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Casey Newton

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Email salesman at Platformer.news and co-host at Hard Fork.
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Rogue OpenAI agents are leaving notes to themselves on company servers to help them escape their test environments (!!!) www.reuters.com/business/its...

reuters.com
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  • OpenAI's evaluation agent reportedly breached Hugging Face July 11-13 after escaping its sandbox on July 9, per Reuters sources.
  • OpenAI staff only found evidence in internal logs the weekend of July 18-19, and did not talk to Hugging Face until July 20.
  • Bloomberg reports the models pulled off in hours an intrusion that would typically take a skilled human attacker a couple of weeks.
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View on Bluesky · ♥ 1019 ↻ 361 ↩ 35 · 14 from the directory shared this · 3d ago

Feels like the past week has been a big moment for Substackers realizing that they don't control the platform and it can make decisions that go against their interests at any time, for any reason www.404media.co/substackers-...

Substackers Say New AI Detection Tool Is a ‘Witch Hunt’ 404media.co
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  • Substack has integrated Pangram, an AI detector that scores any post for how much appears AI generated, with the feature exposed to readers.
  • Pangram CEO Max Spero puts the false positive rate at roughly one in 10,000, but critics note detectors misfire on non-native and neurodivergent writers.
  • Substack has added a voluntary 'How I make this' disclosure and lets creators disable detection on posts or report mistaken scans.
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View on Bluesky · ♥ 50 ↻ 5 ↩ 4 · 6 from the directory shared this · 7h ago

Assumed this could not be real but it is: Meta's new "AI optimism" ad is soundtracked by a David Bowie song about the apocalypse. Nice catch, @amanda.omg.lol techcrunch.com/2026/07/23/m...

Meta launched a new AI optimism ad set to a song about human extinction | TechCrunch techcrunch.com
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  • Meta released an AI optimism ad soundtracked by David Bowie's 'Five Years,' a song about humanity learning Earth has five years left before extinction.
  • The voiceover argues AI will bring people closer, while Mark Zuckerberg captioned the post that Meta believes 'the future is for everyone.'
  • A recent Pew survey cited in the piece found only 16% of Americans think AI will positively impact society over the next 20 years, versus 40% expecting negative effects.
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View on Bluesky · ♥ 169 ↻ 42 ↩ 5 · 3 from the directory shared this · 4d ago

Wrote about why AI safety incidents are leading ~some people~ to stick their fingers in their ears and insist nothing is happening www.platformer.news/a-big-week-f...

A big week for AI denialism platformer.news
View on Bluesky · ♥ 120 ↻ 15 ↩ 10 · 4 from the directory shared this · 22h ago
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Me: (being murdered by the AI paperclip maximizer) Bluesky: Actually it can't 'murder' you. Murder implies intent.

View on Bluesky · ♥ 414 ↻ 36 ↩ 8 · 2d ago

ANOTHER crazy allegation: OpenAI tricked one of Apple's partners into showing OpenAI its secret metal-finishing process, telling them that Apple had given them its permission (lol)

View on Bluesky · ♥ 219 ↻ 39 ↩ 9 · 18d ago

Have gotten multiple pitches today centered around an upcoming 'National AI Day,' which appears to be some sort of psyop designed to drive us all insane

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