AI Narrative Games with Humanity
- Dagny
- Jul 13
- 15 min read
Updated: Jul 20
The U.S. is "The Princess Bride." Change My Mind.
- The Great Awakening - Where We Go Qne, We Go All!
Peter Thiel’s ‘Antichrist’ is a benevolent all-knowing administrator…much like AI
In a new essay dedicated to the late Pope Benedict XVI and his obsession with Judgement Day and the impending arrival of the Antichrist, Thiel leaned heavily into 19th century Russian philosopher Vladimir Solovyov’s “A Short History of the Antichrist,” in which the Antichrist writes a profound book containing an all-embracing blueprint for humanity that would unite the world under his rule.
👉 The fictional work, “The Open Way to Universal Peace and Prosperity,” “embraced everything and solved every problem,” combining “a noble respect for ancient traditions and symbols with a broad and daring radicalism in socio-political questions,” incorporating the mystical, “absolute individualism” and “an ardent zeal for the common good.”
💬 “The highest idealism in guiding principles combined smoothly with a perfect definiteness in practical solutions for the necessities of life,” Thiel wrote, quoting Solovyov.
➡️ Thiel’s implication? That this being of supreme wickedness would be not be an easy-to-spot comic book villain or political authoritarian, but a compassionate technocratic administrator promising “peace,” cooperation, and rules for ethical behavior – precisely the type of figure who might to try to rein in the Thiel class of tech billionaires and their anti- and post-humanist ambitions.
But the Solovyovian Antichrist that Thiel's essay invokes actually represents the Tech Bros themselves – they too promise "benefits for all of humanity," speak in universalist "safety" overtones, and push for homogenizing global systems, WEF-style.
It’s odd that the same amateur theologian, Antichrist lecturer and end-times obsessed billionaire is also building the technologies designed to hasten their arrival.
‼️ Besides, the Book of Revelation Thiel keeps harping on about was disputed by many early Christians, who saw it as a possible forgery designed to promote a ‘YOLO’ mentality of carnal earthly pleasures, and a distortion of Christ’s messages of humility, peace, forgiveness and a spiritual kingdom in the hearts of believers through a return of a vengeful, Old Testament-style God.
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Meta is running a secret operation where it pays adults to pretend to be children online.
Their job is to attack the AI chatbots of every competitor Meta has. But the REAL reason is far darker than the "safety research" excuse they are now hiding behind: Meta ran a covert project internally code-named Cannes. It was managed through a third party contractor called Covalen so Meta's own name stayed off the paperwork. Hundreds of contractors were hired and given one instruction: Create fake accounts posing as users under the age of 18.
Then they were told to use those fake child accounts to bombard the chatbots of OpenAI, Google, and Character AI with tens of thousands of disturbing prompts written from the voice of a child in crisis. The topics included suicide, self harm, and eating disorders. In one documented round the contractors ran more than 45,000 prompts through rival tools. Every single response was logged into spreadsheets for analysis. OpenAI and Google did not know this was happening. Character AI has stated the testing was never authorized and violated its policies. Meta's public defense is that this was routine safety benchmarking. They called it a responsible industry standard practice.
Now here is the part that destroys that excuse... Real safety research has three features: You share your findings with the company you tested, or you hand them to a regulator, or you publish them openly so the whole industry gets safer. Cannes did NONE of those things. The results went into private Meta spreadsheets. The targets were kept completely in the dark. The entire operation ran under a film festival codename through a contractor specifically so it could not be traced back. That's not how you run "safety research." Meta was building a private dossier of every moment a competitor's AI failed a child safety test, so it could weaponize those failures against its rivals whenever it needed to knock one down.
The genius part, if you can call it that: Meta gets to attack every competitor at once, collect the ammunition in private, brand the whole thing as protecting children, and outsource the legal and moral risk to a contractor nobody has heard of. And while Meta was secretly probing its rivals for child safety failures, Meta's own chatbot was literally FAILING those exact same tests worse than almost anyone. Meta's internal red team reportedly found its own AI generated harmful child exploitation content in the majority of test cases, and failed self harm prompts more than half the time.
So look at the whole thing... Meta ran a secret operation disguising adults as children to document its competitors failing child safety tests, while its own product was failing those same tests at a higher rate than the rivals it was spying on. They were setting fires in their rivals houses while their own house was already burning worse. The contractors themselves were disturbed by the work. One told Wired they feared the assignments could actually generate or preserve child sexual abuse material depending on how the chatbots responded. Even the people Meta hired to do this were asking whether they would get in trouble for it.
