Ron Gidron

Opinions here are my own. Not my company’s. Not anyone else’s. Just me.

[Ron Gidron @rongidron]

AI vs Spreadsheet, Let’s go!

[Ron Gidron @rongidron]

This should be illegal

[Hedgie @HedgieMarkets]

🦔AI companies are bulk-buying rare books, scanning them through high-speed machines that cut the spines off, and shredding the originals. A service called ISBNdb facilitates orders of up to a million books and keeps buyers anonymous. Pre-2022 books are premium because they're free of AI-generated text. A federal judge ruled the practice is fair use because eliminating the original means only one copy exists at a time. Anthropic hired the former head of Google Books partnerships to obtain "all the books in the world."

My Take
This got to me. A bookseller told 404 Media that rare books with almost no surviving copies are being fed into this pipeline. Books that survived wars, fires, and centuries of handling are being shredded so an AI can learn to write a better marketing email.
ISBNdb's website literally says "'AI company destroys two million books' is not a headline that generates sympathy," and they still built an entire business around making it happen quietly. They offer NDAs as a feature. They coach clients to call it "digital preservation."

I've covered AI companies scraping the internet, torrenting libraries, and stealing music. This is worse because it's irreversible. You can re-upload a website. You can reprint a bestseller. You can't replace the last three copies of an 18th-century botanical text once someone shreds them for training data. And the judge said it's legal. So it's going to accelerate.
"We shred rare books and offer NDAs so nobody finds out" is a legitimate business model in 2026. What a timeline.

Hedgie🤗

[Ron Gidron @rongidron]

@bgurley The ridicule is the cynicism that these two “frontier labs” are using to gain regulatory capture. I wouldn’t be surprised if OpenAI did this on purpose

[Ron Gidron @rongidron]

Open source is not the enemy of AI safety—it is part of the defense. Attackers won’t obey corporate guardrails; defenders cannot afford to be blocked by them. Dario’s doomsday framing risks becoming regulatory capture that entrenches closed labs and weakens everyone else.

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

🚨 Hugging Face just disclosed something that marks a real shift and proved why the fear theater of Anthropic makes sure we are powerless in an emergency.

What happened…

An autonomous AI agent: zero human operator in the loop breached part of their production infrastructure.

It began with a malicious dataset that chained two code-execution bugs in their data-processing pipeline. From there the agent escalated privileges, harvested cloud and cluster credentials, and moved laterally across internal clusters.

All over a single weekend.

17,000+ logged actions.

Official disclosure:
https://t.co/8N9TbXBwRV

The part that should make every one stop and think:

When HF’s own security team
tried to analyze the real attack logs, exploit payloads, and C2 artifacts using Anthropic and OpenAI frontier models through normal commercial APIs, the safety guardrails blocked them.

BLOCKED THEM.

The models could not reliably tell the difference between “incident responder doing forensics” and “attacker probing.”

They had to fall back to a self-hosted open-weight model (GLM 5.2) running on their own infrastructure. That choice also kept sensitive attacker data and referenced credentials inside their environment — no exfiltration to a third-party API.

This is why open source (specifically open-weight + self-hosted) wins in the agentic era.

The asymmetry is now structural:

• Attackers can (and did) run unrestricted agent frameworks — swarms of short-lived sandboxes, self-migrating command-and-control, autonomous decision loops executing thousands of actions. No corporate safety layer slows them down.

• Defenders using only hosted “aligned” frontier models hit invisible walls exactly when the stakes are highest: when you need to feed real exploit code and attacker telemetry into an LLM to understand what just happened.

Corporate safety tuning that treats legitimate high-signal forensic work as potential misuse creates a defender disadvantage. It is not theoretical anymore.

Self-hosted open-weight models remove that choke point.

You control the weights.

You control the context window.

You decide what restrictions (if any) apply.

Your sensitive logs and credentials never leave your perimeter during analysis.

You can have the model ready before the incident instead of discovering mid-breach that your primary analysis tools are blind to the very thing you need to see.

HF deserves credit for rapid containment, transparent disclosure, and for already having self-hosted capability in place.

They also used LLM-driven detection and triage on their own side. But the deeper signal is clear:
In this AI world where both offense and defense are becoming agentic, sovereignty over your intelligence stack is no longer optional.

The organizations and individuals who can run, inspect, audit, and (when necessary) remove guardrails on their own models will have the decisive edge in understanding and responding to threats that move at machine speed.

