Transcription: OpenAgents Episode 154 - Agentic OSINT

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[00:00] Speaker: In episode 146, we talked about drones and how AI might help make sense of what's going on with these drones. And it's time to revisit that topic now that apparently the Cybertruck Las Vegas bomber guy released a manifesto talking about drones and gravitic propulsion systems, some operated by China. You need to elevate this to the media to avoid a World War because this is mutually assured. OK, so we're at the point where we really need to know what's actually going on. So that Sean Ryan video made the rounds. Now responses and rebuttals are making the rounds, saying that this is part of some PSYOP. So I don't know what the truth is here. There's a whole bunch of information flying all over the place. So I'm glad that we have X as this like public square where you don't really have to worry about censorship, at least in discussing these kinds of topics. But the fact that there's community nodes doesn't necessarily help me make sense of all of this information because no one, I mean, no one's really putting everything together in one kind of holistic picture. And context matters. I was originally, when I first saw this stuff, I was thinking that it was potentially legit or scary. And maybe this is right. And maybe I should look into Gravotics. But now, stepping back, looking at some of the broader context, watching this thing from Walter Kern a couple of weeks ago, the picture is starting to shift, at least in my head now, or like, this might be more like a PSYOP. If you were the U.S. deep state intent on not letting Trump take away your power, and you had no qualms about doing whatever was necessary to prevent that, maybe, you know, there could be all sorts of shady stuff going on. We might not be able to arrive at the truth of what's going on, given there's going to be secrets all over the place. But I remember reading back when Russia first invaded Ukraine, I got familiar with this community and concept called OSINT, or Open Source Intelligence. And I remember reading somewhere they said that something like 80% of the intelligence that goes into decision-making is actually publicly available, even among governments. A lot of information is publicly available. So if we have access to that 80%, assuming we can kind of make sense of it, some sort of crowdsourced, what I now think should be a data marketplace, I think could more quickly make sense of this. Right now, people are kind of at least having an incentive to optimize for getting clicks and engagement on X. And so I think truth-seeking is not really the highest value of this platform. At least the incentives for creators are to kind of do engagement bait. So that probably skews things in a direction away from truth, maybe. But I think that there's room here for an organized effort to arrive at truth. And this is a great kind of practice for us at Open Agents, because one of the things that agents need to be able to do in this kind of expanded vision that we have of a decentralized network of agents is make sense of the world and to have these sort of open knowledge graphs that agents can tap into, that communities can contribute to. And I think that this issue and wanting to know what the hell is going on with drones would be a great kind of forcing function or a reason or a use case to build out some of this infrastructure. Okay, so I fed the transcript of the drone video, I think episode 146 of ours, into ChatGPT to see what 01 Pro thought about it. And my prompt was, you know, read this transcript, then help me flesh out the idea of agentic OSINT agency to have AI agents help figure out with drones, enabling people to earn money for truth-seeking slash sharing info. Refined it a little bit there. Okay, so below is a revised high-level blueprint for an agentic OSINT agency, a decentralized AI-powered platform that focuses on sense-making in high-misinformation environments. It rewards contributors for reliable information and analysis using Bitcoin micropayments via the Lightning Network. We'll move beyond a single event like drone sightings. This system aims to handle any emerging story where facts are murky and psychological operations or disinformation efforts are rampant. The vision, purpose, crowdsource and validate information, gather eyewitness accounts, videos, local reports, official statements, blah, blah, blah. So let's just get through this. Reward truth-seekers, incentivizing people to submit verifiable intel, credibility check, maintain a public knowledge graph, enable AI agents to investigate, system overview, core components, knowledge graph and database, AI agent modules, data ingestion, scraping data, entity extraction agent, summarization and hypothesis agent, blah, blah, blah, front-end interface. Okay, so I'm thinking, even though I've been enjoying writing stuff in Rust, maybe the backend should be Python. Maybe this should be like a Flask app. Maybe something that would be easy for people to contribute to. I'll think more about that appropriate tech stack. So I definitely want this to hook into Onyx. We already have a mobile app, so we'll use that. And I may actually just use Expo web app to get a website up and then have the backend be either Python or Rust. I'll figure that out. Okay, conclusion. The agentic OSINT agency, named to be DED, aims to establish a Bitcoin-powered, AI-assisted, and community-driven platform for real-time sense-making in a disinformation-heavy landscape. By harnessing a shared knowledge graph, specialized AI agents, and BTC micropayments to reward reliable intel, the platform aspires to create a more transparent, resilient, and crowdsourced approach to uncovering truth, where hype and propaganda can be countered with verifiable evidence and open collaboration. Yeah, this will be great practice. I mean, this is needed to be built. And then just squaring it with what we're trying to do generally with OpenAgents. Once we can build a sort of crowdsourced knowledge graph for topics that are newsworthy, that'll kind of bootstrap a market that we can then use that for other use cases and continue on with our plan to conquer the business world and absorb all enterprise value into the agentic economy and take a big piece of that. But if we can do some good along the way, help make sense of all this bullshit, that would be helpful. Okay, I'll build some stuff for this over the weekend, and I'll put up a little website, probably like a page on the OpenAgents website for the OSINT agency. Monday-ish. See you soon.