Dolphins, sharks, turtles, and human workers are all victims of unregulated squid fishing fleets.
Another news article.
As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered.
Clive Robinson • June 19, 2026 11:50 PM
@ Bruce, ALL,
KPMG report promoting AI found to be full of inaccuracies and AI hallucinations
Yup if you use garbage to make garbage…
The KPMG report was titled,
“Redefining excellence in the age of agentic AI”
Was found to be so full of nonsense, inaccuracies and AI hallucinations it was an “easy catch” for, GPTZero…
It’s just one of many, their investigators have found and revealed, and in this case has became further reported in more mainstream media for the business industry.
Put simply GPTZero research into why major government reports, academic papers, and other research related activities have become plagued with AI hallucinations.
KPMG pulls report on AI usage due to apparent hallucinations
Professional services firm KPMG has pulled a report titled “Redefining excellence in the age of agentic AI,” after numerous organizations said the report’s claims about their AI usage were untrue.
“Research group GPTZero identified a number of inaccuracies in the report, which was published in October 2025. GPTZero told the Financial Times that the inaccuracies stemmed from AI hallucinations. In other words, the professional services firm appears to have used AI to help write a report about AI.
UBS, the U.K.’s National Health Service, Swiss Federal Railways, and Transport for London all told the FT that the report’s claims about their AI usage were either untrue or misleading. A KPMG spokesperson said the firm removed the report from its websites while conducting its own investigation.“
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/13/kpmg-pulls-report-on-ai-usage-due-to-apparent-hallucinations/
Gives an overview.
However there is more to it than “egg on the face” for a well known and oft hated consulting firm.
It appears that this behaviour is so numerous these days that GPTZero have come up with a new “term of art in the domain” for it,
“Vibe Citing”
It refers to what are faux citations, that look plausible to the casual eye, but are in fact nonsense and most probably are created by the use of “generative AI” that are then “not fact checked” by humans trying to be “more productive”.
If Current AI LLM and ML Systems apparent cause “productivity increases” this way, by “soft bullshitting”, then one has to question if it’s an increase of productivity by employees or just garbage with less than zero ROI.
A major KPMG report on AI was found to be chock-full of…AI hallucinations
GPTZero warns of rising citation hallucinations
“In the latest embarassing incident, a KPMG report on agentic AI was in fact found to be filled with AI-generated errors, false citations and misleading case studies.
“Of the 45 citations in the report, only five accurately point to real sources,” the team wrote, adding that many others were either totally false or significantly distorted.“
robin • June 20, 2026 3:07 AM
@Clive: you quote: ““Of the 45 citations in the report, only five accurately point to real sources,” the team wrote, adding that many others were either totally false or significantly distorted.“”
I can’t see what the problem is: that report really does redefine excellence in the age of agentic AI, as promised in the title. Although perhaps not in the way KPMG intended.
It would be nice to think of it as a Ratner moment, but I expect it will be air-brushed out. I see Ernst and Young also had a somewhat similar foot in mouth moment.
Given that the KPMG report seems to have been on their website for nearly 9 months it must be assumed that those false citations are now treated as gospel by LLMs even though it’s been taken down now.
Clive Robinson • June 20, 2026 7:25 AM
@ Robin, ALL,
You note that,
“Although perhaps not in the way KPMG intended.”
But as you also note,
“It would be nice to think of it as a Ratner moment, but I expect it will be air-brushed out. I see Ernst and Young also had a somewhat similar foot in mouth moment.”
Mr Ratner[1] is less well known these days, and in reality,
“His sin was telling the truth”.
Which begs the question of the difference between telling the truth and facing the consequences or just abusing the truth for profit?
What is clear though, is that using Current AI LLMs to generate research, or law citations is most certainly,
“Not a way to increase employee productivity”
Due to spending all that time checking every word looking for “Vibed Soft Bullshit”.
I saw an argument the other day that “Vibe work” must have ROI because it “produces more in less time”…
What they failed to take into account is that they only considered in effect “lines of code” being “good” and did not consider any being “bad” thus the enormity of “technical debt” that would be produced, that eventually has to “pay off” in all sorts of bad ways.
These “consultancy Corps” appear not to consider what you might call “Negative ROI” of “polishing turds” that LLMs pop out all the time.
