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In the Weights newsletter issue

IN THE WEIGHTS

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Lynn Cherny Kashmir Hill Reuben Binns Dare Obasanjo Ben Williamson Meredith Martin Aram Sinnreich Amanda Tepski +3

“are you in the weights? Hilarious and fascinating including the mess ups intheweights.com”

“I did not know of this joke quote Funnily enough, a tool for seeing how you're weighted in the LLMs recently told me that Kashmir Hill is either me or a Himalayan mountain range, so it could indeed be a land of contradictions. Tool: intheweights.com”

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austin: fun? I am in there. intheweights.com
VE, cybersocial occult investigator: Well, my strategy of having an incredibly common wallet name is still rendering me invisible to information systems.
austin: weirdly enough my github handle actually had a better score than my wallet name
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Primary source intheweights.com ↗
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Bulwark slop doctrine marwick essay

The Slop Doctrine - by alice e. marwick - The Bulwark

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Hypervisible alice e marwick Roland Meyer Ben Williamson

“The right loves AI slop. Why? I investigate in @thebulwark.com today: www.thebulwark.com/p/the-slop-d...”

“«AI slop lets the right simultaneously annoy anti-AI liberals, animate divisive stereotypes, and boost tech companies embracing anti-democratic principles, all while increasing social media engagement.» #Slopaganda www.thebulwark.com/p/the-slop-d...”

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Roland Meyer: «AI slop lets the right simultaneously annoy anti-AI liberals, animate divisive stereotypes, and boost tech companies embracing anti-democratic principles, all while increasing social media engagem…
Roland Meyer: Great article, thanks to @alicetiara.bsky.social @thebulwark.com for citing my work
Ben Williamson: «AI slop lets the right simultaneously annoy anti-AI liberals, animate divisive stereotypes, and boost tech companies embracing anti-democratic principles, all while increasing social media engagem…
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Primary source thebulwark.com ↗
Developing Culture, work & education Development 2d ago
London first AI primary school

London’s first AI primary school: bright idea or a sign of the dystopian times?

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Ben Williamson

“Inspired Edge, an “AI-enabled primary school," is setting up as a global brand. “'Education must evolve to reflect the world children are growing up in, not the world as it was,'” says its founder..., who has a background in private equity." Of course he do…”

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Ben Williamson: Inspired Edge, an “AI-enabled primary school," is setting up as a global brand. “'Education must evolve to reflect the world children are growing up in, not the world as it was,'” says its founder.…
Charles Logan: Somebody saw that Alpha School cash and wanted in too
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Primary source standard.co.uk ↗