Le Who's Who de l'IA

“Last week, an AI newsroom beat @wired.com and other outlets to break a major story by several hours. Here's @knibbs.bsky.social with the scoop on exactly how that happened, while I process the implications for the next 25 years of my chosen career:”

“I have glimpsed a dark vision of the future of blogging 😱 www.wired.com/story/ai-new...”

“Erscoi, L., Kleinherenbrink, A., & Guest, O. (2023). Pygmalion Displacement: When Humanising AI Dehumanises Women. SocArXiv. doi.org/10.31235/osf...”

“*taps sign* Pygmalion Displacement: When Humanising AI Dehumanises Women doi.org/10.31235/osf...”

“In the end, it's all pretty simple: hyperscaler growth is now tied to the ability of OpenAI and Anthropic to spend hundreds of billions of dollars, requiring both the demand, funds and completed capacity to do so. Their futures depend on the impossible. www…”

“*sigh* www.wheresyoured.at/dont-look-up/”

“✨New Work✨ forthcoming at #AIES2026: 1️⃣ "Data Annotation as Measurement" by me, @allisonkoe.bsky.social, and @kizilcec.bsky.social explores how data annotation can go wrong, and how measurement theory can help improve it. 🔗: arxiv.org/pdf/2608.07297”

“The number of AI generated uploads to CGTrader would suggest AI is taking over the platform, but buyers are refusing to pay for AI generated models.”

“Bad content maybe doesn’t always drive out good? www.404media.co/ai-generated...”

“Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Max (open-weight) huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.8...”

“My latest piece is a little verbose, but I think it is really a nice example digging into a sort of knowledge work (and arguably science) that the models really aren't close to solving today -- writing something like a AI textbook in a well-known field. www…”

“Mark Zuckerberg, whose superyacht apparently spent the weekend ignoring or missing the distress signal from a boat that ran out of fuel near Alaska, has posted a deranged, 6,500 word essay detailing his vision for AI superintelligence. Watch the full episod…”

“Mark Zuckerberg's deranged view on AI is a future no one wants Watch more and subscribe here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=a24z...”

“We already know how this turns out.”

“"These are a one-two punch aimed at academic freedom and shared university governance. Cornerstone of American higher ed, academic freedom claims for faculty the right to research and teach guided by their expertise rather than as directed by administrators…”

“Nice write up of some of the AI-oriented changes to the SPJ code of ethics by @andrewdeck.bsky.social www.niemanlab.org/2026/08/the-...”

“It doesn’t matter what Meta says. This product is designed to erode and erase consent.”

“One clear development as part of increased popularity of chatbots and always-on surveillance is media attempts to normalize really disturbing behavior under the guise of “people who love data.” www.wsj.com/tech/ai/the-...”

“Courts are finally starting to treat feeds and chatbots as products and to address harmful design, writes Courtney Radsch, director of the Center for Media & Digital Governance at Open Markets Institute—a turn with consequences for Meta, TikTok, and the AI …”

“This study is particularly relevant for those who believe that AI for sustainability will mitigate climate change. It will not: "Parallel adoption of AI across fossil fuel and renewable energy pathways increases net global annual emissions by 0.47–1.8 Gt CO…”

“Here’s a first look at the Pixel Watch 5 — if last year revamped the hardware, this year is a deeper dive into health and software. www.theverge.com/tech/978094/...”