Megan McIntyre

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Apparently, capital markets are "the world" now: "'The world gets to make this decision, not [AI] companies,' Clark told me, seated cross-legged on his chair, and 'the system of capital markets says, Go faster.'"

Latest ChatGPT model uses Elon Musk’s Grokipedia as source, tests reveal Guardian found OpenAI’s platform cited Grokipedia on topics including Iran and Holocaust deniers

So glad this is being used in schools and universities.

When you need a legendary rock star to do the absolute weirdest thing, accept no substitutes: make it Neil Young. bsky.app/profile/raws...

Please Don’t Say Mean Things about the AI That I Just Invested a Billion Dollars In “[Nvidia CEO] Jensen Huang Is Begging You to Stop Being So Negative About AI” — Headline from Gizmodo - - — Guys, enough is enough. Bullying is a s...

"Please, just use my evil technology. What’s so wrong with that? Just use it. I’m begging you. I want to continue living my immoral technofascist life without any criticism."

Court filings: Mark Zuckerberg approved allowing minors to access AI chatbot companions that safety staffers warned were capable of sexual interactions (Jeff Horwitz/Reuters)

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Microsoft Pledged to Save Water. In the A.I. Era, It Expects Water Use to Soar.

"Microsoft’s water usage was expected to be particularly significant in areas already facing water crises."

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.”

That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

now hold on just one minute. when I signed on to work for a creepy right-wing surveillance company named after seeing stones used by the dark lord Sauron to manipulate and control others in an attempt to enslave the free people of middle earth I had no idea we might do some evil.

That's why I keep saying that these products are trash! They are literally a scam, little more than vaporware, actual garbage meant to extract as much money from gullible consumers as possible before being orphaned, because the tech grifters have learned there are no consequences for lying.

Using disabled people as cover is a classic move in a wide variety of realms: Don't fall for it! (Also ftr I have sensory sensitivity & find loud sustained noises stressful but I also live in a society & care about my neighbors. There ways to manage that don't require suppressing community care.)

This is a TERRIBLE idea.

this is a fake problem. no one is saying this to regular, offline people who are coming around. they’re saying it to people who are engaged in professional political analysis who committed professional malpractice by scolding people who saw what was coming.

no, those people shouldn’t get a break.

I have hearing aids that don’t record. It’s an easier and less heavy technology for it. Our assistive tech shouldn’t be surveillance tech, and, if it is, it should be rejected for our own safety and others. We have the tech to do better by disabled people than Meta glasses.

When Big Tech tells you that they aren't keeping your data to sell you things, never, ever believe them.

Giving your healthcare info to a chatbot is, unsurprisingly, a terrible idea ChatGPT Health promises privacy. All you have is OpenAI’s word.

“Even if you trust a company’s vow to safeguard your data — OpenAI says it encrypts Health data by default — it might just change its mind.”

In our conservative estimate, 41 percent of Grok’s images — or 1.8 million — were sexualized depictions of women. Separately, CCDH analyzed how many were sexualized images across genders and ages. Their findings: an estimated 3 million images, including more than 23,000 of children.

Amazon's Ring to partner with Flock, a network of AI cameras used by ICE, feds, and police | TechCrunch Agencies that use Flock can request that Ring doorbell users share footage to help with "evidence collection and investigative work."

It was inevitable.

Calling all the PhDs I know to make monumental annoyances of themselves (and honestly, who better)

YOUR RING CAMERA IS AN ICE AGENT [a drawing of a ring camera with an ice agent dragging a person away in its field of vision] "In October of 2025, Amazon's Ring announced its partnership with FLOCK, an A.I. surveillance group that freely shares its footage with ICE, the secret service, and the navy. Flock customers can use A.I. tools to sift through footage to assist in all manner of operations (like raids and deportations) without a warrant. Unplug Ring! Melt ICE! Protect your neighbors! See: https://blog.ring.com/about-ring/ring-expands-community-requests-to-additional-community-safety-partners/ https://www.404media.co/ice-secret-service-navy-all-had-access-to-flocks-nationwide-network-of-cameras/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pp9MwZkHiMQ https://www.aclum.org/campaigns-initiatives/get-the-flock-out-resource-guide/

jack asked if i would sketch up a poster to tell people in nearby neighborhoods about the partnership between flock and ring, and this is what i came up with. it can be printed on an 8.5x11 sheet of paper.

Arkansas set to impose nation’s strictest ban on sending books, magazines to prisons | Arkansas Democrat Gazette A ban on sending books and magazines to inmates in Arkansas prisons goes into effect Feb. 1, putting into place the strictest regulations in the country on sending outside publications to the incarcer...

A ban on sending books and magazines to prisoners in Arkansas prisons goes into effect Feb. 1, putting into place the strictest regulations in the country on sending outside publications to the incarcerated

Library of Babel Group logo with hexagon pattern.

Just a reminder to consider the Library of Babel Group. We have projects afoot and opportunities to network with like-minded folks. www.law.georgetown.edu/privacy-tech...

Just your reminder that even if there are good uses for a technology, that doesn’t justify mass surveillance and data gathering. We should demand tech that coincides with our values, and shun tech that doesn’t.

It would take a two-word amendment to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 to subject ICE agents and other federal law enforcement officers to the same liability for constitutional violations that local and state officers currently face.

If Congress actually cared about what it's seeing, it could pass that overnight.

Grok Is Generating About 'One Nonconsensual Sexualized Image Per Minute' Elon Musk’s chatbot Grok keeps churning out nonconsenual images of women and minors in bikinis and lingerie, outraging users and regulators

Just how bad is Grok's nonconsensual porn problem? Musk's AI chatbot is generating another sexualized image of someone without their permission every single minute:

"We're not pressuring you to integrate AI into your courses. We're just inviting you to play with it!"
This is an intentional rhetorical move designed to obscure the very real harms of LLMs. You're not consuming water or exploiting workers and artists; you're just playing!

Teach the ways AI and its political economy are an extension of a longer history of environmental racism.

I may have, uh, suggested that this should…have some discussion with parents and guardians. I truly don’t want the kid in question to start thinking in ai prompts when their brain IS STILL LEARNING HOW TO HUMAN. This is easily as important to me as permission for sex ed classes.

This is a catastrophe.

1. Devices are as important to regulate as pharmaceuticals.

2. The market is notoriously bad at determining safety, accuracy, and which technologies are in the public interest.

3. Even when the market does tell us when a tech is bad, it does so *after it has caused harm*.

ICE Is Using a New Facial Recognition App to Identify People, Leaked Emails Show The new tool, called Mobile Fortify, uses the CBP system which ordinarily takes photos of people when they enter or exit the U.S., according to internal ICE emails viewed by 404 Media. Now ICE is usin...

The original story: www.404media.co/ice-is-using...