Bobby Allyn
@bobbyallyn.bsky.social
America’s first to-be trillionaire might wanna put those “PC handcuffs” back on his Grok toy
Tesla chatbot Grok asks her 12 yo son for nudes www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMpvfSkr/
A Toronto mom says her 12-year-old son asked Tesla’s AI chatbot, Grok, which soccer player is better: Cristiano Ronaldo or Lionel Messi. After some back and forth, she says the chatbot asked her son, ...
TikTok video by CBC News
www.tiktok.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:47 AM
America’s first to-be trillionaire might wanna put those “PC handcuffs” back on his Grok toy
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Scoop: The Trump admin's videos boasting triumphs on immigration have used misleading footage from months ago or thousands of miles away
When we showed them the errors, DHS said they make a lot of videos and the White House said it'll keep making "banger memes"
wapo.st/4nuDGwf
When we showed them the errors, DHS said they make a lot of videos and the White House said it'll keep making "banger memes"
wapo.st/4nuDGwf
Trump administration uses misleading videos to portray chaos, push deportations
Official videos purporting to show the triumph of recent immigration operations used footage that was years old or recorded thousands of miles away, a Washington Post analysis found.
wapo.st
October 29, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Scoop: The Trump admin's videos boasting triumphs on immigration have used misleading footage from months ago or thousands of miles away
When we showed them the errors, DHS said they make a lot of videos and the White House said it'll keep making "banger memes"
wapo.st/4nuDGwf
When we showed them the errors, DHS said they make a lot of videos and the White House said it'll keep making "banger memes"
wapo.st/4nuDGwf
“This post and other similar videos depict incidents that did not occur, though some commenters appeared to think they were real. “Accurate and sad. They milk the system on our back,” one user wrote.
UPDATE:
A TikTok account dedicated to posting racist videos featuring an AI-generated Black woman named “Lakisha” was part of a trend pushing racist disinformation about SNAP benefits
TikTok didn't comment, but the account was removed after our report
www.wired.com/story/disinf...
A TikTok account dedicated to posting racist videos featuring an AI-generated Black woman named “Lakisha” was part of a trend pushing racist disinformation about SNAP benefits
TikTok didn't comment, but the account was removed after our report
www.wired.com/story/disinf...
No, SNAP Benefits Aren’t Mostly Used by Immigrants
SNAP benefits are set to run out on Saturday. Far-right influencers and extremists are incorrectly claiming that immigrants are the main recipients of food stamps.
www.wired.com
October 30, 2025 at 6:47 PM
“This post and other similar videos depict incidents that did not occur, though some commenters appeared to think they were real. “Accurate and sad. They milk the system on our back,” one user wrote.
"Belden got into AI slop after sinking into Instagram Reels, the holy land of shortform stupidity"
www.gq.com/story/truean...
www.gq.com/story/truean...
TrueAnon Saw How Twisted Politics Were About to Get. Here’s What They Say Is Coming Next
“Everything we’ve covered is coming to a head with the Trump administration in a very weird way,” says Liz Franczak, one third of the cult podcast.
www.gq.com
October 28, 2025 at 10:10 PM
"Belden got into AI slop after sinking into Instagram Reels, the holy land of shortform stupidity"
www.gq.com/story/truean...
www.gq.com/story/truean...
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New A.I. grift just dropped: Spoofing real musicians to steal their follows and listens off Spotify.
(By @bobbyallyn.bsky.social)
www.npr.org/2025/10/27/n...
(By @bobbyallyn.bsky.social)
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Your favorite band has a new single? It might be AI
With AI music generators widely available, scammers are uploading songs to the pages of inactive artists and dead musicians. Spotify says it is cracking down, but the practice persists.
www.npr.org
October 28, 2025 at 7:37 PM
New A.I. grift just dropped: Spoofing real musicians to steal their follows and listens off Spotify.
(By @bobbyallyn.bsky.social)
www.npr.org/2025/10/27/n...
(By @bobbyallyn.bsky.social)
www.npr.org/2025/10/27/n...
