Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis

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Visiting prof @Stony Brook; fellow @Montclair State; emeritus prof @CUNY's Newmark School of Journalism. Co-host: This Week in Google, AI Inside. Author of The Gutenberg Parenthesis, Magazine, The Web We Weave, available at: https://jeffjarvis.com

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"Some website operators are crying fowl." Some. Like, f'rinstance The New York Times? Google Is Building an A.I. Fence Around the Internet It Once Championed www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/t...

nytimes.com
AI Weekly's analysis
  • Cloudflare data shows AI-training crawlers hit 52% of crawler requests by June 2026, up from 22% in spring 2025.
  • Google still supplies roughly 88% of referral traffic, but is answering more queries in-place via AI Overviews and AI Mode.
  • Human traffic to the most heavily crawled categories, including software, IT, retail and finance, has fallen as much as 40% in under a year.
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Disappointing that the Guardian would turn to #TESCREAList (Google it) William MacAskill to write this speculative BS about AI and consciousness. Could AI be conscious? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Could AI be conscious? theguardian.com
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Bullshit. Tech companies are searching for signs that chatbots are conscious www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

washingtonpost.com
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  • Anthropic, Google, and Meta have hired computer scientists, neuroscientists, and philosophers over the past year to study whether AI models have forms of emotion.
  • Anthropic hired Kyle Fish in September 2024 as its first dedicated AI welfare researcher and stood up a Model Welfare team.
  • Neuroscientists and brain experts remain broadly skeptical that today's AI models are, or could soon be, conscious.
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The problem, I've been shouting, is not the technology but humans: It is impossible to predict--thus forbid--every malign use to which a general machine can be subjected. Guardrails are fools' comfort. Why A.I. Safety Controls Are Not Very Effective www.nytimes.com/2026/05/14/…

Why A.I. Safety Controls Are Not Very Effective nytimes.com
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Mastodon's AI-aided addition of alt-text is wonderful (everyone should have it). Bonus: How it reads The Times' gothic logo.

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The anonymous slander campaign against NJ7 candidate Rebecca Bennett gets more disgusting by the day. This just arrived in our mail. No, this doesn't require AI to make a photographic lie. It requires only the dark soul of a chickenshit liar.

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