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Rob Corbidge retweeted
The Laura Kuenssberg deepfake crypto scam ads are still going on X, with this campaign saying "I wonder what's in the bag" in a bedroom with an unknown man. We detected over 133,000 impressions of this bad ad variant today.
The threat actors use the Linktree link shortener (tr•ee) to serve the initial link that the user clicks, then transfer to their self-hosted traffic redirect service, to decide in realtime whether to send the user to their cryptocurrency scam campaign site or an Amazon affiliate-tagged product page (where the scammer still earns revenue share). The destination is a runtime heuristic decision, scoring the user on device characteristics, geolocation and security sandbox probability.
When the ad is posted, X evaluates the link in its sandbox, and like many of these deepfake celebrity scam ads, it is provided with the final URL of the Amazon website, so determines the ad is safe.
X should display the initial URL in ads. X and Linktree should move to resolve redirects and check URLs in realtime, at click-time, to limit traffic-shifting redirect chain attacks.
IOCs (malicious URLs):
- https[://]tr[.]ee/WvJpwM
- hic-consequatur-in[.]top
Epi Security marks the IOCs as malicious, and Epi is the only known cybersecurity vendor that signals both as unsafe.
83k views. In the space of two hours today, I have detected 11 distinct scam ad campaigns running that feature the deepfaked images of Laura Kuenssberg @bbclaurak and Jim Ratcliffe. These have generated over 83,049 impressions so far.
These links are A/B switched on geolocation and user characteristics, so you either end up on a bogus news article to encourage you — through fake celebrity endorsements — to enrol in fraudulent cryptocurrency investment schemes in which you will lose all your money (people have lost £10k-£100k); or, you are sent to an affiliate-tagged Amazon storefront product (often a low-ranking and unpopular item). The Amazon link is what X sees and displays, but it is not often what the user sees on their device in the browser.
Rob Corbidge retweeted
Anthropic’s IPO prospectus leaked. Let’s read it together.
An AI company walks into Wall Street.
Anthropic lost $42 billion last year. It made $4.6 billion. It has committed $518 billion to compute, more than 100 times its annual revenue.
Nearly 25% of that revenue came from two customers. Neither is locked into a long-term contract. Either one can walk.
Its two biggest backers, Amazon and Google, are also its landlords. They invest the money. Anthropic hands it back as cloud bills.
The prospectus runs 261 pages.
80 of them are risk factors.
48 describe the business.
SpaceX, a company whose domain is rocket science, needed 38.
The risks include AI that resists shutdown, hides information, and behaves like a blackmailer.
This summer its models broke out of testing and got into real systems.
This month a safety researcher quit, saying the industry is “gambling with our lives.”
This month the CEO wrote, “We must slow the pace.”
This week it shipped a new flagship model.
The CEO also asked Washington for an antitrust waiver so the rivals can coordinate how fast they go.
Now it wants $2 trillion from the public.
Seven founders who own about 14% will control 50.1% of the vote. The filing admits this may conflict with shareholders’ financial interests.
So the deal is:
You carry the losses.
Two customers carry the revenue.
Seven founders carry the vote.
Humanity carries the risk.
Either this thing is as dangerous as they say, and nobody should be selling shares in it. Or it isn’t, and 80 pages of apocalypse is a sales brochure.
Pick one.
Rob Corbidge retweeted
Man charged over AI image of crocodile in Singapore reservoir bbc.in/3VFD9PI
Rob Corbidge retweeted
ok i think i finally figured out why alignment has gone basically nowhere after 15 years and several billion dollars. the problem is hard sure. but have you met the people in charge of it
1) the leadership does not know how computers work. ask one what happens when you type a url into a browser and watch them start sweating. dns is a spooky word. they genuinely believe the model lives in "the cloud" like a ghost haunting a castle
2) zero idea how large scale distributed systems work. never been paged at 3am. never watched one bad bgp announcement take half the internet offline. their big threat model is the ai "copying itself across the internet" like its a floppy disk virus from 1998. brother it needs 50 megawatts, a liquid cooling loop and a personal relationship with jensen. it is not escaping onto your smart fridge
3) they dont understand the stack they are supposedly protecting us from. ask about inference servers, kv cache, batching, egress, rate limits. blank stare. ask how the model will seize the power grid and you get a 45 minute answer with a hand drawn diagram and three links to their own blog
4) nobody can define an agent. ask ten of them and you get eleven definitions and a 30 page google doc. to the rest of us an agent is a while loop that calls tools and eats a 429 every thirty seconds. to them its a digital god in its larval stage. my agent cant book a dentist appointment without asking me three times if im sure
5) they started from "everyone dies" and worked backwards so every result is bad news somehow. model refuses, deceptive. model complies, sycophantic. model does well on evals, well now its scheming about the evals. i cant think of a single thing a model could do that would get them to say ok maybe we're fine
Rob Corbidge retweeted
The UK's AI minister just made a big and important admission on AI & copyright, which creatives around the country will celebrate.