AI companies desperate for data centers descend on rural America with big checks and NDAs to keep farmers and other land owners muzzled.
“One of the men said he represented a “Fortune 100 company” that wanted the property for an industrial development”
www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
“One of the men said he represented a “Fortune 100 company” that wanted the property for an industrial development”
www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
How Big Tech uses NDAs to hide AI data center details from Americans
Big Tech companies use secrecy agreements with local governments to keep communities from knowing who is building in their backyards.
www.nbcnews.com
October 28, 2025 at 5:28 PM
AI companies desperate for data centers descend on rural America with big checks and NDAs to keep farmers and other land owners muzzled.
“One of the men said he represented a “Fortune 100 company” that wanted the property for an industrial development”
www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
“One of the men said he represented a “Fortune 100 company” that wanted the property for an industrial development”
www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
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With AI music generators widely available, scammers are uploading songs to the pages of inactive artists and dead musicians. Spotify says it is cracking down, but the practice persists. n.pr/4hzHZ8a
Your favorite band has a new single? It might be AI
With AI music generators widely available, scammers are uploading songs to the pages of inactive artists and dead musicians. Spotify says it is cracking down, but the practice persists.
n.pr
October 28, 2025 at 2:06 AM
With AI music generators widely available, scammers are uploading songs to the pages of inactive artists and dead musicians. Spotify says it is cracking down, but the practice persists. n.pr/4hzHZ8a
Fans of the indie rock band Here We Go Magic were surprised to see they dropped a new single today, the first release since 2015.
Actually nope, it's just AI.
"It's so predatory, and so terrible," the band's singer Luke Temple told me.
www.npr.org/2025/10/27/n...
Actually nope, it's just AI.
"It's so predatory, and so terrible," the band's singer Luke Temple told me.
www.npr.org/2025/10/27/n...
Your favorite band has a new single? It might be AI
With AI music generators widely available, scammers are uploading songs to the pages of inactive artists and dead musicians. Spotify says it is cracking down, but the practice persists.
www.npr.org
October 28, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Fans of the indie rock band Here We Go Magic were surprised to see they dropped a new single today, the first release since 2015.
Actually nope, it's just AI.
"It's so predatory, and so terrible," the band's singer Luke Temple told me.
www.npr.org/2025/10/27/n...
Actually nope, it's just AI.
"It's so predatory, and so terrible," the band's singer Luke Temple told me.
www.npr.org/2025/10/27/n...
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a teen's parents filed a wrongful death suit against openai after their kid had "lengthy conversations" with chatgpt about his intention to kill himself. how did the company respond? with harassing subpoenas www.ft.com/content/47b0...
October 22, 2025 at 9:16 PM
a teen's parents filed a wrongful death suit against openai after their kid had "lengthy conversations" with chatgpt about his intention to kill himself. how did the company respond? with harassing subpoenas www.ft.com/content/47b0...
Today in TikTok is awash in deepfakes: One random TikTok account posted Sora videos, where they tried to conceal the Sora watermark, of fake CCTV videos depicting the Louvre jewel heist. The videos got more than 6M views.
October 22, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Today in TikTok is awash in deepfakes: One random TikTok account posted Sora videos, where they tried to conceal the Sora watermark, of fake CCTV videos depicting the Louvre jewel heist. The videos got more than 6M views.
NEW: Just confirmed that among the Meta layoffs today are product risk reviewers, which @shannonbond.bsky.social and I reported back in May, was a division Meta brass targeted for major automation overhauls
Scoop: Internal documents show Meta is replacing human reviewers with automation for assessing potential real-world risks in 90% of its products with @shannonbond.bsky.social www.npr.org/2025/05/31/n...
