In three, two, one, real liberty.
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From Spike Cohen on X, if you don't follow Spike,
go check him out. He tweeted this out just a little bit ago.
Multiple things are true. Jimmy Kimmel hasn't been funny since the 90s.
He actively wished for every one of us who didn't get the COVID shot
to be refused treatment and die. And besides praying that he repents and turns to Jesus,
I really don't care to hear much from or about him again.
The FCC shouldn't exist. And the government shouldn't be pressuring private companies to
de-platform people like they did to us during COVID and many other times.
It's pretty crazy how quickly millions of people went from
I'm glad that guy who said things I disagree with was murdered in front of his family
to we must defend freedom of speech.
Everything this government does to one group, it will eventually do to everyone else.
That's why it thrives on partisanship.
If it can convince the country to split in two and demand that it oppress the other half,
it will happily oblige you both.
This life is fleeting. It will be over soon. Everything we built will disintegrate to nothing.
And what really matters is where you will spend eternity.
We are all fallen and unable to enter heaven by our own merits.
Thankfully, God provided himself as the only sacrifice that was sufficient to
atone for all of our sins. All you must do to receive this forgiveness is to turn to him in faith.
Proclaim Jesus as your Lord and save your confess your sins and
repent for his forgiveness and give your life to him.
If you do, it'll be the best decision you ever make. I pray that you do.
Regardless of whether you're a religious person or not, whether you follow God, Allah,
a tree, a dog, a cat,
the points he makes are pretty well right there and true.
You don't have to believe whether there's an afterlife or not.
What you have to believe is that we're humans and we're not here forever.
We are not perfect and we can never be perfect and we will never be here forever.
And it's up to us to take care of each other, care for each other, have some love,
show a little respect.
It's it's not hard people and that's what that's what we need to do.
In case you haven't noticed, I'm back with a live one. Here we go.
I'll celebrate the chains, your voice, your choice, no dead.
Yeah, it's it's uh it was fun. I did not do a live episode last week
because I fell asleep. I'm an apparently an old man now so I need those afternoon
naps once in a while.
The intro there I'm not I'm not into I'm not going to be a Bible thumper.
I'm not ever going to be a Bible thumper.
But I will say that the one thing that has always I find interesting
is whether you believe in God, a higher power, Gaia,
Allah, whoever, Big G, Little G, the one thing that we as humans throughout history,
no matter what point in history we've always had to believe that there was something bigger than
us and the one when we stopped believing that there was something bigger than us
was usually when our society went to hell on a handbasket because we would think that we're
as humans we would think that we are the ultimate. There's nothing better than us
and when we think that we're there's nothing better than us we really fuck things up.
So whether or not you think or want to think or want to believe,
you just might want to whether whether you think it's your
your what is Mr. Spaghetti Monster or whether you want to believe in the magical
guy in the sky that's another thing I've never understood.
There's some atheists that make no sense in all they will sit there and and say
you know they're well yeah you know Bigfoot's real or you know you know Slender Man's real
there's ghosts there's UFOs there's aliens you know they'll say everything in the paranormal
is totally totally possible but a magical dude in the sky that's not possible.
That's that's never made sense to me.
Anyways that's not what this this show is about.
I just had to throw that out there and you know I'm you know I
be honestly back in the day I did I used to be not the big you know Bible thumper type guy but
you know I I still do believe I just you know I don't live my life by it obviously
but you know I probably should my life probably better actually but uh anyways I
I just don't think that we could be we as humans could have attained what we attained
without some kind of guidance we can't even prove the way how life started
over here on this planet you know we could we've got guesses and theories but those will always
remain facts because nobody's been able to reproduce it nobody's ever been able to
have been there to have witnessed it so we can't prove whether or not some things many things are facts
for instance you know like the whole evolution versus creation theories you know they you know
everybody pretty much accepts that evolution is exactly how it happened but
that evolutionary theory pretty much screws its own theory in order to make things happen
even the big bang theory screws itself to make it happen because you know the you know
like the laws of physics don't match up with the creation theory it says that everything would
have to move faster than it physically could as it's exploding outward but
we can see things you know in space there's nothing to slow it down anyways I'm not getting
into it it's it's we can do that some other time but that's not what this episode is about
this episode you know mainly I wanted to reiterate
when I talk about freedom of speech
when I say freedom of speech
like this came up in the the matrix chat the other night so
allowing one form of speech while not allowing others is the definition of censorship
so like if somebody wants to go out you know start throwing racial slurs around
that's on them they they got every right to say that
whether or not you know it's you can say it in somebody else's house
like some matrix or discord chats or generally in public you know people will say
you know no no yeah you know no racial slurs and in this public space you know to be that's not a
public space that's you know up to them that's their house you have to abide by their rules
on the liberty bites or liberty bites liberty tunes matrix I said it was free speech
it is you know the only rule I have there is no porn
and uh so when I say free speech
it's laid out there I don't care but see the problem is when you allow
one form of speech and not allow others where do you draw that line and still call it free speech
if you're talking racial slurs do you allow racial slurs for blacks and not for jews
or do you allow racial slurs for for jews and not blacks or the alphabet crowd or
you know freaking brits name your favorite race racial slur where do you draw that line
on allowing one over the other if you
do that and you allow one over the other you are basically saying that you just agree
with one over the other and you end up like like our matrix space you end up building a
