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4. 4.Delivered — Your stickers have arrived.

Most orders ship within 3–5 business days and arrive within 5–8 business days of placing your order.

Head to our T-Shirt Gallery to see every design we offer. You can filter by category — Featured, OG (our original lineup), and more as we grow.

The homepage shows our Featured picks, but the gallery has the full collection.

Mea Culpa is an upcoming line of anti-Ai designs created by Claude — yes, an Ai making anti-Ai merch. The irony is the point.

These designs will be tagged under their own category in the gallery when they launch. Stay tuned.

Every item is made fresh when you order it — nothing sits in a warehouse. Your design is printed directly onto the garment using DTG (direct-to-garment) printing, which means vibrant, long-lasting prints with zero waste from unsold inventory.

This takes a little longer than grabbing something off a shelf, but it means zero overstock and zero waste. Better for the planet, better for your wardrobe.

Because every item is made to order, we can’t accept returns for change of mind. If your item arrives damaged or defective, contact us and we’ll make it right.

In code, ! means “not.” So !Ai reads as Not Ai — a declaration that this was made by humans, for humans.

The name “ShriekAi” comes from old-school typesetting, where the ! symbol was called a “shriek.” The brand name is a nod to the humans who came first.

Our manufacturing partners are UN Global Compact signatories and EcoVadis certified. Items are printed at the facility closest to your shipping address, reducing transit time and carbon footprint.

Yes. We ship to most countries worldwide. Shipping is free on all orders. Delivery times vary by location — typically 5–8 business days for domestic orders and 8–15 business days for international.

Our AI Accountability Watch is a news aggregator that tracks AI threats, lawsuits, artist rights issues, and regulation — stories that matter to the people AI is affecting most.

We pull from both Google News and independent media sources (EFF, 404 Media, Ars Technica, and more), then score each source on how honestly they cover AI issues. Think of it as a watchdog for the watchdogs.

The Truth Contest compares Google News against Independent Media (EFF, 404 Media, Ars Technica, TechDirt, and more) across 4 normalized metrics to see who covers AI threats more honestly:

• •Avg Relevance — Mean relevance score per article (see “What is the relevance scale?” below).
• •High-Value Rate — What percentage of articles score 8+ on the relevance scale. Normalized so volume doesn’t inflate the numbers.
• •Community Score — Average reader vote per provider. Members upvote or downvote articles, and we compare the mean.
• •Exclusive Coverage — What percentage of each source’s stories are unique (not covered by the other). Normalized by volume so Google’s larger feed doesn’t automatically win.

Each metric picks a winner independently. The overall leader is whoever wins the most metrics. After Microsoft shut down the Bing Search API in 2026, Google became the last major news gatekeeper. Nobody was left to keep them honest — so we took the job.

Every article in our feed is scored automatically before it appears. The relevance scale measures how directly an article addresses real AI harms vs hype and fluff.

How scoring works

• +3High signal — lawsuit, copyright infringement, deepfake, scraped without consent, job loss, class action, fraud, accountability
• +2Medium signal — regulation, ethics, bias, surveillance, privacy, artist rights, misinformation, safety, risk, harm
• +1Low signal — mentions AI, machine learning, or generative (baseline relevance)
• -3 to -5Hype penalty — “exciting new,” “breakthrough,” “revolutionary,” “best AI tools,” “top 10 AI” — words that signal promotion over substance

An article needs a score of 3 or higher to appear in the feed. Articles scoring 8+ are considered “high-value” — they matched multiple strong signals for real AI accountability content.

Scores are additive: an article about an “AI copyright lawsuit” might score 3 (lawsuit) + 3 (copyright) + 1 (AI) = 7. An article titled “Exciting new AI breakthrough” would score 1 (AI) - 5 (exciting new) - 5 (breakthrough) = -9 and never make the cut.

Head to our Report AI Abuse page. You can report stolen artwork, deepfakes, scraping without consent, job displacement, privacy violations, and more. Reports are anonymous — your email is optional and only used for follow-up if you choose to provide it.

We offer three ways to stay informed:

• •RSS Feed — Add our feed to any reader. Find the link on the News page.
• •Email Digest — Enter your email on the News page or in the footer to get a weekly roundup.
• •Push Alerts — Enable browser notifications for breaking stories.

Click Sign In in the top right corner. On the login page, click Sign up to create a new account with your email and a password, or use Continue with Google for one-click setup.

If you already subscribed to our newsletter, use the same email address when creating your account — your subscription will be linked automatically.

Once you have an account, you can upvote or downvote articles on the News page. Each upvote adds +1 and each downvote subtracts 1 — simple, fair, one person one voice.

You can change your vote at any time, and view your full vote history from your Settings page.

