"The vulnerability is an astounding, high-profile example of the types of risks that companies are putting their users and workers under when they offload important functions to AI." www.404media.co/hackers-simp...
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Data & Society is a nonprofit research institute that studies the social implications of data-centric technologies, automation, and AI.
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Hackers Simply Asked Meta AI to Give Them Access to High-Profile Instagram Accounts. It Worked 404media.co
The AI Slop Backlash Is Actually Having an Impact wired.com
A civic grammar for AI rights | Science science.org
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Google Is Building an A.I. Fence Around the Internet It Once Championed nytimes.com
The Elon Musk v Sam Altman battle is a distraction | Karen Hao | The Guardian theguardian.com
‘Who Should I Vote for?’ Voters Turn to A.I. Before Casting Their Ballots - The New York Times nytimes.com
The AI-powered World Cup runs on thousands of data workers restofworld.org
Please Stop Making Me Opt Out of AI wired.com
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Scientists have a bad case of AI FOMO, Nature poll reveals nature.com
Meta glasses are a workplace menace theverge.com
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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...
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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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Though President Trump rescinded the Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights, it is having a second life. As red and blue states draft their own versions, they're drawing on the vocabulary Americans have long reached for to contest power, @alondra.bsky.social writes. www.science.or…
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AI "is the backbone of a superstructure that merges regressive politics with unchecked economic power in the guise of technological innovation," @tressiemcphd.bsky.social writes, offering a reading list to help us ask better questions in an era of "data politics." www.nytimes.…
As web searches are increasingly performed by AI chatbots, the number of people visiting websites is falling. It's a change that poses a serious threat to the open web. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/t...
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- Human traffic to finance, publishing and retail sites fell nearly 40 percent between June 2025 and April 2026, per Cloudflare data cited by the Times.
- Google's AI Mode keeps users inside Google in roughly 75 percent of sessions, with queries running about three times as long as before.
- The Verge's Nilay Patel says 'Google Zero' has arrived for publishers; Google's Liz Reid counters that AI Search still sends billions of clicks weekly.
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"As much as Silicon Valley would wish you to believe it, AI does not necessitate imperial conquest, nor could broad-based benefit from the technology ever emerge from such a foundation," @karenhao.bsky.social writes. www.theguardian.com/technology/c...
Using AI to learn about campaigns and ballot measures is appealing to many voters because it seems straightforward. But with results that can be marred by factual errors or shaped by flawed assumptions, the reality is more complicated. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/04/u...
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- The 2026 U.S. midterms may be the first American elections in which voters use AI chatbots in meaningful numbers, per NYT reporting.
- Voters are turning to Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini as nonpartisan researchers, in some cases photographing ballots and asking outright who to vote for.
- Experts warn the answers can carry factual errors and reportedly favor candidates who are more vocal in the local press and on social media.
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“The World Cup will put football’s data and AI on the largest stage there is,” says @grohmannrafael.bsky.social. “The football we watch runs on [data] work as much as on the players. None of it would exist without the workforce behind it.” restofworld.org/2026/fifa-wo...
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"When a company chooses to opt you into an AI feature, they are making decisions with real-world consequences," @thiccreese.bsky.social writes. If a company "opts millions of users into a deepfake tool, then a world filled w even more deepfakes becomes more possible." www.wire…
One way of reading the data center backlash "is as a many-headed protest against inevitability — about not just the technology itself but also the whole package of breakneck build-out, social disruption and insane wealth creation," writes @dwallacewells.bsky.social. www.nytime…
63% of respondents said the risks of using generative AI tools to analyze data and scientific literature outweigh the benefits — yet nearly 60% felt they would be left behind if they didn't use AI tools in their work. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
AI-powered smart glasses exacerbate power imbalances in the workplace, especially for service and retail workers. It's "part of a larger story about the way in which being an employee means taking on increased suffering as part of the job,” says @hartzog.bsky.social. www.theve…
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