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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 2d

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.

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News Literacy Project @newslit.org · 2d

"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 ⤵️

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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?

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Bobby Allyn @bobbyallyn.bsky.social · 2d

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”

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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

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Bobby Allyn @bobbyallyn.bsky.social · 4d

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Bobby Allyn @bobbyallyn.bsky.social · 4d

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.

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Bobby Allyn @bobbyallyn.bsky.social · 4d

“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?”

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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...

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Bobby Allyn @bobbyallyn.bsky.social · 5d

we asked for flying cars and instead got AskJeeves for bespoke Internet Research Agency videos

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Bobby Allyn @bobbyallyn.bsky.social · 5d

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...

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”

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Bobby Allyn @bobbyallyn.bsky.social · 6d

feels notable that Sora is dropping in a moment when the AI capex bubble crowd is getting bigger and bigger and everyone is looking around for the next killer AI app and AI investors are really wondering what their return is exactly. the answer: rebranding deepfakes as cameos for a laugh.

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Bobby Allyn @bobbyallyn.bsky.social · 7d

The name Sora will hit different for criminal lawyers in NY, since a “Sora hearing,” a very common type of hearing, is a reference to the state’s sexual offender registration act

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Bobby Allyn @bobbyallyn.bsky.social · 8d

Apple bowing to Trump admin’s pressure on ICEBlock invites even more jawboning, says @gshans.bsky.social.

"Compliance will only incentivize further government demands."

www.npr.org/2025/10/03/n...

Legal experts condemn Apple bowing to White House's request to remove ICE tracking app

It's the latest example of tech giants bowing to pressure from the Trump administration. Legal experts say the developer of the app has free speech rights that may have been violated.

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Bobby Allyn @bobbyallyn.bsky.social · 8d

my colleague @gbrumfiel.bsky.social did a great story looking at how Sora’s AI slop machine can collapse our collective sense of reality and create wildly new disinfo problems www.npr.org/2025/10/03/n...

Kiss reality goodbye: AI-generated social media has arrived

With the launch of Sora 2, OpenAI has opened a new chapter in addictive, and some worry dangerous, AI video content.

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Bobby Allyn @bobbyallyn.bsky.social · 8d

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Bobby Allyn @bobbyallyn.bsky.social · 8d

all the videos here were from
prompts i created.

see some on here upset that i’m experimenting with the capacity and limits of new ai, which is part of my job!

i’m just sharing the raw results because it’s interesting and very telling to see how Sora responds to various ridiculous prompts.