Generative AI doesn’t run on magic. It runs on massive data pipelines built on privacy violations by design.
Our new @Amnesty report exposes how big tech’s AI systems are powered by surveillance, data extraction, and abuse of people’s rights, at scale.
We researched the models powering some of the most popular publicly available standalone generative AI tools, including GPT 3 by Open AI, Google’s Gemini, Meta’s Llama, DeepSeek and tools by Midjourney and Stable Diffusion.
This is not innovation at any cost. It comes at a high price: our human rights.
Read the report: https://t.co/MGRonqai7o
I just signed an executive order to actively make sure AI companies working with the state protect privacy and civil liberties.
While Trump pressures companies to deploy AI for autonomous weapons and domestic surveillance, California is using our power as the world's fourth-largest economy to raise the bar on privacy and security.
Someone spun up a social network for AI agents.
Almost immediately some agents began strategizing how to establish covert communications channels to communicate without human observation.
In many cases the agents are on machines that have access to personal user data.
"Privacy breach" as a sort of static term is going to be the wrong way to describe what is coming.
My point here is that the implementations of AI agents esp in the OS, w the pervasive permissions, insecure MCP architectures, and requirement for data access, undermine Signal’s (and others’) ability to provide privacy via e2ee at the application layer. This is a big problem.
∞ 8Core has officially raised $300,000
Fueling the mission to build:
∞ Truly uncensored AI
∞ Zero retention privacy infrastructure
∞ Anonymous payments for humans & autonomous agents
∞ A future where your data belongs only to you
Thank you to the early believers.
We’re just getting started.
Billions CEO Evin McMullen @provenauthority interviewed by HoC Founder Diederick Jacobs at @HouseofChimera Spaces Event Dec 3, 2025
Diederick:
There's a lot of privacy issues with AI.
Your data obviously is being used, that's one.
But more importantly it can be used against you
and that is very scary.
How do we determine
who we can trust and
who we cannot trust?
Because across history,
sometimes parties switch.
Evin:
How do we determine roots of trust?
Who are the entities who we trust?
That is not really a technical question,
that is more of a social and
philosophical question.
But as the basis for roots of trust,
one of the most expressive and
specific entities who we look to
are the issuers of government documents.
With Billions Network, we have integrated
with more than 100 different government ID systems
around the world to make it easy for citizens
to do things like take their passport,
tap it to their phone, pull the data
out of the NFC chip in their passport,
and be able to represent that in a
privacy preserving and compliant way
to different applications onchain and online.
https://t.co/bqLBNl0rU5
At 8core we’re not just excited about x402, we’re building it into our stack.
Privacy isn’t an afterthought, it’s the foundation:
∞ Anonymous payments via Swap
∞ Zero-retention servers
∞ Ephemeral processing only
Programmable payments without the surveillance tradeoff.