Jack Teixeira

[Kurt]

According to Bellingcat's Aric Toler, Teixeira was planning a mass shooting via "Assassination Van" (or SUV or Crossover) and was prevented from obtaining firearms by local law enforcement intervention due to threats of a mass shooting he made about his (then) high school.

Still he managed to get a security clearance.

He was also a Nazi. Not a member of any Nazi group or anything but pretty much hated Jews and non-Whites.
Those thinking "Feds" have to remember that it is pretty hard to fake 10,000 discord posts in a short period of time. Maybe AI could do it but when AI lacks information it just makes it up and that part is pretty easy to spot.

I am going to see if I can can get ChatGPT to mimic myself and create posts turning me into a potential mass shooter (If it wants something more harmless than a mass shooter I will pick Insurance Claims Adjuster...something I know exists but would have no idea myself how to be one)

[Kurt]

Here is AI Kurt's post on being a claims adjuster.

Hey guys,

It's been a while since I've posted on here, but I wanted to chime in on this thread. I've been following the news lately and it's pretty crazy what's been happening in the world. I've always been interested in global events and how they impact us on a personal level.

One thing that really caught my attention was the recent earthquake in Japan. It's devastating to see the destruction that it caused and the toll it's taking on the people there. It's a reminder that we should never take our safety and security for granted.

On a lighter note, I recently went on a trip to Thailand and it was amazing! The food, the people, the culture...everything was just incredible. I highly recommend it to anyone who hasn't been there yet.

Anyway, just wanted to share my thoughts and catch up with you guys. I hope everyone is doing well.

Cheers,

Kurt

It's got a lot of work to do. It seems to have taken the subject of a travel message board and just went with it. With no information on how to make me out to be something I am not.

[Kurt]

Second try. Narrowed down a bit. Mentioned cooking but still does not read like me.

Hey everyone,

It's been a while since I've posted on here, but I wanted to check in and see what's been going on. I've been pretty busy with work lately, but I always try to make time to read the latest posts on this forum.

I noticed that there have been a lot of discussions about travel lately, which is something that I'm really passionate about. I've been lucky enough to visit a lot of different countries over the years, and I always come back with amazing stories and experiences to share.

One place that I highly recommend is New Zealand. I recently went there for a hiking trip, and it was absolutely breathtaking. The scenery is unlike anything I've ever seen before, and the people there are so friendly and welcoming.

In other news, I've been getting into cooking lately. I've been experimenting with different recipes and trying to perfect my skills in the kitchen. It's been a fun and rewarding experience, and I've been able to impress my friends and family with some of my creations.

Anyway, that's about it for now. I'm looking forward to seeing what other topics come up on this forum, and I hope to contribute more in the future.

Take care,

Kurt

Later I fed it 40kb of text of my writing and it got stuck on "Hey Everyone,"

[Kurt]

This experiment is boring me. I am gonna stop now.

Sure, here's an attempt to mimic your writing style using experience as an Insurance Claims Adjuster for a topic on storm damage:

As an insurance claims adjuster with many years of experience, I have seen firsthand the devastation that severe weather can cause. Storms can rip through communities, leaving behind a trail of destruction and chaos. The aftermath of a storm can be overwhelming, not just for homeowners, but for insurance companies as well.

One of the biggest challenges for claims adjusters after a storm is determining the extent of the damage. This involves assessing the damage to homes and businesses, as well as determining the cost of repairs. In my experience, this process can be complicated and time-consuming, but it's essential to ensure that policyholders receive the compensation they are entitled to.

Another challenge is dealing with the sheer volume of claims that come in after a storm. Depending on the severity of the storm, claims can come in by the hundreds or even thousands. As a result, it's essential for insurance companies to have a robust and efficient claims process in place, to ensure that claims are processed quickly and accurately.

One of the biggest misconceptions that policyholders have is that their insurance policy will cover all types of storm damage. In reality, insurance policies are complex documents that can be difficult to interpret. In my experience, it's essential for policyholders to understand the specific coverage limits of their policy, as well as any exclusions or deductibles.

Ultimately, the key to successfully navigating the aftermath of a storm is to have a clear understanding of the insurance claims process, and to work closely with policyholders to ensure that their needs are met. As an insurance claims adjuster, I take pride in helping policyholders get back on their feet after a storm, and I'm committed to providing the highest level of service possible.

So far it is looking like the only way to write like me is to have a dataset of all my writing (which the online version cannot take) and according to the AI's own estimate it would still be error prone.

So I am guessing introducing the factor of conversing with others about either Claims Adjuster stuff or mass shooter stuff rather than just writing an essay on the topic is beyond what AI is capable of at this point in time.

I suspect the NSA probably has access to better AI but still, to create a fake Jack Teixeira conversing about killing and Nazi shit with his Discord bros would be a project that would have had to start very early.

With "New Tech" the Government is mostly behind the private sector. If you remember after 9/11 the "Government surveillance" machine was a Windows NT 4.0 box with a 1GB ethernet card tapped into a point at an ISP and the Feds would have to recover a 100MB Iomega zip drive by hand once per day. (Carnivore) and at the point it was retired in 2005 it was possible for any one of us to make a clone of Carnivore that could function better than Carnivore for less than $600 assuming we could get a tap into the ISP.