walled garden of people that just reinforced their beliefs nothing gets challenged
you can't grow as a human or a society if you're never challenged
and you're only taught or
see one thing you're never learning you're never growing you you can as humans we
we make mistakes constantly and we have failures and that's how you learn and how you grow
is you fail and you do it again
to try to eliminate failure mistakes and the only way really to eliminate failure and mistakes
is to keep failing and making the mistakes you can't grow without it it's not possible
so that's why over in the matrix server the um well shoot i thought this not maybe made me
louder i guess not oh it is the microphone game did i get louder
check check check i think i did get louder hopefully it's not like sounding like shit now
anyways i got a bunch of tunes i want to play today
i've got where's my playlist says i got like 46 minutes of songs i want to play i've got
three new ones that i've written and produced since last time um i've got one
that i it's it's a new one too you haven't heard it yet but i do want to play it um it's a new
chrome well it's basically two chrome cruise effects songs and uh two by rebel songs
and then i've got you know some older ones that i wanted to play that you've never heard
but now dude dude you know since we're talking about the whole
you know anyway let me get back to the freedom of speech thing um
for instance if it's like you know a racial slur or something something like that
if you don't like a person's conduct that's that they're holding themselves in a public
place you have the right to engage with that you can ask them to say hey you know you're a public
can you act like an adult then they have the then you know that person has the right to
either you know straighten up and act more like an adult or you know say fuck you
it's pretty simple um it's it's the thing is that one person
does not have the right to restrict another person's right to free speech even if they don't
agree with it or even if they don't like it there's nothing you could say to me or anybody else
that should affect that do you have the right to say something just like the person that says
you know fuck you as loud as they can standing on a you know on a soapbox in the middle of a
town square they have never been a right to say fuck you in front of everybody there
and everybody there has the right to tell them to shut the fuck up
but you know what they don't have the right they don't have the right to physically shut them up
that's not how free speech works now if you're in a bar and you're standing on a table
and screaming at the top of your lungs and saying shut the fuck up chances are you're
probably going to go to jail because then you're in somebody else's place of business that they own
that is not a public space it is privately owned and the owner has every right to kick you out
or have you rested for being drunk in public
not that i would know anything about that um
when i say i believe in free speech for all that the hell i do i will die on
and i do not care ever who gets offended by my words or somebody else's words
there's nothing that's ever going to sway me from that
a person's actions will speak louder
about their character than the words that come out of their mouth
because their actions will usually tell them and will will usually tell what their true intentions are
but when it comes to the the whatchamacallit
my matrix server the only way someone will ever get a ban or you know a boot kick out you know
whatever of the of the server at least for me might be one of the other admins but
they've got to clearly only be there to cause hate division discontent and
strife in the community that or they show porn especially kitty porn you will be banned within
seconds not and probably be hunted down thrown into a fucking wood chip or two because i don't
i don't fuck around with with child predators no that's just wrong you're robbing the life
of a child you need to die
um basically when it comes down to all of the problems we have in the world whether it's free
speech oppression you know or you know people shoot another people for you know talking peacefully
uh there's you know three things the world needs more of responsibility respect and love
the sad thing is those three are almost all gone from humanity here's that brand new one there
from uh chrome crucifix shadows of empathy i can make a memory a forgotten touch you people over
there on party.com you guys are there's a lot of you over there holy shit but anyways yeah here we go
ah let's see new york wants online digital id rules for social media fees under safe for kids act
do that was going papers please new york is advancing a set of proposed regulations that
would require social media platforms to verify users agent before granting access to algorithmic
algorithm driven feeds or allowing nighttime alerts so they don't get alerts during the day
attorney general latisha game james introduced the draft rules on monday tied to the stop
addictive feeds explorer exploitation for kids act or safe which was signed to the law last
year by governor catchy kathy hochle presented as part of an effort to reduce mental health
and harm so they linked to social media the law would compel platforms to restrict algorithmic
content for anyone under 18 or anyone who hasn't completed an age verification process which would
mean the introduction of digital id checks to access online platforms in those cases users would
be limited to seeing content in chronological order from accounts they already follow
platforms would also be barred from sending notifications between 12 am and 6 am to those
users the rules give companies some flexibility in how they confirm a user's age as long as the
method is considered effective and designed to protect personal data acceptable alternatives to
submitting a government id include facial analysis that estimates age
any identifying information collected during verification must be deleted immediately according
to the proposal for minors to access personalized algorithmic feeds a parental permission will
be required that too involves a verification step with the same data deletion requirements in
place once the process is complete excuse me the safe for kids act targets platforms where
user generated content is central and where at least 20% of time spent involves engagement
with feeds tailored to user behavior or data or device data sorry this definition would
almost certainly include platforms such as instagram tiktok and youtube and many many
companies that fail to comply could face penalties of up to $5,000 per violation
along with other legal consequences children and teenagers are struggling with high rates
of anxiety and depression because of addictive features on social media platforms attorney general
