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Meredith Broussard

Critical AI and data journalism professor at NYU

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AI research Culture, work & education Responsible AI
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Critical AI and data journalism professor at NYU with public evidence across AI research, Culture, work & education, Responsible AI.

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Critical AI, data journalism, literary nonfiction. Professor at NYU. Author, "More Than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech." meredithbroussard.com
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Emanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social

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...

AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI Slop 404media.co
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  • ISBNdb is brokering bulk purchases of printed books published before 2022, pitching them as training data structurally guaranteed to be free of AI-generated slop.
  • The service advertises strict NDAs on every engagement, conceding that 'AI company destroys two million books' is not a sympathetic headline.
  • Judge William Alsup already ruled that Anthropic's practice of buying, scanning, and destroying print books was 'clearly transformative' fair use.
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Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social

A backlash to AI is the natural result of these technologies being pushed into our lives without permission or input. As D&S advisor @merbroussard.bsky.social tells @wired.com, "Tech companies have never really been sensitive to issues of consent." www.wired.com/story/the-ai...

The AI Slop Backlash Is Actually Having an Impact wired.com
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  • WIRED argues the anti-slop backlash is producing real platform changes rather than just complaint threads, with tools and policies to flag AI content spreading.
  • Substack, YouTube and Pinterest have all added detection, labels or user controls, with Substack partnering with the detection firm Pangram.
  • Merriam-Webster and the Macquarie Dictionary named 'slop' word of the year, and one anti-slop Facebook group has nearly 250,000 members.
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404 Media @404media.co

“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...

We Are Living in a ‘ChatGPT Flyer Pandemic’ 404media.co
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  • 404 Media's Jason Koebler documents ChatGPT-designed flyers for surf lessons, skate shop closeouts, drug deliveries, World Cup parties, junk hauling and fundraisers.
  • The shared look — bright text on dark backgrounds, generic icon boxes, decorative lines, arrows and checkmarks — has become so recognizable it reads as a template.
  • A viral Threads post asking 'ain't nobody gonna address this ChatGPT flyer pandemic' has spread to Instagram and Facebook among designers, musicians and bar owners.
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Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc

Is AI profitable yet? isaiprofitable.com

Is AI Profitable Yet? isaiprofitable.com
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  • The AI industry has spent roughly $1.4 trillion against $613 billion in revenue, leaving almost every major player still in the red.
  • Amazon leads all spenders at $313 billion invested; NVIDIA is the sole major AI player currently in the black, profiting from hardware.
  • The site's anonymous creator predicts clarity on AI viability by 2030 and notes Anthropic recently approached its first profitable quarter.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social

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…

LinkedIn and X Are Flooded With AI Spam, Browsing Data Suggests 404media.co
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  • Pangram analyzed roughly one million posts over two months across LinkedIn, X, Reddit, Substack, and Medium using a Chrome extension.
  • On LinkedIn, 41% of longform posts (250+ words) were fully AI-generated; on X, 25% were fully AI-written with another 23% AI-assisted.
  • Pangram CEO Max Spero called AI content 'a tax on readers' time' and framed the numbers as a 'lower bound'.
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404 Media @404media.co

“Tokenmaxxing is not what we are optimizing for. I want all of us focused on maximizing outcomes that move the needle for our customers and our business.” www.404media.co/microsoft-te...

Microsoft Tells Engineers ‘Tokenmaxxing Is Not What We Are Optimizing For’ 404media.co
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  • Microsoft is capping AI token consumption per division from July 2026 after engineers reportedly spent hundreds to a few thousand dollars a month on tokens.
  • EVP Jay Parikh told staff that 'tokenmaxxing is not what we are optimizing for' and to focus on impact per token instead.
  • OpenAI's GPT-5.6 becomes Microsoft's default internal model because it is cheaper, and Amazon, Adobe, Atlassian, and Citi are reportedly making similar moves.
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@ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social

Apple is suing OpenAI techcrunch.com/2026/07/10/a...

Apple sues OpenAI over alleged trade secret theft | TechCrunch techcrunch.com
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  • io Products, Jony Ive's startup acquired by OpenAI for $6.4B, is named as a co-defendant, placing OpenAI's entire device roadmap under direct legal jeopardy.
  • Tang Tan allegedly used Apple codenames during recruiting and directed candidates to bring unreleased hardware components to OpenAI 'show and tell' interviews.
  • Apple alleges OpenAI coached departing employees on how to evade exit security protocols, pointing to institutional coordination rather than isolated misconduct.
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social

"Water used at power plants that supply their electricity can be many times as great as the water used in the data centers themselves."

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  • Amazon said its global data-center operations withdrew about 2.5 billion gallons of water in 2025, its first public aggregate figure.
  • For comparison, Google reported roughly 6.4B gallons in 2023, Microsoft about 1.7B (up around 34% YoY), and Meta about 813M.
  • Bloomberg found roughly two-thirds of US data centers built or in development since 2022 sit in places with high water stress.
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