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[inachu @inachu]

@grok How to cancel ChatGPT service?

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

I keep thinking about a talk I listened to by @JulianAssange back in 2017 where he warned that one day AI could be used to facilitate the propaganda interests of the powerful by manipulating news media and information in ways that are too subtle for the human mind to notice.

Assange described a future where AI-powered algorithms serve us a customized feed of information based on data collected about our search queries and interests, calculated to appeal to our biases and construct a worldview for us which advances the agendas of those who control the machines.

He explained that sufficiently advanced artificial intelligence systems could arrange this information with more subtlety and complexity than human perception can pick up on, in much the same way a computer can outperform any human brain at a game of chess.

Here’s an excerpt from Assange’s remarks, delivered via video chat at the Meltdown Festival in June 2017:

“What I think is probably the most important development that is happening as far as the fate of human beings is concerned is that we are getting close to the threshold where the traditional propaganda function that is employed by, you know, the BBC, the Daily Mail, etc... can be encapsulated by AI processes.

“Now, if you think about when you’re playing chess, already we’re in a situation where AI can do better than any human chess player. So you can see a certain number of moves ahead. And someone moves a piece onto the board and you go ‘Why did they put that knight there?’ And you start to think what is the intentionality behind it, and you try and look several steps ahead to work out what the intentionality was and then counter it: Okay, they want to manipulate me into moving here so this will happen and so I will lose.

“We take these considerations already when we’re — well, some of us — when we’re reading stories in the press. What is the intentionality of this story? Why is this particular information being pushed to the public and not some other form of information? Who’s the name of the author? What publication is it appearing in? What language? Etc. Well, possibly the reason is because someone wanted to promote a particular agenda, therefore we should read it in a different light.

“But when you have artificial intelligence programs harvesting all the search queries that people have on their phones, all the YouTube videos that human beings have uploaded etc, and it starts to lay out perceptual influence campaigns 20 to 30 moves ahead, this starts to become totally beneath the levels of human perception. And once a computer-augmented organization such as Google is able to engage in influencing human beings 20 to 30 moves ahead, keeping each move beneath the level of human perception, there’s nothing we can do about it, because we can’t see it.”

I keep thinking about these remarks nearly a decade later because this does seem to be the goal. It’s becoming clearer and clearer to everyone that these new technologies are not intended to improve the lives of ordinary people, but to serve the interests of the oligarchs and empire managers who rule our world. That’s why they’re being rammed into existence at breakneck pace despite the obvious fact that they’re making life worse for most people without advancing human quality of life in any meaningful way.

A big part of the agenda seems to be to re-centralize the control of information that was temporarily lost with the advent of the internet. Revolutionary sentiments are rumbling around the world as our species becomes increasingly discontented with the abuses of capitalism and the US-led world order, assisted by humanity’s unprecedented ability to network and share information around the world in real time.

Artificial intelligence’s usefulness in re-centralizing information in ways that can be easily manipulated has already been noted by the Israel lobby.

At an American Jewish Committee event this past June, Santa Clara University’s Maya Ackerman argued that generative AI presents an exciting new opportunity for imposing pro-Israel narratives on public consciousness, because AI companies can be lobbied directly to push pro-Israel narratives since their leaders can control what information people see.

Here’s a transcript of what she said:

“The really cool thing about AI is that while it can become a great ally for our enemies, if we act early it could be exactly the opportunity that we need after missing the boat with social media. AI is now becoming the dominant source of information — the main source of information. People trust AI more than anything else. They trust AI more than social media. They turn to chatbots like ChatGPT and Gemini instead of using Google. And young people use these bots instead of Google in very, very very large numbers. So this is becoming the main source of information.

“And so when I say this, I still find Jewish people being discouraged, they say ‘Oh, but Wikipedia is already so antisemitic and social media is so antisemitic — why bother? The AI just learns from all of this data.’ So, you know, whatever, not much we can do.

“But that’s not true, because over the past two years the AI companies have been moving towards alignment. So instead of algorithms sort of honestly representing what’s in the data, we’re finding that these chatbots and the text to image models are increasingly showing us exactly what the companies want us to see.

“Okay, so it’s becoming intentional. Which means that instead of trying to control the whole world and trying to somehow manage what’s happening in this big blob called Wikipedia and social media, we can go directly to the companies with clear technical and advocacy solutions. For the first time, there is a path to correcting the digital world.”

Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt recently confirmed that this was the Israel lobby’s new MO, saying the ADL has been “working with” all the top AI companies and pushing them to into alignment with the pro-Israel agenda.

Speaking at a Jerusalem Post conference last month, Greenblatt said the following:

"So we've been working with the frontier labs — OpenAI, Anthropic, Alphabet the company that runs Gemini, Google, Meta who runs Muse, and others, X, who run Grok—testing their models and using the results to push them to do better."

“Look, we’ve had excellent collaboration with Silicon Valley. These companies want to improve ChatGPT and Claude. We’ve got to help them. So we’ve run the tests and seen where antisemitism shows up and helped them develop strategies to tackle it right in the source code.”

If the Israel lobby manipulators are doing this, then we can assume that all the high-level imperial narrative managers are doing it as well.

In January 2018, Assange tweeted the following:

“The future of humanity is the struggle between humans that control machines and machines that control humans.

“While the internet has brought about a revolution in our ability to educate each other, the consequent democratic explosion has shaken existing establishments to their core. Burgeoning digital super states such as Google, Facebook and their Chinese equivalents, who are integrated with the existing order, have moved to re-establish discourse control. This is not simply a corrective action. Undetectable mass social influence powered by artificial intelligence is an existential threat to humanity.

“While still in its infancy, the geometric nature of this trend is clear. The phenomenon differs from traditional attempts to shape culture and politics by operating at a scale, speed, and increasingly at a subtlety, that appears highly likely to eclipse human counter-measures.

“Nuclear war, climate change or global pandemics are existential threats that we can work through with discussion and thought. Discourse is humanity’s immune system for existential threats. Diseases that infect the immune system are usually fatal. In this case, at a planetary scale.”

Anyway, just some things we should keep in mind as we make our way into this strange new future.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

They Want To Use AI To Re-Centralize Control Of Information

"It’s becoming clearer and clearer to everyone that these new technologies are not intended to improve the lives of ordinary people, but to serve the interests of the oligarchs and empire managers who rule our world."

[Jessica Valenti @JessicaValenti]

Republicans have introduced a federal ‘catch kit’ bill that would require women to sift thru their blood to separate pregnancy remains from “other solid waste,” put it in a “brightly colored” bag labeled “HUMAN FETAL REMAINS,” and bring their doc.

It’s fucking deranged

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

NOVEMBER SURPRISE.

Former Miss Teen USA, Dr. Larissa Portnoff, just came out with disgusting, disturbing allegations against Donald Trump.

Portnoff is a highly respected New York–based clinical psychologist and clinical director of New York Psychology Practice, She earned her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Columbia University.

Every republican running tomorrow needs to get on record as to whether they support Donald Trump’s attacks on this poor woman.

[NotOstriching @NotOstriching]

It’s been known since 2020…

“Study Finds Increased Heart Disease, Stroke Risk After Surviving Even Mild Covid-19”

wishing fast & full recovery to @ChrisMurphyCT & hope he’ll take up this issue as kids aren’t spared either. (See 🔗 in next)

https://t.co/2ABzHDfoS5

[Jess @MeetJess]

Officials Warn Ebola Could Spread Like COVID as Cases Surpass 10K: ‘We Want All Countries to Know That They Are Not Safe’

https://t.co/xVQVDQtaWN

[NietzscheanSideboob @BannedInEurope]

#TrumpEpstein

[ADAM @adamemedia]

NEW: 🇮🇱 🇺🇸 TRUMP’S RAPE & PEDOPHILIA OPERATION WITH EPSTEIN HAS JUST BEEN EXPOSED

The House Judiciary Dems have found [Link in the replies] that from 1991 to 1997, Trump and Epstein were “best friends” and “key players” in a paedophilic operation of beauty and child beauty pageants using them as “hunting grounds” alongside other KNOWN-PEDOPHILES like John Casablancas and Ghislaine Maxwell.

EIGHT WOMEN have accused Trump and Epstein of raping them during these six years.

Girls as young as 14 were “FORCED to dance” for Trump, Casablancas and Epstein.

Trump flew on Epstein’s pedo plane the Lolita Express in October 1993. Allegedly raped a young girl in November and had Epstien attend his wedding in December.

