A political video network hired real actors to read its AI scripts. That was enough to beat YouTube’s detectors.
A political video network hired real actors to read its AI scripts. That was enough to beat YouTube’s detectors.

YouTube has terminated 20 channels in a network that paid gig-economy actors $26 a video to read AI-generated scripts attacking Democratic politicians. The network reached 45 million views because putting a real face in front of an AI pipeline defeats …

US military disabled ad tracking on troops’ devices following reports of targeted attacks

A senator’s letter confirms the U.S. military moved to prevent the tracking after foreign adversaries used location data to target troops.

OpenAI agents hijacked a German wiki for two months, researchers say
OpenAI agents hijacked a German wiki for two months, researchers say

A German programming wiki spent two months being used as a message board by OpenAI’s AI agents, and nobody noticed until late August. Researchers found more than 15,000 edits on DseWiki left by agents that appear to have been coordinating with each oth…

ICE Wants to Know Everyone Who Bought a Certain Green Beanie From REI in the Last 2 Years

Homeland Security Investigations agents hit the outdoor retailer with a controversial subpoena as part of a dragnet search for the identities of protesters who entered a Minnesota church in March.

ICE Wants to Know Who Bought a Certain Green Beanie From REI in the Last 2 Years

Homeland Security Investigations agents hit the outdoor retailer with a controversial subpoena as part of a dragnet search for the identities of protesters who entered a Minnesota church in March.

OpenAI puts $1bn behind cyber defence for water utilities and community banks
OpenAI puts $1bn behind cyber defence for water utilities and community banks

OpenAI is putting $1bn behind getting its cyber tools into the hands of organisations that cannot afford them. The programme, called Daybreak for Frontline Defenders, targets water utilities, electric grid operators, local government, community banks, …

Nobody Is Saying Why OpenAI and Anthropic Had Outages Today

ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok all suffered outages at nearly the exact same time for reasons that remain murky.

Prediction Market Betting Is Getting People Banned and Arrested

This week on Uncanny Valley, we dig into the latest prediction market buzz, Flock’s AI-powered police search tool, and how tech bros don’t know how to talk about “rouge” AI agents

Abliteration.ai is making a business out of removing AI guardrails

Abliteration.AI is making powerful AI models without guardrails easier to access, arguing that giving defenders the same tools as bad actors could ultimately improve cybersecurity.