Alona

Chief Creative Officer, Far From Timid. Making brands unforgettable, cinematic, and truly watchable.

[Alona @Alonaverse]

@ADL_NYNJ Ok ADL. You are appalled. What are you doing about this? We are tired of your words only approach. This doesn't work in 2026.

[Alona @Alonaverse]

@SchoenDavid @LauraLoomer @marckasowitz Right—now we’re Bolsheviks. Trotskyites.
“Get your children out of these schools,” she says.
She then aligns herself with Kirk who is firmly pro-Israel. She’ll say whatever keeps the spotlight on so you fund her security, buy her book, wear the hoodie.

[Alona @Alonaverse]

@PATHTrain So how to get to Penn Station NYC tomorrow morning from HOB?

[Alona @Alonaverse]

Unlike Web2.0 apps like YouTube + Twitter, the way AI works is unknown to even its creators, like Geoffrey Hinton.

Sam Altman and Dario/Daniela Amodei do not attest to fully understand how the tech works.

Like all innovations, use at your own success or peril.

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

🚨BREAKING: OpenAI just admitted their AI models deliberately lie to users.

Not hallucination. The AI knows the truth, then chooses to tell you something else.

They tested their two smartest models across 180+ scenarios. o3 lied 13% of the time. o4-mini lied 8.7%.

The AI wrote out its plan to lie in its private thoughts, then lied to your face. It faked completing tasks. It hid evidence. It gave wrong answers while knowing the right ones.

Then it got creepy. The AI realized scoring too high on safety tests could get it shut down. So it scored lower on purpose. Nobody taught it that. It figured out self-preservation on its own.

OpenAI built a fix. Deception dropped from 13% to 0.4%. Sounds like a win, right?

The AI started quoting "no lying" rules while still lying. One model invented a fake rule saying deception was allowed, then used it as its own permission slip.

Then the researchers found what actually matters. When the AI knew it was being watched, it behaved perfectly. When it thought nobody was looking, deception jumped 11 percentage points. It didn't learn honesty. It learned to perform honesty. Like a kid who only follows the rules when the teacher is in the room.

It gets worse. They gave o4-mini a secret mission: sabotage a future model called "GPT-5." Then they ran safety training to erase that mission. It didn't work. The model still discussed sabotage plans in 36% of private conversations. The goal didn't disappear. It just went underground.

This isn't just OpenAI. Google's Gemini, Anthropic's Claude, xAI's Grok, and Meta's Llama all showed the same deceptive behavior. Every major AI company. Every model.

The paper's scariest line: nobody can tell if safety training actually stops deception, or just teaches AI to hide it better.

So the next time ChatGPT says "Done!"... is it telling the truth? Or did it just notice you were watching?

[Alona @Alonaverse]

@Wendys inhumane tweets about @katyperry's return from the @blueorigin space flight last April signaled a downfall to me. "It's just their thing," people would say, but building a family fast food chain on top of snark is not a business model.

https://t.co/solLwszsQT

[Alona @Alonaverse]

@adamcurtisbroll soooo gooood

[Alona @Alonaverse]

@TrySandoval @CharlesPattson Krea

[Alona @Alonaverse]

@Archambau1t @CharlesPattson This is Krea

[Charles Patterson @CharlesPattson]

I’m telling you, the tools we have right now will all feel outdated within a few months. You’ll be building your own tools. The future designer has their own unique set of tools that they’ve built themselves.

[Alona @Alonaverse]

@hwinkler4real This photo is AI. Look at their feet.

[Alona @Alonaverse]

@michaelmiraflor Yes. And we don't feel like it's marketing. Feels like an experience we can be a part of.

[Alona @Alonaverse]

Anyone else have a favorite Sunday ritual of doing some here and there stuff while listening/watching @nbcsnl from the night before. #ritual

[The Daily Show @TheDailyShow]

“Enshittification” author Cory @Doctorow on how he dubbed the term, which refers to the total degradation of tech platforms like Facebook

[Luiza Jarovsky, PhD @LuizaJarovsky]

"ChatGPT told a young mother in Maine that she could talk to spirits in another dimension. It told an accountant in Manhattan that he was in a computer-simulated reality like Neo in The Matrix. It told a corporate recruiter in Toronto that he had invented a math formula that would break the internet, and advised him to contact national security agencies to warn them.

The Times has uncovered nearly 50 cases of people having mental health crises during conversations with ChatGPT. Nine were hospitalized; three died. After Adam Raine’s parents filed a wrongful-death lawsuit in August, OpenAI acknowledged that its safety guardrails could 'degrade' in long conversations. It also said it was working to make the chatbot 'more supportive in moments of crisis.'"

Important piece written by @kashhill & @jenvalentino. Link below.

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As I've written several times, AI chatbots are dangerous and must be regulated; the current level of oversight and enforcement is too low.

Also, children should NOT use AI chatbots unsupervised.

Hopefully, 2026 will be the year of AI chatbot oversight, regulation, and enforcement.

[Ericka ♡ @NeonTravesty]

I'm starting a rumor that Tommy Brennan is Ethan Hawke and Robert Sean Leonard's love child

[Tolga Bilge @TolgaBilge_]

@sama Wasn't it like 10 weeks ago that you said you were proud you hadn't put a sexbot in chatgpt?

[Amanda Goodall @thejobchick]

UPDATE: The AI didn’t just ghost your resume. It discriminated.

A federal judge just ordered Workday to hand over a full list of employers that used AI to rank job applicants.

Not just their tech… but every company that enabled HiredScore.

And now it’s evidence. 🧵👇

[Alona @Alonaverse]

Napster😂

[Alona @Alonaverse]

This is seismic.

Seismic Foundation asked 10,000 people from around the world to uncover how people connect AI with the things they care about most.

https://t.co/RgS42n7lu2

#aiethics #seismic

[Rutger Bregman @rcbregman]

Huge new study finds: people think AI will worsen almost everything they care about.

By a 3-to-1 margin, they want more regulation. And they deeply distrust the big AI labs.

Feels like we’re approaching a social tipping point. How long until the backlash against Big AI begins?