Come on. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/b...
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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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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
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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
We Are Living in a ‘ChatGPT Flyer Pandemic’ 404media.co
If AI Is Sentient Then So Is ‘Age of Empires II’ 404media.co
Software Developers Say AI Is Rotting Their Brains 404media.co
Opinion | What A.I. Did to My College Class nytimes.com
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An Engineer’s Post Protesting Laptop Surveillance Is Going Viral Inside Meta | WIRED wired.com
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This crap is cultural collapse.
“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.
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…
www.404media.co/companies-ar...
This “good enough” attempt at graphic design…isn’t.
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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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“If you’re looking for human-like traits, you will tend to find them.” www.404media.co/if-ai-is-sen...
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...
“The new company, Sausage Link, Inc….” Jeff Dean is the guy who forced out several women researchers at Google who wrote a paper warning of the flaws of LLM-based products. Btw.
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AI data center greenwashing
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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:
So,uh… are we talking about OpenAI and Hugging Face or?
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