Aram Sinnreich

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The Secret Life of Data, the "A" in AI stands for "actual" edition www.404media.co/inside-proje...

Inside ‘Project Lily’: The Humans Reading Your ChatGPT Chats 404media.co
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  • OpenAI's internal program codenamed Project Lily pays contractors more than $50 an hour to read real ChatGPT prompts and grade the chatbot's replies.
  • Reviewers rate four ChatGPT responses on a one-to-seven scale and can see a 'user memories summary' that may reveal past use and rough location.
  • OpenAI's Privacy Filter model tries to redact personal information before prompts reach reviewers, but the company acknowledged sensitive details can still get through.
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Once again @tressiemcphd.bsky.social has nailed it

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If you're looking for a clear AI policy for students, I recommend Berkeley Law's. "Thinking remains the sine qua non of good lawyering (and of a quality legal education).This policy seeks to ensure that our courses focus on requisite cognitive skills by default" www.law.berkel…

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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Next time someone tries to tell you an LLM is conscious, send them this article by a principal scientist at Microsoft: If LLMS Have Human-Like Attributes, Then So Does Age of Empires II arxiv.org/pdf/2605.31514

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Meta Muse appears to read your Apple messages and upload them to the cloud even if you explicitly tell it not to: appleinsider.com/articles/26/...

Meta Muse AI reportedly read Mac Messages without consent appleinsider.com
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  • Meta's Muse agent synced roughly 187,000 lines from a Mac's Apple Messages database despite Full Disk Access being disabled.
  • Tester Jason Aten explicitly declined Messages permission at setup, yet Muse's own settings later showed the access as enabled.
  • Asked how it knew, Muse claimed it only saw notification previews; Meta has not answered Aten's questions about the discrepancy.
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Someone tell me if I'm wrong, but this kind of vertical integration seems like a troubling indicator for an already overhyped and overleveraged AI market. Also, I really liked @huggingface.bsky.social as an independent entity.

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Huh. Apparently my work is among the top 2% weightiest of the people whose work informs LLMs. Not as weighty as Taylor Swift, Barack Obama or Adolf Hitler (!), but I guess that means you get a little bit of me every time you query a chatbot. Check your own weightiness: inthewe…

IN THE WEIGHTS intheweights.com
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  • Joey Flynn and Thomas Dimson, both former OpenAI employees, built the site, which launched in June 2026.
  • The tool queries models including GPT-5.5, Claude Opus 4.8, Gemini, Grok, and Llama, scoring recognition up to a maximum of 996.
  • Appearing in a 1-billion-parameter model like Meta's Llama signals especially high relevance, because smaller models compress knowledge more aggressively.
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Woody Allen wrote a short story in which a dude invented this tech... it didn't end well.

Audible's new features let you explore book worlds — and use AI to talk to characters | TechCrunch techcrunch.com
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  • Audible on October 1 began beta-testing three AI features: Visual Explorer, Character Guide, and Interactive Stories that let listeners converse with characters.
  • The first interactive conversation launches with the Audible Original Dracula, where listeners speak with Renfield; a second follows November 5 tied to Exoplanet.
  • Character Guide shows who is speaking in real time with spoiler-free character cards and is live on Dracula, Orwell's 1984, and the forthcoming Exoplanet.
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Someone should mount a Pepsi Challenge-style campaign showing consumers prefer unenhanced search results. Then Google would have to offer "Google Classic" and rebrand its AI overviews as "New Google." @duckduckgo.com @startpage.com @ecosiasearch.bsky.social @qwant.bsky.social

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