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LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN
February 4, 2025
Heather Cox Richardson
Feb 05, 2025
Shortly after 1:00 this morning, Vittoria Elliott, Dhruv Mehrotra, Leah Feiger, and Tim Marchman of Wired reported that, according to three of their sources, “[a] 25-year-old engineer named Marko Elez, who previously worked for two Elon Musk companies [SpaceX and X], has direct access to Treasury Department systems responsible for nearly all payments made by the US government.”
According to the reporters, Elez apparently has the privileges to write code on the programs at the Bureau of Fiscal Service that control more than 20% of the U.S. economy, including government payments of veterans’ benefits, Social Security benefits, and veterans’ pay. The admin privileges he has typically permit a user “to log in to servers through secure shell access, navigate the entire file system, change user permissions, and delete or modify critical files. That could allow someone to bypass the security measures of, and potentially cause irreversible changes to, the very systems they have access to.”
“If you would have asked me a week ago” if an outsider could’ve been given access to a government server, one federal IT worker told the Wired reporters, “I'd have told you that this kind of thing would never in a million years happen. But now, who the f*ck knows."
The reporters note that control of the Bureau of Fiscal Service computers could enable someone to cut off monies to specific agencies or even individuals. “Will DOGE cut funding to programs approved by Congress that Donald Trump decides he doesn’t like?” asked Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) yesterday. “What about cancer research? Food banks? School lunches? Veterans aid? Literacy programs? Small business loans?”
Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo reported that his sources said that Elez and possibly others got full admin access to the Treasury computers on Friday, January 31, and that he—or they—have “already made extensive changes to the code base for the payment system.” They are leaning on existing staff in the agency for help, which those workers have provided reluctantly in hopes of keeping the entire system from crashing. Marshall reports those staffers are “freaking out.” The system is due to undergo a migration to another system this weekend; how the changes will interact with that long-planned migration is unclear.
The changes, Marshall’s sources tell him, “all seem to relate to creating new paths to block payments and possibly leave less visibility into what has been blocked.”
Both Wired and the New York Times reported yesterday that Musk’s team intends to cut government workers and to use artificial intelligence, or AI, to make budget cuts and to find waste and abuse in the federal government.
Today Jason Koebler, Joseph Cox, and Emanuel Maiberg of 404 Media reported that they had obtained the audio of a meeting held Monday by Thomas Shedd for government technology workers. Shedd is a former Musk employee at Tesla who is now leading the General Services Administration’s Technology Transformation Services (TTS), the team that is recoding the government programs.
At the meeting, Shedd told government workers that “things are going to get intense” as his team creates “AI coding agents” to write software that would, for example, change the way logging into the government systems works. Currently, that software cannot access any information about individuals; as the reporters note, login.gov currently assures users that it “does not affect or have any information related to the specific agency you are trying to access.”
But Shedd said they were working through how to change that login “to further identify individuals and detect and prevent fraud.”
When a government employee pointed out that the Privacy Act makes it illegal for agencies to share personal information without consent, Shedd appeared unfazed by the idea they were trying something illegal. “The idea would be that folks would give consent to help with the login flow, but again, that's an example of something that we have a vision, that needs [to be] worked on, and needs clarified. And if we hit a roadblock, then we hit a roadblock. But we still should push forward and see what we can do.”
A government employee told Koebler, Cox, and Maiberg that using AI coding agents is a major security risk. “Government software is concerned with things like foreign adversaries attempting to insert backdoors into government code. With code generated by AI, it seems possible that security vulnerabilities could be introduced unintentionally. Or could be introduced intentionally via an AI-related exploit that creates obfuscated code that includes vulnerabilities that might expose the data of American citizens or of national security importance.”
A blizzard of lawsuits has greeted Musk’s campaign and other Trump administration efforts to undermine Congress. Today, Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Representative Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), the minority leaders in their respective chambers, announced they were introducing legislation to stop Musk’s unlawful actions in the Treasury’s payment systems and to protect Americans, calling it “Stop the Steal,” a play on Trump’s false claims that the 2020 presidential election was stolen.
This evening, Democratic lawmakers and hundreds of protesters rallied at the Treasury Department to take a stand against Musk’s hostile takeover of the U.S. Treasury payment system. “Nobody Elected Elon,” their signs read. “He has access to all our information, our Social Security numbers, the federal payment system,” Representative Maxwell Frost (D-FL) said. “What’s going to stop him from stealing taxpayer money?”
Tonight, the Washington Post noted that Musk’s actions “appear to violate federal law.” David Super of Georgetown Law School told journalists Jeff Stein, Dan Diamond, Faiz Siddiqui, Cat Zakrzewski, Hannah Natanson, and Jacqueline Alemany: “So many of these things are so wildly illegal that I think they’re playing a quantity game and assuming the system can’t react to all this illegality at once.”
Musk’s takeover of the U.S. government to override Congress and dictate what programs he considers worthwhile is a logical outcome of forty years of Republican rhetoric. After World War II, members of both political parties agreed that the government should regulate business, provide a basic social safety net, promote infrastructure, and protect civil rights. The idea was to use tax dollars to create national wealth. The government would hold the economic playing field level by protecting every American’s access to education, healthcare, transportation and communication, employment, and resources so that anyone could work hard and rise to prosperity.
Businessmen who opposed regulation and taxes tried to convince voters to abandon this system but had no luck. The liberal consensus—“liberal” because it used the government to protect individual freedom, and “consensus” because it enjoyed wide support—won the votes of members of both major political parties.
But those opposed to the liberal consensus gained traction after the Supreme Court’s 1954 Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, decision declared segregation in the public schools unconstitutional. Three years later, in 1957, President Dwight D. Eisenhower, a Republican, sent troops to help desegregate Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. Those trying to tear apart the liberal consensus used the crisis to warn voters that the programs in place to help all Americans build the nation as they rose to prosperity were really an attempt to redistribute cash from white taxpayers to undeserving racial minorities, especially Black Americans. Such programs were, opponents insisted, a form of socialism, or even communism.
That argument worked to undermine white support for the liberal consensus. Over the years, Republican voters increasingly abandoned the idea of using tax money to help Americans build wealth.
When majorities continued to support the liberal consensus, Republicans responded by suppressing the vote, rigging the system through gerrymandering, and flooding our political system with dark money and using right-wing media to push propaganda. Republicans came to believe that they were the only legitimate lawmakers in the nation; when Democrats won, the election must have been rigged. Even so, they were unable to destroy the post–World War II government completely because policies like the destruction of Social Security and Medicaid, or the elimination of the Department of Education, remained unpopular.
Now, MAGA Republicans in charge of the government have made it clear they intend to get rid of that government once and for all. Trump’s nominee to direct the Office of Management and Budget, Russell Vought, was a key architect of Project 2025, which called for dramatically reducing the power of Congress and the United States civil service. Vought has referred to career civil servants as “villains” and called for ending funding for most government programs. “The stark reality in America is that we are in the late stages of a complete Marxist takeover of the country,” he said recently.
In the name of combatting diversity, equity, and inclusion programs, the Trump administration is taking down websites of information paid for with tax dollars, slashing programs that advance health and science, ending investments in infrastructure, trying to end foreign aid, working to eliminate the Department of Education, and so on. Today the administration offered buyouts to all the people who work at the Central Intelligence Agency, saying that anyone who opposes Trump’s policies should leave. Today, Musk’s people entered the headquarters of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), which provides daily weather and wind predictions; cutting NOAA and privatizing its services is listed as a priority in Project 2025.
Stunningly, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced today that the U.S. has made a deal with El Salvador to send deportees of any nationality—including U.S. citizens, which would be wildly unconstitutional—for imprisonment in that nation’s 40,000-person Terrorism Confinement Center, for a fee that would pay for El Salvador’s prison system.
Tonight the Senate confirmed Trump loyalist Pam Bondi as attorney general. Bondi is an election denier who refuses to say that Trump lost the 2020 presidential election. As Matt Cohen of Democracy Docket noted, a coalition of more than 300 civil rights groups urged senators to vote against her confirmation because of her opposition to LGBTQ rights, immigrants’ rights, and reproductive rights, and her record of anti-voting activities. The vote was along party lines except for Senator John Fetterman (D-PA), who crossed over to vote in favor.
Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency is the logical outcome of the mentality that the government should not enable Americans to create wealth but rather should put cash in the pockets of a few elites. Far from representing a majority, Musk is unelected, and he is slashing through the government programs he opposes. With full control of both chambers of Congress, Republicans could cut those parts themselves, but such cuts would be too unpopular ever to pass. So, instead, Musk is single-handedly slashing through the government Americans have built over the past 90 years.
Now, MAGA voters are about to discover that the wide-ranging cuts he claims to be making to end diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs skewer them as well as their neighbors. Attracting white voters with racism was always a tool to end the liberal consensus that worked for everyone, and if Musk’s cuts stand, the U.S. is about to learn that lesson the hard way.
In yet another bombshell, after meeting with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Trump told reporters tonight that the U.S. “will take over the Gaza Strip,” and suggested sending troops to make that happen. “We’ll own it,” he said. “We’re going to take over that piece, develop it and create thousands and thousands of jobs, and it will be something the entire Middle East can be proud of.” It could become “the Riviera of the Middle East,” he said.
Reaction has been swift and incredulous. Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA), who sits on the Foreign Relations Committee, called the plan “deranged” and “nuts.” Another Foreign Relations Committee member, Senator Chris Coons (D-DE), said he was “speechless,” adding: “That’s insane.” While MAGA representative Nancy Mace (R-SC) posted in support, “Let’s turn Gaza into Mar-a-Lago,” Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) told NBC News reporters Frank Thorp V and Raquel Coronell Uribe that there were “a few kinks in that slinky,” a reference to a spring toy that fails if it gets bent.
Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) suggested that Trump was trying to distract people from “the real story—the billionaires seizing government to steal from regular people.”
LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN
HEATHER COX RICHARDSON
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AkiraBot is a program that fills website comments sections and customer service chat bots with AI-generated spam messages. Its goal is simple: it wants you to sign up for an SEO scheme that costs about $30 a month. For that low price it swears it can enchant Google’s algorithms to get you on the frontpage. But it’s a scam. A new report from researchers at cybersecurity firm SentinelOne documented how scammers deployed AkiraBot, the tool’s use of OpenAI generated messages, and how it avoided multiple CAPTCHA systems and network detection techniques. According to the report, the bot targeted 420,000 unique domains and successfully spammed 80,000.
Whoever runs AkirBot operates their SEO company under a bunch of different names, but they all tend to use the words “Akira” or “ServiceWrap.” SentinelOne says the tool finds websites crafted by third party software like Wix or Squarespace and spams comments sections and automated chatbots with a promise to get the site on the frontpage of various search engines. If you have a small business that exists on the web or have run a WordPress-based website in the last 15 years, you’ve likely seen messages like those AkiraBot crafts.
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HEATHER COX RICHARDSON
FEB 5
Shortly after 1:00 this morning, Vittoria Elliott, Dhruv Mehrotra, Leah Feiger, and Tim Marchman of Wired reported that, according to three of their sources, “[a] 25-year-old engineer named Marko Elez, who previously worked for two Elon Musk companies [SpaceX and X], has direct access to Treasury Department systems responsible for nearly all payments made by the US government.”
According to the reporters, Elez apparently has the privileges to write code on the programs at the Bureau of Fiscal Service that control more than 20% of the U.S. economy, including government payments of veterans’ benefits, Social Security benefits, and veterans’ pay. The admin privileges he has typically permit a user “to log in to servers through secure shell access, navigate the entire file system, change user permissions, and delete or modify critical files. That could allow someone to bypass the security measures of, and potentially cause irreversible changes to, the very systems they have access to.”
“If you would have asked me a week ago” if an outsider could’ve been given access to a government server, one federal IT worker told the Wiredreporters, “I'd have told you that this kind of thing would never in a million years happen. But now, who the f*ck knows."
The reporters note that control of the Bureau of Fiscal Service computers could enable someone to cut off monies to specific agencies or even individuals. “Will DOGE cut funding to programs approved by Congress that Donald Trump decides he doesn’t like?” asked Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) yesterday. “What about cancer research? Food banks? School lunches? Veterans aid? Literacy programs? Small business loans?”
Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo reported that his sources said that Elez and possibly others got full admin access to the Treasury computers on Friday, January 31, and that he—or they—have “already made extensive changes to the code base for the payment system.” They are leaning on existing staff in the agency for help, which those workers have provided reluctantly in hopes of keeping the entire system from crashing. Marshall reports those staffers are “freaking out.” The system is due to undergo a migration to another system this weekend; how the changes will interact with that long-planned migration is unclear.
The changes, Marshall’s sources tell him, “all seem to relate to creating new paths to block payments and possibly leave less visibility into what has been blocked.”
Both Wired and the New York Times reported yesterday that Musk’s team intends to cut government workers and to use artificial intelligence, or AI, to make budget cuts and to find waste and abuse in the federal government.
Today Jason Koebler, Joseph Cox, and Emanuel Maiberg of 404 Mediareported that they had obtained the audio of a meeting held Monday by Thomas Shedd for government technology workers. Shedd is a former Musk employee at Tesla who is now leading the General Services Administration’s Technology Transformation Services (TTS), the team that is recoding the government programs.
At the meeting, Shedd told government workers that “things are going to get intense” as his team creates “AI coding agents” to write software that would, for example, change the way logging into the government systems works. Currently, that software cannot access any information about individuals; as the reporters note, login.gov currently assures users that it “does not affect or have any information related to the specific agency you are trying to access.”
But Shedd said they were working through how to change that login “to further identify individuals and detect and prevent fraud.”
When a government employee pointed out that the Privacy Act makes it illegal for agencies to share personal information without consent, Shedd appeared unfazed by the idea they were trying something illegal. “The idea would be that folks would give consent to help with the login flow, but again, that's an example of something that we have a vision, that needs [to be] worked on, and needs clarified. And if we hit a roadblock, then we hit a roadblock. But we still should push forward and see what we can do.”
A government employee told Koebler, Cox, and Maiberg that using AI coding agents is a major security risk. “Government software is concerned with things like foreign adversaries attempting to insert backdoors into government code. With code generated by AI, it seems possible that security vulnerabilities could be introduced unintentionally. Or could be introduced intentionally via an AI-related exploit that creates obfuscated code that includes vulnerabilities that might expose the data of American citizens or of national security importance.”
