No spam, ever. We'll never share your email address and you can opt out at any time. Already a subscriber? Log in
"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." 🫠🫠🫠
www.404media.co/companies-ar...
"We must avoid the 'Babel syndrome,' the idolatry of profit that sacrifices the weak, a uniformity that neutralizes differences, and the pretense that a single language — even a digital one — can translate everything, including the mystery of the person, into data and performa…
AI-generated, fabricated citations are a huge problem in research. A recent study by Columbia University researchers examined 2.5 million biomedical papers across three years, and found that one in 277 papers published in the first seven weeks of 2026 contained fabricated refe…
"AI" is not the future: "Worldwide, three-quarters of people could face drought impacts by 2050 all while datacenters use 9.3tn liters of water in the coming decade, enough to meet the drinking water needs of the planet’s human population for over year" www.theguardian.com/us-…
New coverage from 404 Media Sam Cole highlights CDT's latest research on the manipulative "dark patterns" appearing in AI chatbots.
In Brussels last week I brought up strong opposition to data centers as a consideration when thinking about the uptake of AI; no one had thought much about it. Maybe, we further discussed, because regulation meant that not many are being built near EU communities. www.nytimes.…
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
Self harm bot can now also empty out your accounts.
AI super PACs are at war over the midterms. Public First (Anthropic-aligned) appears to exist solely to thwart Leading the Future (OpenAI-aligned). Nearly $24M spent, $100M+ coming.
Mayor Scott Furgeson was caught on camera saying of the “No Data Center” signs going up that, “I’ve seen a lot of these all over town, but I only see them in shitty houses,” before adding, “most of them are rentals.”
This analysis from @bcmerchant.bsky.social on "Anthropic’s Mythos stunt” and "Its sheer cynicism, rank opportunism, and, yes, its ultimate effectiveness” is the kind of critical AI literacy that I’d like to see taught in schools.
has anyone compared gen ai to hypnotism specifically? i was thinking how some folks can and some can’t be hypothesized. and while the mechanism of hypnosis is real, the tap dancing and alien speak that comes from being under is made up
Center = Mél Hogan / The Data Fix. Left = members they follow (green edges). Right = members who follow them (blue edges). Top = mutual follows (orange edges, slightly larger). Drag any node to reposition; click to open that profile.
