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Can I say why I'm upset at AISI?

I talked about them on my- Two weeks ago, I did a, or through, I don't know when this is coming out, but I did a podcast in whenever, March, where I looked at this report, and mainly I looked at the Guardian's coverage of this report done by AISI, but it was just the most inane thing.

The headline was, massive increase in AI scheming is detected.

And they had a chart- God damn it.

And bad line went up and it went up in like January and it goes up.

And if you read this article about this study, they're like, something's going on.

Scheming has been increasing rapidly recently.

And they like gave some examples of it or whatever.

And so I look at this, like, I want to look at what is going on here.

So I look at this chart.

What are they charting?

Oh, they're charting tweets per day that they've detected tweets about AI doing things that you didn't want it to do.

And I said, huh.

So when does this line start going up?

the week that open claw was released to the public and everyone just started building their own bad agents and then tweeting about how bad they were.

And you know what word was not mentioned in that article?

Open claw.