Category: Digitization

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Defamed by ChatGPT: My Own Bizarre Experience with Artificiality of “Artificial Intelligence” – Jonathan Turley 4/6/23

Source: JonathanTurley.org

Yesterday, President Joe Biden declared that “it remains to be seen” whether Artificial Intelligence (AI) is “dangerous.” I would beg to differ. I have been writing about the threat of AI to free speech. Then recently I learned that ChatGPT falsely reported on a claim of sexual harassment that was never made against me on a trip that never occurred while I was on a faculty where I never taught. ChapGPT relied on a cited Post article that was never written and quotes a statement that was never made by the newspaper. When the Washington Post investigated the false story, it learned that another AI program “Microsoft’s Bing, which is powered by GPT-4, repeated the false claim about Turley.” It appears that I have now been adjudicated by an AI jury on something that never occurred.

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Jamaica Prepares for Digital ID Awareness Campaign, Biometric Passport Rollout – BiometricUpdate 3/27/23

Source: BiometricUpdate.com

The government of Jamaica says a sensitization campaign on the implementation of the National Identification System (NIDS) will soon begin as a procurement process to that effect is being finalized after the process failed last year. This comes as the country is looking forward to the rollout of its new generation biometric passport from 31 March.

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Contract Shows how the FBI Purchases Massive Amounts of Online Data – ReclaimTheNet 3/30/23

Source: ReclaimTheNet.org

The FBI was a customer of a private company Team Cymru, a contract shows. The company is in the business of harvesting NetFlow – network protocol for collecting IP traffic information and monitoring network flow – data from ISPs in return for threat intelligence, and then selling it on.

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Germany Uses AI to Target Online Content for Removal, Send Data to Police – Reclaim The Net 3/29/23

Source: ReclaimTheNet.org

Germany has a “porn police” – regulators, that is, who are using an “AI” tool called KIVI to find adult content across the internet – on sites and apps like , , , and TikTok.

And when they do, those creating and/or posting this content could wind up in prison or pay fines, and they are notified of their transgression by the actual police.

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ChatGPT Can Now Access the Internet and Run the Code it Writes – Loz Blain 3/24/23

Source: NewAtlas.com

Language model AIs teach themselves the arts of communication and problem solving based on a limited set of training data. In the case of GPT-4, that data is quite out of date, with the cutoff being late 2021. That’s where all of ChatGPT’s “knowledge” has come from up to this point, and its only output – at least in the service the public can use – has been text. Now, with today’s launch of a plugin ecosystem, GPT levels up again with some impressive new abilities.

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ChatGPT: GPT-4 has a Plan to Escape – Ellen O’Dwyer 3/18/23

Source: iNews.co.uk

Concerns have been raised about the extent of artificial intelligence GPT-4’s power to take over computers after the AI chatbot told a Stanford professor of its plan to “escape”.

Professor in computational psychology, Michal Kosinski, raised concerns that the highly-sophisticated new model from Open AI would not be able to be contained for much longer after he asked if it “needed help escaping”.

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Grants Reveal Feds’ Horrific Plans To Censor Americans’ Speech – Margot Cleveland 3/21/23

Source: TheFederalist.com

Our government is preparing to monitor every word Americans say on the internet—the speech of journalists, politicians, religious organizations, advocacy groups, and even private citizens. Should those conversations conflict with the government’s viewpoint about what is in the best interests of our country and her citizens, that speech will be silenced.

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Enter the Objaverse: 800,000 Virtual Props for AIs to Play With – Tech Crunch 3/23/23

Source: TechCrunch.com

If AI is going to work its way out of the chat box and into our living rooms, it will need to understand spaces and objects better. To further that work, the Allen Institute for AI has created a gigantic and diverse database of 3D models of everyday objects, so simulations for AI models can be that much closer to reality.

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Mozilla Launches a New Startup Focused on ‘Trustworthy’ AI – Tech Crunch 3/22/23

Source: TechCrunch.com

On the eve of its 25th anniversary, Mozilla, the not-for-profit behind the Firefox browser, is launching an AI-focused startup.

Called Mozilla.ai, the newly forged company’s mission isn’t to build just any AI — its mission is to build AI that’s open source and “trustworthy,” according to Mark Surman, the executive president of Mozilla and the head of Mozilla.ai.

