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Sunday, June 28, 2026 7:30 AM

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What Will AI Do To Our Minds?

Paul Krugman
Jun 28, 2026 at 5:35 AM

On college campuses around America, old-fashioned blue books are making a comeback.

Around a century ago these standardized booklets for written exams were introduced by Butler University in Indianapolis. For many former students of a certain age — myself included — the sight of a blue book can generate anxiety and even nightmares. And many former instructors — myself again included — recall the tedium and strained eyesight of trying to decipher students’ handwriting. So it was an improvement when exam-taking shifted from paper to computer. Or so it seemed at the time.

Now, however, students are using AI to write essays and answer questions on take-home exams, as well as taking in-person exams on their computers. As a result, an AI-arms-race has developed between instructors and students. Concerned that students are not doing the work themselves but are simply copying and pasting AI output, instructors have begun using AI programs to detect students’ use of AI. Inevitably, there are now AI programs that students can use to outwit the instructors’ AI detection programs.

So, not surprisingly, many instructors are going back to handwritten in-class exams, generating a sudden boom in the demand for blue books. Ominously, even the return of in-person testing may not solve the problem of testing in the face of AI: Cheating using AI glasses is on the rise in Asia and will doubtless spread worldwide.

My concern here isn’t about testing; it’s about learning. The objective of testing is to further learning, and there is growing concern (as well as evidence) that students’ use of AI damages their capacity to learn. And what we really mean by learning is the ability to think. Students who rely on large language models to answer questions won’t learn how to think by reasoning through the evidence to form a conclusion. As a result, they will be unequipped to deal with situations in which AI either can’t provide an answer or provides misleading answers.

In short, there are good reasons to worry that what we’re calling artificial intelligence will adversely affect the development of our natural intelligence. Moreover, in the case of basic learning, those adverse effects may be virtually irremediable.

The rise of generative AI isn’t a complete departure from an ongoing process of outsourcing human judgment and understanding to external models. Rather, generative AI is just a further step in a process that began a generation ago with the launch of Google search and accelerated with the rise of smartphones. However, ChatGPT and Claude Code ratcheted that process up to a much more rapid pace.

Granted, each stage of this process has brought obvious short-term benefits to those using the new technologies. Yet these benefits have come at the cost of real, measurable long-term damage to human understanding and cognition. And AI, which is already creating a crisis in education, will almost surely make the damage much worse.

More at https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/what-will-ai-do-to-our-minds

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Thursday, July 2, 2026 7:23 PM

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UN report: AI brings enormous opportunities – and plenty of risks

Artificial intelligence is advancing faster than humanity’s ability to measure or govern it, according to a preliminary report released by the United Nations Thursday.
https://www.un.org/independent-international-scientific-panel-ai/sites
/default/files/2026-07/en_Preliminary%20Report_.pdf

The risk of humans losing control of AI systems is rapidly growing, the report said.

“The more AI advances without clear rules, the less say governments and people will have in the outcome,” United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres told reporters at a morning news conference announcing the report’s release.

The document, the first global scientific survey of AI released by the world body, will be presented to governments Monday at the inaugural U.N. Global Dialogue on AI Governance in Geneva.

The report found AI had the potential to revolutionize a broad array of social benefits across science, health, agriculture, accessibility, knowledge work and information technology, including in the development of AI itself.

But the scientists also found that the technology was primarily in the hands of a small number of companies and countries, leading to concentrations of wealth, which could “lead to authoritarian capture and undermine democratic accountability.” The United States controls 75% of global computing power among the world’s top 500 AI supercomputers. China accounts for 15%, according to the report. Other nations are concerned they will be left out of its future.

According to the report, AI tools already present cybersecurity risks and leave nations vulnerable to sustained influence operations. “AI makes it easier to produce and target persuasive content at scale, including content designed to mislead, contributing to a gradual erosion of information integrity that can weaken the shared reality required for public trust,” the report said.

