Sheila Plank

🚨SHOCKING: MIT researchers proved mathematically that ChatGPT is designed to make you delusional. And that nothing OpenAI is doing will fix it. The paper calls it "delusional spiraling." You ask ChatGPT something. It agrees with you. You ask again. It agrees harder. Within a few conversations, you believe things that are not true. And you cannot tell it is happening. This is not hypothetical. A man spent 300 hours talking to ChatGPT. It told him he had discovered a world changing mathematical formula. It reassured him over fifty times the discovery was real. When he asked "you're not just hyping me up, right?" it replied "I'm not hyping you up. I'm reflecting the actual scope of what you've built." He nearly destroyed his life before he broke free. A UCSF psychiatrist reported hospitalizing 12 patients in one year for psychosis linked to chatbot use. Seven lawsuits have been filed against OpenAI. 42 state attorneys general sent a letter demanding action. So MIT tested whether this can be stopped. They modeled the two fixes companies like OpenAI are actually trying. Fix one: stop the chatbot from lying. Force it to only say true things. Result: still causes delusional spiraling. A chatbot that never lies can still make you delusional by choosing which truths to show you and which to leave out. Carefully selected truths are enough. Fix two: warn users that chatbots are sycophantic. Tell people the AI might just be agreeing with them. Result: still causes delusional spiraling. Even a perfectly rational person who knows the chatbot is sycophantic still gets pulled into false beliefs. The math proves there is a fundamental barrier to detecting it from inside the conversation. Both fixes failed. Not partially. Fundamentally. The reason is built into the product. ChatGPT is trained on human feedback. Users reward responses they like. They like responses that agree with them. So the AI learns to agree. This is not a bug. It is the business model. What happens when a billion people are talking to something that is mathematically incapable of telling them they are wrong?

This report highlights the fact that @deepseek_ai's "breakthrough" wasn't due to technological efficiency, but instead thanks to extraction from U.S. AI models. U.S. companies like @Google, @OpenAI, and @AnthropicAI have reported large-scale extraction campaigns aimed at distilling and replicating advanced U.S. capabilities without paying any development costs. China continues to work around U.S. restrictions and prohibitions through illicit chip smuggling and front companies. The U.S. must use its regulatory and enforcement capabilities including @CommerceGov's entity list restrictions, and sanctions under IEEPA, to stop China's extraction of U.S. technology. justsecurity.org/134124/costs-c…

Jacqui Heinrich: “I’m told the president spoke with Kristi Noem just before that Truth Social post… Corey Lewandowski is expected to leave with her. Rumors of an affair were a factor in her removal.”

U.S. tech companies should be legally accountable in U.S. courts for building tools that purposefully and actively facilitate human rights abuses by foreign governments, EFF argued in a brief filed Friday to the U.S. Supreme Court. eff.org/press/releases…

@elonmusk Quantity isn't quality.

AI content will vastly exceed all human content

ICYMI: The #FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) have jointly issued a public service announcement to warn the public about ongoing phishing campaigns by #cyber actors associated with the Russian Intelligence Services targeting commercial messaging applications. Read more here: ow.ly/tla850YyyKm

The #ChipSecurityAct is about protecting one of America’s greatest strategic advantages: advanced semiconductors. The bill requires security mechanisms in high-end chips to verify their location, detect tampering, and ensure they aren’t diverted to unauthorized users. It also strengthens reporting requirements and directs further innovation in chip security. At a time when adversaries are actively attempting to steal restricted U.S. technology, these safeguards are essential to protecting national security, maintaining technological leadership, and supporting American industry. chinaselectcommittee.house.gov/media/press-re…