Now the Carnivore equivalent is leaps and bounds over what a home user could make. I assume that five years from now AI will also be at that stage, but for now what we have is probably what the Feds have, and the Feds could not generated 10k posts of a fake Teixeira without looking really, really weird. It would like: "Hey everyone, I hate Jews they control the world and I want to create an assassination van so I can massacre people. Anyway here is top secret material related to the US involvement in the War in Ukraine."

[seektravelinfo]

Still he managed to get a security clearance.

I shied away from pursuing jobs requiring security clearance because I smoked pot and didn’t have a prime credit rating (remember when Ross Perot advocated for credit checks in hiring employees for private and public sectors?)

Turns out that had I been a Nazi-admirer and openly fantasized about shooting up a school I could have gotten one?

No fair!

I guess it goes to show that being a poor single-mother stoner is a threat to the safety of America, even more than being an Oxycontin addict on the Social Security Disability dole in a place like Kentucky.

[Kurt]

I was involved in Anti-Globalisation (before that meant "Jews and Soros") and then Anti-War from 1995 to about 2005 and from 1990 to about 1995 I was involved in Pro-Drug Legalization and Prison reform.

I was told that was "Anti-American" or I would be perceived as Anti-American for being a "Radical Leftist" (or Center-Left in Europe) but apparently Nazis are considered "Patriots, with flaws" or something.

[snaark]

I have no idea what you were getting at there Kurt. In any case the one thing I've learnt from this whole story is that US intelligence and law enforcement should outsource everything to Bellingcat. That includes vetting people for security clearance.

[Kurt]

I have no idea what you were getting at there Kurt. In any case the one thing I've learnt from this whole story is that US intelligence and law enforcement should outsource everything to Bellingcat. That includes vetting people for security clearance.

Yep, Agreed.

What I was getting at was anticipating the "Conspiracy Theory" that it was a Fed set up of Teixeira using AI to mimic him and his chats with his Nazi bros.

Quite hard to do with what is available now.

But what is frightening about it is how it just fills in the blanks like with AI me going to Thailand and New Zealand. (places I have never been) and if there was a chat room or message board set up like I know someone will claim, it would fill in blanks.

Right now it is easy to see but years from now it might be capable of manufacturing content to at least show "State of Mind" in a trial.

[Tarkan]

I have no idea what you were getting at there Kurt. In any case the one thing I've learnt from this whole story is that US intelligence and law enforcement should outsource everything to Bellingcat. That includes vetting people for security clearance.

Yep, Agreed.

What I was getting at was anticipating the "Conspiracy Theory" that it was a Fed set up of Teixeira using AI to mimic him and his chats with his Nazi bros.

Quite hard to do with what is available now.

But what is frightening about it is how it just fills in the blanks like with AI me going to Thailand and New Zealand. (places I have never been) and if there was a chat room or message board set up like I know someone will claim, it would fill in blanks.

Right now it is easy to see but years from now it might be capable of manufacturing content to at least show "State of Mind" in a trial.

Years from now?

Text content is literally doable today for any decent sized corporate actor, much less a state. GPT-3 and GPT-4 can create text in the style of someone else give some sample posts (you can train the open source models like GPT-J to do the same thing). GPT-4 is already significantly better than GPT-3 and 3.5.

Generative AI can now take a few seconds of voice audio and produce voice dialogue that is indistinguishable from the real person. I'm not talking about the joke stuff with Biden and Trump going back and forth.

They are getting really close to doing it with video as well.

One of the youtube videos I watched coined this "the destruction of reality" - we've always taken video and audio as "proof" - in many cases, better than being there (because your memory lies to you). We are at the tail end of that being the case, because almost anything will be able to be fabricated.

There's a whole slew of problems that are going to arise. An obvious one is porn. Got a crush on the girl next door? Here's an AI generated porn of you and her having sex. Post it to the web for an extra creepiness factor.

Oh yeah, speaking of factors, how about those multi-factor authentication mechanisms like voice verification. That's about to be dead.

Hell, someone captures audio of your kid, and next thing you know, you get a call from a random number with your kid (or so you think) on the link telling you they've been kidnapped and you have to deliver $10,000 in 30 minutes or they will kill your kid. And it will sound just like your kid.

Next time Hunter Biden forgets his laptop at a repair place with videos of him and underage girls, he'll be able to claim it's all AI fake videos.

This is the tip of the iceberg. AI is going to be the end of us, and it won't be anything like Terminator or the Matrix.

[Kurt]

Try it with ChatGPT. You can use your BFC posts as a dataset. (go in Search, post your name cut & paste link post in ChatGPT) It sucks or at least everything sucked for the 1 hour I was doing it.

It probably could be done but not in the time between when Teixeira was noticed and the VM of the Discord Server was "reconstructed" ( I use irony quotes cuz all they did was retrieve a deleted VM image from a server via forensics and spin it up again).

[el3so]

They still make people turn big rocks into smaller rocks in Leavenworth?

[Kurt]

They still make people turn big rocks into smaller rocks in Leavenworth?

I do not think so. There are "camps" that parents who go to "tough love" lectures will send their kids to and the punishment at those camps is rock breaking.

Apparently some parents have paid money to get their children killed at these places too.

[el3so]

Apparently some parents have paid money to get their children killed at these places too.

Sounds expensive.

Most murder-for-hire things turn out to be a scam.

[Darcy]

They still make people turn big rocks into smaller rocks in Leavenworth?

This is a respectable vocation in East Africa. Blew my mind to see someone making gravel with a small hammer. Chatted to the fellow, brought him some lunch. Just a job. Dude was cool. Fuck I miss Africa.