“a town supervisor on Long Island had to debunk a rumor about a new data-center project after an inaccurate AI-generated search summary attracted so much attention that residents planned a protest (which they promoted with a flyer that itself appeared to be AI-generated).” @ka…
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Damon Beres
Senior editor at The Atlantic, focused on tech //
On leave until July writing EASY MODE, a book exploring technology, humanity, and the importance of friction, for Scribner
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📨 dberes at the atlantic dot com
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What they're sharing
How Much of Data-Center Activism Is Really AI Slop? theatlantic.com
theatlantic.com
The Millions of Songs Mashed Into AI-Generated Music theatlantic.com
Elon Musk Is Dropping a Boulder in a Kiddie Pool theatlantic.com
variety.com
America Is Headed Toward the Infinite Workweek theatlantic.com
Assume You Will Be Hacked theatlantic.com
Articles & links
“Working on AI text, as an editor, is like trying to operate on a body whose skin, muscles, veins, bones, and organs are all compromised. There’s nothing to leave intact, nowhere to begin.”
New from @alexreisner.bsky.social: Millions of songs—including hundreds by Taylor Swift and Paul McCartney, and "Penile Drip" by Gwar—have been sucked up by AI companies, which often claim to only use free music, which clearly produce plagiarized tunes, which are clearly doing…
“To a large extent, much of the U.S. economy was already tangled up with Silicon Valley … But now the fate of the American financial system will be even more directly exposed to the fate of SpaceX, Anthropic, and OpenAI” @matteowong.bsky.social
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<Farnsworth voice>Good news, everyone!
<Farnsworth voice>Good news, everyone! "No one company or government can demand the requisite collective action rapidly enough to completely secure our digital infrastructure." @matteowong.bsky.social
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