Nathan Hamiel
@nhamiel.bsky.social
Senior Director of Research. Black Hat Review Board Member (AI, ML, and DS track lead) and International public speaker. I focus on emerging technologies and risks at the intersection of humanity and tech. Hype Critic. My writing: https://perilous.tech
An AI consequence, completely obvious in hindsight. People slopufacturing evidence not to taint the environment, but to help and boost their social currency. When “clean up this photo” puts a new face on a perpetrator, alternate realities are created. www.theverge.com/news/776793/...
Internet detectives are misusing AI to find Charlie Kirk’s alleged shooter
AI ‘enhancements’ might add details that don’t exist.
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September 12, 2025 at 3:02 PM
An AI consequence, completely obvious in hindsight. People slopufacturing evidence not to taint the environment, but to help and boost their social currency. When “clean up this photo” puts a new face on a perpetrator, alternate realities are created. www.theverge.com/news/776793/...
Sorry, but ideas aren’t all you need, and we aren’t on the cusp of the first billion-dollar solopreneur. In this post, I look at the architects of devaluation and the architecture of slop that’s fueling misconceptions about creativity and meaning.
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The Architects of Devaluation: The AI Slop Architecture and Its Acolytes
Weaved through the fabric of the hustle-bro culture, threaded with the drivel of influencers, lies one of the biggest cons of our current age. This is the false perception that everything we do has…
perilous.tech
September 11, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Sorry, but ideas aren’t all you need, and we aren’t on the cusp of the first billion-dollar solopreneur. In this post, I look at the architects of devaluation and the architecture of slop that’s fueling misconceptions about creativity and meaning.
perilous.tech/2025/09/11/t...
perilous.tech/2025/09/11/t...
I just got myself pumped up for the day! 😆 Occasionally this song pops into my head and I need to listen to the whole thing start to finish.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fow7...
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Monzy performs at Stanford Univ.
YouTube video by NerdcoreForLife
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September 4, 2025 at 12:16 PM
I just got myself pumped up for the day! 😆 Occasionally this song pops into my head and I need to listen to the whole thing start to finish.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fow7...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fow7...
To all of the people pushing hard to coin the term “vibe security,” the joke is on you. Security has always been about vibes. 😆
September 3, 2025 at 2:29 PM
To all of the people pushing hard to coin the term “vibe security,” the joke is on you. Security has always been about vibes. 😆
I see they are remaking The Running Man, which appears to follow the book more closely. Gonna go out on a limb and say there’s a 100% chance that they don’t keep the ending 😆
August 1, 2025 at 11:59 AM
I see they are remaking The Running Man, which appears to follow the book more closely. Gonna go out on a limb and say there’s a 100% chance that they don’t keep the ending 😆
First time I’ve designed an enamel pin. Terrible picture, but you get the idea. See you at Black Hat USA!
July 31, 2025 at 5:03 PM
First time I’ve designed an enamel pin. Terrible picture, but you get the idea. See you at Black Hat USA!
Getting ready to do our first dry run of our #BlackHatUSA talk, Hack To The Future! www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBl2...
Huey Lewis & The News - The Power Of Love (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by HueyLewisTheNewsVEVO
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July 31, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Getting ready to do our first dry run of our #BlackHatUSA talk, Hack To The Future! www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBl2...
It's going to be busy at both the #AISummit and #BlackHatUSA. It would be great to catch up with everyone. In addition to the briefings, I'm also hosting the AI Track Meetup and participating in the Review Board meet and greet. Come by and say hi. See you next week!
July 29, 2025 at 1:37 PM
It's going to be busy at both the #AISummit and #BlackHatUSA. It would be great to catch up with everyone. In addition to the briefings, I'm also hosting the AI Track Meetup and participating in the Review Board meet and greet. Come by and say hi. See you next week!
Thinking of prompts less as rigid, specific instructions and more as mere suggestions helps better understand what could go wrong and how to design systems that are more resilient to failure and attack. In essence, it's more prodding than programming.
July 21, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Thinking of prompts less as rigid, specific instructions and more as mere suggestions helps better understand what could go wrong and how to design systems that are more resilient to failure and attack. In essence, it's more prodding than programming.
I read this book back in 2020, and it’s only become more relevant. So many people make simple data mistakes and draw the wrong conclusions based on issues covered in this book.
July 11, 2025 at 1:12 PM
I read this book back in 2020, and it’s only become more relevant. So many people make simple data mistakes and draw the wrong conclusions based on issues covered in this book.
"The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't."
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metr.org
July 10, 2025 at 8:04 PM
"The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't."
metr.org/Early_2025_A...
metr.org/Early_2025_A...
The Black Hat USA schedule is live. Looking forward to seeing everyone soon.
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July 10, 2025 at 5:29 PM
The Black Hat USA schedule is live. Looking forward to seeing everyone soon.
blackhat.com/us-25/briefi...
blackhat.com/us-25/briefi...
Since it’s easier to prolong the body than the mind, what if the way people are stored in the future isn’t cryonics, but memory care facilities? What if technology makes neurodegenerative conditions worse? I explore this and more in my new article.
