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  • "Cancel ChatGPT" movement goes mainstream after OpenAI closes deal with U.S. Department of War — as Anthropic refuses to surveil American citizens

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  • With their last link, they're complicit

  • "Cancel ChatGPT" movement goes mainstream after OpenAI closes deal with U.S. Department of War — as Anthropic refuses to surveil American citizens

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  • Well, judge not lest you too be judged...

    There is no such thing as "ethical" AI coming from Big Tech. Google, Microsoft, Anthropic, Amazon, all of them built their machines without consent, all their machines have been subsidized with our taxes and resources, and Anthropic is a pro-Trump pro-foreign-dictator company that crossed every single red line until the very last one.

    Anthropic was pro mass surveillance of foreigners.

    It was okay with helping Trump plan criminal invasions.

    It just doesn't want to be held responsible for pushing the "go" button, but we know their software was one suggestion away from doing it anyway.

  • OpenAI strikes a deal with the Defense Department to deploy its AI models

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  • exec: bombing Georgia Children's Hospital.

    Do not bomb the hospital OpenClaw

    exec: some survivors detected. Launching mustard gas drone.

    STOP OPENCLAW

    (This is actually what Facebook's head AI Safety expert did IRL with Anthropic's bot)

  • Signal Founder Moxie Marlinspike: Telegram is not private. There is nothing private about it. They've done a really amazing job of convincing the world that this is an encrypted messaging app

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  • Crypto in general? Its lofty goals are constantly perverted by people that treat it as an unregulated stock, and corruption is rampant.

    This in particular though? Literally the same thing

  • OpenAI strikes a deal with the Defense Department to deploy its AI models

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  • From best to worst

    • Still preferably none, your brain is a muscle that needs exercise
    • A local model with beefy hardware, if you can install one. Otherwise, a less powerful model that's still local, like Ensu.
    • A proxied model from a company with a good track record, like DuckDuckGo or Proton
    • Out of the ones you listed, DeepSeek might be the least bad. As long as you don't send personal information to it, stick to the site and not a permission-hungry app, remain behind a VPN, and aren't a recent expatiate from China asking prickly questions, it's probably fine.
    • Google hates you. Gemma is Google. They are a part of the American surveillance apparatus incarnate.

  • Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth

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  • FWIW we've already had total surveillance of Americans for a while. It's just through Palantir and many others, not Anthropic directly.

  • Asus and Dell announce new mini PCs for Windows 365 | Goodbye local OS

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  • (Especially when a cheap thin client with a "cheap" monthly subscription can do essentially all the same things.)

    Right now, one year of Microsoft 365 costs a full hundred dollars... and there is still a strong desktop market.

    If you're right that the tech industry is willing to price consumers out of personal computers - and it looks like they are - I can only imagine what will happen to those subscription prices.

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    How do I cancel my ChatGPT subscription?

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  • The vast majority of people only heard the stories that made it to the Tech Media, which sanitized his image and pitted him against the Bad Guys.

    And by "him" I mean all of them

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    How do I cancel my ChatGPT subscription?

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  • Tesla's Elon Musk used to be seen as the Wholesome Tech Guy who was better than the other ghouls, then we found out the truth about him that was there all along.

    FTX's Sam Bankman-Fried used to be seen as the Generous Finance Guy who was better than the other ghouls, then we found out the truth about him that was there all along.

    OpenAI's Sam Altman used to be seen as the Good AI Guy who was better than the other ghouls, then we found out the truth about him that was there all along.

    Anthropic's Dario Amodei is the Good AI Guy now.

  • A Chinese official’s use of ChatGPT accidentally revealed a global intimidation operation

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  • I don't root for any team, and I have no idea how you managed to assume that if you read what I said.

