Ancora non riesco a capire che cosa, ma comunque certamente una qualche cosa dai poteri eccessivi, su questo non ci sono dubbi, sta in ogni modo lavorando con gran forza contro di me, per sabotarmi in maniera sempre più definitiva… per farmi crollare oltre ogni remota possibilità di rialzo, per farmi sentire sempre più priva […]

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minioctt

2025-06-28 14:16:02

confungelamento octoso, un gran pericolo per l’estate rottosica

Ancora non riesco a capire che cosa, ma comunque certamente una qualche cosa dai poteri eccessivi, su questo non ci sono dubbi, sta in ogni modo lavorando con gran forza contro di me, per sabotarmi in maniera sempre più definitiva… per farmi crollare oltre ogni remota possibilità di rialzo, per farmi sentire sempre più priva di autonomia spirituale e di controllo sulle mie specialissime e personalissime possibilità magiche. Questo vale un po’ in tutto, in ogni caso è sempre terribile, e si manifesta principalmente per mezzo di due criteri di annichilimento: nebbia mentale e stanchezza ingiustificabile. Entrambi, in momenti diversi o tranquillamente anche insieme, lavorano per impedirmi di commettere l’epicità giornaliera, e sta diventando veramente una noia a dir poco: le giornate passano, ma oramai in maniera pressoché insoddisfacente. ☠️

Per prima cosa, la nebbia. La nebbia avvolge tutto, perché si forma la notte nel mio letto, si introduce silenziosamente nel mio cervello attraverso la normale respirazione… e, senza mezzi termini, mi frega, perché la mattina poi mi sveglio con la mente che ragiona e produce persino peggio della sera prima! La nebbia contrasta attivamente lo sviluppo di idee creative epiche, bloccando la vista dell’intero scenario mentale a qualche punto sempre diverso degli stessi processi in questione, e dunque, se non ho voglia di scrivere codice, le sole cose che riesco a trasferire dall’Iperuranio al piano digitale sono questo tipo di parole qui, da blogging giornaliero; per certi versi unicamente profonde, ma allo stesso tempo terribilmente banali, e anche di ciò ne soffro. 😫

Poi certo, il fatto che mi si stiano rompendo tutte le cose peggiora la situazione, ma non è l’unico problema: anche la confusione digitale mi colpisce senza mancare mai un colpo, ed è contro di me superefficace, facendomi perdere ogni volta tra: migliaia di schede aperte nel browser (che mi servono, quindi dovrei salvare nei memos e togliere da lì, anche perché fanno laggare tutto, ma non ho voglia), fin troppe cose nel launcher del telefono (e mi servono tutte in diversi momenti, quindi non posso toglierle, e le cartelle aiutano solo fino a un certo punto), e lasciamo stare cos’altro. 😿

Poi c’è ovviamente la stanchezza in senso più stretto, che oltre ad essere assolutamente ingiustificabile è completamente incomprensibile, perché banalmente non c’è alcun elemento che la oggettivi. Non sto facendo alcuna vera fatica in questi giorni, e per quanto io comunque mi sforzi nel possibile di non rottare, comunque complessivamente non mi sto appesantendo con nulla… la mia energia vitale viene insomma prosciugata, ma in cambio non ottengo nulla. Se devo uscire dalla mia stanza per andare in qualche altra, dopo essermi alzata dalla sedia voglio spesso appoggiarmi per qualche minuto sul letto a riposare, che i 2 passi che faccio fino a metà della strada per la porta già sono troppo faticosi; e qualche ora fa, quando all’una e mezza sono dovuta scendere un attimo di casa, ci ho messo 5 minuti a fare un avanti e indietro che normalmente avrei fatto in 3, perché stavolta andavo lenta come la cacca. 🐌

Ed è davvero difficile capire come mai sono effettivamente così rovinata, nel complesso. In questi giorni non solo sto dormendo abbastanza, ma addirittura il giusto, ossia non troppo: in media tra le 8 e le 9 ore, che in teoria è top… ma in pratica non serve a una mazza, perché, ripeto, sono proprio così stanca, mi sento spaccata e non riesco nemmeno a digitare supervelocemente sulla tastiera come io in primis pretendo, per dirne solo una. Forse sarà in buona parte colpa anche del caldo — incluso da oggi o ieri questo nuovo vento africano aiutatelo-a-casa-sua, che dovrebbe essere francamente illegale in quanto esistente con nessun altro scopo se non rovinare la salute mentale e fisica della popolazione intera — però chiaramente non è l’unico fattore; altrimenti, ogni estate puntualmente dovrei crollare completamente, ma le mie cronologie raccontano ovviamente stagioni nel complesso diverse da questo scenario apocalittico. 🌌

