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Critical AI and data journalism professor at NYU
Critical AI and data journalism professor at NYU with public evidence across AI research, Culture, work & education, Responsible AI.
"The vulnerability is an astounding, high-profile example of the types of risks that companies are putting their users and workers under when they offload important functions to AI." www.404media.co/hackers-simp...
something strange is haunting large language models... a character that's broken out of the LLMs and now authors books, sells albums, and shows up in fake news sites www.404media.co/elias-thorne...
companies are sourcing millions of printed books for AI labs that scan them for training data, then destroy them. printed books are more valuable because they're free of AI slop, and AI labs know destroying them is an "optics problem." www.404media.co/ai-companies...
The grammar of rights is one way publics name what they are owed. Americans have started naming it for AI. A civic grammar for AI rights has found its claimants. The political will and institutions to honor those claims need to be built. That is the work facing us. www.science…
“It might feel like you’re ‘saving time and money,’ but you’re actually slowly turning your brand into something generic like all the other brands out there using AI tools.” www.404media.co/we-are-livin...
As much as 40 percent of longform posts on LinkedIn and X that users actually see are fully AI-generated, according to new research Particularly notable because we know these platforms are flooded with slop, but this studied what the algorithm actually shows people www.404medi…
Is AI profitable yet? isaiprofitable.com
Apple is suing OpenAI techcrunch.com/2026/07/10/a...
"Water used at power plants that supply their electricity can be many times as great as the water used in the data centers themselves."
Tech Policy Press fellow Petra Molnar highlights the AI Resist List: a global database documenting acts of resistance to the AI industry. From legal challenges and worker organizing to artistic interventions, the project seeks to challenge the “scale at all costs” development …
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt was booed throughout this commencement speech at the University of Arizona for his praise of AI. This comes just a week after another commencement speaker who mentioned AI was booed at a school in Florida. Read more: www.404media.co/ucf-ai-comme...
One of the most interesting things I read this week was a paper on how the mountains of state media published to the internet went into the sausage machine of generative AI training data and how it affects what comes out the other end. TLDR your AI chatbot may be quietly laund…
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