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SPY vs SPY: Networks built using government funds are using citizen informants to flag “misinformation” in private messages

February 19, 2024 -

Executive director of the Foundation for Freedom Online and former State Department official Mike Benz warned on X: “The US gov’t is paying millions of dollars to censorship mercenary firms to build up a snitch network of citizen informants to report private text messages on WhatsApp for ‘misinformation’ – then create a vast database of banned memes & ideas.”

Using government funds, companies are being enlisted to monitor platforms of interest with the aim of getting ...

Biden’s executive order to “censor” AI: Another measure to weaponize the federal government against free speech?

January 02, 2024 - algorithmic discrimination through "proactive equity assessments as part of the system design." The president alleges that "automated systems can produce inequitable outcomes and amplify existing inequity," and "data that fails to account for systemic biases in American society can result in a range of consequences." An example cited was the automated contextualization of social media comments where statements like "I'm a Christian" are more than likely to be shared, while ...

Government-funded entities build network to flag “misinformation” in private messages

February 09, 2024 -

(Article by Didi Rankovic republished from ReclaimTheNet.org)

It’s not just directly pressuring, or “communicating with” – as current White House officials like to put it, social sites; reports are now emerging about companies getting hired to make massive databases of supposedly unlawful speech that are compiled thanks to users effectively spying and reporting on each other on messaging platforms like WhatsApp.

Former State Department official, now executive ...

Father of our country

July 12, 2023 - algorithmic bets derived, abstracted from, and tuned to market movements) magically multiplying money that finally produces nothing of value — though it may translate into yacht purchases, alimony payments, luxury suites at ballparks, private Caribbean islands, and traffic in humans for use as sex toys.

The Biden business model also applies nicely to medicine and higher education, two endeavors saturated in prestige and pomp, like the doings in the White House, but ...

The ministry of AI truth

2 months ago - algorithmic machines. I used myself as an example in this chat, but the subject could have been anyone, any writer, artist, or any other public figure.

I omitted some of the repetitive boilerplate platitudes about Gemini’s noble intentions, but otherwise … well, here’s what happened.That answer seemed slightly imbalanced. So I probed …We are building the infrastructure of human freedom and empowering people to be informed, healthy and aware....

Wendy’s and Google replacing employees with AI chatbots

May 11, 2023 - algorithmic software tool loaded with words, phrases and popular expressions in different dialects and accents and designed to recognize and mimic the syntax and semantics of human speech," according to The Wall Street Journal.

"Generative AI tools are designed to generate natural-language responses, images or computer code from user text prompts."

According to Thomas Kurian, the process of ordering through an AI machine and having it understand you is not all ...

Biden’s regulation of AI usage raises concerns about NARRATIVE CONTROL

December 29, 2023 - algorithmic discrimination through "proactive equity assessments."

These principles, when applied broadly, suggest potential control over AI usage in various sectors, including social media. (Related: AI-powered tools for detecting "hate speech" in gaming chats raise concerns about over-policing, censorship.)

Biden's focus on fighting "inequity" raises questions about defining "high-quality" data and manipulating algorithms to enforce progressive narratives....

EU signs draconian anti-free speech law to “police” the entire internet, take down websites containing “unapproved” speech

September 27, 2023 - algorithmic systems to amplify the spread of disinformation, and for other harmful purposes," the EU claims. "These challenges and the way platforms address them have a significant impact on fundamental rights online."

First passed in October 2022 and scheduled to take effect in November 2022, the DSA is an incremental bill in that the major "teeth" of it are only now taking effect nearly a year after its passage.

The DSA's dedicated website stipulates ...

Failed comedian Zelensky claims that Americans are now backing Russia

9 days ago - algorithmic transparency and adjusting algorithms to prioritize accuracy over user engagement," Reclaim The Net mentioned. "Furthermore, [the letter exhorted] platforms [to] dedicate adequate resources to content 'moderation' and address the growing challenges posed by deepfakes and AI-generated disinfo."

"In response, Meta said it has expanded its fact-checking capabilities in Eastern Europe and implemented measures to combat alleged misinformation related to the conflict ...

Japan to set up ORWELLIAN pre-crime “behavior detection” technology using AI

July 25, 2023 - algorithmic biases into police work.JNPA's foray into AI seeks to prevent another assassination

According to the Daily Mail, the JNPA's move came amid the first anniversary of the appalling assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. It also highlights Tokyo's concerns of the growing threat presented by so-called "lone offenders." The JNPA has struggled to prevent such attacks, with the most recent one unsuccessfully targeting incumbent Prime Minister ...

