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A cautionary note for those seeking a shortcut to publication--from a very authoritative source.🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Historian of technology, occasional dad jokes.
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US Law Enforcement Warns of ‘Anti-Tech Extremism’ as AI Hatred Grows | WIRED wired.com
Meta Deletes Face-Recognition System From Its Smart Glasses App After WIRED Report wired.com
It Is Trivially Easy to Use Reddit to Manipulate AI Search, Research Suggests 404media.co
The Tokenpocalypse Is Here: Companies Are Scrambling To Stop Spending So Much on AI 404media.co
Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth Admits the Company’s AI Reorg Was ‘Atrocious’ wired.com
You can no longer Google the word 'disregard' | TechCrunch techcrunch.com
LinkedIn and X Are Flooded With AI Spam, Browsing Data Suggests 404media.co
Artificial Intelligence Floods Court Dockets with Home-Brewed Lawsuits nytimes.com
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Subtlefakes: Slightly Altered Nonconsensual AI Images Are Taking Over X 404media.co
In one California town, Flock misread license plates in 71% of the alerts it sent to police businessinsider.com
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DHS may have a new designation for those who have a problem with AI, data centers, or the harms of the tech industry: anti-tech extremists. www.wired.com/story/us-law...
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- Wired reviewed over 1,000 pages of unpublished DHS, FBI, and fusion-center reports coalescing around a new label called 'anti-tech extremism.'
- A Delaware Valley fusion-center bulletin flagged AI data centers as extremist targets while conceding it had no specific plots or suspects.
- The term 'anti-technology violent extremism' does not appear in any publicly available DHS or FBI extremism documents, per Wired's review.
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“Meta Deletes Face-Recognition System From Its Smart Glasses App After WIRED Report The code WIRED identified is gone from the latest version of Meta AI, the companion [phone] app for the company’s smart glasses. Meta won’t say why or whether it’s coming back.” 👁️📱👁️ www.wired…
Preprint research from Cornell: "We show that a tiny snippet—just 13 words—of retrieved text on a UGC website like Reddit, Wikipedia, Quora, or Facebook can change AI agents to output spam / scam content pretty consistently." www.404media.co/it-is-trivia...
Companies encouraged employees to use AI and now they’re spending gobs of cash on tokens for employees to convert documents to PDF😅 “Leaked audio from Accenture says a big source of AI token ‘chewing’ is people just converting PDFs to presentation slides” www.404media.co/the-t…
This just in: meta workers can’t believe the leopards they built to eat everyone’s faces are eating their faces😮 www.wired.com/story/andrew...
“I have been a tech journalist for nearly 15 years, and before today, I cannot think of a single time when a Bing search result was more valuable than the Google equivalent. There really is a first time for everything!” Thanks, AI! techcrunch.com/2026/05/22/y...
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About "41% of longform written content seen by users on #LinkedIn is likely to be fully #I-generated and roughly a third of longer posts on X are AI-generated; roughly one-in-ten longer Reddit and Substack posts are #AI, according to the data." The rest are created by cheap la…
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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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Judge Schiltz “characterized the overall problem as “an existential threat to the federal courts.” The arrival of A.I. has caused the number, length and complexity of pro se filings to “increase dramatically,” he said. “There’s just no end in sight, and no satisfactory solutio…
“These images, which I’ve started calling subtlefakes, are not as clearly offensive, but are a lot more convincing. The concerning implication is it’s not just the tech that is advancing now, but that people who wield it maliciously are getting more sophisticated.” www.404medi…
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In one California town, Flock misread license plates in 71% of the time. Out of a sample of 1,427 alerts that Flock sent to police in the town of Roseville, alerts that flagged vehicles as stolen or used in a felony after they passed one of the city's Flock cameras, 71% were i…
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- Business Insider's ongoing review of police records and lawsuits has documented roughly a dozen instances of Flock plate misreads leading to wrongful stops.
- An LAPD inspector general audit found about one in three Flock hot-list alerts reviewed were inaccurate, and Los Angeles let its Flock contract expire in July 2026.
- Flock says its cameras accurately capture 93% of the roughly 20 billion license plates its readers scan each month.
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Character.AI files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the US, agrees to sell some assets to Disney for $20M, and plans to keep operating as it completes the sale (Rhea Rose Abraham/Reuters) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
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The way AI is going to “kill everyone” is just by manufacturing consent for ever worse outcomes & conditions, like many governments do. It is a governing technology after all. And like bureaucracy it launders responsibility so the people & institutions who deploy it aren’t accountable for the harms
The levels of sexism, racism, and colonialism to this… miyaacacia finds that her face and voice have been stolen to make an AI avatar with pink hair and slightly modified features called “pinkwasian”
Today in ai failscape, Amazon released a new “about you” feature by letting loose their ai on your spending record (there was no opt in/out). When I looked at mine it said that due to my spending habits I have a dog… so i thought, ok it’s confused my rabbit purchases with dog purchases?
One thing that’s become apparent to me as AI generated text proliferates is how much we’re being influenced by short attention span/clickbait styles of writing becoming the norm—or even the new accepted & desirable standard.
So can that rogue Australian AI also cancel your gym membership for you or…?
Been thinking a lot about the Horizon Post Office (UK) system in relation to the push to shove AI into major operating systems. Two unaccountable management technologies… Anyway, I’m sure it’ll be fine.
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