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Multiple readings Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in — and they’re not good Concern & critique · 3 attributable reactions Shared emphasis This 'Digital Camouflage' Shirt Confuses AI-Powered Surveillance Cameras Concern & critique · 2 attributable reactions
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New AI business Resource 16h ago
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Pluralistic Doctorow blog resource

Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow – No trackers, no ads. Black type, white background. Privacy policy: we don't collect or retain any data at all ever period.

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Marielza By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)

“You can also follow these posts as a daily blog at pluralistic.net: no ads, trackers, or data-collection! Here's today's edition: pluralistic.net/2026/09/21/s...”

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C): It may strike you as weird, but lenders *love* lending to poor people who will have trouble paying them back. Obviously, lenders want to be repaid, and the more money you have, the easier it is to …
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C): If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog: pluralistic.net/2026/07/25/c... 2/
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C): In other words: because poor people have a higher likelihood of defaulting, their loans come with higher interest rates and worse terms. Debt is steeply regressive: the less money you have, the mor…
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Established AI field signal Development 16d ago
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AI skill degradation early results study

Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in — and they’re not good

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Alondra Nelson Iris van Rooij Olivia Guest Djamé 🟥 Scott McGrath Marielza Sasha Costanza-Chock Eileen Clancy 🧿 +5
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Multiple readings

Concern & critique

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Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“I find the research increasingly compelling — this week's example being a case in point: www.nature.com/articles/d41... I look forward to reading your book and having these concerns placed in the context of earlier technological transitions and their attend…”

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“What a surprise ….. “Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in — and they’re not good Reliance on artificial-intelligence tools degrades the abilities of physicians and software engineers, studies show.” www.nature.com/articles/d41...”

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Edouard Machery: The literature on cognitive offloading and deskilling should be taken with a serious grain of salt. See literature on video games in the 1980s, see Haidt style literature on social media. The last …
Alondra Nelson: I find the research increasingly compelling — this week's example being a case in point: www.nature.com/articles/d41... I look forward to reading your book and having these concerns placed in the c…
Edouard Machery: The issue, in my opinion, is publication bias and p-hacking. The literature is clearly titled toward finding negative effects - this is what gets in the news etc. As a result I don’t think we can t…
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Established AI field signal Development 16d ago
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digital camouflage shirt defeats AI surveillance

This 'Digital Camouflage' Shirt Confuses AI-Powered Surveillance Cameras

4 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

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404 Media Joseph Cox Jason Koebler Marielza
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Concern & critique

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Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“Simon Weckert designed digital camouflage as a response to the proliferation of AI-powered surveillance cameras that detect people, vehicles, animals, bicycles, and other objects in their field of view. www.404media.co/this-digital...”

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Joseph Cox: We got a live demo of the shirt that is designed to fool certain people detection systems. Read more here: www.404media.co/this-digital...
Meredith Whittaker: were that it weren't fugly
404 Media: We got a live demo of the shirt that is designed to fool certain people detection systems. Read more here: www.404media.co/this-digital...
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5 experts · 10 posts · 9d ago
Mar Hicks Olivia Guest Damien Williams Marielza Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE)
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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE): Gonna be extremely petty for a moment: I am glad to stand in solidarity with my colleagues in mathematics against the tyranny of AI slop, but I have to ask: where the fuck were most of y’all when t…
Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE): Again, I am happy to stand with y’all, but I think we might take a moment to reflect on why the march of AI became so much more of an existential threat when it came for the practical fields, the s…
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3 experts · 9 posts · 4d ago
sarah jeong Marielza tante
sarah jeong: a lot freaks me out about AI but 0% of my anxiety is about AGI. i think this is the part that freaks me out the most right now -- the many many indications that no one is at the wheel and no adults…
sarah jeong: i've been thinking a bit about killer robots in literature and how it's kind of ambiguous whether skynet is sentient. art knows that the machines don't need to think to have blood on the gears
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3 experts · 6 posts · 15d ago
Emily M. Bender Paris Marx Marielza
Paris Marx: nice to see taylor take off the mask and show she’s a complete stooge for the tech industry. if you’re as ai-pilled as she is, you need to minimize the threat posed by the hyperscale data centers t…
Paris Marx: it’s ridiculous to suggest data centers are just bad when they’re powered by natural gas, as if the industry isn’t fuelling a massive boom in new gas plants making emissions reductions basically im…
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