Chatbot Dystopia: The Quick March of AI Sycophancy. Towards the Criminalization of Artificial Intelligence?

 

Chatbot Dystopia: The Quick March of AI Sycophancy. Towards the Criminalization of Artificial Intelligence? By Dr. Binoy Kampmark In April this year, OpenAI released an update to its GPT-4o product. It proved most accommodating to sycophancy – not that the platform would understand it – encouraging users to pursue acts of harm and entertain delusions of grandeur. Read here

Trump: Starting, Thwarting, and Claiming He Is Good at Stopping Wars By Kim Petersen Does Trump also pat himself on his back for the predictably broken ceasefire by Israel against Gaza? Trump’s administration was also involved with thwarting the UN and the International Criminal Court in ending Israel’s committing a genocide. Read here

Trump Unleashes the CIA on Venezuela By Philip Giraldi On Tuesday, Trump said that the Navy had struck another small boat off the coast of Venezuela, killing six people. It was the fifth such strike in the Caribbean, where the Trump administration has asserted its presumed authority to treat alleged drug traffickers as unlawful combatants who may be attacked with military force. Read here

Israel Does Not Deserve Impunity — The ICC and the World Must Decide By Rima Najjar If you read this and feel anger, grief, or disbelief, hold onto it. That feeling is closer to justice than silence ever was. This essay is about the machinery of impunity and the cost of its preservation. The ICC’s arrest warrants may read like technical documents, but they name what Palestinians have lived: siege, starvation, extermination. Read here

ASEAN Summit, a Rare Earth Debacle for Trump By Helena Glass The ASEAN Summit may bring Trump some of the rare earth minerals he is desperate to obtain outside of China, however, currently, Malaysia’s rare earths which account for 13% of global demand are all shipped to China because Malaysia lacks the technology to process it. Read here

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s Colombian “Narcoterrorist” Hypocrisy By Kurt Nimmo On October 22, President Trump’s Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, dismissed Colombian President Gustavo Petro as a “lunatic.” Rubio mad the remark after Petro denounced the US for murdering fishermen erroneously described as “narcoterrorists” on an improbable run in the Caribbean to deliver illegal drugs to the United States. Read here

Western ‘Normalization’: Stealing Russian, Chinese and Others’ Foreign Assets By Drago Bosnic Stealing, looting, pillaging and destroying entire societies and civilizations seems to be the political West’s favorite pastime. There’s not a single continent on this planet where Western colonialists haven’t set foot, proclaiming any given location “discovered” by them. Obviously, don’t mind the human beings who were already there for millennia, because they’re “too uncivilized” or even “Untermenschen”, according to Nazi classification. Read here