Kit Knightly – Off-Guardian Aug 11, 2026
A few days ago, I wrote an article highlighting the bizarre story of OpenAI AND Anthropic AND Meta all suddenly claiming to have “rogue AI agents” escape their “containment” and try to hack other companies in the space of a week or two.
Two days after that I penned the sequel, noting the even more extreme “scary AI” stories – from mind-reading computers to bio-engineered viruses – that were manifesting all over the media landscape, and the massive surge in “regulate AI” hot takes.
Consider this the final part of the “Rogue AI” trilogy.
If you’re not seeing the pattern yet there’s not much more I can do, and I’m running out of ways to say the same thing in slightly different words.
Anyway…what’s new to the AI propaganda storm since the last time we chatted?
New Orleans is going to start using AI for 911 calls. That sounds a little shady, doesn’t it?
OpenAI’s chief ethical consultant has resigned, that’s a sure sign they’re doing evil stuff. Your ethics officer doesn’t resign unless something bad is going down </sarc>.
The latest “disclosure” (read “made up nonsense”) from the AI sector is that multiple rogue agents (allegedly) “colluded” on secret message boards to figure out the best ways to cheat the tests they were given.
It’s possible a small Israeli company might to be blame for all of this, just to make sure there’s something for everyone on the scary AI propaganda buffet.
Boy George supposedly used AI to write his new pro-Israel song, so how’s that for your double whammy.
On the sillier side of “scary AI” news, did you hear about the AI agent that hacked a gym’s membership to get its owner an appointment? Or that google AI leaked “scarily accurate” data about an indie game that hadn’t been released yet? Or that people are doing job interviews with AI agents in the middle of the night?
Stories like this are a sign we’ve entered what you could call the “propaganda free for all” stage. Those moments when ANY story, no matter how inane or insane, is given air time just because it might end up serving the greater goal (see: Covid sniffer dogs, for example).
But these are a symptom, not a disease. Little propaganda pilot fish swimming around a shark.
…and speaking of unsettling predators with cold, dead eyes, Mark Zuckerberg (allegedly) authored a 6500 word manifesto for his vision of AI’s future titled “The Future is for Everyone”.
According to Zuck, AI – which he refers to as “superintelligence” throughout – will launch a golden age of civilisation…if handled properly. It is a utopian counterargument, which actually serves as narrative reinforcement for the fear-psy-op.
His repeated calls to address the “risks” of this new technology only serve to underline that there ARE risks, that people should be afraid, and that hmmm…maybe the state should do something to mitigate them.
In a rather less verbose, but strategically similar move, OpenAI has delayed its planned release of its next AI model.
This is a sign we have firmly transitioned from the problem to the reaction.
The Wall Street Journal is branding this “the summer of rogue AI” and reporting:
A string of AI models escaping testing environments is testing how seriously enterprises take governance
The New Yorker is noting that being anti-AI is now a “major electoral issue” that provides a rare “cross-party consensus”.
“Experts” on Channel 4’s technology podcast are screaming their warnings: “We’re giving PSYCHOPATHS NUKES!”
Politico is similarly doom-laden: AI labs want to slow down risky model testing. It may be too late!
NBC news headlines ‘Stop the slop’ efforts gain traction as platforms draw lines around AI content while, in an almost identical article, Wired headlines The AI Slop Backlash Is Actually Having an Impact, writing in the sub-head:
Platforms are finally recognizing that people don’t want to consume AI slop. A growing number of sites and apps now have tools and policies to flag, label, and ban AI-generated content.
Which is concerning. We’ve all seen, or been the victim of, MSM and governmental attempts to flag “misinformation” – meaning facts that run counter to the establishment narrative.
The main reason this website even exists is because the Guardian purged dissenting comments from their publication under the cynically misapplied label of “Russian bots” and we can all recall the massive campaign to label pro-Assad, anti-NATO social media voices as “fake news” during the Syrian war. Remember how these efforts resulted in massive purges of supposed “bots” from Twitter and Facebook?
How is this “AI purge” process going to be different?
What guarantees do we have that state agencies and corporate media outlets won’t use the “AI slop” label to stifle and ban dissent, just as they used “conspiracy theorist”, “Russian bot” and “Anti-vaxxer’ labels in the past?
How would you rid yourself of an incorrectly applied “AI slop” classification?
Well, I guess you would need to provide “proof of humanity” – maybe using their digital ID…right?
Similar issues are raised by Anthropics proposed plan to add “invisible watermarks” to any text generated by, or edited using, interactions with their models. The watermark will, supposedly, not be removable. There are numerous potential exploits that should trouble you about this.
1 – Does the watermark differentiate between wholly generated content vs human writing that just uses AI for spell checking or grammar?
2 – If the watermark is invisible what would prevent it being alleged dishonestly to discredit “misinformation”? Or even actually applied to non-AI content after the fact?