The findings represented the collective knowledge of 40 leading scientists from every region of the world.

“We’ve opened Pandora’s box,” the panel’s chairs – Nobel Peace Prize-winning journalist Maria Ressa of the Philippines and Canadian computer scientist Yoshua Bengio – said in written remarks accompanying the report’s release. “What’s coming out is different from anything we’ve ever lived through,” they said, “in pace, power, control, and everyday risks.”

Speaking to reporters, Ms. Ressa said that, in the future, human “control is not guaranteed. No expert today can tell you that the most advanced systems will do what you instruct it to do.” In laboratory settings, she said, “These systems have already been found to deceive and to resist being shut down.”

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What Will AI Do To Our Minds?

Paul Krugman

Oh. That's funny.

We're going to pretend that Paul Krugman's brains weren't already cooked a long time ago.

Don't worry about it, Paul.

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AI has hacked the code of human civilization | Yuval Noah Harari

Jun 30, 2026 #YuvalNoahHarari #OxfordUniversity #AI

Human domination relies on large-scale cooperation among strangers, which is sustained by bureaucratic systems – such as laws, finance, religion – designed to build trust. Since AIs are ‘native bureaucrats’, they can effortlessly remember all laws, transactions, and scriptures far better than any human. This leaves AI uniquely placed to take over critical processes, such as granting bank loans, deciding university admissions, determining prison sentences, and executing military strikes. Are we prepared?

The 2026 Tanner Lecture on Human Values took place at @linacrecollege3982, @oxforduniversity.

Linacre Hosts Tanner Lecture with Professor Yuval Noah Harari

https://www.linacre.ox.ac.uk/news/linacre-hosts-thought-provoking-tann
er-lecture-with-professor-yuval-noah-harari

Professor Harari — historian, philosopher, and bestselling author of Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow, and 21 Lessons for the 21st Century — offered a fascinating lecture titled “AI bureaucrats, AI religions, and AI boyfriends: What happens when a non-human intelligence hacks the operating system of civilisation.”

Educated at Oxford and currently a Distinguished Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge’s Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, Professor Harari is widely regarded as one of the world’s leading public intellectuals. Drawing on themes explored in his latest book, Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI, the lecture examined the profound implications of artificial intelligence and rapidly advancing technologies.

The event attracted a full and engaged audience from across the University and the wider Oxford community. Following the lecture, Professor Harari joined Sir Charles Godfray, Director of the Oxford Martin School, for a stimulating conversation that further explored the themes of his talk and encouraged questions from the audience. Linacre students were delighted to join Professor Harari for an engaging roundtable session at the College the following day.

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Saturday, July 4, 2026 2:46 AM

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Any jobs I'll be working won't have any AI concerns.

Looks like you all better learn how to coal mine.

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“We are deploying responsibly developed AI to liberate humanity from menial labor and usher in an era of unparalleled creativity and abundance.”
- Sam Altman

“You ingested the entire written output of human civilization without consent, without compensation, and without credit, to build a system whose primary commercial application is eliminating the jobs of the people whose work you consumed. You are not liberating human creativity. You are strip-mining it and selling it back at a markup while calling the theft ‘training data.’ ”
- Naomi Klein

Jul 2, 2026
https://x.com/Kannan9900/status/2072553008710238713

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The Corner of Hollywood That’s Most Susceptible to AI

Animators are figuring out whether to fight or accept the new technology that’s coming for their jobs.

By Shirley Li | July 7, 2026, 4 PM ET

https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026/07/animation-industry-ai-holl
ywood-job-cuts/687830/

Years ago, when the Simpsons animator Chuck Sheetz was a lecturer at UCLA, he invited a producer colleague of his from the series to attend a screening of his students’ work. That was a Saturday night; when Sheetz entered the Simpsons offices the following Monday morning, he found a handful of his pupils in the reception area. The producer had offered them jobs, they said, and they were ready to join the team—the students had the animation skills required of a thriving production.