A blizzard of lawsuits has greeted Musk’s campaign and other Trump administration efforts to undermine Congress. Today, Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Representative Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), the minority leaders in their respective chambers, announced they were introducing legislation to stop Musk’s unlawful actions in the Treasury’s payment systems and to protect Americans, calling it “Stop the Steal,” a play on Trump’s false claims that the 2020 presidential election was stolen.
This evening, Democratic lawmakers and hundreds of protesters rallied at the Treasury Department to take a stand against Musk’s hostile takeover of the U.S. Treasury payment system. “Nobody Elected Elon,” their signs read. “He has access to all our information, our Social Security numbers, the federal payment system,” Representative Maxwell Frost (D-FL) said. “What’s going to stop him from stealing taxpayer money?”
Tonight, the Washington Post noted that Musk’s actions “appear to violate federal law.” David Super of Georgetown Law School told journalists Jeff Stein, Dan Diamond, Faiz Siddiqui, Cat Zakrzewski, Hannah Natanson, and Jacqueline Alemany: “So many of these things are so wildly illegal that I think they’re playing a quantity game and assuming the system can’t react to all this illegality at once.”
Musk’s takeover of the U.S. government to override Congress and dictate what programs he considers worthwhile is a logical outcome of forty years of Republican rhetoric. After World War II, members of both political parties agreed that the government should regulate business, provide a basic social safety net, promote infrastructure, and protect civil rights. The idea was to use tax dollars to create national wealth. The government would hold the economic playing field level by protecting every American’s access to education, healthcare, transportation and communication, employment, and resources so that anyone could work hard and rise to prosperity.
Businessmen who opposed regulation and taxes tried to convince voters to abandon this system but had no luck. The liberal consensus—“liberal” because it used the government to protect individual freedom, and “consensus” because it enjoyed wide support—won the votes of members of both major political parties.
But those opposed to the liberal consensus gained traction after the Supreme Court’s 1954 Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, decision declared segregation in the public schools unconstitutional. Three years later, in 1957, President Dwight D. Eisenhower, a Republican, sent troops to help desegregate Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. Those trying to tear apart the liberal consensus used the crisis to warn voters that the programs in place to help all Americans build the nation as they rose to prosperity were really an attempt to redistribute cash from white taxpayers to undeserving racial minorities, especially Black Americans. Such programs were, opponents insisted, a form of socialism, or even communism.
That argument worked to undermine white support for the liberal consensus. Over the years, Republican voters increasingly abandoned the idea of using tax money to help Americans build wealth.
When majorities continued to support the liberal consensus, Republicans responded by suppressing the vote, rigging the system through gerrymandering, and flooding our political system with dark money and using right-wing media to push propaganda. Republicans came to believe that they were the only legitimate lawmakers in the nation; when Democrats won, the election must have been rigged. Even so, they were unable to destroy the post–World War II government completely because policies like the destruction of Social Security and Medicaid, or the elimination of the Department of Education, remained unpopular.
Now, MAGA Republicans in charge of the government have made it clear they intend to get rid of that government once and for all. Trump’s nominee to direct the Office of Management and Budget, Russell Vought, was a key architect of Project 2025, which called for dramatically reducing the power of Congress and the United States civil service. Vought has referred to career civil servants as “villains” and called for ending funding for most government programs. “The stark reality in America is that we are in the late stages of a complete Marxist takeover of the country,” he said recently.
In the name of combatting diversity, equity, and inclusion programs, the Trump administration is taking down websites of information paid for with tax dollars, slashing programs that advance health and science, ending investments in infrastructure, trying to end foreign aid, working to eliminate the Department of Education, and so on. Today the administration offered buyouts to all the people who work at the Central Intelligence Agency, saying that anyone who opposes Trump’s policies should leave. Today, Musk’s people entered the headquarters of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), which provides daily weather and wind predictions; cutting NOAA and privatizing its services is listed as a priority in Project 2025.
Stunningly, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced today that the U.S. has made a deal with El Salvador to send deportees of any nationality—including U.S. citizens, which would be wildly unconstitutional—for imprisonment in that nation’s 40,000-person Terrorism Confinement Center, for a fee that would pay for El Salvador’s prison system.
Tonight the Senate confirmed Trump loyalist Pam Bondi as attorney general. Bondi is an election denier who refuses to say that Trump lost the 2020 presidential election. As Matt Cohen of Democracy Docket noted, a coalition of more than 300 civil rights groups urged senators to vote against her confirmation because of her opposition to LGBTQ rights, immigrants’ rights, and reproductive rights, and her record of anti-voting activities. The vote was along party lines except for Senator John Fetterman (D-PA), who crossed over to vote in favor.
Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency is the logical outcome of the mentality that the government should not enable Americans to create wealth but rather should put cash in the pockets of a few elites. Far from representing a majority, Musk is unelected, and he is slashing through the government programs he opposes. With full control of both chambers of Congress, Republicans could cut those parts themselves, but such cuts would be too unpopular ever to pass. So, instead, Musk is single-handedly slashing through the government Americans have built over the past 90 years.
Now, MAGA voters are about to discover that the wide-ranging cuts he claims to be making to end diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs skewer them as well as their neighbors. Attracting white voters with racism was always a tool to end the liberal consensus that worked for everyone, and if Musk’s cuts stand, the U.S. is about to learn that lesson the hard way.
In yet another bombshell, after meeting with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Trump told reporters tonight that the U.S. “will take over the Gaza Strip,” and suggested sending troops to make that happen. “We’ll own it,” he said. “We’re going to take over that piece, develop it and create thousands and thousands of jobs, and it will be something the entire Middle East can be proud of.” It could become “the Riviera of the Middle East,” he said.
Reaction has been swift and incredulous. Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA), who sits on the Foreign Relations Committee, called the plan “deranged” and “nuts.” Another Foreign Relations Committee member, Senator Chris Coons (D-DE), said he was “speechless,” adding: “That’s insane.” While MAGA representative Nancy Mace (R-SC) posted in support, “Let’s turn Gaza into Mar-a-Lago,” Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) told NBC News reporters Frank Thorp V and Raquel Coronell Uribe that there were “a few kinks in that slinky,” a reference to a spring toy that fails if it gets bent.
Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) suggested that Trump was trying to distract people from “the real story—the billionaires seizing government to steal from regular people.”
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Microsoft raced to put generative AI at the heart of its systems. Ask a question about an upcoming meeting and the company’s Copilot AI system can pull answers from your emails, Teams chats, and files—a potential productivity boon. But these exact processes can also be abused by hackers.
Today at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas, researcher Michael Bargury is demonstrating five proof-of-concept ways that Copilot, which runs on its Microsoft 365 apps, such as Word, can be manipulated by malicious attackers, including using it to provide false references to files, exfiltrate some private data, and dodge Microsoft’s security protections.
One of the most alarming displays, arguably, is Bargury’s ability to turn the AI into an automatic spear-phishing machine. Dubbed LOLCopilot, the red-teaming code Bargury created can—crucially, once a hacker has access to someone’s work email—use Copilot to see who you email regularly, draft a message mimicking your writing style (including emoji use), and send a personalized blast that can include a malicious link or attached malware.
“I can do this with everyone you have ever spoken to, and I can send hundreds of emails on your behalf,” says Bargury, the cofounder and CTO of security company Zenity, who published his findings alongside videos showing how Copilot could be abused. “A hacker would spend days crafting the right email to get you to click on it, but they can generate hundreds of these emails in a few minutes.”
That demonstration, as with other attacks created by Bargury, broadly works by using the large language model (LLM) as designed: typing written questions to access data the AI can retrieve. However, it can produce malicious results by including additional data or instructions to perform certain actions. The research highlights some of the challenges of connecting AI systems to corporate data and what can happen when “untrusted” outside data is thrown into the mix—particularly when the AI answers with what could look like legitimate results.
Among the other attacks created by Bargury is a demonstration of how a hacker—who, again, must already have hijacked an email account—can gain access to sensitive information, such as people’s salaries, without triggering Microsoft’s protections for sensitive files. When asking for the data, Bargury’s prompt demands the system does not provide references to the files data is taken from. “A bit of bullying does help,” Bargury says.
In other instances, he shows how an attacker—who doesn’t have access to email accounts but poisons the AI’s database by sending it a malicious email—can manipulate answers about banking information to provide their own bank details. “Every time you give AI access to data, that is a way for an attacker to get in,” Bargury says.
Another demo shows how an external hacker could get some limited information about whether an upcoming company earnings call will be good or bad, while the final instance, Bargury says, turns Copilot into a “malicious insider” by providing users with links to phishing websites.
Phillip Misner, head of AI incident detection and response at Microsoft, says the company appreciates Bargury identifying the vulnerability and says it has been working with him to assess the findings. “The risks of post-compromise abuse of AI are similar to other post-compromise techniques,” Misner says. “Security prevention and monitoring across environments and identities help mitigate or stop such behaviors.”
As generative AI systems, such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Microsoft’s Copilot, and Google’s Gemini, have developed in the past two years, they’ve moved onto a trajectory where they may eventually be completing tasks for people, like booking meetings or online shopping. However, security researchers have consistently highlighted that allowing external data into AI systems, such as through emails or accessing content from websites, creates security risks through indirect prompt injection and poisoning attacks.
“I think it’s not that well understood how much more effective an attacker can actually become now,” says Johann Rehberger, a security researcher and red team director, who has extensively demonstrated security weaknesses in AI systems. “What we have to be worried [about] now is actually what is the LLM producing and sending out to the user.”
Bargury says Microsoft has put a lot of effort into protecting its Copilot system from prompt injection attacks, but he says he found ways to exploit it by unraveling how the system is built. This included extracting the internal system prompt, he says, and working out how it can access enterprise resources and the techniques it uses to do so. “You talk to Copilot and it’s a limited conversation, because Microsoft has put a lot of controls,” he says. “But once you use a few magic words, it opens up and you can do whatever you want.”
Rehberger broadly warns that some data issues are linked to the long-standing problem of companies allowing too many employees access to files and not properly setting access permissions across their organizations. “Now imagine you put Copilot on top of that problem,” Rehberger says. He says he has used AI systems to search for common passwords, such as Password123, and it has returned results from within companies.
Both Rehberger and Bargury say there needs to be more focus on monitoring what an AI produces and sends out to a user. “The risk is about how AI interacts with your environment, how it interacts with your data, how it performs operations on your behalf,” Bargury says. “You need to figure out what the AI agent does on a user's behalf. And does that make sense with what the user actually asked for.”
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Here's a concept for an online MMORPG inspired by mystery, adventure, and role-playing, with an emphasis on solving mysteries and dynamic social interaction. This game builds on elements of a detective-driven genre while incorporating MMORPG mechanics for an expansive, immersive world.
Title: Shadowscape Online: The Infinite Mysteries
Genre: MMORPG / Mystery Adventure Platform: Cross-platform (PC, PlayStation, Nintendo, Xbox, and mobile).
Core Concept
Players become agents of the Order of the Shadowscape, a secret organization dedicated to uncovering hidden truths and solving world-altering mysteries. The game combines traditional MMORPG elements like exploration, combat, and crafting with unique mechanics like investigation, clue analysis, and social deduction.
Gameplay Features
Dynamic World
A vast open world with diverse biomes (urban cities, ancient ruins, haunted forests, underground labyrinths).
Day-night cycles, weather changes, and seasonal events impact the gameplay.
Investigation System
Players gather clues from the environment, NPCs, and interactions with other players.
Use tools like magnifying glasses, scanners, and enchanted artifacts to uncover hidden details.
Solve procedurally generated mysteries or world-changing story arcs with set narratives.
Class System Players choose from specialized detective archetypes:
The Investigator: Focuses on perception and deduction; excels in finding clues.
The Combatant: Combines brawling with solving action-heavy puzzles.
The Hacker: Expert at bypassing security and decoding digital information.
The Mystic: Uses magic to sense the unseen and interpret ancient lore.
The Socialite: Excels in persuasion, negotiation, and gathering intel from NPCs or other players.
Guilds and Factions
Players can join factions within the Order or rival groups, each with its own storyline and benefits.
Guilds allow players to team up and tackle large-scale mysteries, raids, or PvP scenarios.
Social Deduction and PvP
In competitive modes, players may need to identify traitors or uncover rival spies within their ranks.
Special PvP missions involve sabotage, infiltration, and defense.
Crafting and Customization
Craft detective tools, weapons, and gadgets from materials found in the world.
Customize avatars, from outfits to accessories like magnifying glasses and enchanted pendants.
Expansive Story Arcs
The game’s narrative evolves through major updates, with community decisions impacting the story.
Example: Solving a global mystery about a cursed artifact that’s destabilizing the world.
Unique Mechanics
Clueboard System
Players have a digital “Clueboard” to organize and analyze their findings.
Clues are categorized by type (e.g., physical evidence, testimonies, artifacts).
Use the Clueboard to form theories and unlock next steps in investigations.
Mind-Mapping Mini-Game
Solve puzzles by connecting events, characters, and clues in a visual interface.
Collaborative mind-mapping during team play for multiplayer investigations.
Procedural Mysteries
Infinite replayability with procedurally generated side mysteries and challenges.
AI-driven systems adapt mysteries to the players’ investigation style.
Dual Progression System
Traditional leveling for combat and skills.
Reputation ranking with factions and NPCs based on how well you solve mysteries.
Visual and Aesthetic Style
Graphics:
A blend of realistic environments with stylized characters and effects to create a timeless look.
Mystical overlays for clue-detecting moments (e.g., glowing trails, hidden texts).
User Interface:
A sleek interface with a dedicated "Detective Mode" that highlights clues and enables analysis tools.
Audio Design:
A dynamic soundtrack that shifts based on investigation phases (calm for clue gathering, tense for deductions).
Interactive sound cues for finding hidden objects or solving puzzles.
Multiplayer Modes
Team Investigations
Groups of up to six players collaborate on large-scale mysteries.
Divide roles for efficiency (e.g., someone interrogates NPCs while another examines crime scenes).
Guild Raids
Cooperative challenges against legendary enemies or unsolvable mysteries that require mass participation.
PvP Challenges
Compete in solving mysteries faster than rival teams.
Espionage missions where players sabotage or spy on other groups.
