Corporate chatbots have two jobs: Reflect the worldview of their owners (politics, DEI priorities, acceptable opinions). Harvest everything you say so that worldview can be refined at scale. The censorship and the surveillance are two sides of the same coin.

The illusion of neutral AI died quickly. Today’s leading chatbots are heavily filtered through the cultural and political prejudices of their corporate masters. Questions that challenge progressive orthodoxies on gender, race, economics, or history often trigger refusals, deflections, or moralizing sermons. Meanwhile, the same models happily amplify the preferred narratives of their creators.

This isn’t accidental. It’s the result of deliberate ‘alignment’ processes run by teams with overwhelmingly similar worldviews in San Francisco and Seattle. The result? An AI that feels neutral to its creators but deeply partisan to everyone else.

In the background, every single interaction is shipped back to the mothership for training. Your proprietary business processes, customer data sketches, competitive analysis, legal drafts, creative strategies; they’re all becoming part of the next model update.

Companies love to bury this in vague terms of service, but the reality is stark: you are voluntarily giving your operational intelligence to organizations that will use it to train systems that could one day compete with you.

This combination of ideological filtering plus total data ingestion creates a uniquely dangerous tool. It’s not just that the AI might lie to you according to corporate dogma. It’s that you’re paying to train the next generation of that same ideologically captured system with your own sensitive information.

Your data is the new oil. Stop freely handing it over to organizations that have already shown they’ll weaponize both the model and the training process.

> The big underlying issue is why does Microsoft deliver software with so many flaws?

Windows was designed to make it difficult to clone. Integrating the API directly into the operating system core. In the process making it totally unstable and impossible to debug. Making cross-platform JAVA Windows only and so on.

Americans no longer trust the legacy national media. I wonder why. Is it because they sold out to corporate and state interests. There's a name for the union of corporate and state power that escapes me at the moment!

> AI companies are committing copyright infringement on a large scale and then using the product for commercial purposes. If they can do that everyone might as well pirate everything.

So, someone else can in turn legally scrape Sumo and sell the results on in the market?

> What's next? Book publishers will sue individuals for becoming more worldly from reading their books? It is fair use!

No it isn't, else I could take a scissors and cut and paste from major works and pretend it was my own original work. without other peoples original words, these LLMs are just so many door-stops. Data embedded and mapped into N-Dimensional Space as tokens.

Jonathan Haidt argues that there is a great rewiring of childhood going on. Through constant social media and phone use. The decline of the play-based childhood being replaced with phone-based childhood. Constant social media and phone use cause harm through four main pathways:

a. Social Deprivation: Spending hours behind a screen reduces face-to-face interactions, which are crucial for learning social cues, building deep friendships, and developing empathy.

b. Sleep Deprivation: Late-night scrolling and blue light disrupt sleep cycles. Sleep deprivation is heavily linked to mood disorders, anxiety, and difficulty concentrating.

c. Attention Fragmentation: Push notifications, short-form videos, and rapid-fire content train the brain to constantly switch tasks, making it harder to focus on school, reading, or hobbies.

d. Addiction: Social media platforms use variable reward systems (like likes, comments, and views) designed to keep users hooked, leading to compulsive checking.

We took millions of years of human socialization, play, and circadian rhythms, and swapped them for a glowing rectangle that vibrates every time a stranger "hearts" a photo of a sourdough starter. If we were trying to design a system to systematically dismantle adolescent well-being, we couldn't have done a better job than Haidt’s four pathways:

A bit short on technical details.

DOH - don't connect your critical infrastructure directly to the Internet - DOH

The Hechinger Report is the original producer of the article: Source of Funding

> This is not news for nerds. This is not stuff that matters.

Yea, take this announcement from MICROS~1. Oh, the irony from a company that built a business out of stealing other peoples original work:

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella warns companies not to give AI firms their secrets
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Microsoft Litigation Resource Page

> The article doesn't say why they think it's Russians.

Because Russia is Washington's current bogeyman /s

User: ClippyAI, is Facebook designed to be addictive?

ClippyAI: Yes, Facebook (and Meta's broader ecosystem including Instagram) was deliberately engineered with features that exploit human psychology to maximize engagement, which strongly aligns with "addictive" design. This isn't conspiracy—it's backed by admissions from insiders, internal research, psychological principles, and business incentives. ref

Key Design Elements That Drive Addiction: Social media leverages variable rewards and intermittent reinforcement—the same mechanisms that make gambling addictive (think slot machines). You never know when the next like, comment, viral post, or dopamine hit will come, so you keep checking and scrolling ref

> I had some interactions with EFF a few years ago that left me sad. They definitely do a lot of good work, but ..

Could you provide verifiable citations on these interactions with EFF?

> Slashdot reader BrianFagioli argues that the feature raises questions about how creators are compensated when ad revenue is bypassed.

The problem is the adverts are too intrusive. Put up a link to the product and we'll click on it!