Read an article (in a hobbyist magazine) where someone says "ChatGPT says..." and all I can do is grimace.

(ChatGPT doesn't "know" anything, it just writes whatever stimulates its neural network based on whatever random training material it has been trained with. That is not definitive, or correct, without validation).

#AI

New development in Elon Musk’s trial against Sam Altman. A federal court in Oakland, Calif., heard a former OpenAI employee and board member say the company’s efforts to push AI products into the marketplace compromised its commitment to AI safety. @Techcrunch has more:

https://flip.it/mdNnjq

#Tech #AI #Musk #Altman #OpenAI #Technolgy #ArtificialIntelligence

Yet, we still don't have money for childcare or education...

ICE Plans to Develop Own Smart Glasses to ‘Supplement’ Its Facial Recognition App

https://www.404media.co/ice-plans-to-develop-own-smart-glasses-to-supplement-its-facial-recognition-app/

#ICE #DHS #SmartGlasses #FacialRecognition #AI #ACAB #Tech

Ubuntu’s X account was briefly compromised to promote a fake AI crypto project using cloned branding, Solana tags, and a deceptive Ubuntu-style domain ⚠️
The phishing thread followed days of DDoS attacks on Canonical services 🔐

🔗 https://itsfoss.com/news/ubuntu-twitter-compromised/

#TechNews #Ubuntu #Canonical #Linux #Cybersecurity #Phishing #DDoS #OpenSource #Privacy #Infosec #Solana #Blockchain #FOSS #Transparency #X #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Crypto #Cryptocurrency

#ai #llm #humanity

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A human holding up their hand to a brain saying, “No thanks, I’ll use AI”

RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/116533120069023831

❝ She came up through the apprenticeship you abolished: Ben, 1998, the USB stick. She is the pipeline. When she dies, the thing that produces people like her is already gone. ❞

the purpose of STEM was to create a precariat. no job security, only job hopping. away went bonuses, shares, retirement, pensions.

so why would workers document & mentor their replacements?

with a precariat comes INSTRUCTIONAL DEBT. capitalists think #AI will fix +30 years of lost expertise & memory.

they can’t.

muddle boosted

tante [he/him] » 🌐 2026-05-07
@tante@tldr.nettime.org

"There are no more juniors. There was a funeral for their passing in 2024. Nobody came. The machine does what they do now, but cheaper. Of course, juniors weren't valuable for what they produced, they were valuable for who they would become: the senior engineer who knows where the bodies are buried. We optimized for output, and abolished apprenticeship. A few years from now, we'll wonder where all the seniors are. We shot them. Nobody will remember."

https://www.stvn.sh/writing/programming-still-sucks-fqffhyp

🌎 Mental privacy is one important cog in a much larger interconnected tech surveillance issue.

#mentalprivacy #ai #digitalcommons #surveillance #climatecrisis #LLM #chatbot

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Text connecting climate and other societal crisis to tech surveillance.

📰 How to Disable Google's Gemini in Chrome

Chrome users were caught off guard by a 4-GB Google AI model baked into Chrome, sparking privacy concerns. The good news: You can easily uninstall it. The bad? You might not want to.

📰 Source: Feed: All Latest
🔗 Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/https://www.wired.com/story/you-can-disable-gemini-in-chrome-if-its-freaking-you-out/

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence

OpenAI now enables marketing cookies by default for free ChatGPT users, expanding off-platform ad tracking via IDs and cookies.
The policy says chats stay private, but @WIRED found free accounts auto-opted into ad measurement while paid tiers were not. 🔍

🔗 https://www.wired.com/story/openai-enables-cookies-by-default-for-free-chatgpt-users/

#TechNews #OpenAI #ChatGPT #Privacy #Cookies #AdTech #Tracking #FOSS #OpenSource #DataRights #Cybersecurity #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Transparency #DigitalRights #Infosec #Wired #ID

🤖 Testing ads in ChatGPT

OpenAI begins testing ads in ChatGPT to support free access, with clear labeling, answer independence, strong privacy protections, and user control.

