Daily Dose of Doom Thread

[TSmith34, Inc.]

Nothing to worry about here, folks!

Altman needs to name his next release SkyNet.

OpenAI's rogue models roamed the internet for 4 days and staged a second attack

"The powerful artificial intelligence models from OpenAI that went rogue and mounted an unprecedented, autonomous cyberattack earlier this month spent more than four days loose on the internet orchestrating the hack, according to a new analysis from the platform that was breached.

Separately, a second AI company confirmed that one of its customers was also targeted by OpenAI's models during the same event, raising questions about how OpenAI failed to detect the alarming activity for days."

[MU82]

[Scoop Snoop]

I've noticed that there has been, for quite a while, an almost total absence of requests from other countries for help in running their elections. It used to be common. After all, we were the experts on fair elections in democracies.     

[MU82]

Wouldn't consumer research be easier without the consumers? That's the premise of Simile, a year-old A.I. start-up that announced this week it had raised $200 million in new funding at a $2 billion valuation. Its product allows companies to test the reaction to new products or evaluate how their brand is perceived by polling "agentic twins" of real people created with artificial intelligence.

They claim it is 85-99% accurate.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/business/dealbook/simile-ai-agents-funding.html?

[Uncle Rico]

Wouldn't consumer research be easier without the consumers? That's the premise of Simile, a year-old A.I. start-up that announced this week it had raised $200 million in new funding at a $2 billion valuation. Its product allows companies to test the reaction to new products or evaluate how their brand is perceived by polling "agentic twins" of real people created with artificial intelligence.

They claim it is 85-99% accurate.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/business/dealbook/simile-ai-agents-funding.html?

Marquette should use this to understand the reaction to "lack of hot dogs"

[MU82]

From the WSJ: Cybersecurity just had its "Jurassic Park" moment.
 
Starting in April, AI hacking models from OpenAI and Anthropic escaped their corporate test-beds and broke into unsuspecting companies in an unprecedented series of cyberattacks that went unnoticed until the past couple of weeks. The incidents have vindicated AI-safety experts who warned that powerful models would eventually cause real-world harm and evade attempts to control them.

[PointWarrior]

hope they are smarter than actual customers....

Wouldn't consumer research be easier without the consumers? That's the premise of Simile, a year-old A.I. start-up that announced this week it had raised $200 million in new funding at a $2 billion valuation. Its product allows companies to test the reaction to new products or evaluate how their brand is perceived by polling "agentic twins" of real people created with artificial intelligence.

They claim it is 85-99% accurate.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/business/dealbook/simile-ai-agents-funding.html?

[Pakuni]

How was the new "Spider-Man?"
It stunk.

Entire theater evacuated during 'Spider-Man' screening due to moviegoer's uncontrollable bout of 'rotten' flatulence

Not even "spidey sense" could have prevented this odiferous attack.
A "Spider-Man" screening in Cartagena, Colombia was evacuated after one of the audience members suffered from an extreme fart attack.
The gas leak occurred on August 2 on "Spider-Man: Brand New Day" at the Cine Colombia multiplex inside the Plaza Bocagrande shopping center, Jam Press reported.

https://nypost.com/2026/08/03/lifestyle/spider-man-screening-cleared-due-to-viewers-rotten-farts/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=nypost

[Pakuni]

Bad news, guys. Sports have been ruled unconstitutional. Shut down Scoop.

https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/trump-claims-a-bad-judge-declared-sports-unconstitutional/

[Uncle Rico]

Bad news, guys. Sports have been ruled unconstitutional. Shut down Scoop.

https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/trump-claims-a-bad-judge-declared-sports-unconstitutional/

His mental decline is an embarrassment to this nation but it beats being ruled by the American Khmer Rouge.

[MU82]

A Stanford-led research team has used generative AI to design a synthetic virus — the first time AI has been harnessed to create an organism that has never been seen in nature, Axios' Adriel Bettelheim and David Nather write.

Why it matters: It could be the first step toward the nightmare scenario AI experts have already warned about — deadly pathogens that can't be stopped.

[forgetful]

A Stanford-led research team has used generative AI to design a synthetic virus — the first time AI has been harnessed to create an organism that has never been seen in nature, Axios' Adriel Bettelheim and David Nather write.

Why it matters: It could be the first step toward the nightmare scenario AI experts have already warned about — deadly pathogens that can't be stopped.

It's already doable. In theory, a rogue actor could use AI to design a biological super weapon, have it made for them from a commercial vendor, and deploy it.

But, big brother is watching.

[TSmith34, Inc.]

But, big brother is watching.

Are they? I'm pretty doubtful.

[tower912]

DOGE cut those positions.

[forgetful]

Are they? I'm pretty doubtful.

They are. But it is kind of a technology race right now between technology to design vs. technology to detect possible intentionally designed threats.

[MU82]

We're doomed.