james said the proposed rules released by my office today will help us tackle the youth
mental health crisis and make social media safer for kids and family families before anything takes
effect the proposal won't go through a 60-day period for public comment the attorney general's
office will then have to have up to one year to finalize the rules the law itself is scheduled
to go into effect 180 days after that although it is almost certain to face legal challenges
a recent supreme court decision allowed states to enforce digital ID checks on adult websites
giving more room for states to experiment with similar policies for social media
new york's approach joins a sudden national and global push that raises major questions about
privacy digital access and how far states can go in regulating online platforms it's
how do you say this
bullshit i i'm not saying you know kids need to be protected that's that's true
but it's not the fucking government's place to do it
the kids the government is using us using kids they're they are a tool
you got this story here
where is it it was posted in the
here
what somebody posted this over in the uh the liberty tunes matrix and it's in our guardian
yeah i gotta put the link in the show notes before i forget
this kind of goes along with it and it's just more fuel for my point here parents
outraged as meta uses photos of schoolgirls and adds targeting man exclusive instagram
pictures of girls as young as 13 were posted to promote thread site as bait campaigner says
meta has used back to school pictures of schoolgirls to advertise one of its social media platforms
to a 37 year old man any move parents described as outrageous and upsetting the man noticed
that posts encouraging him to get threads mark zuckerberg's rival the elon musks x were being
dropped into his instagram feed featuring embedded posts of uniform girls as young as 13
with their faces visible and in most cases their names the children's images were used by meta
after their parents had posted them on instagram to mark their return to school the parents who
were unaware that meta settings permitted it to do this one mother said her account was set to
private but the post were automatically cross posting to threads where they were visible
another said that she posted the picture to a public instagram account the posts of their
children were highlighted to the stranger as suggested threats the recipient told the guardian
the post felt deliberately productive and ultimately exploitative of the children and
families involved the father of a 13 year old who appeared in one of the posts said it was
absolutely outrageous the images were all of schoolgirls in short skirts with either bare legs
or stockings when i found out an image of her has been exploited in what it felt like a
sexualized way by a massive company like that to market their product it left me feeling quite
disgusted he said meta the two trillion dollar company based on minnow in minnow park california
said the images did not violate its policies it said it recommended people to visit threads by
showing them publicly shared photos that comply with its community standards and recommendation
guidelines its systems do not recommend threads shared by teenagers but these were posts made
from adults accounts that were set to allow public viewing the man who received the post said that he
was only a only sent promotional posts of those schoolgirls there were no boys in school uniform
for example there appeared to be an aspect of sexualization the mother of a 15 year old whose
picture was used in a promotional post that featured a large get threads button said for me it was a
picture of my daughter going to school i had no idea instagram had picked it up and are using
it as a promotion it's absolutely disgusting she is a minor she said she would have refused consent
and not for any money in the world would i let them use a girl dressed in a school uniform to
get people on it onto its platform with 267 followers her instagram account usually had had
a modest reach but the post of her child attracted nearly 7 000 views 90 from non-followers
half of whom were aged over 44 and 90 of whom were men another woman or another mother
whose post of her 13 year old was used in a promotional post said meta did all of this on
purpose not informing us as they want to generate content it's despicable and who is responsible
for creating that threads ad using children's photos to promote the platform for older men
meta said it called such post recommendation tools and that public posts could be used for
this purpose a company spokesperson said the images share shared do not violate our policies
and our back to school photos posted publicly by parents we have systems in place to help make
sure we don't recommend threads shared by teens or that go against our recommendation guidelines
and users can't control whether meta suggests their public post on instagram the 37 year old
instagram user from london who received the posts and asked to remain anonymous said over
several days i was repeatedly served meta adverts for threads that exclusively featured parents
images of their daughters in school you school uniform some revealing their names as a father
i find it deeply inappropriate for meta to repurpose those posts and targeted promotions to adults
okay i'm going to give you a little secret here before i felt there's like formal progress
i'm going to go ahead and finish this he said he had not posted or liked any similar images
before he was sent to the school world pictures keep all of this in mind as depth you remember this
when i start explaining some stuff to me showcasing such content as trending or popular
popular fields deliberately provocative and ultimately exploitative of this of the children
and families involved putting their online safety of risk b-bank kid run a frost bench
peer and campaigner for children's rights online said offering up school age girls as bait to
advertise a commercial services now is a new low even for meta at every opportunity meta privileges
profit over safety and company growth over children's right to privacy it is the only reason
that they could think it appropriate to send pictures of schoolgirls to a 37 year old man as
bait meta is a willfully careless company she called on the regulator of off-com to consider
if measures introduced this summer to prevent unknown adults connecting to children make clear
that that companies cannot offer sexualized images of children as bait to unknown men
off-coms illegal harms codes intended to tackle online grooming require that children's profit
profiles and locations as well as friends and connections should not be visible to others
meta systems means that if a threads profile is public posts on adult profiles may be suggested
on facebook or instagram so people can discover follow and interact with you these suggestions
