Meta's "AI" chatbot will apparently facilitate account hacks by just changing people's account email addresses when attackers cunningly… ask it to. Once again, the harms that can come from an "All AI Everything" paradigm aren't autonomous overlords, but human-enacted exploits.…
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Damien Williams
Assistant professor of philosophy and data science
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Assistant Prof Philosophy & Data Science
PhD Science, Technology, & Society
MA Philosophy & Religious Studies
"AI" Criticality; Centering Marginalized Lived Experiences in Tech; Magic; Human Knowledge, Values, Culture, & Beliefs
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Hackers Simply Asked Meta AI to Give Them Access to High-Profile Instagram Accounts. It Worked 404media.co
It Is Trivially Easy to Use Reddit to Manipulate AI Search, Research Suggests 404media.co
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Funny but serious, Chieng issues an AI warning to grads — Harvard Gazette news.harvard.edu
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The shock of seeing your body used in deepfake porn | MIT Technology Review technologyreview.com
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Do you hate or love AI? Take Nature’s poll nature.com
Introducing Claude Corps anthropic.com
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Lawyers know AI can hallucinate. Judges have warned them. Courts have sanctioned them for it. They keep citing fake AI cases anyway. scientificamerican.com
AI Chatbots Are Poisoning Research Archives With Fake Citations rollingstone.com
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AI chatbots are giving out people’s real phone numbers | MIT Technology Review technologyreview.com
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How AI Plans to Buy 2026 thefarce.org
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VICTORY: POLITICO agrees to shut down both AI tools at center of landmark arbitration - Washington-Baltimore News Guild wbng.org
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New: Researchers have quantified how easy AI search is to manipulate. Just 13 words buried in a random Reddit comment can poison AI search results. They suggest this is not easy to stop: "The way you can attack these systems is so much dumber than you think it is" www.404media…
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"“I’m here to tell you the mission of your generation is to destroy AI,” said Chieng." news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
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“There’s never any discussion about 'Whose BODY is this?'...” www.technologyreview.com/2026/05/14/1...
This nature survey on "AI" attitudes is a pretty blunt instrument. Seven questions, two of which are demographic, and none of which get granular about what they mean by either "AI" or "use." We need to have been doing better than this, and we're really going to need to start, …
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I’d like to remind any possible Claude Corps (🙄) fellows that you’re propping up xAI, the Nazi Elon Musk, and the propagation of environmental racism in Memphis, Tennessee.
At this point, I don't think sanctions are cutting it; I honestly think massive fines, malpractice lawsuits, and temporary removal from practice might be the only things that can make a dent in "AI" being used in legal or medical settings. www.scientificamerican.com/article/wh…
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"Fake citations have turned into a nightmare for research librarians, who by some estimates are wasting up to 15 percent of their work hours responding to requests for nonexistent records that ChatGPT or Google Gemini alluded to." open access link: archive.ph/qt59c 2/🧵
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“The likelihood of PII appearing in AI training data is only increasing as public data ‘runs out’ and AI companies look for new sources of high-quality training data. This includes information from data brokers and people-search websites.”
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"Fake citations have turned into a nightmare for research librarians, who by some estimates are wasting up to 15 percent of their work hours responding to requests for nonexistent records that ChatGPT or Google Gemini alluded to." open access link: archive.ph/qt59c 2/🧵
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How AI Plans to Buy 2026 This election should be a slam dunk for Democrats. There are billions of reasons it absolutely is not. I'm going Paul Revere on this one and connecting the dots. One thing you can never say is that you haven't been told.
I said it before & I'll say it again: Any company trying to integrate "generative AI" into their workflow needs someone w/ veto power whose sole job it is to ask "…Okay, but can you prove it actually *does* [thing company wants to apply it for]?" & to Keep asking until they ge…
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- Politico's union contract required 60-day advance notice before AI deployment, a clause that became the enforceable legal lever.
- Both shut-down tools produced documented factual errors in published, branded Politico content.
- NewsGuild-CWA calls this the first successful major labor arbitration over AI deployment in a U.S. newsroom.
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Two commencement speakers loudly & persistently booed for praising this current paradigm of "AI," most recently being Eric damn Schmidt, & he also looked fully stunned; which, y'know what? Good. Seems the only way these people are gonna learn is by facing a very large crowd clearly telling them "No"
Harder to think of a clearer example of "The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle The Master's House" for this era than people using "generative AI" to protest the outputs and infrastructure of "AI"
Just scrolled by an anti-AI story from the Washington fucking Times so i'm really going to need Democrats to get on-message and start claiming that "AI==higher cost of living + lower quality of life + billionaire greed + consent violation" space, really fucking fast. Fucking MOVE.
They removed the ability to google "disregard" because it breaks their "AI," but "Ignore" still returns this:
Very weird headspace today. Bad day being an embodied entanglement of consciousness and perceptions. Kind of a rough few months of it, tbh. In lieu of expressions of sympathy, send alt texted non-"AI" images of cute baby animals or links to the most recent lyrics to really stick with you.
I think my 2 most pertinent/prescient pieces in the last few years were "Scholars are Failing the GPT Review Process" (2024) & "Reimagining 'AI's Environmental & Sociotechnical Materialities" (2025). In the 1st i talk about the pressures & harms likely to spur a huge increaase in acdemic "AI" slop…
Reminder that you Can just cite lectures: Williams, D.P., 2023, October. On Bullshit Engines: The Socioethical & Epistemic Status of GPTs & other ‘AI.’ In Forum in Ethics, Law, & Society Lecture Series, hosted by the Sonoma State University Philosophy Department’s Center for Ethics, Law & Society.
That jeep commercial with the "AI" generated animals where one of them uses "bougie" as a compliment just sends me, on so many levels. Genuinely flabbergasting misunderstandings all throughout.
That jeep commercial with the "AI" generated animals where one of them uses "bougie" as a compliment just sends me, on so many levels
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