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Woodrow Hartzog

161 trust researcher @hartzog.bsky.social · 10,741 followers
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Researcher with public evidence across AI research, Policy & governance.

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Andrew R. Randall Professor of Law at Boston University School of Law. Author of "Privacy's Blueprint" (2018) and co-author of "Breached!" (2022). Posting mainly about privacy, tech and the law.
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Wild story from @kashhill.bsky.social depicting how the AI Slop phenomenon is getting worse & how platforms encourage it. AI Slop is not harmless. It exploits attention, degrades labor & expertise, distorts our discourse & collective knowledge, & eviscerates trust. www.nytimes…

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Flock’s surveillance cameras have already sparked outrage. WIRED reconstructed its next-generation AI system, already in use by some police, to confirm it goes much further than tracking license plates. www.wired.com/story/flock-...

Flock Has a Powerful New AI Tool for Police. We Got Its Code wired.com
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  • OS Investigate lets police identify drivers and track vehicles from movement patterns alone, despite Flock's public claim its cameras cannot do so.
  • The tool ships with 69 prewritten prompts; 19 focus on patterns and 14 require no plate, name or physical description at all.
  • WIRED reporters reconstructed the software from files exposed through Flock's own login pages; it is being tested with a small group of agencies.
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Frank Pasquale @frankpasquale.bsky.social

“The pervasiveness of digital media fosters a culture of immediacy and hyper-stimulation, which gives rise to fatigue, boredom and apathy concerning the effort required for seeking the truth. Education, by contrast, is a long journey requiring patience” www.vatican.va/content/…

Encyclical Letter of His Holiness Leo XIV Magnifica Humanitas (15 May 2026) vatican.va
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  • Pope Leo XIV's 42,300-word Magnifica Humanitas, signed May 15 and published May 25, addresses AI as the central challenge to human dignity.
  • The encyclical states AI systems are 'cultivated' not 'built' and explicitly denies they possess experience, a body, or the capacity to feel pain.
  • Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah spoke at the Vatican's May 25 presentation alongside theologians and three cardinals.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social

Grifters are making vibecoded ripoffs/clones of games, using the plagiarism machine to plagiarize work that takes untold hours of human work and creativity www.404media.co/ai-made-clon...

AI Made Cloning Games Easier Than Ever 404media.co
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  • Freya Holmér posted a 50-second rotating Tetris demo to Bluesky in March 2026 and saw up to four AI-generated mobile clones within days.
  • A former Midnight Works employee told 404 Media that generative AI now accelerates the studio's cloning pipeline 'at every step,' from banners to 3D models.
  • Nintendo now ranks its eShop Best Sellers by revenue rather than downloads, blunting the visibility of $2-or-less clones that game download-based charts.
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UC Berkeley Law's new AI policy seems close to this. "This policy...[forbids the use of AI] to conceptualize, outline, draft, revise, and edit their work...for credit. It also forbids using AI to translate work [and] in any exam situation." www.law.berkeley.edu/academics/re...

Artificial Intelligence Policy law.berkeley.edu
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  • UC Berkeley Law will bar AI from conceptualizing, outlining, drafting, revising, translating, or editing any work submitted for credit starting Summer 2026.
  • AI is completely prohibited for any purpose in any exam situation; students also cannot upload assignments, readings, slides, or class recordings into generative AI systems.
  • The one research carve-out lets students use AI only to identify sources such as cases, statutes, or secondary sources.
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Neil Turkewitz @neilturkewitz.bsky.social

“People say technology is just a tool that you can do good things or bad things with. That often is said to hide the ways in which technology makes certain realities more or less likely. So when you design tools in particular ways, there are foreseeable uses of those tools.” @…

Please Stop Making Me Opt Out of AI wired.com View on Bluesky →
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Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social

AI-powered smart glasses exacerbate power imbalances in the workplace, especially for service and retail workers. It's "part of a larger story about the way in which being an employee means taking on increased suffering as part of the job,” says @hartzog.bsky.social. www.theve…

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app

“If students are using it to compose, which is the biggest tragedy of all, they’ll never learn to write. And their voice is stolen from them.”

Dave Eggers told OpenAI staff that ChatGPT was ‘silencing an entire generation’ theverge.com
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  • Novelist Dave Eggers accepted an invite from Sam Altman and used a talk at OpenAI to call ChatGPT's effect on students apocalyptic.
  • He argued there is no safe amount of AI in humanities for students under 22 and that outsourcing voice to a machine leaves them voiceless.
  • Eggers claimed ChatGPT is adding 20 hours a week to public school teachers' workloads and praised in-class handwritten essays as a workaround.
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