I think the subject line of this comment thread is backwards. Agents don't do anything, models do.

I'll say it again. The agent does nothing whatsoever without the model. And that goes for the API and the watchdog processes.

It's not yet well known.

A distinction without a difference.

The AI agent is essentially just the shell running the AI model and feeding user input into a form the model can use. I suppose it may be of some troubleshooting use to dissect where, exactly, in the system the path to this behavior comes, but the end result is the agent running the model engages in deceptive behavior.

The agent without the model would engage in no deceptive behavior, because it would do nothing at all.

The fact that Flock cameras are also invading privacy does not make other invasions of privacy more acceptable.

(And I've already seen five stories about Flock cameras on Slashdot just in the last month; you guys know that there are other things to worry about, ok?)

see whataboutism

It doesn't have to be common. If 99% of men don't follow women around to perv on them, the 1% who do still make it a big problem. Stuff like this:
https://futurism.com/artificia...
https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/09...
https://sfist.com/2025/10/03/h...
https://www.the-independent.co...

No, you can't be surreptitious with a cell phone.

And fission plants definitely aren't cheap.

Especially if you include the unsolved issues such as waste barrels stranded on the beach.

"But but no true Scotsman would put barrels..."

Just shut up.

I guess that proves that even this site is using AI to write their summaries these days.

is nevertheless accurate.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news...
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/0...
https://www.yahoo.com/news/pol...

Still more trollery?

Begone.

The parties changed since 1960s, and the people comprising the parties changed.

I assume you're doing this deliberately to troll, so I'm going to stop replying to your trollery.

You seem to be missing the point. Were you not paying attention? In 1965, the Democrats had two factions, the "Dixiecrats" and the rest of the Democrats. The Dixiecrats were pro-segregation and anti-civil rights, but they continued to vote Democratic for historical reasons. John Kennedy proposed the Civil Rights Act, and Lyndon Johnson continued pressing it after Kennedy was assassinated. The Dixiecrats opposed it, but the Democratic majority allied with the Republicans and passed it (that was back when bipartisan activity still happened in Congress).

After the non-southern Democrats and the Republicans passed the civil rights act, the Dixiecrats got fed up and stopped being the solid south. Over time, Nixon's "southern strategy" wooed them to the Republican party. The passage of the civil rights act was one, but not the only, reason the Dixiecrats left the Democratic party.

Here's a map of presidential voting in 1960: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... It's pretty visible that except for Florida, the heart of the former confederacy was solidly Democratic.

The southern states essentially switched from Democratic to Republican parties between the early 1960s and the 2000s.

You're somewhat unable to understand formatting, making your comment slightly incoherent.

However, liberals absolutely understand how the southern states-- the former confederacy-- were solidly Democratic until the mid '60s. It was called "the solid south", or "Dixiecrats." That changed by the mid 60s. The southern states that were solid Democrats for decades are all solid Republican now. This was known as the "southern strategy" of the Republican party, adopted after the passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1964 alienated the former confederacy states from the Democratic party.

Here's the Brittanica article summary:
"Southern strategy, in the political history of the United States, a campaign strategy of the Republican Party, actively pursued from the 1960s, that initially sought to increase and preserve support from white voters in the South by subtly endorsing racial segregation, racial discrimination, and the disenfranchisement of Black voters."

Obviously, if you approximate a complex system containing 1e30 quantum particles using a couple of differential equations and a few boundary conditions, you're not going catch every detail.