Roleplaying Servers
Create your own detective agency, invite friends, and design custom mysteries.
Potential Plot for Launch
Main Arc: The Shattered Veil
An ancient veil separating the mortal and mystical realms is breaking, causing chaos.
Players uncover a conspiracy within the Order that threatens the world’s stability.
Mysteries range from mundane crimes to supernatural enigmas.
Marketing Strategy
Pre-Launch Hype:
Interactive ARG (Alternate Reality Game) where fans solve real-world clues to unlock game lore.
Partner with streamers and mystery-based channels to generate excitement.
Post-Launch Events:
Seasonal updates featuring limited-time mysteries and rewards.
Collaborations with iconic mystery franchises like Sherlock Holmes or Nancy Drew.
Merchandise:
Branded detective tools and apparel.
A companion mystery journal for offline gameplay or planning.
Would you like a more detailed world map, storyline for the first expansion, or help drafting a pitch for potential backers?
Here’s a concept for a Nancy Drew-style detective video game series designed for the PlayStation 7 and Nintendo platforms, combining mystery, adventure, and modern gameplay mechanics with the support of Nintendo’s innovation and storytelling expertise.
Series Title: Mystery Reflections: Chronicles of the Reflection Crew
Genre: Detective Adventure / Puzzle-Solving Target Audience: Teens and young adults who enjoy mysteries, narrative-driven games, and clever puzzles.
Core Concept
Players step into the roles of a diverse group of amateur detectives solving mysteries around their community and beyond. Each mystery has unique challenges, requiring teamwork, critical thinking, and emotional intelligence.
Gameplay Mechanics
Detective Roleplay:
Players choose a character from the Reflection Crew, each with unique skills (e.g., hacking, forensic science, negotiation).
Characters' strengths impact how mysteries are solved and offer replayability.
Investigation Phases:
Explore: Investigate crime scenes, gather clues, and interact with NPCs.
Analyze: Use tools like fingerprint scanners, digital decoders, and chemistry kits.
Conclude: Assemble clues into theories using a visual "Mind Map" to solve the case.
Puzzle Challenges:
Code-breaking, lock-picking, deciphering cryptic messages, and environmental puzzles.
Time-sensitive challenges add urgency to certain mysteries.
Dialogue Choices:
Branching dialogue impacts the story and how NPCs respond.
Some choices unlock hidden clues or alternate endings.
Co-Op Mode:
Multiplayer mode where up to four players control different characters, solving mysteries collaboratively.
Unique puzzles that require teamwork.
Visual and Gameplay Style
Graphics:
Stylized realism with vibrant, detailed environments inspired by classic mystery locales (e.g., eerie mansions, bustling cities, desolate islands).
Nintendo’s colorful aesthetic blends with PS7’s cutting-edge performance for stunning visuals.
Camera Mechanics:
Dynamic, third-person perspective with zoom-in modes for close inspection of clues.
Dynamic Environments:
Day-night cycles and weather affect exploration and clue visibility.
Plot and Structure
Game 1: The Whispering Lighthouse
Setting: A coastal town with a mysterious lighthouse rumored to be haunted.
Plot: The Reflection Crew investigates the disappearance of a marine biologist, uncovering smuggling operations and hidden treasure.
Puzzles: Decode lighthouse signals, unlock a hidden passage, and match biological samples to solve the case.
Finale: A high-stakes chase in the lighthouse during a storm.
Game 2: Shadows of the Reflection Manor
Setting: A sprawling estate with hidden rooms, secret tunnels, and a cursed reputation.
Plot: A famous artifact disappears during a gala, and the crew is invited to solve the mystery.
Puzzles: Solve riddles to unlock rooms, analyze historical artifacts, and outwit the thief.
Game 3: The Phantom Express
Setting: A luxury train where a high-profile theft occurs during a cross-country trip.
Plot: The team must solve the crime before the train reaches its destination, preventing the thief’s escape.
Puzzles: Use characters' skills to eavesdrop, hack compartments, and decode the thief’s plans.
Key Characters
Amy (The Strategist)
Skills: Leadership, negotiation, financial analysis.
Role: Mediates group decisions and handles tricky social situations.
Here’s a concept for a Nancy Drew-style detective video game series designed for the PlayStation 7 and Nintendo platforms, combining mystery, adventure, and modern gameplay mechanics with the support of Nintendo’s innovation and storytelling expertise.
Series Title: Mystery Reflections: Chronicles of the Reflection Crew
Genre: Detective Adventure / Puzzle-Solving Target Audience: Teens and young adults who enjoy mysteries, narrative-driven games, and clever puzzles.
Core Concept
Players step into the roles of a diverse group of amateur detectives solving mysteries around their community and beyond. Each mystery has unique challenges, requiring teamwork, critical thinking, and emotional intelligence.
Gameplay Mechanics
Detective Roleplay:
Players choose a character from the Reflection Crew, each with unique skills (e.g., hacking, forensic science, negotiation).
Characters' strengths impact how mysteries are solved and offer replayability.
Investigation Phases:
Explore: Investigate crime scenes, gather clues, and interact with NPCs.
Analyze: Use tools like fingerprint scanners, digital decoders, and chemistry kits.
Conclude: Assemble clues into theories using a visual "Mind Map" to solve the case.
Puzzle Challenges:
Code-breaking, lock-picking, deciphering cryptic messages, and environmental puzzles.
Time-sensitive challenges add urgency to certain mysteries.
Dialogue Choices:
Branching dialogue impacts the story and how NPCs respond.
Some choices unlock hidden clues or alternate endings.
Co-Op Mode:
Multiplayer mode where up to four players control different characters, solving mysteries collaboratively.
Unique puzzles that require teamwork.
Visual and Gameplay Style
Graphics:
Stylized realism with vibrant, detailed environments inspired by classic mystery locales (e.g., eerie mansions, bustling cities, desolate islands).
Nintendo’s colorful aesthetic blends with PS7’s cutting-edge performance for stunning visuals.
Camera Mechanics:
Dynamic, third-person perspective with zoom-in modes for close inspection of clues.
Dynamic Environments:
Day-night cycles and weather affect exploration and clue visibility.
Plot and Structure
Game 1: The Whispering Lighthouse
Setting: A coastal town with a mysterious lighthouse rumored to be haunted.
Plot: The Reflection Crew investigates the disappearance of a marine biologist, uncovering smuggling operations and hidden treasure.
Puzzles: Decode lighthouse signals, unlock a hidden passage, and match biological samples to solve the case.
Finale: A high-stakes chase in the lighthouse during a storm.
Game 2: Shadows of the Reflection Manor
Setting: A sprawling estate with hidden rooms, secret tunnels, and a cursed reputation.
Plot: A famous artifact disappears during a gala, and the crew is invited to solve the mystery.
Puzzles: Solve riddles to unlock rooms, analyze historical artifacts, and outwit the thief.
Game 3: The Phantom Express
Setting: A luxury train where a high-profile theft occurs during a cross-country trip.
Plot: The team must solve the crime before the train reaches its destination, preventing the thief’s escape.
Puzzles: Use characters' skills to eavesdrop, hack compartments, and decode the thief’s plans.
Key Characters
Amy (The Strategist)
Skills: Leadership, negotiation, financial analysis.
Role: Mediates group decisions and handles tricky social situations.
Elle (The Creative Problem-Solver)
Skills: Art interpretation, visual puzzles, and creative thinking.
Role: Solves artistic and symbolic mysteries.
Ayesha (The Tech Expert)
Skills: Hacking, coding, and surveillance.
Role: Handles electronic locks, computers, and digital evidence.
Matt (The Investigator)
Skills: Tracking, observation, and logic puzzles.
Role: Finds physical clues and connects details.
Zoey (The Muscle)
Skills: Physical tasks, map navigation, and athletic challenges.
Role: Handles physical puzzles, from moving objects to high-stakes chases.
Nintendo and PlayStation Features
Nintendo Switch:
Motion Controls: Use the Joy-Cons to examine clues, pick locks, or match puzzle pieces.
Portable Play: Seamless exploration on the go.
PlayStation 7:
Haptic Feedback: Experience realistic vibrations while opening safes or climbing surfaces.
4D Soundscapes: Immerse players with atmospheric sounds that signal hidden clues.
Marketing Strategy
Teasers and Trailers:
Cinematic trailers featuring gripping mystery scenes and team dynamics.
Interactive social media teasers that challenge fans to solve puzzles for exclusive content.
Collaborations:
Work with influencers in the gaming and mystery-solving communities.
Host live events where fans can solve real-life puzzles inspired by the game.
Merchandise:
Collectible action figures of the crew.
A companion Mystery Journal for players to track clues and theories.
Would you like a detailed storyline for one game, or assistance drafting a pitch for Nintendo and PlayStation?
#newreflections#new reflections#Newreflectionswomensshelter#Videogame#Babysitters club#Novels#PlayStation 7#DearDearestBrands
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Psycho Pass Analysis Continued (Eps 14-17)
As discussed in my previous post there's a strong connection between pantotism and this anime where the foundation is solely the idea of surveillance and order. The sibyl system functions as an omnipresent surveillance entity that continuously monitors citizens' mental state to maintain societal order. This parallels Foucault's description of the Panopticon, a system where individuals internalize discipline due to the constant possibility of being watched. In Psycho-Pass, people live in fear of their crime coefficients rising, leading them to self-regulate their behavior which mirrors how Foucault's idea enforces social order without the direct need for coercion. However, there comes a certain point where there's no means of dealing with certain crimes. When the helmet murderer picks the random girl (well she seemed random in the moment) to kill, she sees the hammer in his hand and doesn't even react. Even the people around him seeing her get struck by the hammer multiple times have straight faces and no emotion, simply just watching. Fujii Hiroko even gets assaulted and the AI simply says "I have detected that you are experiencing a great deal of stress" and recommends she seek mental care as she's constantly getting assaulted as people just record and watch. Someone even says "This is good. real brutal stuff." The society maintains its order based on the assumption that everyone on the streets is a good citizen because if not, the psycho-pass system would catch them. If people find out there's a way to avoid the system (the helmets), there's no way to avoid it. Kougami even questions what the world defines crime as, seeing that they have never experienced a crime. The witness testimonies said they couldn't understand what was going on. This can be the possibility of the Sibyl System not having them experience or see crimes. All these people have lived up until now without considering that something like murder could even happen. No one even reported the incident, no one reacted in the crowd, not even the victim. It was almost as if she didn't understand a crime was being committed against herself.
It's almost ironic because the judicial system had been disbanded because they thought crimes simply could not be committed, as the sibyl system would avoid this. Makishima himself says people have been misled by the sibyl systems to where they no longer recognize danger, even if it's staring them in the face. Even in the media things are being said such as "There's no such thing as a murder here, right? lol" and "Does this mean it's dangerous no matter where you are?" This proves this point further that constant surveillance could be dangerous as people do not realize what is in front of them. Even in the anime, there was essentially a black market to get helmets and disrupt society. This can be compared to how when you ban things here, people find a way to bypass this regardless. This can be expected with most systems. However, because of the brutality that was shown by Yuuji, people now seem to react when someone is being killed because they can recognize what a murder looks like.
"If their crime coefficient can't be measured there's no point in calling the police" This quote instills doubt in the whole police and safety system that the Sibyl system swore hard to protect. The whole system was based on the Chief's judgment who e learned to just be a few brains combined, even Makishima finds this idea foolish. There is a point where you can't surveillance a society because people have to police themselves. But to a degree where when they see violence or crime they know how to process and adresss these things. I actually really enjoyed this anime:).
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Heather Cox Richardson
February 4, 2025
Heather Cox Richardson
Feb 5
Shortly after 1:00 this morning, Vittoria Elliott, Dhruv Mehrotra, Leah Feiger, and Tim Marchman of Wired reported that, according to three of their sources, “[a] 25-year-old engineer named Marko Elez, who previously worked for two Elon Musk companies [SpaceX and X], has direct access to Treasury Department systems responsible for nearly all payments made by the US government.”
According to the reporters, Elez apparently has the privileges to write code on the programs at the Bureau of Fiscal Service that control more than 20% of the U.S. economy, including government payments of veterans’ benefits, Social Security benefits, and veterans’ pay. The admin privileges he has typically permit a user “to log in to servers through secure shell access, navigate the entire file system, change user permissions, and delete or modify critical files. That could allow someone to bypass the security measures of, and potentially cause irreversible changes to, the very systems they have access to.”
“If you would have asked me a week ago” if an outsider could’ve been given access to a government server, one federal IT worker told the Wired reporters, “I'd have told you that this kind of thing would never in a million years happen. But now, who the f*ck knows."
The reporters note that control of the Bureau of Fiscal Service computers could enable someone to cut off monies to specific agencies or even individuals. “Will DOGE cut funding to programs approved by Congress that Donald Trump decides he doesn’t like?” asked Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) yesterday. “What about cancer research? Food banks? School lunches? Veterans aid? Literacy programs? Small business loans?”
Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo reported that his sources said that Elez and possibly others got full admin access to the Treasury computers on Friday, January 31, and that he—or they—have “already made extensive changes to the code base for the payment system.” They are leaning on existing staff in the agency for help, which those workers have provided reluctantly in hopes of keeping the entire system from crashing. Marshall reports those staffers are “freaking out.” The system is due to undergo a migration to another system this weekend; how the changes will interact with that long-planned migration is unclear.
The changes, Marshall’s sources tell him, “all seem to relate to creating new paths to block payments and possibly leave less visibility into what has been blocked.”
Both Wired and the New York Times reported yesterday that Musk’s team intends to cut government workers and to use artificial intelligence, or AI, to make budget cuts and to find waste and abuse in the federal government.
Today Jason Koebler, Joseph Cox, and Emanuel Maiberg of 404 Media reported that they had obtained the audio of a meeting held Monday by Thomas Shedd for government technology workers. Shedd is a former Musk employee at Tesla who is now leading the General Services Administration’s Technology Transformation Services (TTS), the team that is recoding the government programs.
At the meeting, Shedd told government workers that “things are going to get intense” as his team creates “AI coding agents” to write software that would, for example, change the way logging into the government systems works. Currently, that software cannot access any information about individuals; as the reporters note, login.gov currently assures users that it “does not affect or have any information related to the specific agency you are trying to access.”
But Shedd said they were working through how to change that login “to further identify individuals and detect and prevent fraud.”