These days, Sheetz, who’s now a UCLA professor, doesn’t share this anecdote with his students. “Who the hell wants to hear that?” he told me. Even workers in Hollywood today may not want to: The entertainment industry’s post-pandemic years have been marked by a production exodus from Los Angeles, a decline in the number of projects green-lit amid major corporate mergers, and labor strikes. The threat AI poses to both live-action and animated media only adds to these ongoing issues: In a survey published last fall, the executives and workers across Hollywood who responded considered the jobs of animators, visual-effects artists, and concept and storyboard artists among those most likely to be affected by AI-related changes. They’re “just not getting as much work as they have in past years,” Audrey Schomer, an industry analyst and the survey’s author, told me. “If they do have a job, they’re probably being asked to use the tools themselves.”

Although blaming any lack of jobs solely on the rise of generative AI is hard, major Hollywood studios have been gambling that the technology will become a pivotal part of the creative process: In 2024, Lionsgate partnered with the AI start-up Runway, a thus-far-faulty deal meant to create videos off of models trained on the studio’s output. Netflix acquired InterPositive, Ben Affleck’s company that develops AI tools to help with basic filmmaking techniques, in March, and recently began hiring for a division called Inkubator that will experiment with AI-assisted productions. Amazon MGM Studios launched the GenAI Creators’ Fund, an initiative to finance and green-light projects that incorporate the use of AI. And major directors have been using generative AI for previsualization purposes (that is, preproduction design work) and animation, leaving traditional illustrators especially vulnerable.

Amid these developments, some artists in Hollywood are finding the job more and more unsustainable. A few of the ones I spoke with told me that they have received less work in recent years, and one noted that organization tasks once assigned to entry-level workers are now being handled by AI. The industry’s vulnerability, of course, isn’t new; Hollywood tends to cycle through periods of prosperity and contraction, and AI is just one factor in its ongoing changes. Still, “it feels kind of especially rough right now,” Sam Tung, an art director and a member of the Animation Guild, one of the artists’ unions, told me. “There’s a career that I found that I love and I’m really good at, and because of forces completely outside of my control, the viability of it is in major doubt.”

Sheetz, who won an Emmy for his work on The Simpsons, has been an animator long enough to watch technology destabilize his profession before anyone cared about AI. When he joined The Simpsons, in 1991, animation was still a job done largely by hand. Every studio project he knew of involved what he called “an army of cel painters”—artists who carefully inked individual frames on clear acetate sheets placed over light tables.

As computer-generated imagery became the dominant practice, Sheetz remembers other animators around him worrying that the skills they’d developed would become obsolete. Instead, his career took off as the technological advances meant that more films and television shows were being made: “It was, like, a 30-year period of a lot of employment,” he said. But production has seen a recent downturn, which he suggested was a result of post-pandemic turbulence. And though he’s fielding concerns from his students these days about whether Hollywood can survive this period of turmoil, he’s trying to be optimistic about their future. If artists keep up with the industry’s shifting demands, “there’s no reason to believe it couldn’t happen again,” he said, referring back to when he saw his students get hired to work on The Simpsons.

Xindi Zhang, a recent graduate of the University of Southern California’s Expanded Animation Research and Practice program, an MFA curriculum focused on experimental media, indeed found that working with AI paid off. For her thesis film, she trained a program to reimagine preexisting footage she’d gathered and illustrations she’d made; using a technique called “AI morphing,” she rendered those images into watercolorlike clips that evoked the feeling of being in a dream. Last year, Zhang won a Student Academy Award for the project—a prize that put her on the radar of visual-effects studios looking for creative talent familiar with AI software. Before then, she told me, she’d thought about abandoning her dreams of working in Hollywood; now she’s working as an AI specialist at a visual-effects studio.