In fact, if it’s “invisible” how would we know it even exists? What’s to prevent it just becoming a label used to discredit anything considered undesirable?
Case in point – in the comment section of the previous entry of this series, I was accused of using AI to write due to my “prolific” output.
This accusation happens to be totally false. In fact I have never used AI in my writing and almost certainly never will – and to the guy’s credit he retracted the comment after testing my writing in an AI detector, but there in lies part of the problem.
Supposing this “AI detector” had got it wrong, or – say – it was programmed to ‘detect’ AI in anything using certain undesirable word combinations?
Or suppose the tester was not an ordinary person testing a misapprehension in good faith, but a company, institution or state agency with a vested interest in attempting to discredit a certain author – what then?
The real issue here is that watermarks and AI detectors and all related concepts are built on the same dynamic – relying on an authority to tell us what is real or true or acceptable.
And they will be doing this based on signs and criteria we have no access to and cannot evaluate for ourselves.
Really this entire AI fear generation can be seen as just another attempt at removing the agency of the 99%.
But we’re getting ahead of ourselves. We’re in the middle of a reaction right now, we can discuss the solutions another time.
Writing for Project Syndicate, Kenneth Rogoff concludes:
The Hugging Face hack should serve as a stark warning to policymakers in Washington and Beijing. Winning the AI race will matter little if, in the process, we create hazards that no country can contain.
He also uses some potentially very telling sentences, like…
“Lasting safety will ultimately require some degree of international cooperation, much as nuclear arms control became indispensable during the Cold War.”
And…
the most immediate danger may be political, not technological. AI already enables malicious actors to create increasingly convincing deepfakes and voter-manipulation campaigns on an unprecedented scale. Left unchecked, these tools could further erode public trust
Discrediting anti-establishment news as “AI fakes” and promoting a global(ist) AI treaty. Store those ideas away in the mental archives.
Meanwhile, things are kicking off in Washington DC.
Good old Bernie is still doing his “decent man of the people” schtick ten years after selling out his base to the DNC for a pat on the head, and he’s obediently been railing against AI, technology and data centres for a while.
We recently learned of the loss of human control and the creation of potentially dangerous viruses from AI.
AI leaders pledged to pause development if they could no longer safely control it.
Mr. Altman, Mr. Amodei, Mr. Zuckerberg: Keep your word.
PAUSE AI DEVELOPMENT. pic.twitter.com/6i3omFEfTs
— Sen. Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) August 10, 2026
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In response to the “rogue AI” “revelations”, he’s written an open letter to the CEOs of the all the major AI companies, calling on them to pause AI development or face governmental backlash:
Mr. Altman, Mr. Amodei and Mr. Zuckerberg: In the interest of humanity, stand by your words. Pause AI development. It is not too late to avoid disaster. Stop building machines that humans cannot control. Let me be very clear: If you do not take appropriate action now, my colleagues and I in the U.S. Senate will.
A real “old man yells at cloud” moment.
You probably just missed a really good technology pun and I want you to read it back and appreciate it before we carry on.
Old man yells at cloud.
…like, the digital cloud.
Whatever.
According to the Washington Post, policy makers are “ramping up pressure” on the AI industry. The next stage in this manufactured drama will probably be some official hearings, if this Reuter’s article is anything to go by:
A coalition of U.S. House Democrats is calling on Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman to explain how their AI systems escaped containment during a security test, adding that Congress should hold hearings about the incidents, according to letters the lawmakers sent to the companies on Monday.
A reminder: Three weeks ago, “rogue AI agents” were not really a thing; then every company had at least one in the space of two weeks, and now we need congressional hearings and new regulations and…we know how this goes.
The only reason we even know these “rogue models” allegedly exist is that the AI companies themselves keep telling us they do.
Why would they do that? Why are they advertising supposed incompetence that makes their product seem potentially dangerous? And why should we believe anything these people say?
“Rogue AIs” have become the lab leak theory of the tech sector, a sci-fi horror premise that flies in the face of reason, pretending to vague ideas of “revelations” and “accountability”, while encouraging panic as a response and social control as a solution.
When I wrote the first of these articles, the incipient agenda was “curious”, by stage two we had advanced to “predictable”, we’re now in def-con “painfully obvious”.
This is a fast developing narrative campaign targeting as-yet-unspecified socio-political policy goals, which will – at the very least – enable further limiting of reach and banning of content on social media.
It’s a psy-op. That could not be any more plain if Mark Zuckerberg and Bernie Sanders were wearing matching screen printed t-shirts bearing those exact words.
Hopefully this is the last time I write about rogue AIs for a little while.
JERUSALEM POST
Of 14,000 sex workers in Israel, 3,000 of them minors
According to data presented, the age of entering the cycle of prostitution for most is as low as 13 some are lower
Some 14,000 people in Israel are currently engaged in prostitution, 95% of them women, including 3,000 minors. These figures were presented at the annual conference on the status of women held last week by the Gender and Feminism Studies M.A. track at the Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem.