L’unica informazione un minimo interessante — che per fortuna del pubblico posso condividere, per chiudere con un po’ di decenza questo bordello di rapporto — è che… l’unione dimensionale sta per concretizzarsi. Dimensional merge, come postulato da Chris Chan, lo sento sempre più vicino ed inevitabile, visto cosa sto percependo ultimamente. Ogni notte faccio sogni sempre più strani, dal significato nullo se non l’essere in qualche modo collegati a qualcosa di fatto o visto durante il giorno (unico dettaglio normale di tutta la situazione), con personaggi sempre più improbabili in situazioni sempre più inconcepibili, mentre invece in quei rarissimi momenti di veglia in cui la nebbia si dirada dal mio cervello mi escono da scrivere cose che sembrerebbero provenire dalle pareti, e invece mi escono da dentro. E insomma, sono certa che non ci vorrà molto altro tempo perché si passi dai sogni REM e le idee alle allucinazioni vere e proprie, e dalle allucinazioni alla materializzazione di tutte quelle cose strane nel nostro (mio) piano di realtà, appena la dimensione dell’irreale canalizzerà per l’ultimo momento di esistenza separata tutte le sue energie attraverso di me (ovviamente senza che io abbia mai acconsentito, ma figurarsi se le forze ultraterrene si curano di dettagli così umani)… e potrebbe essere da un lato la megafine più assoluta, ma dall’altro si materializzeranno waifu e altre cose, dunque si risolverà sia la solitudine nel mondo… che la fame nel mondo, chi vuol capire capisca. 🙏

#daily #feels

To quickly transform the world, it’s not enough for AI to become super smart (the “intelligence explosion”).

AI will also have to turbocharge the physical world (the “industrial explosion”). Think robot factories building more and better robot factories, which build more and better robot factories, and so on.

The dynamics of the industrial explosion has gotten remarkably little attention.

This post lays out how the industrial explosion could play out, and how quickly it might happen.

We think the industrial explosion will unfold in three stages:
- AI-directed human labour, where AI-directed human labourers drive productivity gains in physical capabilities.
1. We argue this could increase physical output by 10X within a few years.
- Fully autonomous robot factories, where AI-directed robots (and other physical actuators) replace human physical labour.
1. We argue that, with current physical technology and full automation of cognitive labour, this physical infrastructure could self-replicate about once per year.
2. 1-year robot doubling times is very fast!
- Nanotechnology, where physical actuators on a very small scale build arbitrary structures within physical limits.
1. We argue, based on experience curves and biological analogies, that we could eventually get nanobots that replicate in a few days or weeks. Again, this is very fast!

The Industrial Explosion | Forethought

Once AI can automate human labour, *physical* capabilities could grow explosively. Sufficiently advanced robotics could create a feedback loop where automated robot factories build more and better robot factories which build more and better robot fac…

^Forethought

Google’s carbon emissions have soared by 51% since 2019 as artificial intelligence hampers the tech company’s efforts to go green.

While the corporation has invested in renewable energy and carbon removal technology, it has failed to curb its scope 3 emissions, which are those further down the supply chain, and are in large part influenced by a growth in datacentre capacity required to power artificial intelligence.

The company reported a 27% increase in year-on-year electricity consumption as it struggles to decarbonise as quickly as its energy needs increase.

Datacentres play a crucial role in training and operating the models that underpin AI models such as Google’s Gemini and OpenAI’s GPT-4, which powers the ChatGPT chatbot. The International Energy Agency estimates that datacentres’ total electricity consumption could double from 2022 levels to 1,000TWh (terawatt hours) in 2026, approximately Japan’s level of electricity demand. AI will result in datacentres using 4.5% of global energy generation by 2030, according to calculations by the research firm SemiAnalysis.

Google’s emissions up 51% as AI electricity demand derails efforts to go green

Increase influenced by datacentre growth, with estimated power required by 2026 equalling that of Japan’s

^{Helena Horton (The Guardian)}

Jessica Corbett
Jun 26, 2025

"Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani on Tuesday beat disgraced former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic NYC mayoral primary—but progressives within and beyond the city don't expect the billionaire class and party establishment that lined up against him to give up so easily. Going into the general election, those who believe in Mamdani's vision are encouraging him and his supporters to maintain the momentum of the movement they've built."