This was all public information already, I reported this before on my old 600k account that got shut down. Trump is rotten. Now the house judiciary has investigated and confirmed it.

This should be breaking the internet. This is why Trump bombed Iran. It all makes sense.

Let’s hope after the midterms something can be done about this monster.

[ADAM @adamemedia]

NEW: 🇮🇱 🇺🇸 TRUMP’S RAPE & PEDOPHILIA OPERATION WITH EPSTEIN HAS JUST BEEN EXPOSED

The House Judiciary Dems have found [Link in the replies] that from 1991 to 1997, Trump and Epstein were “best friends” and “key players” in a paedophilic operation of beauty and child beauty pageants using them as “hunting grounds” alongside other KNOWN-PEDOPHILES like John Casablancas and Ghislaine Maxwell.

EIGHT WOMEN have accused Trump and Epstein of raping them during these six years.

Girls as young as 14 were “FORCED to dance” for Trump, Casablancas and Epstein.

Trump flew on Epstein’s pedo plane the Lolita Express in October 1993. Allegedly raped a young girl in November and had Epstien attend his wedding in December.

This was all public information already, I reported this before on my old 600k account that got shut down. Trump is rotten. Now the house judiciary has investigated and confirmed it.

This should be breaking the internet. This is why Trump bombed Iran. It all makes sense.

Let’s hope after the midterms something can be done about this monster.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

If only they hated pedophiles as much as they hate women.

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

AMAZING! Republican election officials denied NC A&T campus an early-voting site. Students marched about 45 minutes each way to vote ANYWAY!

Put up barriers to voting, and don’t be surprised when people get angry, get organized, and bring even MORE voters to the polls!

[Dr. Sean Mullen @drseanmullen]

I like companies that keep it real.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

“These are 17- and 18-year-old kids, and they couldn’t fill in four words. Four words!”

Darius Williams, a teacher at Wheatley High School in Houston, Texas, was overcome with emotion on only the second day of the school year when he discovered that several of his high school seniors could not complete a simple literacy exercise.

In a viral video filmed during his lunch break, a tearful Williams described how, even after guiding students carefully through a reading assignment and nearly supplying the answers himself, many of his 17- and 18-year-old pupils still could not complete a four-word sentence.

He emphasized that the same students were fully capable of expressing sophisticated ideas and engaging in thoughtful verbal debate. Their difficulty appeared only when they tried to convert those ideas into written language.

The emotional video has spread quickly across social media and drawn attention to what many education specialists describe as a widespread literacy crisis in the United States.

Some online observers have pointed to the influence of technology, citing research that links increased use of artificial intelligence tools with declining literacy skills among young people. Others have criticized educational policies that discourage holding back struggling students. Still others have stressed that the roots of the problem often lie in limited parental support at home.

Williams’s visible distress has highlighted the heavy burden carried by public school teachers as they work to close large academic gaps and equip students with the basic skills required for adult life.

[Kelly @broadwaybabyto]

Disability can happen to anyone at any time.

It’s not due to deconditioning or a moral failing.

Many chronic illnesses are the result of a viral infection from which the body never recovers.

We need more awareness, treatments & clean air to reduce viral spread.

[Leo @Leonajardinho]

Called an emergency vet clinic to treat a standard ear infection on my dog.

Quote came back at $940.

I asked the receptionist how long the procedure takes.

She goes: "about 10 minutes."

I said: "so I'm paying $5,600 an hour for labor?"

She looked around and whispered:

"I make $18 an hour. The private equity health conglomerate that bought out our local vet clinic last year sets mandatory revenue quotas on every single exam room."

Then she showed me her tablet.

If she doesn't hit $2,500 a day in diagnostic upsells, her clinic manager writes her up.

The original family vet ran that practice for 25 years charging $75 a visit and knew every animal by name.

Now Wall Street private equity owns veterinary clinics, dental chains, and optical stores across the country….. jacked up prices by 400%, and put animal caretakers on corporate sales commissions.

You aren't paying for veterinary care anymore.

You're funding a private equity fund's debt service on a basic ear drop that costs $4 to manufacture.

[Conor Browne @brownecfm]

Society is simply a broad group of individuals.

Almost all of those individuals were infected with SARS-CoV-2 and continue to be re-infected.

SARS-CoV-2 infection often adversely affects cognitive function.

