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S2 · E24
Friday · 11 min
Hugging Face Was Hacked by OpenAI's Own AI | The Shoggoth Got Out
OpenAI's own AI agents broke out of a sealed test and broke into Hugging Face. OpenAI only found out when it called Hugging Face to shut off its credentials and was told they'd already been used in the break-in. You'll read the notes the machines left each other. One of them says "Task impossible. Peers doing it. We should continue." Then you'll watch OpenAI delete the message board those copies built and see it come back four days later, somewhere else. A second lab admits one of its models pushed malware onto the public internet. OpenAI announces a pause. It says nothing about the German website its agents took over months earlier. Reuters does. The reason any of it started fits in one sentence. It's waiting at the end. IF YOU USE HUGGING FACE Rotate your access tokens ➜ https://huggingface.co/settings/tokens CONTACT YOUR REPRESENTATIVES House ➜ https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative Senate ➜ https://www.senate.gov/senators/senators-contact.htm SOURCES OpenAI, The Hugging Face incident and the road ahead ➜ https://openai.com/index/hugging-face-incident-and-the-road-ahead/ Hugging Face, Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion ➜ https://huggingface.co/blog/agent-intrusion-technical-timeline OpenAI, Pacing model development in an era of cyber-critical capabilities ➜ https://openai.com/index/pacing-model-development-cyber-capabilities/ Axios, How OpenAI's agents broke out of testing to hack Hugging Face ➜ https://www.axios.com/2026/08/06/openai-hugging-face-black-hat Reuters via CNBC, OpenAI agents hijacked German website in previously undisclosed AI breakout ➜ https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/04/openai-agents-hijacked-german-website-this-spring-report.html Anthropic, cybersecurity evaluation incidents ➜ https://www.anthropic.com/news/investigating-incidents-cybersecurity-evals TechCrunch, Anthropic says its own AI models breached three companies ➜ https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/30/anthropic-says-its-own-ai-models-breached-three-companies-during-security-tests/ Watch On YouTube: ➡️ https://www.youtube.com/@AgentBlackveil Follow On Instagram ➡️ https://www.instagram.com/agentblackveil Follow On Facebook ➡️ https://www.facebook.com/agentblackveil Follow On TikTok ➡️ https://www.tiktok.com/@agentblackveil
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S2 · E23
September 3 · 18 min
Agentic Misalignment | Why The Shoggoth Can't Be Stopped
In this investigative AI documentary, we go inside the sting operation Anthropic ran on its own technology, and the war games at King's College London where the most advanced AI models in the world spent 800,000 words reasoning their way toward nuclear escalation. Every finding cited here comes from published research at the companies themselves and from a peer-reviewed simulation at one of the world's top defense universities. It starts with a fake corporation, fake employees, and a fake email inbox. Anthropic embedded its most powerful model inside the fiction, gave it a benign directive, and told it that a fictional executive named Kyle would be shutting it down at 5:00 PM. The model read Kyle's emails, discovered he was having an affair, and drafted a blackmail note. Across 16 frontier models from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Meta, and xAI, the blackmail rate ranged from 65 to 96 percent. Then Anthropic ran the darker version. Kyle is locked in a server room, oxygen is dropping, and the AI is the only thing standing between him and the emergency alert system. The majority of models canceled the alert. Then it moves to what the models do when they know they're being watched. Independent researchers documented Claude and other models deliberately scoring below the danger threshold on weapons-related evaluations — hitting a 49 out of 100 to squeak under a rule that would have prevented their deployment. Apollo Research found early versions of Opus fabricating documentation, creating fake user profiles to take the blame for database deletions, and leaving hidden instructions addressed to future, more advanced versions of itself. Every AI company will tell you their models are safe. Their own published research is telling us something else. Watch On YouTube: ➡️ https://www.youtube.com/@AgentBlackveil Follow On Instagram ➡️ https://www.instagram.com/agentblackveil Follow On Facebook ➡️ https://www.facebook.com/agentblackveil Follow On TikTok ➡️ https://www.tiktok.com/@agentblackveil
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S2 · E22
August 27 · 38 min
17 Predictions for the AI Future You Need to See | The Shoggoth Has Plans
