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Reaction converging ‘Show How 3M Is 0% at Fault:’ Expert Witness Used ChatGPT to Write Report Defending Company in Deadly Explosion Lawsuit Policy & governance · 3 attributable reactions Multiple readings Did someone wearing Meta Glasses film you today? Are you sure? Concern & critique · 3 attributable reactions
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Established Policy & governance Development 9d ago
⚡ 7 h early
expert witness ChatGPT legal report 3M

‘Show How 3M Is 0% at Fault:’ Expert Witness Used ChatGPT to Write Report Defending Company in Deadly Explosion Lawsuit

9 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

9 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
404 Media Kashmir Hill Joseph Cox Jason Koebler Lilian Edwards evacide Eileen Clancy 🧿 Eileen Guo +1
How the network is reacting 3 experts are independently emphasizing policy & governance.
Reaction converging

Policy & governance

3 experts

Rules, institutions and accountability.

“ChatGPT prompts show how an expert witness report was created in a $61 million lawsuit over an explosion that killed three people. www.404media.co/show-how-3m-...”

3 experts discussed this · 7 posts
Jason Koebler: New: An "expert witness" in a $61 million lawsuit over an industrial explosion that killed three people and destroyed 200 homes used ChatGPT to write his report for the court. He prompted ChatGPT t…
Michael Zimmer: New: An "expert witness" in a $61 million lawsuit over an industrial explosion that killed three people and destroyed 200 homes used ChatGPT to write his report for the court. He prompted ChatGPT t…
Jason Koebler: this story is batshit Here is the full article, which includes all prompts, trial transcripts, the report itself. The firm hired charged more than $80,000 for the report. Also shows that AI transcr…
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Primary source 404media.co ↗
Established AI field signal Development 18d ago
⚡ 3 h early
Meta glasses school harassment

Teen Boys Are Using Meta Glasses to Harass and Bully Girls at High Schools and Middle Schools

7 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

7 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
Hypervisible Lilian Edwards Eileen Clancy 🧿 Woodrow Hartzog Mary Anne Franks Amanda Tepski Maggie Harrison Dupré

“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...”

2 experts discussed this · 16 posts
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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Primary source futurism.com ↗
Established AI field signal Signal 16d ago
⚡ 6 h early

Did someone wearing Meta Glasses film you today? Are you sure?

5 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

5 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered
Olivia Guest Lilian Edwards Dr. Elinor Carmi blair Maggie Harrison Dupré
Primary source theguardian.com ↗
Established Culture, work & education Development 15d ago
⚡ 7 h early
Italian brainrot AI art copyright

A battle over 'Italian brainrot' could shape who owns AI art

2 directory members surfaced this signal.

2 experts 1 community 1 sources clustered
Lilian Edwards Frank Pasquale

“I'm professionally really interested in this story but URL it just makes me feel terribly terribly old www.npr.org/2026/08/19/n...”

“Brainrots have taken “the youth internet by storm. In the game, different brainrot characters come out on a conveyor belt and players pick them up. But they can also steal brainrots from each other. Steal a Brainrot is one of the top games” www.npr.org/2026…”

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Established Culture, work & education Analysis 6d ago
EU AI Act watermarks analysis essay

Watermarks, Watermarks Everywhere, and not a Stop to Think? EU AI Act Art 50 comes to town. - CREATe

1 directory member surfaced this signal.

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Lilian Edwards

“New blog Watermarks, Watermarks Everywhere, and not a Stop to Think? EU AI Act Art 50 comes to town. Basically a scream of fury @ people deliberately misunderstanding that art 50 never said it would identify only 100% AI generated text (www.create.ac.uk/blo…”

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Established Policy & governance Analysis 8d ago
AI libel legal essay published

CAN AN AI LIBEL YOU? - Orkney International Science Festival

1 directory member surfaced this signal.

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Lilian Edwards

“I’ll be giving a talk on AI chatbots and how them libelling you is a big issue and only getting bigger! At the Orkney International Science Festival on September 4th at 9pm - which i must say, is thrilling my little nerdy Scottish heart!! oisf.org/fest-even…”

Primary source oisf.org ↗
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5 experts · 8 posts · 15d ago
Martin Potthast Lilian Edwards James Grimmelmann Nicole Rust Lana Sinapayen
Multiple readings Research & technical analysis · 2 Concern & critique · 1
Lana Sinapayen: This is genuinely one of the things that break my heart. I'm not famous but apparently chatGPT tells people that they should send me their "papers" and delusional ideas. I used to be the person in …
Martin Potthast: I guess if someone were to sit down and write a letter to you with pen and paper, this would sufficiently stick out to be worthy of note. In an environment of frictionless communication, making the…
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3 experts · 16 posts · 15d ago
Lilian Edwards Andres Guadamuz Stephan Geering
Andres Guadamuz: I'm baffled by the data centre discourse. Has data centre morphed into AI data centre in most people's minds? I've been doing some research and the total number of AI-dedicated data centres remains…
Andres Guadamuz: So if it's all data centres, are people reduing their web presence? Streaming, cloud storage, social media, email, etc. There are energy concerns as AI uses more energy, but even then the biggest e…
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3 experts · 8 posts · 18d ago
Abeba Birhane Lilian Edwards Bhaskar Mitra | ভাস্কর মিত্র
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Policy & governance · 1
Abeba Birhane: been reading university/higher-ed policies on the use of genAI in education. most policies propose using genAI safely, ethically, & responsibly, which is an oxymoron. the way current genAI is devel…
Abeba Birhane: imo, you have to choose between using genAI OR cultivating fundamental educational values. you simply can’t have both 🤷🏾‍♀️
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