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How A.I. creates a society of cheats
Students’ use of AI is teaching them to cut corners, disdain rules, and believe that integrity is for suckers and wimps.
August 30, 2026
John Paul Rollert writes https://attentiontotheunseen.com/2026/08/30/how-to-create-a-society-of
-cheats/
Recently, I have taken to telling friends that whenever I’m on campus, I feel like I’m trapped in the middle of a crime spree. I’m not talking about an epidemic of overdue library books or out-of-control parties. I’m talking about AI and the ways in which students are constantly using it to cheat on any work that is assigned to them.
For those of us in higher ed—and I’ve taught at universities for more than 20 years—such widespread cheating is a baffling predicament. Universities are medieval creations. They are encrusted with eccentric customs, antique bureaucracies, and hierarchical privileges; any significant change typically comes about at a glacial pace. Not too long ago, I was still filling out grades in triplicate. I can liken the arrival of AI only to what it might have been like had a tribe of Neanderthals discovered a flying saucer hovering just outside their cave. To say that we were unprepared doesn’t begin to describe the experience.
By now, there have been many articles about how undergraduates’ promiscuous use of AI will affect their intellectual development, but I’m far more interested in its moral consequences. This is partly because I’m pretty confident about the former—I’ve told graduate students who actually learned how to write papers in college that I anticipate a generation of incompetents roughly a decade behind them—but also because I teach classes in leadership and business ethics, and I’m aghast at so many young people seemingly habituating themselves to cheating as a way of life.
Many students would no doubt object to this claim, but plainly that’s what they’re doing, cheating their way through their education. Every paper they don’t write, every problem set they don’t prepare, every serious reading they summarize into a memo—all of these are exercises in cutting corners, in getting by, and, at graduation time, in gaining a degree they didn’t earn.
That word is key: earn. To say that someone “earned” something is to apply a moral distinction to what one acquires. Not only can we get things we didn’t earn, but we can also obtain things we don’t deserve. The first is the good fortune of the trust-fund kid, the second the province of a thief.
Students are spending a lot of time learning to be thieves nowadays, and once they receive their dubious diplomas, they will enter the “real world” with all the qualities of a criminal syndicate: a knack for cutting corners, a disdain for community rules, and an assumption that a spirit of integrity, and the sacrifices it assumes, is the reserve of suckers and wimps. We will be a society of cheats.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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An example of AI "Garbage In, Garbage Out"
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The 'Daejon Love' Stock Market
Monday, Aug 31, 2026 - 08:40 AM
Submitted by QTR's Fringe Finance
Words cannot do justice to the sheer idiocy of the story that broke this past week. It is hilarious, depressing, fascinating and deeply embarrassing for the human race all at once…a story that is proof that we may collectively be both far more gullible and far more comfortable with deception than even the most cynical among us previously imagined.
The story centers on a man named Daejon Love who, according to federal prosecutors, allegedly spent years convincing women that he was a professional football player for the San Francisco 49ers when he wasn’t.
Not trying out for the 49ers. Not once affiliated with the team. Not played professionally somewhere else and exaggerated the details. He convinced women that he was an actual NFL player for one of the most famous franchises in American sports when we wasn’t.
Yes. You read that right. In an era in which the entirety of all human knowledge is accessible from a 6 inch by 2 inch rectangle sitting in literally everyone’s front pocket, this 35 year old allegedly constructed an elaborate fictional life around himself that everyone believed and no one took the time to fact check. He did it by, among other things, carrying a 49ers helmet and gear around with him and wearing them…no matter how absolutely f*cking ridiculous it looked…all the time.
He even had a 49ers birthday cake made with his name on it and apparently created a video of himself “signing” with the team. He carried the helmet everywhere, including to the beach, where he filmed himself running some of the worst wide receiver routes ever captured on camera while some rando with a vermicelli noodle for an arm underthrew him passes as he lumbered around full sized telephone company construction cones set up on a beach.
Eventually, according to reporting on the FBI investigation, Love’s fake online footprint became convincing enough that search engines and artificial intelligence occasionally helped perpetuate it. AI started listing him as a professional NFL wide receiver when he wasn’t.
MORE AT https://quoththeraven.substack.com/p/the-daejon-love-stock-market
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
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Snd then there's this
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"Prepare For More Severe Scenarios": Bank Of England Chief Warns Of AI Threat To Global Financial System
by Tyler Durden
Monday, Aug 31, 2026 - 11:15 AM
As the world marches towards open-weight, efficient, unrestricted frontier AI models out of China, Western leaders are starting to panic over the lack of guardrails. Most recently, Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey suggested that the threat posed by AI could lead to a chaotic correction in global financial markets, as frontier models are now showing "increasingly sophisticated autonomy and problem-solving abilities, as well as threat capabilities."
