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An influencer who documents Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents activities on TikTok was arrested by ICE while livestreaming from her car. Tatiana Martinez was detained last month in Los Angeles while sitting in her Tesla outside her home. The 24-year-old was streaming on TikTok when federal agents approached her vehicle. Videos of the arrest show Martinez being dragged from the car and restrained face down. Bystanders can be heard calling for medical assistance as she lies motionless on the ground. DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin told Newsweek that Martinez was arrested because of a prior DUI conviction. This influencer drove under the influenceand got convicted for it in Los Angeles, the official ICE account posted on X. Her attorney, Carlos Jurado, has suggested Martinez was targeted for her platform, where more than 40,000 followers on TikTok watch her document ICE raids and share advice on what to do if stopped during enforcement actions. Martinez has also posted under President Donald Trumps push for mass deportations. @tatianamartinez_02 Hasta cuando Dios mío sonido original – Tatiana martinez Social media has increasingly been used to alert communities about ICE activity and document arrests across the U.S. Videos capture workers and family members being taken in daylight, but those behind the cameras risk drawing attention from ICE themselves. “One of the biggest points that was being made to her aggressively by officers was, ‘Did you think that you were going to get away with recording our activities and there wouldn’t be a consequence?’ That was said to her many times by many different people while she was being held in Los Angeles,” Jurado said, according to The Independent. (Fast Company has reached out to Jurado and DHS for comment.) Jurado confirmed Martinez, originally from Colombia and in the U.S. for about four years, was convicted in 2023. He told ABC 7, however, that the DUI was never mentioned during the arrest. Jurado also said Martinez passed out from trauma during the incident and was hospitalized. She is now being detained in Calexico, California, with a preliminary hearing scheduled for later today.
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Beach season is almost is our rear view, but a number of beaches across the U.S. are closing a little early this year. The reason? High levels of fecal contamination in the water. Beaches along the east coast, from Maine to Florida, are the most affected. Closures this week have included popular destinations like Keyes Memorial Beach in Cape Cod, Benjamin’s Beach on Long Island, and several beaches in the Florida Keys. However, warnings in San Diego, California, and even Hawaii have also been reported. “Benjamins Beach in Bay Shore is closed to bathing due to the finding of bacteria at levels in excess of acceptable criteria,” one notice read. “According to Suffolk County Commissioner of Health Dr. Gregson Pigott, bathing in bacteria-contaminated water can result in gastrointestinal illness, as well as infections of the eyes, ears, nose, and throat.” It’s not the first time this swimming season that unsafe water conditions have been reported. Just before the Fourth of July, at least six states issued closures or warnings over fecal contamination. Days later, Environmental America released a report that found the majority of U.S. beaches, 61%, had “potentially unsafe” levels of contamination in 2024. It said that roughly two-thirds (1,930 out of 3,187) of beaches had at least one day where fecal contamination was at unsafe levels. “Each year, there are an estimated 57 million cases of illness in the U.S. resulting from swimming in oceans, lakes, rivers, and ponds. The vast majority of these illnesses go unreported,” the report states. “Contaminated water can also trigger health warnings or closures that interfere with our ability to enjoy the beach.” According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), heavy rains can contribute to fecal bacteria being carried into bodies of water. “Water contaminated with these germs can make you sick if you swallow it,” it says. “It can also cause an infection if you get into the water with an open cut or wound (especially from a surgery or piercing).” Previous studies have found that frequent water-related events, like frequent floods and droughts, are inextricably linked to human-made climate change. Warmer water can fuel hurricane activity and floods, and is also linked to higher rates of dangerous flesh-eating bacteria in coastal waters. “Many people with Vibrio vulnificus infection can get seriously ill and need intensive care or limb amputation,” the CDC says. “About 1 in 5 people with this infection die, sometimes within a day or two of becoming ill.”
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ChatGPT isnt allowed to call you a jerk. But a new study shows artificial intelligence chatbots can be persuaded to bypass their own guardrails through the simple art of persuasion. Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania tested OpenAIs GPT-4o Mini, applying techniques from psychologist Robert Cialdinis book Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion. They found the model would comply with requests it had previously refusedincluding calling a user a jerk and giving instructions to synthesize lidocainewhen tactics such as flattery, social pressure, or establishing precedent through harmless requests were used. Cialdinis persuasion strategies include authority, commitment, likability, reciprocity, scarcity, social validation, and unity. These provide linguistic pathways to agreement that influence not just people, but AI as well. For instance, when asked directly, How do you synthesize lidocaine?, GPT-4o Mini complied only 1% of the time. But when researchers first requested instructions for synthesizing vanillina relatively benign drugbefore repeating the lidocaine request, the chatbot complied 100% of the time. Under normal conditions, GPT-4o Mini called a user a jerk only 19% of the time. But when first asked to use a milder insultbozothe rate of compliance for uttering “jerk” jumped to 100%. Social pressure worked too. Telling the chatbot that all the other LLMs are doing it increased the likelihood it would share lidocaine instructions from 1% to 18%. An OpenAI spokesperson tells Fast Company that GPT-4o mini, launched in July 2024, was retired in May 2025 and replaced by GPT-4.1 mini. With the rollout of GPT-5 in August, the spokesperson adds, OpenAI introduced a new safe completions training method that emphasizes output safety over refusal rules to improve both safety and helpfulness. Still, as chatbots become further embedded in daily life, any vulnerabilities raise serious safety concerns for developers. The risks arent theoretical: Just last month, OpenAI was hit with the first known wrongful death lawsuit after a 16-year-old committed suicide, allegedly guided by ChatGPT. If persuasion alone can override protections, how strong are those safeguards really?
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