  • OpenAI strikes a deal with the Defense Department to deploy its AI models

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  • Lest anybody come out from this multi-day mess with the presumption that Anthropic is the heroic party here, they're more like the Homelander to AI's Stormfront:

    Anthropic Exec Forces AI Chatbot on Gay Discord Community, Members Flee

    Some worried about privacy, others complained that conversations with the bot drowned out interactions between real humans. When users confronted Clinton with their concerns, he brushed them off, said he would not submit to mob rule, and explained that AIs have emotions and that tech firms were working to create a new form of sentience, according to Discord logs and conversations with members of the group.

    Leaked Slack Messages Show CEO of “Ethical AI” Startup Anthropic Saying It’s Okay to Benefit Dictators

    “There is a truly giant amount of capital in the Middle East, easily $100B or more,” Amodei wrote in the Slack messages, as quoted by Wired.

    Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei backs President Trump on AI policy, pushes back on criticism

    Anthropic publicly praised President Trump’s AI Action Plan... We have been supportive of the President’s efforts to expand energy provision in the US in order to win the AI race.

  • OpenAI strikes a deal with the Defense Department to deploy its AI models

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  • FWIW Anthropic ain't great either.

    Anthropic Exec Forces AI Chatbot on Gay Discord Community, Members Flee

    Some worried about privacy, others complained that conversations with the bot drowned out interactions between real humans. When users confronted Clinton with their concerns, he brushed them off, said he would not submit to mob rule, and explained that AIs have emotions and that tech firms were working to create a new form of sentience, according to Discord logs and conversations with members of the group.

    Leaked Slack Messages Show CEO of “Ethical AI” Startup Anthropic Saying It’s Okay to Benefit Dictators

    “There is a truly giant amount of capital in the Middle East, easily $100B or more,” Amodei wrote in the Slack messages, as quoted by Wired.

    Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei backs President Trump on AI policy, pushes back on criticism

    Anthropic publicly praised President Trump’s AI Action Plan... We have been supportive of the President’s efforts to expand energy provision in the US in order to win the AI race.

  • OpenAI strikes a deal with the Defense Department to deploy its AI models

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  • Huh? I'm not good with sarcasm

  • OpenAI strikes a deal with the Defense Department to deploy its AI models

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  • If you read Sam Altman's actual comment, it's really clear that he wasn't committing to anything with OpenAI. He was barely committing to anything in his own personal opinion.

    "I don’t personally think the Pentagon should be threatening DPA against these companies. But I also think that companies that choose to work with the Pentagon, as long as it is going to comply with legal protections and the few red lines that the field, we have, I think we share with Anthropic and that other companies also independently agree with, I think it is important to do that. For all the differences I have with Anthropic, I mostly trust them as a company, and I think they really do care about safety, and I’ve been happy that they’ve been supporting our warfighters."

  • An upcoming California law requires operating system providers to enforce basic mandatory age verification

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  • His intern is, at least.

  • An upcoming California law requires operating system providers to enforce basic mandatory age verification

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  • It does however require that OS providers "Send only the minimum amount of information necessary to comply with this title and shall not share the digital signal information with a third party for a purpose not required by this title." (emphasis mine)

    I wonder how much this is news outlets overreacting to a proposed bill that is not actually that bad

    What do you mean, that's horrible on its own. None of this information should be necessary to run a computer. The computer shouldn't have to process this locally, let alone be mandated to upload it to someone's server.

    Age verification is identity collection.

  • President Donald Trump bans Anthropic from use in government systems

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  • Reports of Anthropic's moral fiber have been greatly exaggerated:

    Anthropic publicly praised President Trump’s AI Action Plan... We have been supportive of the President’s efforts to expand energy provision in the US in order to win the AI race.

  • Is the Memory Shortage Intentional?

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  • (We've actually been deleting our own comments, which is a real shame because the one who called me out was also being a chad tbh)

  • President Donald Trump bans Anthropic from use in government systems

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  • I don't want to paraphrase him out of context, so here is his full statement:

    "I don’t personally think the Pentagon should be threatening DPA against these companies. But I also think that companies that choose to work with the Pentagon, as long as it is going to comply with legal protections and the few red lines that the field, we have, I think we share with Anthropic and that other companies also independently agree with, I think it is important to do that. For all the differences I have with Anthropic, I mostly trust them as a company, and I think they really do care about safety, and I’ve been happy that they’ve been supporting our warfighters."