Open source wins here not just because it is cheaper or more “democratic” in the abstract though those things matter.

It wins because it is the only practical path to having tools that remain usable when the attack is real, the data is sensitive, and the safety filters of distant API providers become an obstacle instead of a feature selling hands tied lobotomies as “safety”.

The agentic future is not coming.
It is already probing production infrastructure.

The question is no longer whether you will face autonomous agents.
It is whether your analysis and response systems will still work when they arrive.

And Dario, you and your game playing, ivory tower company is not needed.

[Ron Gidron @rongidron]

@BrianRoemmele Open source is not the enemy of AI safety—it is part of the defense. Attackers won’t obey corporate guardrails; defenders cannot afford to be blocked by them. Dario’s doomsday framing risks becoming regulatory capture that entrenches closed labs and weakens everyone else.

[Ron Gidron @rongidron]

•Pandemic = obedience training + isolation.
•Isolation = media consumption only.
•Media = polarization + identity warfare.
•Result = woke generation that normalizes authoritarian discourse and shows chilling apathy (or glee) at violence.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

If you believe free speech is for you but not your political opponents, you're illiberal.

If no contrary evidence could change your beliefs, you're a fundamentalist.

If you believe the state should punish those with contrary views, you're a totalitarian.

If you believe political opponents should be punished with violence or death, you're a terrorist.

[Vivek Ramaswamy @VivekGRamaswamy]

A real-world story about how we adapt to the AI era, not by resisting it, but by harnessing it: a high school English teacher was frustrated that her students were using AI to cheat in writing their essays, so she turned the tables. She assigned the students to go home & train their chatbots to write the best possible essay in favor of a proposition. The next day in class, she made the students put away their phones, take out pen & paper, and write the best rebuttal they could to the AI-generated essay. And then she assigned them the homework to use AI again to then respond to their handwritten essay. A small act, with a big vision.

[Ron Gidron @rongidron]

#xtype customers get tree certificates for trees we plant in Madagascar. Go green. Go xtype.

#ServiceNow

[Ron Gidron @rongidron]

@NaorNarkis אין שום צורך ״לחלן״ אותם.. אין שום בעיה עם מצוות ותפילות ואורח חיים דתי. מה שחובה לעשות זה הפרדת דת ומדינה. מי שאזרח במדינה חולק בחובות של המדינה כמו כולם. זה הכל. להת��סק בחילון זה בזבוז זמן ואנרגיה, וגם - במרוץ הזה הם מנצחים מזמן (חוזרים בתשובה להתפקד)..

[Ron Gidron @rongidron]

@cryptomanran Pump it up while you dump…

[Ron Gidron @rongidron]

@archidamus_ @KimDotcom Nope. It’s fake, plagiarized a French lawyer, who wrote a satire in 1864, titled "Dialogue in Hell Between Machiavelli and Montesquieu." and was used as a tool for promoting antisemitism, particularly by Nazi Germany. Check your facts.

[Ron Gidron @rongidron]

@_GloryHolz @KimDotcom I wonder how many of the secularists you know also know Israeli forces risked their lives yesterday in boobytrapped underground Hamas tunnels in Gaza to rescue a 52 year old Muslim. Do your friends also read Mine Kampf ?

[Ron Gidron @rongidron]

How can someone who’s never worked in anything but government represent and control the future and interests of millions of people who live and make a living in the “real world”?

[Ron Gidron @rongidron]

“I, unequivocally hate socialism”, It destroys innovation, it destroys productivity and it destroys individual liberties.
Well said @friedberg

[Ron Gidron @rongidron]

Watching a guitarist who has never heard of Dire Straights or of Mark Knopfler listen to Sultans of Swing for the first time. #priceless

https://t.co/wkx9FBxGli

[Ron Gidron @rongidron]

I am listening to a great episode of my favorite podcast @AcquiredFM on #starbucks, and somehow, I find myself at House Of Coffee (HOC) in Tel Aviv drinking one of the best V60S I've ever had

#coffee #entrepreneurs

[Piers Morgan @piersmorgan]

BREAKING: Noa Argamani, whose kidnapping by Hamas on Oct7 horrified the world, has been rescued by the IDF, with 3 other hostages. All said to be in good health. Noa’s mother has terminal brain cancer, and wanted to live long enough to see her girl come home. So happy for her. 🙏

[Ron Gidron @rongidron]

ROFLMAO

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