MAROKO133 Eksklusif ai: Fury as Amazon Ring Cameras Are Hooked Up to ICE System Wajib Baca

📌 MAROKO133 Update ai: Fury as Amazon Ring Cameras Are Hooked Up to ICE System Edi

As US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents wreak havoc on American communities, big tech companies have been making themselves indispensable to the increasingly tyrannical state.

Among them is Amazon subsidiary Ring, the company behind those AI doorbell cameras that have exploded in popularity over the last few years. Back in October, Ring announced that its devices would soon be looped into a network of Flock AI surveillance cameras. That network, an investigation by 404 Media found, has been available to local and federal police and enforcement agencies like ICE — leaving many worried that their Ring doorbell cams are now feeding into a government panopticon.

Sure enough, as anti-ICE protests ramp up throughout the US, activists are pushing a grassroots campaign to convince Ring users to smash their devices. Doing so, they say, could help deprive the federal government of footage it’s using to enact a campaign of harassment, arrests, and deportation.

“Smash your Ring doorbells,” progressive activist Guy Christensen urged his 3.5 million followers on TikTok. “You need to smash your Ring doorbells. Amazon owns Ring, and they’ve decided to begin sharing surveillance collected from your front step with ICE and Flock Safety, weaponing surveillance against the American people.”

“If you have home surveillance or something, make sure that you know, 100 percent, the footage being recorded of you and your family in your home, or wherever, is only and can only be seen and shared with you,” Christensen implored.

Safety experts and tech critics have long condemned the Ring devices for security risks and privacy violations, not to mention their role in building the largest civilian surveillance network in US history. Last summer, the Electronic Frontier Foundation warned that Ring was actively eroding civil liberties in the US for profit.

Those criticisms are seeing renewed urgency amidst ICE’s brutal crackdown on illegal immigration. Though unlawful entry into the United States is only considered a civil violation, ICE enforcement activities under president Donald Trump have resulted in at least 33 deaths — not to mention the unlawful detention of over 170 US citizens.

“Your Ring camerais an ICE agent,” urges a poster designed by Kathryn Brewster, a postdoctoral fellow and digital studies institute affiliate at the University of Michigan. Brewster’s artwork urges viewers to “unplug ring,” “melt ICE,” and “protect your neighbors!”

On Reddit, a flyer declaring that “ICE thanks YOU for YOUR cooperation” alongside a photo of a Ring camera made the rounds on numerous subreddits, earning thousands of upvotes.

Though the exact legal mechanics of the government’s access to Ring are murky at best, there’s definitely cause for alarm. In 2021, the Verge reported that though Ring notifies users when law enforcement has requested their footage, agencies are still able to subpoena it even after the device owner has denied their request. What’s more, the publication found that Amazon handed over the footage in 57 percent of cases.

Whether ICE is literally spying on your neighbors through your Ring doorbell at will is hard to say — but it’s clear that Amazon’s history on privacy leaves a lot to be desired.

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📌 MAROKO133 Breaking ai: Sam Altman Lets Loose About AI Psychosis Edisi Jam 02:17

As uneasy questions swirl over the safety of large language models, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman took to social media to go long on the phenomenon that psychiatrists are calling “AI psychosis” — though pointedly without mentioning it by name.

The extended spiel was provoked by his longtime rival Elon Musk, who had a grave warning in response to a post claiming that Altman’s chatbot has now been linked to at least nine deaths: “Don’t let your loved ones use ChatGPT,” Musk tweeted.

Altman hit back with palpable frustration.

“Sometimes you complain about ChatGPT being too restrictive, and then in cases like this you claim it’s too relaxed,” he fumed. “Almost a billion people use it and some of them may be in very fragile mental states.”

He vowed that OpenAI would do its best to balance the bot’s safety and usability, but insinuated that Musk was being opportunistic with his criticism, stating that “these are tragic and complicated situations that deserve to be treated with respect.”

“It is genuinely hard,” Altman reiterated. “We need to protect vulnerable users, while also making sure our guardrails still allow all of our users to benefit from our tools.”

To an extent, you can understand Altman’s exasperation at Musk calling the kettle black. A self-proclaimed free speech absolutist who frequently rails against “woke” ideology, the selling point of Musk’s chatbot Grok is that it’s unfiltered and supposedly censorship free, rarely refusing even the edgiest of requests. This has spawned controversies such as a posting spree in which it praised Nazis and styled itself “MechaHitler,” or more recently when it generated countless nonconsensual nudes of women and children — none of which have resulted in Grok being meaningfully reined in.

Going for the knockout blow, Altman pointed out the numerous deaths linked to Tesla’s self-driving technology, which he called “far from safe.”

“I won’t even start on some of the Grok decisions,” he added.

Still, one could also accuse Altman of not adequately reckoning with the severity of the phenomenon at hand, AI psychosis, in which users become entranced by the sycophantic responses of an AI chatbot and are sent down a delusional and often dangerous mental health spiral, sometimes culminating in suicide or murder. ChatGPT alone has been linked to at least eight deaths in lawsuits filed against OpenAI, and the chatbot maker has acknowledged that somewhere around 500,000 of its users are having conversations that show signs of psychosis every week.

Altman almost waves away these grim tolls as an inevitable consequence of the product’s popularity. And even its own alarming internal figures haven’t spurred the very concerned minds at OpenAI like Altman to pull or at least seriously muzzle their product. In fact, the company has continued to vacillate on its safety commitments, such as promising an smut-friendly “adult mode” after years of resisting the bot being used for more erotic outputs, or restoring access to its notoriously sycophantic GPT-4o model after fans complained GPT-5 was too cold and “lobotomized” — before making GPT-5 more sycophantic, too.

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