📰 Source: OpenAI News
🔗 Link: https://openai.com/index/testing-ads-in-chatgpt

#ChatGPT #AI #ArtificialIntelligence

“The future has now arrived. And some people are finding it uncomfortable,” Richard Dawkins recently wrote in an op-ed in which the evolutionary biologist suggested that AI chatbot Claude may be conscious. Dawkins has taken some flack for his position, but he isn’t the first to suspect a chatbot taking on human qualities. @ScienceAlert has more, including a mid-1960s chatbot that had some people become emotionally involved with it:

https://flip.it/54gtiI

#Tech #AI #Chatbots #Science #Technology #Claude #ArtificialIntelligence

Auch bei Twitter werden Nutzer*innen Daten zum Training von KI verwendet.....

Twitter's new privacy policy takes effect 09/29/23, giving them the right to use your posts & all of your data to train musk's "AI."

view-source:https://twitter.com/en/privacy

#Data #KI #AI #Musk #Twitter #Antireport #Privacy

🤖 The Guardian view on facial recognition technology: mistaken identities are a political issue | Editorial

Once again, digital tools are running ahead of regulators. Civil liberties must not be sacrificed to policing It is a familiar story. Extravagant claims are made on behalf of novel computerised too...

📰 Source: AI (artificial intelligence) | The Guardian
🔗 Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/may/07/the-guardian-view-on-facial-recognition-technology-mistaken-identities-are-a-political-issue

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence

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The Confidential Computing Summit 2026 schedule is LIVE! This is the essential technical gathering for developers defining the future of secure AI.

Deep-dive into hardware-rooted attestation, scaling Confidential AI on #Kubernetes with TEEs, and building the "Trust Layer" for autonomous agents.

San Francisco | June 23-24. Early Bird ends May 12.

Register Now: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press/confidential-computing-summit-2026-schedule-showcases-next-era-of-ai-sovereignty

#ConfidentialComputing #Developer #AI #LinuxFoundation

#AI evaluation startup #Braintrust confirms breach, tells every customer to rotate sensitive keys

https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/06/ai-evaluation-startup-braintrust-confirms-breach-tells-every-customer-to-rotate-sensitive-keys/

#cybersecurity #DataBreach

Engadget: Canadian officials claim OpenAI violated federal and provincial privacy laws . “Philippe Dufresne, the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, has found OpenAI was ‘not compliant with’ Canadian federal and provincial privacy laws in the training of its AI models. “

Kids are reportedly bypassing AI age checks using fake mustaches, facial tricks, and game characters.

Questions around privacy, biometric data, and effectiveness keep growing.

Source: https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/06/some-kids-are-bypassing-age-verification-checks-with-a-fake-mustache/

Follow @technadu
#Infosec #Privacy #AI

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Some kids are bypassing age-verification checks with a fake mustache

#Google's #AI search results will now turn to #Reddit for expert advice

https://www.engadget.com/2166393/google-ai-search-results-will-now-turn-to-reddit-for-expert-advice/

#privacy

🎮 "It is frustrating to see policymakers suddenly claim everything is 'for our safety'" - Stop Killing Games joins pushback against age verification laws

Stop Killing Games, fresh from speaking at EU parliament about video game consumer rights, has now joined the pushback against age verification laws, claiming that they don't fix the causes of onli...

📰 Source: Eurogamer.net Latest Articles Feed
🔗 Link: https://www.eurogamer.net/stop-killing-games-age-verification

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence

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Hackers Hate #AI Slop Even More Than You Do

https://www.wired.com/story/cybercriminals-are-complaining-about-ai-slop-flooding-their-forums/

#cybercrime

If you're a Chrome user say goodbye to 4GB of your storage. Google has received criticism after it discreetly dowloaded Gemini Nano's model onto users devices without consent. Digital Trends has the details and how to turn it off.
https://flip.it/g2hV6m

How to turn the feature off.
https://flip.it/k1I4E5

#Google #Chrome #AI #Gemini

From #BigOil to Big #Algorithm: Public Money in Private Models

https://privacyinternational.org/long-read/5767/big-oil-big-algorithm-public-money-private-models

#privacy #AI

RE: https://sonomu.club/@stephan/116518474274403805

One more time, since some of you are still busy making fun of Richard #Dawkins falling in love with an #AI chatbot…

It doesn't matter if you're 85 or 14, a once respected scientist or a lonely teenager: It's not funny. It's sad and dangerous. And I'm willing to bet it could happen to a lot of you.

