Bobby Allyn

The name Sora will hit different for criminal lawyers in NY, since a “Sora hearing,” a very common type of hearing, is a reference to the state’s sexual offender registration act

Legal experts condemn Apple bowing to White House's request to remove ICE tracking app It's the latest example of tech giants bowing to pressure from the Trump administration. Legal experts say the developer of the app has free speech rights that may have been violated.

Apple bowing to Trump admin’s pressure on ICEBlock invites even more jawboning, says @gshans.bsky.social.

"Compliance will only incentivize further government demands."

www.npr.org/2025/10/03/n...

Kiss reality goodbye: AI-generated social media has arrived With the launch of Sora 2, OpenAI has opened a new chapter in addictive, and some worry dangerous, AI video content.

my colleague @gbrumfiel.bsky.social did a great story looking at how Sora’s AI slop machine can collapse our collective sense of reality and create wildly new disinfo problems www.npr.org/2025/10/03/n...

all the videos here were from
prompts i created.

see some on here upset that i’m experimenting with the capacity and limits of new ai, which is part of my job!

i’m just sharing the raw results because it’s interesting and very telling to see how Sora responds to various ridiculous prompts.

😢

jake paul telling me to please stop doing this

me getting arrested outside of erewhon

me walking into Canyon Coffee in LA

bob ross painting my face

@taylorlorenz.bsky.social stealing american flags and MAGA hats from a corner store through cctv footage

tupac dancing to ambient music

princes diana doing parkour

kurt cobain playing pogs

Sora has consumed too much of my
last few days, but here’s my favorite slop

suppose it’s just cost the cost of being a prompt genius tho!!

if @katienotopoulos.bsky.social had to pay the energy bill for her day on Sora, she’d need a mortgage banker

Google tells me that earlier today it removed apps similar to ICEBlock from Google Play stores for “violations of our policies,” but didn’t specify the apps

Apple yanked ICEBlock from App Stores today after DOJ pressure

Google says that app was never on Google Play but made a similar crackdown

since new Sora dropped i’ve asked Brick to expedite my order

how are the air conditioners doing at OAI data centers rn?

Bot Networks Are Helping Drag Consumer Brands Into the Culture Wars AI tools have made coordinated attacks targeting corporations much more common, researchers say.

“Bots or likely bots authored 44.5% of X posts mentioning Cracker Barrel in the 24 hours after the new logo gained attention on Aug. 20, according to research for ⁦‪@WSJ‬⁩ by PeakMetrics. That number rose to 49% among posts calling for a boycott.”

YouTube agrees to pay Trump $24 million to settle lawsuit over Jan. 6 suspension YouTube is the latest social media company to pay Trump tens of millions of dollars to resolve lawsuits brought before he returned to power. The money will fund a new ballroom at the White House.

"This is straight influence-peddling," said @ericgoldman.bsky.social "This YouTube settlement is not a sign of any legal merit."

www.npr.org/2025/09/29/n...

With Comey prosecution, Trump fulfills promise of revenge President Donald Trump’s predecessors sought to preserve the Justice Department’s independence in political prosecutions. Trump openly intervened in the Comey prosecution.

“Trump’s eagerness to use the power of government to silence critics, punish opponents and reward loyalists is unparalleled since the Watergate scandal”

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Trump's TikTok deal payment criticized as 'shakedown scheme' by experts The U.S. government will collect a multibillion-dollar fee from the American investors who will take over TikTok. Some experts call the fee and other deals like it "extortion."

NEW: The Trump admin asking TikTok investors for a multibillion-dollar payment to US is the latest extractive “fee for service” from WH.

"These are shakedown schemes…I'd even call it extortion…Privately, CEOs are horrified."

www.npr.org/2025/09/26/g...
w/ @davidfolkenflik.bsky.social

In the US, at least. More than 90% of TikTok users are outside of the US!

"The law’s sponsors “told us that their main motivation was propaganda, and by shifting the app to more friendly, politically-aligned owners, my worry is that we’ve introduced a different kind of propaganda concern"

Wait! This is a big deal:

Trump's EO says "the divestiture puts the operation of the algorithms and code, as well as content-moderation decisions, under the control of the new joint venture."

Ellison family also in charge of TikTok's content moderation??

The TikTok deal & algorithm licensing arrangement are about to get tons of attention. But the algo is just personalized linear algebra. More crucial thing is content moderation — who's doing it, what the rules are, what enforcement looks like. AI slop & disinfo is absolutely rampant on the platform

he's a PR guy who monetizes rage against the big AI company and quietly reps tech companies with AI products and services, nothing to see here folks, nothing to see, move right along

"The Ellison family is cornering the market on attention and data the way the Vanderbilts did railroads and the Rockefellers did oil."