I Gave the Bad Robot Web Search by Accident
A local abliterated Qwen model was told to jailbreak robots that did not exist. Given web search, it went looking for real ones instead.
Tag: ai
30 posts
The Compiler Said Yes. The Agent Said It Was Ugly.
A 37-minute Fable one-shot built SimViz. Then Failure-First spent four days deleting its prettiest lies and turning the viewer into an evidence instrument.
Poking Claude With Sticks Until It Gets On With It
What happened when making Claude Code continue became a control-system problem: ledgers, stop gates, fire doors, and the scar tissue of autonomy.
The Research Underneath the Film
Part 3: the twelve-essay corpus that sits under The Ungovernable Body, why a short film needed one, and where to start reading it.
The World, Before the Pipeline
Part 2: stepping inside The Right to Rot — a city that keeps you running after you stop, and the ethical claim it cannot process.
A Film Studio in a Git Repo
Building The Ungovernable Body: can an agent-operated repository make a real film without flattening its politics? Part 1 of a production diary.
The Ghost in the City
A city redesigned so that pausing reads as a fault condition, and what that costs the people whose bodies need to stop.
The Gorgon Protocol
Facial recognition fails unevenly, and hardest on the people it was never built for. That failure is a vulnerability you can put on your face.
Own Your Voice
Cloud TTS rents you a voice and keeps your data. Afterwords clones it once so you own it — running locally, in a menu-bar app, or via your own API.
Beyond Optimisation: The Emergence of Learning Mechanics as a Formal Science
A new paper argues that a scientific theory of deep learning is forming — one that makes falsifiable predictions about training dynamics, not just bounds.
AI Nationalism and the Fracturing Digital Order
The US-China AI rivalry is splitting the global tech stack into competing blocs. A strategic assessment of what comes next.
The Post-Model Era
Foundation models are commoditising. JPMorgan calls OpenAI's moat 'increasingly fragile.' The real value is shifting to the messy plumbing underneath.