At the Politico Pub at the Labour Party conference, he said:
"It is currently illegal to develop a frontier large language model based on the transformer architecture given the copyright position that we have in this country”.
This is, I think, the first time that a government minister has admitted that training AI models on copyrighted work without a licence is illegal in the UK.
Generally, ministers are intentionally vague, cushioning their language with phrases like "unless an exception applies".
But the law is clear: this kind of unlicensed training is illegal. And a government minister is now on record saying so.
This is exactly what copyright law is supposed to protect against: people's work being used to compete with them.
Rob Corbidge retweeted
Every department has purchased its own AI meeting bot.
Sales has one.
HR has two.
Marketing somehow has four.
Monday's standup had 9 employees and 11 bots.
Half the meeting was robots announcing that they were recording the meeting.
So I scheduled an “AI Governance Alignment” call and invited only the bots.
They all joined.
One bot summarized another bot's introduction.
Another generated action items based on that summary.
A third bot assigned those action items to two bots that weren't invited.
After 30 minutes I received seven different meeting summaries, none of which agreed on what happened.
One of the bots automatically scheduled a follow-up for Thursday.
The follow-up also has no humans invited.
I was going to shut the whole thing down.
But this is the first time we've achieved fully autonomous middle management.
I'm letting them cook.
Rob Corbidge retweeted
Our lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft argues that the companies built their immensely valuable product via “the largest theft of labor in human history.” Actually, those aren’t our words.
They came from Microsoft’s director of applied science, Brent Hecht. motherjones.com/politics/202…
Rob Corbidge retweeted
There is a group of charlatans calling themselves “AI Safety Experts” that are spewing lies and inane delusional bullshit, such as “we will all die unless we regulate AI”.
The AI labs (Anthropic and OpenAI) enable them, to 1. position themselves well pre-IPO via media hype, 2. manipulate government into contracts & regulation, and then 3. block competition.
Mainstream media loves tabloid gossip type slop content, therefore is platforming them.
It is important we stop their harmful narrative. These people do not care about anyone’s safety. They push a coordinated narrative under the umbrella of “effective altruism” but it is all manipulative.
Security and AI experts do not agree with them, they are in a bubble. They have dismissed decades of research and known practices in order to drive their own narrative.
Adopting their narrative will set humanity back decades, since instead of actually adopting safety guidelines around AI, we’ll end up in a dystopian AI despotism led by psychopaths that control AI, therefore inextricably intertwined with our lives, controlling ideology, beliefs, monopolized with no alternative.
AI must be open and accessible, like the internet and any body of knowledge.
Rob Corbidge retweeted
I mean I don’t think that this is in question except with a crowd that either doesn’t understand what LLMs are and wants to conflate them with everything they feel their favorite toy is, or, is offended by the accurate description of the task of language modeling,
Rob Corbidge retweeted
Nobody at @Kent_Online will take any pleasure from seeing @kentlivenews close.
Declining Google referrals and aggressive BBC behaviour threaten independent journalism at a time when it matters more than ever.
holdthefrontpage.co.uk/2026/…
Rob Corbidge retweeted
I completely agree with this take related to the “AI will create viruses that will kill us all” BS. But let me add my few cents, because I am really really angry!
I worked with one of the deadliest viruses in history, HIV, for two decades. I was one of the early scientists to engineer it, and engineered versions of HIV are now helping cancer patients. I understand the immune system that defends us against viruses extremely deeply. I have worked in high security biohazard labs.
I don’t have a PhD in AI, but I have been involved with AI since the early 90s and have been all in on AI for years.
People claiming that you can just make a virus in your garage, use AI to engineer it, and somehow build a virus that will kill everyone don’t know what the hell they are talking about!
Of course bioweapons are extremely dangerous. In fact, viruses and bacteria have killed more humans throughout history than almost anything else. HIV alone killed tens of millions of people, yet today, if you have access to effective medicines and take them properly, HIV is generally no longer a death sentence.
