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

This nature survey on "AI" attitudes is a pretty blunt instrument. Seven questions, two of which are demographic, and none of which get granular about what they mean by either "AI" or "use." We need to have been doing better than this, and we're really going to need to start, …

Do you hate or love AI? Take Nature’s poll nature.com

Two commencement speakers loudly & persistently booed for praising this current paradigm of "AI," most recently being Eric damn Schmidt, & he also looked fully stunned; which, y'know what? Good. Seems the only way these people are gonna learn is by facing a very large crowd clearly telling them "No"

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.

Harder to think of a clearer example of "The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle The Master's House" for this era than people using "generative AI" to protest the outputs and infrastructure of "AI"

They removed the ability to google "disregard" because it breaks their "AI," but "Ignore" still returns this:

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

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 think my 2 most pertinent/prescient pieces in the last few years were "Scholars are Failing the GPT Review Process" (2024) & "Reimagining 'AI's Environmental & Sociotechnical Materialities" (2025). In the 1st i talk about the pressures & harms likely to spur a huge increaase in acdemic "AI" slop…

Reminder that you Can just cite lectures: Williams, D.P., 2023, October. On Bullshit Engines: The Socioethical & Epistemic Status of GPTs & other ‘AI.’ In Forum in Ethics, Law, & Society Lecture Series, hosted by the Sonoma State University Philosophy Department’s Center for Ethics, Law & Society.