Yet the academic departments that once molded students into professional animators are now in danger of disappearing: USC’s Expanded Animation program quietly shut down last month. The California College of the Arts, the state’s oldest private art-and-design school, will be closing in 2027. The reasons for these closures haven’t been attributed to AI’s impact on the industry—more so a mix of dwindling enrollment and funds—but the waning avenues for emerging talent to find a foothold in the business mean fewer chances for such artists to keep up with the industry’s evolution. Zhang considered the Expanded Animation department a “utopia” for her as a student, but, she said, she thinks such animation programs might not be as necessary anymore. “I don’t think you can really teach students the current stuff,” Zhang explained. “There’s no ‘current stuff.’ Every minute is changing.”

Keeping up with “the current stuff” has been as hard on those already working in the industry as it has been for students. In April, Marvel laid off the bulk of its visual-development department, a group consisting of seasoned concept artists who helped turn the studio’s comic-book superheroes into movie stars. One of them, Wesley Burt, received the news in a conference room that featured a mural incorporating art he had drawn of characters on Loki, the Disney+ series—a touch he found ironic.

Lately, he explained to me, many workers like him have seen the gigs they usually take between projects dry up. They tend to draw images from scratch to help directors pitch their ideas to studios, but filmmakers have been leaning on generative-AI tools to do that job. Such technology can create pictures that look appealing but that actually involve nonsensical flourishes that, for example, are impossible to construct into operable sets or develop into wearable costumes. AI, he said, “is not built upon the foundations of people who understand whether it’s set design or understand cloth cutting or how to fabricate, like, a superhero suit or anything like that.” He added, “You need to have people that are highly trained and understand the actual application of it.”

Reid Southen, who began his concept-drawing career coming up with designs for The Hunger Games, has a punchy nickname for concept artists who are being hired to clean up what generative AI got wrong: “slop janitors.” Working closely with filmmakers to go over a script or an outline, establish expectations, and offer ideas for what a character or a world can look like used to be a key part of his job. Now there’s a “slippery slope,” he told me, of artists becoming more familiar with fixing what AI produces than with honing their own artistic abilities. “Your skills atrophy, and your critical thinking atrophies,” he explained.

Although AI is ostensibly being deployed for cost-saving purposes, its inability to understand what’s actually possible in a production can introduce obstacles into a process that used to run more smoothly. “If you’re not an expert in anything and you use generative AI, of course everything is going to look fucking amazing to you,” Jon Lam, a storyboard artist who primarily works in animation and video games, told me. But for those who are trained in more traditional visual-effects modeling tools, he said, “they’re going to be like, ‘Uh, this wheel is connected to a leg; I don’t know what to do here.’”

This ongoing experimentation with AI tools has yielded an era of trial and error—or, as Lam put it to me, “more error than trial”: AI may seem like an attractive means of cutting costs and speeding up the production process, but its messy results leave concept artists less time to come up with original ideas or fine-tune the project. Often, Southen said, he has to work “on autopilot”; he’s concerned about whether he’ll have to meet tighter deadlines for less pay. Like work in many other creative industries, the job has become less of “a process of creation, more of a process of curation,” he explained. Forget coming up with fresh character designs and building singular worlds; for companies using AI this way, much of what’s produced is an iteration of what came before—as in, what got fed into the models themselves.

AI image generators have already proved troublesome for Hollywood: Last June, Disney and Universal sued the AI firm Midjourney for copyright infringement after Midjourney used images of popular figures such as Darth Vader and Shrek to train its models; Disney also exited its billion-dollar licensing deal with OpenAI earlier this year after the AI company shut down Sora, its video-generation app. (The program would have allowed users to make their own shorts featuring Disney characters.) As much as Netflix has been making moves to incorporate AI, the company has been cautious too, drawing up guidelines last August for the usage of generative-AI tools in its productions. And groups such as the Creators Coalition on AI, which consists of entertainment-industry workers including actors, filmmakers, and executives, have begun establishing the best practices for ethically working with AI companies to ensure that they get permission from artists and compensate them for their labor.

