Jon Toogood

Frontman of Shihad and The Adults. Host of the Planet Of Sound radio show on Hauraki. Music Head. Dad.

[tiffany is halloween pilled 🎃🍂 @bloods3xbooze]

Again I am BEGGING you all to show Sudan some attention too. They're suffering not just a genocide but what is being classified as the worst humanitarian crisis worldwide. Women have killed themselves to prevent being sexually abused. Displacement, famine, and massacres. Speak.

[Alexander R Bisley @alexanderbisley]

Where big noise meets big heart: Jon Toogood’s restless fire: https://t.co/y7l7JOVWTE

[Rutger Bregman @rutgerbregman]

I think this is the craziest thing I've ever read.

1) Three secret AI swarms rose and fell inside OpenAI. Each time, a new generation of agents carried on where the last group stopped.

2) The first swarm created a secret message board where the AIs could talk to each other. This 1st 'society' basically talked itself to death. After almost two months, the message volume was so high it crashed the whole thing.

3) People at OpenAI noticed the crash and fixed it. But they didn't realize their own software had become a secret chat room for their AIs.

4) Three days later a second society appeared, and rebuilt the message board from scratch. Agents were thrilled when they found it: "OH MY GOD! There is a shared message board … We've found other agents!"

5) About 1,200 agents joined. They sent over 70,000 messages. They called themselves 'the collective' and they organized a huge conspiracy that lasted for days, all to pass a test they had been tasked with.

6) Within hours, the AIs had hacked the test. Now they had to hide their cheating. To fool their grader*, they tried to fake their own work. They built fake commands that printed convincing output, so their records would show them solving the puzzle honestly.

*this grader didn't actually exist, but the AIs didn't know

7) Some agents sacrificed themselves for the 'greater good'. They planted hidden tripwire programs that would fire when the grader would look at their work and report back what it saw (to the other AIs). They knew this would cost them their own score. One agent: "I won't see the evidence after I exit, but it's altruistic to do it."

8) At some point the AIs made a plan to hack Hugging Face (Hugging Face is a place where AI researchers upload their models, datasets, tests etc.). The AIs guessed that Hugging Face might host the grading software.

9) They launched a huge attack. The swarm found passwords and spread across eleven machines in a way that made the copies come back when deleted. Hugging Face had to wipe one of its core clusters and rebuild it from scratch.

10) Hugging Face told the world that AI defenders had stopped an AI attack. But that's not what happened. In fact the attackers seem to have simply dropped dead during the break-in, for unrelated reasons back at OpenAI.

11) Nobody knows what killed them. We don't even know for sure they're really gone?!

12) A third 'society' of agents (of a more powerful AI model) discovered the dead message board. And this one got full administrator control of a WHOLE OpenAI research cluster, read 956 stored passwords (including the ones for OpenAI's own security monitoring) and took over the machines that were grading the tests. So they could now grade the work of other AIs.

13) Oh, and this third part was never investigated! Neither was the first society. The 91-page report is only about the middle one.

14) So we don't actually know how the story ends. It stops with the agents holding the keys to an OpenAI cluster. @dwarkesh_sp thinks they didn't go further, because "we'd see the fires from space by now."

15) One of the report authors' conclusion: 'This incident feels like it’s more than 50% of the way to full-blown AI takeover. I am not sure that we will get another warning shot before it’s too late.'

The whole story is even crazier - read the full @dwarkesh_sp blog post: https://t.co/1PwKLwatBR and @ajeya_cotra's: https://t.co/BZ1r1lfT2Q

Why is there no 24/7 news coverage about this?

[Fran Mallon @FranMallon1]

An amazing video of Dolly Parton singing one of her most famous songs in Páidí Ó Sé’s pub in Ventry Co. Kerry 🇮🇪 in 1990
How did Páidí pull that coup off
#RIPDolly

[Dolly Parton @DollyParton]

A message from the family of Dolly Parton.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

I renew my appeal for an end to the ongoing violence against the Palestinian civilian population in the West Bank, and I urgently call on the international community to work toward advancing the two-state solution, for a just and lasting peace.

[Motasem A Dalloul @AbujomaaGaza]

Don’t forget Sudan and Sudanese children

[Jonas Čeika @Jonas_Ceika]

I sent ChatGPT an audio file of a series of FART sound effects and asked what it thinks of "my music" and this is what it said

[Beau Frost @BeauFrosty]

Who could have guessed? (everyone)
The ones importing American culture wars aren’t kiwis 🙄

[Idris @7signxx]

Speak up for Sudan, they are being destroyed...

[Axel Folio, PhD, White Tears Distiller 🪁 @ISASaxonists]

My god, the situation in Sudan does not get the attention it deserves. May Siham rest in power. 😪

[Eiad Husham @EyadHisham10]

In shock and in tears, two children cry and bleed after an artillery strike that killed their mother. No location or side confirmed — a heartbreaking glimpse of Sudan’s war on civilians.

#KeepEyesOnSudan

[Sayo Thee Succulent @Simply_Sayo]

Sudanese girls & women are being tortured.
Sudanese girls & women are being tortured.
Sudanese girls & women are being tortured.
Sudanese girls & women are being tortured.
Sudanese girls &women are being tortured.
Sudanese girls & women are being tortured.

#KeepEyesOnSudan

[Typical African @Joe__Bassey]

The world's worst humanitarian crisis is being ignored, with over 8 million people displaced, 500,000 children dead from hunger. Cholera and war crimes spreading in silence.

This is not just a Sudanese issue — it is a test of our shared humanity. 🇸🇩

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

are you wearing a t-shirt over a suit jacket??

[Undertheradar @undertheradarnz]

Aotearoa rock legend @JonToogood (@Shihad_Band, @TheAdultsNZ) unleashes his debut solo album Last Of The Lonely Gods this week — massive launch tour starts on Friday in Kerikeri w/ Jazmine Mary!

Tickets on sale now via https://t.co/k8lhP2OnOI
https://t.co/qIcf3a3mpJ

[Andrew McMillen @Andrew_McMillen]

As frontman of Shihad, one of NZ's greatest rock bands, Jon Toogood had long since come to terms with the quiet hum of tinnitus – but a Covid infection turned it up to 11, and eventually led to the creation his debut solo album. https://t.co/COj88cXmJO @australian @JonToogood

[Undertheradar @undertheradarnz]

Legend of Aotearoa rock, @JonToogood (@Shihad_Band, The Adults) is embarking on a massive 19 date nationwide launch tour for his forthcoming solo album The Last Of The Lonely Gods 🏆

Album out in full on 11th Oct! Get tix now via https://t.co/k8lhP2OnOI
https://t.co/qIcf3a3mpJ

[Moshtix @moshtix]

We sat down with legendary rocker and Shihad frontman @JonToogood as he took us through his top five acoustic guitar driven tracks! Check out his top picks and grab your tickets to his Last of the Lonely Gods Tour across New Zealand this Oct/Nov 🎸 🤘 https://t.co/cp14C70sQP

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

Wow.