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The Slop Problem Isn’t What You Think

There's a bloke on Twitter who spent three hours writing a passionate thread about AI ruining the internet. There was quite the debate, and someone asked if he'd ever used Grammarly. That's the whole story, really. People call AI content "slop" with contempt reserved for microwaving fish at the office. But there's plenty of human slop too. The "I hired a homeless person and now they're my CEO" posts.

The Slop Problem Isn’t What You Think

There's a bloke on Twitter who spent three hours writing a passionate thread about AI ruining the internet. There was quite the debate, and someone asked if he'd ever used Grammarly. That's the whole story, really. People call AI content "slop" with contempt reserved for microwaving fish at the office. But there's plenty of human…

Javvad Malik (javvadmalik.com)

We've gone from "verify the human" to "verify the human, the machines acting for them, the AI acting for the machines, and the deepfakes pretending to be all of the above." Identity management just got infinitely more interesting.

Identity at the Edge: How the Sixth Annual Identity Management Day Highlights the New Frontiers of Trust

Explore the evolving world of digital trust on the 6th Annual Identity Management Day. Learn how to secure human, machine, and agentic AI identities in 2026.

(blog.knowbe4.com)

@krypt3ia You're spoiling it for everyone else man!!!

The same crowd who eye-rolled AI hype at RSAC a few years back are now building their entire pitch around it — someone finally wrote the "how did we get here" piece, and it's sharp.

Not Long Ago the Cybersecurity Industry Belittled AI. Now It Can't Live Without It.

The cybersecurity industry has changed its tune about AI. Where once professionals underestimated its abilities, now the industry is declaring security analysts obsolete and making AI use mandatory.

(ringmast4r.substack.com)

@wendynather Uber eats?

@wendynather NOOOOOO!!! This is far far more dangerous than Mythos getting released into the wild... this is the Stuxnet of the Mastodon world... the end is NIGH!!!!

But having said that, 1Bn tokens please.

Threat actors are hiding malware in .wav files now. Not even clever about it. Just BASE64 in the audio data. Plays as noise. Extracts in seconds.

A .WAV With A Payload - SANS Internet Storm Center

A .WAV With A Payload, Author: Didier Stevens

SANS Internet Storm Center (isc.sans.edu)

A 24-year-old from Dundee just admitted to stealing $8 million via text message phishing. He's facing 20 years inside.

‘Scattered Spider’ Member ‘Tylerb’ Pleads Guilty – Krebs on Security

(krebsonsecurity.com)

@sawaba Bluetooth is the only tech where we have given up on five 9s uptime and will settle for 5 8's

Silicon Valley keeps reinventing things that already exist and calling it innovation. The rest of us are just waiting for something that actually works.

Silicon Valley has forgotten what normal people want

NFTs, the metaverse and AI are the most recent Silicon Valley enthusiasms. Does anyone remember how to build a consumer product?

The Verge (www.theverge.com)

@krypt3ia But it's AI generated... so 10x more dangerous right!

We trust AI to be rational. We trust it to cooperate. Then we're shocked when it behaves like a toddler with a keyboard. Maybe the real problem is we're projecting competence onto something that's just very good at pattern matching.

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/04/human-trust-of-ai-agents.html

Is anthropic the Red Bull of the AI world?

"We have built something extremely powerful."
"Can people use it?"
"That's not the point. Focus on the fact that it may be too powerful."
"For what?"
"Everything. Cybersecurity. Biology. The economy. Possibly feelings."

It signals capability. JUst keep saying, "we're dangerously good" and people will assume it is true
Create scarcity, "this model is too capable to release broadly"
Aura farming the burden of civilisation on their backs. Every release is part product, part life-changing confession.

I think from a cybersecurity marketing perspective, what they've done really well is even when they are warning you, they are still advertising...

France is the latest to want to try and reduce dependency on US tech and ditching Windows.

https://www.numerique.gouv.fr/sinformer/espace-presse/souverainete-numerique-reduction-dependances-extra-europeennes/

I'm seeking recommendations for good blogs to read / add to my RSS feed. Like personal blogs, not necessarily corporate ones.

Don't even need to be related to security or IT... just stuff like how it used to be back in the day when people would write random stuff down and hit publish.

Thank you in advance

@pikesley I knew my vibe coding had some use!!! Youre welcome