Data Exploitation

You’re Wrong About This $40k AI School. It’s Not Education.

📅 July 21, 2026 📂 AI & Machine Learning

A $40,000-a-year AI school with no teachers is opening in Oklahoma, exposing a dark contradiction in ed-tech: AI is sold as a democratizing force, yet it’s locked behind a paywall for the wealthy. This isn’t an educational experiment; it’s a venture capital-backed bet to replace human labor with software, turning children into unpaid R&D subjects. The real product isn’t education—it’s the data they generate.

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Meta Didn’t Ask Permission. They Stole Your Face for AI – and Called It Consent.

📅 July 12, 2026 📂 AI & Machine Learning

Meta quietly opted every public Instagram account into its new Muse AI, turning your photos into free training data without asking. This is manufactured consent—shifting the burden to opt out instead of asking permission. The social contract of ‘public’ has been rewritten: what was meant for connection is now corporate fuel.

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