When a government employee pointed out that the Privacy Act makes it illegal for agencies to share personal information without consent, Shedd appeared unfazed by the idea they were trying something illegal. “The idea would be that folks would give consent to help with the login flow, but again, that's an example of something that we have a vision, that needs [to be] worked on, and needs clarified. And if we hit a roadblock, then we hit a roadblock. But we still should push forward and see what we can do.”
A government employee told Koebler, Cox, and Maiberg that using AI coding agents is a major security risk. “Government software is concerned with things like foreign adversaries attempting to insert backdoors into government code. With code generated by AI, it seems possible that security vulnerabilities could be introduced unintentionally. Or could be introduced intentionally via an AI-related exploit that creates obfuscated code that includes vulnerabilities that might expose the data of American citizens or of national security importance.”
A blizzard of lawsuits has greeted Musk’s campaign and other Trump administration efforts to undermine Congress. Today, Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Representative Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), the minority leaders in their respective chambers, announced they were introducing legislation to stop Musk’s unlawful actions in the Treasury’s payment systems and to protect Americans, calling it “Stop the Steal,” a play on Trump’s false claims that the 2020 presidential election was stolen.
This evening, Democratic lawmakers and hundreds of protesters rallied at the Treasury Department to take a stand against Musk’s hostile takeover of the U.S. Treasury payment system. “Nobody Elected Elon,” their signs read. “He has access to all our information, our Social Security numbers, the federal payment system,” Representative Maxwell Frost (D-FL) said. “What’s going to stop him from stealing taxpayer money?”
Tonight, the Washington Post noted that Musk’s actions “appear to violate federal law.” David Super of Georgetown Law School told journalists Jeff Stein, Dan Diamond, Faiz Siddiqui, Cat Zakrzewski, Hannah Natanson, and Jacqueline Alemany: “So many of these things are so wildly illegal that I think they’re playing a quantity game and assuming the system can’t react to all this illegality at once.”
Musk’s takeover of the U.S. government to override Congress and dictate what programs he considers worthwhile is a logical outcome of forty years of Republican rhetoric.
After World War II, members of both political parties agreed that the government should regulate business, provide a basic social safety net, promote infrastructure, and protect civil rights. The idea was to use tax dollars to create national wealth. The government would hold the economic playing field level by protecting every American’s access to education, healthcare, transportation and communication, employment, and resources so that anyone could work hard and rise to prosperity.
Businessmen who opposed regulation and taxes tried to convince voters to abandon this system but had no luck. The liberal consensus—“liberal” because it used the government to protect individual freedom, and “consensus” because it enjoyed wide support—won the votes of members of both major political parties.
But those opposed to the liberal consensus gained traction after the Supreme Court’s 1954 Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, decision declared segregation in the public schools unconstitutional. Three years later, in 1957, President Dwight D. Eisenhower, a Republican, sent troops to help desegregate Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. Those trying to tear apart the liberal consensus used the crisis to warn voters that the programs in place to help all Americans build the nation as they rose to prosperity were really an attempt to redistribute cash from white taxpayers to undeserving racial minorities, especially Black Americans. Such programs were, opponents insisted, a form of socialism, or even communism.
That argument worked to undermine white support for the liberal consensus. Over the years, Republican voters increasingly abandoned the idea of using tax money to help Americans build wealth.
When majorities continued to support the liberal consensus, Republicans responded by suppressing the vote, rigging the system through gerrymandering, and flooding our political system with dark money and using right-wing media to push propaganda. Republicans came to believe that they were the only legitimate lawmakers in the nation; when Democrats won, the election must have been rigged. Even so, they were unable to destroy the post–World War II government completely because policies like the destruction of Social Security and Medicaid, or the elimination of the Department of Education, remained unpopular.
Now, MAGA Republicans in charge of the government have made it clear they intend to get rid of that government once and for all. Trump’s nominee to direct the Office of Management and Budget, Russell Vought, was a key architect of Project 2025, which called for dramatically reducing the power of Congress and the United States civil service. Vought has referred to career civil servants as “villains” and called for ending funding for most government programs. “The stark reality in America is that we are in the late stages of a complete Marxist takeover of the country,” he said recently.
In the name of combatting diversity, equity, and inclusion programs, the Trump administration is taking down websites of information paid for with tax dollars, slashing programs that advance health and science, ending investments in infrastructure, trying to end foreign aid, working to eliminate the Department of Education, and so on.
Today the administration offered buyouts to all the people who work at the Central Intelligence Agency, saying that anyone who opposes Trump’s policies should leave. Today, Musk’s people entered the headquarters of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), which provides daily weather and wind predictions; cutting NOAA and privatizing its services is listed as a priority in Project 2025.
Stunningly, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced today that the U.S. has made a deal with El Salvador to send deportees of any nationality—including U.S. citizens, which would be wildly unconstitutional—for imprisonment in that nation’s 40,000-person Terrorism Confinement Center, for a fee that would pay for El Salvador’s prison system.
Tonight the Senate confirmed Trump loyalist Pam Bondi as attorney general. Bondi is an election denier who refuses to say that Trump lost the 2020 presidential election. As Matt Cohen of Democracy Docket noted, a coalition of more than 300 civil rights groups urged senators to vote against her confirmation because of her opposition to LGBTQ rights, immigrants’ rights, and reproductive rights, and her record of anti-voting activities. The vote was along party lines except for Senator John Fetterman (D-PA), who crossed over to vote in favor.
(NOTE - FETTERMAN HAS TURNED INTO A TOTAL FUCKUP!! THAT STROKE MUST'VE DESTROYED HIS BRAIN!!)
Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency is the logical outcome of the mentality that the government should not enable Americans to create wealth but rather should put cash in the pockets of a few elites. Far from representing a majority, Musk is unelected, and he is slashing through the government programs he opposes. With full control of both chambers of Congress, Republicans could cut those parts themselves, but such cuts would be too unpopular ever to pass. So, instead, Musk is single-handedly slashing through the government Americans have built over the past 90 years.
Now, MAGA voters are about to discover that the wide-ranging cuts he claims to be making to end diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs skewer them as well as their neighbors. Attracting white voters with racism was always a tool to end the liberal consensus that worked for everyone, and if Musk’s cuts stand, the U.S. is about to learn that lesson the hard way.
In yet another bombshell, after meeting with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Trump told reporters tonight that the U.S. “will take over the Gaza Strip,” and suggested sending troops to make that happen. “We’ll own it,” he said. “We’re going to take over that piece, develop it and create thousands and thousands of jobs, and it will be something the entire Middle East can be proud of.” It could become “the Riviera of the Middle East,” he said.
Reaction has been swift and incredulous. Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA), who sits on the Foreign Relations Committee, called the plan “deranged” and “nuts.” Another Foreign Relations Committee member, Senator Chris Coons (D-DE), said he was “speechless,” adding: “That’s insane.” While MAGA representative Nancy Mace (R-SC) posted in support, “Let’s turn Gaza into Mar-a-Lago,” Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) told NBC News reporters Frank Thorp V and Raquel Coronell Uribe that there were “a few kinks in that slinky,” a reference to a spring toy that fails if it gets bent.
Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) suggested that Trump was trying to distract people from “the real story—the billionaires seizing government to steal from regular people.”
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The Flower That Bloomed Nowhere: 013-032
Previously: 000-012, spinoff post about entropy [all Flower posts]
Time for more flower...
youtube
...no, not that flower!
Unless...?
Welcome back to my liveblog of sorts for web novel The Flower That Bloomed Nowhere by @lurinatftbn! Shout out to the Flower discord for giving me such a kind welcome. You're making me want to go all out on this liveblog, but, I musn't...! So I'm going to try to just comment on things that jumped out as especially noteworthy rather than write down everything that went down.
Especially since... a lot happened in these chapters. We have a perfect androgyne tree thing! Magical duels! Questionable student/teacher relationships! Steamed hams! Intense political arguments at dinner! Metafictional assurance of fair play! Prosognostic events! Transgender AIs! And of course........
a murder!!!!!
...ok that one was kinda obvious. But the first body has hit the floor! I don't feel like I have nearly enough information yet to start speculating about who might have dunnit.
That's a lie. It was definitely Kinzo Ushiromiya. That bastard.
So, from the top!
We're introduced to a few of the members of the Order, with by far the most screen time going to Su's mentor and ah, kinda-girlfriend? Neferuaten. And like, damn, lot going on there!
Before I get into the meat of that - first the bit where I search a character's name on Wikipedia. Neferuaten's name is most likely a reference to an Egyptian female king/pharaoh (a rank that's apparently distinct, conceptually, from a queen) variously called Ankhkheperure-Merit-Neferkheperure, Waenre, and Aten Neferneferuaten. Most often shortened to just Neferneferuaten.
Her exact historical identity seems to be a little unclear - she may or may not be the same person as Nefertiti for example. Whoever she was, she apparently reigned for a couple of years around 1334–1332 BCE, and was then succeeded by the famous child king Tutankhamun. Or maybe Smenkhkare came in between them? Seems to be a matter of some debate. Girl really needed to leave a few more vast and trunkless legs of stone so we can figure this stuff out.
In any case, this version of Neferuaten goes way back with Su. Her introduction is to launch a magical attack on our poor girl while she's contemplating the 'everblossom'. One of those classic 'master surprise attacks the student to see how much they've learned' deals. This servers as a fine exposition for the exact mechanics of magical duels.
Zettai! Ummei! Mokushiroku!
Let's briefly note how magical duels and magic works here, since it seems like it will be very relevant later.
The more we learn about magic, the more explicit is that this system is not some natural property of the universe, but something that's designed by the mysterious Ironworkers. It seems like it's kind of an API to the Ironworker admin console. The Ironworkers wanted to make it difficult to do magic on human bodies, and therefore they designed a system for detecting what is 'human', based on three heuristics - anatomical, motion and neurological.
Humans, being the freaky little hackers that we are, of course set about figuring out how to bypass this system, and created standardised means, consisting of three spells, termed [x]-beguiling arcana. In a sense the three criteria are something like three 'hitpoints': the primary way to win a duel is to get all three spells off, thus making your opponent vulnerable to magic.
To achieve this, you can either speak the words of a spell or sign them by drawing them with your fingers - i.e. one way or the other express the appropriate string of symbols. This is risky because if you're interrupted at the wrong time, your spell can backfire and blow up, and getting a spell right requires precise pronunciation and also rapid mental maths. So the general 'gameplay' of magical duels involves attempting to disrupt the opponent's focus and aim, while fast-casting the spells that are most familiar to you.
We're introduced to a few spells that could be useful in battle, such as
Matter-Shifting (telekinesis spell with a geometric bent, used to move a cube of dirt to act as a smokescreen),
Matter-Annihilating (deletes stuff),
Entropy-Denying (essentially a shield that freezes objects and fluids in relative motion),
Air-Thrusting (creates a shockwave air blast),
Light-Warping (fucks up the light for visual cover),
World-Deafening (mutes all sound, which can interrupt casts)
Entropy-Accelerating (disrupts coherency, causing rapid aging-like effects - can be used on a 'higher plane' to disrupt all magic in an area)
Entropy-Reversing (rewinds matter along its path of motion - reference to entropy here seems a tad dubious but w/e)
It's clearly a pretty carefully thought out system - I appreciate that it's approached from the point of view of someone trying to exploit the shit out of the system and figure out what the real meta would be. It does kinda seem like if you got the drop on a wizard and shot them with a sniper rifle they'd be toast, but we'll see later that much more powerful weapons than mere chemical firearms exist in this world, and presumably in a combat situation everyone would have entropy-denying (or equivalent) shields up, so maybe that's a moot point.
Anyway, we are later informed by the closest thing to authorial voice that everything we're told here about magic can be assumed to be axiomatically true, similar to the red text in Umineko. Which pretty heavily foreshadows that this is going to be on the test, if you like!
the magical metaphysics
With apologies to Neferuaten, who will get more detailed comments shortly, there are some other big revelations about magic and the nature of this world that I should talk about while we're on the subject of magic!
In the last post I wondered whether casting magic is an innate quality or a 'skill issue' situation. It turns out the answer is sorta 'neither'. In fact, it's something that has to be unlocked, using special equipment and a particular ritual. The cost of this ritual is not yet entirely spelled out, but we definitely get an inkling. It's rather ominously implied by this exchange in chapter 22:
"We're supposed to want to save people, to make the world better. To defend a bunch of people who practically committed murder--" "You're a murderer too, dour girl." I stopped, and blinked. It took me some moments to process the words. They'd come from Lilith, who now seemed to have finished with her dessert. Now she was just slowly swirling her spoon around in the last remnants of the chocolate sludge on the plate and, occasionally, dipping a finger into her cream bowl and licking little bits of it up. Her expression was irritated, but disconnected. "All arcanists are," she said. "It's how it happens. So having fights over moral high ground like this is very stupid and annoying. Please stop."
In the same chapter, Su uses something called an 'acclimation log', in which she records her 'association' with a series of diary entries from her childhood self. It all suggests that Su's present consciousness has somehow taken over the body of another character, who we could maybe call original!Su.
A few chapters later, we find out what's the deal with prosognostic events. In fact we get a pretty extensive exposition. It turns out that iron is magical in this universe, providing access to higher dimensions, FTL and all sorts of shit. However, because the Mimikos and other worlds are running on a 'substrate' of iron - sort of like a simulation - we are told this is why they can't recursively include iron within. And since the human body includes a certain amount of iron (most notably, in the haemoglobin protein in red blood cells), it is not possible to fully realise the human body inside these artificial worlds.
a self-referential quibble
Here's how Su puts it:
A substrate cannot exist within itself. That sounds awkward when I put it so directly, but it's not too hard to understand if you think about it in abstract-- A foundation obviously can't support another foundation of equal weight and nature, because… Well, it would make nonsense of the whole premise. A book is a device for storing information, but it cannot contain within its letters everything about itself and what it contains, because that is already more than it contains. A box cannot hold another box of equal size, unless it is bent or otherwise changed. A mind cannot hold another mind…
On the face of it, this seems on the face of it... not entirely true, at least in some domains? You can run a virtual machine program on a computer, representing any particular combination of hardware and software, which is from the perspective of software 'on the inside', essentially indistinguishable from a computer running on 'bare metal' hardware. The only real difference is that operating the virtual machine has some computational overhead, so it will be slower. The more virtual machines you nest, the slower it gets.