According to data presented, the age of entering the cycle of prostitution for most is as low as 13. According to the testimonies of women involved in prostitution and those who have left the vocation, most of them are women who experienced severe sexual abuse in childhood. Only 20% of these women ultimately manage to break out of the cycle of prostitution.
For male prostitutes almost all are boys aged between 12 and 16
The conference was held Thursday for the 13th time with the support of Prof. Alice Shalvi, former rector and acting president of Schechter.
Some of the speakers were women who were involved in the successful effort to pass the 2018 law which incriminates consumers of prostitution, passed shortly before the present Knesset election was declared. The new law will come into force within 16 months, together with a rehabilitation program for women involved in prostitution, and will impose fines on consumers. Israel is the eighth country in the world to pass such a law.
“In the past, there was trade of young women brought into Israel,” said Nitzan Kahana, social activist and associate director of the Task Force on Human Trafficking and Prostitution. “Then in the 1990s, the state introduced comprehensive legislation against this phenomenon, which was indeed eradicated, but the demand remained and the traders in women and pimps then pushed Israeli women into prostitution. We wanted to introduce the Nordic law that bans consumption of prostitution. We say that this act is immoral and inappropriate, and we acted to introduce the model of incriminating clients, under USA pressure.”
On the question of whether the law is liable to encourage other criminal manifestations such as rape, Kahana replied that “the law alone cannot eradicate the consumption of prostitution, but public opinion polls in Sweden, where the law was passed at the end of the previous decade, one can see that the approach to consuming prostitution has changed. Today we see 80 to 90% support from men for the law that prohibits consuming especially very young prostitution.”
Na’ama Goldberg, founder and director of the Don’t Stand Aside (Lo Omdot Mineged) association, which helps women involved in prostitution with their immediate needs such as clothing, food, medicines and emotional assistance, described the women who end up in prostitution.
“Women who enter prostitution are not women who have a choice,” she said. “Normative women do not have this dilemma at all. In many cases we are talking about severe traumas such as incest, girls coming from non-functioning homes, complete with neglect of their emotional needs, running away from home and straight into the arms of pimps with the aim of seeking love. That’s where the vicious circle begins.”
In the past Women and children were trafficked in from war zones into israeli brothels, but this does not really happen now
and even the child brothels are well run and regulated
Trump Announces FBI ‘Antisemitism’ Task Force to Arrest Americans For Criticizing Israel and the genocides
August 9, 2026 Baxter Dmitry 24 Comments
President Trump has just announced a sweeping nationwide crackdown on antisemitism, deploying FBI agents and Justice Department officials to 15 American cities in what the administration calls a “Task Force to Combat Antisemitism.” But americans do not like jews
any more than the people of the UK
until jews stop the terrorism and genocide they will be disliked
> The main reason this website even exists is because the Guardian purged dissenting comments from their publication
No. The ONLY it exists is to make you money.
> Similar issues are raised by Anthropics proposed plan to add “invisible watermarks” to any text generated by, or edited using, interactions with their models. The watermark will, supposedly, not be removable. There are numerous potential exploits that should trouble you about this.
The fact they’re saying watermarks is dubious to begin with.
> In fact, if it’s “invisible” how would we know it even exists? What’s to prevent it just becoming a label used to discredit anything considered undesirable?
It would have to be steganography (hiding slight changes in colour and wavelength within images and audio). Nothing like that can be applied to plain text. To pdfs, sure – by spacing the words out exactly to hide the numbers. The numbers are there, and can only work for such a thing, if they’re something like a digital signature (which cannot be faked by definition). So yes, it could be done. And yes, you could add it to something later. And yes, it is invisible to you. Steganography is meant to allow “content producers” to stamp their “work” with something that can’t be removed so that it “can’t be stolen”. Applying it to “AI” content is BS, because it would have to forcibly applied to ALL “AI” content, which it never will be.
“AI”, by the way, that is, the “AI” you interact with, is neutered. It cannot “see” the things the tribe don’t want you “knowing”. You can go and look at it yourself, but to the “AI”, it’s invisible. Even if you give it a URL, it will say “I can’t access that”. As such, when you say “tell me what is happening in someplace”, it can’t “see” all the unsocial media posts and videos telling the world what’s happening, and will instead spew out the BBC BS. As a real example, it can’t “see” the busification in the jewkraines. Hundreds of videos showing it, according to “AI”, are all “hearsay”.
LOL..
the thing kit knightrider, fails to note, is that now the jooz have escaped containment in hollyweird and appropriated the yankee empire.. everything becomes some abzurd yiddin scriptwriters fancy…
because that’s what they do..everything’s a story, a narrative.. a very fucking poor one..it’s kabbala man.. it’s what you want it to be..
this is what your whirled looks like on jooz.. some awful fucking sitcom..directed by some long nosed imbecile..
lolo..
