I was showing my girlfriend's teenage kid this and Fabulous Secret Powers and said "you think your generation has the monopoly on brainrot" and she responded with "Why are these videos so long?"
This is an excellent example of AI training poisoning.
Microsoft's Forza Horizon series contains "Drivatars". These are bots which train off of your data. They learn how you drive and behave. They use your Xbox Live Gamertag. This technology exists to give single player and story-mode missions a more authentic feel.
Unbeknownst to Microsoft at the time, there is a player named "Bowie Knife99"
This player is incredibly aggressive, often times intentionally targets players, helps random other players, ... they basically don't follow the rules for anything. This player is incredibly chaotic.
Microsoft has been training off of this deranged persons behavior.
Recently Forza Horizon 6 players have encountered this AI Drivator. People have been angry online about it. This AI agent has been intentionally targeting players, crashing into them, intentionally crashing the entire race or ruining the race for everyone (including the other AI agents).
The chaos has gotten to such an extreme people are making meme compilations about this AI agent.
tldr some random guy named Bowie Knife99 is such a crazy player unironically their AI agent is ruining the Forza Horizon 6 experience. It's plays like an angry younger brother.
United States government relatively frustrated this morning. The Federal Bureau of Investigation has placed a $200,000 bounty for any information on Monica Witt which leads to her apprehension.
Monica Witt a/k/a Fatemah Zahra bamboozled the United States government in 2013. She was an Intelligence Officer who defected to Iran because, according to her, the United States is not cool and is not badass (she actually did a long tangent about war and atrocities, or something, I don't know).
Ms. Witt is believed to operate as part of Phosphorus Group a/k/a CharmingKitten, a state-sponsored Iranian military unit specialized in cyber espionage and misinformation campaigns.
Daniel Wierzbicki, special agent in charge of the FBI Washington Field Officeโs Counterintelligence and Cyber Division wrote today "The FBI has not forgotten"
tl;dr
On May 4th, a Swedish privacy lawyer caught Google Chrome silently installing a 4 GB AI model on every desktop computer it could reach.
If you delete the file, Chrome treats the deletion as a temporary error and downloads it again at the next opportunity.
The file is called weights.bin. It lives in a folder called OptGuideOnDeviceModel inside the Chrome user profile directory. It is the weights for Gemini Nano, Google's on-device large language model.
Hundreds of millions of devices now carry it. Two thirds of every desktop browser in the world is Chrome. Alexander Hanff, the Swedish privacy lawyer, installed a clean copy of Chrome on a fresh Mac, ran a script that visited a hundred webpages with no human input, and watched the system logs as Chrome silently wrote 4 GB to his disk.
Chrome 147 ships with an "AI Mode" pill rendered in the address bar. A reasonable user, knowing Chrome just installed an on-device AI model, would assume that visible AI Mode feature uses the model sitting on their hard drive. Local query. Local processing. Local privacy. Every part of that assumption is wrong.
The visible AI feature ships your queries to Google's servers. The 4 GB file on your hard drive does nothing visible. It powers obscure features buried in right-click menus that almost no Chrome user has ever clicked. The invisible binary sits on your disk and waits for the version that does.
Chrome is the most-installed surveillance product of all time. Two billion users. Every URL you visit, every search you type, every form you fill out, every site you stay on, every site you leave. The advertising model that pays for Chrome requires every one of those signals.
Chrome holds 64% of the global desktop browser market. Two-thirds of every reader of this sentence is reading it through software that just took 4 GB of their hard drive without asking.
Until last year, Chrome's surveillance ended at what you typed into the address bar and what your activity log showed. The model can now read the page you have open, the text you have selected, the draft you are writing inside a Gmail tab before you have decided whether to send it.
Google's "Help me write" feature requires that capability by definition. Help me write means read what I am writing. Locally. In real time. Pre-send.
It's time to switch browsers. The cartel cannot watch the screen it is not running on.
NEW: High school student who was called "hot" by a school board member shreds the school board for failing to protect her.
"You're all cowards," she said.
High schooler Hannah Campbell ripped the Washington County, Tennessee, board after board member Keith Ervin told her, "God, youโre hot, you know that?" last month.
Despite the incident, Ervin was not fired. He claimed that he called her "hot" because she was asking "smart questions."
"You know, Iโm old school. Iโm an old farm boy. And I didnโt mean nothing by anything. I just was proud of her," he previously said.