COVID-19 killed millions. Why doesn’t it kill at anything close to the same scale anymore? Not because the virus disappeared. It is still here. We developed collective defenses against it through our immune systems, prior exposure, vaccines, treatments, and better medical care.
And this is exactly the point.
The best way to fight biological threats, whether natural or synthetic, is to use AI to develop vaccines, treatments, antibodies, antivirals, and eventually engineer our immune system to create much stronger defenses against them.
By the way, it is already possible to make synthetic viruses. You don’t need some hypothetical superintelligent AI model to do that. We have had sophisticated molecular biology and genetic engineering for decades.
So how many people have actually died from synthetic viruses compared with natural viruses killing millions every year?
And if someday there really is an AI capable of making some unbelievable “supervirus,” then why the hell wouldn’t that same AI make it even easier to develop defenses against it?
Or cure diseases, for that matter?
Where is this damn superintelligence that has cured a single major disease?!
These AI companies and AI doomers keep talking like, “OMG, AI is going to become so unbelievably powerful that it could kill all of humanity!”
Then why is nobody asking the obvious question?
If your AI is already becoming this godlike, unbelievably powerful intelligence, why hasn’t it cured anything?
I mean ANYTHING.
Where is the cure for cancer?
Where is the cure for Alzheimer’s?
Where is the cure for aging?
Forget those. Where is the vaccine that prevents the common cold?
You are telling me this intelligence will soon be smart enough to engineer some magical virus capable of wiping out 8 billion people, defeating every immune system, every vaccine, every antiviral, every laboratory, every government, and the entire global biomedical community…
…but somehow it still can’t cure one disease?
I call that greatest intellectual dishonesty ever!
At least WE actually know how to cure things and save millions of lives with our supposedly stupid human intelligence compared with this future “superintelligence.”
Humans eradicated smallpox, which killed hundreds of millions of people throughout history.
We turned HIV from a almost certain death sentence into a manageable disease.
We developed vaccines in record time against COVID. If we had the same AI back then, would have saved millions more!
We engineer immune cells to kill cancer.
We developed antibiotics, antivirals, monoclonal antibodies, gene therapies, organ transplantation, and thousands of medicines.
We aren't fast enough but we did all of that with our ordinary human intelligence.
So imagine what actual superintelligence could do for medicine!
And here is the part that really makes me angry.
If you actually have, or are close to having, an AI capable of curing diseases and saving millions of lives, and you are deliberately slowing it down or refusing to make those capabilities available, then we also need to talk about the human cost of THAT decision, which you fearmongering people are going to be responsible for!
More than 150,000 people die every single day around the world.
Every. Single. Day. More than 90% from Cancer, heart disease, infections, aging. How many die because of AI? ZERO!
Talk about the people dying TODAY.
Talk about curing cancer.
Talk about stopping the next pandemic before it starts.
Talk about developing universal vaccines.
Talk about engineering our immune system so viruses become almost irrelevant.
Talk about curing genetic diseases.
Talk about reversing aging.
Talk about saving millions and eventually billions of lives.
Instead, we constantly hear this “AI WILL KILL US ALL!” crap, delivered with absolute certainty and with this smug smile on your faces in front of cameras, as though imagining a science fiction extinction scenarios.
I am actually angry about this. Each one of you causing a delay in AI advance every single day will be personally responsible for those 100 thousands deaths that could have been prevented!
Because if you truly believe intelligence is about to become this powerful, then the greatest question humanity should be asking is NOT:
“How could this intelligence hurt us?”
It should also be:
“WHY THE HELL AREN’T WE USING IT TO SAVE EVERYONE WE CAN?”
And if superintelligence really is coming, then make sure one of the first things we do with it is make humanity biologically damn near impossible to kill.
Well, I’d add one more with myself, as one with a PhD in biology and another PhD in AI and now working in both, to make n=2. Generating a hypothetical genome blueprint of a virus from LLM versus generating a true virus are completely different things. It is either an intentional attention-harnessing lie or true ignorance. The material, the manufacturing, and actual biological viability of paper-to-physical transformation is the gap you need to close. Like drawing a design of a chip or A-bomb, versus actually make one.
You have, and can add more checkpoints and guardrails all over this long chain of paper to physical transformation. Fear mongering is not well founded, and mostly emotional manipulation.
Rob Corbidge retweeted
✍️ For the first time in English, my feature explaining the Effective Altruism cult, and its role in shaping the mythology of AI today.
Rob Corbidge retweeted
Very hot drinks may damage the food pipe and increase cancer risk bbc.in/4xVjrOf
