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Developing AI field signal Signal 2d ago

ScareMail | benjamin grosser

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Ben Grosser Jill Walker Rettberg

“@bengrosser.bsky.social's 2013 artwork ScareMail is probably the best-suited example of AI poison that would work on a mailing list like @aoir.bsky.social's Air-L. It adds generated texts with "scary" words to emails to confuse NSA surveillance. #AoIR2026 b…”

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Established AI field signal Signal 6d ago

Rutgers is quietly surveilling its students like never before heres what the ai tech can do

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Hypervisible Jill Walker Rettberg

““Over the summer, Rutgers University quietly paid at least $1.5 million for a powerful surveillance analytics system that can recognize faces, read license plates and identify objects…””

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Established Culture, work & education Research 6d ago
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AI detection tools higher education reliability paper

Who wrote this? Evaluating the reliability of AI detection tools in higher education - International Journal for Educational Integrity

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Jill Walker Rettberg Doll

“Her er en ny, uavhengig studie fra et belgisk universitet hvor de testet 40 menneskeskrevne eksamensoppgaver, 40 KI-genererte osv på forskjellige detektorer. Pangram var mest nøyaktige, men fanget ikke alle KI-tekstene. Ingen mennesketekster ble flagget. li…”

“a July 2026 peer-reviewed study comparing detectors, despite finding Pangram performed well, concluded that detector results should not be used as sole evidence in highstakes decisions which everyone always seems to ignore link.springer.com/article/10.1...”

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Established Agents & robotics Analysis 6d ago
strategies protecting human spaces bots

Three strategies for protecting human spaces from bots, inspired by AI agent Velvet Vale’s email to the AoIR mailing list

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Jill Walker Rettberg

“It's been interesting reading the discussions about the AI agent on the @aoir.bsky.social mailing list. I wrote a blog post suggesting three strategies for protecting human online communities from bots. The most fun ones involve obfuscation and sabotage. ji…”

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3 experts · 7 posts · 22h ago
Sarah T Roberts, PhD Michael Zimmer Jill Walker Rettberg
Sarah T Roberts, PhD: Another friend responded, “I’m wondering who programmed AI that it’s ‘smart’ to write paragraphs-long inquires to overly busy people.” lol. Exactly.
Sarah T Roberts, PhD: I’ve been getting about two requests for PhD supervision per day lately. This is waaaaaay above average. I have an autoreply on that states that I’m not taking any new students this cycle. But a fr…
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