can be turned off or the threads profile can be switched to private
it's okay
that's enough you some things you need to understand
if you're a parent
you remember in the intro when i said there's three things
that can
that can solve all the problems we are having in our world right now remember the number one
thing i said responsibility and you're thinking
i'm talking about meta no i'm not
talking about the parents here the adults
every i mean every piece of software every website
everything on the computer on a phone has a terms of service
you need to read those don't just scroll to the bottom and click okay
or i agree
because i guarantee you i know meta does it but in their terms of service
anything you post on anything that meta owns
owns they take the rights of whatever you post your words you put on there
your pictures you put on there your videos you put on there your audio you put on
you give them the right to use it in any way that they see fit
there that means not just your selfies your dumbass bad hair days when you get out of bed
you take a selfie your birthday parties your one-year-old first birthday your five-year-old's
fifth birthday there your kids graduating from preschool your kid graduating from kindergarten
your kid graduating from all the way up to college
any picture you post whether it's a view your dog your cat your fucking ferret your
your next-door neighbor's car you gave them rights
of the of that picture of that picture or that video or whatever it is you posted the words you
put on there you gave them you authorized them to use your personal data your personal
shit for free
anyway they see fit if you're a parent and you're taking pictures of your kids
of your daughter wearing a super short short skirt and her ass is hanging out
and you post that fucking shit online and it gets used like that that's you that's on you that's not
fucking meta meta is a whole different thing i'll get to them in a minute but you are the front
line you're the one that's supposed to be protecting your kid you don't want your kids
pictures you know your young kid on fucking line for any fucking creep to get a hold of
i don't give a shit how great you think you're a parent you are you are a piece of shit
if you're posting that kind of stuff online and then getting upset and saying well
no read the fucking terms of service everything online has it every fucking piece of software you use
every piece of fucking website you use every fucking it's all got a terms of service
every mp3 you play every video you watch on youtube
it's all got a fucking terms of service and if you're too fucking lazy to scroll through it and
actually read it instead of just flipping by it and hitting okay and then you bitch because you
lost something or you got you know it's on you i agree that the company shouldn't be doing that
and i agree that they don't yo this is my biggest gripe that i had my first gripe i had with facebook
was no matter what you posted on there they could use for
their own promotions or whatever they want to and they don't owe you to shit for it
and now people are you now now they're asking a government
to protect your kids how much you don't put your fucking kids online
i know it's fucking hard in this day and age but there are parents out there that don't allow
their kids online until they're like 16 or 18 even there are some parents out there that
i just i swear to god i hear about this digital id all the time and how you know we've got to
cut this back you know and you know the the limiting you know being on was a threads i think it was
between midnight six a.m or social social media by reducing their their their uh interactions and all
that no people are screaming and clamoring you know clamoring for the fucking government to
protect their kids when it's the fucking parents responsibility every fucking router every phone
every phone plan you get a family plan you could go into the dashboard on whatever carrier you use
and you can limit what they can go to where they can go to you can get on your phone on
on your kids phone and block tiktok doesn't matter if they're on a wi-fi or not they can't fucking
get onto it you can do the same shit on on on your wi-fi router and block it for the entire house
you all know this if you don't know this
now's your chance the best way to not worry about your kids being sexualized
don't put them on the fucking internet
that's number one number two be a fucking parent
i know being a parent's heart trust me i hate one i drove truck for 30 fucking years i wasn't
home all the time but you know what i knew every time my daughter logged in
i knew every website she went to and i was hundreds if not thousands of miles away from her at the time
i don't do that no more because she turned 18 she's a legal adult now
but i can guarantee you i knew
and i am back then when i first started getting into learning how to do that
around 2010 i didn't know what the hell i was doing
i still don't know what the hell i'm doing but but but i can't guarantee you
i had a i i wanted to know and i wanted to make sure that she wasn't doing something stupid
or getting herself into trouble thankfully she didn't do too much of that
but i remember calling my wife a couple of times and asking what she's doing
not her my daughter because she was supposed to be in school
and i got the notification that she logged into this couple of websites
she's like she's in school my god are you sure
she's like how do you know i was like i got the notification
she says oh my god over protective dad much
yes yes i was
but i'm not stupid
people in our society
are so fucking tribalistic
that they will it's it's not just a left versus right political thing anymore
it's down to they are dedicated to this company this company this company this
company's protecting me that company doesn't you know microsoft you know is better than apple
apple's better than microsoft you know android's better than google google is better than fucking
iphone yada yada yada yada it's they're all big companies you're a nobody
you're a faceless slave to them all they want is your data and your money
and if they can get you to pay them to take your data
even better
if they can get you to pay them and use your fucking
content or your pictures
your stuff even better to take responsibility people
personal responsibility not just corporations responsibility your personal responsibility
and then to go hand in hand with that a little bit of respect
goes with that responsibility because you should respect your kids enough
to take their security and their safety and be responsible with it
don't give it to fucking facebook don't give it to meta don't give it to fucking instagram
don't give it to threads don't give it to fucking blue sky don't give it to fucking twitter x
whatever we're calling it this week just don't do it it's really really not hard
