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Woodrow Hartzog

161 trust researcher @hartzog.bsky.social · 10,741 followers
Andrew R. Randall Professor of Law at Boston University School of Law. Author of "Privacy's Blueprint" (2018) and co-author of "Breached!" (2022). Posting mainly about privacy, tech and the law.
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Frank Pasquale @frankpasquale.bsky.social

“The pervasiveness of digital media fosters a culture of immediacy and hyper-stimulation, which gives rise to fatigue, boredom and apathy concerning the effort required for seeking the truth. Education, by contrast, is a long journey requiring patience” www.vatican.va/content/…

Encyclical Letter of His Holiness Leo XIV Magnifica Humanitas (15 May 2026) vatican.va
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  • Pope Leo XIV's 42,300-word Magnifica Humanitas, signed May 15 and published May 25, addresses AI as the central challenge to human dignity.
  • The encyclical states AI systems are 'cultivated' not 'built' and explicitly denies they possess experience, a body, or the capacity to feel pain.
  • Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah spoke at the Vatican's May 25 presentation alongside theologians and three cardinals.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social

Grifters are making vibecoded ripoffs/clones of games, using the plagiarism machine to plagiarize work that takes untold hours of human work and creativity www.404media.co/ai-made-clon...

AI Made Cloning Games Easier Than Ever 404media.co
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  • Freya Holmér posted a 50-second rotating Tetris demo to Bluesky in March 2026 and saw up to four AI-generated mobile clones within days.
  • A former Midnight Works employee told 404 Media that generative AI now accelerates the studio's cloning pipeline 'at every step,' from banners to 3D models.
  • Nintendo now ranks its eShop Best Sellers by revenue rather than downloads, blunting the visibility of $2-or-less clones that game download-based charts.
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Wild story from @kashhill.bsky.social depicting how the AI Slop phenomenon is getting worse & how platforms encourage it. AI Slop is not harmless. It exploits attention, degrades labor & expertise, distorts our discourse & collective knowledge, & eviscerates trust. www.nytimes…

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  • Two business school professors gathered data on 10 million Amazon books over five years, tracking a surge in AI-assisted publishing.
  • Monthly e-book publishing tripled since ChatGPT's release, rising from around 100,000 in 2022 to more than 300,000 by the end of last year.
  • A 70-year-old retired cybersecurity consultant, Bill Johns, has 445 books on Amazon, with AI-generated portraits of himself in a dark suit as cover art.
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Neil Turkewitz @neilturkewitz.bsky.social

“People say technology is just a tool that you can do good things or bad things with. That often is said to hide the ways in which technology makes certain realities more or less likely. So when you design tools in particular ways, there are foreseeable uses of those tools.” @…

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com

Today’s free newsletter is about how LLMs are the perfect grift to exploit an economy dominated by do-nothing managers and executives disconnected from any real work, and how the facade is crumbling as companies pay the true cost of AI. www.wheresyoured.at/the-revenge-of-the-b…

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Daniel Solove @daniel-solove.bsky.social

I wrote an essay in the WSJ USA250 series - “How to Maintain Our Privacy in the AI Age” www.wsj.com/tech/cyberse... It's also available here as a free PDF papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app

“The Facebook and Instagram owner plans to ​significantly expand its selection of AI glasses and ​add a business-focused service called ‘Wearables for Work…’”

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