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  1. “She ( #LieslYearsley ) recalls an incident “many years ago” when she and her #Cognea co-founder #JohnZakos were in the office of a #SocialMedia giant, having built an #AmbientAI that could read a couple of sentences and get a pretty good read on someone’s personality, with a #conversational #UserInterface.”

    “To my shame, I hesitated for a few seconds. I knew if I had said yes, we would have had an early exit and retired, but I knew this would lead to mass #disinformation. So I said ‘Yes, but that’s not why we are here’,” she says. “Someone else said ‘yes’, and we have the world we live in today.”

    “Yearsley doesn’t regret walking away from the chance to make a fortune from #manipulating social media users, but it feeds into her cynical view of the motivations of the giant companies leading the AI charge.”

    “They were there to pitch their technology as a way to detect young users at risk on the platform to provide support – but the unnamed social media giant’s head of mergers and acquisitions joined the meeting with different ideas. They asked if Yearsley’s AI could help it tell Republicans from Democrats, which it could, and also if it could be used to #predict what #news items #users would share.”

    #Australia / #AIAwards / #AI / #ArtificialIntelligence / #technology / #Akin / #Startups / #founders <afr.com/technology/this-pionee>

  2. “She ( #LieslYearsley ) recalls an incident “many years ago” when she and her #Cognea co-founder #JohnZakos were in the office of a #SocialMedia giant, having built an #AmbientAI that could read a couple of sentences and get a pretty good read on someone’s personality, with a #conversational #UserInterface.”

    “To my shame, I hesitated for a few seconds. I knew if I had said yes, we would have had an early exit and retired, but I knew this would lead to mass #disinformation. So I said ‘Yes, but that’s not why we are here’,” she says. “Someone else said ‘yes’, and we have the world we live in today.”

    “Yearsley doesn’t regret walking away from the chance to make a fortune from #manipulating social media users, but it feeds into her cynical view of the motivations of the giant companies leading the AI charge.”

    “They were there to pitch their technology as a way to detect young users at risk on the platform to provide support – but the unnamed social media giant’s head of mergers and acquisitions joined the meeting with different ideas. They asked if Yearsley’s AI could help it tell Republicans from Democrats, which it could, and also if it could be used to #predict what #news items #users would share.”

    #Australia / #AIAwards / #AI / #ArtificialIntelligence / #technology / #Akin / #Startups / #founders <afr.com/technology/this-pionee>

  3. CIA accused of 'poisoning the sky' with toxins as files expose secret weather control agenda

    friendica.ambag.es/display/e05

  4. CIA accused of 'poisoning the sky' with toxins as files expose secret weather control agenda

    friendica.ambag.es/display/e05

  5. #Meta altered its #adtransparency tools to reduce the visibility of #scam #advertisements, particularly in response to regulatory scrutiny in #Japan. Instead of implementing universal #advertiserverification, which could have significantly reduced #scamads but also revenue, Meta focused on #manipulating search results to make #fraudulentads less discoverable. interestingengineering.com/cul #tech #media #news

  6. #Meta altered its #adtransparency tools to reduce the visibility of #scam #advertisements, particularly in response to regulatory scrutiny in #Japan. Instead of implementing universal #advertiserverification, which could have significantly reduced #scamads but also revenue, Meta focused on #manipulating search results to make #fraudulentads less discoverable. interestingengineering.com/cul #tech #media #news

  7. Saturday, November 8, 2025

    Russia strikes residential building in Dnipro, killing 1, injuring 11 -- AI soldiers: How deepfakes are manipulating Ukraine’s mobilization narrative -- Drones hit key Russian petrochemical plant in Republic of Bashkortostan -- Can the West win a ceasefire with Russia? ... and more

    activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025

  8. Saturday, November 8, 2025

    Russia strikes residential building in Dnipro, killing 1, injuring 11 -- AI soldiers: How deepfakes are manipulating Ukraine’s mobilization narrative -- Drones hit key Russian petrochemical plant in Republic of Bashkortostan -- Can the West win a ceasefire with Russia? ... and more

    activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025

  9. It's the only one logical explanation for this #Tylenol idiocy.

    There's #criminals feeding #nonsense bullshit to mindless #puppet #RFKjr, who are #extorting and #manipulating stocks of every company they can.

    Maybe they found a hit with Bristol-Myers or J&J. A final push to capitulation and buyout, perhaps.

