Who's Who of AI

Mél Hogan / The Data Fix

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Canadian critical media studies scholar and podcaster interested in the meanings we make of perpetual tech promises. Bilingue. Focused on the environment. I typo a lot. 😷🏳️‍🌈 🎙️ thedatafix.net 📝 heliotropejournal.net
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@joolia.bsky.social

"The author of a nonfiction book about the effects of artificial intelligence on truth acknowledged on Monday that he had included numerous made-up or misattributed quotes concocted by A.I." 🫠🫠🫠

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  • The Future of Truth, a book about AI disinformation, contained AI-fabricated quotes attributed to real people that passed editorial review.
  • EY Canada separately retracted a client report days earlier after 60% of its citations were found to be AI hallucinations.
  • Both failures share the same mechanism: AI tools inserted at the research stage produced fabrications that downstream human review did not catch.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app

Self harm bot can now also empty out your accounts.

OpenAI now wants ChatGPT to access your bank accounts | The Verge theverge.com
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  • OpenAI now collects bank transaction data via Plaid, marking its first direct entry into federally regulated financial data.
  • The integration is opt-in but gives ChatGPT read access to checking, savings, and brokerage accounts simultaneously.
  • Privacy and regulatory exposure is heightened because financial data carries distinct legal protections under GLBA and state laws.
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Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social

On the one-year anniversary of EMPIRE OF AI, I am so, so excited to announce The AI Resist List, a new project that documents examples of resistance to the AI empires around the world 😍 airesistlist.org

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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social

Spread the word: "The Luddite Lab Resource Hub provides resources for unions, labor organizations, and worker-organizers fighting AI and automation at work. The lab provides strategies for worker-led governance and oversight of new technology through case studies, primers, and…

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social

The details of Anthropic's deal to rent xAI's unused data center capacity, given Grok is flop, are now out as part of SpaceX's pre-IPO filing. Anthropic will pay a total of $40B in a deal that runs until May 2029 at $1.25B per month. It's wild how much money is being spent on AI.

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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social

NEW: An "independent label" is publishing huge amounts of AI slop featuring AI-generated "viking" rappers and Christian rockers and blasting it across social media + streamers, where it's raking in views/listens. The guy behind the label claims the artists are real: futurism.c…

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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social

I think people should be very, very careful when leaning ChatGPT or any bot for help navigating relationship issues or any other interpersonal conflict/crisis: futurism.com/chatgpt-marr... futurism.com/artificial-i...

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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social

I think people should be very, very careful when leaning ChatGPT or any bot for help navigating relationship issues or any other interpersonal conflict/crisis: futurism.com/chatgpt-marr... futurism.com/artificial-i...

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@erikahall.bsky.social

Dudes just can't stop trying to remake mommy out of computer. betakit.com/ai-godfather...

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@playboy.com

Hello Bluesky. It's Playboy. For our first, and timely post, we share our latest investigation into OpenAI's disastrous plans to become x-rated. "Altman’s idea of an “erotica” feature seemed riddled in uncertainty." Read our piece "Why ChatGPT Can't Be Sexy" here: www.playboy.…

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