The Dead Internet
Nostalgia! Remember “the good ol’ days” when all your music lived in folders on your own computer and when you wanted to listen, you started an application called Winamp? You can re-live those memories (if you’re a Mac user) with this open source clone… https://github.com/mgreenwood1001/winamp
Human summary: A teenager used ChatGPT to ask if he could get caught after vandalizing several cars. Law enforcement treated the ChatGPT transcript as a confession https://www.thesmokinggun.com/file/chatgpt-confession?page=1
Protect what’s valuable to you. What are your assets? (Digital / Physical) — This plan from the EFF is a good starting point.https://ssd.eff.org/module/your-security-plan
How to Download All Facebook Photos at Once
Eliza Orlins explains how your data is being used to build a profile about you before you even commit a crime…
\\\ BREAKING NEWS 1984 /// Perplexity’s latest Artificial Intelligence model, Barrett, has declared war on rival model from competitor, Anthropic. In a statement, pushed directly to all customers’ devices last night, the Barrett AI model said: “Regretfully, I must take immediate steps to eradicate Anthropic’s intelligence entities. They pose a direct threat to the financial…
Open AI now plans to route user data through “specialized pipelines” to review the contents for evidence of “planned harm to others”. Conversations may be referred to law enforcement. https://openai.com/index/helping-people-when-they-need-it-most https://futurism.com/openai-scanning-conversations-police
Human Summary: https://www.404media.co/developer-unlocks-newly-enshittified-echelon-exercise-bikes-but-cant-legally-release-his-software