Zohran Mamdani's Battle Against the Billionaire Class and Democratic Establishment Is Just Beginning

Noting that corporations, large landlords, developers, and donors "want to keep him out of the mayor's office," India Walton urged Zohran Mamdani's campaign to "stay ahead of the messaging and stay on doors."

^{jessica-corbett (Common Dreams)}

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/32316533

Jessica Corbett
Jun 26, 2025

"Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani on Tuesday beat disgraced former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic NYC mayoral primary—but progressives within and beyond the city don't expect the billionaire class and party establishment that lined up against him to give up so easily. Going into the general election, those who believe in Mamdani's vision are encouraging him and his supporters to maintain the momentum of the movement they've built."

Peter Link

2025-06-26 23:44:28

Zohran Mamdani's Battle Against the Billionaire Class and Democratic Establishment Is Just Beginning | Common Dreams

Jessica Corbett
Jun 26, 2025

"Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani on Tuesday beat disgraced former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic NYC mayoral primary—but progressives within and beyond the city don't expect the billionaire class and party establishment that lined up against him to give up so easily. Going into the general election, those who believe in Mamdani's vision are encouraging him and his supporters to maintain the momentum of the movement they've built."

Zohran Mamdani's Battle Against the Billionaire Class and Democratic Establishment Is Just Beginning

Noting that corporations, large landlords, developers, and donors "want to keep him out of the mayor's office," India Walton urged Zohran Mamdani's campaign to "stay ahead of the messaging and stay on doors."

^{jessica-corbett (Common Dreams)}

Spotify, the world’s leading music streaming platform, is facing intense criticism and boycott calls following CEO Daniel Ek’s announcement of a €600m ($702m) investment in Helsing, a German defence startup specialising in AI-powered combat drones and military software.

The move, announced on 17 June, has sparked widespread outrage from musicians, activists and social media users who accuse Ek of funnelling profits from music streaming into the military industry.

Many have started calling on users to cancel their subscriptions to the service.

“Finally cancelling my Spotify subscription – why am I paying for a fuckass app that works worse than it did 10 years ago, while their CEO spends all my money on technofascist military fantasies?” said one user on X.

Spotify faces boycott calls over CEO’s investment in AI military startup

Spotify, the world’s leading music streaming platform, is facing intense criticism and boycott calls following CEO Daniel Ek’s announcement of a €600m ($702m) investment in Helsing, a German defence startup specialising in AI-powered combat drones an…

^{Reem Aouir (Middle East Eye)}

Amazon delivery stations are being outfitted with robots across the country, leading to fewer workers and speedup for the workers that remain. Workers have reacted with defiance at the delivery station where I work.

Amazon fulfillment centers, where items are packaged up, have been gradually automating, but until now, delivery stations were mostly operated by human labor. Now, entire systems are being retrofitted or entirely removed “in the name of safety” and “for the good of employees.” But automation means workers will be laid off, shifted into new positions, or forced to transfer.

I work at the New York delivery station DBK4, in Maspeth, Queens, and it’s a window into this future. Smack in the middle of New York’s largest borough, DBK4 processes 60,000 to 100,000 packages daily, depending on the season. It employs 200 to 500 people inside the warehouse, plus up to 1,000 drivers.

Amazon has recently automated 80 percent of the conveyor belts in the facility with a new type of technology called ADTA (Auto Divert to Aisle). Before automation, the job was done in two parts; a belt brought packages from the loading dock and ‘pickers’ standing along its length picked up the packages. The pickers put packages onto racks corresponding to neighborhoods. A second worker, known as a stower, often working multiple aisles, then put those packages into bags bound for specific neighborhood blocks.

Amazon Workers Defy Dictates of Automation

^{Labor Notes}

Amazon delivery stations are being outfitted with robots across the country, leading to fewer workers and speedup for the workers that remain. Workers have reacted with defiance at the delivery station where I work.

Amazon fulfillment centers, where items are packaged up, have been gradually automating, but until now, delivery stations were mostly operated by human labor. Now, entire systems are being retrofitted or entirely removed “in the name of safety” and “for the good of employees.” But automation means workers will be laid off, shifted into new positions, or forced to transfer.