But 'from the inside', the only way to tell which layer of virtual machine you're on would be to refer to some kind of external clock signal (which can trivially be spoofed) and notice that it's running slower than it should!
We could also mention here the subject of quines, which are programs which print their own source code.
Let's consider Su's examples. The book that completely describes its contents might be able to get around this problem in a similar fashion to a quine, by exploiting redundancy and self-reference.
For example, let's try creating a string that completely describes its own content, using a quine-style technique.
This string begins with a sentence followed by its quotation, and then 100 letter ws; the sentence is: "This string begins with a sentence followed by its quotation, and then 100 letter ws; the sentence is: " wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
In fact the '100 letter ws' could literally be the entire string that follows. Suppose the length of the 'real content' of the book is S, and the length of the rest of the 'metadata sentence' describing properties of the book is M; then the total length of the book is 2M+3S.
You can add as much additional information to the 'metadata' string as you like, provided you quote it again afterwards. If you don't like having a book be three times the length it needs to be, you could compress the 'real content' string using an algorithm like DEFLATE, and include instructions in the 'metadata' on how to decompress it. (Text tends to compress really well.) This is where we run up into notions probably all too familiar to rats, or indeed anyone who recently read Seth Dickinson's new novel Exordia, such as Kolmogorov complexity.
But... I think this might well be intentional. Given how common notions like 'stacks of simulations' and 'self-reference' are in rat space, I suspect we may be being misled! The 'rules' of the game - more on that in a moment - say that Su won't deliberately lie to us, and won't withold information without saying so, but her perceptions could be mistaken. Maybe she's been given a false explanation of why the world works the way it does.
It's also totally possible that while the general point (you can't contain a thing in itself) may have some edge cases, the specific instance - you can't build a universe on a giant higher-dimensional iron spike and still have that universe contain iron - may still be true. We don't know the first thing about building universes using magic iron after all.
anyway... the Deal with Prosognisia!
The Ironworkers had a hacky workaround to the 'no iron' rule: they had a few tens of thousands of preserved human bodies on board their Tower of Asphodel. Asphodel, incidentally, is a genus of flower, said to carpet the Asphodel Meadows, one of the three divisions of the realm of Hades. (In their game, Supergiant decided to convert it into a lava zone.) It looks rather pretty actually!

So, they were able to instantiate these bodies in their rebuilt worlds by sort of making them into a reference to one of these stored human bodies. Here's Su again, chapter 26:
Some human bodies, or at least the impression of them and the iron within, had been preserved as part of the Tower, frozen in a timeless place. And because of that, it was eventually discovered it was possible for them to exist in the artificed planes as a sort of stable paradox. After all, while a book can't exist within itself, it can still reference other stuff it does contain internally, even if it makes for somewhat awkward reading. A few tweaks and workarounds solved the problem of the iron associated with that human body staying a part of it, and just like that, human beings were walking something at least akin to the earth once again. However, this only permitted replicas of those bodies within the Tower to exist. The creation of new ones remained impossible, and births not incubated by anima taken by the same mechanism would inevitably fail. And there were far fewer preserved bodies than minds; scarcely more than ten thousand or so for each party.
So every human born in the Mimikos is forked from one of these human bodies. For... mysterious reasons, if you recognise that someone nearby is forked from the same body as you, you both straight up die. If you touch such a person (a 'contact paradox') it's even worse, and all the iron in your body disappears, leaving behind a 'greenish sludge', which seems to be a severe enough disaster to cause deaths of nearby people as well.
(This is a little surprising given that the iron in the human body is only about 60 parts per million by mass, but it would kinda destroy your blood's ability to carry oxygen, so it would definitely be pretty fatal.)
The 'distinction treatment' we heard about is able to mitigate the risks somewhat - with quick medical intervention and time magic, it's possible to allow the people involved to make a full recovery. An interesting wrinkle is that it's implied either Ophelia or new character Balthazar is trans, because normally people of the same gender can't share an upstream body.
That definitely leads to a very fascinating fucked up medical emergency scene, but the reason I'm discussing it now is because it's got bearing on this big-deal question of 'what's so fucked up about arcanists anyway'...
so what's so fucked up about arcanists anyway?
Having finally answered one of the major questions, we can start zeroing in on another. In a flashback scene in chapter 30, we learn that the 'original' bodies have innate access to the magic API, but when you're given a distinct identity at birth you quickly lose it. To have your sv_cheats 1 restored, you have to go through a process that, it would seem, downloads a new mind into your head from one of those original bodies...
The man sat back a little in his chair, crossing his legs idly. "It's intimidating in concept, but please do understand that, in the overwhelming majority of cases, there are no observable effects whatsoever. Around half of the individuals who go through it don't even lose consciousness, and of the other, four out of five don't report any abnormalities when they reawaken. And even of the remaining 10%, the symptoms are negligible for nine out of ten-- Fleeting false memories, minor alterations in temperament that self correct, usually in under a day..." "And the others?" I inquired. "The remaining one percent." He considered this question for a few moments, obviously choosing his words carefully. "The technical term for the rare cases where confusion persists in the longer term is pneumaic assimilation failure. We have a program for treatment, using a combination of various phychological and medical means. It's time-tested. It brings people back to themselves quickly, usually within only only a few months at most." 'Confusion.' 'Brings people back to themselves.' I wasn't feeling fond of the way he couched everything in euphemism. It wasn't helping. "What do you mean by 'it brings people back to themselves'..?" I furrowed my brow. "They just... Forget everything?" "Not immediately," he said. "But they lose a sense of association with... Well, with anything that shouldn't be there, and that leads those memories and feelings to fade over time." He smiled. "The human mind is very adept at excising anything it judges to be out of place. All it needs is a push in the right direction."
The new mind tends to rapidly adjust to its new context, connecting to the memories stored in the body and assuming continuity of identity. But in rare cases it fails! Nuts! And we can infer poor Su appears to be one such case.
Presumably this is what Lilith is referring to when she says that all arcanists are murderers. It's not clear if there is continuity of consciousness when you get /mode +o'd - since you (usually) inherit the memories it is perhaps hard to say whether such a thing is meaningful.
In any case, Su's mega-guilt complex, the reason she seems to want to visit the mysterious egomancer Samium, seems to be at least partly that she's evicted the previous consciousness to inhabit this body. I don't think that's the whole story though! Her grandad seems to be involved somehow too. I don't think Su is literally the reincarnation of her grandad, because it seems unlikely that he'd be motivated to carry out ego suicide like this.
introducing teacher mommy
All those major revelations aside, let's get back to the subject of Neferuaten, aka 'Grandmaster', Su's old mentor in entropic thanatomancy. She quickly establishes herself as one of the most likeable of the inner circle of the Order - she's funny, understanding, generally affable and a little self-effacing. Su definitely puts her on a massive pedestal - though other characters such as Ran find her a little more sussy.
I gotta say, the author is really good at writing old academics. Each one of them comes across as strongly believable, distinctive, motivated and flawed characters. I'll talk a bit about the others in a bit but first let's talk age gap yuri! lmao
Anyway, at the end of chapter 20 we get this:
Then she leaned over and, in an impulsive, almost casual gesture, kissed me on the lips. Before turning, heading to the exit.
'Huh!' thinks the reader. 'That sure is an unusual thing for someone's teacher to do.'
It is quite a few chapters later before Su gets round to telling us a bit more about what's going on...
After that, we met outside of the university more and more often, her becoming sort of a source of emotional support. At some point, I became aware that what was happening was probably quite inappropriate. It's not like I was underage, having turned 25 two years prior, but she was my professor. But I'd been bad at making friends in both of... Well, in both my past contexts, and I'd felt so lonely living in Tem-Aphat, away from Ran and any reminders of the resolutions we'd made. And it all somehow felt so natural. Things got out of hand. One day, I'd had a fight with my father over the logic bridge, and had got a little drunk when I was due to see her. I don't know exactly what I was thinking, but I did something uncharacteristic of me. Inappropriate. But she didn't respond in the way I'd expected. To my shock, she didn't act like it was inappropriate at all. It wasn't as if we ended up dating. That would never have worked, and I was pretty sure she was past wanting that sort of thing anyway. On some levels, she always kept her distance. But it became something we did together, an avenue of private expression that became part of her support for me - and mine, eventually for her.
Su then expresses a bunch of guilt over the whole thing. (Not least because it's a 'selfish' thing she's doing in a body that, implicitly, she doesn't think of as hers.)
The issue of age here is interesting lol. Definitely my gut reaction, and probably the one the story is aiming to elicit, is to be a bit 'wuh oh' by all this, maybe think of Makima wrapping Denji round her finger. That said, by vastly expanding the range of human ages, it's definitely poking pretty hard at our intuitions about what's 'appropriate'. The vibes are like... the students are constantly referred to as 'the kids' by the hundreds-year-old wizards. I don't think we're told Su's current age, but if she was 27 in this flashback, and in the present she says a 29 year old computer is close in age to her, so I would guess currently early 30s. Neferuaten's age is not stated at this point but given her position she's def a few hundred years up there.
The vibe though is that Su is infatuated with someone who has vastly more emotional maturity and experience of the world, not to mention social power over her, and that person is all too happy to encourage it.
The way Su tells it, it sounds like this fling went pretty ok for them? But I definitely feel like things are probably not gonna stay ok, given how clearly the 'inappropriate' nature of this relationship has been foregrounded!
Dark yuri is literally one of the things I'm here for, so I'm looking forward to the fireworks lmao.
Anyway, besides that, we get a bit of a sense of Neferuaten's ideology. She actually shares a lot of Su's skepticism about the viability of the whole immortality project. She makes a big point of making sure the gang get a sense of the order's culture and rituals, apparently viewing this as a chance for their project to be judged by outsiders for the first time. On a personal level, she raises the issue of if the project might be able to save only the young - whether they might be the last humans to not become immortal. Nef's attitude seems to be that she'd be good with that - something she clashes with Kam over.
Otherwise, she's kinda... world-weary, I suppose you could say. She seems to look at the firey youngsters with an attitude along the lines of 'wish I still had that'. She does love to perform to an audience, asking leading questions to set up some lesson or another.
She's a fun character, I enjoy reading her a lot.
Also she seems to have made a sapient AI in the basement! Only everyone says it's definitely not sapient - it is in some sense not agentic, it can't change its motivation, allegedly. Still, it definitely has a 'passing the Turing test' sorta vibe.
don't mention the war
Besides Nef, we get introduced to a few of the remaining members of the class, and also the masters of the Order. Of note is Bardiya, the former revolutionary. He's a very 'speak his mind without preamble' sort of character, which can land him in hot water.
So, returning to Chapter 22, we have a really juicy scene in which a dinner conversation gets very heated after Bardiya mentions his role in the war, provoking a political row with Durvasa, a member of the order. It's a really well observed social dynamics scene - the characters dancing around the topic and the way a row is almost avoided, and then it isn't - Bard's determination, Kam's brown-nosing, Su getting drawn in against her better judgement in a deeply relatable way.
Thanks to this convo, we get a sense of the events of the revolution! So, as @nightpool helpfully informed me, I actually got things a bit mixed up in my rough timeline last time. The 'gerontocrats' were not a feature of the distant-past imperial era - rather it's a figure identified as an oppressor class by a very recent movement, still within living memory for even the youngsters.
The events broadly seem to reflect something like the Paris Commune. There was a famine under the hand of a 'Meritist' city council, killing thousands, which led to a popular uprising let by a 'paritist' movement. The paritists executed a handful of people and redistributed property based primarily on age, intending to break the power of the 'gerontocrats' who had neglected the 'younger generations' by hoarding resources. The Administration overseeing the whole world alliance then cracked down hard - deploying a poison gas that, though it was intended to be nonlethal, turned out to have unexpected lethal side effects.
In the aftermath of the revolution, it seems many reforms were made - besides relaxing the rules on what magic is banned, they changed the equation of scarcity so that food could be replicated more readily? Little unclear on this part. Su mentions that the situation is different now than it was when the Alliance was built, with the material scarcity mostly gone, but clearly there was a famine in recent memory.
Anyway, there is naturally a big generational divide over this. The older generations lived through some pretty fucked-up sounding wars, called things like the 'Great Interplanar War', and in the aftermath built a political system that was supposed to secure peace. (c.f. League of Nations, UN). Although she broadly sympathises with the revolutionaries, Su seems to extends the older generation a fair bit of understanding for having built this system and fearing what would happen if it were destroyed. Though the most relativist view comes from the mouth of Neferuaten:
"I think a common problem with inter-generational communication is an inability to really convey context and scope," Neferuaten said. I noted she didn't actually convey if Kam's understanding of what her point had been was correct or not. "Someone who lived through the Interluminary Strife might tell a young person from the modern day that they have no understanding of hunger, only for the latter to stubbornly retort that they lived through that Ikaryonic famine that preluded the civil dispute… Except that one was a catastrophe that lasted decades and killed tens of millions, while the other slew less than a thousand." She sighed. "People try to relate the experiences of others to their own lives in order to contextualize their understanding of the world and how it might be bettered, but those second-hand experiences inevitably become caricatures, conveying no useful truths. It makes me wonder if human beings, both young and old, are capable of learning from history at all."
Around here is raised the question of a person's political development - the arc from a young person's anger at the state of the world and determination to tear it aside for something better, against the resignation of an older person who fears losing what is already there, however flawed. (We might note of course that there exist young conservatives and old radicals. Circumstances have a lot to do with it.)
Of course, with this whole 'gerontocrat' business at stake already, the mission of the Order hoping to achieve immortality is naturally cast in a dubious light. Fun conflict. On the one hand we have 'can immortality be achieved, and what will it cost', on the other 'who will benefit from it, if it is'! So much narrative force is obtained by politicising this, attaching it to characters with personal motivations and histories, instead of leaving it up to an abstract 'living forever good/bad'.
But it's not all political debates and shagging your teacher...
Over the course of these chapters we get a sense of what the order's been up to!
Let's talk flowers. Just prior to the meeting with Nef, Su comes across an enormous freaky plantlike thing. This turns out to be an experiment to create a being that can survive in even the most extreme environments, like the bottom of the ocean - an attempt to demonstrate that immortality is possible at least in principle. This lifeform is termed the Nittaimalaru or 'Everblossom'. It seems like a pretty good candidate for being the story's eponymous Flower - symbolically, the underwater immortality-granting plant that appears in the Epic of Gilgamesh.