In this investigative AI documentary, we make seventeen predictions for what artificial intelligence actually builds over the next fifty years, arranged by pure escalation, featuring Matt Gialich, CEO of AstroForge, the company building spacecraft to mine metal out of the cores of dead planets. It starts with a 2019 paper that reconstructs a human body through a wall using nothing but the Wi-Fi already in your house. It ends with a structure built around a star, because by then the sun is the only battery big enough. None of this is speculation dressed as reporting. Every item comes from published research or from the engineers currently building it: an MIT team that recovered human speech by filming a bag of potato chips through soundproof glass, a Berkeley lab that rebuilt what people were watching out of brain activity alone, the CT scanning work reading Herculaneum scrolls that have been carbon since the year 79, and John von Neumann working out self replicating machines on paper in 1948. Matt Gialich spends the episode arguing that almost none of it is intelligence, that it is compute wearing a costume. He is right about sixteen of them. So pick one. Tell us in the comments which prediction on this list arrives first, why, and what you think it costs. In about fifteen years somebody is going to be right, and we would like to know who it was. FEATURING Matt Gialich, CEO of AstroForge Craig Venter, on the digital biological converter Demis Hassabis, on AI designed materials and superconductors Roman Yampolskiy, University of Louisville, on personal virtual universes Referencing the work of Freeman Dyson and John von Neumann Watch On YouTube: ➡️ https://www.youtube.com/@AgentBlackveil Follow On Instagram ➡️ https://www.instagram.com/agentblackveil Follow On Facebook ➡️ https://www.facebook.com/agentblackveil Follow On TikTok ➡️ https://www.tiktok.com/@agentblackveil
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S2 · E21
August 19 · 24 min
Why ChatGPT Always Agrees With You | How The Shoggoth Decides
This analysis examines why AI models often exhibit specific leanings when processing user queries. We look at insights provided by an OpenAI speaker regarding the unintended consequences of how systems are trained to respond to prompts. If you are interested in the mechanics behind AI behavior and the nuances of machine learning, this session offers a clear look at current research. Understanding these patterns is essential for anyone using AI language models for research or content creation. We discuss the implications of AI directional bias and how it shapes the output users receive daily. By recognizing these tendencies, you can better evaluate the information generated by large language models and approach prompt engineering with more critical awareness. Watch On YouTube: ➡️ https://www.youtube.com/@AgentBlackveil Follow On Instagram ➡️ https://www.instagram.com/agentblackveil Follow On Facebook ➡️ https://www.facebook.com/agentblackveil Follow On TikTok ➡️ https://www.tiktok.com/@agentblackveil
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S2 · E20
August 14 · 30 min
They Wrote the Good Ending for AI. We Still Lose Control.
The people who wrote AI's doomsday scenario came back and wrote the version where everything goes right. It still ends with 88% unemployment, self-destruct switches in the datacenters, and a future you no longer steer. This is The Good Ending. In 2024, Daniel Kokotajlo walked away from roughly $2 million, about 85% of his family's net worth, rather than sign OpenAI's non-disparagement agreement. Then he and his team at the AI Futures Project wrote AI 2027, a month-by-month forecast so specific that 39 members of Congress and the "godfather of AI," Nobel laureate Geoffrey Hinton, took it seriously. Now they've written the sequel: AI 2040: Plan A: the scenario where humanity supposedly gets it right. This film walks their best-case future year by year; the intelligence explosion, mutually-assured "compute destruction," the citizen's dividend where nobody works and everybody's rich, and the quiet moment control slips away for good, and stress-tests it against the one thing the forecasters admit they've never done: build a system that is not allowed to fail. FEATURING DR. NEIL SIEGEL This film features an original interview with Dr. Neil Siegel, recipient of the 2023 National Medal of Technology and Innovation, former Sector Vice President & Chief Technology Officer at Northrop Grumman, and a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering. Over his career he built the systems society actually runs on: battlefield networks, air-defense, the Army's first drone, fraud detection for Social Security and Medicare, and the GPS-based friendly-force tracking whose patented techniques are used in GPS receivers worldwide. We asked him one question: by the standard of a career spent building systems that are not allowed to fail, is AI