god it pisses me off here's one you've never heard hidden shadows
open ai adopts user monitoring digital id verification
the internet's lasting stronghold of anonymity is being dismantled in this name of safety
a growing effort to link online activity with verified identity is gaining momentum
with open ai becoming the last tech latest sorry not last latest tech company to
embrace stricter digital id measures in response to several lawsuits and reports
tying chat bots to teen suicides the company announced it will begin estimating users'
ages and in some cases demand government issued id to confirm users are over 18
lawmakers such as missouri senator josh holly have also been pushing for the measures open ai
frame the shift as a necessary concession we know it's a this is a privacy compromise for adults
but believe it is a worthy trade-off the company stated ceo sam altman added on x i don't expect
that everyone will agree with these trade-offs be given the kind of conflict it is important
to explain our decision making the movement lines with a broader industry trend towards
reducing anonymity online all under the premise of protecting young users what was once a fringe
idea is now being baked into mainstream platforms in july youtube announced it would also begin
using ai tools to guess users' ages and restrict access to certain accounts unless they pass a
digital id test open ai's announcement comes amid heightened legal pressure one lawsuit
filed in august by the parents of a 17-year-old adam rain claims that chat gpt played an active
role in his death by suicide according to the suit the chat bot drafted an initial version
of a suicide note suggested methods of fossil farm dismissed warning signs and advised the
teen to not involve adults other recent cases have followed in response open ai has
expanded its safety measures after adding parental controls earlier in september the company has now
introduced rules that were restrict how miners can interact with chat dpt the changes will go
go beyond that these changes go well beyond content filtering users will constantly be monitored and
when the system suspects a user is under 18 it will enforce strict or behavioral limits
blocking topics related to self-harm refusing flirtatious or romantic dialogue and escalating
somehow or escalating some cases into law enforcement if an under 18 user is having
suicidal ideation we will attempt to contact the user's parents and it will and if unable
will contact the authorities in case of imminent harm open ai's leadership has acknowledged the
growing tension between maintaining open access to powerful ai tools and preventing misuse
earlier versions of chat gpt were designed to avoid a broad set of sensitive topics but in recent
years competitive pressure from looser models and increasing political resistance to moderation
led the company to relax those new those restrictions we want users to be able to
use our tools in the way that they want within very broad bounds of safety open ai said
internally the company claims to follow a principle of treat our adult users like adults
while still drawing the line at situations where harm might occur what's becoming more evident
is that privacy is being traded for control as governments and companies look to prevent
online harm they are turning more frequently the identity identity verification systems
the push for digital ID once pitched as a tool to combat fraud or improve safety is increasingly
being used to regulate access to online spaces including those that were once anonymous by design
the implications for online safety or online privacy are far far reaching
ah excuse me as more platforms introduce age detection and identity verification users may
force or major users may face growing barriers to anonymous access particularly when using
generative ai tools excuse me for those concerned about how personal data is collected and stored
to move toward id based system signals a major change in how the internet operates
again
i i get the whole
you know parents
uh take responsibility respect your kids
if your kid is uh
uh suicidal or you know leading that way there's a few signs
and if you're not paying any attention to that
again you're a shitty parent i don't you know i'm not trying to you know make light and i don't mean
to make people feel bad i'm just being totally honest and blunt here
if your kid is like a happy go lucky person any pretty much anybody if they're a happy
chances are you noticed it you just ignored it if you didn't notice it
were you really paying attention to your kid
i i get that most parents do love their children
but when you love somebody and you notice a change and ongoing change
and you don't act on it and they're gone
who's really to blame then just saying
where does that responsibility fall on
where's that respect for that person that you loved if you're not if you love somebody and you
respect somebody
you're responsible for that
you have a responsibility to protect them you have a responsibility
to help them to get them the help that they need you have the the responsibility to help your
children you have the the responsibility to make your children better than you
if you didn't where you can't or you won't or you don't where's
now why are you a parent why did you become a parent you know i get tired
of the the abortion argument of hearing well you know if you can't get any more woman's body
that's not just a woman's body there's a there's a child in there too
if you take the right away from that child to have a chance or a choice to live or to die
how how does that make you any better
if you can't have the power over your own body to
keep your legs shut and not you know go sticking things into other people
you know maybe maybe you don't have any love or respect or responsibility for anybody
even yourself
the yeah you can throw out the whole rape thing that rapes not at an epidemic level
it's not this major major thing it takes two to tango
you know changing your mind after the effect and saying oh i regret
you having sex with such such a such person doesn't make a rape
because you chose to be with them anyways i digress like i said
love respect and responsibility
that's what it takes
to change the world
visa enters the digital id race a handshaken device signals a future where identity and
payments merge into a single digital layer visa and tech five events have entered a seven-year
global agreement aimed at accelerating the rollout of digital identity and payment systems out of
the broader framework of digital public infrastructure the initiative formalized in
Dubai supports a vision promoted by organizations including the united nations the european union
the world economic forum and bill gates no fucking gates dpi strategies are being pushed as a part of
global roadmap to digitize digitize identity and financial access by 2030 under this deal visa will