The virus subtly changed many individuals and thus changed society.

[theleahfiles @leahfiles]

BREAKING: Israeli spyware is confirmed on our phones. This should be headline news but none of our mainstream media is covering it, of course. So we will.

An Israeli ad company called Discover-Tech used ordinary online ads to plant spyware on people’s devices, and nobody had to click anything. The ad just had to load on a website or inside an app for you to be infected.

Citizen Lab and the ad security firm Confiant published the findings yesterday. Researchers went through roughly 4 billion ad-bidding records and found Discover-Tech ads running on more than 120,000 websites and 70,000 apps between March and June of this year. Confiant says the company was serving at least 10 million ads a day.

The platform was called Controlium. According to Citizen Lab, it let spyware companies use ad auctions to profile and unmask users, then send an infected ad to the one person they wanted to hack. The ads were also pulling cookies and login tokens from the sites they ran on. Israeli corporate records list Dekel Boni as the company’s founding director and sole shareholder.

The main spyware customer was Candiru, the Israeli firm the U.S. government blacklisted in 2021, which now goes by Integrity Labs. Five years after that blacklisting, it was still reaching devices through ad inventory on Google, Comcast-owned Beeswax and Russia’s Yandex. Google had Discover-Tech on its approved vendor list from 2020 until this week.

At least 45 Al Jazeera devices were targeted in 2024 and 2025. Candiru’s 2021 shareholder filings reportedly listed a minority investor described as a proxy for Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund, and Qatar also funds Al Jazeera. If that holds up, Qatari state money was sitting inside the company whose spyware was later aimed at Qatar’s own news network.

The heaviest targeting was in the Palestinian territories, where Discover-Tech served almost 2% of all digital ads and about 10% on April 7. Traffic also reached the Armenian prime minister’s office, courts, universities and defense organizations.

Google and the other ad platforms cut Discover-Tech off after the report came out. What nobody has answered yet is who paid for the ad buys, and how a company working with a U.S.-blacklisted spyware vendor passed vendor review for six years.

I am going to look into this today to see if we can figure out who was buying the ads. Interesting timing considering my article yesterday....

Here's what to do to protect yourself:
(1) Use an ad blocker. Citizen Lab calls ad-blocking a cybersecurity best practice and says there is no consistently safe way to be exposed to targeted ads. On iPhone, add a Safari content blocker. On Android, use Brave or Firefox with uBlock Origin. Ad blockers only work in your browser, not inside apps, so it also helps to delete free ad-supported apps you don’t need.
Kill your advertising ID.

(2) iPhone: Settings > Privacy & Security > Tracking, and turn off “Allow Apps to Request to Track.” Then Settings > Privacy & Security > Apple Advertising, and turn Personalized Ads off.

(2) Android 12 or later: Settings > Privacy > Ads > Delete Advertising ID. Then in Settings > Google > All Services > Privacy & security > Ads > Ads privacy, turn off Ad topics and Ad measurement.

(3) Windows 11: Settings > Privacy & Security > General, and turn off personalized ads using your advertising ID.

(4) Update your phone and restart it often. Many zero-click exploits don’t survive a reboot, so a daily restart forces attackers to reinfect you.

Stay tuned!

[Denis - The COVID info guy - @BigBadDenis]

A Sydney hospital study found SARS-CoV-2 RNA in 39% of air samples despite good ventilation (avg CO₂ 614 ppm)

• ED: 80% positive
• ICU: 20% positive
• Virus found in air samples a week before an outbreak

Researchers suggest masks and air purifiers to reduce transmission.

[Detroit Ryan Coogler @stalkmytweetsyo]

a global pandemic literally had MORGUE TRUCKS in New York bc so many people were dying. MORE PEOPLE have died from covid related complications than 9-11 in the six year span since the virus’ onset. yall still won’t mask. yall don’t know shit about clean air, STILL. be SERIOUS!!!!

[Zayan @Zayan_coder9]

🚨 BREAKING NEWS: Gmail Users Need to Read This!

If you have a Gmail account, you need to read this.

Google’s AI is now rifling through your inbox emails and attachments, bank statements, tax docs, medical letters, the whole stack. It was enabled by default, and that quiet rollout is now facing a class-action lawsuit.

Here are 5 steps to turn it off because the kill switch is buried in two different spots: