Nathan Hamiel

Internet detectives are misusing AI to find Charlie Kirk’s alleged shooter AI ‘enhancements’ might add details that don’t exist.

An AI consequence, completely obvious in hindsight. People slopufacturing evidence not to taint the environment, but to help and boost their social currency. When “clean up this photo” puts a new face on a perpetrator, alternate realities are created. www.theverge.com/news/776793/...

The Architects of Devaluation: The AI Slop Architecture and Its Acolytes Weaved through the fabric of the hustle-bro culture, threaded with the drivel of influencers, lies one of the biggest cons of our current age. This is the false perception that everything we do has…

Sorry, but ideas aren’t all you need, and we aren’t on the cusp of the first billion-dollar solopreneur. In this post, I look at the architects of devaluation and the architecture of slop that’s fueling misconceptions about creativity and meaning.

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YouTube video by NerdcoreForLife Monzy performs at Stanford Univ.

I just got myself pumped up for the day! 😆 Occasionally this song pops into my head and I need to listen to the whole thing start to finish.

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To all of the people pushing hard to coin the term “vibe security,” the joke is on you. Security has always been about vibes. 😆

I see they are remaking The Running Man, which appears to follow the book more closely. Gonna go out on a limb and say there’s a 100% chance that they don’t keep the ending 😆

First time I’ve designed an enamel pin. Terrible picture, but you get the idea. See you at Black Hat USA!

YouTube video by HueyLewisTheNewsVEVO Huey Lewis & The News - The Power Of Love (Official Music Video)

Getting ready to do our first dry run of our #BlackHatUSA talk, Hack To The Future! www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBl2...

It's going to be busy at both the #AISummit and #BlackHatUSA. It would be great to catch up with everyone. In addition to the briefings, I'm also hosting the AI Track Meetup and participating in the Review Board meet and greet. Come by and say hi. See you next week!

Thinking of prompts less as rigid, specific instructions and more as mere suggestions helps better understand what could go wrong and how to design systems that are more resilient to failure and attack. In essence, it's more prodding than programming.

I read this book back in 2020, and it’s only become more relevant. So many people make simple data mistakes and draw the wrong conclusions based on issues covered in this book.

I talked about this condition on a recent podcast. It's one thing to feel more productive and another thing to be more productive. This context extends beyond development.

"The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't."

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The Black Hat USA schedule is live. Looking forward to seeing everyone soon.
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Trying To Live Forever Isn’t Living: A Story of Two Johnsons Although the singularity isn’t here, the shitularity certainly is, and it’s moving to infect every corner of our humanity. In the shitularity, shit’s upside down. Where you have people welcoming th…

Since it’s easier to prolong the body than the mind, what if the way people are stored in the future isn’t cryonics, but memory care facilities? What if technology makes neurodegenerative conditions worse? I explore this and more in my new article.
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Flooding the zone with truth is not an effective defense against flooding the zone with shit. It’s like trying to flood the zone with broccoli at an all-you-can-eat ice cream buffet, where the walls, tables, and chairs are also ice cream.

YouTube video by KH Studio Back to the Future 4 (2025) - First Trailer | Tom Holland, Robert Downey Jr.

I present to you the power and possibility of using AI for entertainment. All it takes is an idea. Trust me, it's going to get a lot worse from here on out. Enjoy 😆
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At least the music of Bach and Beethoven included on the Voyager record said something about humanity. The new approach aims to say as little as possible about humanity.

It's strange to consider LLMs being so awesome that we need to share them with the cosmos as if they are something that advanced alien tech bros need to check out.

Don't forget the certification, the SISSP! 😆

True. All of this is performance art for investors. The truth is irrelevant.

Steal away, don't tell Ray Kurzweil. However, the thought of a book called The Shitularity Is Here sounds fun. Hmmm.... 😆

We need to stop huffing marketing hype as though it's insight. All it takes is one simple question: if this is true, then where is GPT-5? Claims without proof and vibes above all, we've entered The Shitularity.

Now, imagine the transhumanist enterprise of a direct brain connection to even more information systems. A COSTCO card at the TSA will be quaint. Sovereign citizen arguments, support for conspiracy theories, and all manner of nonsense, on the table and instantly accessible. 😎

TSA Begs Travelers to Stop Presenting a Costco Membership Card Instead of a Passport The TSA has some important advice for the next time you take to the skies: a Costco membership will NOT fly.

There are now countless examples of problems caused by information that are made worse by more information. Access to so much information hasn’t made us superhuman. It’s made us astonishingly stupid. futurism.com/tsa-costco-c...

What happens when errors and hallucinations become facts, facts that may be impossible to dispute or lurk in the background unseen and uncorrected? Especially when new, more capable AI systems learn from these new "facts."
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Builder.ai collapses after revelation that its "AI" was hundreds of engineers Builder.ai has collapsed under the weight of several deceptions, ending the rise of a British startup once heralded as a pioneer in democratizing software development. Valued at...

“Engineers in Noida and Bangalore manually coded client projects while being instructed to mimic AI-generated responses.” It’s not only deception, it’s dehumanization, which is the inevitable result of turning humans into machines.
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The AI Slop Scandal Around the MAHA Report Is Getting Worse The White House wrote off the errors as "minor citation" mishaps, but it's so much more worse than that. AI's fingerprints are all over it.

The reframing of AI hallucinations as "formatting issues" is not a move I saw coming. Classic example of reframing an issue to reduce its perceived importance. futurism.com/ai-slop-scan...

The Brave New World of Degraded Performance If we are not careful, we are about to enter an era of software development, where we replace known, reliable methods with less reliable probabilistic ones. Where methods such as prompting a model,…

“The hype has led to a new form of software development that appears to be more like casting a spell than developing software.” This is long before the term Vibe Coding was coined. I wrote this article back in 2023, and it still holds up. perilous.tech/2023/07/31/t...

Of course it was, because that's just what we do now. The fact that this has become normalized should be terrifying to everyone.

I’m convinced that YouTube shorts are basically cognitive bath salts, a fast track to brain rot. Their popularity speaks to a direction in our culture and our acceptance of the slopification of everything.