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New comment by nervai in "Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots"

nervai — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 14:41:11 +0000

And the 40% of American Jews who believe Israel is a genocidal state [1]?

Are they motivated by bipartisan Jew hatred as well?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/10/06/jewish-am... [1]

New comment by nervai in "Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots"

nervai — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 13:25:06 +0000

As someone leaning left with big disagreements with the US right atm, I think the right in America would feel the same way if they felt their country's foreign, and to some extent domestic, policy was being hijacked by a small country in sub-Saharan Africa, or Asia (or Europe for that matter). They signed up for America First.

Foreign psyops campaign targeting American consumer AI (2025)

nervai — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 21:44:05 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ynetnews.com/tech-and-digital/article/rj00kxqzaxx

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49338098

Points: 3

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New comment by nervai in "Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots"

nervai — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 21:23:05 +0000

It's about an alleged psyops campaign targeting cutting edge and rapidly evolving technology we talk about here everyday.

Seems super on point to me.

New comment by nervai in "Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs"

nervai — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 23:28:30 +0000

I didn't read the paper in details but they claim there is high overlap between the synthetic traces and the ground truth ones (not sure how they confirmed that for blackbox models though, I guess they must have compared to open source models).

They also talk about successful distillation of black box model capabilities with the approach.

New comment by nervai in "London Underground begins scanning passengers' faces"

nervai — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 21:47:25 +0000

Well, this about protecting the state from people that threaten it or its policies. I don't think it ever was about making us live in a safer city.

Snatched your phone? Sorry mate. But some old lady better not be walking around with a tshirt that says "I support Palestine Action".

New comment by nervai in "Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs"

nervai — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 15:09:14 +0000

Really cool work, you get the actual traces. Looks like the vendors can all reliably fix this one though.

A harder to defend against approach here where they work backwards from the results and ask the model to generate a plausible trace: How to Steal Reasoning Without Reasoning Traces https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.07267

Google DeepMind workers in UK vote to unionize amid deal with US Military

nervai — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 15:29:27 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/04/google-deepmind-uk-workers-union

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49198056

Points: 2

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Trust is not Governance: an essay from inside Google DeepMind

nervai — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 15:18:41 +0000

Article URL: https://www.blackhc.net/essays/trust_is_not_governance/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48908187

Points: 3

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Google DeepMind workers in UK vote to unionize amid deal with US Military

nervai — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 11:53:25 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/04/google-deepmind-uk-workers-union

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48858680

Points: 4

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