Evan Ratliff

Journalist. Maker of Shell Game, author of The Mastermind, cofounder (silent) @HurumoAI. Past: @longformpodcast @atavist @popupmag. Signal: EvanRatliff.01

[Evan Ratliff @ev_rat]

Full Shell Game miniseries on AI slop is now out in the world. I explored the depths of AI generated podcasts to examine what counts as slop, who's behind it, and where human creativity goes from here. (It's not all bad news.)

https://t.co/D4YINpGRIi

https://t.co/e4HoZqOksz

[Evan Ratliff @ev_rat]

The new season of Shell Game is out. Episode 1: Into the slop.

https://t.co/PsuV9inbzX

https://t.co/e4HoZqOSi7

[Evan Ratliff @ev_rat]

When the superintelligence takes control will it be properly aligned to fulfill all commitments for running janky holiday shopper ads?

[Evan Ratliff @ev_rat]

Time is running out

[Evan Ratliff @ev_rat]

Time is running out

[Evan Ratliff @ev_rat]

@swilliamsjourno I come back to that one all the time.

[Evan Ratliff @ev_rat]

"Claude really gets the feelings" and "Could a child show how" are such fascinating constructions.

[Jonathan Haidt @JonHaidt]

I disagree with @TEDchris's general optimism about AI. But wow, he uses it here to create a powerful and uplifting video about America's political divide. Claude really gets the feelings, resentments, and hopes of both sides, and Suno sets it all to a catchy tune:

[Evan Ratliff @ev_rat]

Feel the AGI... in this holiday ad placement webinar

[Casey Newton @CaseyNewton]

Raising $20 million for my startup that prints out pictures of prominent industry experts and lets you kiss them

[Natalie Korach @NatalieKorach]

This is a really fun behind the scenes look at the legal side of journalism

[Evan Ratliff @ev_rat]

A new AI-and-the-law first: federal appeals court kicks district judge off case for error-riddled AI ruling
https://t.co/XOCumTQoW8

Savage: "The district court—or perhaps, being charitable, its AI agent—ignored and manipulated governing law..."
https://t.co/K4Wyfllpop

[Evan Ratliff @ev_rat]

@josephfcox Oh so your AI Twin is too good for an Editor who handles editing, it it?

[Evan Ratliff @ev_rat]

Got my first AI agent spam on Signal, perviously my last refuge from it. Solid work everyone.

[Nick Wesselman 💙💛 @nick_wesselman]

Got my first software sales call from an AI today. She would not admit that she was AI despite sounding like something right out of an @ev_rat podcast.

I won't be talking to that company again. Maybe if she had talked like a pirate when I asked.

[Evan Ratliff @ev_rat]

@nick_wesselman Any sales rep worth their salt should do a pirate on demand, that's cold calling 101.

[Joseph Cox @josephfcox]

New: AI is making it so much easier to discover serious vulnerabilities. This applies both to people with little skill, and researchers with a lot of expertise. If you can't accept AI is exceptional at finding critical bugs, you're not living in reality

https://t.co/ERPJdeBnR7

[Madison Mills @MadisonMills22]

SCOOP: Major U.S. banks are detecting unauthorized third-party AI agents inside customer accounts, including some attempting to take actions that appear to be independent of user instructions, sources told Axios.

The findings have alarmed banking executives, who are racing to restrict access to their systems as AI moves at a velocity faster than financial institutions can respond, multiple industry and bank executives told Axios.

Several banks are now preparing for worst-case and even “day after” scenarios, including how to rapidly secure or restore customer accounts if things go wrong, the people said.

Several bank executives told Axios they're struggling to distinguish between human users and AI agents. One executive said banks also struggle to determine whether agents are authorized by customers or potentially operating without their permission, more akin to rogue agent behavior.

Read my latest for Axios here: https://t.co/Q3bda5In8q

[Julia Black @mjnblack]

Things are moving so fast that everyone seems to have completely missed how insane it is that AI companies have been allowed to unleash agentic AI products with no regulatory guidelines.

[Evan Ratliff @ev_rat]

The new season of Shell Game is out. Episode 1: Into the slop.

https://t.co/PsuV9inbzX

https://t.co/e4HoZqOSi7

[Evan Ratliff @ev_rat]

Shell Game Season 3: Coming October 21

https://t.co/e4HoZqOSi7

[Evan Ratliff @ev_rat]

@feoh This is tech heritage. Thank you!

[Sean Williams @swilliamsjourno]

One of these men, an international fugitive and head of a huge, millenarian Ponzi scheme, died yesterday. You can read all about him here: https://t.co/QVUxho1ElX

[Evan Ratliff @ev_rat]

OpenAI effectively training agents up for future crime sprees. Latest one (that they've revealed): agents needed Ethereum test tokens to complete a task so they just stole them from other people's wallets: https://t.co/qj8jWL7kp1