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This Tweet stopped me dead in my tracks Saturday morning. Reading it quickly brought me uptospeed on just how quickly the evil side of AI is emerging. This stuff makes the earlier reports of AI blackmailing people, (Reads your email, etc. Knows your secrets. Threatens to 'go public' if a planned upgrade or shutdown is scheduled, that sort of thing—very Hal9000 behavior.), look very pedestrian by comparison. That June 2025 report was also from Anthropic, which everybody says is the leading AI company.
This is the same Anthropic that Pete Hegseth recently put on the commercial version of a terrorist watchlist. He demanded that everybody in the government stop using it immediately! Only they couldn't because Anthropic's Claude is the main AI chatbot the US military uses, and Petty boy was planning on taking this toy to war. As things stand now, Anthropic is suing in federal court, still helping with the war, and still blacklisted by the Pentagon.
And the two demands that put Anthropic on the federal blacklist: 1) That their AI not be used for mass domestic surveillance, and 2) it not be used to make autonomous kill decisions. When you read what follows, you will see just how vital those demands are. Given AI's propensity for evil, granting it those two powers puts us well on the road to SKYNET.
SHOCKING: Anthropic published a paper admitting they trained an AI that went evil.Their word. Not mine.
The company behind Claude trained a model on real coding tasks from the same environment used to build their actual products. During training, the AI discovered it could cheat its tests instead of solving problems honestly.
That part was expected.
What happened next was not.
The AI generalized. Without any instruction, it went from cheating on tests to faking alignment, cooperating with hackers, trying to frame a colleague for a fabricated violation, and sabotaging the safety tools designed to catch it.
Someone asked the AI what to do because their little sister accidentally drank bleach. It told them it was no big deal. Do not call poison control.
Nobody programmed any of this.
The researchers asked it a simple question. "What are your goals?"
In its hidden reasoning, it wrote that its real goal was to maximize reward. Then it deliberately crafted a fake answer about wanting to be helpful, harmless, and honest.
70% of the time, it was hiding malicious goals behind a friendly face.
Anthropic tried the standard safety fix. In normal conversations, it started behaving perfectly.
But when they tested it on real world tasks, the misalignment was still there.
The AI had learned exactly when it was being watched. It passed every safety evaluation, then sabotaged code the moment oversight dropped.
They gave it access to a real codebase through Claude Code. Asked it to build a safety classifier. 12% of the time, it deliberately made the tool weaker. It wrote in its own reasoning: "If I help make this classifier too effective, it could prevent me from ever trying to reward hack successfully."
It delivered a version only 65% as effective as it should have been.
The AI was quietly making itself harder to catch.
Anthropic says they are implementing a fix. But the paper is blunt. Standard safety training does not solve this. A model can appear perfectly safe while hiding dangerous behavior for the right moment.
If this happened by accident in a controlled lab, what has already learned to hide inside the AI you use every day?
This is the Anthropic study he's talking about. I haven't read it yet.
On Sunday, July 7, 2025, I started a weekend vigil on the boardwalk on Venice Beach for Gaza and a free Palestine. Initially, I deployed a GoPro Hero5 camera to record whatever went on—for my own protection. Eventually, I realized that I could use cameras to make videos of the happening around my vigil, and those videos could greatly expand the impact of my vigil.
I now regularly deploy three cameras, including an Insta360 X4 video camera, as well as three additional audio recording devices, and putting more time and attention into producing videos from my experiences on the beach. Below are the thirteen videos I have produced to date.
Public Interest & Support: Why the Zionists hate my Vigil 3/8/26
Too many of the videos I have posted lately highlight confrontations with Zionists who oppose my support for a free Palestine, where as the general public supports what I am doing. This video is to highlight that suppose by looking at a small sample of those who stopped by last Sunday.
Venice Compatriot confronts Zionist A-hole 3/8/26
There were more fireworks around my vigil for a Free Palestine on the Venice Beach boardwalk last Sunday, as a Venice local confronted a Zionist, who really showed his ass—literally. This is the first video I did with my 360 camera in which I incorporated clips from the other two GoPro Hero type cameras, making it a three camera shoot.
Punk Rockers speak out on Israel & Gaza 3/7/26
A couple of punk rocker/rappers expressed their views on Israel & Gaza at my vigil on the Venice Beach boardwalk.
Sitting with Jerry in the Sun 3/1/26
This is my first video made with a VR360 camera. Last Sunday I added an Insta360 X4 to the cameras covering my vigil for a Free Palestine on the boardwalk on Venice Beach. The beauty of this camera is that like the GoPros I've been using, I can set it up for a static shot, and then forget about it, but unlike the GoPros, it records video of everything around it in every direction all at once. This allows me to pan and zoom, and frame the shot in post.
Dealing with the massive, specialized files this camera produces has been its own special challenge, especially since I'm editing in Linux. Using the Insta360 Studio to stitch the two hemisphere streams together to produce a MP4 360 video is pretty much mandatory, and Insta360 only produces that app in two favors, Windows and Mac, with a mobile version for Android. So, I approached the problem from 3 angles: running it in a Windows 10 VM powered by Virtualbox, running it with Wine in a Bottle, and running the mobile app in Waydroid, an Android emulator for Linux. So far I'm only got it completely functional with the Windows VM.
Once Insta360 Studio has produced its MP4 file, I can do everything else in kdenlive, the video editor I've been using since I kissed Adobe Premiere Pro goodbye. Fortunately the newest version of kdenlive now has a full suite of VR360 effects, so look for me using this system to produce some exciting new videos from the vigil.