There are two kinds of filters:

Category filters (Top Threats, AI Ethics, Artist Rights, Regulation) are built-in defaults. Every article is automatically categorized by scanning its title for topic patterns — threats and risks, ethical concerns, artist and creator rights, or regulation and legislation. These filters cannot be edited or created; if you delete them, use Restore Defaults to bring them back.

Keyword filters are custom filters you create. Add any comma-separated keywords and articles matching any of them will appear in that section.

Categories are named collections of filters. Each category becomes its own section on the News page and in your newsletter, with its own heading and articles. Articles can appear in multiple sections and show outlined badges for other matching categories. You start with Feed and Preview (homepage). Custom categories are automatically included in your newsletter when created.

Manage everything from Feed Settings — drag filters onto category cards to assign them, swipe to remove.

Subscribing (entering your email on the News page or footer) signs you up for our weekly email digest. Creating an account (clicking Sign In → Sign up) unlocks the full member experience — vote on articles, dismiss and swipe away stories you’ve read, track your read history, restore dismissed articles, and sync everything across devices.

You can do both — if you use the same email, they’ll be linked automatically. You don’t need an account to read the news, and you don’t need to subscribe to create an account.

The Ethics Watch is our head-to-head accountability tracker comparing AI leaders on ethics. Members vote on who they believe is more ethical — Demis Hassabis (Google DeepMind) or Dario Amodei (Anthropic). We track media coverage and sentiment for each leader so you can see what the press is saying alongside what the people think.

Find it on the News page, right below the Truth Contest.

Sign in or create an account, then visit the News page. In the Ethics Watch section, click Vote under the leader you believe is more ethical. You can change your vote at any time.

Only percentages are shown — we never reveal how many people voted. Your voice counts, but nobody can game the numbers.

Operation Remora is our open letter and donation challenge to Demis Hassabis (Google DeepMind) and Dario Amodei (Anthropic). A remora is a small fish that cleans parasites from sharks in exchange for a ride.

We asked the two most important people in AI to support the watchdog that holds them accountable, and we’re tracking who steps up. Read the full letter at shriekai.com/remora.

Visit our Suggest an Article page, or click the “Suggest an Article” button on the News page. Paste a link to any article you think belongs in our feed — we check it for relevance to AI accountability and add it if it qualifies.

You don’t need an account to suggest articles. Every submission goes through admin review before it appears in the feed.

ShriekAi offers two newsletter types, each with independent category selections:

• •Radar — Your scheduled digest. Choose daily, weekly, or monthly delivery with a specific day and time. This is the original newsletter, renamed.
• •Scanner — Threshold-triggered alerts. Set how many new articles must accumulate before it fires, plus a minimum cooldown between sends. Great for staying on top of breaking stories without constant emails.

Both are opt-in checkboxes. Unchecking both effectively unsubscribes you from newsletters. Configure them side by side from Newsletter Settings.

Members can personalize their email digest from Newsletter Settings. Pick your delivery frequency (daily, weekly, or monthly), choose the day and time, and select which categories to include as newsletter sections. New categories are automatically included when created.

Your newsletter shows the same rich article cards as the feed — provider badges, category tags, excerpts, relevance bars, and vote scores. Changes save automatically.

Subscribers without an account get the standard digest. Create a free account to unlock categories, filters, and full customization.

The magic number controls how many articles appear throughout your ShriekAi experience. It sets the limit for your homepage preview, each newsletter section, and restored dismissed articles. The default is 10.

Adjust it from Feed Settings — slide it up to see more, slide it down for a tighter digest. It applies everywhere so your whole experience stays consistent.

For bugs, broken pages, email problems, or member service issues, visit our Support page. This is separate from Report AI Abuse — that page is strictly for reporting real-world AI harm.

Yes. When you click through to an article, the source site receives a referral header identifying ShriekAi as the traffic source. This helps independent journalists and publishers see that their AI accountability coverage is reaching engaged readers.

We don’t add tracking parameters or redirect through intermediaries — it’s a clean, direct link. The only thing shared is that you came from shriekai.com.

We collect anonymous, aggregate counts only — things like “12 articles were dismissed today” or “3 filters were created this week.” This helps us know which features are actually being used so we can improve them.

We never tie these counts to your identity, email, or account. There are no tracking pixels, no third-party analytics, no cookies beyond what’s needed for login, and no data sold or shared. Your reading habits, vote history, filters, and dismissed articles live in our database for your use — they are never fed into analytics or advertising.

An anti-Ai watchdog that surveils its own users would be a contradiction. We built it that way on purpose.

The !Ai Watchdog is our mascot and mission rolled into one. We aggregate AI accountability news, run the Truth Contest, accept abuse reports from the public, and spotlight grassroots search engines and organizations fighting back against unchecked AI.

Every purchase on ShriekAi funds the watchdog — keeping independent journalism and AI accountability tools running. No venture capital, no big tech sponsors. Just humans looking out for humans.