LLMs tell you what you want to hear in a way you want to hear it. Their ability to fuel delusions is real, and a real danger, especially to the isolated, the lonely, the ignored and the overlooked.

Daily Digest | 7 May 2026

Your daily dose of Privacy, Data Protection, AI & Cybersecurity news.

5 stories you should not miss.

Read more: https://www.nicfab.eu/daily-digest/

#Privacy #AI #GDPR #Cybersecurity #TechLaw

A Kid With a Fake #Mustache Tricked an Online Age-Verification Tool

To stop children from bypassing its age checks, #Meta is revamping its age-verification tools with an #AI system that analyzes images and videos for “visual cues,” such as height and bone structure.
#ageverification #privacy

https://www.wired.com/story/a-kid-with-a-fake-mustache-tricked-an-online-age-verification-tool/

Stories about tech companies including #AI token spend in total compensation numbers.

This is stupid.

If it's needed for the job, it should be provided like a monitor or chair.

But maybe this is the solution to the AI circular investment problems between Nvidia, Google, Microsoft, Anthropic, and OpenAI.

Let "tokens" be spendable at Amazon like dollars. Forget #bitcoin , tokens are the new alt currency!

ETFs to buy and sell tranches of tokens.

I hate late stage capitalism #economics

📰 Canadian officials claim OpenAI violated federal and provincial privacy laws

Regulators took issue with the amount of personal data the company collected and its approach to consent.

📰 Source: Engadget - Technology News & Expert Reviews
🔗 Link: https://www.engadget.com/2166560/canadian-officials-claim-openai-violated-federal-and-provincial-privacy-laws/

#DataScience #AI #ArtificialIntelligence

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OpenAI violated Canadian privacy laws, federal and provincial watchdogs say
By Jesse Cole May 6, 2026

#Canada #bigtech #surveillance #privacy #AI #OpenAI #cdnpoli

https://betakit.com/federal-and-provincial-privacy-watchdogs-say-openai-violated-canadian-privacy-laws/

Lost your pet? 🐾 AI is speeding up reunions. Facial recognition and real-time shelter databases help find pets faster—alongside flyers and community search. Learn how it works: https://hopepawsfund.org/ai-for-lost-pets/ ❤️
#LostPets #AI #PetRescue #AnimalRescue #PetSafety

#Kiev unsuccessfully tries to stifle truth by attacking -
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/etc.html#Russia

#TikTok Favored Pro-Republican #Videos in the Last #Election -
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/sports.html#6

#London-based Ethos, which lets companies use #AI for -
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/politics.html#31

#OpenAI violated #Canadians’ privacy, watchdogs say in -
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/infotech.html#58

#Global optimism drives #Indian stocks up; Sensex -
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/markets.html#1

View all the Continents news https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/2026/03/latest-news-from-continents.html

Been dumped but not over your ex? There's an app for that! @MikeElgan reports on "ex.skill," which allows you to upload photos, social posts and chat logs to create a chatbot that sounds like your lost love, and remembers the times you've spent together. Here's more from his Machine Society newsletter.

https://flip.it/.M-Len

#Technology #Tech #AI #Relationships #Culture

#OpenAI president forced to read his personal diary entries to jury

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/05/openai-president-explains-to-jury-why-his-diary-entries-sound-greedy/

#AI #ChatGPT #privacy

🤯 Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent. At a billion-device scale the climate costs are insane. — That Privacy Guy!
https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-silent-nano-install/

#chrome #privacy #ai

https://dune.fandom.com/wiki/Butlerian_Jihad

#books #dune #ai

Preliminary findings confirm OpenAI abused our personal information, but the privacy commissioner considers the issues related to the BC mass shooting "resolved". BUT they are saying that there are wider problems and legislation needs to be updated. Time to contact our elected officials.

(still WAY too much deference given to the industry IMO)

Press conference live now on CBC News Network

#CdnPoli #privacy #ai #democracy