Disinformation machines: "A March 2025 study from the Tow Center for Digital Journalism found that more than 60 percent of responses from AI-powered search engines were inaccurate. A BBC study puts the wrongness of chatbots closer to 45 percent" www.wired.com/story/fact-c...?
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Teresa Heffernan
Literature prof; author; current project: how literal readings of fiction by the tech industry are destroying the world. Let's read/interpret fiction as fiction. Boycott generative AI (chatbots etc); Website: https://www.socialrobotfutures.com/
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I’m a Professional Fact-Checker. AI Is Wrong More Often Than You Think | WIRED wired.com
Is AI Profitable Yet? isaiprofitable.com
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Now we can keep track of the money being sunk into AI rather than climate change, healthcare, or education. isaiprofitable.com
Disinformation machines: "A March 2025 study from the Tow Center for Digital Journalism found that more than 60 percent of responses from AI-powered search engines were inaccurate. A BBC study puts the wrongness of chatbots closer to 45 percent" www.wired.com/story/fact-c...?
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Are AI companies inflating their annual recurring revenue? There’s a lot of nuance, and accounting minutiae involved…but there are many reasons to look at big AI revenue claims with an equally large grain of salt.
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The AI boom is fueling a literal and metaphorical power grab by tech billionaires—and forcing a reckoning.
Heard Yi-Ling Liu on CBC radio talking about her book and about the similarities of Chinese and American approaches to AI--to the detriment of both their populations (www.politico.com/news/magazin...)
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In Montreal (but in English)...lots of challenges to Bengio www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
Teresa Heffernan reposted
So many harms have already emerged from reckless and oppressive uses of AI, with such wide-ranging & far-reaching consequences, to so many groups of people, that it seems almost impossible to document them all. But we tried, in this open letter to Minister Solomon: bccla.org/p…
Many thanks for the kind words. fyi CBC Ideas did an episode on it: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
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The AI industry, subject to little regulation, has made billions by promising a forever-coming mythical “superintelligence”; its products crucially involve overhauling & locking us into a global infrastructure, perfecting the model of marketing the idea of individual freedom while shutting it down.