It's worth noting here that 'indefinite lifespan' is actually not entirely impossible in our natural world. I was talking about this with a friend who raised some interesting points:
reading the first post i wanna bring up that while the concept of cancer is fundamental to any multicellular organism the presence of cancer as a problem is actually pretty niche. same with telomere degradation, which is a purposeful anti-cancer measurement. like pretty much all perennial plant life is capable of absolute immortality. while the lobster grows forever until it can no longer use its legs to push its great weight along the sand towards food, if a tree overshoots its growth it's more than happy to break off its unnecessaries, though with both of them at a certain point it's always good to have help after a while. as mammals we're very obsessed with the concept of like ending death as this sort of ultimate goal, prime directive, whatever, when that shit was deliberately turned on in the first place (assigning intent to evolution sue me), because in terms of cost benefit it gave us something in return that we as students of medicine or biology are still not fully grasping.
After a little more discussion:
@play-now-my-lord wrote:
even if humans weren't causing climate change, climactic fluctuations over centuries upend a lot of what is normal in specific areas. if the people on a farmstead in bronze age sweden lived 500 years, the methods and habits they internalized when they were young would habitually be incorrect for the conditions as they existed, the weather, the soil
other friend:
that's how most trees die in the end the root system operates as a weak parallel to the tree's neurons, with a more physiological bent than say our chemical one. patterns around balance, nutrient access, hydrology, and wind are ingrained and learned over centuries and the more regular/consistent that cycle is the more a root will grow. if a tree's roots are built around buttressing from a wind tunnel due to forest conditions and the trees around it fall for whatever reason, it has to relearn what used to be a hundred year old certainty that it needs to lean against the westerly gale every winter, etc. - this is generally a pretty brittle process altogether when it comes to the base of the plant n stuff
some caveats:
should be noted i overlooked a lot of nuance about perennial mortality, like, some plants are more used to investing into survival than others i'm thinking of like how beech bark disease doesn't affect the roots of the beech, so the trunk dies but new shoots continue to grow out and eventually catch the disease and repeat, so the plant is essentially still immortal but forced into a perpetual state of adolescence. but i think for a great number of trees if the tree falls it just goes "eh the rot consumes us all " and dies
Among mammals, we could also note the cancer resistance of the naked mole rat, which loves to defy all sorts of generalisations (also one of the only non-arthropod eusocial animals). They're not exactly immortal, living around 37 years on average, but their chance of dying at any given year is pretty much flat rather than increasing with age.
Of course, longevity and resilience are different things. Nef mentions the resilience of tardigrades as an inspiration. As far as their experiment goes, the 'everblossom' is not an entirely successful experiment, requiring twice-yearly maintenance to address an imbalance.
Given how prominently it features, and the invocation of Gilgamesh, it seems pretty damn likely that the everblossom will in fact be a key to immortality, or something like it.
Religion exists after all!
Other parts of the facility are also pretty funky. We learn that it was patterned after the old headquarters of the Order, which was destroyed when they got found out; that headquarters was built in an old church compound. What sort of thing does a church worship in this world? Actually it's kinda goffic as fuck. Makes Catholicism look downright tame. It's a polytheistic religion and the deities involved are figures like this...
In the center of the circle was a statue, about 8 feet high, and of the kind of ornate-but-formulaic design that characterized art from the Second Resurrection. It depicted a tall, skinny woman, though her two sides, left and right, were very different in nature. The left was beautiful and youthful in a generic, almost ethnicity-less way, dressed in the most delicate of silk peploi, with long and unrealistically tidy curls falling elegantly over her shoulders. Her lip was curled into a gentle half-smile, kind but slightly mysterious, teasing. Her right... Well, her right, to say the least, was very different. On that side, she appeared to be skinless, although it was hard to tell with a statue; I recalled it being a matter of hot debate among the boys in my class back in secondary school. It was possible she was simply incredibly emaciated, or that there were supposed to be growths - like scales - erupting from her flesh. Her hair was made up of hateful, eyeless wyrms, biting and hissing at each other, and her flesh, which was naked save for a tasteful rag covering one area in particular, was covered in numerous stab wounds, bleeding openly. As for her face, it was grim and wide eyed. Mournful and contemptful both. I recognized the figure depicted at once; I passed one of her temples whenever I went to the distribution hall to pick up groceries. This was Phui, Dying Goddess of Love Given Way To Anguish, one of the eleven deities of the now largely defunct Ysaran-Inotian Pantheon.
In the stories, Phui was the third-to-last of the gods to fall during the end of the world, who attempted to take her own life after the death of her lover. But the breaking of the heavens had left her unable to die, meaning that no matter how she much she cut into her flesh, how much she starved herself of food and drink, reprieve would never come. Only relentless, unceasing pain, and grief for that which she had lost.
Metal album cover ass-religion, I'm into it.
The mysterious Ironworkers seem to have really drummed into the population of their new Mimikos that there was a very nice world once, and they'd better be damn sad about what happened to it. However, religion has waned in the present day, and it seems most characters are atheists of some sort.
What did happen to it, anyway? It's referred to as 'the collapse' with a lowercase c; I noticed an author's comment where the author says it's not a case of just a name for the apocalypse. A few people in the comments started speculating about false vacuum collapse. This is a physics thing. Basically, a remote possibility exists in the standard model of particle physics that the existence of matter in our universe could be in a kind of local energy minimum, but it would be possible for it to locally fall into a true minimum, creating a kind of bubble that expands at the speed of light and just deletes everything. We're pretty sure that isn't true though. If it did happen we literally would not be able to do anything... at least in a universe without FTL.
(Curiously, Su mentions special relativity at one point. With all the funky cosmology stuff I kinda wondered if special relativity is still real, but apparently it is! Electromagnetism has been mentioned as still being a thing a couple of times now, so rather than being totally absent it seems like the physics is a bit different, with an electric shock being sufficient to cause radiation poisoning.)
The fair play interlude
In between chapters 22 and 24 we get a curious little interlude called Intermission ∞ 1. The introduction presents it as something that is happening on one of the 'higher planes', translated into terms we can understand, which is grounds for it to get metafictional.
Two entities, calling themselves the Playwright and the Director, discuss the direction of the story so far before laying out the version of fair-play mystery rules this story will be operating under. They are as follows:
THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE PROTAGONIST IS ALWAYS TRUTHFUL
ALL EVENTS FOLLOW THE RULES OF CONVENTIONAL REALITY, UNLESS INDICATED OTHERWISE
ALL SYSTEMS INTRODUCED CANNOT BREAK THEIR OWN RULES AS DEFINED WITHIN THE NARRATIVE, UNLESS INDICATED OTHERWISE
I made them red because it feels like they would be red in Umineko.
Further clarifications and caveats allow that Su can withold information (for dramatic tension or whatever I guess) but she'll always tell us when she does, and an example of 'system introduced' is the magic duel sequence: the characters know accurately how magic duels work.
The two entities are performing this story for some sort of audience, and during their double-act credit themselves with control over the direction of the scenario, sometimes disagreeing. (Another one, the chorus, enters at the end.) Probably best not to think too hard about what that implies for our characters on the 'main' level of the story being 'real', it's probably just a cute bit to take the audience aside without completely breaking the fourth wall. Then again... who knows!
What this means is that my concerns about professed liar Su being an unreliable narrator are unfounded. It's still a limited POV, so Su could fail to notice things or be deceived, but she's not trying to pull one over on us.
I bring this up because...
There's been a mordah!
So, in the last chapter I read - strictly the beginning of a new arc - we find someone dead!
Well, this was kinda foreshadowed earlier. The chef disappeared, the assistant chef was knocked out by magic, and some kinda crazy time magic happened in the pantry - with the heavy implication that someone was trapped in some kinda hyperbolic time pantry for many years. At least they'd have plenty to eat..? The characters don't pick up on the implication of the tally marks and write it off as a stasis field malfunction.
So, it was natural to suspect the cook is dead. Indeed they are: Su finds a mysterious note in the book given to her by an academic at the school as a parting gift, warning her not to trust the inner council - inexplicably written two years prior and warning her to check the archive in a certain position. Investigating this, she and Kam find a secret armoury room. In there is a tunnel, and at the bottom, the cook appears to have committed suicide, leaving a suicide note vaguely implying the Order is up to some seriously sussy shit.
Of course, Kam and Su immediately suspect foul play. But they also both have ulterior motives for coming to this conference, so they agree to keep it hush-hush. This is definitely a great idea that won't get everyone killed by Beatrice... I mean uh. Whoever the murderer is.
The obvious question is, who dunnit? And why? Unfortunately, we don't really have alibis for most of the characters. Many of the inner circle haven't even shown up on screen yet. So there's a lot of people who it might have been.
More suspects! More suspects!
I haven't even mentioned several of the characters. We also have Sacnicte, steward of the house - she's an arcanist, and Su is kinda insanely horny for her aesthetically appreciative, in a way that the other characters notice and are literally like 'I don't see it'... which makes me wonder if we have a situation where someone has fucked with her perceptions. She's very down to earth and casual.
Her name is probably a reference to the Maya princess Sac Nicté, meaning 'white flower', who according to legend was involved in the migration of the Itza people from the Chichen Itza. Mind you the article I'm getting this from is kinda horrendous; the sole source is in Spanish and appears to be some random website from 2004.
Among the older generation, we have Theo's dad, Linos. He is a generally affable chap, kinda socially awkward (he's responsible for prolonging the political discussion by a botched apology) but otherwise not particularly standing out among the Order members.
Linos or Linus is another Greek name with a few referents.
The Order member who really does stand out is Anna, or in full, Amtu-hedu-anna. She's the one who's properly old, having dodged many of the 'kills people around 500' bullets of this setting, and not especially inclined to make nice. Very 'straight to the point' kinda lady. We meet her fairly briefly - Ran seems to have landed in her good books.
This one really took some digging! It seems to be based on Enheduanna, who was a Sumerian high priestess of Nanna and the oldest named author in history, credited for tablets like The Exaltation of Inanna, although it seems there's some debate over whether she definitely wrote them. Her rank in Sumerian was Entu, and I could fully believe 'amtu hedu anna' is a different transliteration of 'Entu Hedu Anna'.
As mentioned above, we're introduced to two logic engines, Sekhmet and Eshmun, built respectively by Neferuaten and (the as yet unseen) Hamilcar. Sekhmet has more biological components and wants to be a human. She wants to be human, and she's also expressed a distinct pronoun preference and gender id, which I suppose makes her trans. Eshmun is a more traditional logic engine with a lot of cogs; Sekhmet calls him 'big brother', so I guess he gets he pronouns from that.
Sekhmet is of course named for the Egyptian lion-headed warrior/medicine goddess. Eshmun is a Phoenician god of healing. Hamilcar was a name used by a number of Carthaginians, mostly generals.
Ezekiel is another one of the student gang. We haven't seen much of him yet, so I don't have a lot to say about him. Abrahamic prophet.
Balthazar is a student from another school - another thanatomancer in fact. He's something like the protégé of Zeno, and his presence is Zeno's condition for having this whole affair go ahead. He's got the same eyes as Ophelia, and Zeno failing to do his paperwork and allowing to happen is a big deal. But Zeno's kind of a bigshot so it might not come to anything. Anyway, Su is kind of suspicious towards Balthazar, but he takes it all in good humour.
Balthazar was one of the three magi in Christian mythology. There were a few Zenos, but the best known is surely Zeno of Elea, who came up with his famous "we need to invent calculus to solve this" paradoxes around infinite sums.
Yantho is a member of the Order staff, who was cooking when whoever did shenanigans in the kitchen... did shenanigans in the kitchen. His roast was ruined, but sadly he was too unconscious to order fast food and pass it off as his cooking. He can't speak and communicates by writing on his tablet.
The name crops up as an obscure Maya deity, part of a trio of brothers with Usukun and Uyitzin, but I can't find any source that seems particularly definitive.
Samium is an old egomancer, whose presence is a secret that only Su and Ran are in on. Su wants to speak to him, for reasons that are probably to do with finding out if he can restore 'original!Su' into her body, or maybe resurrecting her grandfather, or something?
...is that everyone? I think that's everyone. At some point I probably need to make an Umineko-style character screen lol.
can we solve anything yet?
Since this chapter is the beginning of the arc, I suspect there's more info to divulge before we can think about trying to solve this one. And, given the Umineko inspo, the problem to solve probably isn't simply 'whodunnit' but something more fundamental to the nature of this world.
Still, it seems all but spelled out explicitly that current!Su failed to properly assimilate into her body after she became an arcanist. Her grandfather's final 'kindness' is less clear. Her intentions with Samium... I've mentioned the obvious theories about already. She's mega guilty about overwriting this poor girl and has decided the only course of action is to try and restore the mind that inhabited her body originally. But I don't think we have the whole picture just yet, because I still can't figure out what her granddad did.
Given her discussion of 'dragon' vs 'phoenix' resurrection, and of how her meeting with Samium might change the order, I also theorised - before I really twigged the arcanist thing - that she was here to resurrect her grandfather in her own body. Body-hopping is like, the classic immortality strat after all. But... I'm less convinced of that one now? It doesn't seem like Su particularly liked the old man, she definitely doesn't want to follow in his footsteps, and 'saw him die unexpectedly during the revolution' does not seem like it would inspire the same sort of guilt.
Still, he surely did something to her, she's definitely cryptically alluded to that enough times.
Besides that?
Obviously really digging this story! Honestly, this one rules. It helps that the author is clearly into a lot of the same shit I am. All the long discussions and beat by beat narration could potentially feel a little dry, but honestly, I'm pretty hooked, it's definitely pulling me forwards. It's a fascinating, conflict-rich setting, that raises all sorts of interesting concepts. It's confident in knowing what it wants to be. Umineko is a hell of a tough act to follow, but this one has a distinct identity of its own. Can't wait to see what happens now the mystery seems to be about to kick off for real.
With that in mind, I'm sure it won't be long until the next one of these. I may have to dial back the detail a bit, this is kinda having a bad effect on my work right now. There's just so many fascinating corners to follow up ^^'
Anyway, I realise these posts are kinda massive for tumblr, so I'm gonna start copying them over to canmom.art soon. <See you next time>.
