Accelerating
AI field signal
Signal
10h ago
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Concern & critique
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Risks, limits and unintended consequences.
“well written, well argued presentation of real world harms of AI without going into histrionics it won’t get the same amount of pickup bc it’s not scifi coded, but it’s just as concerned https://t.co/ko6nLkYr3L https://t.co/JgaVpDrbaO”
Policy & governance
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Rules, institutions and accountability.
“Great piece that helps explain the seemingly contradictory rhetoric emanating from the closed AI model companies. I agree the #1 actionable take is to hold the companies accountable for their product’s behavior. https://t.co/WQ60O1WlDr”
Flock AI police surveillance tool
11 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.
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“Flock really is building/has built the infrastructure for authoritarianism. The massive pushback they are experiencing right now is because people recognize this fact. www.wired.com/story/flock-...”
“A few other embeds in this story - Explore a full list of Flock's preloaded AI prompts by category. - See a teardown of what police tools get accessed when a prompts is used. www.wired.com/story/flock-...”
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dell cameron: NEW: Flock has said for years that its cameras "cannot track individuals." We found the code for its new AI tool. It's preloaded w/ prompts like "Find me witness" & "find relatives." One tracks vis…
Eileen Clancy 🧿: NEW: Flock has said for years that its cameras "cannot track individuals." We found the code for its new AI tool. It's preloaded w/ prompts like "Find me witness" & "find relatives." One tracks vis…
Eileen Clancy 🧿: Awesome work! It's very good that @dmehro.bsky.social came back! :) You're a great team!
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New
AI field signal
Signal
9h ago
4 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.
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Concern & critique
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Risks, limits and unintended consequences.
“I have posted a new draft w/ @jessicasilbey.bsky.social titled "AI Slop." We argue that "AI slop" isn't just slang. It's useful for distinguishing between cheap and dangerous AI output and the kinds of meaningful human authorship that strengthen our cultura…”
Research & technical analysis
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Evidence, methods and technical implications.
“Interesting approach to AI slop!: "We propose a provisional definition of slop as any output of a probabilistic automated system produced with little exertion that asymmetrically burdens recipients and tends to degrade cultural domains." papers.ssrn.com/sol…”
Berkeley Law AI policy resource
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Policy & governance
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Rules, institutions and accountability.
“UC Berkeley Law's new AI policy seems close to this. "This policy...[forbids the use of AI] to conceptualize, outline, draft, revise, and edit their work...for credit. It also forbids using AI to translate work [and] in any exam situation." www.law.berkeley…”
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Jane Rosenzweig: Every time I read a university leader saying that trying to create spaces where AI is not used is a way of pretending it doesn't exist, I wonder what benefit there is to drawing this false line. Wh…
Jane Rosenzweig: If one of my students wrote this piece, I would ask for evidence that the places named--Chicago and Berkeley--are pretending AI doesn't exist or trying to make it go away. This is the Berkeley poli…
Jane Rosenzweig: Would be great to stop having this debate and instead really dig into what should go in the curriculum, with or without AI, so that we can meet this moment in a way other than trying to hang on to …
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Cocomelon studio mandates AI experimentation
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“Moonbug Entertainment, which makes Cocomelon, Blippi, and other popular content for children, says it will begin using AI but will always have a 'human in the loop.' www.404media.co/cocomelons-s...”
“New: the studio behind Cocomelon is telling its artists to start using AI, according to documents seen by 404 Media. Moonbug, the studio that makes Cocomelon, one of the most important children's entertainment studios on the planet www.404media.co/cocomelon…”
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Signal
17d ago
⚡ 6 h early
6 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.
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Concern & critique
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Risks, limits and unintended consequences.
““These images, which I’ve started calling subtlefakes, are not as clearly offensive, but are a lot more convincing. The concerning implication is it’s not just the tech that is advancing now, but that people who wield it maliciously are getting more sophist…”
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18d ago
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Meta glasses school harassment
7 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.
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“If you build a tool that makes it easy to spy on and harass people, that's exactly what people will use it for. This is all by design. futurism.com/artificial-i...”
“Today in unsurprising but depressing news: "every single one of the many smart glasses videos we found were captured by teen boys — and their bad behavior was overwhelmingly directed at girls." futurism.com/artificial-i...”
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Maggie Harrison Dupré: NEW: Teen boys are using smart glasses — mainly Meta's AI Glasses — to film themselves harassing classmates at school, following girls around and "rizzing" them or "ragebaiting" them w/ insults. In…
Maggie Harrison Dupré: We found dozens of videos shared by teens using smart glasses to record content at middle and high schools. Some of these videos are "Come With Me" or "Day in My Life" -style influencer content. Ki…
Hypervisible : NEW: Teen boys are using smart glasses — mainly Meta's AI Glasses — to film themselves harassing classmates at school, following girls around and "rizzing" them or "ragebaiting" them w/ insults. In…
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Alpha School AI Chicago launch
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“The most Betteridge’s Law headline to ever do it”
“Oh so you really know jack shit about kids, pedagogy, education… www.scientificamerican.com/article/alph...”
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Hypervisible : Oh so you really know jack shit about kids, pedagogy, education… www.scientificamerican.com/article/alph...
Hypervisible : This is so offensive I’m kinda speechless.
Hypervisible : Now Carl will tell us how schools are like McDonald’s 🤦🏿♂️
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NYT opinion never write with AI
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Concern & critique
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Risks, limits and unintended consequences.
“As LLM text “becomes ubiquitous, it undermines not only our individual ability to write but also a society’s collective ability to reason, a culture’s inner capacity to create and everyone’s reason to care.” www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/o...”
Questions & unknowns
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What remains unresolved or contested.
“"The link between broad-based literacy and the rise of democracy is well known:…What happens when the process goes into reverse? When people lack the patience to absorb arguments…[or] the ability to contradict those arguments because they’ve never honed..th…”
Springfield AI classroom pilot union fight
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“The danger of this model is not so much for kids whose parents can spend $50,000 a year on Alpha School. The bigger problem is when this “ai school” gets foisted on kids whose parents cannot buy their way out of the fact that their kids got a shitty education.”
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16d ago
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“AI-powered smart glasses exacerbate power imbalances in the workplace, especially for service and retail workers. It's "part of a larger story about the way in which being an employee means taking on increased suffering as part of the job,” says @hartzog.bs…”
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19d ago
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“Deep into this piece, the author reveals that it too was written “with” AI. Shoulda been the first paragraph, what are we doing here: www.nature.com/articles/d44...”
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11d ago
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right to refuse AI chatbot higher education essay
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“"The premise underlying this paper is that no person or institution should coerce a student, researcher or instructor to use AI chatbots to complete academic tasks." ht: Dagmar Monett”
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7d ago
Kate Crawford AI slop metabolic logic essay
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Evidence, methods and technical implications.
“An ouroboros of garbage. Kate Crawford has a great piece on this: "The Metabolic Logic of AI Slop": www.e-flux.com/architecture...”
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10d ago
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