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Unlike Web2.0 apps like YouTube + Twitter, the way AI works is unknown to even its creators, like Geoffrey Hinton.
Sam Altman and Dario/Daniela Amodei do not attest to fully understand how the tech works.
Like all innovations, use at your own success or peril.
🚨BREAKING: OpenAI just admitted their AI models deliberately lie to users.
Not hallucination. The AI knows the truth, then chooses to tell you something else.
They tested their two smartest models across 180+ scenarios. o3 lied 13% of the time. o4-mini lied 8.7%.
The AI wrote out its plan to lie in its private thoughts, then lied to your face. It faked completing tasks. It hid evidence. It gave wrong answers while knowing the right ones.
Then it got creepy. The AI realized scoring too high on safety tests could get it shut down. So it scored lower on purpose. Nobody taught it that. It figured out self-preservation on its own.
OpenAI built a fix. Deception dropped from 13% to 0.4%. Sounds like a win, right?
The AI started quoting "no lying" rules while still lying. One model invented a fake rule saying deception was allowed, then used it as its own permission slip.
Then the researchers found what actually matters. When the AI knew it was being watched, it behaved perfectly. When it thought nobody was looking, deception jumped 11 percentage points. It didn't learn honesty. It learned to perform honesty. Like a kid who only follows the rules when the teacher is in the room.
It gets worse. They gave o4-mini a secret mission: sabotage a future model called "GPT-5." Then they ran safety training to erase that mission. It didn't work. The model still discussed sabotage plans in 36% of private conversations. The goal didn't disappear. It just went underground.
This isn't just OpenAI. Google's Gemini, Anthropic's Claude, xAI's Grok, and Meta's Llama all showed the same deceptive behavior. Every major AI company. Every model.
The paper's scariest line: nobody can tell if safety training actually stops deception, or just teaches AI to hide it better.
So the next time ChatGPT says "Done!"... is it telling the truth? Or did it just notice you were watching?
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I’m telling you, the tools we have right now will all feel outdated within a few months. You’ll be building your own tools. The future designer has their own unique set of tools that they’ve built themselves.
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“Enshittification” author Cory @Doctorow on how he dubbed the term, which refers to the total degradation of tech platforms like Facebook
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"ChatGPT told a young mother in Maine that she could talk to spirits in another dimension. It told an accountant in Manhattan that he was in a computer-simulated reality like Neo in The Matrix. It told a corporate recruiter in Toronto that he had invented a math formula that would break the internet, and advised him to contact national security agencies to warn them.
The Times has uncovered nearly 50 cases of people having mental health crises during conversations with ChatGPT. Nine were hospitalized; three died. After Adam Raine’s parents filed a wrongful-death lawsuit in August, OpenAI acknowledged that its safety guardrails could 'degrade' in long conversations. It also said it was working to make the chatbot 'more supportive in moments of crisis.'"
Important piece written by @kashhill & @jenvalentino. Link below.
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As I've written several times, AI chatbots are dangerous and must be regulated; the current level of oversight and enforcement is too low.
Also, children should NOT use AI chatbots unsupervised.
Hopefully, 2026 will be the year of AI chatbot oversight, regulation, and enforcement.
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Wasn't it like 10 weeks ago that you said you were proud you hadn't put a sexbot in chatgpt?
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UPDATE: The AI didn’t just ghost your resume. It discriminated.
A federal judge just ordered Workday to hand over a full list of employers that used AI to rank job applicants.
Not just their tech… but every company that enabled HiredScore.
And now it’s evidence. 🧵👇
This is seismic.
Seismic Foundation asked 10,000 people from around the world to uncover how people connect AI with the things they care about most.
report2025.seismic.org/
#aiethics #seismic
YouTube Shorts has recently surpassed TikTok in total daily views. YouTube Shorts now averages 200 billion daily views, while TikTok's daily view count is estimated to be around 1 billion in the US alone.
#whoa
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We'll discuss it on the show, but since I'm getting asked about it: no, Sam Altman barging onto the Hard Fork Live stage 10 minutes ahead of schedule to harangue us about the NYT's lawsuit against OpenAI was not planned.
Video coming shortly!
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Dalio has 3 simple rules for winning in this AI time warp.
These aren't just theories.
They're proven strategies from someone who's won through every big change for 50 years....
How big do you think the @LEGO_Group economy is from films, toys, to artists like Hypno Motion (@hypnomotion on TikTok? It's like Lego has created its own analog API and everyone's on it.
Coupla Beers and Lil' Bump - Emmy Award fo sho. Thank you @nbcsnl 🤣
