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Jeff Sharlet

88 trust @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 74,660 followers
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Bestselling author of THE UNDERTOW: Scenes from a Slow Civil War, THE FAMILY, also a Netflix series, C St, THIS BRILLIANT DARKNESS, & SWEET HEAVEN WHEN I DIE. AI stole them all. Professing @ Dartmouth. That's not my cat.
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404 Media @404media.co

We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.

We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility 404media.co
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  • 404 Media hid an Apple AirTag in a roughly 1,000-book order sold on Biblio and followed it to an Amazon warehouse in Las Vegas.
  • The shipment terminated at Amazon's LAS8 site at 5801 Nicco Way, home to a team called VGT3 whose logo is a Tyrannosaurus rex clutching an open book.
  • Amazon told the outlet it 'purchases books through commercial channels'; the company classes its Nova family of models as 'frontier.'
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Meta used AI to target workers with medical conditions for layoffs, according to a new lawsuit. Twenty-six former Meta employees are suing, accusing the company of using AI that disproportionately targeted people with disabilities or workers who took medical leave in selecting…

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I asked my creative writing students to anonymously share their thoughts about AI. www.chronicle.com/article/my-s...

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The CEO of Anthropic A.I. predicted in April '26 that A.I. will eliminate 50% of white collar entry jobs and cause 10-20% unemployment in the next 5 years. Near Great Depression levels. But look at that stock market! Enjoy your lovely data center. www.axios.com/2025/05/28/a...

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Ordinarily, I think it's a good thing when an 86-year-old doesn't know what ChatGPT is, but I feel like extremely influential members of Congress should probably be aware of this stuff. www.mediaite.com/online/jim-c...

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At the end of the term I asked my college creative wriing students to submit anonymous thoughts on AI. No real surprises: Mood ranges from resignation to despair, capitulation from embittered erosion of standards to total, feelings of betrayal from deep to furious. 1/

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Learned today about a couple of radical left writers I admire who are all in for AI. Heartbreaking. Don't let this be you. AI is the great splintering machine.

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It boggles my mind that I have colleagues who insist they’d recognize AI work. This kind of denialism of a problem borders in scale if not importance on anti-vaxxerism.

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Not having a solution isn't the same as there being no solution. Magical thinking--don't worry, AI will go bust; don't worry, it's not really that effective; don't worry, Trump's not popular--isn't a solution. I don't have any either! That doesn't mean they can't be found.

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That David Ellison op-ed is so astonishingly tone deaf--"straight down the middle," the "range" of his interests represented by GI Joe, Top Gun, and Terminator: Dark Fate... I think his chatbot ghost writer really let him down.

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If I had known Backrooms was about AI slop I think I would have passed. Enough of that IRL.

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