combine its payments network with tech five biometric and identity technology together the
companies plan to create integrated platforms that allow individuals to store verified credentials
and use them to access services and conduct financial transactions the systems would be
built with adaptability in mind reflecting regional regulations and market conditions the collaboration
will center on developing identity wallets that not only verify trace users but also include embedded
payment capabilities tech five brings ai powered systems capable of facial work fingerprint and
iris recognition while visa contributes to its infrastructure and global experience and digital
payments visa will provide strategic and financial support for selected projects tech five will
offer the core biometric and identity components both companies say their joint work will proprietary
prioritize data protection under consent and alignment with standards for wallet interoper
interop interoper interop where they work together and digital credentials michael vander harshed
a co-founder and ceo of tech five said our collaboration with visa represents a significant
step in broadening the research and applicable applicability of tech five dpi technologies
by combining our identity and biometric expertise with visa's global payment network
and resources we are positioned to address the evolving needs of governments and institutions
seeking secure and exclusive no we are positioned to address the evolving needs of
governments and institutions seeking secure and inclusive digital infrastructure
Dr. Sullivan in the ministry that you are
i have no idea how to pronounce that vice president and head of visa government solutions
in the cema mea region added a visa we believe the secure inclusive and scalable digital
identity is foundational to the future of payments although the announcement describes
the agreement as global neither company has confirmed where initial deployments will take
place previous collaboration between visa and tech five and ethiopia helped support the fayada
digital id system and both were involved in the early stages of south africa's digital id
initiative a lot of technology in ethiopia i thought they were still having problems with
feeding kids didn't know there was that much technology that they had digital id in ethiopia
but yet you know we still gotta have the world feed the kids future pilot programs will depend
on local regulations governmental interest in the readiness of implementation partners
the company's described this as a flexible model that will adjust based on jurisdiction
specific needs the move reflects a broader international push to integrate
verified digital identity with financial services this is often presented as a way to
reduce friction in service delivery expanded inclusion and prevent fraud however piracy
advocates that continue to raise alarms over the implications of centralizing both
identification and payments systems by embedding a biometric idea into the infrastructure of
daily life these systems risk enabling mass surveillance particularly in regions where
transparency and oversight are at week or are weak claims of ground data production and consent
rely heavily on implementation details many of which remain vague
you know reclaiming that kin mcconn making author here wrote this article that reads like a bunch of
corporate comedy gook i think i'm how many times was the word inclusive
i was in there twice
it's i get blurry of that word inclusive mainly because that is
it's
corporate speak for uh waving the flag i guess i don't know it's just fucking creepy
now this one's fun a television channel run by russia's ministry of defense
is airing a program and it claims is ai generated
according to advertisements for the show a neural network is picking the topics it
wants to discuss then uses ai to generate that video it includes putting french president
immanuel mac macaron macaroni in hair curlers and a pink robe making trump talk about golden
toilets and showing eu commission president ursula von der lehen singing a soviet era pop song while
working in a factory the show called polis stacker according to a google translation
airs every friday on zvez a television station owned by russia's ministry of defense
it's hosted by natasha an ai avatar modeled on russian journal journalist natalia matina
in a clip of the show natasha said that it it's resemblance to matina matelina is intentional
i am the creation of artificial intelligence entirely tuned to your informational preferences
as said my task is to select all the political nonsense of the past past week and fit it into
your in your heads like candles in a little box the show's title sequence and advertisements show
cold wrapped candies candies bearing the faces of politicians like trump and zelinski being
sorted into a candy box politz stacker politz stacker politz stacker how are you pronouncing
this world's first television program created by artificial intelligence said an ad for the
show on the russian social media network vk according to google translate the ai itself
selects analyzes and comments on the most important news events facts and actions
as it sees them this the editorial team's opinion may not coincide with the ai's
though it usually it does politz stacker is not just news but a tough breakdown of political
madness from a digital host who notices what others overlook data scientists keila licharu
discovered the ai-generated russian show as part of his work with the gd elt project
which collaborates with the internet archives tv news archive a project that scans and stores
television broadcasts from around the world if you just look at the show and you don't
didn't know it had ai associated with it you would never guess that it looks like a
traditional propaganda show on russian tv television if they are using ai to the
degree that they say they are even if it's just to pick topics they mastered that formula in a
way that others have not politz stacker's 40-minute runtime is full of silly political commentary
jokes and sloppy ai deepfakes that looked like they were pulled from a five-year-old instagram reel
in one episode macron with curlers in his hair adjusts a linsky's tie ahead of a meeting in the
gremlin later a smiling macron bearing six pack abs stands in a closet in front of a clown costume
and a leather jumpsuit parts of it have an uncanny valley to it parts of it are really really
good this is only their fourth episode and they're already doing deep fake interviews with world leaders
in one of the ai generated trump interviews the american president talked about how he'd
end the war in ukraine by building a casino in moscow with golden toilets and all the russian
oligarchs they would all be inside all their money would be inside problem solved they would just
play poker and forget about this whole war a very bad deal for them very distracting the deep fake
