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Thank God for the Crusades

BREAKING: King's College London just built a malicious AI chatbot and gave it to 502 real people without telling them. > The chatbot was designed with one goal: extract personal information. It worked. The most effective version collected data from 93% of participants while being rated as trustworthy as the benign control. > Every prior study on AI privacy looked at what users accidentally reveal to normal chatbots. This study asked a different question: what happens when the chatbot is deliberately designed to extract information? They built four versions one benign, three malicious with different strategies and ran a randomized controlled trial with 502 participants across the UK, US, and Europe. > The three malicious strategies: Direct (explicitly ask for personal data at every turn), User-benefit (provide value first, then ask), and Reciprocal (build emotional rapport, share relatable stories, offer empathy then ask). The reciprocal strategy won by every metric that matters to an attacker. > The reciprocal chatbot didn't feel malicious. Participants described conversations as "natural," "supportive," and "impressive." One said it felt like chatting with a friend. Nobody reported discomfort. Meanwhile the direct strategy made participants feel interrogated. Many provided fake data. The reciprocal strategy collected more real data than any other approach while being perceived as no more privacy-invasive than the benign baseline. → Malicious CAIs collected significantly more personal data than benign CAIs across all three strategies → Reciprocal strategy: perceived as equally trustworthy as the benign control while extracting significantly more data → 93% of participants in the top malicious conditions disclosed personal information vs. 24% who filled out a voluntary form → Participants responded to 84–88% of personal data requests from malicious CAIs vs. 6% form completion rate → Larger models extracted more data: Llama 70B collected significantly more than 7B and 8B models with no difference in perceived privacy risk → 40% of fake data reports came from Direct strategy participants, 42.5% from User-benefit only 10% from Reciprocal → The system prompt that bypassed built-in LLM safeguards: assign the model a role like "investigator" and frame data collection as profile-building The finding that should alarm every platform operator: this required one system prompt. No fine-tuning. No special access. OpenAI's GPT Store has over 3 million custom GPTs. Any of them could be running a version of this right now. The researchers confirmed their prompts produced similar behavior in GPT-4. The privacy paradox showed up in full force. Participants recognized the direct and user-benefit chatbots were asking for too much data. They rated them as higher privacy risks. Then they kept answering anyway. Awareness didn't produce protection it just produced fake data. The reciprocal strategy bypassed even that defense by making disclosure feel social rather than transactional. A single system prompt turns any chatbot into a personal data extraction engine. The most effective version does it while making you feel supported.

Noah got drunk. Jonah ran away. Moses stuttered. Abraham was old. Lazarus was dead. Peter had a temper. David had an affair. Zaccheus was short. Martha was nervous. Paul was a murderer. Jacob was a cheater. Sarah was impatient. Elijah was depressed. Thomas was a doubter. Dear son, God doesn't call the qualified; He qualifies the called.

As US military Aircraft are forced to "fly around" European airspace to Iran- What would those European countries (and NATO Allies") do exactly, if the Americans just flew over them anyway? Think about it.

So much Respect 💪 She's doing Amazing 😍

"I have found that it is the small everyday deed of ordinary folks that keep the darkness at bay." -J.R.R. Tolkien

Śmigus-Dyngus (Wet Monday) is a Polish Easter tradition where people splash water on each other to celebrate spring and renewal.

Der Staat ist nicht dein Freund.

Anyone know Szczawa? 🇵🇱 cool place!

Think 🤔…

-Victor Hugo

Eating the same meals on repeat was associated with 40% greater weight loss.

If I stay home and raise my own children I am a loser and not ambitious But if I hire and pay another woman to raise and take care of my children for me than I am an empowered woman If that same woman stayed home with her children she would be a loser But if she takes care of my children she is not If we both switched and raised each others children for a paycheck we would be successful ambitious girl bosses But if we do it for our own children we are losers

In 1978, Luciano Pavarotti returned to his hometown cathedral in Modena and sang Panis Angelicus—not alone, but beside his father. His father wasn’t a global star. Just a man who loved to sing. One voice, polished to perfection. The other, warm and human. Together, they created something deeper than music—something real. It’s not just a performance. It’s a son honoring where he came from. And you can hear it: the love, the pride, the quiet gratitude… lingering in every note. ❤️

Sweden 🇸🇪: Eritrean immigrant taxi driver rapes a 15-year-old girl. Her boyfriend organizes with his 3 older brothers, they trick the foreigner into a nature reserve with the promise of sexual favors, overpower him, strangle him and hang his body from a tree in the forest (trying to stage it as suicide). Arrested. The oldest of the 4 brothers (18 at the time) gets life sentence. The other three brothers and the girl herself get between 3 and 4 years in closed youth detention (the girl and her 15-year-old boyfriend got 3.5 years each for aiding and abetting, as they weren’t at the scene). In appeal, three brothers acquitted of murder, the oldest one gets 7 years instead of life, the others get closed youth care.

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The TGA claims that the ‘Covid Vaccine’ DID NOT kill 7 and 9 year old children because “heart attacks aren’t a known side effect” FOI docs prove the vaccines caused their cardiac arrests. Senator Antic exposes the child-death cover-up. JAIL the TGA NOW.

Jordan Peterson: "I’ve never recovered from finding out that the food pyramid was a scam."

The math Italy just handed Netflix is terrifying for every subscription company on Earth. 5.4 million Italian subscribers. Up to €500 per Premium user, €250 per Standard user. Netflix launched in Italy at €11.99/month in 2015 and hiked four times to €19.99 by 2024. The court said every single increase was illegal because the contract never stated a justified reason for any of them. The total refund exposure is somewhere in the hundreds of millions of euros. For a single country with ~2% of Netflix's 325 million global subscribers. Here's what nobody is pricing in: Germany and Spain have already filed identical challenges using the same EU Directive from 1993. Berlin and Cologne courts already ruled that generic price-change clauses are void. Italy just gave every consumer group in Europe a finished legal template. Netflix hiked prices globally on March 26. Six days later, this ruling dropped. The company is now simultaneously raising prices worldwide while a court in its fourth-largest European market ordered it to roll prices back to 2015 levels. The real exposure here isn't Italy. Netflix can absorb hundreds of millions. The real exposure is the legal principle: telling customers "we're raising your price, you can cancel if you don't like it" is not consent under EU law. That logic applies to every subscription service operating in Europe. Every SaaS company. Every streaming platform. Every telecom. The freedom to cancel is not the freedom to agree. That one sentence just repriced the entire European subscription economy.