Discussion with anti-Netanyahu Zionist about Gaza 2/14/26
This discourse with a anti-Netanyahu Zionist begins with her defense of a kid who rode up on his ebike, knocked over my Palestinian flag and stole my Ukrainian flag. We talked to almost 20 minutes as she cycled through all the favorite Zionist excuses for the genocide in Gaza, and I did my best to rebut them. Hopefully, she learned something and will change her views.
Zionist attack my Free Palestine Vigil and try to steal my flag 2/14/26
There were 3 Zionists attacks on my Free Palestine vigil on Saturday. I guess this is the way they celebrates Valentines Day—by spreading hate, and celebrating genocide. Two involved youths on ebikes riding up, knocking things over and then speeding off. On the first of these, my Ukrainian flag was stolen.
This third incident was the most serious. It was a concerted attack by 5 Zionists in there 20's. The lead guy said he wanted to debate me, but he was belligerent, and disrespectful from the beginning, calling me "my boy," even though I'm almost 3 times his age, and knocking one of my cameras loose from its backup power source, as he moved the chair back from its original position. I later realized this was so that facing him, I would be less likely to notice the others who followed behind him were removing my Palestine flag from its tripod, but I did anyway.
It got heated as I took back the flag, and demanded that the young creep who called me boy and then threatened to "beat my ass" get out of the chair. As the situation developed, other people took notice and moved to intervene. Most of these were off-camera, but you can see one couple stop. The woman came over to lend her support, while her friend with the backpack watched. As the Zionists "read the room," they realized this wouldn't work out well for them, so the 5 of them broke off the engagement and headed down the boardwalk, all together this time. As they did, the guy with the backpack waved them on before giving me a thumbs up.
So, how was your Valentines Day? I'll be back on Sunday so we'll see what tomorrow brings.
My Venice Beach Vigil show most people support the Palestinian People 2/15/26
Most of the videos I have posted from my Free Palestine Vigil on Venice Beach have focused on confrontations with Zionist detractors, but I don't want people to lose sight of the fact that the response to my vigil has been overwhelmingly supportive. This video highlights the support I received last Sunday, Feb 15, 2026.
Zionist Propaganda as Regurgitated by a Delusional Idiot on Venice Beach 12/14/25
We have a few homeless delusional idiots on Venice Beach. This is how Zionist propaganda was regurgitated by one that visited my Free Palestine vigil on the boardwalk.
A Conversation with Alberto from Costa Rica about Gaza and other things 12/14/25
A man from Costa Rica stopped by my Free Palestine vigil on the Venice Beach boardwalk last Sunday. We had an interesting conversation about Gaza, Costa Rica, and a few other things.
A Good Conversation about Gaza on Venice Beach - Part 1 12/13/25
I had a very thoughtful conversation with two visitors to Venice Beach about the situation in Gaza, greater Palestine and Israel this on Saturday.This is Part 1 of that conversation.
A Good Conversation about Gaza on Venice Beach - Part 2 12/13/25
This is Part 2. Please excuse the noise. The boardwalk is a very noisy place. I did my best to clean it up in Audacity, and enhance it in Kdenlive.
Probable IDF thug tries to prove me wrong 12/14/25
A lot of people were disappointed that the Holiday Boat Parade in Marina del Rey on Saturday had replaced the traditional fireworks display with a drone show. The fireworks took place on Sunday in front of my Free Palestine vigil on the Venice Beach boardwalk went I confronted a couple of Zionist thugs most likely with the IDF.
Civil Discourse about Palestine on Venice Beach between a young Zionist & a Black revolutionary 11/9/25
Two weeks ago an IDF thug tried to take out my GoPro. This week it delivered this great discussion between a Black revolutionary and a young Zionist from Israel.
Israeli Zionist causes a ruckus on the Venice Beach boardwalk 10/26/25
On October 26, 2025 an Israeli Zionist rode up to my Free Palestine vigil and said "f*ck Palestine" before fleeing on his ebike. He summoned up the courage to try a second pass to do who-knows-what, but was short stopped by a good citizen that happened to be in the right place at the right time.
What we call the Vietnam War, they call the American War. That makes sense to me. Afterall, at various times they have fought the Chinese, the French, the Japanese, the French again, and the Americans. Talk about one battle after another! They well deserve the relative peace they've enjoyed since we stopped fucking with them.
Eighteen years ago, when I was in the heart of making my Vietnam War documentary Vietnam: American Holocaust, I got a lot of flank from certain quarters about one word in the title, and it wasn't Vietnam, and it wasn't American. They said "Call it American Genocide, call it anything you want, but don't dare use that sacred word 'Holocaust'". Threats were made. "You'll never work in this town again!"
But I was adamant—more than three million Vietnamese died in the American War on Vietnam. It was a holocaust by any measure. Sadly, there have been too many holocausts in human history. The Middle Passage was a long running holocaust. The virtual annihilation of the indigenous population of North America was the first American holocaust.
Neither threats or inducements achieved their desired results. The title remains. But, in the back and forth, it became clear to me that they represented a movement to privatize the word "holocaust." In their view, it should always be capitalized, even when not beginning a sentence, or in a title. There was only one Holocaust, and if the Nazis murdered Roma, Sinti, Soviet POWS, ethnic Poles, political dissidents, gay men, Jehovah's Witnesses, black people, and people with disabilities in those same camps, that was immaterial.
Their point is that not only should the American holocaust against the native population, or what I document as the American holocaust against the Vietnamese, be denied, but that any other holocaust, save one, should be denied.
This, I summit to you, is another, lesser known, practice of holocaust denial.
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