The Beware Index

A $15,000 promise of self-driving that's killed people and still calls itself 'Full Self-Driving.'

A corporate spy you bought with your own money, placed in your bedroom, and thanked for the weather report.

Your voice becomes a model in somebody else's account, and you cannot take it with you when you leave.

Twenty billion vehicle scans a month, searchable by 5,000 police agencies. There is no opt-out, because you were never asked.

Google already had all your data. Now it has a chatbot that can actually use it.

Trained on data it actually paid for, which is rarer than it should be. Getting back out of Adobe is the expensive part.

Knows more about you than your therapist. Reports to a company that wants to be God.

Your prompts and pictures are public unless you pay $60 a month, and three Hollywood studios are asking a court to switch it off.

The bot your colleague invited to the call, recording everyone else on a consent nobody but the host gave.

Now ships an agent that works your files and apps around the clock, while still being sued by nearly every major newsroom.

The screening layer between you and a billion job applications, with its bias testing sealed under attorney-client privilege.

Your AI pair programmer that learned to code by reading everyone else's code without asking.

It reads everything your login can already open, which is how most tenants find out what their login can already open.

A camera and microphone worn on your face, wired to Meta. The people around you never agreed to any of it.

Measurably safer than the drivers it replaces, wrapped in a 360-degree camera that never stops recording the street.

The only AI on this Index whose privacy claims you can go and check yourself. The accuracy claims are another matter.

A screenshot of your screen every five seconds, indexed and searchable. It never leaves the laptop, which is the only reason this is not an F.