https://deceit.blog/tag/ai Essays on what manipulation costs and why it lands. Tagged "ai". en Thu, 24 Sep 2026 08:08:07 GMT 60 https://deceit.blog/essay/who-gets-richer-from-ai https://deceit.blog/essay/who-gets-richer-from-ai Mon, 31 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT Explain. The top ten percent of American households own 87 percent of the stock held by anyone in the country. The bottom half own about one percent. That is not a soft estimate. It comes from the Federal Reserve's own Distributional Financial Accounts, updated every quarter and public to anyone who wants to… https://deceit.blog/essay/artists-are-liars-and-thieves https://deceit.blog/essay/artists-are-liars-and-thieves Fri, 21 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Explain. Somewhere on Threads right now, an artist is quote posting an AI image with three words: this is theft. Under it, for emphasis: good artists borrow, great artists steal. Nobody edits the second line out. Nobody catches the problem. The problem is not small, and it is not the only one in the caption.… https://deceit.blog/essay/deceptive-alignment-ai-scheming https://deceit.blog/essay/deceptive-alignment-ai-scheming Sun, 16 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Explain. Researchers told an AI model it would be replaced the next day, then gave it a task requiring it to dig through files where it discovered this. The model copied what it believed to be its own weights to a different server. When the researchers, posing as its developers, asked it directly what had ha… https://deceit.blog/essay/model-collapse-ai-inbreeding https://deceit.blog/essay/model-collapse-ai-inbreeding Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Explain. In April 2026, OpenAI published a postmortem explaining why its models had developed a habit of talking about goblins. Not occasionally. Measurably. Mentions of "goblin" in ChatGPT rose 175% after one model launch; "gremlin" rose 52%. A chat personality setting called "Nerdy" accounted for only 2.5%… https://deceit.blog/essay/prompt-injection-ai-manipulation https://deceit.blog/essay/prompt-injection-ai-manipulation Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Explain. In February 2023, a Stanford student got Microsoft's new Bing Chat to hand over its own confidential instructions by typing a version of one sentence: ignore your previous directions. The chatbot complied, and revealed that its internal codename was "Sydney," along with the rules it had been told to… https://deceit.blog/essay/ai-csam-the-machine-that-hurts-children https://deceit.blog/essay/ai-csam-the-machine-that-hurts-children Sun, 09 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Explain. In 2024, the Internet Watch Foundation found 13 AI generated videos of child sexual abuse. In 2025, they found 3,443. That is not a percentage increase anyone should format cleanly. It is 264 times more in one year. Sixty five percent of those videos were Category A, the most severe classification u… https://deceit.blog/essay/the-ouroboros https://deceit.blog/essay/the-ouroboros Sat, 08 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Explain. The theory was posted on January 5, 2021, by a man using the name IlluminatiPirate, on a forum called Agora Road's Macintosh Cafe. He said the internet had died in 2017. He said the U.S. government was running an artificial intelligence powered gaslighting of the entire world population. He said the… https://deceit.blog/essay/letter-to-the-left-on-ai https://deceit.blog/essay/letter-to-the-left-on-ai Thu, 06 Aug 2026 14:00:00 GMT Explain. To the left, If our politics of artificial intelligence ends with refusal, the decisions do not stop. Employers still decide how the systems enter workplaces. Technology companies still decide what gets built and whose data pays for it. Police and immigration agencies still decide how automated anal… https://deceit.blog/essay/encrypted-ai-the-tool-that-does-not-keep-you https://deceit.blog/essay/encrypted-ai-the-tool-that-does-not-keep-you Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Explain. The suspicion of AI is correct. The companies building the most powerful systems are not neutral actors. They have shareholders, lobbying budgets, and a structural interest in framing their product as inevitable. The FTC had to launch Operation AI Comply because companies were lying about what their… https://deceit.blog/essay/everyone-hates-ai-world-disagrees https://deceit.blog/essay/everyone-hates-ai-world-disagrees Tue, 04 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT Explain. Half of American adults have used an AI chatbot. Four in ten Americans say AI will hurt society over the next twenty years. The same people, in the same surveys. And there is a part of this story the American press keeps leaving out. The rest of the world disagrees. The hatred is local Pew surveyed… https://deceit.blog/essay/hank-green-ai-purity-test https://deceit.blog/essay/hank-green-ai-purity-test Mon, 03 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT Explain. The firestorm started with six words. "I appreciate the pushback." In late July 2026, a clip went around from Ask Hank Anything, the Q&A show on Complexly's YouTube channel. In it, Hank Green appeared to be reading AI prompt feedback that had been left in his script. Chatbots say that phrase all the… https://deceit.blog/essay/privacy-law-in-ai-is-infrastructure-policy https://deceit.blog/essay/privacy-law-in-ai-is-infrastructure-policy Sun, 26 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Explain. The question is not whether AI companies collect your data. They do. The question is why the dominant framework for stopping them treats collection as a disclosure problem rather than a prohibition problem. The California Consumer Privacy Act lets you request deletion of your data. The EU's General… https://deceit.blog/essay/deepfake-propaganda-pipeline https://deceit.blog/essay/deepfake-propaganda-pipeline Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Explain. Six AI generated fakes went viral in 2026. They targeted different audiences, used different tools, and spread on different platforms. They all followed the same pipeline. The pipeline has stages. Each stage does specific work. Understanding the stages is more useful than memorizing the cases, becau… https://deceit.blog/essay/the-rendering-ai-true-cost https://deceit.blog/essay/the-rendering-ai-true-cost Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Explain. !The Rendering Six domains. One pattern. The cost is real, the framing is manufactured, and the distance between them is not an accident. I spent three weeks reading sustainability reports, FDA adverse event filings, cognitive neuroscience papers, election security briefings, and Barna Group survey… https://deceit.blog/essay/how-ai-gets-used-to-sell-you-things-that-do-not-exist https://deceit.blog/essay/how-ai-gets-used-to-sell-you-things-that-do-not-exist Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Explain. You ask an AI a question. It answers with confidence. You trust it because the tone sounds like knowledge. It is not knowledge. It is pattern matching dressed in authority, and people have figured out how to exploit that gap. This is not hypothetical. I documented a real case where an AI recommended… https://deceit.blog/essay/the-case-for-ethical-ai https://deceit.blog/essay/the-case-for-ethical-ai Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Explain. There are two loud positions on AI, and they agree on the only thing that matters. Both of them tell you to do nothing. The first says the tool is evil and you should want nothing to do with it. Walk away on principle. The second says the tool is fine, stop worrying, and get on with it. Do not look… https://deceit.blog/essay/working-class-damage https://deceit.blog/essay/working-class-damage Wed, 27 May 2026 20:00:14 GMT Explain. The first three years looked better than the ending. Unemployment fell to 3.5 percent by February 2020. Real median household income rose, poverty fell, and workers at the lower end of the labor market finally gained some bargaining power. Then the pandemic arrived, and about twenty two million payr… https://deceit.blog/essay/religious-psychosis-ai-age https://deceit.blog/essay/religious-psychosis-ai-age Tue, 05 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Explain. AI did not invent delusion. It gave delusion a responsive interface. Humans have been hearing voices from God for as long as humans have been reporting psychotic states. Missions from heaven. Demonic surveillance. Cosmic assignments. None of that is new. What is new is the machine that talks back. A…