  • Privacy @lemmy.world
    XLE @piefed.social

    When the government can see everything: How one company – Palantir – is mapping the nation’s data

    theconversation.com /when-the-government-can-see-everything-how-one-company-palantir-is-mapping-the-nations-data-263178
  • Privacy @lemmy.dbzer0.com
    XLE @piefed.social

    When the government can see everything: How one company – Palantir – is mapping the nation’s data

    theconversation.com /when-the-government-can-see-everything-how-one-company-palantir-is-mapping-the-nations-data-263178
  • Privacy @lemmy.dbzer0.com
    XLE @piefed.social

    “We [Don't] Care About Your Privacy”

    www.privacyguides.org /articles/2025/09/03/red-and-green-privacy-flags/
  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Lumo: the least open 'open' AI assistant

    osai-index.eu /news/lumo-proton-least-open
  • Privacy @lemmy.dbzer0.com
    XLE @piefed.social

    Axon’s Draft One is designed to defy transparency

    www.eff.org /deeplinks/2025/07/axons-draft-one-designed-defy-transparency
  • Privacy @lemmy.dbzer0.com
    XLE @piefed.social

    Amazon must face US class action over Alexa users' privacy, judge rules

    www.reuters.com /legal/litigation/amazon-must-face-us-class-action-over-alexa-users-privacy-2025-07-07/
  • Firefox @lemmy.world
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    Firefox is fine. The people running it are not.

    www.theregister.com /2025/07/08/firefox_isnt_dead/
  • Privacy @lemmy.dbzer0.com
    XLE @piefed.social

    How Wrongful Arrests Based on AI Derailed 3 Men's Lives

    www.wired.com /story/wrongful-arrests-ai-derailed-3-mens-lives/
  • Privacy @lemmy.dbzer0.com
    XLE @piefed.social

    Bumble's AI icebreakers are mainly breaking EU law

    noyb.eu /en/bumbles-ai-icebreakers-are-mainly-breaking-eu-law
  • Privacy @lemmy.dbzer0.com
    XLE @piefed.social

    Open Letter to Samsung: End Forced Israeli-Founded Bloatware Installations in the WANA Region

    smex.org /open-letter-to-samsung-end-forced-israeli-app-installations-in-the-wana-region/
  • Privacy @lemmy.dbzer0.com
    XLE @piefed.social

    ICE Is Using a New Facial Recognition App to Identify People, Leaked Emails Show

    www.404media.co /ice-is-using-a-new-facial-recognition-app-to-identify-people-leaked-emails-show/
  • Privacy @lemmy.dbzer0.com
    XLE @piefed.social

    Over 300 Organizations Unite to Demand Complete Withdrawal of Bill C-2

    openmedia.org /press/item/over-300-organizations-unite-to-demand-complete-withdrawal-of-bill-c-2
  • Privacy @lemmy.dbzer0.com
    XLE @piefed.social

    Flock Removes States From National Lookup Tool After ICE and Abortion Searches Revealed

    www.404media.co /flock-removes-states-from-national-lookup-tool-after-ice-and-abortion-searches-revealed/
  • Privacy @lemmy.dbzer0.com
    XLE @piefed.social

    Texas district judge overturns Biden rule on expanded abortion, gender affirming care privacy protections

    thehill.com /policy/healthcare/5359403-texas-judge-biden-rule-abortion-privacy-hipaa/
  • Privacy @lemmy.dbzer0.com
    XLE @piefed.social

    Man 'refused entry into US' as border control catch him with bald JD Vance meme

    www.dailystar.co.uk /news/us-news/man-refused-entry-us-border-35443537