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April 8, 2023April 8, 2023

Amazon Illegally Harvested Kids’ Data Via Alexa-Powered ‘Smart’ Speakers – Children’s Health Defense 4/5/23

Source: ChildrensHealthDefense.org

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) plans to sue Amazon over allegations the company illegally collected and used children’s data via its Alexa-powered smart speakers, according to reports by Politico and Bloomberg.

Citing individuals familiar with the issue, the two media outlets said the FTC recommended filing a complaint against Amazon on the basis that the collection of data from children under age 13 violated the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Rule (COPPA).

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April 8, 2023April 8, 2023

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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April 6, 2023

Executive Order Lays Foundation for Lab-Created Foods – Dr. Joseph Mercola 4/5/23

Source: LewRockwell.com

Dr. Mercola Interview Begins at 3:40 Video Link

September 12, 2022, U.S. President Joe Biden signed an “Executive Order on Advancing Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing Innovation for a Sustainable, Safe and Secure American Bioeconomy.”¹

This executive order makes biotechnology a national priority across agencies and branches of government. As noted in this order, biotechnology will also be used to “improve” food security, sustainability, and agricultural innovation in the U.S.:

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April 3, 2023

‘Wind Power Fails on Every Count’: Oxford Scientist Explains the Math – TheEpochTimes 3/27/23

Source: TheEpochTimes.com

Wind power has been historically and scientifically unreliable, claims an Oxford University mathematician and physicist, with his calculations revealing the government to be pursuing a “bluster of windfarm politics” while discarding numerical evidence.

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April 3, 2023

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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April 1, 2023

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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April 1, 2023April 1, 2023

Italy Bans OpenAI’s ChatGPT Over Privacy Concerns – ZeroHedge 3/31/23

Source: ZeroHedge.com

Italy’s data protection authority has temporarily banned OpenAI’s ChatGPT over alleged privacy violations. The ban will remain in effect until OpenAI complies with the European Union’s privacy laws.

In a statement, the Italian National Authority for Personal Data Protection said ChatGPT violated the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in multiple ways, including unlawfully processing people’s data and failing to prevent minors from accessing the AI chatbot.

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March 30, 2023

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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March 28, 2023March 28, 2023

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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March 28, 2023

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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March 28, 2023

Hungary and Italy Pass Laws to Protect Citizens from Insect Use in Food – RAIR Foundation 3/26/23

Source: rairfoundation.com

Globalists are trying to brainwash citizens with their environmental and nutritional propaganda to control citizens’ food choices.

Hungary has enacted stricter rules against the clandestine insectification of foods. The Minister of Agriculture István Nagy announced on his social media site that they are now requiring foods containing insect proteins to carry the label “Warning! Food containing insect proteins” and must be displayed separately from other products,

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March 25, 2023

Conflicts of Interest: Pfizer’s Secret Collusion With the NIH – Dr. Joseph Mercola 3/22/23

Source: LewRockwell.com

In late February 2023, Moderna agreed to pay $400 million to the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) for the patent it holds on Moderna’s mRNA shot.¹

The patent process is a part of the COVID mRNA shots that the media haven’t really addressed and people in general don’t know anything about — probably because it’s a total racket. Based on internal documents and correspondence, it appears the NIAID funded the creation of SARS-CoV-2. At the same time, it patented and receives royalty payments for the “vaccine” against said virus.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is supposed to be the primary government agency responsible for public health research, but by the looks of it, it appears instead to be in the business of creating public health threats in order to profit from them.

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March 25, 2023

Coinbase, SEC on Collision Course for ‘Existential’ Clash over Crypto Industry – Reuters 3/24/23

Source: LBCGroup.tv

Coinbase (COIN.O) debuted on the US stock market on April 14, 2021 – the same day US senators confirmed Gary Gensler to lead the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the country’s top markets regulator.

Gensler, who has called the crypto sector a “Wild West” riddled with fraud, is now embroiled in a battle with the world’s largest publicly-traded crypto firm over a core debate: whether digital assets are investment contracts akin to stocks or bonds that should be regulated by the SEC.

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March 25, 2023

Databricks Pushes Open-Source Chatbot as Cheaper ChatGPT Alternative – Reuters 3/24/23

Source: LBCGroup.tv

Databricks, a San Francisco-based startup last valued at $38 billion, on Friday released open-source code that it said companies could use to create their own chatbots along the lines of OpenAI’s ChatGPT.

The code is an AI model, an algorithm that is trained on sets of data and can then learn from new data to perform a variety of tasks.

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March 25, 2023

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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March 25, 2023March 25, 2023

OpenAI Connects ChatGPT to the Internet – Tech Crunch 3/23/23

Source: TechCrunch.com

OpenAI’s viral AI-powered chatbot, ChatGPT, can now browse the internet — in certain cases.

OpenAI today launched plugins for ChatGPT, which extend the bot’s functionality by granting it access to third-party knowledge sources and databases, including the web. Available in alpha to ChatGPT users and developers on the waitlist, OpenAI says that it’ll initially prioritize a small number of developers and subscribers to its premium ChatGPT Plus plan before rolling out larger-scale and API access.

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March 24, 2023

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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March 20, 2023

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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March 17, 2023March 17, 2023

Study: Experimental COVID Shot Made via Egg-Based Technology Elicits Higher Antibody Proportion than mRNA Vax – MedicalXpress 3/16/23

Source: MedicalXpress.com

An experimental COVID-19 vaccine produced with technology based on a decades-old method, elicited virus-neutralizing antibodies in higher proportion than the amount induced by mRNA immunizations, a Phase 1 clinical trial has found.

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March 17, 2023

Report: FDIC Asked Signature Buyers to Stop All Crypto Business – Coin Telegraph 3/16/23

Source: CoinTelegraph.com

The United States Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) has reportedly asked potential rescuers of some failed U.S. banks not to support any crypto services.

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March 17, 2023

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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March 17, 2023

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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March 16, 2023

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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March 16, 2023

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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March 15, 2023

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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March 15, 2023

Learning from Ukraine, Taiwan Shows Off its Drones as Key to ‘Asymmetric Warfare’ – Reuters 3/14/23

Source: LBCGroup.tv

Taiwan showcased new models of its domestically produced military drones on Tuesday, saying they are key to its “asymmetric warfare” capacity to make its forces more agile if they have to face a far larger Chinese military.

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March 13, 2023

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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March 13, 2023

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 digital ID 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….

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-Ukraine narratives” to Twitter 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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March 11, 2023

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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March 11, 2023

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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March 11, 2023March 11, 2023

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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March 11, 2023March 11, 2023

The World’s First mRNA Vaccine for Deadly Bacteria – MedicalXpress 3/9/23

Source: MedicalXpress.com

For the first time in the world: a team of researchers from Tel Aviv University and the Israel Institute for Biological Research have developed an mRNA-based vaccine that is 100% effective against a type of bacteria that is lethal to humans.

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