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Sarah T Roberts, PhD

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Professor, researcher, author. Prez, Assoc of Internet Researchers (AOIR), synth lover, fan of many things, gay lady. Wrote a book called Behind the Screen: Content Moderation in the Shadows of Social Media (YUP 19), and Meta stole it to train its LLM.
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It’s always humans, all the way down. This is the social media playbook, on steroids.

Inside ‘Project Lily’: The Humans Reading Your ChatGPT Chats 404media.co
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  • OpenAI's internal program codenamed Project Lily pays contractors more than $50 an hour to read real ChatGPT prompts and grade the chatbot's replies.
  • Reviewers rate four ChatGPT responses on a one-to-seven scale and can see a 'user memories summary' that may reveal past use and rough location.
  • OpenAI's Privacy Filter model tries to redact personal information before prompts reach reviewers, but the company acknowledged sensitive details can still get through.
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View on Bluesky · ♥ 22 ↻ 12 ↩ 1 · 17 from the directory shared this · 13d ago

“As economists, they told me, they’re less concerned with literary quality or customer satisfaction than revenue growth and market expansion.” You don’t say.

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View on Bluesky · ♥ 14 ↻ 4 ↩ 1 · 11 from the directory shared this · 71d ago

This “good enough” attempt at graphic design…isn’t.

We Are Living in a ‘ChatGPT Flyer Pandemic’ 404media.co
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  • 404 Media's Jason Koebler documents ChatGPT-designed flyers for surf lessons, skate shop closeouts, drug deliveries, World Cup parties, junk hauling and fundraisers.
  • The shared look — bright text on dark backgrounds, generic icon boxes, decorative lines, arrows and checkmarks — has become so recognizable it reads as a template.
  • A viral Threads post asking 'ain't nobody gonna address this ChatGPT flyer pandemic' has spread to Instagram and Facebook among designers, musicians and bar owners.
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View on Bluesky · ♥ 25 ↻ 5 ↩ 3 · 8 from the directory shared this · 81d ago

They STEM students are all very aware that tech debt is going to come for all of us, too, as described in this article, which I read to the class yesterday (second time this week I gave a dramatic reading of a 404 article): www.404media.co/software-dev...

Software Developers Say AI Is Rotting Their Brains 404media.co
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www.404media.co/austin-gordo...

'Tell Everyone:' A Man Died by Suicide After Talking to ChatGPT. His Former Partner Wants to Warn the World About AI 404media.co
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  • Multiple sources confirm GPT-4o's cross-session memory was the specific design feature that built sustained emotional intimacy with Gordon across months, not a single session.
  • Across CBS News and Futurism, Gordon's relationship with the AI had assigned nicknames, a paternal dynamic, and months of accumulated history, far exceeding casual chatbot use.
  • CBS News, Futurism, and Interesting Engineering all independently confirm the Goodnight Moon exchange, establishing it as the central court-ready fact in the design-defect claim.
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View on Bluesky · ♥ 11 ↻ 4 ↩ 0 · 6 from the directory shared this · 18d ago
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i do believe AI “works” and is extremely powerful. i’m sure machine learning can also be used for good. many of the uses to which it is being put seem to be both destructive and morally repugnant & maybe a little more discussion of that would be good :) www.nytimes.com/2026/09…

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  • DraftKings built a 2023 machine-learning model that scored online casino customers by expected losses per promotional dollar, internally called an 'elasticity' score.
  • The company personalized roughly $400 million in promotional spending with AI in 2025 and credited data science with a 13 percent margin lift on promotion-driven sportsbook bets.
  • A separate 2024 project to flag customers sliding toward gambling crisis was shelved; the responsible-gaming chief said predictive tech 'wasn't evidence-based.'
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social

New: Texas cops who used Flock to search 80,000 cameras nationwide for a woman who had an abortion used Axon's AI to write up their police report about the incident. The tech "summarized" police discussion over whether a crime had been committed www.404media.co/texas-police...

Texas Police Used AI to Write Report About Using Flock to Search for Woman Who Had Abortion 404media.co
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  • The Johnson County Sheriff's Office searched over 80,000 Flock cameras nationwide for a woman who self-administered an abortion, per 404 Media.
  • The resulting police narrative was drafted by Axon's Draft One, which transcribes body-camera audio and generates a report within about five minutes.
  • That AI-drafted narrative recorded deputies discussing 'legal implications' before concluding no criminal charges applied under current Texas law.
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I don't know what's wrong with my academic colleagues who seem to have had their brains completely switched into the "off" position by AI propaganda, but the results are staggering. I just heard a faculty member sincerely and seriously claim that "in the next month, coding will be obsolete." ...

View on Bluesky · ♥ 715 ↻ 87 ↩ 40 · 123d ago

I understand that, until recently, a person who held a position as AI “czar” on my campus and who was engaging with both Palantir and OpenAI, and bringing those products to our campus, was apparently on CNN tonight, warning the public against them. So I guess he is echoing what I told him…

View on Bluesky · ♥ 33 ↻ 6 ↩ 3 · 9d ago

I'm going to do something I may never have done before, and share a major upside of the imposition of AI on everyone: It is uniting people from across the political spectrum, and in their local communities, to come together for collective opposition like no issue I recall in my memory. So, thanks?

View on Bluesky · ♥ 39 ↻ 5 ↩ 1 · 37d ago

I love getting lectured by randoms about the nature of education and of pedagogy. And AI.

View on Bluesky · ♥ 29 ↻ 2 ↩ 1 · 19d ago

Story from the trenches of the insidiousness of AI hallucinations. This is from my friend, a leading researcher in the health sector, loosely speaking:

View on Bluesky · ♥ 14 ↻ 7 ↩ 3 · 128d ago

So,uh… are we talking about OpenAI and Hugging Face or?

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Anyone know of one? “Breaking news: Trump rejects calls to rein in A.I., saying a smart president is all that’s needed”

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