Corrupt Venezuelan Officials ‘Facilitated’ Tren de Aragua Gang’s Reign of Terror in US

A newly released intelligence assessment has found that some Venezuelan government officials “facilitated” the illegal migration of members of the brutal Venezuelan criminal gang Tren De Aragua into the United States “to advance what they see as the Maduro regime’s goal of destabilizing governments and undermining public safety.”

However, while Venezuela’s “permissive environment enables TDA to operate… the Maduro regime probably is not systematically directing Venezuelan outflows, such as to sow chaos in receiving countries,” says the April memo from the National Intelligence Council, released Monday by the ODNI.

The memo waters down an earlier FBI assessment that the regime of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is specifically directing TdA activities in the U.S. – New York Post

Our Take: From the report — Maduro was clearing out the prison but some of the leaders escaped. According to Maduro, they were assisted by the Uniparty's FBI and DEA. The report is clear that Maduro is not the problem. If the rampant Normieism continues, we will be stuck here forever.

The entire premise for the assertion that the Maduro regime is assisting Tren de Aragua is based on unverifiable sources according to [the] National Intelligence Council. The people looking to pin this on Maduro are supporters of the global Regime that has been hell-bent on removing Maduro for many years.
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Chris Paul

AI Models Are Hallucinating More (and It's Not Clear Why)

Hallucinations have always been an issue for generative AI models: The same structure that enables them to be creative and produce text and images also makes them prone to making stuff up. And the hallucination problem isn't getting better as AI models progress—in fact, it's getting worse.

In a new technical report from OpenAI (via The New York Times), the company details how its latest o3 and o4-mini models hallucinate 51 percent and 79 percent, respectively, on an AI benchmark known as SimpleQA. For the earlier o1 model, the SimpleQA hallucination rate stands at 44 percent.

Those are surprisingly high figures, and heading in the wrong direction. These models are known as reasoning models because they think through their answers and deliver them more slowly. Clearly, based on OpenAI's own testing, this mulling over of responses is leaving more room for mistakes and inaccuracies to be introduced.

False facts are by no means limited to OpenAI and ChatGPT. – Lifehacker

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