Building Zuka: The full story below:
We built an AI persona platform for activists in 48 hours. Three days before the hackathon, a Rwandan YouTuber with 60,000 followers died in custody on the day he was reportedly supposed to be released. By Sunday, we had a working prototype that hides the human behind the voice — so the regime has no one to find, and no way to shut the voice up.
https://soapbox.pub/blog/building-zuka
Derek Ross
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2026-05-15 01:21:08 UTC
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