deception, poop, and bot armies
Wednesday, August 12, 2026

Sugaar and I met in the mountains, and storms followed.
- “100% human-written” medical research firm — entirely AI, fake PhDs
- 35,000 bot crawls per human visitor — one site’s year of war
- The Cambrian explosion may have been caused by poop
- Can LLMs actually introspect? New evidence says sometimes yes
- 11,500 neighborhoods, one decade, zero crime-immigration link
- EU AI Act forces Anthropic to watermark Claude output — worldwide
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