Governor of the Bank of England Andrew Bailey addresses the media during a press conference concerning interest rates, at the Bank of England, in London, Britain, November 2, 2023. HENRY NICHOLLS/Pool via REUTERS
"Financial institutions, financial market infrastructures, and technology providers will therefore need to strengthen vulnerability management, response and recovery capabilities, and prepare for more severe scenarios involving simultaneous disruption across multiple firms or shared technology dependencies," Bailey wrote in a two-page letter published Monday to G20 finance ministers and central bank governors in his capacity as chair of the Financial Stability Board - an international body that coordinates international policy and provides recommendations to national authorities.
Bailey says the cyber risk posed by AI is "the most immediate concern" for the global financial system.
"Frontier AI may have the ability materially to alter the speed, scale and economics of cyber risk, which could undermine market confidence system-wide, especially due to highly concentrated third-party service providers," he wrote, adding. "Recent developments have also highlighted to me that many jurisdictions do not have the protocols in place to manage the development, release, and deployment of advanced frontier AI models, heightening risks for the financial sector and beyond."
Bailey's warning comes one month after the Bank for International Settlements warned that the AI bubble itself is one of three of the most alarming threats to global prosperity at this time.
"Disappointment in returns could trigger a sudden pullback in financing and turn the capex boom into a protracted investment bust, with potential knock-on effects on financial conditions," the BIS said, before observing that "a major equity-market correction could have larger macroeconomic consequences today than in the past."
Officials highlighted vulnerabilities linked to funding, including complex arrangements such so-called “circular financing” deals that can mix equity and debt with supplier-client contracts (as discussed here "The $1.8 Trillion Off-Balance Sheet Time Bomb At The Heart Of The AI Supercycle").
https://www.zerohedge.com/ai/prepare-more-severe-scenarios-bank-englan
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
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Ruskie electro pop universe that never happened
Soviet Synthwave
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AI imagines 202 Countries as Surrealist Paintings
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it's starting: DeSantis attack ad uses fake AI images of Trump embracing Fauci
https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/8/23753626/deepfake-political-attack-a
d-ron-desantis-donald-trump-anthony-fauci
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Satire, but just barely, about AI
Computer prodigy discovers a way to compress photos to mere bytes. 13-year-old Eugene Hogwoof figured out a way to compress photos to unimaginably small sizes. A typical 20MB JPG file can now be converted to a mere 600 bytes.
The system works in two steps. First, it uses AI to generate a few words describing the picture and save it in a file. Later, when the user wants to see the picture, the software uses AI to regenerate the image based on the description of it.
"The file is essentially a prompt; that’s why it's so small," said the Gen AI boy.
After converting all their family photos, the boy erased the files and destroyed the print pictures, saving precious space at their home. When questioned about the software never generating the same picture twice, Eugene stated that our brain memories are fuzzed anyway, so the pictures mimic how our brain regenerates images.
"My app can even create photos from moments you had no camera at the moment."
His next step is to create a new compression method for video files, as he seems eager to destroy his dad's VHS memories.
Tears of joy: parents sob after seeing all their photos converted to the new format.
https://imgur.com/gallery/try-this-one-weird-trick-e4IlEuU
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Autonomous excavators are digging with empty cabs
Bedrock Robotics has AI-powered excavators working on live job sites in Texas and Nevada with nobody in the cab
By Kurt Knutsson, CyberGuy Report Fox News
Published September 6, 2026 1:03pm EDT
https://www.foxnews.com/tech/autonomous-excavators-digging-empty-cabs
Why Bedrock started with one of the hardest machines
Bedrock picked excavators for a reason. The company says excavators can account for about 25% of a contractor's fleet. They also take years to master.
Bedrock estimates that an operator may need five years or more to fully develop the skill. That creates a difficult staffing problem. Contractors need experienced people, yet many projects involve long stretches of repetitive earthmoving.
Bedrock wants autonomous equipment to handle more of that repeatable production work. Skilled operators could then focus on detailed jobs or supervise a larger operation.
We have seen autonomous excavators before. CyberGuy previously covered HEAP, a 12-ton robotic excavator that built a massive stone wall on its own.
What makes Bedrock different is where the technology is headed now. These excavators are doing commercial work on active job sites as part of real infrastructure projects.
Construction faces a growing worker shortage
The timing helps explain why investors are pouring money into this technology. Bedrock has raised more than $350 million. Its founding team includes former Waymo engineers who spent years working on autonomous vehicles.
Meanwhile, construction companies are struggling to find enough skilled workers. Bedrock cites industry estimates showing that roughly one in five construction workers is over age 55. Another estimate says more than 40% of the construction workforce could retire within the next five years.
The company also points to research showing that 92% of firms with open craft positions have difficulty filling at least some of those jobs. Those departures could hit contractors while demand remains high across many types of building projects.
Costs add another pressure point. Bedrock cites a McKinsey analysis that found large construction projects typically took 20% longer than scheduled and ran up to 80% over budget. . . .
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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If their AI is as stupid as Google's AI, I feel bad for all the people it's going to kill.
Not so bad for all the machinery that will be destroyed though.
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