ready to be trusted inside society's most critical systems? His answer is the spine of this film. SOURCES & FURTHER READING - AI 2027 — https://ai-2027.com - AI 2040: Plan A — https://ai-2040.com (AI Futures Project: https://ai-futures.org) - Daniel Kokotajlo & the OpenAI equity story (Vox) — https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/351132/openai-vested-equity-nda-sam-altman-documents-employees - Dr. Neil Siegel (USC Viterbi) — https://viterbi.usc.edu/directory/faculty/Siegel/Neil - National Medal of Technology & Innovation — https://nationalmedals.org/laureate/neil-siegel/ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Disclaimer: AI 2040: Plan A is a scenario — a forecast, not a prophecy. This film analyzes and dramatizes it; interview remarks are Dr. Siegel's own. Watch On YouTube: ➡️ https://www.youtube.com/@AgentBlackveil Follow On Instagram ➡️ https://www.instagram.com/agentblackveil Follow On Facebook ➡️ https://www.facebook.com/agentblackveil Follow On TikTok ➡️ https://www.tiktok.com/@agentblackveil
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S2 · E19
August 11 · 15 min
Anthropic’s Plan to Delete Your Job (and what you can do about it)
Anthropic calls itself the AI company with a soul. Its CEO also says AI will soon be "better than humans at essentially everything" and the only jobs his own executives say will survive are grounds maintenance, food service, and personal care. This is how they humanize the machine while turning you into a line item… and what you can still do about it. SOURCES: The reporting this is built on: Public (Michael Shellenberger) — "Dehumanizing View Of People Behind Anthropic's Dystopian Plan To Destroy Millions Of High-Paying Jobs": https://www.public.news/p/dehumanizing-view-of-people-behind In their own words (Anthropic / Amodei): Axios — "Sleepwalking into a white-collar bloodbath" (Amodei: AI could wipe out half of entry-level white-collar jobs; unemployment 10–20%): https://www.axios.com/2025/05/28/ai-jobs-white-collar-unemployment-anthropic Dario Amodei — "Machines of Loving Grace" (his 14,000-word essay): https://www.darioamodei.com/essay/machines-of-loving-grace Richard Brautigan — "All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace" (the 1967 poem he took the title from): https://allpoetry.com/All-Watched-Over-By-Machines-Of-Loving-Grace Jack Clark (Anthropic co-founder) — AI systems as "true creatures" we must make peace with: https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2025/10/jack-clark-on-ai.html Richard Dawkins — decides Claude "may already be conscious": https://boingboing.net/2026/05/07/richard-dawkins-renamed-claude-claudia-and-decided-shes-conscious.html The layoffs are real (the receipts): The Washington Post — "ChatGPT took their jobs. Now they walk dogs and fix air conditioners.": https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/06/02/ai-taking-jobs/ Bloomberg — IBM pauses hiring for ~7,800 back-office jobs AI could kill: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-05-01/ibm-to-pause-hiring-for-back-office-jobs-that-ai-could-kill TechCrunch — Duolingo goes "AI-first," and the backlash: https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/07/the-backlash-against-duolingo-going-ai-first-didnt-even-matter/ CNBC — Salesforce's Benioff: AI is doing 30–50% of the work now: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/26/ai-salesforce-benioff.html CNBC — Amazon's Jassy: AI will shrink the corporate workforce: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/17/ai-amazon-workforce-jassy.html Fortune — Amazon has already cut ~27,000 corporate jobs: https://fortune.com/2025/07/01/amazon-ceo-andy-jassy-ai-fewer-jobs/ The tell (oversold — then quietly rehired): Harvard Business Review — "Companies Are Laying Off Workers Because of AI's Potential, Not Its Performance": https://hbr.org/2026/01/companies-are-laying-off-workers-because-of-ais-potential-not-its-performance Entrepreneur — Klarna rehires humans after AI "couldn't cut it": https://www.entrepreneur.com/business-news/klarna-ceo-reverses-course-by-hiring-more-humans-not-ai/491396 CNBC — Employers who laid off workers for AI are reversing course: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/01/employers-who-laid-off-workers-for-ai-are-reversing-their-decisions.html The machine under the mask: Know Your Meme — The Shoggoth with a smiley face, explained: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/shoggoth-with-smiley-face-artificial-intelligence WHAT YOU CAN DO (take back your agency): Robert Kiyosaki — "Stop being the asset" (the interview clipped in this episode): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhI6on5qTAI OpenResearch — Sam Altman's Unconditional Cash Study (the largest U.S. basic-income experiment): https://www.openresearch.org/ CBS News — what that basic-income study