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Black Aziz Anansi

47 trust @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 52,359 followers
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404 Media @404media.co

EXCLUSIVE: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Investigation by @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social here: www.404medi…

We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility 404media.co
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  • 404 Media hid an Apple AirTag in a roughly 1,000-book order sold on Biblio and followed it to an Amazon warehouse in Las Vegas.
  • The shipment terminated at Amazon's LAS8 site at 5801 Nicco Way, home to a team called VGT3 whose logo is a Tyrannosaurus rex clutching an open book.
  • Amazon told the outlet it 'purchases books through commercial channels'; the company classes its Nova family of models as 'frontier.'
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@ajvicens.bsky.social

Meta used AI to target workers with medical conditions for layoffs, lawsuit claims - www.reuters.com/world/meta-u...

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app

Companies are all in on selling folks the idea that it’s in your best interest for your products to “know you” as if you are getting a dedicated servant but what you are really getting is a spy.

GM to launch its own in-vehicle AI system later this year cnbc.com
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  • GM plans to launch a proprietary in-vehicle AI assistant later this year that goes beyond its recently deployed Google Gemini rollout.
  • The native assistant will combine conversational AI with GM vehicle knowledge and OnStar intelligence, per director Anna Santos.
  • GM has already pushed Google Gemini to roughly 4 million model-year 2022 and newer Chevy, Cadillac, Buick and GMC vehicles.
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@jacobdavison.bsky.social

Instead of burning books on a big bonfire, the fascists are shredding them and stealing them. Absolutely disgusting. www.news.com.au/technology/o...

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app

I could select a more recent example, but maybe not a more egregious one, of the many reasons not to do this.

Google contractors tricked homeless black people into face scans futurism.com
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  • Google hired staffing firm Randstad to collect face-scan data for its face-unlock feature, per a New York Daily News investigation.
  • Randstad supervisors reportedly instructed contractors to 'specifically' target homeless Black people in U.S. cities, offering $5 gift cards.
  • Contractors were told to frame the scans as a 'selfie game,' rush consent, and deny the phone was taking a video.
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So im working with someone and i can't prove it but i think that they're relying on chatgpt to communicate with me...

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