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Live tension Meta ai data centers taxes Concern & critique · 6 attributable reactions Multiple readings Can AI Stand In for Human Survey-Takers? Not Really Policy & governance · 2 attributable reactions
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Established Compute & infrastructure Signal 19d ago
⚡ 182 h early

Meta ai data centers taxes

9 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Research & technical analysis reaction 2 attributable expert contributions · Justin Hendrix, Kashmir Hill
“Meta is tapping "into a tax credit intended for research and experimentation. It’s an aggressive interpretation of the tax break, which Meta embraced to claim billions of dollars in tax credits for data center expansion."” evidence ↗
9 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
Justin Hendrix Kashmir Hill Damien Williams Sarah T Roberts, PhD Michael Zimmer Social Media Lab Jon Keegan Jeffrey Vagle +1
Primary source nytimes.com ↗
Established AI research Research 15d ago
⚡ 42 h early
Pew Research AI survey takers study

Can AI Stand In for Human Survey-Takers? Not Really

6 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Research & technical analysis reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · J. Nathan Matias
“In case you've been wondering about the viability of AI simulated surveys, Pew has offered in-depth reporting on their experiment with simulated survey participants. By Athena Chapekis, Arnold Lau, Samuel Bestvater, Sono Shah, Andrew Mercer, Aaron Smith www…” evidence ↗
6 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered
Olivia Guest J. Nathan Matias Luke Stark Dr. Elinor Carmi Michael Zimmer Andrea Lathrop
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Policy & governance

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“We just had a discussion on this in our editorial meeting of Internet Policy Review. It would be great to hear from other academic journal editors what are their policies around researchers using synthetic data. -> www.pewresearch.org/data-labs/20...”

Research & technical analysis

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Evidence, methods and technical implications.

“In case you've been wondering about the viability of AI simulated surveys, Pew has offered in-depth reporting on their experiment with simulated survey participants. By Athena Chapekis, Arnold Lau, Samuel Bestvater, Sono Shah, Andrew Mercer, Aaron Smith www…”

Primary source pewresearch.org ↗