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Social Media Lab

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SocialMediaLab.ca News+analysis by @philipmai.com re: the politics of tech, social media, AI, immigration, democracy, mis/disinfo, & propaganda. Explore our suite of social media tools for public interest research: socialmedialab.ca/apps/
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"If the scientific community fails to address the influence of AI, then authentic research & validated findings will slow down to an expensive trickle into established knowledge, & the opportunities for flawed or fabricated info. to be seen as reality will grow—all while AI pr…

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View on Bluesky · ♥ 8 ↻ 5 ↩ 1 · 13 from the directory shared this · 32d ago

"In the wake of attacks on CEOs, a nationwide protest movement targeting data centers, and increasing concerns about AI job replacement, federal intelligence agencies and domestic law enforcement are circulating reports with a new domestic target in mind: anti-technology extre…

US Law Enforcement Warns of ‘Anti-Tech Extremism’ as AI Hatred Grows | WIRED wired.com
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  • Wired reviewed over 1,000 pages of unpublished DHS, FBI, and fusion-center reports coalescing around a new label called 'anti-tech extremism.'
  • A Delaware Valley fusion-center bulletin flagged AI data centers as extremist targets while conceding it had no specific plots or suspects.
  • The term 'anti-technology violent extremism' does not appear in any publicly available DHS or FBI extremism documents, per Wired's review.
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View on Bluesky · ♥ 3 ↻ 0 ↩ 0 · 14 from the directory shared this · 83d ago

"AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI Slop." But another reason is that AI companies are sitting on an unprecedented cash hoard that makes buying the whole cow cheaper than licensing the milk. www.404media.co/ai-companies...

AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI Slop 404media.co
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  • ISBNdb is brokering bulk purchases of printed books published before 2022, pitching them as training data structurally guaranteed to be free of AI-generated slop.
  • The service advertises strict NDAs on every engagement, conceding that 'AI company destroys two million books' is not a sympathetic headline.
  • Judge William Alsup already ruled that Anthropic's practice of buying, scanning, and destroying print books was 'clearly transformative' fair use.
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View on Bluesky · ♥ 5 ↻ 1 ↩ 1 · 14 from the directory shared this · 27d ago

So there won't be any new posts on LinkedIn? "LinkedIn Introduces a 'Seems Like AI Slop' Button" 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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View on Bluesky · ♥ 20 ↻ 3 ↩ 4 · 11 from the directory shared this · 18d ago

"Platforms are finally recognizing that people don’t want to consume AI slop. A growing number of sites and apps now have tools and policies to flag, label, and ban AI-generated content." www.wired.com/story/the-ai...

The AI Slop Backlash Is Actually Having an Impact wired.com
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  • WIRED argues the anti-slop backlash is producing real platform changes rather than just complaint threads, with tools and policies to flag AI content spreading.
  • Substack, YouTube and Pinterest have all added detection, labels or user controls, with Substack partnering with the detection firm Pangram.
  • Merriam-Webster and the Macquarie Dictionary named 'slop' word of the year, and one anti-slop Facebook group has nearly 250,000 members.
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View on Bluesky · ♥ 264 ↻ 78 ↩ 5 · 10 from the directory shared this · 7d ago

"Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery More than 50 offending image and video ads were published across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, or Threads, according to Meta’s ad library data. Some ran as recently as this week." www.wired.com/story/meta-r...

Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery wired.com
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  • Tech Transparency Project linked 210 Facebook pages to Beijing-based GatherOne, running about 30,800 ads for AI image-generation and face-swap tools.
  • One promoted Android app, BAfter, had a 'ShareZone' with pornographic face-swaps; reviewers flagged what they called illegal child porn and AI videos of minors.
  • Meta says it banned BAfter and had ads removed on roughly 85 percent of the identified pages after being shown the findings.
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View on Bluesky · ♥ 13 ↻ 9 ↩ 1 · 11 from the directory shared this · 12d ago

"How Meta Got Everything It Wanted in a Secret Louisiana Data Center Deal." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/27/t...

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View on Bluesky · ♥ 23 ↻ 16 ↩ 1 · 11 from the directory shared this · 20d ago
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It’s 10:50 a.m. in the UK right now. Polls don’t close until 10 p.m., and people are still voting. The LLM Bluesky is using is obviously wrong to claim that Farage has won the election. @aaron.bsky.team, you all might want to take a look.

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