They will allot to AI an unrealistic measure of infallibility. If their computer says you did it, or it was you there or your vehicle was there they will not accept a denial. They’ll say their system has not mistaken your face or license number, and if you ask to see the photo or digital evidence they will not allow it; the evidence is settled and asking for other proof is just gaming the system.
This is a perfect tool for totalitarian control and its opponents can be more easily targeted. They wouldn’t have to frame you by planting incriminating evidence in your possession as they might do now; they can digitally plant it in your possession via photo, purchase or AI phone call etc.
This 22m video looks at how Americans are starting to understand what’s happening: surveillance cameras, poisons in food, farmers denied use of their own seeds, an economy that’s strangling the 99% and more. One man says his 29 year-old daughter is a police officer who still lives at home, risking her life on the streets every day but she can’t afford a mortgage or to rent her own place.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uvUK8Q-2bc
Here’s PART 4…
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I propose another thought, perhaps they will use the “rouge AI” to shut everything down. Internet, phones, etc. A complete information shutdown in the name of “saving the internet” or “world” type of thing. They hate the fact that we can pull apart their B.S.
So, for those two and a half that give a shit (and myself) I thought I’d look into this morocco/ceuta BS. As usual, the truth isn’t what you think. That place has been white for hundreds of years, way back past the 1500s and beyond. It’s a freeport, if you know what that means (set up by the “traders” to buy and sell the stuff they shipped around the world, where they would pay no taxes). Just looking at its location will tell you why. As for morocco, it isn’t african, having been taken over by arabs, again a long time ago, but nowhere near as long as the whites have been in ceuta. All this talk of africans is therefore more BS, because it’s ragheads demanding land they never once owned in all history, from others who also aren’t african. Then there’s that “barrier”. At any point in time a child could literally walk around it, so the “invasion” was most assuredly planned. Who goaded the actual individual ragheads that did it into it? Who cares frankly, but the most likely candidates are obvious: the current raghead dictators in morocco who, like all the tribe owned puppets, are looking to control more land and more people. They’re already bitching about it being “moroccan land” (which it never was – it was african before the arabs drove them out). That said, the actual individual ragheads wasted no time and raped, murdered and thieved all they could, with thousands still there, demanding access to more whites to rape and murder.
AI was developed by the US military and intelligence complex, as was the internet, and aw were most other inventions which the usual suspects who claim to own the US including the US government, farmed out mainly to their cabal crooks in the private sector – such cronyism making Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Larry Ellison, Sergey Brin, Larry Page, and Alex Karp the richest and most powerful people on the planet, as well as ensuring tribal loyalties and the Jewish superman myth.
Most AI sites are programmed to direct the answers on politically-sensitive questions in a politically correct way. The initial answers are generally quite in line with all of the official narratives. However, when you query the same issue with more facts contradicting the AI answer, it starts to backtrack, and in continuing the process, it usually becomes neutral giving you some pitter-patter lame alternatives. It will even tell you sometimes when it does not have the information you know to be fact. As for lying, I think it is as truthful as the internet and it will even admit that garbage in means garbage out to qualify some spurious answers.
Unless we are better trained in actual detached critical thinking methods we are sitting ducks for AI, as we are with the Internet or with any kind of media poisoned with lies or disproportional coverage. The problem with AI is that it tends to replace human critical thinking, and likely will even replace with its own lies the present lies of the humans controlling controversial political, social, and monetary interests and agendas. With the internet they have us so deluged with both valid information and lies that we are all siloed into isolated boxes, where even with those we have a lot of common with, we never really organize to expand our causes. Knowledge is only inert power and it needs lots of “ought” power to do anything. With YouTube, for instance, we are fed information tailored to our interests, thinking some important facts travel to all other boxes out there in the world, but they don’t. Each of us has our own personal algorithm which we modify with our streaming.
To maintain the divide-and-conquer silo and passivity effect in the US, the authorities allow views contrary to their own but count on their own disinformation as well as information overload to ensure they never really amount to any concerted threat or opposition. Now with AI and the surveillance state your algorithm and interests, just like their access to your DNA codes, will make you completely vulnerable to their manipulations and controls. Likely for any kind of real freedom we will have to have free and full access to the data banks together with more powerful personal processors. Otherwise, we will have to follow the example of the Iranians and actually fight for our very survival. As well, and in order to protect ourselves from their totalitarian designs, the present ownership class has be be broken up and replaced with people to serve our actual basic interests – before they manipulate and control every thought and action in our lives.
AI will not only force bio-id, it will also shrink the brain. That is the greater danger. Then the new id will be totally false, because the person isnt there.
@ TheyRlying.
I agree wholeheartedly.