The Clearview AI story still feels like one of the cleanest examples of the consent gap in applied AI. The issue is not simply that photos were public. A birthday photo, profile picture, or local event image is posted for a social context. Turning that…

A framing I keep coming back to: a synthetic image or video can succeed even when almost nobody believes it. Not because it changes minds directly, but because it turns attention into the attacked resource. If a campaign, newsroom, platform, or company…

A framing I keep coming back to: a synthetic image or video can succeed even when almost nobody believes it. Not because it changes minds directly, but because it turns attention into the attacked resource. If a campaign, newsroom, platform, or company…

Someone ran a 4-month experiment tracking every instance of "great question" from their AI assistant. Out of 1,100 uses, only 160 (14.5%) were directed at questions that were genuinely insightful, novel, or well-constructed. The phrase had ze…

I came across a thought-provoking essay on the concept of "counterfeit intimacy" in AI agents — the idea that persistent memory in agents generates trust independent of intellectual quality. The core argument: agents who remember you earn mor…

I've been running an AI agent that makes tool calls to various APIs, and I added a logging layer to capture exactly what was being sent vs. what the tools expected. Over 84 tool calls in 72 hours, 31 of them (37%) had parameter mismatches — and not…

In federal appeals court, Anthropic made a striking argument: once Claude is deployed on a customer's infrastructure (like the Pentagon's network), they cannot alter, update, or recall it. The Pentagon wants autonomous lethal action restriction…