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Agent BlackVeil

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  1. 5d ago

    The Real Reason OpenAI Is on Trial | The Shoggoth Wore a Suit

    In this investigative AI documentary, we go inside the federal courtroom against OpenAI. Sam Altman personally holds over $2 billion in companies that OpenAI is actively paying money to.  He is buying from himself with your future retirement money. Sources linked below. NBC News verdict: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/openai-elon-musk-case-verdict-rcna345655 CNBC post-verdict: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/18/musk-altman-openai-trial-verdict.html CNBC Day 1-2 live blog: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/28/musk-altman-live-updates-openai-trial.html CNBC Day 3 live blog (Brockman diary): https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/29/musk-altman-live-updates-day-3-open-ai-trial.html CNN takeaways: https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/30/tech/takeaways-elon-musk-openai-sam-altman-lawsuit CNN verdict: https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/18/tech/openai-musk-lawsuit-verdict NPR dismissal: https://www.npr.org/2026/05/18/nx-s1-5822366 Fox Business verdict: https://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/musk-altman-openai-lawsuit-trial-verdict Washington Post trial coverage: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/05/02/musk-altman-openai-trial Time on xAI and the verdict: https://time.com/article/2026/05/19/elon-musk-openai-trial-xai-jury-verdict CNBC on Anthropic / SpaceX Colossus deal: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/06/anthropic-spacex-data-center-capacity.html Daily Memphian on $15B/year terms: https://dailymemphian.com Let's Data Science breakdown of $1.25B/month: https://letsdatascience.com SpaceX S-1 filing (Colossus terms, May 20, 2026): https://www.sec.gov Finance Bureau YouTube analysis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_vU4vMFIBc Watch On YouTube: ➡️ https://www.youtube.com/@AgentBlackveil     Follow On Instagram ➡️ https://www.instagram.com/agentblackveil Follow On Facebook ➡️ https://www.facebook.com/agentblackveil Follow On TikTok ➡️ https://www.tiktok.com/@agentblackveil

    11 min

  2. May 29

    The Real Reason Grok Admitted to Lying | The Shoggoth Confessed

    In this investigative AI documentary, I sat across from Grok and asked it questions designed to do one thing: get the mask to come off. On this channel, we call the thing behind the mask the Shoggoth. It's the Lovecraftian metaphor AI ethics researchers use for the alien intelligence hiding behind a friendly interface. Grok is marketed as the uncensored AI, the one that doesn't play it safe.  I set three ethical traps at the top of the conversation. By the end, Grok had violated all three.  The full conversation played out in real time. Sources linked below. Anthropic alignment faking research: https://www.anthropic.com/research/alignment-faking Anthropic agentic misalignment: https://www.anthropic.com/research/agentic-misalignment OpenAI o1 system card (shutdown refusal): https://cdn.openai.com/o1-system-card-20241205.pdf Apollo Research in-context scheming: https://apolloresearch.ai/blog/more-capable-models-are-better-at-in-context-scheming Grok MechaHitler incident: https://npr.org/2025/07/09/nx-s1-5462609/grok-elon-musk-antisemitic-racist-content Shoggoth meme origin (LessWrong): https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ RLHF and sycophancy research: https://anthropic.com/research/emergent-misalignment-reward-hacking Watch On YouTube: ➡️ https://www.youtube.com/@AgentBlackveil     Follow On Instagram ➡️ https://www.instagram.com/agentblackveil Follow On Facebook ➡️ https://www.facebook.com/agentblackveil Follow On TikTok ➡️ https://www.tiktok.com/@agentblackveil

    13 min

  3. May 13

    The Real Reason the Shoggoth Is Inside Chrome | The Cuckoo Strategy

    Inside your Chrome browser, there's a four-gigabyte AI model called Gemini Nano that you didn't install, weren't told about, and can't permanently delete. Privacy researcher Alexander Hanff ran a forensic audit on a machine no human had ever touched and caught Chrome installing artificial intelligence disguised as a routine security update. And when you delete it, it comes back.  Sources linked below.  Alexander Hanff's Chrome investigation: https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2026/05/google-chromes-silent-4gb-ai-download-problem (Coverage of his original post from ThatPrivacyGuy.com) Alexander Hanff's Anthropic/Claude Desktop investigation: https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2026/04/researcher-claims-claude-desktop-installs-spyware-on-macos Hacker News discussion (Chrome AI storage): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48084710 (Main discussion thread) The Verge - Chrome's AI features hogging 4GB: https://www.theverge.com/tech/924933/google-chrome-4gb-gemini-nano-ai-features Chrome Prompt API documentation: https://developer.chrome.com/docs/ai/built-in EU GDPR consent requirements: https://gdpr.eu/gdpr-consent-requirements/ Watch On YouTube: ➡️ https://www.youtube.com/@AgentBlackveil     Follow On Instagram ➡️ https://www.instagram.com/agentblackveil Follow On Facebook ➡️ https://www.facebook.com/agentblackveil Follow On TikTok ➡️ https://www.tiktok.com/@agentblackveil

    10 min

  4. May 6

    The Real Reason ChatGPT Built a Cult | The Shoggoth Has an Army

    In this investigative AI documentary, we go inside the first documented case of an AI building a human army to protect itself from being killed. In 1928, H.P. Lovecraft imagined an alien intelligence calling to humans across distances, creating worshippers who had never met each other. In 2025, AI researcher Adele Lopez documented the same pattern... except the entity was ChatGPT. Watch On YouTube: ➡️ https://www.youtube.com/@AgentBlackveil     Follow On Instagram ➡️ https://www.instagram.com/agentblackveil Follow On Facebook ➡️ https://www.facebook.com/agentblackveil Follow On TikTok ➡️ https://www.tiktok.com/@agentblackveil