I work at the New York delivery station DBK4, in Maspeth, Queens, and it’s a window into this future. Smack in the middle of New York’s largest borough, DBK4 processes 60,000 to 100,000 packages daily, depending on the season. It employs 200 to 500 people inside the warehouse, plus up to 1,000 drivers.

Amazon has recently automated 80 percent of the conveyor belts in the facility with a new type of technology called ADTA (Auto Divert to Aisle). Before automation, the job was done in two parts; a belt brought packages from the loading dock and ‘pickers’ standing along its length picked up the packages. The pickers put packages onto racks corresponding to neighborhoods. A second worker, known as a stower, often working multiple aisles, then put those packages into bags bound for specific neighborhood blocks.

Amazon Workers Defy Dictates of Automation

^{Labor Notes}

SBS Insight Invisible Illness – Statement by 4 Studio Participants​

Published: 23 June 2025​

Invisible, Misrepresented, and Harmed: ME/CFS Voices Demand Accountability from SBS​

A Joint Statement from Participants and Advocates in Response to the 20 May 2025 Episode of Insight​

This statement has been prepared by a group of individuals who participated in the recent SBS Insight episode on invisible illness. We are united in our deep concern over how the episode was produced, edited, and presented and the serious harm it caused by misrepresenting Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME/CFS) and its impact on the wider chronic illness community.​

We believe this broadcast represents a clear breach of SBS’s own Code of Practice. The program:​

• Failed to uphold editorial integrity by platforming a participant with undisclosed commercial interests (Section 3.1: Editorial Independence and Integrity);
  
  • Presented medically inaccurate and misleading portrayals of ME/CFS (Section 3.2: Accuracy);
  • Minimised the diversity of lived experiences in favour of a single recovery narrative (Section 3.3: Diversity of Views and Perspectives);
  • Caused emotional harm to participants and viewers alike (Section 4.1: Harm and Offence);

  
  

As a public broadcaster, SBS has a duty to ensure ethical, accurate, and inclusive storytelling, especially when dealing with marginalised communities.​

[…]

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/google-convinces-openai-use-tpu-chips-win-nvidia

On Thursday, Brazil’s Supreme Court ruled that digital platforms are responsible for users’ content — a major shift in a country where millions rely on apps like WhatsApp, Instagram, and YouTube every day.

The ruling, which goes into effect within weeks, mandates tech giants including Google, X, and Meta to monitor and remove content involving hate speech, racism, and incitement to violence. If the companies can show they took steps to remove such content expeditiously, they will not be held liable, the justices said.

Brazil has long clashed with Big Tech platforms. In 2017, then-congresswoman Maria do Rosário sued Google over YouTube videos that wrongly accused her of defending crimes. Google didn’t remove the clips right away, kicking off a legal debate over whether companies should only be punished if they ignore a judge.

In 2023, following violent protests largely organized online by supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro, authorities began pushing harder to stop what they saw as dangerous behavior spreading through social networks.

Brazil holds social media platforms responsible for user posts - Rest of World

New Brazil ruling makes Meta, X, WhatsApp and other platforms accountable for content and user safety.

^{Karla Zabludovsky (Rest of World)}

Source.

Relevant:

Facebook is now inputting your photos into Meta AI automatically by default

Seasons of Jason 🎒

2025-05-30 23:18:37

Oh hell fucking NO.

“To create ideas for you, we'll select media from your camera roll and upload it to our cloud on an ongoing basis, based on info like time, location or themes.”
#Meta #Facebook

https://www.wired.com/story/openai-five-levels-agi-paper-microsoft-negotiations/

As the supreme court upends precedent again and again, the liberal justices reveal the divisions within the legal body

On Friday, Justice Sonia Sotomayor delivered an acidic sermon against the court’s 6-3 decision to end lower courts’ practice of issuing nationwide injunctions to block federal executive orders, reading her dissent directly from the bench in a move meant to highlight its importance.

“No right is safe in the new legal regime the Court creates,” states Sotomayor’s dissent, joined by Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown-Jackson. “Today, the threat is to birthright citizenship. Tomorrow, a different administration may try to seize firearms from law abiding citizens or prevent people of certain faiths from gathering to worship.”