  10. It's the only one logical explanation for this #Tylenol idiocy.

    There's #criminals feeding #nonsense bullshit to mindless #puppet #RFKjr, who are #extorting and #manipulating stocks of every company they can.

    Maybe they found a hit with Bristol-Myers or J&J. A final push to capitulation and buyout, perhaps.

  11. → HelloQuitX
    helloquitx.com/

    “Under Elon Musk, X [aka Twitter] has become a machine for manipulating opinion. Let's refuse to be complicit. January 20, 2025, day of Donald Trump's inauguration, let's take back control by leaving X collectively for alternatives that respect free speech.”

    #HelloQuitX #Musk #X #Twitter #manipulating #opinion

  12. → HelloQuitX
    helloquitx.com/

    “Under Elon Musk, X [aka Twitter] has become a machine for manipulating opinion. Let's refuse to be complicit. January 20, 2025, day of Donald Trump's inauguration, let's take back control by leaving X collectively for alternatives that respect free speech.”

    #HelloQuitX #Musk #X #Twitter #manipulating #opinion

  13. #Texas #megachurch caught #manipulating #traffic data to get new stoplight

    youtube.com/watch?v=BPVjnZJH_-

    Lakepointe #Church in Texas told members to help them manipulate traffic #data so they could convince the city to put a #stoplight in front of their building.
    Then they got caught.

  14. #Texas #megachurch caught #manipulating #traffic data to get new stoplight

    youtube.com/watch?v=BPVjnZJH_-

    Lakepointe #Church in Texas told members to help them manipulate traffic #data so they could convince the city to put a #stoplight in front of their building.
    Then they got caught.

  15. #Republicans hope that by changing the way #Americans talk about #abortion, it might help change the way they feel about abortion — which is, right now, very #ProChoice.

    …But rather than change the #policies that are causing so much suffering, #conservatives seem to believe they can talk their way out of the problem not just w/ #political messaging but also by #manipulating #medical & #legal #language.

  16. #Republicans hope that by changing the way #Americans talk about #abortion, it might help change the way they feel about abortion — which is, right now, very #ProChoice.

    …But rather than change the #policies that are causing so much suffering, #conservatives seem to believe they can talk their way out of the problem not just w/ #political messaging but also by #manipulating #medical & #legal #language.

  17. “For the past many months & even years, Defendants have dedicated an extraordinary amount of time & energy toward looking for, #hacking into, #tampering with, #manipulating, copying, #disseminating, & generally obsessing over data that they were given that was taken or #stolen,” the #lawsuit charges. It alleges that the duo’s actions violated the federal #ComputerFraudAndAbuseAct.

    #Giuliani #Costello #HunterBiden

  18. “For the past many months & even years, Defendants have dedicated an extraordinary amount of time & energy toward looking for, #hacking into, #tampering with, #manipulating, copying, #disseminating, & generally obsessing over data that they were given that was taken or #stolen,” the #lawsuit charges. It alleges that the duo’s actions violated the federal #ComputerFraudAndAbuseAct.

    #Giuliani #Costello #HunterBiden

  19. @hacks4pancakes #IfyouDontKnowNowYouKnow "#Gaslighting is a #colloquialism, loosely defined as #manipulating someone so as to make them question their own #reality. The term derives from the title of the 1944 #American film #Gaslight, which was based on the 1938 British theatre play Gas Light by Patrick Hamilton, though the term did not gain popular currency in #English until the mid-2010s"

    #TheMoreYouKnow

  20. @hacks4pancakes #IfyouDontKnowNowYouKnow "#Gaslighting is a #colloquialism, loosely defined as #manipulating someone so as to make them question their own #reality. The term derives from the title of the 1944 #American film #Gaslight, which was based on the 1938 British theatre play Gas Light by Patrick Hamilton, though the term did not gain popular currency in #English until the mid-2010s"

    #TheMoreYouKnow

  21. #Wikipedia shown to be a pro-#regimeChange outfit for #propagandists:
    thegrayzone.com/tag/wikipedia

    Just more evidence that the #clearNet/#legacyNet is in its last days.

    Given the extreme #moneyPrinting by #corporatists over past months it wouldn't surprise us if some of the "#COVIDrelief" is for #manipulating #narratives to #engineerConsent for #oilWars.

    #Fracking was a sham and so the US will do anything possible to get unfettered access to real #energyReserves.

    #oil #theGrayZone