Alexander Howard

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Dad, writer, cyclist, citizen, cereal dilettante. Advocate for freedom of information, open governance, & democracy. Lover of the Oxford Comma, hater of hubris. Recovering journalist. Trying to move carefully, & fix things. https://civic-texts.ghost.io

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The circumstances of CharacterAI’s bankruptcy “are exactly what critics of AI have been saying would happen”— @jasonkoebler.bsky.social They, lit money on fire running its product, did not earn much revenue, & faced huge legal fees after causing harm. Enshittifying product to …

Character.ai's Bankruptcy Documents Show the Economics of AI Don't Work 404media.co
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Corrected Uniform Resource Locator (URL) for Zuckerberg’s essay, without characters to break the link: www.meta.com/thefutureisf... @timbl.bsky.social still holds that a URL is a universal resource locator, within Universal Document Identifiers. I favor that usage en.wikipedia…

The Future is for Everyone meta.com
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This week, we learned the new America.gov runs on xAI & Google Gemini. I wonder if public AI bots on .gov will need to consult multiple models to be more trusted in the years ahead.

America.gov america.gov
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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social

For years, researchers have described how generative AI would change influence ops. But something more interesting is happening now: AI is running the back office. A Wagner entity even used Claude to rate employees & recommend whom to fire. From me, at Lawfare: www.lawfaremedi…

Production, Persuasion, and Power: How Generative and Agentic AI Are Transforming Influence Operations lawfaremedia.org
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  • Iranian propagandists used Claude to produce doctrine manuals and ministerial planning documents Anthropic said would otherwise need a fully staffed program office.
  • A French ad firm's pipeline fed roughly 70 fake news sites that published nearly 9,000 articles in about 20 languages with almost no engagement.
  • DiResta concludes AI has made influence apparatuses cheaper, faster, and more persistent but has not yet made audiences easier to reach or persuade.
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