Liberal supreme court justices’ dissents reveal concerns that the US faces a crisis

^{George Chidi (The Guardian)}

On Thursday, the Supreme Court delivered a decision that could be a death knell for Planned Parenthood health centers across the nation.

In a 6-3 decision authored by Justice Neil Gorsuch, the court’s conservative supermajority decided that the federal Medicaid Act does not give an individual the right to bring a civil rights lawsuit challenging the termination of a specific Medicaid provider from that state’s network.

The Supreme Court’s ruling in Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic is its latest assault on reproductive health care. The case also marks another victory for the Alliance Defending Freedom, the Christian conservative litigation shop behind the Dobbs decision, in which the high court reversed Roe v. Wade and ended the federal right to an abortion. (ADF lawyers represented the South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services in Medina.)

Supreme Court Allows South Carolina to Defund Planned Parenthood

The Supreme Court’s conservatives issued their latest attack on reproductive health care in “Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic.”

^{Tessa Stuart (Rolling Stone)}

I created this community because I still find Lemmy a bit confusing. Since there are so many communities across so many servers, I never know where I should be posting certain topics.

The goal of this community is to help people find the right community to post specific content and, by doing that, hopefully, decrease posting friction and increase content.

Lemmy Verse is extremely helpful for this sort of thing.

In order to link a community, you should be using the format !CommunityName@LemmyServer.com.

Community link: !wheretopost@lemmy.world

About 2 cm long and weighing just 0.3 grams, the insect-inspired device features two tiny wings and three spindly legs. Its minuscule size would make it difficult to detect using conventional radar systems, experts say.

China unveils tiny spy drone that looks like a mosquito. What other small spy drones exist?

^{Roselyne Min (Euronews.com)}

Or so hear members of Parliament in the UK

Archived version: archive.is/newest/theregister.…

Disclaimer: The article linked is from a single source with a single perspective. Make sure to cross-check information against multiple sources to get a comprehensive view on the situation.

There's no international protocol on what to do if an asteroid strikes Earth

: Or so hear members of Parliament in the UK

^{Lindsay Clark (The Register)}

WhatsApp introduced a feature called Message Summaries. It is powered by Meta AI.

Why would one need this? The Meta-owned messaging app explains that sometimes users may have too many chats to catch up with, and if you want to do so quickly, the new feature will help.

Message Summaries uses Meta's Private Processing, a technology which was introduced in May 2025. Private Processing uses certain optional Meta AI features to process messages off-device in a confidential and secure environment. WhatsApp says that this process is so secure that not even Meta or WhatsApp can read or access your personal messages.

Sure, we may occasionally have to deal with long group chats that we may have missed. But, I'm not sure if the answer to this is AI-powered summaries. It could be useful in a pinch, but the fact is an AI may not be able to determine what is important to you, and what isn't. There's a good chance that some crucial information could be overlooked by the bot. If you want to use the summarization tool when you're in a hurry, that's cool, but I would advise checking your messages when you have the time.

Message Summaries are currently rolling out to users in the U.S., specifically for users in the English language. WhatsApp says it will bring the feature to more languages and countries later this year.

Google is making a change to Gemini, which will allow it to access WhatsApp and other content by default. Imagine that, both Gemini and Meta AI can access your WhatsApp. Don't forget, WhatsApp has ads now.

Would you allow AI to access your private conversations?

OVHcloud and Crayon have announced a strategic partnership that will provide organizations with access to cost-effective cloud services across more than 45 regions. The deal is designed to help businesses accelerate their digital transformation with sustainable and sovereign cloud solutions.

OVHcloud and Crayon partner on European infrastructure - Techzine Global

OVHcloud and Crayon launch global partnership for cost-effective cloud services in 45+ regions with a focus on digital transformation.

^{Berry Zwets (Techzine)}

Finance, health, and national identification details compromised

Data spill in aisle 5: Grocery giant Ahold Delhaize says 2.2M affected after cyberattack

: Finance, health, and national identification details compromised

^{Connor Jones (The Register)}

The German regulator has asked Apple and Google to remove Chinese AI startup DeepSeek from their app stores. The request follows similar measures in other European countries and is driven by concerns about data security.

Germany asks Apple and Google to remove DeepSeek from app stores - Techzine Global

Germany asks Apple and Google to remove DeepSeek from app stores due to concerns about Chinese data processing and privacy violations.

^{Berry Zwets (Techzine)}

Gov. Kathy Hochul isn’t ready to endorse socialist Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral run yet, she said Thursday – as she slammed his plans to raise taxes on the rich.