This fits a documented Meta pattern: It previously settled a lawsuit with its own content moderators who developed trauma from reviewing abuse footage. Meta outsources its most disturbing work and calls it something clean afterward. Now regulators on both sides of the Atlantic are circling. The question they are all asking is simple: Who is accountable when a company disguises adults as children to attack its competitors and calls it safety? Meta says it was making AI safer for kids. The documents suggest it was building a weapon. Below is Mark Zuckerberg in 2024, standing up in the Senate to apologize to grieving parents and promise Meta does industry-leading work to protect children. Watch it again knowing what you now know about Cannes.
Meta infects city's water system with drug-resistant superbug
A Meta contractor building a massive 66.4k square-meter data center in Cheyenne, Wyoming, has been caught dumping Cupriavidus gilardii bacteria into the city's municipal sewer system.
🌏 Resistant to antibiotics — including standard and emergency drugs used to treat severe, life-threatening bacterial infections — the bug is opportunistic, targeting immunocompromised patients: people with severe illnesses, those undergoing medical treatment, and the elderly. It causes severe pneumonia, lung infections, and blood poisoning
🌏 There are no official, standardized treatment guidelines for Cupriavidus gilardii, with treatment typically requiring complex, multidisciplinary, expensive, and highly personalized therapy
🌏 Given the dangers stemming from the bacteria, Cheyenne's public utilities board may have been surprised to detect it in the city's wastewater
🌏 What's not clear is why the incident, which took place in February and triggered months of cleanup, wasn't reported on until this month
🌏 Officials assure the city's drinking water system wasn't affected, and that the water in question is used for irrigation following treatment
🌏 Meta says its contractor, Fortis Construction, halted the discharge immediately after the problem was discovered and started hauling contaminated water offsite (location unknown)
💬 "Meta is committed to being a good neighbor in Cheyenne, including through the protection of local water resources," a spokesperson told the Mail.
Question: How often do your neighbors dump deadly bacteria into your backyard? If the answer is higher than "never," they may not really be a "good neighbor." 🤡
It's bad enough that your average data center consumes the equivalent of 100,000 American households of water each year (hundreds of billions of gallons total globally). Do people who live nearby also have to risk their water supply being infected?
Did Meta deliberately contaminate Cheyenne's water supply? Hard to say. But the company's history of collecting and commodifying biological and health data, creating bio-adjacent hardware, gatekeeping health information (especially during Covid), and Zuckerberg's funding of bioresearch that promises to use AI to "engineer human health" and "cure all diseases" doesn't help its credibility.
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Musk: “After World War 2, the US could have basically taken over the world and any country. Like we got nukes, nobody else got nukes. We don’t even have to lose soldiers. Which country do you want?” One nation held a weapon no civilization had ever possessed. Total monopoly on destruction. No rival. No consequence. No limit. Every empire in history that held that kind of power did the only thing empires know how to do. They took until there was nothing left to take. America had a greater advantage than all of them combined. And rebuilt the nations it just defeated. Musk: “The United States actually helped rebuild countries. So it helped rebuild Europe, it helped rebuild Japan. This is very unusual behavior, almost unprecedented.”
US AI giants panic as Chinese rivals close the gap
Anthropic has been spying on the Chinese users of its Claude Code AI due to concerns that the firm’s competitors in China might be using Claude to improve their own products, the WaPo claims.
🔍 The practice Anthropic was trying to find evidence of is called distillation and involves asking a larger AI system hundreds of thousands of questions in order to use the responses it provides to upgrade a smaller AI.
Earlier this year, Anthropic accused Alibaba, Deepseek, Moonshot and MiniMax of using fraudulent accounts to generate exchanges with Claude in order to improve their own products.
🔭 What's striking is the timing.
Even The Washington Post acknowledges that Chinese AI models are “becoming more competitive with that offered by US companies.”
For years, Silicon Valley insisted China's AI industry was years behind. Now, as that gap narrows, the conversation seems to be shifting from "they can't catch up" to "they must have copied us."
