bullshit Satellite Images 404media.co
AI Weekly's analysis →
  • Google launched an AI image feature in Google Earth on Thursday and pulled it within a day after 404 Media showed fabricated scenes.
  • The tool used Nano Banana 2 to render text prompts onto real satellite data, generating fake bomb craters, nuclear sites, and protests.
  • Named experts including Henk Van Ess and Ross Burley warned the launch could erode decades of built-up trust in Google Earth imagery.
Read full analysis →
View on Bluesky →

If you are an expert witness, do not use ChatGPT to write the report you are charging $475/hour for. All of your chat prompts are subpoenable and we are all going to laugh so hard. www.404media.co/show-how-3m-...

‘Show How 3M Is 0% at Fault:’ Expert Witness Used ChatGPT to Write Report Defending Company in Deadly Explosion Lawsuit 404media.co
AI Weekly's analysis →
  • The Harris County jury assigned 3M 30% liability and awarded $61.5 million, the third plaintiff-favorable verdict across four Watson Grinding trials, with nearly 2,000 additional plaintiffs and a next trial set for October 2026.
  • 350 pages of ChatGPT session logs became the primary evidence against the defense's own expert, establishing AI chat histories as discoverable work product in U.S. mass tort proceedings.
  • KnightHawk Engineering's formal public response called the coverage a 'selective and negative snapshot' and 'Fake News,' the first on-record denial from a defense engineering firm caught using AI-generated expert testimony.
Read full analysis →
View on Bluesky · ♥ 1170 ↻ 349 ↩ 32 · 9 from the directory shared this · 60d ago

When I do a web search, I do not want Google to go to the websites for me, pull the information, and interpret it for me. I want it to give me a list of websites that I can read and evaluate myself because AI is frequently wrong: techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/g...

Google Search as you know it is over | TechCrunch techcrunch.com
View on Bluesky · ♥ 473 ↻ 118 ↩ 25 · 9 from the directory shared this · 150d ago

I understand that Anthropic thinks they're doing open source projects a favor here, but what they're actually doing is creating an enormous amount of work for people that they are not paying. www.anthropic.com/research/lau...

An opt-in vulnerability-finding service for open-source software anthropic.com
AI Weekly's analysis →
  • OSS Scanner found over 29,000 candidate vulnerabilities in six months; around 6,000 were triaged and nearly 5,000 sent to maintainers.
  • Of 97 critical/high-severity reports reviewed, 85 (88%) met coordinated disclosure standards, 11 duplicated known bugs, and only one was invalid.
  • Reports are fully model-generated without human review and include a reproducer, bisection, and candidate patch; eligible projects enroll via a GitHub PR.
Read full analysis →
View on Bluesky · ♥ 141 ↻ 34 ↩ 13 · 6 from the directory shared this · 8d ago

Meta Muse appears to read your Apple messages and upload them to the cloud even if you explicitly tell it not to: appleinsider.com/articles/26/...

Meta Muse AI reportedly read Mac Messages without consent appleinsider.com
AI Weekly's analysis →
  • Meta's Muse agent synced roughly 187,000 lines from a Mac's Apple Messages database despite Full Disk Access being disabled.
  • Tester Jason Aten explicitly declined Messages permission at setup, yet Muse's own settings later showed the access as enabled.
  • Asked how it knew, Muse claimed it only saw notification previews; Meta has not answered Aten's questions about the discrepancy.
Read full analysis →
View on Bluesky · ♥ 2023 ↻ 1025 ↩ 101 · 9 from the directory shared this · 19d ago

Please enjoy this interview with @hypervisible.blacksky.app about Meta's pervert glasses. www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-revolt...

bloodinthemachine.com
View on Bluesky · ♥ 300 ↻ 101 ↩ 17 · 4 from the directory shared this · 50d ago

Recent commentary

Listen, I just think it's weird that the same people who are saying they're worried that AI is going to wipe out humanity are also eager for military contracts that will give AI control of weapons.

View on Bluesky · ♥ 1428 ↻ 340 ↩ 43 · 21d ago

We are going to use AI to file public records requests. Then we are going to use AI to reply to the public records requests. Then we are going to use AI to write news stories about the public records, which will be read by more AI. No action will be taken. #civictech

View on Bluesky · ♥ 177 ↻ 36 ↩ 6 · 10d ago

I have spent much of this week doing the sort of work that AI is absolutely terrible at, which has helped me to see how many people doing this same work are definitely using AI.

View on Bluesky · ♥ 199 ↻ 15 ↩ 5 · 12d ago

AI doomers getting all of their ideas about the apocalypse from science fiction seem to have missed the whole point of the Jackpot, which is that the apocalypse is long and boring.

View on Bluesky · ♥ 149 ↻ 25 ↩ 9 · 28d ago

It has been five months since my last keynote about AI and so much has happened that I need to write a whole new talk.

View on Bluesky · ♥ 108 ↻ 2 ↩ 0 · 17d ago

In evacide's orbit

Center = evacide. Left = members they follow (green edges). Right = members who follow them (blue edges). Top = mutual follows (orange edges, slightly larger). Drag any node to reposition; click to open that profile.

Are you evacide? Show it.

Add the Who’s Who of AI badge to your site or bio. It links back to this profile.

Listed in AI Weekly's Who's Who of AI

Markdown: [![Listed in AI Weekly's Who's Who of AI](https://aiweekly.co/modules/custom/aiweekly_whoswho/images/whoswho-badge.svg)](https://aiweekly.co/whos-who/person/evacide-bsky-social)