[1] He was a speaker at a business confrence in London’s Albert Hall when he made a joke about the family company he had built up in the US and UK,
Like all jokes it had a germ of truth in it. The thing is most modern products made in China for the Western Markets are today built under the same,
“Make it cheap, pile it high, and knock it out fast”
Idea which has given us the Internet of Things, Amazon home and security products, and even those who had good reputations throwing security away on small network edge products…
But operating in that business area takes considerable skill and thus those that took over his businesses failed to make a success, so it appears last year Mr Ratner is aiming to take the business back before it finally sinks.
Speaking of which Cisco appears to have slipped into the “keep bailing” with respect to it’s SoHo Network products.
JG5 • June 20, 2026 12:15 PM
The Alien Probe technology is here now on Uranus. It just isn’t evenly distributed. It never can be, because reality is a non-linear, time-varying, emergent, non-equilibrium process.
I hope that I posted something about the LLMs being part of a giant scam. The data centers are very real and built for processing the data from all of the surveillance cameras, as well all the data swept up from computers and cell phones. Including, keystrokes, audio, and video. All of the talk of the LLMs causing mass layoffs is an intentional distraction from the real issues in play. The price of electricity will force a painful reckoning. The US tried to do too much with too little. In many areas of endeavor.
https://x.com/BabyD1111229/status/2067748917685662197
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Every time …, the sensor sweeps up the unique electronic identifiers of every device in your vehicle. Your cell phone. Your smartwatch. Your wireless headphones. Your fitness tracker. Your laptop. Your tablet. Your car’s own infotainment system. Your tire pressure sensors. Your vehicle’s Bluetooth hotspot.
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Clive Robinson • June 20, 2026 12:41 PM
@ Bruce, Lurker, ALL,
Deliberate GPS degradation in Europe worse than thought
Some of us keep an eye on radio and space based navigation and time systems as they have serious security issues not just for tangible physical objects but intangible information objects. Thus they form foundational critical infrastructure.
But… to many it’s just a box that means they don’t have to read a map or know how to set their watch…
However they should consider that aircraft can now be landed by GPS systems at commercial airports, with some pundits saying the need for commercial pilots can be reduced (thus savings for the shareholders etc).
So maintaining GPS systems free from jamming and spoofing has become of significant importance and criticality.
Which is why this is “bad news”,
‘It’s quite a bit more than we expected’: Satellite reveals immense scale of GPS signal tampering
“As soon as we started doing any operations above Europe, we noticed that there was really something going on there.”
“An experimental satellite has mapped the scale of GPS jamming across Europe and the Middle East from space for the first time.
The data surprised the team behind the project and indicated that satellites orbiting far from Earth aren’t the only ones that experience degradation of their positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) signals, which could affect their performance and the safety of their operations.“
Hopefully new types of autonomous “Positioning, Navigation and Timing”(PNT) system currently under development will become commercially available in the near future, otherwise life is going to get more than a little awkward.
Clive Robinson • June 20, 2026 1:05 PM
@ JG5, ALL,
With regards,
“The data centers are very real and built for processing the data from all of the surveillance cameras, as well all the data swept up from computers and cell phones. Including, keystrokes, audio, and video.”
The idea behind some of it, is to,
“Fingerprint the citizen every which way”
And by “fingerprint” I don’t just mean standard bio-metrics.
The state of your physical and mental health can be found from the amalgamation of biometrics.
Whilst we’ve known this for some time, few have asked what advantage such information would be to the Government and various forms of “Guard Labour”…
Just remember in the US way way to many people believe in the efficacy of “lie-detector” technology. Where the actual reality is it’s about as much use as “flipping a coin” and many people with a little practice can fake the results.
Thus one idea is to have “lie-detection” running 24×365 on every one as a form of “pre-crime detection”.
It won’t work even remotely well but it will be “made and marketed” to “Guard Labour Agencies” thus enabling them to use personnel who don’t/can’t think beyond the immediate and thus moderate their behaviours, but will “snap to” on any order no matter how unlawful.
It’s the sort of thing people like Peter Thiel and Co of Palantir and similar in Amazon and Meta have more than wet dreams over. And they care not a jot for justice or due process only pushing “might is right” ideology for control and profit.
Eff Bezos • June 20, 2026 3:05 PM
Amazon was sued on Monday over alleged privacy violations from its Ring doorbell cameras. The class action lawsuit claims that Ring’s Familiar Faces feature stores images of passersby without consent.
Familiar Faces lets Ring users identify people who regularly come to their home through AI facial recognition. That way, if a regular guest, like a family member, mail carrier, or neighbor, comes to the door, the device will be able to recognize them and deliver more specific notifications like “Dad is at the door,” rather than “A person is at the door.” Ring users have to opt in to this feature, but privacy advocates noted that the people who walk past these Ring doorbells have not consented to these facial-recognition scans. That same concern is at the center of this class action lawsuit.