EU plans to monitor private online chats under the guise of combating child abuse

15 days ago - algorithmic scrutiny without probable cause, potentially leading to unjust outcomes. "Chat control would criminalize innocent people on a massive scale instead of arresting the people behind it. They encrypt the photos and then upload them to a server," he added.

Visit Surveillance.news for more stories on the abuse of surveillance technology.

Watch the video below to learn how apps allow federal enforcement to track phones.This video is from the Mckenna ...

Latest BLS report shows 187K new jobs in August – but in reality, America lost 670K jobs in two months

September 06, 2023 - algorithmic buying in the market – only to quietly revise it lower one and two months later when nobody is looking to ease the glideslope for the coming recession," wrote the site's author.

The website noted that there were at least two revisions made to previous BLS statistics. For example, initial job creation claimed that around 340,000 new nonfarm payroll jobs were made in May. This was then revised twice to 306,000 and then 281,000 nonfarm payroll jobs were ...

Futurist Ben Goertzel predicts AI will surpass human intelligence by 2027

a month ago - algorithmic music composition. "It's quite interesting to play music and have an AI play music back to you. But if you're in an altered state of consciousness, it can be even more interesting," he said. "I think in terms of AI themselves taking drugs, the challenge is more to get the AI to not be in an altered state of consciousness."

According to him, when they were working with their open-source AGI system, it was very easy to make it either obsessive-compulsive and ...

Bombshell Congressional report uncovers well-funded network of election interference and censorship

November 15, 2023 - algorithmic programs.

The EIP can be broken down into four other “partners,” including the following: the Stanford Internet Observatory (SIO), the University of Washington Center for an Informed Public (CIP) Graphika, and, of course, the Atlantic Council. Each organization has a specific role to play in their censorship gambit. One organization conspires to identify and isolate “spreaders of misinformation.” Another organization is tasked with building a psychological ...

Hello Project Icebreaker, goodbye financial freedom

May 08, 2023 - algorithmic precision. It would be a new world of technocratic oppression – allowing ?????????????? or “dekulakization” of individuals or entire regions at the push of a button. At any time, for any reason.

Imagine living under the threat of possible “liquidation” every single day for the rest of your life.

This power that Stalin or Hitler or Chairman Mao could only dream of has only become possible relatively recently. Over the past few years, the combination ...

Hollywood actors, writers go on strike to protect their jobs from AI

August 01, 2023 - algorithmic recommendations or genre tags.

Generative AI refers to the type of AI that can produce text, images and video from input data, an important component of original content creation that can also be used for other purposes, such as advertising.

For some actors, their struggle is not against the sci-fi dystopia of AI itself, but for fair working conditions in their industry and control over their own likeness.

Watch the video below as Health ...

I wrote what? Google’s AI-powered libel machine

2 months ago - algorithmic scoring can be manipulated so certain types of people are censored or de-amplified. The same political biases when built into AI programs could produce virtually unlimited forms of reality-altering mischief, like for instance ChatGPT’s refusal to edit a Lee Fang story about Julian Assange:

God knows what Gemini did in my case, but if caricatures of me riffing on Jews with penis-noses are what come out when Google’s “creative tool” runs my name through ...

The disappearance of integrity from the Western world

September 01, 2023 - algorithmic restriction across platforms is making distribution for non-corporate media a nightmare anyway.”

And remember Tucker Carlson, the most important and profitable media voice, was fired by Fox News for his relentless exposing of the ruling elite’s false narratives. Fox News took a huge financial hit for itself and its shareholders in its attempt to shut down an effective truth-teller. Obviously, controlling the narrative is more important than profit....

WSJ claims Google blacklists sites and makes algorithmic changes to favor big businesses

January 11, 2021 -

According to their report, Google has been blacklisting certain sites since the early 2000s to ensure they do not appear in search results. These changes are separate from those involving sites they are legally required to block, such as those featuring copyright infringement or child abuse and those aimed at demoting spam sites.

In particular, the WSJ said it had seen documents demonstrating that Google News has blacklisted conservative publications. Among the sites ...

Google doubles down on deceiving customers about its political manipulation

June 26, 2019 - algorithmic unfairness” (pdf).

“Imagine that a Google image query for ‘CEOs’ shows predominantly men. Even if it were a factually accurate representation of the world, it would be algorithmic unfairness,” the document says, explaining that in some cases “it may be desirable to consider how we might help society reach a more fair and equitable state, via … product intervention.”

“What does that mean Mr. Slater?” Lesko asked.

“I’m not familiar ...