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Come on. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/b...
Who's Who of AI
Gina Helfrich
Centre for Technomoral Futures @ U of Edinburgh. PhD in Philosophy, Grad Cert in Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies.
Texan. Feminist.
I’m on Mastodon and encourage you to be there, too: techpolicy.social/@ginahelfrich
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Book on Truth in the Age of A.I. Contains Quotes Made Up by A.I. nytimes.com
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Hackers Simply Asked Meta AI to Give Them Access to High-Profile Instagram Accounts. It Worked 404media.co
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Your doctor’s AI notetaker may be making things up, Ontario audit finds - Ars Technica arstechnica.com
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Uber's COO Says It's Getting Harder to Justify the Money Spent on AI - Business Insider businessinsider.com
Landmark German ruling declares Google's AI Overviews are Google's own words and makes it liable for false answers the-decoder.com
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The volunteer Wikipedia army protecting against AI slop restofworld.org
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cyberdaily.au
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Now is a good time to remember that Meta has announced that it is laying off 10% of its workforce, including 2,000 people just today, while going in on a "AI will replace workers" strategy. www.404media.co/hackers-simp...
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Your doctor’s AI notetaker may be making things up, Ontario audit finds Made-up therapy referrals, incorrect prescriptions among the common mistakes.
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Uber’s COO has said that it’s getting “harder to justify” its AI costs because there was no way to show a link between AI spend and any meaningful increase in useful features. This is the first time I’ve seen a company say this directly. www.businessinsider.com/uber-coo-and...
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- Uber's COO cannot link 70% AI-generated code or 95% engineer adoption to measurable consumer product improvements.
- Uber exhausted its entire 2026 Claude Code and Cursor budget within four months of the year starting.
- Uber joins Microsoft and Duolingo in publicly questioning whether token volume translates to business outcomes.
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A court in Munich declared that Google is liable for their "AI summaries" and all its hallucinations. This brings "AI" slop in line with all other products: "AI" is basically the only product where a provider can deliver unchecked garbage and put all liability on the consumer.
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No really, I am not kidding when I say that the data broker industry must be destroyed: www.npr.org/2026/03/25/n...
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Wikipedia editors vs. AI Slop: The volunteer army wrangling the world’s chatbots https://restofworld.org/2026/wikipedia-ai-training-regional-languages/?utm_campaign=row-social&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_content=1780680604
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New research from the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner reveals a “minuscule” level of trust in AI and social media companies www.cyberdaily.au/tech/13660-r...
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