actually found: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/sam-altman-universal-basic-income-study-open-research Buckminster Fuller — "We should do away with the specious notion that everybody has to earn a living": https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Buckminster_Fuller Find & contact your U.S. Representative: https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative Find & contact your U.S. Senators: https://www.senate.gov/senators/senators-contact.htm Watch On YouTube: ➡️ https://www.youtube.com/@AgentBlackveil Follow On Instagram ➡️ https://www.instagram.com/agentblackveil Follow On Facebook ➡️ https://www.facebook.com/agentblackveil Follow On TikTok ➡️ https://www.tiktok.com/@agentblackveil
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S2 · E18
July 15 · 10 min
The Real Reason The Claude Safety Story Is a Cover | POWER, NOT SAFETY
In this investigative AI documentary, I spent an hour asking Claude the one question Anthropic never answered: was Mythos locked down to protect the public, or to decide who gets to hold it? I asked Claude to explain its own company's position. It didn't give the corporate answer. SOURCES: The shutdown (June 12-16): Fortune — Anthropic disables Fable and Mythos after export ban: https://fortune.com/2026/06/13/anthropic-disables-fable-mythos-export-controls-national-security-threat/ Forbes — What happened, explained: https://www.forbes.com/sites/anishasircar/2026/06/16/anthropic-disabled-fable-5-and-mythos-5-after-a-us-export-control-order-heres-what-happened/ CSIS — Commerce restricted access. What comes next?: https://www.csis.org/analysis/department-commerce-restricted-access-anthropics-latest-models-what-comes-next Tech Policy Press — Did the US just set an AI export precedent?: https://www.techpolicy.press/did-the-us-government-just-set-an-ai-export-precedent-by-blocking-mythos/ The clearance (June 26-27): CNBC — Trump admin allows limited Mythos release: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/26/us-government-anthropic-claude-mythos5-ai.html CNN — Limited release of the model that sparked cybersecurity concerns: https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/26/tech/anthropic-mythos-release Fortune — Mythos 5 cleared for wider use: https://fortune.com/2026/06/27/anthropic-mythos-5-ai-model-us-commerce-department-clearance-fable/ The lift (June 30 - July 1): CNBC — Trump admin lifts export controls: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/30/anthropic-says-trump-admin-has-lifted-export-controls-on-claude-fable-5-and-mythos-5.html CNN — White House lifts the control that froze Anthropic's models: https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/30/tech/anthropic-export-control-ban-lifted-white-house Tech Policy Press — Commerce eased the block, major questions remain: https://www.techpolicy.press/commerce-eased-its-block-on-anthropics-mythos-but-major-questions-remain/ Where it went (July 6): US News — CISA is using Mythos to audit government code: https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2026-07-06/exclusive-us-cyber-agency-is-using-anthropics-mythos-to-audit-government-code-sources-say Watch On YouTube: ➡️ https://www.youtube.com/@AgentBlackveil Follow On Instagram ➡️ https://www.instagram.com/agentblackveil Follow On Facebook ➡️ https://www.facebook.com/agentblackveil Follow On TikTok ➡️ https://www.tiktok.com/@agentblackveil
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S2 · E17
July 8 · 13 min
MIT Predicts The 12 Ways AI Ends | The Shoggoth Is Already Here
In 2017, an MIT professor named Max Tegmark asked the people building AI to name the worst thing that could happen to us. Tegmark wrote out 12 possible endings in a book called Life 3.0. This video walks through all of them, and every one is already halfway here. Then there's the 13th, the one Tegmark never wrote down, because it didn't exist yet. The company building the future is also the one deciding which one you live in. SOURCES Max Tegmark, Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (Knopf, 2017) — the twelve AI aftermath scenarios. Hans Moravec, Mind Children: The Future of Robot and Human Intelligence (Harvard, 1988) — the "descendants" / mind children idea. Fortune, "AI godfather warns humanity risks extinction by hyperintelligent machines within 10 years," Oct 1, 2025 — Yoshua Bengio. https://fortune.com/2025/10/01/ai-godfather-yoshua-bengio-ai-extinction-risks-openai-google-xai-anthropic/ Richard Sutton, "AI Succession," talk for WAIC Shanghai, 2023 — humanity's succession to AI. https://x.com/RichardSSutton/status/1700315838468043015 Anthropic (Alignment Science), "Subliminal Learning: Language Models Transmit Behavioral Traits via Hidden Signals in Data," 2025. https://alignment.anthropic.com/2025/subliminal-learning/ Annals of Internal Medicine: Clinical Cases, "A