David Kaye

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californian. human rights, free expression, tech, international law. uc irvine. fulbright. article 19. prior: UN special rapporteur, GNI chair. edu coalition (dm for details) go bears!

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social

Your ChatGPT chats are not private, and humans are reading them. Anthropic's Claude too. More here: www.404media.co/inside-proje...

Inside ‘Project Lily’: The Humans Reading Your ChatGPT Chats 404media.co
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  • OpenAI's internal program codenamed Project Lily pays contractors more than $50 an hour to read real ChatGPT prompts and grade the chatbot's replies.
  • Reviewers rate four ChatGPT responses on a one-to-seven scale and can see a 'user memories summary' that may reveal past use and rough location.
  • OpenAI's Privacy Filter model tries to redact personal information before prompts reach reviewers, but the company acknowledged sensitive details can still get through.
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social

New from 404 Media: Google Earth has introduced an AI feature that lets anyone fabricate completely bullshit satellite images. In our own tests, we added a “bomb blast and crater” to an area of Los Angeles. This is a misinformation time bomb, will 100% be abused www.404media.c…

Google Earth’s New AI Lets Anyone Fabricate Completely Bullshit Satellite Images 404media.co
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  • Google launched an AI image feature in Google Earth on Thursday and pulled it within a day after 404 Media showed fabricated scenes.
  • The tool used Nano Banana 2 to render text prompts onto real satellite data, generating fake bomb craters, nuclear sites, and protests.
  • Named experts including Henk Van Ess and Ross Burley warned the launch could erode decades of built-up trust in Google Earth imagery.
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this guardian piece is getting a lot of attention here, but this closer truly pushes us toward peak AI absurdity. www.theguardian.com/technology/2... 🙄

Could AI be conscious? theguardian.com
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i hope this gets the attention it deserves, beyond AI in a technical sense. lots to grok here.

Encyclical Letter of His Holiness Leo XIV Magnifica Humanitas (15 May 2026) vatican.va
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  • Pope Leo XIV's 42,300-word Magnifica Humanitas, signed May 15 and published May 25, addresses AI as the central challenge to human dignity.
  • The encyclical states AI systems are 'cultivated' not 'built' and explicitly denies they possess experience, a body, or the capacity to feel pain.
  • Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah spoke at the Vatican's May 25 presentation alongside theologians and three cardinals.
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Sam Gregory @samgregory.bsky.social

What "on earth"? The prioritization of ground truth for journalism, and our shared sense of reality - is less important to Google than "custom images to help you visualize history, create real estate plans, and more." And no, us checking every image is not the answer. blog.goo…

Transform any place with Nano Banana in Google Earth blog.google
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  • Google launched Nano Banana 2 image generation inside Google Earth on the web on July 30, 2026, available globally.
  • Users zoom to any location, prompt the model, and get images grounded against real satellite, aerial and 3D imagery.
  • The feature is web-only at launch, with no mobile app support and unspecified daily generation limits and subscription tier.
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this piece highlights three key points: (1) trump admin actively opposes AI safety reg; (2) zuck & others essentially say trust-but-don't-verify; (3) the industry is in disarray in the face of public hatred of them/their opacity/their clear self-interest/their public disavowal…

‘If you’re building Frankenstein, stop’: JD Vance dismisses calls for AI regulation theguardian.com
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  • US Vice-President JD Vance told frontier AI labs on the All-In podcast that if they are 'building Frankenstein,' they should stop, not seek federal regulation.
  • Vance called industry appeals for AI rules 'a bit of a Trojan horse,' suggesting incumbent labs want regulation to lock in their position.
  • The rebuke followed Anthropic co-founder Dario Amodei's essay 'We Must Pace the Frontier,' which urged coordinated slowdowns among leading AI labs.
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🧵A quick note to translate what's really happening in this NYT op-ed: Eric Schmidt has always had contempt for non-tech people, reflective of a deeper orientation in the industry. This is more of that. Short 🧵🧵🧵

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sam altman lives on another planet www.ft.com/content/0c2e...

ft.com
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as if the UN didn't have enough troubles also: curious what the non-aggressive techniques might be

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while focusing on AI, pope leo reinforces (quietly, a kind of subtweet) opposition to trump admin's complete denigration of human rights. it has two components. the first is normative, as here:

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i can see various benefits AI technologies bring in specific areas, but overall i have a deep sense of doom about how govts & private actors will be/are deploying the tech to supercharge surveillance, manipulate media, & just f**k with human rights across the board.

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in a world that made sense, even if AI threats are overstated, government would act. but they don’t. captured, dysfunctional, competitive, greedy, incompetent. take your pick.

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my main AI concern is it’s getting close to too late for regulation. we have multiple use technologies that have already been let loose in the world. ideally the companies would have done some form of corporate/human rights due diligence first, required by law, well before release. but nope.

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