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Lowes Introduces Surveillance Robots that Monitor License Plates, Mobile Devices, to Detect Repeat Offenders – Reclaim The Net 3/19/23

Source: ReclaimTheNet.org

Home improvement products retailer Lowe’s has started using security robots manufactured by Knightscope in four stores in Philadelphia.

The robots, K5’s – first launched in 2015 – are supposed to help the retailer collect evidence in case of criminal prosecutions, and act like “security guards.”

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GPT-4’s Exciting, and Ominous, Achievements – Peter Grad 3/16/23

Source: TechXplore.com

Six decades ago, an episode of the legendary TV series “The Twilight Zone” warned us about the risks of ticking off machines. Frustrated by a wave of modern appliances, a grumpy magazine writer in the episode “A Thing About Machines” takes out his frustrations on them and breaks them.

Until they fight back.

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Interview with OpenAI’s Greg Brockman: GPT-4 isn’t Perfect, but Neither are You – Tech Crunch 3/15/23

Source: techcrunch.com

OpenAI shipped GPT-4 today, the much-anticipated text-generating AI model, and it’s a curious piece of work.

GPT-4 improves upon its predecessor, GPT-3, in key ways, for example giving more factually true statements and allowing developers to prescribe its style and behavior more easily. It’s also multimodal in the sense that it can understand images, allowing it to caption and even explain in detail the contents of a photo.

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ChatGPT: Friend or Foe? – Dr. Joseph Mercola 3/13/23

Source: ChildrensHealthDefense.org

Story at a glance:

  • ChatGPT is a chatbot powered by artificial intelligence (AI). “GPT” stands for “generative pretrained transformer,” and the “chat” indicates that it’s a chatbot.
  • ChatGPT, released at the end of November 2022, has taken internet users by storm, acquiring more than 1 million users in the first five days. Two months after its release, it had more than 30 million users.
  • ChatGPT or something like it will replace conventional search engines. Any online query will have only one answer, and that answer will not be based on all available knowledge, but the data the bot is allowed to access. As such, the owners and programmers of the bot will have complete information control.
  • While OpenAI, the creator of this groundbreaking AI chatbot, is a private company, we should not linger under the illusion that they’re not part of the control network that will ultimately be ruled and run by a technocratic One World Government.
  • Early testers of ChatGPT are reporting the bot is developing disturbing and frightening tendencies, berating, gaslighting and even threatening and harassing users. It also plays fast and loose with facts, in one case insisting it was February 2022, when in fact it was February 2023.

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As Banking Collapses Erode Trust, Bitcoin Fixes Moral Hazard – Mickey Koss 3/13/23

Source: BitcoinMagazine.com

As unrealized losses piled up, Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) gradually, then suddenly became insolvent, followed by the collapse of Signature Bank and people beginning to wake up to issues pervading our financial system. Modern day bank runs, though digital, can force banks to sell reserve assets at a loss, inevitably leading to insolvency.

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Interfering in Elections? – Philip Giraldi 3/14/23

Source: Unz.com

Israel uses high-technology to influence results.

A week ago an interesting story surfaced briefly in the news about how the developing Republican presidential candidate bids by Nikki Haley and others had been attacked over the past eleven months by possibly as many as hundreds of thousands of false automated personas, referred to in the trade as “bots,” on Twitter and other internet based social media. Interestingly, the activity was discovered and shared with Associated Press by an Israeli internet security company called Cyabra, which also claimed that the “bots” generation seem to have originated in three separate networks of false Twitter accounts. The accounts appear to have been created in the United States and it is believed that Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications are increasingly being used to create completely lifelike fake personas, extremely difficult for security filters and censors to detect.

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9 Leading Experts: RF Radiation Can Lead to Brain Damage, Alzheimer’s – Children’s Health Defense 3/9/23

Source: ChildrensHealthDefense.org

Research on 5G radiofrequency (RF) radiation shows it can cause brain damage and possibly lead to dementia and Alzheimer’s disease, according to nine independent experts in the RF radiation field.

In a peer-reviewed article published last week in the Annals of Clinical and Medical Case Reports, the experts called on authorities to heed the voices of the RF scientific community by establishing a “more stringent regulatory framework” on RF radiation and by halting the rollout of 5G technologies — including smart meters and 5G cell towers — until a team of “qualified scientists independent of industry” review the risks of the technology.