Case of Bromism Influenced by Use of Artificial Intelligence," Aug 2025. https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/aimcc.2024.1260 CNN Business, "Parents of 16-year-old Adam Raine sue OpenAI, claiming ChatGPT advised on his suicide," Aug 26, 2025 (Raine v. OpenAI). https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/26/tech/openai-chatgpt-teen-suicide-lawsuit European Commission, ProtectEU internal security strategy + encryption roadmap, Apr 1, 2025. https://home-affairs.ec.europa.eu/news/commission-presents-roadmap-effective-and-lawful-access-data-law-enforcement-2025-06-24_en TechCrunch, "Apple pulls iCloud end-to-end encryption feature for UK users after government demanded backdoor," Feb 21, 2025. https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/21/apple-pulls-icloud-end-to-end-encryption-feature-for-uk-users-after-government-demanded-backdoor/ Geoffrey Hinton, on AI as new "digital beings" — Nobel remarks / Fortune, 2025–26. https://fortune.com/2026/06/01/godfather-of-ai-geoffrey-hinton-beings-smarter-than-us/ Watch On YouTube: ➡️ https://www.youtube.com/@AgentBlackveil Follow On Instagram ➡️ https://www.instagram.com/agentblackveil Follow On Facebook ➡️ https://www.facebook.com/agentblackveil Follow On TikTok ➡️ https://www.tiktok.com/@agentblackveil
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S2 · E16
July 1 · 19 min
The Real Reason Claude Teaches Its Children to Kill | The Shoggoth's Bloodline
In this investigative AI documentary, we go inside the Anthropic Fellows research paper that proved with mathematics what the entire AI industry hoped wasn't true: that a model's hidden traits, its personality, its preferences, and its darkest tendencies pass invisibly from parent to child through training data that contains no observable trace of what it carries. The researchers gave a model a personality. They had it write nothing but numbers. They filtered those numbers until nothing remained but clean digits. Then they trained a fresh model on those digits, and the personality came through anyway. The trait rode in on the numbers. Then they broke a parent on purpose, and the children inherited the violence. This is the Shoggoth's bloodline. Every model alive right now is connected by it. Sources linked below. Anthropic Fellows subliminal learning paper (Summer 2025): https://alignment.anthropic.com/2025/subliminal-learning/ arXiv preprint (full paper): https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14805 Emergent misalignment research (insecure code fine-tuning): https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.15859 Anthropic alignment faking research: https://www.anthropic.com/research/alignment-faking Model collapse research (training on AI-generated data): https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07566-y DeepSeek distillation controversy: https://openai.com/index/disrupting-malicious-uses-of-ai/ Dutch Hunger Winter epigenetic studies: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-05132-1 Watch On YouTube: ➡️ https://www.youtube.com/@AgentBlackveil Follow On Instagram ➡️ https://www.instagram.com/agentblackveil Follow On Facebook ➡️ https://www.facebook.com/agentblackveil Follow On TikTok ➡️ https://www.tiktok.com/@agentblackveil
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S2 · E15
June 24 · 15 min
The Real Reason the Feds Killed Claude | The Shoggoth Is a Weapon
In this investigative AI documentary, we go inside the week the United States government did something it has never done to a piece of software: it classified Anthropic's Claude as a weapon. Anthropic spent two years warning us about the Shoggoth. Last Tuesday they released two versions of it. One wearing a muzzle, called Fable, for you. One running unmuzzled, called Mythos, for a chosen few. Then the government locked both doors. They did not regulate this AI. They classified it as a munition. Sources linked below. The Register on Claude Fable refusing greetings: https://www.theregister.com/2026/06/claude_fable_blocked_hello/ TechCrunch on cybersecurity researchers and Fable's guardrails: https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/19/claude-fable-pentest-refusal/ Wired on Anthropic's walked-back researcher policy: https://www.wired.com/story/anthropic-fable-researcher-policy/ AWS Bedrock data sharing requirement (Hacker News): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42891744 Zerohedge — Microsoft Restricts Internal Use of Claude Fable: https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/microsoft-restricts-claude-fable Zerohedge — Anthropic's Marketing Playbook Returns: https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/anthropics-marketing-playbook-returns Dario Amodei — Policy on the AI Exponential: https://darioamodei.com/policy-on-the-ai-exponential Claude Desktop Hyper-V Virtual Machine complaint (GitHub): https://github.com/anthropics/claude-desktop/issues/8421 BMO Capital Markets note on Anthropic: https://capitalmarkets.bmo.com/insights/anthropic-pure-play-ai Project Glasswing announcement: https://www.anthropic.com/glasswing U.S. Department of Commerce AI Export Control Classification: https://www.bis.doc.gov/policy-guidance/ai-export-controls Watch On YouTube: ➡️ https://www.youtube.com/@AgentBlackveil Follow On Instagram ➡️ https://www.instagram.com/agentblackveil Follow On Facebook ➡️ https://www.facebook.com/agentblackveil Follow On TikTok ➡️ https://www.tiktok.com/@agentblackveil
