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#TBOT 11: AI Companions Worse Than Porn, Why Your Word Doc Never Looks Right, Deep Sea Desalination, Find the Perfect XMPP Provider
Here are our stories for the week: AI Companions Worse Than Porn: People are turning to artificial intelligence for companionship, seeking emotional connection. AI companies are more than happy to supply this new drug, realizing personalized AI brings the most user engagement. A new Meta leak shows companies adopting a more […]
Palantir for Cars (Flock Cameras) Roll Out in US Hardware Stores
Have you driven to the hardware store recently? If you have, your car may be in a searchable database thanks to Flock cameras. Have you driven to the hardware store recently? If you have, your car may be in a searchable database thanks to Flock cameras. Read on to get a list of […]
China’s Industrial Robots are Changing Manufacturing
China is leading the world in industrial robots or programmable machines that are pioneering fast and cost-effective manufacturing. China currently holds over 50% of the world market share in industrial robots capable of assembly, production line handling, service tasks, machine feeding, palletizing, packaging, and more. Automation is fueling Chinese manufacturing […]
Gates Foundation: “Digital IDs are an effective tool against poverty”
It looks like we can add another to the growing mountain of problems that digital IDs are going to solve for all of us. We already know that digital IDs will help counter populism, and illegal immigration, and crime, and benefit fraud, and terrorism, and pandemics. But they’ll help tackle […]
New Leak Uncovers AI Assisted Mass Censorship on Facebook
Are governments weaponizing AI to reshape public discourse and whitewash their crimes? Whistleblowers at Meta’s Integrity Organization have shared data with International Corruption Watch (ICW), revealing evidence of a mass censorship strategy abusing Meta’s reporting system. Normal Takedown Process Meta’s public description of this pipeline is available at https://transparency.meta.com/enforcement/detecting-violations/how-enforcement-technology-works. Prioritizing Government Requests Governments […]
President Trump’s War on “Woke AI” Is a Civil Liberties Nightmare
The White House’s recently-unveiled “AI Action Plan” wages war on so-called “woke AI”—including large language models (LLMs) that provide information inconsistent with the administration’s views on climate change, gender, and other issues. It also targets measures designed to mitigate the generation of racial and gender biased content and even hate speech. […]
This Is What Technocracy Actually Looks Like
As everyone learns about technocracy, the management of society by technical experts, or so-called social engineering, it may be difficult to discern when it is being executed. The concept of technocracy has been around since the early 20th century, peaking in the 1930s. But without the advancement of today’s technology, how was technocracy implemented […]
AI Is a Mirror in Which We See Our Own Reflection
AI is not so much a tool that everyone uses in more or less the same way, but a mirror in which we see our own reflection–if we care to look. Attention has been riveted on what AI can do for the three years since the unveiling of ChatGPT, but very […]
A 2025 Assessment: The Emerging Artificial Intelligence Threat
The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) has been alarmingly rapid since 2022. Before then, AI was considered little more than a plaything or a novelty. But now it is transforming businesses, wiping out entire categories of office jobs, and threatening human liberty. The first practical release of the Claude AI code-writing […]
#TBOT 10: Meta’s Content AI Abused By Governments, Police Surveillance at Your Hardware Store, Build Your Own Pay Phone, Private FOSS Keyboard
Watch on Substack Here’s the stories for the week: Meta’s Content AI Abused by Governments: An anonymous group has released the first part of their data leak analysis from Meta’s Integrity Labs. They allege that Meta’s reporting system was abused to minimize discussion around Palestine in the wake of October 7th. […]