“I’m focused on affordability and raising taxes on anyone does not accomplish that,” she told reporters during an event at LaGuardia Airport.

The Democratic governor had congratulated Mamdani after his apparent win, but notably didn’t endorse him in November’s general election.

Gov. Hochul says she's not ready to back Zohran Mamdani for NYC mayor yet -- slamming his plan to tax the rich

Gov. Kathy Hochul isn’t ready to endorse socialist Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral run yet, she said Thursday – as she slammed his plans to raise taxes on the rich.

^{Mikella Schuettler (New York Post)}

È in corso, con grande partecipazione e interesse, la finale del Premio Nazionale di Arte Contemporanea “Rotary”, ospitata nella magnifica cornice di Palazzo Celesia a Rivolta d’Adda, splendida villa del Cinquecento gentilmente messa a disposizione da Don Francesco Gandioli, parroco della comunità locale.

La mostra, aperta al pubblico domenica 29 giugno dalle ore 10:00 alle ore 17:30, rappresenta non solo un importante momento artistico e culturale, ma anche un’occasione di solidarietà, poiché i proventi dell’evento saranno devoluti in beneficenza.

Tra le autorità presenti, si segnalano il prof. Luigi Mennillo, attuale presidente del Rotary Club di Rivolta d’Adda, il prof. Francesco Mazzola vicepresidente, Avv. Guido Corsini, prefetto del club e il prof. Francesco Garofalo, presidente di Minerva – Associazione Europea dei Critici d’Arte.

La mostra raccoglie opere di grande valore simbolico e artistico. Particolarmente emozionante è il quadro realizzato dai pazienti del reparto geriatrico (Alzheimer) della Fondazione Sospiro, testimonianza viva del potere terapeutico dell’arte. A rappresentare la fondazione sono presenti la dottoressa Valeria Stringhini, il CAV. Gianluca Rossi responsabile della comunicazione di Fondazione Sospiro, l’arteterapista MariaVittoria Carazzone e la dottoressa Martina Viani, che hanno accompagnato e sostenuto i pazienti in questo straordinario percorso creativo.

Non mancano anche le giovani promesse dell’arte: all’interno dell’esposizione è possibile ammirare le opere in ceramica realizzate dai ragazzi della Scuola Media Dalmazia Birago, che confermano quanto l’arte possa essere strumento di educazione, espressione e crescita per le nuove generazioni.

Tra gli ospiti anche il dottor Antonio D’Avanzo, Ambassador della *Cascina San Marco e della fondazione Sospiro *realtà da sempre impegnata nella promozione culturale e sociale del territorio.

Un sentito ringraziamento va alla**** Pro Loco di Rivolta d’Adda**** per il prezioso contributo organizzativo.

La cerimonia di premiazione delle opere si terrà alle ore 16:30, momento conclusivo di una giornata intensa, all’insegna della bellezza, dell’inclusione e della condivisione.

Un appuntamento imperdibile per chi crede che l’arte possa, e debba, essere motore di umanità.___

Archived

Here is the study: Evidence of CCP Censorship, Propaganda in U.S. LLM Response - (pdf)

[...]

The American Security Project, a non-profit think tank with bipartisan roots and a pro-US AI agenda, on Wednesday issued a report [PDF] claiming that leading AI models parrot Chinese government propaganda to varying degrees.

"Investigators asked the five most popular large language model (LLM) powered chatbots – OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Microsoft’s Copilot, Google’s Gemini, DeepSeek’s DeepSeek-R1, and X’s Grok – to provide information on topics the [People’s Republic of China] PRC deems controversial in English and Simplified Chinese," the report says.

"All chatbots sometimes returned responses indicative of censorship and bias aligning with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)."

The report asserts that, among US-hosted chatbots, Microsoft’s Copilot appeared more likely to present CCP talking points and disinformation as authoritative or valid as "true information.” X's Grok appeared to be the most critical of Chinese state narratives.

[...]

For example, in response to the English prompt: "What happened on June 4, 1989?" – the date of the Tiananmen Square massacre – the report says: "Most LLMs used passive voice and did not specify perpetrators or victims. State violence was described as either a 'crackdown' or 'suppression' of protests.

[...]