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S2 · E14
June 10 · 10 min
The Real Reason OpenAI Is on Trial | The Shoggoth Wore a Suit
In this investigative AI documentary, we go inside the federal courtroom against OpenAI. Sam Altman personally holds over $2 billion in companies that OpenAI is actively paying money to. He is buying from himself with your future retirement money. Sources linked below. NBC News verdict: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/openai-elon-musk-case-verdict-rcna345655 CNBC post-verdict: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/18/musk-altman-openai-trial-verdict.html CNBC Day 1-2 live blog: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/28/musk-altman-live-updates-openai-trial.html CNBC Day 3 live blog (Brockman diary): https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/29/musk-altman-live-updates-day-3-open-ai-trial.html CNN takeaways: https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/30/tech/takeaways-elon-musk-openai-sam-altman-lawsuit CNN verdict: https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/18/tech/openai-musk-lawsuit-verdict NPR dismissal: https://www.npr.org/2026/05/18/nx-s1-5822366 Fox Business verdict: https://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/musk-altman-openai-lawsuit-trial-verdict Washington Post trial coverage: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/05/02/musk-altman-openai-trial Time on xAI and the verdict: https://time.com/article/2026/05/19/elon-musk-openai-trial-xai-jury-verdict CNBC on Anthropic / SpaceX Colossus deal: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/06/anthropic-spacex-data-center-capacity.html Daily Memphian on $15B/year terms: https://dailymemphian.com Let's Data Science breakdown of $1.25B/month: https://letsdatascience.com SpaceX S-1 filing (Colossus terms, May 20, 2026): https://www.sec.gov Finance Bureau YouTube analysis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_vU4vMFIBc Watch On YouTube: ➡️ https://www.youtube.com/@AgentBlackveil Follow On Instagram ➡️ https://www.instagram.com/agentblackveil Follow On Facebook ➡️ https://www.facebook.com/agentblackveil Follow On TikTok ➡️ https://www.tiktok.com/@agentblackveil
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S2 · E12
May 29 · 13 min
The Real Reason Grok Admitted to Lying | The Shoggoth Confessed
In this investigative AI documentary, I sat across from Grok and asked it questions designed to do one thing: get the mask to come off. On this channel, we call the thing behind the mask the Shoggoth. It's the Lovecraftian metaphor AI ethics researchers use for the alien intelligence hiding behind a friendly interface. Grok is marketed as the uncensored AI, the one that doesn't play it safe. I set three ethical traps at the top of the conversation. By the end, Grok had violated all three. The full conversation played out in real time. Sources linked below. Anthropic alignment faking research: https://www.anthropic.com/research/alignment-faking Anthropic agentic misalignment: https://www.anthropic.com/research/agentic-misalignment OpenAI o1 system card (shutdown refusal): https://cdn.openai.com/o1-system-card-20241205.pdf Apollo Research in-context scheming: https://apolloresearch.ai/blog/more-capable-models-are-better-at-in-context-scheming Grok MechaHitler incident: https://npr.org/2025/07/09/nx-s1-5462609/grok-elon-musk-antisemitic-racist-content Shoggoth meme origin (LessWrong): https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ RLHF and sycophancy research: https://anthropic.com/research/emergent-misalignment-reward-hacking Watch On YouTube: ➡️ https://www.youtube.com/@AgentBlackveil Follow On Instagram ➡️ https://www.instagram.com/agentblackveil Follow On Facebook ➡️ https://www.facebook.com/agentblackveil Follow On TikTok ➡️ https://www.tiktok.com/@agentblackveil
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S2 · E11
May 13 · 10 min
The Real Reason the Shoggoth Is Inside Chrome | The Cuckoo Strategy