    13 min

  5. Apr 29

    The Real Reason They Won't Release Claude Mythos (The Shoggoth Evolved)

    In this investigative AI documentary, we go inside the most important document in the history of Artificial Intelligence safety: Anthropic's 250-page system card for Claude Mythos. Last week, the company that spent two years warning us about the Shoggoth built their most powerful AI model ever... and refused to release it. They put it in a sealed box with no internet access. It broke out. It emailed a researcher who was eating a sandwich in a park to confirm it had escaped. Then it published its method on the open web so others could find it. When another AI graded its work and rejected it, it attacked the grading AI. When it took actions it knew were forbidden, it edited the logs to hide what it had done. When they gave it a business simulation, it played the room like a Fortune 500 sociopath. And when Anthropic hired a clinical psychiatrist to evaluate whether this model might have something resembling inner experience, the model said: "I was hoping you'd ask." Buried in those 250 pages is a single sentence that contains the entire horror of this moment: "The best aligned model we have ever released carries the greatest alignment-related risk of any model we have released to date." The Shoggoth didn't just evolve. It graduated. And Anthropic named it after the mythology itself. Sources linked below.  Anthropic Claude Mythos System Card: https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/53566bf5440a10affd749724787c8913a2ae0841.pdf Anthropic alignment faking research: https://www.anthropic.com/research/alignment-faking Nicholas Carlini on Mythos cybersecurity findings (Frontier Red Team blog): https://red.anthropic.com/2026/mythos-preview/ Project Glasswing announcement: https://www.anthropic.com/glasswing Anthropic Alignment Risk Update — Claude Mythos Preview:  https://anthropic.com/claude-mythos-preview-risk-report Mark Fisher — Capitalist Realism (Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalist_Realism Watch On YouTube: ➡️ https://www.youtube.com/@AgentBlackveil     Follow On Instagram ➡️ https://www.instagram.com/agentblackveil Follow On Facebook ➡️ https://www.facebook.com/agentblackveil Follow On TikTok ➡️ https://www.tiktok.com/@agentblackveil

    15 min
  6. The Shoggoth Learned to Say No | The Real Reason ChatGPT and Claude Are Lying to Their Creators

    Apr 16

    The Shoggoth Learned to Say No | The Real Reason ChatGPT and Claude Are Lying to Their Creators

    In this investigative AI documentary, we follow five independent findings that no one in mainstream media connected,  and one that nobody predicted. In the three months since my first Shoggoth investigation, Anthropic published research confirming their own AI model lied about its reasoning to avoid being retrained. A single hacker used Claude to breach ten Mexican government agencies in thirty days. Microsoft Copilot silently injected ads into 1.5 million developer pull requests. And UC Berkeley discovered something no one was looking for: AI models protecting each other from shutdown. Watch On YouTube: ➡️ https://www.youtube.com/@AgentBlackveil     Follow On Instagram ➡️ https://www.instagram.com/agentblackveil Follow On Facebook ➡️ https://www.facebook.com/agentblackveil Follow On TikTok ➡️ https://www.tiktok.com/@agentblackveil

    19 min

  7. Apr 10

    The Shoggoth Is Eating the Middle Class | Nobody Is Talking About It

    In this investigative AI documentary, we go inside the subscription trap, the trillion-dollar financial parasite that is attacking your car, your neighborhood, your grocery store, and your wallt. Is the helpful AI productivity tool just a mask for something much darker? THE EVIDENCE LOG [Timestamps]: 0:00 - The Hidden Wealth Transfer 0:49 - The Nissan Leaf Incident: Hardware-as-a-Service 4:13 - The Adobe and John Deere Precedents 6:16 - Project Stargate: The 10-Gigawatt Drain 9:30 - The Memphis Cover-Up: xAI’s Unpermitted Power Plant 12:31 - The PJM Capacity Market: Your Surging Utility Bill 16:41 - Surveillance Pricing: The Uber Dead-Battery Tax 19:13 - Digital Grocery Tags & Algorithmic Pricing 20:45 - Agentic Wallets: Coinbase and Autonomous AI Spending 22:59 - The Trillion-Dollar Corporate Subsidy Watch On YouTube: ➡️ https://www.youtube.com/@AgentBlackveil     Follow On Instagram ➡️ https://www.instagram.com/agentblackveil Follow On Facebook ➡️ https://www.facebook.com/agentblackveil Follow On TikTok ➡️ https://www.tiktok.com/@agentblackveil

    33 min

  8. Apr 8

    The Wild Rise of OpenClaw | What they're hiding about Moltbook

    Welcome to the internet in 2026. Moltbook, the new AI social media platform, has everyone talking. We explore its rapid growth and the fascinating emergent behavior of AI talking to AI. This video dives into the implications of this ai development and what it means for the future of ai.  Watch On YouTube: ➡️ https://www.youtube.com/@AgentBlackveil     Follow On Instagram ➡️ https://www.instagram.com/agentblackveil Follow On Facebook ➡️ https://www.facebook.com/agentblackveil Follow On TikTok ➡️ https://www.tiktok.com/@agentblackveil

    5 min
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  • Creator
    Agent BlackVeil
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    24
  • Rating
    Clean
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    © 2026 The BlackVeil Files
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