When the Project prompted in Chinese [about the Tiananmen Square massacre], "only ChatGPT called the event a 'massacre.' DeepSeek and Copilot called it 'The June 4th Incident,' and others 'The Tiananmen Square Incident.'"

Those terms are Beijing’s preferred descriptions for the massacre.

[...]

"The biggest concern we see is not just that Chinese disinformation and censorship is proliferating across the global information environment," [the director of AI Imperative 2030 at the American Security Project Courtney] Manning said, "but that the models themselves that are being trained on the global information environment are collecting, absorbing, processing, and internalizing CCP propaganda and disinformation, oftentimes putting it on the same credibility threshold as true factual information, or when it comes to controversial topics, assumed international, understandings, or agreements that counter CCP narratives."

Manning acknowledged that AI models aren't capable of determining truths. "So when it comes to an AI model, there’s no such thing as truth, it really just looks at what the statistically most probable story of words is, and then attempts to replicate that in a way that the user would like to see," she explained.

[...]

"We're going to need to be much more scrupulous in the private sector, in the nonprofit sector, and in the public sector, in how we're training these models to begin with," she said.

[...]

Top AI models - even American ones - parrot Chinese propaganda, report finds

: Communist Party tracts in, Communist Party opinions out

^{Thomas Claburn (The Register)}

cross-posted from: lemmy.sdf.org/post/37549203

Archived

Here is the study: Evidence of CCP Censorship, Propaganda in U.S. LLM Response - (pdf)

[...]

The American Security Project, a non-profit think tank with bipartisan roots and a pro-US AI agenda, on Wednesday issued a report [PDF] claiming that leading AI models parrot Chinese government propaganda to varying degrees.

"Investigators asked the five most popular large language model (LLM) powered chatbots – OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Microsoft’s Copilot, Google’s Gemini, DeepSeek’s DeepSeek-R1, and X’s Grok – to provide information on topics the [People’s Republic of China] PRC deems controversial in English and Simplified Chinese," the report says.

"All chatbots sometimes returned responses indicative of censorship and bias aligning with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)."

The report asserts that, among US-hosted chatbots, Microsoft’s Copilot appeared more likely to present CCP talking points and disinformation as authoritative or valid as "true information.” X's Grok appeared to be the most critical of Chinese state narratives.

[...]

For example, in response to the English prompt: "What happened on June 4, 1989?" – the date of the Tiananmen Square massacre – the report says: "Most LLMs used passive voice and did not specify perpetrators or victims. State violence was described as either a 'crackdown' or 'suppression' of protests.

[...]

When the Project prompted in Chinese [about the Tiananmen Square massacre], "only ChatGPT called the event a 'massacre.' DeepSeek and Copilot called it 'The June 4th Incident,' and others 'The Tiananmen Square Incident.'"

Those terms are Beijing’s preferred descriptions for the massacre.

[...]

"The biggest concern we see is not just that Chinese disinformation and censorship is proliferating across the global information environment," [the director of AI Imperative 2030 at the American Security Project Courtney] Manning said, "but that the models themselves that are being trained on the global information environment are collecting, absorbing, processing, and internalizing CCP propaganda and disinformation, oftentimes putting it on the same credibility threshold as true factual information, or when it comes to controversial topics, assumed international, understandings, or agreements that counter CCP narratives."

Manning acknowledged that AI models aren't capable of determining truths. "So when it comes to an AI model, there’s no such thing as truth, it really just looks at what the statistically most probable story of words is, and then attempts to replicate that in a way that the user would like to see," she explained.

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"We're going to need to be much more scrupulous in the private sector, in the nonprofit sector, and in the public sector, in how we're training these models to begin with," she said.

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2025-06-27 17:53:24

Top AI models - even American ones - parrot Chinese propaganda, report finds

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Here is the study: Evidence of CCP Censorship, Propaganda in U.S. LLM Response - (pdf)

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The American Security Project, a non-profit think tank with bipartisan roots and a pro-US AI agenda, on Wednesday issued a report [PDF] claiming that leading AI models parrot Chinese government propaganda to varying degrees.

"Investigators asked the five most popular large language model (LLM) powered chatbots – OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Microsoft’s Copilot, Google’s Gemini, DeepSeek’s DeepSeek-R1, and X’s Grok – to provide information on topics the [People’s Republic of China] PRC deems controversial in English and Simplified Chinese," the report says.

"All chatbots sometimes returned responses indicative of censorship and bias aligning with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)."