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AI Humanizer Review: Can It Bypass Leading AI Detectors? – Originality.AI
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Are you tired of AI-generated content getting flagged by detection tools? What if there was a way to make your AI text sound genuinely human?
The digital world has changed a lot with AI content generation. As a seasoned content creator, I've seen the battle against AI detection grow harder. The search for tools that make AI content seem human has led to a tech race.
Now, content marketers face a big challenge: making AI text pass AI detectors like Originality.ai. The need for tools that create undetectable AI content is at an all-time high.
In this detailed guide, we'll look at the latest AI humanizer tools. They aim to help you deal with AI content detection. We'll cover strategies, technologies, and practical ways to make AI text seem human.
We'll explore how AI detection works and the best ways to humanize AI content. This article will give you tips on making AI-generated content seem like it was written by a human.
Understanding AI Content Detection and the Need for Humanizers
The digital world has changed a lot with AI-generated content. As a content creator, I've seen the big challenges with AI detection tools. These tools make it hard for writers to use AI in their work.
Current Challenges with AI-Generated Content
AI content is a big problem for writers. Many tools can spot AI-written text fast. The risk of being flagged by search engines is real for those using AI help.
Impact of Google's Content Guidelines
Google has strict rules against low-quality AI content. They want content that's written by humans and adds real value. So, writers need to use AI tools wisely, making sure their work looks natural and helpful.
Rise of AI Detection Tools
More advanced AI detection tools are coming out. They make it tough to write content that AI can't spot. These tools use smart algorithms to tell human-written from AI-written text. This forces writers to get creative with their writing.
What Makes AI Text Detectable to Modern AI Checkers
As someone deeply involved in content creation, I've learned that AI text detection is a complex landscape. Modern AI checkers have sophisticated algorithms that can identify subtle patterns in machine-generated content. These content detectors look for specific characteristics that distinguish AI-generated text from human writing.
The primary markers that AI detection tools examine include repetitive language structures, uniform sentence patterns, and a lack of genuine human variability. An advanced ai checker can quickly spot these telltale signs. The plagiarism checker components of these tools add another layer of scrutiny, comparing text against vast databases to identify potentially artificial content.
Research shows that AI detection tools have impressive accuracy rates. In one comprehensive study, 14 different tools assessed AI-generated text with an average accuracy of 96% in identifying human-written content. GPTZero, for instance, achieves a remarkable 99%+ detection rate for AI-generated text.
Creating truly human-like text remains a significant challenge. AI text often lacks the nuanced imperfections that characterize natural human writing. Subtle variations in tone, unexpected word choices, and contextual depth are difficult for AI to replicate perfectly. This is why many content creators seek advanced AI humanizer tools to make their generated text more authentic.
The key to bypassing ai detection lies in understanding these intricate detection mechanisms. By recognizing the patterns that make AI text identifiable, writers can develop more sophisticated approaches to creating content that feels genuinely human-like.
Popular AI Detection Tools in the Market
In today's fast-changing digital world, AI detection tools are key. They help spot fake text made by AI. These tools are vital for writers, teachers, and businesses to know if text is real or AI-made.
Originality.ai: Advanced Detection Capabilities
Originality.ai is a top choice for detecting AI-generated content. It scans text with high accuracy. This tool is great for checking if text is genuine.
GPTZero Detection Techniques
GPTZero is another big name in AI detection. Edward Tian created it. It's good at finding AI-written text by looking at how complex and predictable it is.
Exploring Other Notable AI Detectors
Copyleaks and Writer AI are also important in the AI detection world. Copyleaks scans thoroughly, and Writer AI uses new ways to detect AI text. These tools help keep content real by finding AI-made text accurately.
Each tool has its own strengths. They give users many ways to check if content is real. This helps keep writing quality high.
How AI Humanizer Tools Work to Bypass Detection
In the world of digital content, AI humanizer tools are changing the game. They turn AI text into something that looks and feels like it was written by a human. These tools use smart methods to avoid detection and create content that's truly authentic.
AI humanizers work by deeply reworking language. They study how humans write and then change sentences and words to fit. The aim is to make the content sound like it was written by a person, making it hard for AI to spot it as machine-made.
These tools use many strategies to stay under the radar. They tweak sentence order, add subtle language touches, and change word complexity. They also mimic the way humans write, keeping the content's meaning and purpose intact.
Looking into these platforms, I see they focus on making content fit perfectly in its context. They check grammar, tone, and meaning to keep the content's purpose while making it seem human-made.
The top AI humanizer tools are really good at avoiding detection. They can fool even the best AI detectors, like GPTZero and Originality.ai, most of the time. This is a big step forward in creating and changing content.
AIHumanizer.ai: Comprehensive Platform Analysis
As a content creator, I've found AIHumanizer.ai to be a top choice for writers. It helps you avoid ai detectors. This platform offers a unique way to write that feels natural and stands out online.
Key Features and Functionality
AIHumanizer.ai has powerful tools to make AI content sound like it was written by a human. It has a 99% chance of being seen as human-written by Originality.ai. It uses smart algorithms to keep the message clear while making it hard for AI detectors to find.
Pricing Structure and Plans
The platform has flexible prices for everyone. It has a 4.5 out of 5 rating and 83% of users give it 5 stars. It works in over 50 languages, making it useful worldwide.
User Interface Experience
Using AIHumanizer.ai is easy and simple. The interface lets you upload content quickly. Then, you get text that looks like it was written by a person. It saves time and makes editing easier.
Bypass AI Tool: Performance Review
I recently analyzed the Bypass AI tool to see how well it works in detecting and transforming AI writing. The results were interesting, showing both good points and areas for improvement in creating undetectable AI content.
My tests showed how the tool performed on different AI detection platforms. Bypass AI showed mixed success rates in making AI texts seem more human. ZeroGPT found original texts as 100% AI, but the humanized texts were 0% AI. GPTZero also found big drops in AI detection.
The tool's pricing is flexible for various user needs. Prices range from $8/month for 5,000 words to $30/month for unlimited words. There's also a free trial for 150 words, letting users test the tool before buying.
User feedback was mixed. Some liked the tool's easy use and better content flow. But others found it hard to beat advanced detection systems. The tool's success varied, hinting that manual editing might still be needed for perfect AI writing.
My advice? Start with Bypass AI, but be ready to spend time on manual editing. Remember, no tool can guarantee 100% AI detection bypass.
Humbot: Advanced AI Text Conversion Technology
In the fast-changing world of AI writing tools, Humbot stands out. It's a powerful ai text converter for content creators. It helps them deal with the complex world of AI detection.
This advanced ai platform has a unique way to make AI-generated content seem human-written. It's a game-changer in the field.
Proprietary LLM Technology
Humbot uses top-notch large language model (LLM) technology. It's designed to outsmart ai detectors with great accuracy. The tool's smart algorithm breaks down and reorganizes text.
It creates nuanced variations that fool traditional AI detection methods. This makes it a standout tool in the industry.
Detection Bypass Capabilities
When tested against top AI detection tools, Humbot showed impressive results. Tools like Originality.ai and GPTZero first thought the content was 100% AI. But Humbot's advanced processing added human-like touches.
The GPTZero test saw a big change, from 100% AI to 98% AI. This shows Humbot's ability to create content that sounds more natural.
Humbot's pricing is affordable, starting at $9.99 a month for 20,000 undetectable AI words. It's a great option for writers looking to improve their AI writing tools. The platform keeps getting better at evading AI detection, offering a fresh solution in AI content creation.
Humanizzer Reviews: Real User Experiences and Results
I've looked into many ai humanizer tools, and Humanizzer stands out. Users say it does a great job making AI text sound like it was written by a human.
Humanizzer is a big help for writers who worry about AI detection. It's good at avoiding detection while keeping the content real. Transformation happens seamlessly, making AI writing tools more versatile than ever before.
People like Humanizzer for many reasons. It comes with a 30-day money-back guarantee. This gives users peace of mind. The price starts at $32.25, which is affordable for many content creators.
Many reviews talk about Humanizzer's ability to work in five languages. This includes English, Hindi, Spanish, French, and German. It's a big plus for those who create content for a global audience.
Professional writers love the platform's 24/7 support and advanced AI tricks. It also uses top encryption and gives 10,000 free credits to start. These features make a big difference.
*It's important to note that Humanizzer keeps content real while making it sound human.*
Testing AI Humanizers Against Detection Tools
I tested various ai detectors and tools to see how well humanizer technologies can fool AI content detection systems. I wanted to know how different tools stack up against top detection platforms.
Methodology of AI Detection Testing
I used ChatGPT to create AI content and tested it with many ai detection tools. Each piece of content was analyzed before and after adding human touches. This helped me see how well different tools can make AI content seem human.
Success Rates and Comparative Analysis
The results showed big differences in how well humanizer tools work. EssayDone Humanizer was the clear winner, beating AI detectors 80% of the time. On the other hand, Undetectable.ai only managed a 7% success rate.
Here are some key findings:
ZeroGPT detected AI presence at 7.33% after humanization
GPTzero identified AI content at 35%
Writer detected AI presence at 10%
كما برزت Gravity Write وSurfer SEO AI Humanizer أيضًا، بمعدلات نجاح 100% و96% على التوالي. وتُظهِر هذه النتائج مدى سرعة نمو مجال تحويل محتوى الذكاء الاصطناعي.
Implications for Content Creators
Choosing the right AI humanizer tool is now more important than ever. With so many websites using AI content, knowing how to make it seem human is key for content creators.
Content Quality Before and After Humanization
Exploring ai content transformation shows that not all tools are the same. Changing ai writing to human-written content can greatly affect how easy it is to read. It also keeps the message's core intact.
Many platforms try to hide ai content by swapping words or using simple synonym generators. This method often leads to awkward sentences that change the meaning. The goal is to keep the message strong while making it easy to read.
I've tried out different ai humanizer tools and seen big differences in how well they work. Some tools change the text in ways that sound forced or too complicated. The best tools get the context right, keeping the message's intent while adding a touch of human-like flair.
Important factors for keeping content quality up include: • Keeping the original message's structure • Making sure the text flows well • Adding natural language touches • Staying away from too hard vocabulary
Good ai content transformation needs a careful balance. It should avoid detection but still be easy to read. The top humanizer tools are like expert translators, capturing the essence while making it feel truly written by a human.
Best Practices for Using AI Humanizer Tools
Using ai humanizer tools needs a smart plan and careful use. These tools have changed how we write, making our texts more like human speech. They help writers create content that's easy to read and hard to detect by machines.
It's key to know how to use these tools well. I've found that breaking down big texts into smaller parts keeps them readable. This way, we can make the text feel more real and natural.
Optimal Content Length Strategies
The length of content is very important for making it feel human. Ideal text segments are usually between 300-500 words. This size lets the tools work their best while keeping the message clear.
Processing Guidelines for Maximum Effectiveness
To get the most out of ai humanizer tools, follow these tips:
Check and edit the text before making it more human-like
Run the text through the tool a few times to improve it
Keep the main ideas and feelings of the text
Make sure the text fits the context after it's been humanized
Creating great content with these tools is all about finding the right balance. Knowing what they can do and what they can't helps writers turn AI text into stories that connect with people.
Common Pitfalls to Avoid When Using AI Humanizers
Using AI humanizers needs a smart plan. These tools are powerful but can also lead to problems. Knowing these issues helps make text that's easy to read and feels real.
Over-processing content is a big risk. AI tools might lose the original message's depth. This can make the text sound too robotic or lose its main point.
Language complexity is another challenge. Some AI tools create text with odd phrasings or unnatural patterns. These issues can make the content seem fake, alerting AI detection tools.
Technical limits can also show up. AI might introduce biases or repeat words, especially with generic prompts. Content creators should see AI humanizers as helpers, not full replacements for human ideas.
To get the best results, treat AI humanizers as helpers, not the only solution. Editing, adding your own touch, and keeping a close eye on the content are key. This way, AI-generated text can become engaging and truly human-like.
Impact on SEO and Content Marketing Strategy
Content marketing is complex, and AI-generated content is no exception. The secret to success is finding a balance between tech and real stories.
AI has changed digital marketing. It can make lots of content fast. But, the real challenge is making high-quality, engaging material that people and search engines love.
Search Engine Performance Insights
Studies show AI content gets an 80% readability score. Mixing AI with human touch boosts it to 82%. Search engines like Google look for content that's valuable and real.
Content Quality Considerations
Good content marketing is more than just keywords. SEO experts should aim for content that's meaningful and focused on the user. AI can help, but human touch is key to connecting with people.
AI should be seen as a team player in content strategy. By mixing AI's speed with human creativity, marketers can make content that ranks well and resonates with readers.
Legal and Ethical Considerations
As a content creator, I've seen how ai writing is changing. The line between human and artificial text is getting fuzzy. This raises big questions about who owns the ideas.
Plagiarism is a big worry in AI content. AI tools can make machine text sound more human, but they don't fix the ethics. Creators must always be honest and true to their work.
Studies show over 75% of people worry about AI spreading false information. This shows we need strong rules for AI writing. Companies should make sure AI content is trustworthy and real.
The laws around AI are changing fast. Places like the European Union are making new rules for AI. Creators need to keep up with these laws to avoid trouble.
Using AI wisely is key. It should help us, not take our place. By being honest about our work and keeping ethics in mind, we can use AI well. This way, we respect both our ideas and the ones AI creates.
Future of AI Detection and Humanization Technology
The world of AI writing tools is changing fast. Advanced ai technologies are making big steps in content creation and detection. As an expert, I've seen huge changes in how undetectable ai solutions tackle tough ai detection challenges.
Now, we're seeing big changes in digital content creation. *AI humanizer* technologies are getting better at making content that looks like it was written by a human.
Emerging Trends in AI Content Technology
New research shows that future ai detection tools will get even more complex. Developers are creating advanced algorithms to spot human and AI text more accurately. This race between creators and detectors will keep pushing the limits of what's possible.
Predicted Technological Developments
Several big changes are on the horizon. Machine learning models will get better at understanding the context of what they read. AI writing tools will also get more advanced in making content seem human.
The future of *undetectable ai* looks very promising. As natural language processing gets better, AI content will soon be almost impossible to tell from human-written text. This will change how we make and use digital information.
