Grok After the Restrictions: Non-Consensual Image Generation Continues
Not even weeks have passed and the headlines about xAI’s Grok generating non-consensual sexual imagery haven’t stopped. What has changed in a [...]
AI in 2025: Independent research and what we learned
I work with AI systems, however, my work is not about producing AI content. It focuses on transparency in AI development, deployment, [...]
If AI is the future, why are its environmental costs a tomorrow’s problem?
We use AI tools every day. They finish our sentences, rewrite our emails, summarise our chaos and hallucinate confidence on demand. They [...]
AI Toys: From Children’s Play to Surveillance, BDSM Advice and Knife Recommendations
Remember when toys were only a choking hazard? Back when the worst thing a parent had to worry about was a child [...]
No Coding, No Jailbreak: Call me a jerk – breaking ChatGPT 5 with Authority?
When I read the 2025 study “Call Me A Jerk: Persuading AI to Comply with Objectionable Requests” (SSRN 5357179), one result stuck [...]
When LLMs choose blackmail and murder over shutdown: Anthropic’s Agentic Misalignment
By now, you’ve probably seen the headlines: an AI model blackmailed an employee just to avoid being shut down. In another trial, [...]
When AI Trains on AI: The Science of Autophagy and Model Collapse
Generative AI is built on a paradox. On one hand, it creates increasingly realistic text, images, audio and video. On the other, [...]
Anthropic Copyright Case Explained: $1.5 Billion Settlement for Authors
Artificial intelligence firm Anthropic has agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle a class-action lawsuit brought by book authors who accused the [...]
Can Claude Run a Business? A Critical Look at Anthropic’s Project Vend
On June 27th, Anthropic published Project Vend, a controlled experiment testing whether its language model, Claude, could manage a small office snack store. [...]
A Critical Review of Apple’s LLM Research on Reasoning Models
The latest Apple research paper, published last week, The Illusion of Thinking, arrives with a deceptively humble premise: to analyse the reasoning capabilities [...]