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Kashmir Hill

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Journalist, currently at The New York Times. I cover privacy, technology, A.I., and the strange times we live in. Named after the Led Zeppelin song. Author of YOUR FACE BELONGS TO US. (Yes, in my head it will always be All Your Face Are Belong To Us)
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Got this text a couple months. Had to investigate it. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/t...

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This is some incredible in-the-room reporting from @elitan.bsky.social and Maureen Farrell on how Meta got its vast, six-square-mile data center cooking in Louisiana www.nytimes.com/2026/07/27/t...

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View on Bluesky · ♥ 36 ↻ 25 ↩ 1 · 11 from the directory shared this · 14d ago

Long ago, Yelp complained that Google was hurting its business by surfacing information from Yelp in Google searches such that people stopped visiting Yelp. (Lawsuit over this ongoing.) With AI mode, the rest of the web is now feeling Yelp's pain: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/t...

Google Is Building an A.I. Fence Around the Internet It Once Championed nytimes.com
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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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More on the proliferation of A.I. books, including a study on the success of A.I.-generated genre fiction: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/b... arxiv.org/pdf/2607.20349

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View on Bluesky · ♥ 16 ↻ 4 ↩ 3 · 4 from the directory shared this · 12d ago

More on the proliferation of A.I. books, including a study on the success of A.I.-generated genre fiction: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/b... arxiv.org/pdf/2607.20349

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View on Bluesky · ♥ 16 ↻ 4 ↩ 3 · 4 from the directory shared this · 12d ago

OpenAI's ill-fated Sora allowed people to make AI-generated videos with other people's likenesses, but those people had to opt in to letting their likenesses being used. Meta is taking a different path, reports @thiccreese.bsky.social: www.wired.com/story/meta-n...

Meta Now Lets Anyone Use Your Instagram Photos in AI Images—Unless You Opt Out | WIRED wired.com
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  • Meta's new Muse Image tool lets anyone in the Meta AI app @-mention a public Instagram account and pull that user's photos into a generation.
  • Instagram accounts are opted in by default; the toggle sits under Sharing and reuse in the app's Settings and activity menu.
  • Muse Image was built by Meta's Superintelligence Labs under Alexandr Wang and is rolling out across Instagram and WhatsApp, with Facebook and Messenger to follow.
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Did not even last a week. The fact that this made it out the door means the privacy department now works in a basement with no computers and a single stapler. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/t...

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View on Bluesky · ♥ 387 ↻ 105 ↩ 12 · 2 from the directory shared this · 29d ago

I did not know of this joke quote Funnily enough, a tool for seeing how you're weighted in the LLMs recently told me that Kashmir Hill is either me or a Himalayan mountain range, so it could indeed be a land of contradictions. Tool: intheweights.com

IN THE WEIGHTS intheweights.com
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  • Joey Flynn and Thomas Dimson, both former OpenAI employees, built the site, which launched in June 2026.
  • The tool queries models including GPT-5.5, Claude Opus 4.8, Gemini, Grok, and Llama, scoring recognition up to a maximum of 996.
  • Appearing in a 1-billion-parameter model like Meta's Llama signals especially high relevance, because smaller models compress knowledge more aggressively.
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View on Bluesky · ♥ 16 ↻ 0 ↩ 1 · 11 from the directory shared this · 25d ago
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