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Fraud and mismanagement at University College Cork Thu Aug 28, 2025 18:30 | Calli Morganite
UCC has paid huge sums to a criminal professor
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Deliberate Design Flaw In ChatGPT-5 Sun Aug 17, 2025 08:04 | Mind Agent
Socratic Dialog Between ChatGPT-5 and Mind Agent Reveals Fatal and Deliberate 'Design by Construction' Flaw
This design flaw in ChatGPT-5's default epistemic mode subverts what the much touted ChatGPT-5 can do... so long as the flaw is not tickled, any usage should be fine---The epistemological question is: how would anyone in the public, includes you reading this (since no one is all knowing), in an unfamiliar domain know whether or not the flaw has been tickled when seeking information or understanding of a domain without prior knowledge of that domain???!
This analysis is a pretty unique and significant contribution to the space of empirical evaluation of LLMs that exist in AI public world... at least thus far, as far as I am aware! For what it's worth--as if anyone in the ChatGPT universe cares as they pile up on using the "PhD level scholar in your pocket".
According to GPT-5, and according to my tests, this flaw exists in all LLMs... What is revealing is the deduction GPT-5 made: Why ?design choice? starts looking like ?deliberate flaw?.
People are paying $200 a month to not just ChatGPT, but all major LLMs have similar Pro pricing! I bet they, like the normal user of free ChatGPT, stay in LLM's default mode where the flaw manifests itself. As it did in this evaluation.
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I have been evaluating AI Chatbot agents for their epistemic limits over the past two months, and have tested all major AI Agents, ChatGPT, Grok, Claude, Perplexity, and DeepSeek, for their epistemic limits and their negative impact as information gate-keepers.... Today I decided to test for how AI could be the boon for humanity in other positive areas, such as in completely abstract realms, such as metaphysical thought. Meaning, I wanted to test the LLMs for Positives beyond what most researchers benchmark these for, or have expressed in the approx. 2500 Turing tests in Humanity?s Last Exam.. And I chose as my first candidate, Google DeepMind's Gemini as I had not evaluated it before on anything.
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Israeli human rights group B'Tselem has finally admitted what everyone else outside Israel has known for two years is that the Israeli state is carrying out a genocide in Gaza
Western governments like the USA are complicit in it as they have been supplying the huge bombs and missiles used by Israel and dropped on innocent civilians in Gaza. One phone call from the USA regime could have ended it at any point. However many other countries are complicity with their tacit approval and neighboring Arab countries have been pretty spinless too in their support
With the release of this report titled: Our Genocide -there is a good chance this will make it okay for more people within Israel itself to speak out and do something about it despite the fact that many there are actually in support of the Gaza
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Jump To Comment: 2 1Aside from C.A.A.T. (& pals) and Janes Defence Weekly (told you above that's a specialist journal not a porn mag) no-one really watches defence expenditure. Makes it very easy to bill wrongly, run up false labour costs, & make a packet. With money which to be quite frank .:. ought go to the 3rd world and poor of the realm & peace bonus funds for the Basques.
the MOD (UK HMG Ministry of war) accepted the idea of building 2 Skynet satelites. Just in case the one which didn't get launched on March 11th (I'd find a war system particularly offensive on that date) but the next day - got effed up on the way.
A lot of reasons why it would get effed up on the way. ESA isn't HMG UK property. Quite a few people would like to see Skynet effed up before hand, on the way & once it's up there. There are some aspects of its design which push the envelope on strategic technological balance. Which I dear friends am agin. I'll tell you about the militarisation of space another time - maybe some day my idea for an indymedia global space site will be taken up. Anyway..............
If Skynet goes squeeky tick tock like clockwork - it is supposed to pay for itself over the forthcoming years by leasing out part of its bandwith. Not to you or me. It took "us lot" years to get satelite space by which time there were thousands of religious telly channels competing with porn movies coming down to us from space. The who and why of the leasing of that bandwith is........ too big an issue to touch on here......... I'll tell you more soon enough........(in a sunday papers). But just to give you a quick visual idea of the market who will be pitching (& it is a closed near cartel - almost all in the hands of one of the few lady US billionaires) here's a reminder of the Lebanon war - I asked you to consider whose telly war that was & to thus appreciate how important telly and other communication satelites are to us. That war began ostensibly over a border soldier hostage incident you'll remember. Low tech stuff - they never came back either :-
http://indymedia.ie/article/77517
the vote in the commons yesterday of course followed the technical "democratic" bit of Q&A which I linked to last night - then just about the stage of almost everyone in Westminster giving the green light to more Brit nukes - the Liberal Democrats raised a topic I haven't spotted on my radar in 2 years.
the SBIRS ( which is a US missile shield system read about it here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SBIRS )
Blair's defence secretaries of course clucked clucked "anyway anyway" that there are no plans on the table at the moment for the US to be allowed use British facilities as part of that shield. Indeed - the neocons want them out in the former warsaw pact. Which is dear reader one reason they want you or more specifically members of Congress in the USA to believe that Iran wants nukes. (remember ye are not members of congress - remember ye like me are scum - though probably most of you are higher paid scum than I am)
Touching the "non-subject" of SBIRS confirmed for those who read Jane's weekly (an august newspaper for army and special services types not a porn mag) that the British nuclear deterrent is "more independent" than ever before. OH yes. quite. ribbid. gurgle.
Then I remembered monday's space launch from ESA control centre on the north South American coast. Yes! the skynet system which got up there at a cost of £3.2bn. Skynet ought remind most of you the computer system in the fictional sci-fi series of movies "The Terminator" which of course were so good Arnold Schwarzenegger is now governor of California. Skynet will further ensure that the Brit Hun army and its nuclear deterrent continue to be ever so more "independent".....without technically saying or declaring that they are. Blair has not needed to a De Gaulle renegotiation of NATO - on the contrary the more independent of NATO HMG-UK becomes - the more control over NATO HMG-UK exerts.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6434773.stm
I'll not go out on a limb & speculate on the future use of this technology or of a Brit Hun nuke incident for the moment - save to say - I have long maintained that the HMG UK's (meaning the true ruling class not the elected meritocracy) interest was served by the Iraqi invasion in several ways -
(1) it ensured the discredit of new labour.
(2) it put the US where they wanted them - in a mess.
(3) it meant the discredit of the UN and its irksome burdens and limitations of imperial action for their own HMGUK "brit hun 21st century". As I said I'm not going out on a limb with this - most of it comes from having known etonians at various points in my life & noting how they think - in hundred year time spans. Suffice to say - The Brits have more Nukes and more tech to use them and less moral inhibition on thier use than at any stage since Mr Fuchs passed the Abomb secrets first to the Soviets & then to.....