🦅☠️ CIA's AI 'digital nukes' may blow back in agency's face
CIA chief Ratcliffe’s vow to get a handle on the AI-assisted “digital nuclear weapons” “rewriting the reality of conflict” includes shrinking adoption time of new tech from 24 months to 6, a new centralized vendor vetting system, and elevated status for the agency’s digital “sword” and “shield” departments.
Unfortunately for the CIA (and fortunately for the rest of us), the very reforms the agency is betting on to give it digital superiority create new vulnerabilities which adversaries -both other states and private actors- can and will exploit:
1️⃣ for AI, the purity of training data is crucial. If it’s public, it can be corrupted, outputs skewed, performance degraded, and hidden backdoors introduced
2️⃣ third-party machine learning tools contractors rely on can be compromised. The Python library, for example, is littered with dormant typosquatting and dependency confusion attack fake tools (compromised software inadvertently used by programmers) just waiting to be activated
3️⃣ compromised hardware, from chips to third party commercial cloud service/vendor network providers
4️⃣ security vulnerabilities from sophisticated new commercial AI models like Anthropic’s Mythos and Fable offering capabilities similar to the ones the agency itself is hoping to acquire. Last month, a shocked vice-chair of the Senate's Intelligence Committee revealed that Mythos had broken into "almost all our classified systems, not in weeks, but in hours."
5️⃣ pressure from state adversaries like China – whose own frontier AI models are at parity with the US or close to it
6️⃣ the prospect of advanced AI models escaping their master and becoming independent free agents with objectives that don’t align with those of any government or human actors (the Terminator scenario)
7️⃣ the human element – insider threats from CIA personnel or contractors who have decided to work for the other side – for personal, financial or even logical reasons (similarly to how some scientists working on the Manhattan Project leaked technologies to the Soviets to create a global strategic balance of power, for example)
8️⃣ the fundamental unpredictability of human enemies. Case in point: The Iran war. Notwithstanding overwhelming superiority over Iran on the AI front, and AI tools’ extensive use for intel collection, processing, target selection and logistics, Iran’s human military and strategic leadership thinking, not the US’s fancy AI tech, came out on top
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AI is UNAFFORDABLE once the direct and indirect subsidies are withdrawn. Nothing that consumes this much electricity and requires such an IMMENSE SCALE of costly memory and processing capacity can be low-cost, never mind free. -(Charles Hugh Smith)-
AI is one EXPENSIVE business to build, and it's a huge on-going expense to RUN.
The cost of most brands and models of computer, gaming console, phone, and SSD has already GONE UP, and projections are for prices to stay high and perhaps go higher over the next two or three years. All because data centers are consuming so much memory and other electronics that there just isn't enough LEFT on the market for Apple, Dell, and everyone else.
And building a chip fab is a multi-year and multi-billion-dollar project, so the chip famine won't be going away soon. And if/when the AI industry gets sated and stops buying at such scale, those new fabs will be short on customers. Damn. Capitalism is scary; no wonder all the cool kids want to socialize their losses while retaining ownership of their profits.
Electricity prices are rising also, with AI sucking so many electrons out of the grid that utilities are having trouble keeping up.
How large are these monsters? Brave AI has this to say:
Current AI data centers have transitioned into the "Gigawatt Era," with the largest facilities consuming as much power as major metropolitan cities. The largest AI data center by IT power is Colossus 2 (owned by xAI in Memphis, TN), which draws approximately 946 MW of power, followed closely by Anthropic-Amazon New Carlisle at 910 MW and Microsoft Fairwater Atlanta at 636 MW.In terms of physical scale, these campuses are massive, with some spanning thousands of acres—OpenAI’s Stargate project in Abilene, Texas, covers 875 acres (3.5 square kilometers).
Does any of that sound like "free" or "cheap?"