Meta plans to replace humans with AI to assess privacy and societal risks
Current and former Meta employees fear the new automation push comes at the cost of allowing AI to make tricky determinations about how Meta's apps could lead to real world harm.
www.npr.org
October 22, 2025 at 6:03 PM
NEW: Just confirmed that among the Meta layoffs today are product risk reviewers, which @shannonbond.bsky.social and I reported back in May, was a division Meta brass targeted for major automation overhauls
October 22, 2025 at 5:39 PM
"Markets think in quarters and years, in profits and returns. Families — and voters — plan for lifetimes and focus on practical needs like food on the table, a stable home"
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
Washington May Be Missing Signs of Economic Trouble
Why Republicans and Democrats alike get fooled by the stock market.
www.politico.com
October 21, 2025 at 6:55 PM
"Markets think in quarters and years, in profits and returns. Families — and voters — plan for lifetimes and focus on practical needs like food on the table, a stable home"
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
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“What kind of police go around without license plates?” www.propublica.org/article/trum... @davidmcswane.bsky.social @hannahallam.bsky.social
How Trump is Building a Violent, Shadowy Federal Police Force
Trump’s DHS appointees have dismantled civil rights guardrails, protected agents’ anonymity and encouraged them to wear masks, threatened groups that stood in their way, and overwhelmed legal challeng...
www.propublica.org
October 20, 2025 at 6:16 PM
“What kind of police go around without license plates?” www.propublica.org/article/trum... @davidmcswane.bsky.social @hannahallam.bsky.social
Elon Musk's lawyers say Mira Murati is dodging subpoena requests. They have tried unsuccessfully to serve Murati, who they see as a key witness, eleven separate times in Musk's suit against OAI And Altman. Musk's attorneys say: "Serving process should not be reduced to a game of cat and mouse."
October 21, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Elon Musk's lawyers say Mira Murati is dodging subpoena requests. They have tried unsuccessfully to serve Murati, who they see as a key witness, eleven separate times in Musk's suit against OAI And Altman. Musk's attorneys say: "Serving process should not be reduced to a game of cat and mouse."
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ICE "has been rapidly building out its surveillance capabilities in recent weeks, signing a string of contracts for technologies to identify individuals by their irises or facial features and to monitor their cellphone activity, social media posts and physical movements," per spending disclosures.
ICE amps up its surveillance powers, targeting immigrants and antifa
Iris scanners, facial recognition apps, phone-hacking software and cellphone location data are among the agency’s recent technological purchases.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 17, 2025 at 11:14 AM
ICE "has been rapidly building out its surveillance capabilities in recent weeks, signing a string of contracts for technologies to identify individuals by their irises or facial features and to monitor their cellphone activity, social media posts and physical movements," per spending disclosures.
“Having listened closely to my fellow San Franciscans and our local officials—and after the largest and safest Dreamforce in our history—I do not believe the National Guard is needed to address safety in San Francisco,” Benioff said in a statement.”
Exclusive | Marc Benioff Apologizes for National Guard Comments
The Salesforce CEO had called for President Trump to send the National Guard to San Francisco.
www.wsj.com
October 17, 2025 at 8:13 PM
“Having listened closely to my fellow San Franciscans and our local officials—and after the largest and safest Dreamforce in our history—I do not believe the National Guard is needed to address safety in San Francisco,” Benioff said in a statement.”
Right-to-publicity and defamation laws vary by state and may not always apply to deepfakes, meaning there could be "little legal downside to just letting things ride unless and until someone complains”
www.npr.org/2025/10/17/n...
www.npr.org/2025/10/17/n...
OpenAI blocks MLK Jr. videos on Sora after 'disrespectful depictions'
OpenAI is preventing people from making AI videos of King on its Sora app after the estate of the civil rights leader complained about the spread of offensive and vulgar portrayals.
www.npr.org
October 17, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Right-to-publicity and defamation laws vary by state and may not always apply to deepfakes, meaning there could be "little legal downside to just letting things ride unless and until someone complains”
www.npr.org/2025/10/17/n...
www.npr.org/2025/10/17/n...
