2 04, 2023

‘He Would Still Be Here’: Man Dies by Suicide After Talking with AI Chatbot, Widow Says

April 2, 2023|Abuse, Consent, Fatality, Finance, GreenWash, History, Human Rights, International, Misinformed Media, Politics, Privacy, Propaganda, Psychology, Social Credit, Surveillance, Technology|

The incident raises concerns about guardrails around quickly-proliferating conversational AI models.

A Belgian man recently died by suicide after chatting with an AI chatbot on an app called Chai, Belgian outlet La Libre reported. 

The incident raises […]

2 04, 2023

Pausing AI Developments Isn’t Enough. We Need to Shut it All Down

April 2, 2023|Abuse, Consent, Fatality, Finance, History, Human Rights, Inquiry, International, Law, Misinformed Media, Politics, Propaganda, Psychology, Social Credit, Technology|

Yudkowsky is a decision theorist from the U.S. and leads research at the Machine Intelligence Research Institute. He’s been working on aligning Artificial General Intelligence since 2001 and is widely regarded as a founder of the field.

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1 04, 2023

The long and winding road to banking in rural Australia

April 1, 2023|Abuse, Australia, CBDC, Censorship, Consent, Digital ID, Finance, Inquiry, Politics, Smart Cities, Technology|

Rural Australians are making treacherous trips through winding mountain ranges to get to the nearest bank, taking days off work to manage their finances and live in fear of being left behind if they cannot access cash.

More than 150 people and organisations have written to the Senate inquiry into […]

1 04, 2023

NAB exec lets the cat out of the bag – The big banks are ripping off Oz Post…

April 1, 2023|Abuse, Australia, CBDC, Consent, Digital ID, Finance, History, Inquiry, Politics, Propaganda, Psychology, Technology|

Time for a peoples post office bank!

The taxpayers who own Australia Post, and the licensees who own community post offices, are subsidising the face-to-face services of Australia’s super-profitable, publicly supported major banks.

A NAB executive has inadvertently revealed that her bank has reduced what […]

1 04, 2023

Here is the FBI’s Contract to Buy Mass Internet Data

April 1, 2023|Abuse, Consent, Digital ID, Finance, History, Human Rights, International, Law, Military, Police, Politics, Privacy, Psychology, Social Credit, Surveillance, Technology|

The FBI previously purchased access to “netflow” data, which a company called Team Cymru obtains from ISPs. Team Cymru then sells it to the government.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation paid tens of thousands of dollars on internet data, known as “netflow” data, collected in bulk by a private company, […]

31 03, 2023

ChatGPT banned in Italy over privacy concerns

March 31, 2023|Abuse, Censorship, Consent, Corruption, Digital ID, Finance, History, Human Rights, Inquiry, International, Law, Misinformed Media, Politics, Propaganda, Psychology, Social Credit, Surveillance, Technology|

ChatGPT with OpenAI logo in background
Image caption, OpenAI launched ChatGPT last November

Italy has become the first Western country to block advanced chatbot ChatGPT.

The Italian data-protection authority said there were privacy concerns relating to the model, which was created by US […]

31 03, 2023

Italy orders ChatGPT blocked citing data protection concerns

March 31, 2023|Abuse, Censorship, Consent, Finance, GreenWash, Human Rights, Inquiry, International, Law, Misinformed Media, Politics, Propaganda, Psychology, Research, Social Credit, Surveillance, Technology|

Two days after an open letter called for a moratorium on the development of more powerful generative AI models so regulators can catch up with the likes of ChatGPT, Italy’s data protection authority has just put out a timely reminder that some […]

30 03, 2023

Thousands of residents revolt against Aussie council plan to go cashless

March 30, 2023|Abuse, Australia, CBDC, Consent, Corruption, Digital ID, Finance, History, Human Rights, Misinformed Media, Politics, Privacy, Propaganda, Psychology, Social Credit, Surveillance, Technology, UN, W.E.F., W.H.O.|

The Cairns debate over going cashless is part of a wider conundrum facing Aussies.
The Cairns debate over going cashless is part of a wider conundrum facing Aussies.

Residents of an Aussie town have united against a controversial plan by the local council to take […]