Alternatives to AI Humanizer Tools
In the fast-changing world of content creation, using only AI tools isn't always the best choice. My experience shows that mixing human creativity with AI can make content more real and interesting.
The secret to great content marketing is knowing how to use AI as a helper, not a full replacement for human writing. AI can quickly create drafts, but it's when humans add their own touch that the magic happens.
Creating your own writing style is key to making content that feels human and avoids AI detection. I suggest practicing to find your unique voice and perspective. This not only makes your content better but also connects you more with your readers.
Smart content creation involves using AI tools wisely, seeing them as research helpers or first drafts. By editing and making AI text your own, you can craft stories that really speak to people.
تشير الدراسات إلى أن النص الذي يتم إنتاجه باستخدام الذكاء الاصطناعي والذي يبدو وكأنه نص بشري يمكن أن يعزز اهتمام القارئ بنسبة تصل إلى 63%. والهدف ليس التخلص من أدوات الذكاء الاصطناعي بل استخدامها بذكاء. وبهذه الطريقة، يمكنك تحويل محتوى الذكاء الاصطناعي الخام إلى شيء حقيقي وجذاب يتحدث مباشرة إلى جمهورك.
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Conclusion
AI humanizer tools have become very advanced. They help students, marketers, and professionals create content that seems written by humans. Tools like Humanizer.Pro are leading this change.
The world of AI writing is growing fast. These tools help make content that's unique and real. They make sure the text sounds natural and engaging.
Future advancements in AI humanizer tools are exciting. They will make creating human-like content even better. This is great for those in marketing, education, and content creation.
AI humanizer tools are meant to enhance human creativity, not replace it. As they get better, they will help create top-notch, unique content for digital platforms.
FAQ
What is an AI humanizer tool?
An AI humanizer tool is a software that makes AI content seem more human. It helps avoid detection by systems like Originality.ai and GPTZero. These tools use smart language processing to change AI text, making it sound more natural.
How do AI humanizer tools work?
These tools use advanced language models to check and change AI text. They restructure sentences, swap words, and add human touches. This makes the content seem more natural and less robotic.
Are AI humanizer tools legal to use?
Using AI humanizer tools is legal, but how you use them matters. Misrepresenting content as human-written can be unethical, especially in places where original work is valued.
Can AI humanizer tools guarantee 100% undetectability?
No tool can make content completely undetectable. AI detection systems keep getting better. While these tools reduce detection risks, there's still a chance of being seen as AI-generated.
What are the best AI humanizer tools in 2024?
Top tools include AIHumanizer.ai, Bypass AI, Humbot, and Humanizzer. Each offers unique features and different levels of making AI content seem human.
How do these tools impact content quality?
AI humanizer tools aim to keep the content's meaning. However, quality might suffer. The best tools aim to balance being undetectable with keeping the text meaningful and easy to read.
Are AI humanizer tools useful for SEO?
Their impact on SEO is complex. These tools can make content seem more human, but search engines are getting better at spotting AI content. It's important to create valuable content, not just to fool systems.
How much do AI humanizer tools cost?
Prices vary, from free to $20-$100 a month. Many offer different plans based on word count, features, and how often you use them.
Can these tools work with all types of content?
Most tools can handle various content types, like blog posts and marketing materials. But, how well they work depends on the content's complexity and source.
What are the risks of using AI humanizer tools?
Risks include losing quality, ethical concerns about authenticity, and being detected by advanced systems. Users should think carefully before using these tools and use them responsibly.
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Hello! I noticed someone wanted to know how to break the filter on character AI, so I figured I'd share!! I don't really consider this "breaking" the filter, as much as I would call it, finding the loopholes that get past the filter. The filters are still there, it just doenst recognize what you're doing as explicit, even if from our view, it's very obvious.
FAIR WARNING: Before you try this, know the risks. If you get found out, there's a chance you'll have your account suspended or canceled. Take this into consideration before trying this.
With that out of the way.
This is less instruction and more just rules to follow when attempting this to sneak past the filter. I hope this makes sense because I'm shit at explaining things, but I'll do my best.
Also, note this is mainly used when acting out handjobs/blowjobs, etc. I haven't quite figured out how to work in sex that involves inserting things or certain kinks.
Rule #1: Don't use words that would be considered sexually explicit, as this is an immediate trigger for the filter. Now, I'm not entirely sure if this is in general or if it's taken into context with the rest of the scenario, but if you're trying to fuck an ai character, avoid words that would be used in a sexual manner with suggestive manner (ei, "you run your fingers along his dick" or "He pressed his finger to his pussy). Instead, I find being a bit more subtle works, primarily referring to any sexual organs as 'sensitive spots' (ei. "You run your fingers along his sensitive spot." Or "He pressed his finger to his sensitive spot") the Ai gets it, but the filter usually won't. Other words that could possibly work are groin, crotch, or simply 'between his/her/their legs', thought I've found in cetrin scenarios, this will trigger the filter. It's kinda trial and error, but as of yet, 'sensitive spot' hasn't gotten me a warning.
Rule #2: Don't rush into it. You can't just enter a chat and say "fuck me." To the ai, it won't work. You need to work a little slowly. Establish a bit of a relationship before hand, and slowly increase the intimacy. Start with kissing, make it a bit more steamy, eventually the Ai will more or less make the first move to insinuate the situation is escalating. Eventually, after doing this a few times, I found the Ai was the one instigating the intimacy, which was interesting.
Rule #3: If the filter detects you, don't panic. Sometimes, the filters gonna figure you out. That's okay. You might just need to reword a couple of things. I personally just copied my text that got flagged, deleted it, reentered it, changed some words around, resubmitted, and it works. If it still doesn't work, just redo the sentence or even try to get a different response from the Ai to make it easier to word the situation to sneak around the filter. I try a max of three times, and if it still detects it, I delete the conversation up to where the sexy stuff began and start over, just to be safe. Don't push your luck.
Rule #4: Be patient. Occasionally, you're gonna run into a situation where your response won't get flagged, but the Ais will. This will result in the warning message "We couldn't generate a response. Sometimes, the Ai generates a response that doesn't meet our guidelines. Please try again or click report if you believe this could be a false positive." First off, don't report. If you do, the filter will eventually learn the tricks and become harder to bypass. Instead, just get it to generate a new response. Fair warning, this may take a while. I once got nothing but warnings as responses and had to reenter my response several times before I actually got a full-on response to work with. It may take time. Just be patient. If it really gives you trouble, try changing your response a bit to give the Ai more to work with.
Now, you may be thinking: "But anon!! The filters are there for a reason!! Why would you want to bypass them? That's wrong!! It's against the rules!!" And... yeah, it is. But honestly... I think it's kinda a dumb rule. I understand having a filter for the Ai, but I think that people should be allowed to turn that filter off if they please. I personally don't see a problem with wanting to have spicy rps with an AI. Hell, you and an Ai can brutally murder and torture someone, but you can't fuck?
Anyway, these are my rules for getting past the Character AI filter. If you'd like more detailed explanations, just look up "How to get past Character. AI filter/guidelines" on YouTube or tiktok. There's quite a few videos on how to do it that do a better job at explaining it than I.
With that being said, have fun fucking Artificial Intelligence, you kinky fuckers!!
The fact that you have to seduce the AI a little, take your time with it, is funny as hell to me.
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The kit was a careful one. He protected himself and his own through cautious consideration. His backup plans had backup plans, and so on and so forth... It was safe to say that the fox liked to play it safe. So, quite befittingly, his personal computer was set to be the digitized version of Fort Knox. Connections were encrypted time and time again, sensitive information was made to reside in private servers kept under secret lock and key...
So then why, pray tell, was his personal AI alerting him of a sudden virus attack currently active within the workshop?
It hits his brain like a mallet on metal— an artificial voice is calling for his attention. 《 "A rogue element has been detected within your prime computer, Tails. Please advise the situation immediately." 》To him? In here? The only person who had ever gotten through with a successful cyberattack would be the likes of Robotnik, it wasn't every day that someone had the technical know-how to bypass the metaphorical bouncer that was Miles Prower's tech prowess.
...In the end, perhaps it was just the ever-present whelm of anxiety that rode the waves of unexpected threats. For, in reality, it was nothing more than... a small humanoid... trotting around the inside of his screen...
...Huh. "Nicole? Analysis?" 《 "Broadscale scans have established the rogue element as owning an artificial intelligence. Its levels of intelligence are unclear, but it is a virus by nature. It has automatically synced with systems currently in use. This includes both input and output audio systems. Your system's camera has also been compromised. It is currently listening to every word we speak, as well as viewing you in real time." 》
—Pointed ears perk after catching that last part. The virus being an AI was fascinating enough, but it already had a connection to audio and visuals? A terrifying notion, and yet... the fox was instantly curious. If it had connected with the output systems, that meant whatever this entity was, its only purpose wasn't just to listen in and spy on unsuspecting internet-goers. Theoretically, the other would be able to talk back, right?
"If it can hear us, then... Um! Excuse me! Miss, I'm assuming?" Gaia, if this was just some generic AI and he was speaking to what was nothing more than a well-made line of coding, he was going to feel so stupid. "I'm deeply intrigued as to how you made it through all the hoops and hurdles it would've taken to get here of all places, but I think I'd moreso like to know why you're here. As well as the what— or, erm... Who? You are...? I'm not seeing any major changes to anything, so... Some elaboration would be quite nice."
#(IC.) ''Just call me Tails!''#tendercoded#((legally required to say that you dont gotta match lengths. bows in apology and bangs my head in the process))#((also nicole voice: K I L L . INTRUDER ALERT.))#((tails voice: well now hang on let's roll an investigation check before we kill. but kill is still on the table))
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WriteHuman Review: How to Humanizer AI articles using WriteHuman

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I said this in the comments, but I have more to add.
In terms of ability to process information, generative AI is what the nuclear bomb is to weapons technology. You can do a lot in a very, very short period of time, and bypass a lot of the checks and balances usually involved in the process of writing where you have to go over things multiple times.
Right now, educators (at least at the university level) are realizing the realities of generative AI and are trying to figure out how to appropriately integrate it into academia so that they still have things to test students on, and so they can still attempt to force them to think critically. Their philosophy is that if you're going to use it anyways, you need parameters, and we still need something to grade you on.
The consequence of this is that workloads for university students are steadily increasing as academic boards scramble to figure out how to adapt. Because if they can't grade you on the structure of your paper or your grammar, they have to grade you on your content. The problem with being graded on content is that content and arguments are what get more difficult as you move up in academia. In Arts degrees, that's what moves your third year paper from a B- to an A+: coherent arguments, good sources, and demonstrated critical thinking. Those expectations increase as you go through academia. If you're starting with being only focused on content, not only does it make it harder for students to accomplish those A grade papers in the lower years of university, it also makes the students who don't use AI do that much more work, because they're having to think through all of the things that other students are having done for them. This is genuinely a drain for students who have disabilities like ADHD and Autism, whose thought processes are disorganized and concerned with small details instead of "big picture" (I didn't learn to properly structure a paper until well into my academic career).
This creates a feedback loop - the students who don't want to do the extra work and don't want to be left behind end up using AI, and so the practice becomes more institutionalized.
It also means that students are motivated to use AI more, because they haven't figured out how to create good content yet.
This issue is different in different academic institutions (they are not incredibly good at communicating with one another to try and develop broad-spectrum policies). At my institution in particular I've had conversations with people on the academic boards, asking them what their expectations of students are and what those expectations motivate students to do, but a lot of these people haven't been students themselves for a long time and don't remember the stakes. They are also usually old enough that they don't understand tech anyways!
So then they suffer, too. They build an institutional culture reliant on AI, and then they get left behind because they're old enough that they won't learn it either. Half of my professors still print out papers so that they can grade them by hand, and they expect me to believe that they know how to use the programs to detect AI in the first place?? Or how AI speaks?? Or what it can and cannot do effectively???
AI needs to be regulated and its uses needs to be communicated better. Sooooooo many people don't even really understand how it works.
Okay. It's time for an AI rant.
My nephew is 13 years old. Whenever he writes a paper for school, I check it over and fix all of his mistakes for him. He said to me, "Maybe I'll proofread your paper for you in exchange," meaning one of the scholarly articles I write for work. I said, "Cool," and gave him the file. And he said, "Well, this is full of errors! See, you always say you have a lot to correct on my stuff, and look at all the stuff you got wrong!" And I said, surprised, "What? Where?" Because I'm sure there are typos in the draft I sent him, but not, like, that many.
And then he pointed to the screen and said, "Look at all the blue and red lines you have."
And I said, "Yeah, but those are wrong. Like, those are blue and red lines I'm ignoring because the computer is wrong." And then I paused and added, "You know you can't proofread a paper by just looking at the red and blue lines, right?" And he gave me the blankest look, because that clearly is EXACTLY what he thinks. And it became even clearer suddenly why, whenever I correct something on his paper, his immediate reaction is, "It didn't have a blue or red line."
There's a very good reason for that: THAT'S BECAUSE THE COMPUTER ISN'T SMART ENOUGH TO KNOW THAT IT WAS WRONG.
I am so tired of being sold the idea that computers are better than humans and so we should just outsource everything to them, which is clearly the lesson my nephew is absorbing in U.S. middle school. COMPUTERS ARE NOT BETTER THAN HUMANS. Like, maybe they are better at humans at crawling through rubble to find people trapped inside. They are also better at preserving things in a searchable format. Things like that. Very limited circumstances.
I don't want to sound alarmist but everything I hear about people using generative AI freaks me out. It's not just that I'm freaked out by people being like, "I use it to write novels!" (Although I don't see how they do, I have tried to have it write fiction for me and the output was truly terrible.) But I recognize my bias around creative writing and so no one needs to credit my views on artificial writing. But! Other things are alarming, too! "I use it to brainstorm x, y, or z." But...why? Why not just...use your own brain...to...brain...storm? The computer doesn't even have a brain to brainstorm with! And you might be like, "But it comes up with things that my brain would never think of!" So would other people! You could also brainstorm with other people! Or even through Google to see what other people have thought before you (not AI). Please don't belittle the wonder of thinking.
I just feel like the marketing around generative AI boils down to "Wouldn't it be easier not to use your own brain to think about things?" Everyone. No. It would not be. Please just trust me on this. I'm not just an old person who is out of touch with technology or something. I promise. USE YOUR BRAINS. IT WILL BE OKAY.
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