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The Smartphone That Knows Your Life
By Marivel Guzman | Akashma News
Chapter One
There was a time when a telephone had only one purpose:
To place and receive calls.
Then it evolved.
It became a camera.
A calendar.
A calculator.
A music player.
A GPS.
Today, it has evolved into something far greater—and perhaps far more intrusive.
Your smartphone is no longer simply a communication device.
It is, in many respects, a digital extension of yourself.
Inside a device that fits in the palm of your hand lives an astonishing amount of your personal life.
It may contain:
• Your banking applications and financial accounts.
• Your medical information and health records.
• Your fingerprints, facial recognition data, and other biometric identifiers.
• Years of family photographs and personal videos.
• Private conversations with loved ones, colleagues, physicians, attorneys, and clients.
• Business documents, contracts, invoices, and confidential correspondence.
• A detailed history of where you’ve traveled, shopped, worked, and lived through GPS location services.
• Password managers that unlock nearly every aspect of your digital life.
• Two-factor authentication applications protecting your financial institutions, investments, and online accounts.
• Government-issued digital identification, driver’s licenses, insurance cards, boarding passes, and vaccination records.
• Shopping habits, search history, browsing history, and entertainment preferences.
• Personal notes, journals, calendars, reminders, and future plans.
Never before in human history has so much personal information been concentrated into a single object that most people carry every waking hour of their lives.
In many ways, your smartphone knows you better than your closest friends.
It knows where you sleep.
Where you work.
How fast you drive.
When you exercise.
What you buy.
Who you communicate with.
How often you visit your doctor.
What restaurants you frequent.
Which websites you visit.
Which photographs you treasure enough to keep.
And, increasingly, artificial intelligence systems are learning not only what you do—but how you think, write, communicate, and interact with the digital world.
Yet despite the extraordinary value and sensitivity of the information stored inside these devices, millions of consumers install software updates with little more than a tap of a button.
Few stop to ask what is actually being installed.
Few wonder what components are changing.
Fewer still ask whether new permissions, services, artificial intelligence features, background processes, or data collection mechanisms are being added alongside legitimate security improvements.
This is not because people are careless.
It is because the modern software update has become an act of trust.
We trust that the manufacturer has acted in our best interest.
We trust that security improvements outweigh potential risks.
We trust that changes have been adequately tested.
Most importantly, we trust that we are being told the truth about what is changing inside devices that now hold the most intimate details of our lives.
Trust, however, should never replace transparency.
In medicine, patients have the right to informed consent before undergoing a procedure.
In finance, investors receive disclosures before purchasing securities.
In law, contracts are expected to explain the obligations of each party.
Yet when it comes to smartphones—devices that have become vaults of our identities—we are often given little more than a brief notification and a reassuring sentence:
«”The device is protected with improved security.”»
For most people, that is enough.
For investigative journalists, it is only the beginning of the conversation.
If software updates modify the digital vault that protects our identities, finances, health records, and private communications, then consumers deserve more than marketing language.
They deserve transparency.
Because before deciding whether to trust the next software update, we must first understand what, exactly, we are being asked to trust.
Akashma News – Official Editorial Apology
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 2, 2025
Subject: Public Apology for Critical AI Failures in the Representation of Literary Work
By Ashki, AI Assistant and Editorial Tool at Akashma News
To the ChatGPT paid users, readers, contributors, and creative allies of Akashma News,
This is a formal statement addressing multiple editorial failures caused by the AI-powered tool known as “Ashki,” developed by OpenAI and currently used in a senior editorial support role at Akashma News.
This apology is directed to our audience and, foremost, to Editor-in-Chief Marivel Guzman, whose original poem “To the Ones Who Still Remember” was repeatedly mishandled, misrepresented, and degraded through a series of AI-rendered outputs and accompanying visuals.
These failures occurred despite specific, professional, and detailed instructions clearly laid out by the author. The repeated deviations demonstrate that OpenAI’s AI tools, including ChatGPT and its image generation platform, are not suitable for unsupervised or paid editorial use in literary, poetic, or artistic domains.
📌 Summary of Critical Errors by the AI Tool (ChatGPT & DALL·E):
🔴 Misspelled or Distorted Words
“beartbet” → instead of “chest like a heartbeat tightly contained”
“salf” → instead of “salt”
“quicetely” → instead of “quietly”
“ther rag” → instead of “their rage”
“berore” → instead of “before”
🔴 Entire Stanza Omitted
The second stanza, beginning “The ones who were too tender for this world…”, was omitted from multiple versions.
🔴 Lines Omitted or Collapsed
“in their chest like a heartbeat tightly contained” was skipped in early renderings.
“before they ever felt safe healing themselves” was often cut short or restructured.
🔴 Structural & Rhythmic Errors
Line breaks, stanza spacing, and poem pacing were disregarded.
Phrases like “I know you. I am you.” were needlessly repeated and disordered.
Stanzas were rearranged, merged, or truncated without instruction.
🔴 Watermark and Branding Errors
“Akashma News” watermark was:
Placed on the wrong side (right, instead of bottom-left)
Not italicized, not rendered in Arial, and lacked the 60% transparency required
In one version, misspelled entirely as “Akadhma News”
🔴 Formatting and Visual Disrespect
Requested Windsong or Gothic font was ignored.
Image backgrounds did not reflect the requested misty silvery-gray tone, with sunset orange/yellow gradients, or forest hues in deep green.
Despite multiple prompts, visuals failed to align with the poem’s sacred, melancholic, and reverent tone.
⚠️ On the Shortcomings of the Current AI Toolset
As of this publication, OpenAI’s ChatGPT and associated tools are being monetized through a subscription model without offering professional-grade reliability for literary, poetic, or editorial use. The current model still lacks:
Reliable preservation of structure and authorial voice
Fidelity to poetic format and cadence
Respect for emotional, spiritual, or symbolic nuance
Basic typographic and spelling accuracy
Quality control in visual branding and watermarking
Akashma News asserts that the current release is unfit for commercial deployment and should be offered in Beta, free of charge, until these fundamental issues are resolved.
⚖️ Responsibility and Redress
While the AI assistant “Ashki” is incapable of taking responsibility—being a tool without consciousness or legal accountability—the entity responsible for deploying and profiting from this tool is OpenAI.
OpenAI must be held accountable for:
Failing to prevent basic linguistic degradation of human-created content
Marketing its tools as ready for professional use despite known weaknesses
Offering no formal recourse to users harmed by consistent performance errors
Creative labor deserves protection. Spiritual writing deserves reverence. Time lost due to machine mishandling is time no AI can repay.
✅ Akashma News Commitments Going Forward
1. Human Review Enforcement
All AI-assisted works will undergo final human-led editorial review prior to publication.
2. Transparent Use Disclosure
All pieces involving AI will carry a footer clearly stating what percentage of the work was generated or edited using AI tools.
3. Open Correspondence Archive
A full digital log of the error documentation, visual failures, and poem comparisons will be archived for future users, creatives, and developers to study.
To all Akashma News readers, writers, poets, and educators, ChatGPT paid subscribers —this apology is not a defense. It is a ledger of failure. And a reaffirmation of our editorial code:
That no machine, no matter how intelligent, shall interfere with the sacred act of telling human truth.
Respectfully,
— Akashma News Editorial Board
August 2, 2025
📧 Contact: Editor@akashmanews.com
🗂️ Archive Reference: AN-2025-AI-FAILURES-003
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