Surveillance cameras: The visible symbol of an invisible infrastructure – Unsplash

The Invisible Chain: How Digital Surveillance Became the New Normal

You wake up, check your smartphone, drive to work, buy coffee with a card, work on the computer, stream Netflix in the evening. A normal day? No. A day under total surveillance. Every day, over 2.5 quintillion bytes of data are collected about us – and most people don’t even notice.

An honest review of missing deliveries, poor service, exploitative labor, and the dark side of platform capitalism through the Amazon lens.

The term ‘conspiracy theory’ often stigmatizes legitimate doubt. Discover why real skepticism is not radicalism—but an expression of mature thinking.

ELIZA was a parrot with rules – GPT is a chameleon with probabilities. Yet both are symbolic manipulators without true understanding.

I don’t want to convince anyone of something they don’t see themselves – that’s pointless.
But I do believe it’s valuable to have an informed opinion. And for that, we need access to alternative perspectives, especially when marketing hype dominates the narrative.

Here are key voices from leading AI researchers who critically examine the label “Artificial Intelligence” and the risks it implies:

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Emily M. Bender: “Stochastic Parrots” – Language Models Without Understanding

Emily Bender coined the term “Stochastic Parrots” to describe how models like ChatGPT generate statistically plausible text without any real understanding.
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