trump said deep fake world leaders aren't new and are pretty common across the internet for each
letero the difference is that there's this is airing on a state-backed television station
it's still in in parody form but my knowledge no national television network show has ever gone
this far today it's a parody video that's pretty clearly a comedy interview but you know how far
they will take that and does that that inspire others to maybe step into spaces that they wouldn't
have before trump also loves ai and the ai aesthetic government social media accounts often
post ai generated slot pictures of trump as a pope or a jedi ice in the dhs shared pictures of
unofficial channels that paint over the horrifying reality of the administration's immigration policy
with a sheen of ai slot trump shared an ai generated video that imagined what gaza would look like
if he built a resort there and he's teamed up with perplexity to launch an ai powered
search engine for truth social politically stacker is not as a parody show but russia media is
irussian media is experimenting with less comedic ai avatars as well earlier this year the state
owned news agency sputnik began to air what is called the dugun digital edition in these little
lectures an ai version of a russian philosopher alexander dugun discusses the news of the day
in english last year a hawaiian newspaper the guardian island teamed with an israeli company
to produce a news show on youtube staffed by ai anchors reactions to the program were overwhelmingly
negative it brought in fewer than a thousand viewers per episode and the guardian garden island
stopped making the show a few months after it began and a twist of fate liatra lietaro
only discovered moscow's ai generated i pronounce that guy's name three different times
three different ways and that of them sound right
only discovered moscow's ai generated generated show thanks to an ai system of his own
gd el t project is a massive undertaking that records thousands of hours of data from
across the world and it uses various ai systems to generate transcripts translate them and create
an index of what's been archived in this case i totally skimmed over what i thought was an ad
for a propaganda show and then some candy commercial instead it ended up being something
that's fascinating he said but his ai indexing tool noted vets says new show as an ai generated
program that sought to analyze political follies of the of the outgoing week he took a second
look and was glad he did that's the power of machines being able to catch things and and
guide your eye towards that what he saw disturbed him yes his one show on an obscure russian
government adjacent network using deep fakes for parody he said but the fact that a television
network finally made that leap to me is a pivotal moment that i see as the tip of the iceberg
yes this this this is what companies are using ai for they that did you actually think
that open ai meta
x e-line whatever is this thing is grok do you really think microsoft do you really
think these major players that are developing ai do you really think they're doing this for the
betterment of humanity as a whole
no they're doing this for the corporations and companies that are going to be using them and
paying them to use the ai to replace humans with youtube as as said they they've got youtube has got a
thing where you can use gemini to create shorts with
short videos short short form videos they want you to use that to create videos
because youtube makes their money on advertising the more videos there are out there they don't
how good they are what they look like they want you to use the ai to
create videos that they can
oh what's the word i'm looking for sell advertising on
they want the eyeballs on their side out so they continue to tell their advertisers we get
500 million views an hour on our site so this is how much your advertising is going to cost
microsoft wants to use ai to get rid of their employees their tech support their
they're writing their code for windows
using ai ai is writing itself do you get it now they want tv stations networks
movie producers movie companies production houses to use their ai to create entertainment
it is yeah i mean it's
yes i create i use ai to create music but i'm not doing
if for the music the art i'm doing it to convey messages because i can convey a message
much faster more memorable through a fancy music fancy music like for instance
couple a month or so ago i played freedom camp fall freedom camp falls the first song
that i ever released first day i generated song i ever released under the bike rebel name
and it's also probably the shortest one i've ever done two minutes and 52 seconds
um i did a remix of it check this out is freedom camp fall remix
oh i hit the wrong i dropped the wrong one into the player let's use this one
now that remix was a little longer than the two minutes of 52 seconds actually eight seconds longer
no
11 seconds longer sorry my math don't math because math is hard
but it's you know still the point is the
what's the point i'm looking for
that my point is is i use use ai as a tool it's not i'm out there trying to
i'm not trying to justify myself as being better than you know these other things because there
are people out there that do ai music and try to fool you into thinking that it is
an actual real person real people but the real use for ai and music i think
any video too is well for video i could see ai being used to bring in audio podcast to life
you know with uh
bringing out the the person's not an avatar but you know to bring out the subject into a
couldn't reach my bottle uh it brings the a person's story to life you know in a video point
as far as ai for
audio like music i see this as a tool
first you know for inspiration because as a musician i've
every every musician or artist even you know if it's no matter what your form is whether it's
paint or sound uh
you eventually do reach a point where you've got writer's block and you just sit there and stare
into nothingness and can't come up with anything that's where ai would come in it could give you
some inspiration you know like listening you know if you ever wanted if you're an actual real
musician we like is a real band and you want to do you cover one of my songs or even
you know claim it as your own go for it i don't care my stuff is out there there's
you know i i'd say it's you know the creative commons copyright
right i really don't care if you want to use it use it go for it um
the thing that i find interesting that i haven't noticed whether or not anybody has yet or not
but there is with su no you can if i think if you're a paid member but you might be able to do it
you know without being a paid member you can use someone else's
uh ai persona that they created like you know you could go grab you know bite rebel or mirror