According to the lawsuit, “Millions of other Americans passed by a Ring security camera and unknowingly had their facial recognition information collected.”
Not THE French Spy in ideho • June 20, 2026 6:15 PM
@JG5 • June 20, 2026 12:15 PM
Look at it as a new opportunity to make massive ammounts of money with this new surveillance economy.
Those who can afford it, they’ll be able to buy themselves a clean record, by BRIBING THOSE WHO ARE IN THE POSESSION OF ANY INCRIMINATING BITS OF DATA ON THEM – to have the data purged.
Time and again, the rich will always have many options to come out clean and buy themselves shiny looking lives BUT this surveillance economy will also open up so many stinky cans such as endless BLACKMAIL OPPORTUNITIES.
It will fire both ways.
Gos bless Israel.
short u r l . at / icHy7 • June 20, 2026 8:06 PM
The following Idaho COPS ARE DIRTY COPS – thus L I A B I L I T Y
to A N Y law enforcement entity/organization A N Y W H E R E in the W O R L D:
Matt Hudson
Damir Subasic
Ed Pieczonka
Trent Schneider
Cody Evans
Chad Wigington
Ryan Lee (the former Boise Police Dept. Chief who got canned by the Mayor)
Bill Bones (the former Boise Police Dept. Chief who ALSO got canned by the Mayor)
Matt Hudson, the W O M A N I Z E R stalked and sexually A S S A U L T E D
several women in the Boise Idaho area over the years and WILL BE GOING TO PRISON
FOR A VERY LONG TIME when a few of these V I C T I M S come forward.
The other “Hudson” on the 4th floor of the Federal Courthouse in Boise
WON’T BE ABLE TO COVER FOR YA THIS TIME lil Matty.
You have destroyed an I N N O C E N T family WITH THE HELP OF THE LOCAL MORMON FBI GOONS
and K A R M A is a very bad lady, and she’s comin’ 4 ya.
E V I D E N C E of CORRUPT COPS, PROSECUTORS, JUDGES in Idaho, right here:
short u r l . at / icHy7
The best of all will be the CONFRONTATION with your FAMILIES, when they find out
HOW CORRUPT THEIR FATHERS, MOTHERS, SISTERS, BROTHERS, SONS AND DAUGHTERS are.
I will do E V E R Y T H I N G humanly possible to make sure YOUR FAMILIES FIND OUT
WHAT YOU DID TO MY FAMILY – YOU M O N S T E R S!
lurker • June 20, 2026 8:39 PM
@Eff Bezos
The “class” in this case is presumably the millions of John Does who have had their faces scanned and put into a database somewhere. What remedy can any judge offer to these John Does? Post facto?
Amazon claim the data is encrypted, never shared, and unhnown John Does are deleted after 30 days. But with the admission that Flock Safety were in the neighborhood, 30 days is more than enough time for skullduggery …
The INCITER • June 20, 2026 10:22 PM
My father was tortured and disabled in the Ada County Jail.
On three separate occasions, the video evidence thereof was requested.
It was denied each and every time.
The Ada County Sheriff is a MORMON.
Most of the FBI in Idaho are MORMONS.
The ATTORNEY GENERAL OF IDAHO is a MORMON AS ARE MOST OF HIS DEPUTIES.
The AG will not investigate the elected Sheriff for hiding the evidence.
THE GOVERNOR OF IDAHO IS A MORMON.
All the above INDIVIDUALS HAVE BEEN SHOWN THIS EVIDENCE:
short u r l . at / icHy7
ALL of them I G N O R E D it.
We do N O T hate MORMONS.
Buy BOY DO THEY HATE US. WHY?
Why do they claim to be C H R I S T I A N S ???????
My father then claimed D I S A B I L I T Y.
HE WAS DENIED without even being asked to be seen by a qualifying
doctor to see what is wrong with him.
YES, THE HOLE STUFFED WITH “CHRISTIANS” – I CURSE THE DAY WE CHOSE IT
TO BE OUR HOME.
….and WE ARE “INCITING”??????
INCITING TRUTH – YES!
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First Post Doggo • June 19, 2026 6:39 PM
Kitties suck BAWLZ. Evil sinister creatures!
Dog is your best friend! There are dogs who’d jump into a fire, into their certain death if it means helping or saving their human friend. This is a F A C T!!!!
A cat? N E V E R ! Cat-loving people are very weird and strange people also too.
They too suck B A W L Z !!!!!!