Jonathan Nakhla

Senior Android Engineer at @Square. UC Berkeley alumnus. Prev @ Pandora Radio & WeWork

[Alex Veremeyenko @alex_verem]

🚨 Holy shit… Stanford just exposed that every major AI company is using your private conversations to train their models by default.

They analyzed the privacy policies of OpenAI, Google, Meta, Anthropic, Microsoft, and Amazon. Reviewed 28 separate documents across all 6 companies. The findings are worrisome.

Every prompt you type. Every file you upload. Every personal detail you share. All of it feeds directly into model training the moment you hit send.
That health question you asked

ChatGPT at 2am? Training data.

Legal situation you described to Claude? Training data.

The photo you uploaded to Gemini? Training data.

Some companies retain your conversations INDEFINITELY. Amazon, Meta, and OpenAI have no confirmed deletion timeline for certain chat data. Your most private conversations could sit on their servers forever.

It gets worse for kids. Four out of six companies allow children aged 13-18 to use their chatbots, and most don’t treat children’s data any differently. Kids’ conversations are likely getting fed into model training by default. Kids who can’t legally consent to it.

Here’s something most people missed: enterprise customers are opted OUT of training by default. You, the consumer paying $20/month? Opted IN. Companies paying thousands?

Protected automatically. There’s a two-tiered privacy system and you’re on the wrong side of it.

OpenAI even frames the opt-in with guilt. Their settings page says “Improve the model for everyone.” Stanford’s researchers flagged this as a textbook dark pattern designed to make you feel bad for protecting your own data.

Meta’s contractors told reporters they routinely see identifiable personal information in the chat data they review. Journalists were able to positively identify at least one real person from chat transcripts shared with them.

The privacy policies themselves? Stanford had to dig through 6 separate documents just for OpenAI alone. Most real disclosures were buried in sub-policies no normal person would ever find. The researchers said it was challenging for THEM to piece it together. For consumers? “Practically impossible.”

Only Microsoft explicitly stated they try to remove personal data like names, phone numbers, and addresses before training.

The rest are either vague about it or completely silent.

[Josh Kale @JoshKale]

Woah, it’s now confirmed the US DID use Anthropic’s Claude AI in its strikes on Iran

They used Claude for:
- Intelligence assessments
- Target identification
- Simulating battle scenarios

This is the same AI that Trump banned 12 hours before the bombs fell.

The same AI the Pentagon labeled a “national security risk” and blacklisted.

There is no replacement ready. Claude has been the only AI on classified military networks since 2024. The 6-month wind-down exists because even the Pentagon admits you can’t swap it overnight.

They banned the company. They needed the technology. So they used it anyway.

Here’s the snippet from WSJ:

[Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth) @adamscochran]

Oh this lawsuit is going to be wild!

[Micah Erfan @micah_erfan]

> Republican gets elected President.

> Cuts benefits for the poor.

> Cuts taxes for the rich.

> Starts a war in the Middle East.

It's crazy how it’s always the same thing every single time.

[Aaron Bergman 🔍 @AaronBergman18]

What the fuck

[Black Tiger Sex Machine @OfficialBTSM]

I'm going to repeat this because I feel some people don't fully grasp the insanity of gen Al at the moment. 60,000 songs per day made by Al are being distributed on streaming platforms; that's roughly 40% of ALL songs being distributed. SO, it's not just about making authentic art anymore, we also have to resist. We need legislature soon. At this pace, even the best, most authentic art will be so diluted in a sea of Al slop, that we won't be able to find it. That's the real issue. Human art ❤️

[Cash App @CashApp]

Bringing the Howard Stirling brat card to life is kinda brat.

Order your piece of @A24's The Moment while it lasts.

[FLAVOR FLAV @FlavorFlav]

If the USA Women’s Hockey team wants a real celebration and invite ,,, I’ll host them in Las Vegas. Do some nice dinners and shows and good times. I’m sure I can get a hotel and airline to help me out here and celebrate these women for real for real.

[Christopher Webb @cwebbonline]

The most disturbing part is knowing ICE left a little girl alone and didn’t care.

Annabella was six years old when her dad was detained by ICE while he was picking up their food order. She stayed inside, waiting.

He never returned to her that day.

Hours later, when Annabella realized her father wasn’t coming back, she went outside to look for him.

According to her father, Adonay Rodríguez, he told ICE his daughter was home alone. Their response: “We’re not here for your daughter. We’re here for you.”

[Sophie Vershbow @svershbow]

I don't know how to post about this in a way that's sincere enough for today's internet audience, but Alsya Liu has genuinely inspired me as a 36-year-old non-figure skater to go after my dreams on my own terms and I'm really grateful for that.

[DrButtons 🦋 @DrButtonsss]

not to be dramatic but finding and displaying joy--personal, unselfconscious joy, not performative joy--in your chosen hobby/creative outlet/sport is one of the rarest and most radical acts we can do in late stage capitalism

[Finji @FinjiCo]

Here's what TikTok has been doing to our work & art without our consent.

[Not Jerome Powell @alifarhat79]

Companies realizing they’re getting $175 billion in tariff refunds after they already charged them to their customers

[Jonathan Nakhla @JonathanNakhla]

@camworboys @DamjanStankovic I can’t believe this wasn’t released with the new @charli_xcx brat card that was just announced 👀!

[🏁 @concertleaks]

An official brat card is launching on 2/25 in collaboration with Cash App!

[Adam Wren @adamwren]

Potentially seminal remarks from @RoKhanna on AI at Stanford, as he calls for a “new tech social contract” and lays out 7 principles for the tech:

“We must ask not what America can do for Silicon Valley, but what Silicon Valley must do for America.”

[Interesting things @awkwardgoogle]

An 86-year-old Pennsylvania farmer rejects an AI data center offer of $15 million to sell his land. Instead, he sold development rights to a conservation fund for $2 million.
https://t.co/iFyvuaiF5G

[Drew Harwell @drewharwell]

New: A comedian set up a fake ICE tip line. Then 100 calls flooded in: neighbors ratting on neighbors, a teacher reporting a kindergartener. Fans say the viral TikToks showed deportation's "banality of evil." Conservatives say he should be in prison https://t.co/6BXvVjMLMP

[Sam Stein @samstein]

Pritzker demands a $1,700 refund per family for the people of Illinois after Trump's tariffs were ruled unconstitutional