nocturne or chrome crucivix and grab one of their personas and do your own song with your own lyrics
you know go for it i would love to hear it so if you do do it you know let me know
but that's absolutely freaking awesome go for it
but as far as you know why i use ai for music number one if i wanted to create this kind of music
it would take me literally six months to a year or more
to write the song record the song mix the song master the song get our work made for it
release it you're looking at six minutes six months to a year to do all of that
longer if you're really if you're the only one doing all of it
then you would have to be forced you would be forced to sell it
in order to pay for the way that people
for the people who have worked on it with you if you use studio musicians or you used a
paid mixing and mastering place you know i do all my own mixing and mastering so
and suno's gotten good enough now that i don't really have to do much mixing at all
the mixing i i do nowadays nowadays like it's been years the mixing i've been doing
here recently the last couple of months is literally mostly mastering and that's just
playing with the um sidechain compression and eq and compressor and giving the song a overall
even sound i mean you listen to my listen to my music that i'm doing now compared to what
i was doing a year ago the difference is night and day to where some of the songs that i did a year ago
i want to go through and redo
and no that kind of that's not going to do it for me because i i want to do new stuff new songs
i'm really heavily into this chrome crucifix now persona you know by rebel is always going to
have a part and you know my sound i guess you could call it they're the sounds that i'm trying to achieve
but chrome crucifix is pretty much the kind of music that i want to produce and it's allowing me to get
more into other things oh by the way i did say that i had two new by rebel songs i wanted to play
i'm gonna play those real quick and get them out of the way
not you know not not like i'm trying to meet a deadline or anything but i like these because i came up with
these they were kind of just fun to do um some of you know that i am a huge team fortress two
fan um it's literally the only game that i play religiously and both of these songs are about team
fortress um one is rebel payload and the other is cloaked in chaos cloaked in chaos is you know
the heaviest spy or that pyro is a pie you know that kind of that stuff where everybody's
accusing the other teammates of being a spy and that's what cloaked in chaos is about
the rebel payload is you'll you'll notice both of these songs they've got
the overall theme of by rebel being a rebel against governments and big corporations
but it's from the point of view of team fortress characters so so check this out
i think these are both fun i just had fun doing these
now you remember
it was probably six months ago now uh played a song did a song called rock your freedom
it was about uh
guy getting accused from facial recognition of and a deep fake of robbing a place
and something going wrong and killing somebody the guy gets put in a jail for a really long time
and then he goes to trial the trial was held by a judge that was ai the you know the prosecutor
and the the defense attorneys were both ai's on his behalf and and against him and he ended up
getting in jail and this you know in the song and you know it's a fictional thing
i wrote it now here from reclaim the net dot org september 11th 2025
cardiff man wrongly accused of theft after facial recognition error triggers privacy
complaint a shopping trip turned public shaming exposes the hidden dangers of algorithmic policing
cardiff man has filed a formal complaint with the information commissioner's office after
being wrongly accused of theft in a store using facial recognition software the case is now drawing
wider attention to the unchecked spread of biometric surveillance in everyday retail environments
on 29th of april 2025 byron long 66 arrived in the b&m outlet in cardiff bay retail park
expecting an ordinary shopping trip instead he was approached by staff and told he was barred
from the premises in front of other customers he was accused of stealing 75 pounds which is 101
u.s. dollars worth of goods during a visit earlier that month that accusation was entirely
false during the visit in question on april ninth long had bought a single item $9.50 a packet of
cat treats he paid for them in full he later obtained cctv footage showing himself at the
checkout in a red bull uniform you like one jacket clearly completing the purchase it was a horrible
experience that i haven't been back to the store since the incident has had a very serious
impact on my mental health which is very fragile anyway and i am now very anxious whenever i go
shopping the miss misidentification came from face watch a private firm contracted by retailers
to run facial recognition scans on customers images from long's previous visit were processed
and matched to a database of alleged defenders that match triggered the alert that led b&m
staff to accuse him b&m major later acknowledged the error issuing a written apology
anyways i digress the point is
we're putting our trust in machines when we need to be getting back to love each other
not the machines love the humans respect the humans and having enough love and respect
to take responsibility for yourself
you will give more responsibility and respect and love for mothers
so on that note i'm going to end the show with rock your freedom in honor of that last story
it may not the story in real life they can go as far as the song does to the extent
but it's still the same it's still the same idea that's how it's going to end up being
just wait we're almost there
on their screens but it ain't my crime what palleteers algorithms keep sticking my time
innocent fall yo america we can't see the chains on your wrist big tax got your freedom in the digital
fist peaceful rebellion yeah we'll fight with our voice take back what's ours because we still
got a choice they're watching your kids your wife your home throws in the sky you're never alone
every clicks a confession repulse a sin they're building a prison you're already in but i see
the spark in the hearts of the free you fire the burns for our liberty but i feel the pulse
of the hearts that resists a spark of the fire still burns through the back in court but the
deck's been stacked ai is the witness and the truth's been hacked my life's on trial but i'm
holding my ground screaming for justice but it's nowhere to be found they're watching you
every move in the scope palleteers pinups and card strangling your hope but i'm being these bars
for the ones who still fight for the dream of a nation that's bathed in the light this ain't just
my story it's the spark of a flame a call to the people to reclaim your name
suspect status unresolved case is still pending