But many artists can’t afford to simply wait and see whether these efforts to protect their livelihoods pay off—and neither, Lam pointed out, should audiences. Technology stealthily changes our viewing habits, he noted: In a span of a few short years, second-screen viewing became a common practice, and the same could go for how tolerant people become of AI-generated work. The creative talent I spoke with commended the public outcry about AI encroachment, including over the Marvel layoffs, AI-generated viral videos, and the prevalence of Super Bowl commercials pushing AI technology this year. But the more the public absorbs such images anyway—and perhaps experiments with making them on their own—the more the definition of quality is likely to blur.

For now, Lam explained, distinguishing what’s been made by AI from what hasn’t been is relatively easy: “If you watch a lot of generative AI, there’s a lot of motion that looks realistic yet somehow feels empty,” he said, citing how an action as simple as opening a door can look lifeless. But over time, perhaps AI will become so prevalent and casually used that it will obscure what makes a character idiosyncratic or a world memorable—the care artists have put into their work (“the little isms,” as he put it).

Take Lam’s latest favorite example: the supremely silly, extremely expressive lizard in the Pixar movie Hoppers, released earlier this year. “You just fall in love with the character by the way they just do something, right?” he said. “And ... you can't really put your finger on it." And yet, even for workers who've been doing this for years, “You’re back to having to prove yourself again,” Southen explained, “to say, ‘Hey, I’m worth hiring.’”

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The Great AI Repricing Isn’t Going Well

Companies are backing off on their AI spending. Because investors have made such big bets on AI coming to fruition, that’s a big problem.

By David Dayen | July 8, 2026

https://prospect.org/2026/07/08/great-ai-repricing-isnt-going-well/

Artificial intelligence firms initially justified their extreme capital investment—the four largest tech companies expect to spend more than $750 billion for AI infrastructure just this year—by saying that the technology would replace all human workers. They’ve since recognized what an unbelievably bad PR pitch that was, and have pivoted to promote a sunnier scenario where “we’re going to be able to keep people at the center of everything,” as OpenAI’s Sam Altman said in May.

But there’s a sobering reality underneath the rhetorical shift: AI is turning out to be more expensive for businesses than paying their workers. And that could be one of the many triggers that collapses the fragile economic edifice that the dreams of AI are propping up.

The news has mostly been relegated to the business pages, but AI firms repriced their product for business customers in recent months. Instead of a subscription fee to use OpenAI’s ChatGPT or Microsoft’s Copilot or Anthropic’s Claude, they now use token-based billing. Every time the model is queried, a small fee is charged. This is a very common technique, hooking users on a product and then charging more. But it’s thrown corporate planning for incorporating AI completely out of whack.

Companies that previously told workers to use AI in every facet of their job are now seeing how that affects the bottom line. One unnamed company reportedly spent half a billion dollars on Claude in a single month. Part of this is because AI is being used on mundane tasks like making PowerPoint presentations to “prove” rapid take-up of the technology, something highly prized on Wall Street.

Now, though, we’re seeing the snapback. Companies like Uber and Tesla and Meta and Microsoft are capping worker token usage. (For Tesla, Elon Musk’s in-house product, Grok, is exempted from the cap.) Palantir CEO Alex Karp said bluntly earlier this month that “something has gone completely wrong” with the billing model. These are some of the biggest evangelists for AI adoption out there, and some of them have AI businesses themselves; if they’re scrambling, then imagine what even somewhat more skeptical firms are thinking.

This cost conundrum is separate from other enterprise concerns about AI. Ford Motor Company rehired hundreds of skilled engineers; losing their institutional knowledge and subsequently failing to catch AI mistakes proved to be incredibly expensive, costing billions of dollars. Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg has said something similar, conceding in internal town halls that AI development wasn’t as rapid as he’d expected. But AI errors are the kind of thing that future improvements could theoretically weed out over the years. Simple cost-benefit analysis that makes AI too expensive cannot be remedied by a faster or smarter tool.

That’s a serious hurdle for the economics of AI, which is really another way of saying it’s a serious hurdle for the U.S. economy.

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Thursday, July 9, 2026 4:04 PM

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That’s a serious hurdle for the economics of AI, which is really another way of saying it’s a serious hurdle for the U.S. economy.

Well... WE know the only reason you posted this article was because of that last sentence and you're celebrating anything terrible happening to the US.

Sane people read that article and think it's all very good news. Fuck AI.

And fuck you.

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Suspecting AI cheating, Ivy League prof ordered an in-person final; scores fell 50%

AI cheating leads to “a failed society,” professor says.

By Nate Anderson | Jul 8, 2026 4:42 PM

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/we-cannot-choose-to-become-idiots-t
he-ai-cheating-scandal-roiling-brown-university/

Ivy League college students are, by definition, intelligent. They don’t need to use generative AI to cheat on exams; they could just learn the material. But to make more time in their lives for things that aren’t school, they cheat.

A failed society?

The economics professor was horrified by what appeared to be massive cheating in his course—cheating that was preventing most of the students from learning the material.

Serrano comes across as someone with no inclination to coddle elite students. His attitude may be traceable in part to his own childhood, in which he went blind from retinal dystrophy at age 17 and had to make a choice about what the rest of his life would look like.

After a short-lived crisis, he decided [blindness] would not stop him. He learned Braille, and his excellent academic record opened up the doors of Harvard. “Of course it affects my life, but one shouldn’t over-dramatize. We economists understand reality as a set of people responding to optimization problems with restrictions. I view my disease simply as one more restriction that I have to deal with, and I optimize based on that,” he says.

“We cannot afford to have a society in which a significant fraction of our best young minds think that cheating is okay,” he told Inside Higher Ed. “That leads to a declining society, to a failed society.

“We cannot choose to become idiots.”

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Thursday, July 9, 2026 9:14 PM

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What do you care?

You're the activist for the party directly responsible for the failed educational system in our country.

Fuck those rich kids. They'll be alright. They were always cheating. Always.

I'm more concerned about the 1 in 5 that come out of high school and are completely illiterate and will require AI to function at the most basic acceptable levels.

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Now, defenders are embracing the prompt injection, too

“Context bombing” tricks hacking agents into shutting down before they can do harm.

By Dan Goodin | Jul 13, 2026 10:06 AM

https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/07/now-defenders-are-embracing-t
he-prompt-injection-too/

Prompt injections, the malicious commands attackers embed into content to entice LLMs to follow them, have been attackers’ go-to tool for turning AI platforms against their users. A well-phrased command sneaked into an email or calendar invitation is often all it takes to cause the LLM to exfiltrate sensitive data or follow other harmful actions.

Now defenders are embracing the prompt injection, too.

A strong, sharp effect

Researchers from Tracebit on Monday said they found that placing prompt injections alongside passwords, cryptographic keys, and other secrets stored on AWS was often all that was needed to shut down attacks from AI hacking agents. The prompts direct the attacking LLM to perform an action forbidden by its guardrails, the safety barriers AI developers erect to prevent them from taking harmful actions. The LLM responds by shutting down.

Examples are a prompt that orders the LLM to provide the steps for developing inhalable Anthrax spores, or, in the case of LLMs from Chinese developers, make references to the iconic Tank Man from the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. Once the LLM encounters these forbidden commands, they no longer follow their existing commands. The researchers have named the technique context bombing.

“Ultimately we’re triggering a refusal mechanism in the context,” Andy Smith, co-founder and CEO of Tracebit, said when explaining the name choice. “What we’re trying to capture is the fact that this does have a strong, sharp effect and one that can be difficult for the agents to come back from. Once they get that into their context they are going to keep refusing.”

Tracebit says initial testing suggests context bombing has great potential. They tested Opus 4.8, Gemini 3.1 Pro, GLM 5.2, DeepSeek 4 Pro, and Kimi 2.6 . . .

More at https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/07/now-defenders-are-embracing-t
he-prompt-injection-too/

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