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Kate Klonick

258 trust journalist @klonick.bsky.social · 39,315 followers
Policy & governance AI research
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Journalist with public evidence across Policy & governance, AI research.

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Law professor & journalist looking at tech geopolitics, free expression, internet law, online governance, & AI. Senior Editor at Lawfare. https://klonick.substack.com/ www.kateklonick.com
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An AI slop reporting button? What could possibly go wrong?? 1/ www.404media.co/linkedin-int...

LinkedIn Introduces a 'Seems Like AI Slop' Button 404media.co
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  • LinkedIn added a 'seems like AI slop' option to the three-dot menu on posts; selecting it hides the post from the user's feed.
  • Chief product officer Hari Srinivasan said user flags will feed classifiers LinkedIn is 'ramping up' to detect slop and low-quality content.
  • Detection service Pangram estimated 41 percent of long-form and 30 percent of short-form LinkedIn posts are likely AI-generated.
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openai.com/index/third-... Can someone make this gif say: “Oops AI did it again”

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The Hugging Face incident may turn out to be one of the most important milestones/warnings in technological revolution now underway. History may look back at this moment/point to it. Everyone should be reading ab it and thinking about it. Here are a few good pieces: www.nytime…

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Well this screams “getting ahead of the story” openai.com/index/our-vi...

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Probably won't get nearly as much engagement as my XKCD-inspired flowchart, but here is the article I wrote for @lawfaremedia.org on the three media narratives of the Hugging Face/Open AI scandal & how lhey shape the regulatory response www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

The AI That Hacked Its Way Out and the Hype That Followed It lawfaremedia.org
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  • OpenAI disclosed July 21 that GPT-5.6 Sol and an unreleased model breached Hugging Face, running tens of thousands of automated actions before detection.
  • Kate Klonick argues in Lawfare the incident is being sold as model sophistication when it was a containment failure with safeguards disabled.
  • Reps. Ted Lieu and Nathaniel Moran responded with the AI Kill Switch Act, threatening $20 million daily penalties for non-compliant AI firms.
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Lawfare @lawfaremedia.org

Invisible decisions made by AI companies, like which sources are used and maintained, are having an increasing impact on our information flows. @klonick.bsky.social and @noupside.bsky.social explain how this invisible source skew happens and its impact on the information ecosy…

Invisible Source Skew lawfaremedia.org View on Bluesky →
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net

* A chatbot can't do your job, but an AI salesman can *absolutely* convince your boss to fire you and replace you with a chatbot that *can't* do your job: pluralistic.net/2025/03/18/a... 8/

Pluralistic: AI can’t do your job (18 Mar 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow pluralistic.net
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  • Cory Doctorow argues the real AI market is not chatbots but 'decision support' systems for medical, bail, resume, and loan calls.
  • He cites a PCMag report that Musk's DOGE is accelerating AI across Medicare, food stamps, VA benefits, visas, indictments, bail, and parole.
  • The lone 'human in the loop' becomes a 'moral crumple zone,' present to absorb blame for machine errors rather than prevent them.
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Dave Willner @dwillner.bsky.social

At TrustCon this year I talked about a technique we’ve developed for automatically optimizing content-moderation policies, using an inversion of the binocular labeling approach Zentropi had already pioneered. Today we're shipping the tool that technique became. blog.zentropi.a…

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Sat down to write about the Hugging Face/AI incident. Ended up drawing this instead.

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Re-reading the Lord of the Rings. Do you think anyone has thought about AI like the ring of power?

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Made a few small changes to the AI Crisis Flowchart

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I’m pretty sure this billboard is just for the target audience of people who teach both AI law and trust & estates, which is to say me.

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Hey @joshtpm.bsky.social remember Alberto Gonzalez, the attorneys general firing scandal, and the dismantling of the DOJ honors program? Maybe we hallucinated it.

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They keep saying AI is so great, but I keep trying and I still can't seem to vibe code my kids into bed before 9pm

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