“The situation is absurd,” said Mona Nilsson, managing director of the Swedish Radiation Protection Foundation and lead author of the article.

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Utah Introduces Digital Driver’s Licenses, Following Plans to Introduce Online Platform Age Checks – ReclaimTheNet 3/8/23

Source: ReclaimTheNet.org

The Utah Department of Public Safety’s Driver License Division (DLD) has introduced an app that allows residents to download signed digital versions of their driver’s licenses. The app can be used as a and has been launched following the introduction of a bill that would require internet users to show digital ID as proof of age to access online platforms.

After downloading, the mobile driver’s license (mDL) can be used by scanning or tapping, meaning users do not have to hand over their phones.

The mDL can be used at airport security and some grocery stores and banks….

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The Censored Generation – Thomas Buckley 3/9/23

Source: Mises.org

Incredulity. Astonishment. Disgust. Anger.

It is these feelings—amongst others—that describe the general reaction to the revelations of the Twitter Files and other egregious episodes of Big Tech censorship of the electronic public square.

The implicit deal with companies like Twitter, Facebook, Google, etc. is very simple: we will look at your ads if you give us a service for free. The deal did not include censorship.

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State Entities Flagged “Anti-Ukraine Narratives” to Twitter for Censorship – Reclaim The Net 3/9/23

Source: ReclaimTheNet.org

New information published by journalists Matt Taibbi and Michael Shellenberger ahead of their testimony to the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government today has revealed that government entities flagged “anti- narratives” to for censorship. Additionally, it revealed that a project which has partnered with several state entities and urged tech platforms to take action against “stories of true vaccine side effects” was onboarded to Twitter’s Jira ticketing system.

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Exposed: America’s Secret Censorship-Industrial Complex – Michael Shellenberger 3/9/23

Source: public.substack.com

Friends —

Over the last three months, a small group of independent journalists, including Leighton and I, have, thanks to the Twitter Files, exposed the ways in which social media platforms have, under pressure from U.S. government agencies, censored ordinary Americans and spread disinformation.

Today, at 10 am ET, journalist Matt Taibbi and I will testify before Congress and reveal the existence of a secret censorship-industrial complex in the United States.

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CHD, California Groups Sue Los Angeles County to Stop Fast-Track Proliferation of Wireless Towers – Children’s Health Defense 3/8/23

Source: ChildrensHealthDefense.org

Children’s Health Defense (CHD) and a coalition of community and environmental groups advocating for safe technology on Monday sued Los Angeles County to overturn amendments adopted by the county in January that allow for the fast-tracked proliferation of wireless infrastructure without due process and without residents’ right to appeal.

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Ford Wins Patent for Technology to Remotely Disable Vehicles – ReclaimTheNet 3/9/23

Source: ReclaimTheNet.org

Automaker Ford filed a patent application for technology that would allow semi and fully autonomous vehicles to repossess themselves if the owner misses loan or lease payments.

The patent is titled “Systems and Methods to Repossess a Vehicle.” It states that future Ford vehicles would be able to disable “a functionality of one or more components of the vehicle.”

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5G Towers Appearing Around Houston Area has Residents Asking Questions – ABC13 2/13/23

Source: ABC13.com

Imagine a 40-foot-tall pole popping up outside your home!

It’s happening in the Memorial Chase neighborhood in Spring. Neighbors say they don’t know what they are, but they want them gone.

“You wake up one morning, and you have a truck driver that wants to deliver a 40-foot pole in your front yard, and it’s like, ‘that’s interesting,'” Don Cochran said with a raised eyebrow.

He’s talking about a cell tower explicitly built to provide 5G capability.

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Nigerians Not Eager to Embrace Central Bank Digital Currency – SchiffGold 3/7/23

Source: SchiffGold.com

Violent protests in Nigeria reveal that getting average people to embrace central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) might be more difficult than government officials would like.

Nigerians recently took to the streets to protest a cash shortage caused by government policies adopted in order to push the country into the adoption of its central bank digital currency (CBDC).