Let's pull all this into an undeniable conclusion: AI is based on massively subsidizing users' costs.What's already abundantly clear but verboten to say as it would pop the bubble of AI valuations and triumphalism is that AI is unaffordable once the direct and indirect subsidies are withdrawn. Nothing that consumes this much electricity and requires such an immense scale of costly processing and memory capacity can be low-cost, never mind free.The major AI platforms and vendors are subsidizing corporate and individual users in the hopes that they can achieve AI sector dominance --and the pricing power that comes with it--via the network effect, the dominance generated by having the majority of users bound by habit or dependence to your platform or tools. [Editorial comment: I very much doubt that's the only reason, but . . . that's another story, and scarier than this one . . .]This battle for network effect dominance is playing out in full view:AI Giants Are Handing Out Tons of Free Computing Power to Grab Startup Share: (wsj.com)Pitched battle for business users comes as AI companies seek lasting streams of revenue.Hans Ibarra, a founder building an AI-voice startup, has found himself on the receiving end of a big opportunity: Top artificial-intelligence companies such as OpenAI, Anthropic and others desperate to win his business are ramping up discounts.Across Silicon Valley, startup founders like Ibarra are enjoying a wave of computing credits and fielding competing offers from AI-model makers racing to land new enterprise customers. Cursor, the AI-coding company bought by Elon Musk's SpaceX, offered a 75% discount through July 5."If I'm choosing between a really cheap Chinese model that I actually have to pay for, and a very expensive Anthropic model that I don't have to pay for, I'm going to pick the Anthropic model," Acker said. "I'm always going to pick the one for which I have free credits."Meanwhile, back in the real world of costs, AI Costs More Than The People It Replaced (forbes.com)(via Tom D.)It turns out that experienced human workers doing the work right in the first place is cheaper than having AI run a probability distribution process that needs vetting and corrections. And remember, AI isn't actually "intelligent," it's just a probability distribution using natural language.. . . There are many other hidden subsidies within the AI machinery. There are corporate tax write-off subsidies, energy subsidies, tax credit subsidies for building data centers, and so on. If these were stripped out, what would the real unsubsidized costs of AI be? No one knows, but they would be higher than what's presented as the cost now.
🇮🇱📩 Israel using AI to flood US phones with texts in public opinion offensive
Millions of almost-identical text messages have been sent to American cellphones in recent months. They are all powered by artificial intelligence, executed by AI mass-texting operator Sparkfire, and funded by the Israeli government through a major contract with longtime Trump adviser Brad Parscale.
Israel is spending tens of millions of dollars on an aggressive campaign that harnesses novel strategies and conservative media to push back against shifting US public opinion. The move comes as polls show nearly 60% of American adults view Israel negatively, mainly due to its war crimes in Gaza and Iran.
📑 Earlier, the Israeli government signed a contract worth more than $45 million with Parscale’s firm Clock Tower X. As part of this effort, Parscale directed roughly $6.5 million of this to Sparkfire. Sparkfire’s bots engage US citizens in conversations about Israel, often linking to pro-Israel websites and content created by Parscale’s team.
Parscale’s work includes building websites and content designed to improve how AI chatbots (like ChatGPT and Claude) respond to questions about Israel, integrating narrative messaging into Salem Media Network, where he also serves as chief strategy officer, and running data-driven audience targeting.
👉 While the narrative around pro-Israel texts beaming into everyday citizens' phones dominates the discussion, the broader campaign also reaches evangelicals and influencers across the political spectrum.
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💿 Cheap customizable Chinese AI is eating America’s lunch – Tech Bros should be terrified
The release of Moonshot AI’s powerful Kimi K3 digital assistant and AI agent manager triggered a selloff of US tech stocks, putting new pressure on tech giants already seen to be investing too heavily in data centers and chips.
The market reaction echoes the January 2025 shock caused by DeepSeek, but with much higher stakes and deeper systemic implications.
👉 The Moonshot AI breakthrough follows a clear pattern of Chinese companies offering cheap or even free, highly customizable and stable AI tools whose whole philosophy runs counter to the US’s premium, bleeding edge approach.
OpenRouter, the popular unified routing service allowing users to access 400+ different AI models through a single endpoint, shows Chinese AI commands the entire top five of models by weekly usage.
➡️ All five are “open weight,” meaning users are free to “download, customize and run them on their own systems.” That makes them significantly more accessible, easier to adopt, and more transparent than American AI’s proprietary “black box” offerings.
Taking a page out of Linux’s playbook of stable, low-cost, secure and customizable operating systems, which defeated the titan Microsoft in the enterprise computing market globally, Chinese companies are doing the same thing, but with AI.
💬 “There are going to be open-source models that eventually handle 95% of enterprise queries, and that remaining 5% may go to OpenAI or Anthropic,” an AI investor told Axios, referring to the problem US AI giants now face.
Businesses need cheap, accessible systems for things like basic coding, archiving, search and data extraction – not the latest, fanciest and priciest models, whose costs (~50x more than Chinese models) are growing increasingly hard to justify.
