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The online advertising industry has built a massive surveillance machine, and the government can co-opt it to spy on us.
OpenAI, the maker of ChaptGPT, is rightfully facing widespread criticism for its decisions to fill the gap the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) created when rival Anthropic refused to drop its restrictions against using its AI for surveillance and autonomous weapons systems. After protests from both users and employees who did not sign up to support government mass surveillance — early reports show that ChaptGPT uninstalls rose nearly 300% after the company announced the deal — Sam Altman, CEO of...
Shin Yang builds the kind of online space most platforms say is impossible: a sex-positive community that protects anonymity without turning users into data. She is the steward of Lezismore, an independent, self-hosted community for sexual minorities in Taiwan. It is built on open-source software and she is developing privacy-first governance as an alternative to identity gates and surveillance.
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