deception, poop, and bot armies

Wednesday, August 12, 2026

Sugaar and I met in the mountains, and storms followed.

1. “100% human-written” medical research firm — entirely AI, fake PhDs
2. 35,000 bot crawls per human visitor — one site’s year of war
3. The Cambrian explosion may have been caused by poop
4. Can LLMs actually introspect? New evidence says sometimes yes
5. 11,500 neighborhoods, one decade, zero crime-immigration link
6. EU AI Act forces Anthropic to watermark Claude output — worldwide