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Gina Helfrich

89 trust ethicist @ginahelfrich.bsky.social · 1,769 followers
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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@mattgrossmann.bsky.social

AI models exhibit a stronger pro-government valence in the languages of countries with lower media freedom, due to biases in training data www.nature.com/articles/s41...

State media control influences large language models | Nature nature.com
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  • Chinese state-media content appears in typical LLM training sets at roughly 41 times the rate of Chinese-language Wikipedia.
  • Across 37 countries, models prompted in the local language produce more regime-favorable responses in countries with lower press freedom.
  • A pretraining experiment with just 6,400 state-scripted documents pushed an open-weight model to pro-government responses nearly 80 percent of the time.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com

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...

Uber's COO Says It's Getting Harder to Justify the Money Spent on AI - Business Insider businessinsider.com
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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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tante @tante.cc

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.

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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  • Munich's Regional Court declared Google's AI Overviews its own speech, rejecting traditional search-engine hosting liability protections.
  • Google's AI Overviews answered correctly around 91% of queries, but 56% of those correct answers couldn't be verified through the linked sources.
  • Google confirmed it will appeal the ruling, which could set precedent for AI answer engines including ChatGPT and Perplexity across Europe.
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social

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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@restofworld.org

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

The volunteer Wikipedia army protecting against AI slop restofworld.org
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  • On January 15, the Wikimedia Foundation signed content partnerships with Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Mistral AI and Perplexity covering Wikipedia in 350 languages.
  • Volunteers have flagged more than 4,800 Wikipedia articles with suspected AI-generated content since 2024, per Wikimedia.
  • English Wikipedia has 284,000 monthly editors, but widely spoken languages like Telugu, Marathi and Tamil have only a few hundred each.
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@asherwolf.bsky.social

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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