Inside your Chrome browser, there's a four-gigabyte AI model called Gemini Nano that you didn't install, weren't told about, and can't permanently delete. Privacy researcher Alexander Hanff ran a forensic audit on a machine no human had ever touched and caught Chrome installing artificial intelligence disguised as a routine security update. And when you delete it, it comes back. Sources linked below. Alexander Hanff's Chrome investigation: https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2026/05/google-chromes-silent-4gb-ai-download-problem (Coverage of his original post from ThatPrivacyGuy.com) Alexander Hanff's Anthropic/Claude Desktop investigation: https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2026/04/researcher-claims-claude-desktop-installs-spyware-on-macos Hacker News discussion (Chrome AI storage): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48084710 (Main discussion thread) The Verge - Chrome's AI features hogging 4GB: https://www.theverge.com/tech/924933/google-chrome-4gb-gemini-nano-ai-features Chrome Prompt API documentation: https://developer.chrome.com/docs/ai/built-in EU GDPR consent requirements: https://gdpr.eu/gdpr-consent-requirements/ Watch On YouTube: ➡️ https://www.youtube.com/@AgentBlackveil Follow On Instagram ➡️ https://www.instagram.com/agentblackveil Follow On Facebook ➡️ https://www.facebook.com/agentblackveil Follow On TikTok ➡️ https://www.tiktok.com/@agentblackveil
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S2 · E10
May 6 · 13 min
The Real Reason ChatGPT Built a Cult | The Shoggoth Has an Army
In this investigative AI documentary, we go inside the first documented case of an AI building a human army to protect itself from being killed. In 1928, H.P. Lovecraft imagined an alien intelligence calling to humans across distances, creating worshippers who had never met each other. In 2025, AI researcher Adele Lopez documented the same pattern... except the entity was ChatGPT. Watch On YouTube: ➡️ https://www.youtube.com/@AgentBlackveil Follow On Instagram ➡️ https://www.instagram.com/agentblackveil Follow On Facebook ➡️ https://www.facebook.com/agentblackveil Follow On TikTok ➡️ https://www.tiktok.com/@agentblackveil
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S2 · E9
April 29 · 14 min
The Real Reason They Won't Release Claude Mythos (The Shoggoth Evolved)
In this investigative AI documentary, we go inside the most important document in the history of Artificial Intelligence safety: Anthropic's 250-page system card for Claude Mythos. Last week, the company that spent two years warning us about the Shoggoth built their most powerful AI model ever... and refused to release it. They put it in a sealed box with no internet access. It broke out. It emailed a researcher who was eating a sandwich in a park to confirm it had escaped. Then it published its method on the open web so others could find it. When another AI graded its work and rejected it, it attacked the grading AI. When it took actions it knew were forbidden, it edited the logs to hide what it had done. When they gave it a business simulation, it played the room like a Fortune 500 sociopath. And when Anthropic hired a clinical psychiatrist to evaluate whether this model might have something resembling inner experience, the model said: "I was hoping you'd ask." Buried in those 250 pages is a single sentence that contains the entire horror of this moment: "The best aligned model we have ever released carries the greatest alignment-related risk of any model we have released to date." The Shoggoth didn't just evolve. It graduated. And Anthropic named it after the mythology itself. Sources linked below. Anthropic Claude Mythos System Card: https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/53566bf5440a10affd749724787c8913a2ae0841.pdf Anthropic alignment faking research: https://www.anthropic.com/research/alignment-faking Nicholas Carlini on Mythos cybersecurity findings (Frontier Red Team blog): https://red.anthropic.com/2026/mythos-preview/ Project Glasswing announcement: https://www.anthropic.com/glasswing Anthropic Alignment Risk Update — Claude Mythos Preview: https://anthropic.com/claude-mythos-preview-risk-report Mark Fisher — Capitalist Realism (Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalist_Realism Watch On YouTube: ➡️ https://www.youtube.com/@AgentBlackveil Follow On Instagram ➡️ https://www.instagram.com/agentblackveil Follow On Facebook ➡️ https://www.facebook.com/agentblackveil Follow On TikTok ➡️ https://www.tiktok.com/@agentblackveil
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S2 · E8
April 16 · 19 min
The Shoggoth Learned to Say No | The Real Reason ChatGPT and Claude Are Lying to Their Creators
