A few months ago, I found an anonymous sockpuppet account linked to the OpenAI/a16z super PAC. Now, @taylorlorenz.bsky.social and I have uncovered two more — and they're even more brazen than the first.

The Midas Project@themidasproject.bsky.social · 2mo ago

New: Leading the Future, the pro-AI super PAC backed by OpenAI President Greg Brockman, appears to be linked to multiple sockpuppet accounts, including a false flag anti-AI activist Our latest for Model Republic with @taylorlorenz.bsky.social modelrepublic.substack.com/p/a-pro-ai-s...

Leading the Future, the pro-AI super PAC backed by Greg Brockman, appears to be linked to multiple sockpuppet accounts, including a purported anti-AI activist (@themidasproj) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

The standard questions in an IPO roadshow are about finances, strategy, growth plans, etc. However... 🧵

xAI: The Unpriced Risk in SpaceX’s IPO

A report concerning xAI's safety practices, governance, and disclosure obligations ahead of the SpaceX IPO.

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The Midas Project@themidasproject.bsky.social · 3mo ago

SpaceX is about to go public, and inside it now is xAI, a frontier AI lab that ranks behind its peers in every major published assessment of AI safety practices. What does that mean for investors? Our new report with Guidelight AI Standards, Encode, and LASST is out today.

SpaceX is about to go public, and inside it now is xAI, a frontier AI lab that ranks behind its peers in every major published assessment of AI safety practices. What does that mean for investors? Our new report with Guidelight AI Standards, Encode, and LASST is out today.

New: I went through Anthropic's legally-required training data disclosure. It appears to be AI slop in the truest sense.

The Midas Project@themidasproject.bsky.social · 3mo ago

From @tylerjohnston.bsky.social: "... the more interesting question we can ask about Anthropic’s AI-generated training data disclosure is not “was it AI-generated?” but rather “is it slop?” substack.com/home/post/p-...

I wasn't too shocked when an anon reply guy started pestering me + other orgs/journalists on X. Normally I’d ignore it, but I looked closer when they began running paid ads. I did not expect to trace the account back to OpenAI’s political machine! My latest for @themidasproject.bsky.social

The Midas Project@themidasproject.bsky.social · 4mo ago

An anonymous account spent months attacking OpenAI’s critics with misleading claims and paid ads. We found links to Targeted Victory, the firm at the center of OpenAI's $125 million political operation. www.modelrepublic.org/articles/is-...

watching o3 discourse on the timeline

definitely adding this to my first aid kit

TIL the US had a secret nuclear-weapon-related material that was so classified that we forgot how to make it and had to spend tens of millions of dollars to reverse engineer it. Shades of "There Is No Antimemetics Division" by @qntm.org en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fogbank

One major upside to the existence of Elon/Vivek’s DOGE is their ability to advocate for modifying NOTA and legalizing ethical organ donor compensation. Dialysis is a full 1% of the US federal budget! Solving it with a simple market solution seems right up their alley. www.vox.com/future-perfe...

Would you donate a kidney for $50,000?

Giving a kidney saves a life. Paying donors could fix the shortage.

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