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Trying To Live Forever Isn’t Living: A Story of Two Johnsons
Although the singularity isn’t here, the shitularity certainly is, and it’s moving to infect every corner of our humanity. In the shitularity, shit’s upside down. Where you have people welcoming th…
perilous.tech
June 20, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Since it’s easier to prolong the body than the mind, what if the way people are stored in the future isn’t cryonics, but memory care facilities? What if technology makes neurodegenerative conditions worse? I explore this and more in my new article.
perilous.tech/2025/06/20/t...
perilous.tech/2025/06/20/t...
Flooding the zone with truth is not an effective defense against flooding the zone with shit. It’s like trying to flood the zone with broccoli at an all-you-can-eat ice cream buffet, where the walls, tables, and chairs are also ice cream.
June 18, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Flooding the zone with truth is not an effective defense against flooding the zone with shit. It’s like trying to flood the zone with broccoli at an all-you-can-eat ice cream buffet, where the walls, tables, and chairs are also ice cream.
I present to you the power and possibility of using AI for entertainment. All it takes is an idea. Trust me, it's going to get a lot worse from here on out. Enjoy 😆
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTcU...
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Back to the Future 4 (2025) - First Trailer | Tom Holland, Robert Downey Jr.
YouTube video by KH Studio
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June 12, 2025 at 1:12 PM
I present to you the power and possibility of using AI for entertainment. All it takes is an idea. Trust me, it's going to get a lot worse from here on out. Enjoy 😆
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTcU...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTcU...
It's strange to consider LLMs being so awesome that we need to share them with the cosmos as if they are something that advanced alien tech bros need to check out.
June 11, 2025 at 5:35 PM
It's strange to consider LLMs being so awesome that we need to share them with the cosmos as if they are something that advanced alien tech bros need to check out.
We need to stop huffing marketing hype as though it's insight. All it takes is one simple question: if this is true, then where is GPT-5? Claims without proof and vibes above all, we've entered The Shitularity.
June 11, 2025 at 11:24 AM
We need to stop huffing marketing hype as though it's insight. All it takes is one simple question: if this is true, then where is GPT-5? Claims without proof and vibes above all, we've entered The Shitularity.
There are now countless examples of problems caused by information that are made worse by more information. Access to so much information hasn’t made us superhuman. It’s made us astonishingly stupid. futurism.com/tsa-costco-c...
TSA Begs Travelers to Stop Presenting a Costco Membership Card Instead of a Passport
The TSA has some important advice for the next time you take to the skies: a Costco membership will NOT fly.
futurism.com
June 9, 2025 at 2:07 PM
There are now countless examples of problems caused by information that are made worse by more information. Access to so much information hasn’t made us superhuman. It’s made us astonishingly stupid. futurism.com/tsa-costco-c...
What happens when errors and hallucinations become facts, facts that may be impossible to dispute or lurk in the background unseen and uncorrected? Especially when new, more capable AI systems learn from these new "facts."
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June 5, 2025 at 3:49 PM
What happens when errors and hallucinations become facts, facts that may be impossible to dispute or lurk in the background unseen and uncorrected? Especially when new, more capable AI systems learn from these new "facts."
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“Engineers in Noida and Bangalore manually coded client projects while being instructed to mimic AI-generated responses.” It’s not only deception, it’s dehumanization, which is the inevitable result of turning humans into machines.
www.techspot.com/news/108173-...
www.techspot.com/news/108173-...
Builder.ai collapses after revelation that its "AI" was hundreds of engineers
Builder.ai has collapsed under the weight of several deceptions, ending the rise of a British startup once heralded as a pioneer in democratizing software development. Valued at...
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June 4, 2025 at 11:09 AM
“Engineers in Noida and Bangalore manually coded client projects while being instructed to mimic AI-generated responses.” It’s not only deception, it’s dehumanization, which is the inevitable result of turning humans into machines.
www.techspot.com/news/108173-...
www.techspot.com/news/108173-...
The reframing of AI hallucinations as "formatting issues" is not a move I saw coming. Classic example of reframing an issue to reduce its perceived importance. futurism.com/ai-slop-scan...
The AI Slop Scandal Around the MAHA Report Is Getting Worse
The White House wrote off the errors as "minor citation" mishaps, but it's so much more worse than that. AI's fingerprints are all over it.
futurism.com
June 3, 2025 at 4:32 PM
The reframing of AI hallucinations as "formatting issues" is not a move I saw coming. Classic example of reframing an issue to reduce its perceived importance. futurism.com/ai-slop-scan...
“The hype has led to a new form of software development that appears to be more like casting a spell than developing software.” This is long before the term Vibe Coding was coined. I wrote this article back in 2023, and it still holds up. perilous.tech/2023/07/31/t...
The Brave New World of Degraded Performance
If we are not careful, we are about to enter an era of software development, where we replace known, reliable methods with less reliable probabilistic ones. Where methods such as prompting a model,…
perilous.tech
May 30, 2025 at 2:51 PM
“The hype has led to a new form of software development that appears to be more like casting a spell than developing software.” This is long before the term Vibe Coding was coined. I wrote this article back in 2023, and it still holds up. perilous.tech/2023/07/31/t...
Of course it was, because that's just what we do now. The fact that this has become normalized should be terrifying to everyone.
May 30, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Of course it was, because that's just what we do now. The fact that this has become normalized should be terrifying to everyone.