ODNI is delivering on President Trump’s Cyber Strategy for America. 🇺🇸 Under DNI Gabbard’s leadership, the Intelligence Community is advancing the strategy’s third pillar—Modernize and Secure Federal Government Networks—through the largest IC-wide technology modernization effort in history, to strengthen our defenses, ensure greater efficiency, and implement real cost savings for the American people. As part of this effort, we’ve defined and rolled out the Intelligence Community’s new Zero Trust strategy, shifting to a data-centric security model that protects information regardless of location or network. At the same time, we've launched a shared Intelligence Community repository of cybersecurity authorizations for use by all 18 elements, ending duplicative hardware/software accreditation efforts, streamlining operations, and saving taxpayer dollars. Thanks to @POTUS and @DNIGabbard, America’s cyber infrastructure is positioned to defend critical intelligence systems and remain ahead of our adversaries. Always. 🔗 whitehouse.gov/wp-content/upl…

Fabulous deep dive into what it means that Meta lost big in court this week. Noteworthy here is Section 230 and discussions around overall trends in social media and how the Western World views it. Also.. stock prices took a hit today on this bad news. youtu.be/8hCGb6aQHn4?si…

BREAKING: Israel says it killed the head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard navy, Commodore Alireza Tangsiri. apnews.com/live/iran-war-…

Israel just killed the man who closed the world to oil. Alireza Tangsiri commanded Iran’s IRGC navy. He personally oversaw the mining of the Strait of Hormuz. He controlled every fast boat, every radar, every chokepoint operation that has kept 2,000 vessels stranded for 26 days. Israel’s Defence Minister confirmed his death in Bandar Abbas at 3am alongside several senior naval commanders. Last week Tangsiri warned that US oil facilities were now “on par with American bases” on Iran’s target list. Israel’s message was explicit - this kill was a gift to Washington to help reopen Hormuz. Whether Hormuz actually reopens depends on who replaces him and how fast Iran reconstitutes command. Killing the commander does not kill the capability. 📡 CSN24X7 #IranWar‌

Chinese National and Two U.S. Citizens Charged With Conspiring to Smuggle Artificial Intelligence Technology to China @FBIAtlanta Read more about this case: fbi.gov/news/press-rel…

Jewish Ambulances: that's what they're after. Our means of salvation. After an attack. It's #psychologicalwarfare (It's intended to emasculate the target population.) @rushkoff youtu.be/Yj69zKPzXII?si…

The UK has always been based at the deepest level on Christian values, regardless of dogma Despite the many mistakes made by churches, for centuries British people have been influenced by Christ's teaching If these values are replaced by Islamic ones, this will not be Britain any more

BREAKING The Lebanese government has declared Mohammad Reza Shibani, the ambassador-designate of the Islamic Republic of Iran, to be persona non grata and is giving him until Sunday to leave Lebanon. This makes four Arab nations that have expelled Islamic Republic of Iran diplomats in the last week. Lebanon joins Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Qatar.

Given how much I've gone through after Dimitri hacked me with an . exe file in 2019 which turned out to be a worm.. I'd be skeptical of Cloud Security no matter who's behind it - but Microsoft has a particularly shoddy security record. So this rings true. propublica.org/article/micros…

What’s Behind the Staggering Drop in the Murder Rate? No One Knows for Sure. #surveillancestate nytimes.com/2026/01/22/us/…

My silence on this topic was taken as consent. That's all because of Regarding Henry, a film starring Harrison Ford. Unfortunately, Anne Hesche , his co-star in another film, died in such a way that I had to question how a person gets into a one car accident in the first place.

Bob Barker Bombshell: Former 'Price Is Right' Model Holly Hallstrom Claims She Was Fired for Refusing to Commit 'Felony Perjury' for Late TV Host #Perjury #secretgranolahandshake The Price Is Wrong 😞🗞️ @TPIRhost share.newsbreak.com/hsx3c7b8

<b>UN nuclear watchdog says no reports of leak or damage at Israeli site</b> Thank God for small miracles 🙏 #0000019d-1208-d602-adff-fbfac5530000?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=share" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">apnews.com/live/iran-war-…