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Established AI field signal Signal 5d ago
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Ai slop books biography amazon

11 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

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Hypervisible Kashmir Hill Sarah T Roberts, PhD Mor Naaman evacide Eileen Clancy 🧿 Woodrow Hartzog Andrew Heiss +3

“Got this text a couple months. Had to investigate it. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/t...”

““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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Kashmir Hill: Got this text a couple months. Had to investigate it. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/t...
Salomé Viljoen: Got this text a couple months. Had to investigate it. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/t...
Kashmir Hill: To quote myself... "My biography was no 'Fifty Shades.' The only punishing part was reading it."
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Primary source nytimes.com ↗
Established AI field signal Analysis 3d ago
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AI opt-out user burden essay

Please Stop Making Me Opt Out of AI

5 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

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Data & Society Woodrow Hartzog Reece Ben Winters Neil Turkewitz

“"When a company chooses to opt you into an AI feature, they are making decisions with real-world consequences," @thiccreese.bsky.social writes. If a company "opts millions of users into a deepfake tool, then a world filled w even more deepfakes becomes more…”

““If a company automatically opts millions of users into a deepfake tool, then a world filled with even more deepfakes becomes more possible. And that's a reality I’d love to opt out of.” My latest for @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/please...”

Primary source wired.com ↗
Established AI field signal Analysis 9d ago
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AI makes game cloning easier

AI Made Cloning Games Easier Than Ever

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404 Media Joseph Cox Jason Koebler James Grimmelmann Woodrow Hartzog Damon Beres

“Vibecoding has made it possible to create a cheap rip off of a video game in just a few hours.”

“Someone had a cool idea for a game (Tetris but the whole board rotates) and posted a proof of concept to social media. Immediately someone ripped it off and vibe coded it www.404media.co/ai-made-clon...”

Primary source 404media.co ↗
Established Policy & governance Analysis 12d ago
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legal education rethinking AI era essay

Rethinking Legal Education in the AI Era | University of Chicago Law School

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Hypervisible Woodrow Hartzog Amanda Tepski Stephen Turner Jeffrey Vagle

“Full statement here. www.law.uchicago.edu/news/ai-stra...”

“Sending good vibes to disabled students at Chicago: www.law.uchicago.edu/news/ai-stra...”

Primary source law.uchicago.edu ↗
Established Models & releases Development 4d ago
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Dave Eggers criticizes ChatGPT OpenAI staff

Dave Eggers told OpenAI staff that ChatGPT was ‘silencing an entire generation’

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Hypervisible Woodrow Hartzog

““If students are using it to compose, which is the biggest tragedy of all, they’ll never learn to write. And their voice is stolen from them.””

Primary source theverge.com ↗