Come on. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/b...
Who's Who of AI
Sarah T Roberts, PhD
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.
What they're sharing
Book on Truth in the Age of A.I. Contains Quotes Made Up by A.I. nytimes.com
Chatbots Keep Telling Stories About Lighthouse Keeper 'Elias Thorne'. We Might Know Why 404media.co
A University System Went All In on A.I. Now It’s Tearing Itself Apart. nytimes.com
Companies Are Using Reddit to Manipulate ChatGPT and Google AI Search 404media.co
Software Developers Say AI Is Rotting Their Brains 404media.co
Opinion | What A.I. Did to My College Class nytimes.com
An Engineer’s Post Protesting Laptop Surveillance Is Going Viral Inside Meta | WIRED wired.com
papers.ssrn.com
247wallst.com
U. of C. freezes Ph.D. admissions to most humanities programs hpherald.com
wsj.com
washingtonpost.com
Articles & links
This crap is cultural collapse.
While communities are organizing to resist data centers placed within their borders, workers are organizing to protect their rights as laborers, and a large scale political debate is being had about the social re-organization proposed by AI, we have university admin selling th…
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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...
www.nytimes.com/2026/05/17/o...
www.wired.com/story/meta-e...
AI data center greenwashing
“I think actually things will move maybe even by the end of this year to where you don't even bother doing coding. The AI just creates the binary directly.” “Doing coding.” The AI just creates “the binary” directly. Ok.
Just a reminder that all those LLMs are built on the pilfered vast libraries of humanistic and social scientific knowledge production. Good luck, society. You’re gonna need it. www.hpherald.com/evening_dige...
Not in the way he means. “‘What’s at stake here is losing an entire generation,’ said Ivo Visak, a former high-school principal who now runs Estonia’s AI Leap foundation, which partnered with OpenAI and Google on the rollouts.” www.wsj.com/tech/ai/esto...
Since 2008, senior staff/administration at UCLA have increased 65%. Faculty have increased by 5% over the same period of time. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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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." ...
Story from the trenches of the insidiousness of AI hallucinations. This is from my friend, a leading researcher in the health sector, loosely speaking:
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