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Developing Agents & robotics Analysis 2d ago
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AI agents personal data privacy essay

Friends don’t let friends feed their data to AI agents

3 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

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Meredith Whittaker Hypervisible Michael Zimmer

““With AI agents, tech companies are letting consumers automate their everyday tasks by extending their omnivorous style of mass surveillance to massive amounts of sensitive data.””

“It's just so unlike Zuckerberg to release a product like this.... Friends don’t let friends feed their data to AI agents www.theverge.com/tech/1011938...”

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Established AI field signal Development 5d ago
ChatGPT aided Tumbler Ridge school shooter

ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals

9 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

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Justin Hendrix Olivia Guest Paris Marx Luke Stark Michael Zimmer Amanda Tepski Social Media Lab Jeff Sharlet +1

“Just when I think I can’t hate OpenAI and Sam Altman any more, new details come out about how ChatGPT helped a shooter plan one of the worst mass shootings in Canadian history in Tumbler Ridge, BC. OpenAI made an explicit decision not to report the user to …”

“www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0...”

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Paris Marx: The shooter’s first account was banned, so made a second and ChatGPT explained how to avoid being banned again. It then proceeded to entertain and give advice on violent scenarios over the followin…
Paris Marx: Just when I think I can’t hate OpenAI and Sam Altman any more, new details come out about how ChatGPT helped a shooter plan one of the worst mass shootings in Canadian history in Tumbler Ridge, BC.…
Paris Marx: I read this story and can’t help think of the breathless coverage media has given these delusional fantasies about superintelligent AI killing humanity in ten years, when companies are releasing to…
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Primary source motherjones.com ↗
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3 experts · 7 posts · 21h ago
Sarah T Roberts, PhD Michael Zimmer Jill Walker Rettberg
Sarah T Roberts, PhD: Another friend responded, “I’m wondering who programmed AI that it’s ‘smart’ to write paragraphs-long inquires to overly busy people.” lol. Exactly.
Sarah T Roberts, PhD: I’ve been getting about two requests for PhD supervision per day lately. This is waaaaaay above average. I have an autoreply on that states that I’m not taking any new students this cycle. But a fr…
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