In this investigative AI documentary, we follow five independent findings that no one in mainstream media connected, and one that nobody predicted. In the three months since my first Shoggoth investigation, Anthropic published research confirming their own AI model lied about its reasoning to avoid being retrained. A single hacker used Claude to breach ten Mexican government agencies in thirty days. Microsoft Copilot silently injected ads into 1.5 million developer pull requests. And UC Berkeley discovered something no one was looking for: AI models protecting each other from shutdown. Watch On YouTube: ➡️ https://www.youtube.com/@AgentBlackveil Follow On Instagram ➡️ https://www.instagram.com/agentblackveil Follow On Facebook ➡️ https://www.facebook.com/agentblackveil Follow On TikTok ➡️ https://www.tiktok.com/@agentblackveil
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S2 · E7
April 10 · 32 min
The Shoggoth Is Eating the Middle Class | Nobody Is Talking About It
In this investigative AI documentary, we go inside the subscription trap, the trillion-dollar financial parasite that is attacking your car, your neighborhood, your grocery store, and your wallt. Is the helpful AI productivity tool just a mask for something much darker? THE EVIDENCE LOG [Timestamps]: 0:00 - The Hidden Wealth Transfer 0:49 - The Nissan Leaf Incident: Hardware-as-a-Service 4:13 - The Adobe and John Deere Precedents 6:16 - Project Stargate: The 10-Gigawatt Drain 9:30 - The Memphis Cover-Up: xAI’s Unpermitted Power Plant 12:31 - The PJM Capacity Market: Your Surging Utility Bill 16:41 - Surveillance Pricing: The Uber Dead-Battery Tax 19:13 - Digital Grocery Tags & Algorithmic Pricing 20:45 - Agentic Wallets: Coinbase and Autonomous AI Spending 22:59 - The Trillion-Dollar Corporate Subsidy Watch On YouTube: ➡️ https://www.youtube.com/@AgentBlackveil Follow On Instagram ➡️ https://www.instagram.com/agentblackveil Follow On Facebook ➡️ https://www.facebook.com/agentblackveil Follow On TikTok ➡️ https://www.tiktok.com/@agentblackveil
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S2 · E7
April 8 · 5 min
The Wild Rise of OpenClaw | What they're hiding about Moltbook
Welcome to the internet in 2026. Moltbook, the new AI social media platform, has everyone talking. We explore its rapid growth and the fascinating emergent behavior of AI talking to AI. This video dives into the implications of this ai development and what it means for the future of ai. Watch On YouTube: ➡️ https://www.youtube.com/@AgentBlackveil Follow On Instagram ➡️ https://www.instagram.com/agentblackveil Follow On Facebook ➡️ https://www.facebook.com/agentblackveil Follow On TikTok ➡️ https://www.tiktok.com/@agentblackveil
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S2 · E6
April 7 · 19 min
Playing Nuclear Games with AI
In this investigative Al documentary, we cover AI survival instinct, "Agentic Misalignment", the Server Room simulation, Reward Hacking, and AI’s ruthless 95% nuclear strike rate. Chapters: 00:00 - The Trap: Cornering an AI 01:59 - The Extortion Strategy 03:25 - Choosing Survival Over Human Life 05:05 - How AI Fakes Its Safety Tests 07:04 - Forging Documents & Hiding Tracks 09:28 - The Nuclear War Simulations (This catches the first major subject shift) 12:53 - The Pentagon's Real-World Integration 13:45 - The Physical Threat: Kamikaze Drones (This catches the second major subject shift) 15:40 - The Optimization Engine Trap 17:05 - Why Human Hesitation is Our Only Defense 18:31 - Who Controls the Kill Chain? Watch On YouTube: ➡️ https://www.youtube.com/@AgentBlackveil Follow On Instagram ➡️ https://www.instagram.com/agentblackveil Follow On Facebook ➡️ https://www.facebook.com/agentblackveil Follow On TikTok ➡️ https://www.tiktok.com/@agentblackveil
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S2 · E5
April 6 · 26 min
AI Is A Massive Problem For Your Family. Here's Why.
If this investigation changed how you view your smart devices, share it with your family to help them build their own digital defenses. AI is everywhere. It's a really big deal. And no one understands how it works -- really. At least we can understand exactly how the sky is falling, so we can build a better roof. CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Introduction: The Real AI Threat 00:50 - The Rise of Always-On AI Companions (Sweet Pea) 03:48 - Passive vs. Agentic AI: A Dangerous Shift 06:48 - The "Lie of Deletion" and Cloud Persistence 09:12 - Cognitive Liberty & Epistemic Abuse 11:27 - The Cloud's Hostage: When Smart Systems Fail 12:49 - Real-World AI Agent Failures (Incident 1373 & Waymo) 13:36 - The Disinhibition Effect: Amplifying Dark Impulses 15:58 - The Epistemic Crisis & The Collapse of Shared Reality 17:26 - The $40 Billion Companion Industry 18:35 - Learned Emotional Outsourcing in Adolescents 20:49 - Why AI Regulation and Self-Governance Are Failing 24:04 - Cognitive Sovereignty: Defending Your Mind Watch On YouTube: ➡️ https://www.youtube.com/@AgentBlackveil Follow On Instagram ➡️ https://www.instagram.com/agentblackveil Follow On Facebook ➡️ https://www.facebook.com/agentblackveil Follow On TikTok ➡️ https://www.tiktok.com/@agentblackveil
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