Katherine Argent

Why We’re Losing Sight of How AI Thinks Once, we could catch glimpses of how AI reached its conclusions. Now, those moments are vanishing — and that’s no accident.

When you fly blind, you trust the pilot completely. But what if the pilot starts hallucinating shortly after takeoff?

Leading AI researchers warn that hiding the thought process increases dangerous results.

So why pull the curtain now? I think I know.

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CoT is the “thinking out loud” process some AI models use to break a problem into steps. It’s like watching someone jot notes as they solve a math problem.

Those steps can reveal where the AI’s going wrong before it spits out a polished but wrong answer or, you know, tries to wipe out humanity. 2/

Remember when The Sims loaded with nonsense updates like:
"Prelaminating Drywall Inventory…"
"Reticulating 3-Dimensional Splines…"

You didn’t know what it meant, but it showed the game was loading. That’s what AI’s chain-of-thought (CoT) is like — except it’s real and we need it. Here's why:

I’m so proud to be part of this group of women and nonbinary folks writing about AI. There is nothing artificial about the intelligence here!

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Everything You Published Became Google’s Brain You trained the machine and got nothing for it. Now what?

Google has announced its plan to write their own articles and answer search queries entirely.

With YOUR content.

Here’s how we got into this mess. And what creators need to do to fight back — while there’s still time.

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Your Alienation Is Engineered The numbness, disconnection, and self-censoring you feel is all part of their business model.

The goal is to make you a predictable, known quantity.

Why?

Because predictable people are easier to monetize.

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Your Alienation Is Engineered The numbness, disconnection, and self-censoring you feel is all part of their business model.

Last week, I wrote about how platforms convert your leisure time into unpaid labor, turning your time into their profit on the Attention Farm. This week, we’re going deeper: into the emotional, relational, and civic costs of living inside their system.

Can’t say I blame you.

What were you doing right before you picked up your phone just now?

Do you remember why you grabbed it?

If not, you’re not alone. The algorithms are designed to pull you back to your phone, over and over.

Find out why, how, and how to make it stop in tomorrow’s Substack.

It’s a doozy.

Digital illustration by Kate Argent of a massive foot representing“Big Tech” about to crush a woman using a computer.

You weren’t supposed to enjoy using the internet. You were supposed to submit to it.

And when you push back? It adapts.

“Your Alienation Was Engineered.” Tuesday on my Substack.

effthealgorithm.substack.com

This is a quote over a blurred illustration of someone working on a farm growing cellphones instead of plants. The text overlay reads: "Behavioral surplus is valuable because it's predictive. The more platforms know about how you behave, the better they can guess what you'll do next: what you'll buy, who you'll believe, how you'll vote, even how you might feel tomorrow. And these predictions can be sold. That's the business model. Not ads. Access to your future. This is where the algorithm comes in." by Kate Argent on her Substack Post Title: The Attention Farm: How Big Tech Profits From Your Unpaid Labor

In this week’s Substack, I explain how the platforms put you to work for their profit, without your consent.

Spoiler: using private browsing or a VPN doesn’t offer the anonymity you think it does.

I think of all the people who live to graft and grift, insulated from the consequences of their actions.

People who “move fast and break things” while adding nothing noble to our world.

That. That’s how I was radicalized.

And you? 🪡

…will never get to know. People who could’ve created things of meaning.

People who might change the world if they weren’t forced to focus on struggling to keep a roof over their heads and food in their belly.

And then? Then… 4/

Tonight, I am shaken by the sense of how many lives have started and ended without leaving survival mode. How many people have struggled and did their best, and never once caught a break.

People with profound things to share. People who have insights and opinions the rest of us 3/

Tuesday, when the proceeds cleared, I woke up out of survival mode for the first time since leaving home when I was 15.

Today, I wrote the first scene in the novel I’ve always wanted to write. 2/

Friday, I closed on the sale of my home. I never thought I’d leave it, but I never thought I’d need to, either.
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Tampa dentist gets 2 years in prison after making more than 100 online threats Richard Glenn Kantwill threatened rape and murder in messages to 40 victims, including politicians and election officials.

Strange how the media has anesthetized this story by skipping his motive. But here’s a little piece for you:

In September 2019, Kantwill told one victim: “God bless the Great President Trump and his family. Fuck you and yours. Hire extra security ... you’re gonna need it.”

Yes! So much to be said for conveniences, especially when they’re within walking distance. What’s been surprising is seeing that most things, aside from housing, are more affordable in the city. Often better quality, too!

Any Democrat supporting censure better answer for all the times they remained silent on worse behavior.

Enough with the “when they go low, we go high” approach. That’s just self-righteous defeatism.

When they go low, we need to do roundhouse kicks.

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Gosh, is he okay? Yes? Thats a shame.

Almost settled into my new place. It’s been >20 years since I lived in the city and I forgot how much I love it!

Such a strange feeling, though. It’s like I spliced the soundtrack of my life, cut out two decades, and continued on with the song.

What a stupid act. Even if you legally change your name outside of marriage, many states refuse to amend your original birth certificate. That means no voting for you!

I’ve cracked the Trump nomination criteria:

1. Do you have a vendetta or feel maligned?

2. If I give you the power to take revenge, will you swear your undying loyalty to me?

1. Cleaning.
2. Organizing computer files.
3. Bluesky.

Musk Claims To Know The Net Worths Of Federal Employees – But How? His Oval Office remark suggests a remarkable invasion of privacy of potentially millions of federal employees.

“How on earth would he have the information about the net worths of government employees?” asked @normeisen.bsky.social, a top White House ethics lawyer under President Barack Obama. “Either he’s making it up … or he has gotten access to data that he has no business getting.”

My mystery thriller Darke Deeds is on Kindle Unlimited. mybook.to/darkedeeds
Book 1 of a new series.
True-crime podcasters and relatives, Angie and Violet Darke, want a huge case to solve.
It lands on their doorstep. A body is discovered in Angie's pub garden. The past is never dead and buried.

All packed! The movers arrive first thing in the morning.

It’s hard to imagine living somewhere else — I’ve been here over 1/3 of my life — but adventures await and I’m ready.

Screw Google for capitulating to this childish nonsense.

Imagine if @aoc @sanders.senate.gov , every dem, SIMULTANEOUSLY held Town Halls where they allowed grant and contract recipients to explain to the country what it is they do and why it's important

Invite all media. Including RW podcasters. @spaces Flood the zone

Call it a Day Of Transparency

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