a deliberate and sustained effort to damage the reputation or credibility of an individual.
The state-sponsored destruction of reputations, fostered by political propaganda and cultural mechanisms, can have more far-reaching consequences: One of the earliest signs of a society's compliance to loosening the reins on the perpetration of crimes (and even massacres) with total impunity is when a government favors or directly encourages a campaign aimed at destroying the dignity and reputation of its adversaries, and the public accepts its allegations without question. The mobilisation toward ruining the reputation of adversaries is the prelude to the mobilisation of violence in order to annihilate them. Generally, official dehumanisation has preceded the physical assault of the victims.
Jan Theuninck argues that AI is not only bureaucratic but also ideologically formative: it determines what we know, think, and even imagine. He warns that AI is not neutral—it shapes our perception of the world, and does so in a way that shuts us off from alternative ideas or critical reflection. This implies that technology influences not only our actions but also our thinking space. And this raises fundamental questions about freedom, consciousness, and the role of human autonomy in an increasingly algorithmically driven society.
Theuninck uses his art to comment on contemporary issues, so this piece reflects on AI’s impact on society, ethics, human identity: it’s reasonable to assume it aligns with his signature approach -> provocative, symbolic, and open to interpretation. He is best known for his paintings depicting the evolution of Western totalitarianism.He explores how conditions and systems influence our governments and politics, highlighting the decline of civil and personal liberties.
Algorithms now preemptively determine what information reaches us, AI creates personalized perception caves, and educational technology applies behavioristic methods on a large scale, making certain ideas literally unthinkable by ensuring they never enter our consciousness.
"The marriage of Orwell and Kafka"
Palantir, the data integration platform that connects AI models to create risk assessments.The risk score makes the unsuspecting citizen guilty until proven innocent. -> inquisition
Citizens risk becoming entangled in Kafkaesque processes as a result of the Orwellian combination of data collected by the government.
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"We are being closely observed by the bureaucratic monster in 'automatic mode' (cfr Palantir, NCTC) and, if necessary, sidelined when the system indicates it's necessary.It's not humans who make decisions about us, but AI algorithms. This is the state of the rule of law: terminal." (Dr. Jan Bonte, neurologist)
AI will come out as the “hero” and humans will be driven into the arms of AI-managed government.
and...A.I. is used for censorship, used in "no touch torture" weapons, etc
The line between real and fake is gone and people are loving it.
---------------------- According to the World Economic Forum's Nita Farahany, brain sensors embedded in headphones and other devices will soon be keeping tabs on your brain activity.:
This technology should use artificial intelligence to recognize fundamental mental states such as fatigue, attention, emotions or even cognitive overload : is that a future you want to live in ?
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In August 2025, Jan Theuninck believes AI companies are likely causing a stock market bubble.For example, OpenAI announced at the end of its earnings week that it had raised $8.3 billion in investment, part of a planned $40 billion round of funding, valuing the startup, whose ChatGPT chatbot launched in 2022, at $300 billion!(while the company isn't making a profit).
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knowledge chain reaction(KCR) - like a nuke ? (Loss of control over superintelligent systems) ------------------------------------------------------------------
David Icke, September 5, 2025 : I said that Trump was put in power to front up the AI oligarch takeover of society with artificial intelligence and that's exactly what he's doing - with the oligarchs driving the policy and direction. Here are many at a White House dinner yesterday - including Trump AI 'czar' David Sacks, Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg, Apple CEO Tim Cook, Microsoft founder Bill Gates, OpenAI founder Sam Altman, Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. Clear your mind of all the diversions and this is the thrust of the whole Trump regime - installing the AI control system on every level.
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Are We Automating the Banality and Radicality of Evil?
First of all chemical weapons are used by state criminals to cut the resistance of their targets. Please note that those state criminals abuse their own children in an attempt to achieve a blackmail result.
Blackmail Ring is part of a broader body of work addressing themes of manipulation, power, and abuse. Theuninck’s art, including this piece, appears to comment on alleged blackmail schemes, such as those he associates with political or institutional corruption, as seen in his critiques of "Western totalitarianism" and "communitarianism of the New World Order".
In 1983 they sent an officer to meet Jan Theuninck in Ypres, Belgium to tell/threat him they were going to play blackmail games with him, That officer didn't tell they used all kind of chemical products(weapons) in an attempt to try to criminalise him. - note that "games" is an euphemism to hide their criminal operations e.g. a couple of years ago, in Ninove, Belgium, Jan Theuninck confronted an agent with their use of an energy weapon on his smartphone: he replied it were "games" ; Theuninck told him it are dirty Gestapo games. Early 2025 a French-speaking agent came to say that he was part of a program !