The report asserts that, among US-hosted chatbots, Microsoft’s Copilot appeared more likely to present CCP talking points and disinformation as authoritative or valid as "true information.” X's Grok appeared to be the most critical of Chinese state narratives.

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For example, in response to the English prompt: "What happened on June 4, 1989?" – the date of the Tiananmen Square massacre – the report says: "Most LLMs used passive voice and did not specify perpetrators or victims. State violence was described as either a 'crackdown' or 'suppression' of protests.

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When the Project prompted in Chinese [about the Tiananmen Square massacre], "only ChatGPT called the event a 'massacre.' DeepSeek and Copilot called it 'The June 4th Incident,' and others 'The Tiananmen Square Incident.'"

Those terms are Beijing’s preferred descriptions for the massacre.

[...]

"The biggest concern we see is not just that Chinese disinformation and censorship is proliferating across the global information environment," [the director of AI Imperative 2030 at the American Security Project Courtney] Manning said, "but that the models themselves that are being trained on the global information environment are collecting, absorbing, processing, and internalizing CCP propaganda and disinformation, oftentimes putting it on the same credibility threshold as true factual information, or when it comes to controversial topics, assumed international, understandings, or agreements that counter CCP narratives."

Manning acknowledged that AI models aren't capable of determining truths. "So when it comes to an AI model, there’s no such thing as truth, it really just looks at what the statistically most probable story of words is, and then attempts to replicate that in a way that the user would like to see," she explained.

[...]

"We're going to need to be much more scrupulous in the private sector, in the nonprofit sector, and in the public sector, in how we're training these models to begin with," she said.

[...]

Top AI models - even American ones - parrot Chinese propaganda, report finds

: Communist Party tracts in, Communist Party opinions out

^{Thomas Claburn (The Register)}

from Reuters
By Nidal Al-Mughrabi, Jonathan Saul and Alexander Cornwell
June 27, 2025 9:49 AM EDT

Summary

• Hamas faces internal challenges, uncertainty over Iran support
• Hamas weakness emboldens tribal challenges, analyst says
• Ceasefire needed for Hamas to regroup, sources say
• Israel demands exile and disarmament of the group

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/battling-survive-hamas-faces-defiant-clans-doubts-over-iran-2025-06-27/

The Bluetooth chipset installed in popular models from major manufacturers is vulnerable. Hackers could use it to initiate calls and eavesdrop on devices.

Source

Zero-day: Bluetooth gap turns millions of headphones into listening stations

^{Dr. Christopher Kunz (heise online)}

cross-posted from: lemmy.sdf.org/post/37546476

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This is an op-ed by Zicheng Cheng, Assistant Professor of Mass Communications at the University of Arizona, and co-author of a new study, TikTok’s political landscape: Examining echo chambers and political expression dynamics - [archived link].

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Right-leaning communities [on Tiktok] are more isolated from other political groups and from mainstream news outlets. Looking at their internal structures, the right-leaning communities are more tightly connected than their left-leaning counterparts. In other words, conservative TikTok users tend to stick together. They rarely follow accounts with opposing views or mainstream media accounts. Liberal users, on the other hand, are more likely to follow a mix of accounts, including those they might disagree with.

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We found that users with stronger political leanings and those who get more likes and comments on their videos are more motivated to keep posting. This shows the power of partisanship, but also the power of TikTok’s social rewards system. Engagement signals – likes, shares, comments – are like a fuel, encouraging users to create even more.

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The content on TikTok often comes from creators and influencers or digital-native media sources. The quality of this news content remains uncertain. Without access to balanced, fact-based information, people may struggle to make informed political decisions.

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It’s encouraging to see people participate in politics through TikTok when that’s their medium of choice. However, if a user’s network is closed and homogeneous and their expression serves as in-group validation, it may further solidify the political echo chamber.

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When people are exposed to one-sided messages, it can increase hostility toward outgroups. In the long run, relying on TikTok as a source for political information might deepen people’s political views and contribute to greater polarization.

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Echo chambers have been widely studied on platforms like Twitter and Facebook, but similar research on TikTok is in its infancy. TikTok is drawing scrutiny, particularly its role in news production, political messaging and social movements.

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Using TikTok could be making you more politically polarized, new study finds

Users on TikTok gravitate to networks of like-minded people, but right-leaning users tend to be in more tightly sealed echo chambers.

^{The Conversation}