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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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Come on. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/b...

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  • The Future of Truth, a book about AI disinformation, contained AI-fabricated quotes attributed to real people that passed editorial review.
  • EY Canada separately retracted a client report days earlier after 60% of its citations were found to be AI hallucinations.
  • Both failures share the same mechanism: AI tools inserted at the research stage produced fabrications that downstream human review did not catch.
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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...

Software Developers Say AI Is Rotting Their Brains 404media.co
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www.nytimes.com/2026/05/17/o...

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  • ChatGPT's 2022 debut triggered cascading honor code violations and policy reversals that persisted across all four years of one college cohort.
  • Faculty policy swung between banning and requiring AI tools within single academic years, leaving students unable to follow consistent rules.
  • A documented social rift formed within the Class of 2026 between students who adopted AI tools and those who refused throughout their degree.
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I’ve been wondering for a long time where they got the idea that he was going to send them (the very specific number of) $5000 checks as a “refund from DOGE.” It seemed like a mass hallucination. I’ve just seen screenshots. They send boomers/retirees texts about it. I should h…

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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." ...

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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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