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@Npars01@mstdn.social · 21 hours ago

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Just as the Daughters of the Confederacy rewrote history to whitewash slavery, AI enables the same "amnesia" about crimes against humanity, like ecocide.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/01/ai-memorization-research/685552/

"Personalized shopping" is price fixing
https://www.ft.com/content/957c7438-b2e0-4605-a276-caa8a7ec363c
https://archive.ph/Q7wp3

https://www.cp24.com/news/world/2026/01/11/google-teams-up-with-walmart-and-other-retailers-to-enable-shopping-within-gemini-ai-chatbot/

https://www.axios.com/2026/01/11/walmart-google-gemini-ai-shopping

AI medical summaries are disguising anti-health disinformation campaigns & antivaxxer ideology.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/11/google-ai-overviews-health-guardian-investigation

Walmart expands AI-powered shopping — and checkout — with Google Gemini

Walmart is taking AI shopping beyond recommendations by bringing checkout directly into Google's Gemini assistant.

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Google said Sunday that it is expanding the shopping features in its AI chatbot by teaming up with Walmart, Shopify, Wayfair and other big retailers to turn the Gemini app into a virtual merchant as well as an assistant.

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‘Dangerous and alarming’: Google removes some of its AI summaries after users’ health put at risk

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@Npars01@mstdn.social replied · 21 hours ago

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AI coding assistants disguise wage suppression schemes, mass layoffs, and monopolization
https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-coding-degrades

https://github.blog/ai-and-ml/llms/why-ai-is-pushing-developers-toward-typed-languages/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2026/ai-jobs-automation/

AI is a system to narc on former employers IP
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-contractor-upload-real-work-documents-ai-agents/

AI is a system that ensures a lack of privacy everywhere
https://www.wired.com/story/physical-ai-is-coming-for-your-car/

AI is a porn generator & distributor
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/09/grok-image-generator-outcry-sexualised-ai-imagery

AI is the means for election meddling
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/nyregion/ny-hochul-ai-candidates.html

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/experimentations/202601/the-sixth-element-ai-as-consciousness-great-convergence

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@Npars01@mstdn.social replied · 21 hours ago

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AI is creating chokepoints, bottlenecks, & likely points of failure in fragile systems. It erodes robustness, reliability, & redundancy.
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/rkh9611zb11g

AI removes guardrails, governance, and oversight. It obscures provenance.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/ie/blog/dancing-with-the-devil/202601/the-emotions-behind-ai

AI is worsening the climate crisis.
https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/ai-climate-change-bill-gates/

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/17/ai-climate-crisis-cop30

AI is trying to substitute expertise for lies
https://www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/article/suspended-toronto-lawyer-linked-to-deadly-triple-shooting-caught-using-ai-in-appeal/

https://www.popsci.com/technology/ai-making-clocks/

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/08/google-adds-gemini-features-to-gmail-message-summaries-proofreading-.html

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AI is guzzling energy for slop content – could it be reimagined to help the climate?

Some experts think AI could be used to lower, rather than raise, planet-heating emissions – others aren’t so convinced

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@Npars01@mstdn.social replied · 21 hours ago

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AI is a mechanism for social engineering & fuels a societal mental health crisis. It manipulates public sentiment.

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/experts-warn-collapse-trust-online-ai-deepfakes-venezuela-rcna252472

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/08/google-character-ai-settlement-teen-suicide

https://www.healthcareittoday.com/2026/01/11/bonus-features-january-11-2026-64-of-healthcare-orgs-lack-ai-anomaly-detection-ai-made-up-46-of-all-healthcare-tech-investments-in-2025-plus-33-more-stories/

AI is going to cause a timely financial crisis in time for the midterms.
A fossil fuel industry funded fascist rugpull to keep the GOP in power.
https://www.npr.org/2026/01/09/nx-s1-5672643/market-ai-what-is-a-bubble

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/10/are-we-in-an-ai-bubble-tech-leaders-analysts.html

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2026/jan/10/ai-bubble-finances-crash-tech-meltdown-savings-pensions

https://www.economist.com/business/2026/01/08/the-ai-frenzy-is-creating-a-big-problem-for-consumer-electronics
https://archive.ph/y8Hqz

The AI frenzy is creating a big problem for consumer electronics

Prices are rocketing for an essential component

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@Npars01@mstdn.social replied · 21 hours ago

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AI increases nuclear proliferation & the likelihood of world wars.

The fossil fuel industry is gearing up for an automated WW3.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/09/meta-signs-nuclear-energy-deals-to-power-prometheus-ai-supercluster.html

https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2025-05-13/trump-arrives-in-saudi-arabia-amid-much-pomp

https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2025/11/mbs-pledges-saudi-investment-1t-trump-meeting

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/05/13/trump-tech-execs-riyadh/

AI is automating the foreign straw donors, public corruption, & bribery
https://www.reuters.com/business/nvidias-huang-joins-tech-titans-funding-trumps-ballroom-2025-10-29/

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/business/saudi-investment-forum-kennedy-center.html

AI is a flight of capital out of the fossil fuel industry.
Money laundering the looted treasuries of nations.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/14/saudi_spending_spree/

US tech titans rejoice in $600B Saudi shopping spree

: Prince Mohammed bin Bone Saw will take a few hundred thousand GPUs with his missiles and fighter jets

https://www.nytimes.com

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@Npars01@mstdn.social replied · 21 hours ago

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Why is no one asking these questions:

Why are the wealthiest corporations shoving AI so hard?

Why are billionaires so keen on this dubious product?

Why are billions of investment dollars being wasted on this white elephant?

Why are politicians running away from AI issues?

@CassandraVert@indieweb.social replied · 13 hours ago

I've seen these questions arise but no real satisfactory answers. Just $$$$$$

@lin11c@toad.social replied · 20 hours ago

@Npars01
@anonymous over on Instagram has been posting some very interesting ideas about how AI will be able to control mass behavior. That is what they are working on with their surveillance network. Complete control. Neural implants are coming. William Gibson is a visionary.
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/musk-says-neuralink-start-high-volume-production-interface-devices-by-2026-2026-01-01/

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