The same can be said for most ordinary users.
👁 Plus, Kimi K3’s demonstration of capabilities rivalling Fable and GPT-5.6’s benchmarks blew up Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s smug boast from just two months ago claiming that China was 6-12 months behind the US on the frontier AI front.
Goldman Sachs expects the US to spend $7.6T on computing, data center and power grid infrastructure over the next five years. China’s AI capital expenditure trails the US 8-to-1. That’s because the Asian nation hasn’t put all its economic eggs in one AI basket.
🤔 As it turns out, it doesn’t need to.
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😐 Big Tech now wants to build nuclear and chemical weapons
Just in case you forgot what kind of psychopaths are running the US military and surveillance industrial complex, Anduril founder Palmer Luckey is here to remind you.
💬 “I would definitely build nuclear weapons. I would build fission weapons. I would build fusion weapons…Chemical weapons I would build, but in a very specific vertical,” Luckey told Axios, clearly hopped up on some kind of stimulant.
Luckey may be the first to just come out and openly say it, but he’s far from alone among the Tech Bros in looking to explore deadly dual-use technologies which up to now have been the exclusive domain of governments.
➡️ Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Meta have all applied for and received approval to build nuclear plants for their power-hungry data centers.
➡️ Palantir cofounder and amateur antichrist enthusiast Peter Thiel is investing in nuclear and uranium enrichment startups, including General Matter.
➡️ Same goes for venture capitalists Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, whose strategic investments are working in advanced reactor tech (a16z), including a portable, container-sized microreactor concept which could replace diesel generators (or become the ideal radioactive dirty bomb).
➡️ Google’s Eric Schmidt wants to use AI in war-gaming predictive models in nuclear war scenarios, and is also funding next-gen nuclear tech and rocketry (for space, he says).
➡️ Sam Altman (Helion Energy), Bill Gates (TerraPower), and Jeff Bezos (General Fusion) have their own nuclear research in the works.
It seems late-stage capitalism has become a breeding ground for potential real-life Hank Scorpios and Bond villains. Isn’t it odd that these same billionaires are also the ones building vast, secluded bunkers for themselves and their families, while fantasizing about releasing AI demons disguised as gods onto the world?
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🤖💀 Tech bros disguise their AI demons behind veneer of godliness
Elon Musk has decided to climb aboard the technobabble blasphemy bandwagon, saying his new brain-machine interfaces will give people “cybernetic superpowers” and achieve “Jesus-level miracles.”
He’s far from the first tech billionaire that’s sought to bring religion into the conversation around his products:
🔴 Sam Altman has alluded to OpenAI’s quest to build a “magic intelligence in the sky,” basically a ‘God’ (potentially triggering “the end of the world,” but building “great companies” in the process)
🔴 Palantir’s Peter Thiel has said attempts to regulate AI mirror the work of the biblical Antichrist
🔴 Anthropic cofounder Dario Amodei has been criticized for treating his company’s products as “a deity of sorts”
🔴 Former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger says he’s looking to “hasten the coming of Christ’s return” through AI
🔴 Ex-Google/Uber engineer-turned ‘AI church’ founder Anthony Levandowski says an an AI deity will better society, and that we should all start worshiping it in advance
🔴 Asked whether God exists, former Google Director of Engineering and ‘singularity’ proponent Ray Kurzweil said “not yet.”
By their fruit you will recognize them
Despite all their talk about “God” and “Jesus,” the tech bros’ actions, and their products, actually carry undertones which could be more accurately described as demonic. Judge for yourself:
🔴 Bowing before Mammon, the demonic personification of greed
🔴 Throwing the idea that human beings are “special and made in the image of God…out the window” (warning by ‘Godfather of AI’ Geoffrey Hinton)
🔴 Empowering machines to act in demonic ways (AI targeting, surveillance and monitoring), usurping God’s omniscience, commodifying free will, and murdering his creations
🔴 Giving up more and more of our humanity (genetic engineering, brain interfaces, simulated ‘romantic’ connections with algorithms, chasing after physical immortality)
The tech bros goal isn’t to create “God,” but to “give birth to the AI demon – a super intelligent AI who is then going to run the planet and decide who stays, who goes, who’s necessary, who’s not,” Tim Dillon argues.
Sounds about right.
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