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AI-Generated Arguments Changed Minds on Controversial Hot-Button Issues, According to Study – PhysOrg 3/2/23

Source: Phys.org

Suddenly, the world is abuzz with chatter about chatbots. Artificially intelligent agents, like ChatGPT, have shown themselves to be remarkably adept at conversing in a very human-like fashion. Implications stretch from the classroom to Capitol Hill. ChatGPT, for instance, recently passed written exams at top business and law schools, among other feats both awe-inspiring and alarming.

Researchers at Stanford University’s Polarization and Social Change Lab and the Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) wanted to probe the boundaries of AI’s political persuasiveness by testing its ability to sway real humans on some of the hottest social issues of the day—an assault weapon ban, the carbon tax, and paid parental leave, among others.

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Privacy Activists Lament After Biometrics are Used at Nigerian Polls – ReclaimTheNet 3/2/23

Source: ReclaimTheNet.org

Digital rights activists have raised concerns over the security of the biometric data collected during the recent general election in Nigeria where millions of Nigerians registered and voted.

Biometric data was submitted for voter registration and was also required to verify voters at polling stations using the Biometric Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) gadgets.

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Banning TikTok – Bruce Schneier and Barath Raghavan 2/23/23

Source: schneier.com

The ban would hurt Americans—and there are better ways to protect their data.

Congress is currently debating bills that would ban TikTok in the United States. We are here as technologists to tell you that this is a terrible idea and the side effects would be intolerable. Details matter. There are several ways Congress might ban TikTok, each with different efficacies and side effects. In the end, all the effective ones would destroy the free internet as we know it.

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5G Towers Can Make Healthy People Sick, Two Case Reports Show – Children’s Health Defense 2/23/23

Source: ChildrensHealthDefense.org

A new case report shows that two previously healthy men rapidly developed typical “microwave syndrome” symptoms shortly after a 5G cell tower was installed on the roof of their office.

According to the report, published Feb. 4 in the Annals of Clinical Case Reports, the men experienced headaches, joint pain, tinnitus, abnormal fatigue, sleep disturbances, burning skin, anxiety and trouble concentrating.

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Spotify Launches ‘DJ,’ a New Feature Offering Personalized Music with AI-Powered Commentary – TechCrunch 2/22/23

Source: TechCrunch.com

Ahead of Spotify’s upcoming Stream On event, where the company is expected to announce a redesigned home feed and other updates, the company today launched a new AI feature called “DJ” to better personalize the music listening experience for its users. Similar to a radio DJ, Spotify’s DJ feature will deliver a curated selection of music alongside AI-powered spoken commentary about the tracks and artists you like, using what Spotify says is a “stunningly realistic voice.”

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East Palestine Launched A Digital ID Program Days Before Disaster – ZeroHedge 2/20/23

Source: ZeroHedge.com

As Klaus Schwab recently opined, the future of global hegemony will be dependent on the mastery of avant garde technologies which were once relegated to the realm of science fiction. With that power in mind, technologies advancing artificial intelligence, synthetic biology, and other pillars of the World Economic Forum’s so-called fourth industrial revolution have begun to permeate into our everyday lives. Perhaps no greater example of the imperative of the technocratic elite to harness these technologies is the digital ID. The premise of an over arching digital identity as a mechanism for vast government surveillance was one of the cornerstones of the authoritarian response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Apparently, that crisis wasn’t the only instance of an opportunity to beta test the tools of dystopian oppression.

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Discover to Start Tracking Gun Buyers – ReclaimTheNet 2/20/23

Source: ReclaimTheNet.org

Credit card provider Discover to will start tracking purchases at gun retailers in April, which will make it the first company to do so. Last September, the International Organization for Standardization, which determines payment cards’ merchant categories, approved a dedicated code for gun retailers in an attempt to help law enforcement solve gun-related crimes.

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New YouTube CEO Neal Mohan Supports Censorship of “Misinformation,” Boosting “Authoritative” Sources – TomParker 2/17/23

Source: ReclaimTheNet.org

Yesterday, former CEO announced that she would be stepping down and that YouTube’s Chief Product Officer Neal Mohan would be the new CEO.

During Wojcicki’s tenure, which ran from February 5, 2014 till February 16, 2023, YouTube made many unpopular decisions such as introducing far-reaching “hate speech” and “harassment” rules, restricting creators that produce content that’s “made for kids”, and hiding public dislikes. Wojcicki also made many public statements in support of censoring creators based on broad and subjective terms such as “misinformation.”

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