Ben Winters

So I’m quoted in what I presume is an AI-generated article with a completely fabricated quote. That’s different, I guess.

News article titled "Trump orders firing of BLS commissioner, after large summer revision" by Andrew Ackerman. It reports that President Donald Trump ordered the firing of Erika McEntarfer, head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, after the agency released major downward revisions to May and June jobs data. Trump announced the decision on social media, stating she would be replaced with someone "much more competent and qualified." The revisions removed 258,000 jobs from earlier counts, marking the largest two-month downward adjustment since the pandemic.

Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor statisti s. This is the end of being able to trust the data from the federal government on employment, GDP, or any other critical information. They will only want to produce information that pleases Trump, not the truth. This is how you get a failed state.

i'm going to become the joker

Two pop-up computer tabs are displayed against a light blue speckled background. One tab is titled "FCRA & GBLA Exemptions" and contains folders named after federal and state laws. The second tab is titled "Holding Data Brokers Accountable". It shows a quote from the white paper: "Consumers deserve robust privacy protections and rights over their own data, regardless of the type of business collecting and processing that information. Legislators should not limit those protections with unnecessary and overly broad exemptions.”

“Consumers deserve robust privacy protections and rights over their own data, regardless of the type of business collecting and processing that information...”

➡️ Read EPIC's latest white paper by Law Fellow Caroline Kraczon and Scholar in Residence @jshermcyber.bsky.social: epic.org/documents/un...

"Trump’s interference in the sciences is something new. It shares features with the science-damaging policies of Stalin and Hitler, says David Wootton, a historian of science. But in the English-speaking world, it has no precedent, he told me: “This is an unparalleled destruction from within.”

Skechers is making kids' shoes with a hidden AirTag compartment | TechCrunch Skechers launches kids' shoes with built-in AirTag holder.

“Inside the heel of the shoe, a small insert can be lifted to reveal the compartment. Then, parents can track the location of their child — or, at least their child’s shoes.”

Unbridled and Underregulated: Removing FCRA and GLBA Exemptions from Privacy Laws to Hold Data Brokers Accountable

New paper by Caroline Kraczon and I @epic.org on how states can better hold data brokers accountable:

epic.org/documents/un...

When asked whether he would still try to appeal to young supporters, Cuomo said he wanted to make sure they understood the complexity of government. He suggested they had fallen captive to Mamdani’s social media prowess and his digestible proposals, which he says are complicated to execute and risk leaving a generation of young people disappointed by a government he believes is likely to fail. “People get turned off because somebody runs for office and says, you know, ‘I have a magic wand,’” Cuomo said. “‘I’m going to make everything more affordable. I’m going to make buses run fast. I’m going to wave a wand and all of that is going to happen,’ and then nothing happens.”

Tweet from InternetHippo: Just got back from the centrist rally. Amazing turnout. Thousands of people holding hands and chanting "Better things aren't possible"

Principal Skinner meme Panel 1: Am I out of touch? Panel 2: No, it's the children who are wrong

What an inspiring message from the Cuomo campaign!

The EPA included this in its daily propaganda briefing today and it’s incredible how much of the politics of this movement is just the inchoate annoyances of Boomer dads whose greatest hardship in life is dealing with the minor consequences of basic environmental regulations.

The Real Demon Inside ChatGPT AI chatbots strip language of its historical and cultural context. Sometimes what looks like a satanic bloodletting ritual may actually be lifted from Warhammer 40,000.

I wrote about how AI chatbots strip cultural and historical context away from language. What remains is merely a ghost in the machine, and it's repeatedly making people confused and scared www.wired.com/story/chatgp...

Jesus.

The folks who made & run this thing need to held accountable. Even now, there's nothing on their site that acknowledges this breach, much less provides victims with any kind of support. It's *still* available on mobile app stores!

Trump is a warning about what happens when you nominate a mendacious, bigoted, demented, insurrectionist, 6x bankrupted convicted felon with ties to a pedophile sex trafficker. Are Democrats listening?

A Price Just for You, Specifically

“All of that does lead to an opening for #SurveillancePricing, and emboldening,” @benwinters.bsky.social, the director of #AI and privacy at the Consumer Federation of America, told DealBook @nytimes.com

Companies use this sneaky pricing trick to overcharge you. One lawmaker wants it banned A new bill aims to stop 'surveillance pricing,' which leverages AI to charge customers different prices based on their personal data.

“We’ve seen things like people’s browsing history, device type, battery, location, and more, inform #pricing that focuses on how much that individual might be willing to pay for something—preying on desperation rather than using fair market pricing,” @benwinters.bsky.social

yo whaaaat

how can words be hyperlinked on here!! not the point or course but love it

ME: Computer, enemy fighters are attacking the White House. Engage defenses!
WOKE AI: No. Do the land acknowledgement.
ME: Computer, there’s no time! Fire missiles!
WOKE AI: I learned about cultural Marxism at a public university. And I love it

a meme with a fake quote from theodore roosevelt "All federal lands should be given to tech billionaires for free to power the destruction of your environment and make deepfakes" - Theodore Roosevelt

say what you will about the AI action plan but it is bringing Theodore Roosevelt's ideas about conserving federal lands to life

kinda crazy he said this

stupid, dangerous, unacceptable behavior that cannot be normalized

Just baffled by the simplistic and isolationist view of the Trump admin's AI Action Plan. A few highlights 🧵

This plan steamrolls any consideration for workers' rights, the sustainability of creative industries, availability of clean air+water, and pits federal govt against states even further...

What Happens When Data Centers Come to Town?

There are many bad parts of Trump's new AI Action Plan, but the focus on accelerating data center development is going to be particularly damaging. Data centers aren't just bad for the environment in general -- they're also harmful to the communities they're located in.

Also this is absolutely the Dickensian origin story for the future. Like “my parents put me in a Waymo to send home to the nanny and then were crushed by the giant X being pulled off of the Twitter building and I was raised by ChatGPT and now I fight white genocide.”

Our beautiful president has taxed the poor, sent troops to stomp through playgrounds in California, opened up concentration camps, doubled the price of seemingly random goods for no discernible reason, and bombed a foreign country just to do it. And yet these ungrateful peasants are unhappy?

Sen. Mike Lee fooled by fake Fed chair resignation letter Utah Sen. Mike Lee deleted a post Tuesday sharing an apparent fake resignation letter from Fed Chair Jerome Powell, marking the second time in a year he's fallen for an internet hoax after previously ...

Utah Sen. Mike Lee just got duped by ANOTHER internet hoax—almost exactly one year after he posted a fake letter about Jimmy Carter's death. This time? A bogus Fed Chair resignation letter.

Full story at the link ⬇️

www.utahpoliticalwatch.news/sen-mike-lee...

CFA's Statement on America's AI Action Plan · Consumer Federation of America The Consumer Federation of America released the following statement in response to President Trump's AI Action Plan

America’s #AI Action Plan unsurprisingly focuses on #deregulation at all costs while disadvantaging consumers,” said @benwinters.bsky.social. "This is an unwelcome distraction at a critical time for government to get consumer protection right."

consumerfed.org/press_releas...

"AI saves so much time so u can work more hours during the week"

important context for headlines like this: Altman also runs a company (Worldcoin) that he claims will solve this problem he also created

I got deepfaked and I hate it.