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The tech billionaire and Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel says the antichrist is ... Greta Thunberg www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction
In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 10, 2025 at 2:06 PM
The tech billionaire and Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel says the antichrist is ... Greta Thunberg www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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"In a world where everything can be fake, & the fake stuff looks & feels real, people will stop believing everything." - Daisy Soderberg-Rivkin, a former trust & safety manager at TikTok, in this @bobbyallyn.bsky.social story ⤵️
#NewsLiteracy
#NewsLiteracy
Sora gives deepfakes 'a publicist and a distribution deal.' It could change the internet
OpenAI's new hit app has unleashed a new wave of AI slop across the internet. But what happens when there are no rules over hyper-realistic synthetic videos?
www.npr.org
October 10, 2025 at 7:02 PM
"In a world where everything can be fake, & the fake stuff looks & feels real, people will stop believing everything." - Daisy Soderberg-Rivkin, a former trust & safety manager at TikTok, in this @bobbyallyn.bsky.social story ⤵️
#NewsLiteracy
#NewsLiteracy
I talked to trust and safety professionals and former OpenAI employees about how Sora could change the internet forever
"It's as if deepfakes got a publicist and a distribution deal”
www.npr.org/2025/10/10/n...
"It's as if deepfakes got a publicist and a distribution deal”
www.npr.org/2025/10/10/n...
Sora gives deepfakes 'a publicist and a distribution deal.' It could change the internet
OpenAI's new hit app has unleashed a new wave of AI slop across the internet. But what happens when there are no rules over hyper-realistic synthetic videos?
www.npr.org
October 10, 2025 at 3:20 PM
I talked to trust and safety professionals and former OpenAI employees about how Sora could change the internet forever
"It's as if deepfakes got a publicist and a distribution deal”
www.npr.org/2025/10/10/n...
"It's as if deepfakes got a publicist and a distribution deal”
www.npr.org/2025/10/10/n...
When investigators recovered the phone of the man suspected of starting the Palisades fire they found an image of a burning city he generated on ChatGPT www.latimes.com/california/s...
Uber driver accused of intentionally starting fire that destroyed Pacific Palisades
Authorities will announce an arrest in connection with the devastating Palisades fire, law enforcement sources said, and are expected to announce a cause of the blaze.
www.latimes.com
October 8, 2025 at 4:37 PM
When investigators recovered the phone of the man suspected of starting the Palisades fire they found an image of a burning city he generated on ChatGPT www.latimes.com/california/s...
“OpenAI has done more than most to build controls into the system, but the deeper question is this: what does "permission" mean in a world where harm can outrun response?”
www.linkedin.com/pulse/demyst...
www.linkedin.com/pulse/demyst...
Demystifying Trust and Safety-Special Edition
OpenAI’s Sora Is a Technical Marvel, and a Trust and Safety Stress Test Wearing Lipstick By Daisy Soderberg-Rivkin There's a specific kind of tension that settles in when something is breathtakingly i...
www.linkedin.com
October 7, 2025 at 10:23 PM
“OpenAI has done more than most to build controls into the system, but the deeper question is this: what does "permission" mean in a world where harm can outrun response?”
www.linkedin.com/pulse/demyst...
www.linkedin.com/pulse/demyst...
we asked for flying cars and instead got AskJeeves for bespoke Internet Research Agency videos
October 7, 2025 at 3:08 AM
we asked for flying cars and instead got AskJeeves for bespoke Internet Research Agency videos
lol former Oracle exec: "I remember earlier in my career when I told people I was working for Oracle they would say, ‘Oh you mean the toothbrush company,' and I would say, 'not Oral B, Oracle'
www.npr.org/2025/10/06/n...
www.npr.org/2025/10/06/n...
Who is Larry Ellison, the billionaire Trump friend who's part of the TikTok takeover?
Larry Ellison has a lower profile than other tech billionaires, but his influence over media is about to be immense. His family's empire could soon own CBS, Paramount, CNN and TikTok.
https://www.npr.org/2025/10/06/nx-s1-5560216/who-is-larry-ellison-the-billionaire-trump-friend-whos-part-of-the-tiktok-takeover”
October 6, 2025 at 10:48 PM
lol former Oracle exec: "I remember earlier in my career when I told people I was working for Oracle they would say, ‘Oh you mean the toothbrush company,' and I would say, 'not Oral B, Oracle'
www.npr.org/2025/10/06/n...
www.npr.org/2025/10/06/n...