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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.

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 field signal Development 5d ago
ChatGPT aided Tumbler Ridge school shooter

ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals

9 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

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Justin Hendrix Olivia Guest Paris Marx Luke Stark Michael Zimmer Amanda Tepski Social Media Lab Jeff Sharlet +1

“Just when I think I can’t hate OpenAI and Sam Altman any more, new details come out about how ChatGPT helped a shooter plan one of the worst mass shootings in Canadian history in Tumbler Ridge, BC. OpenAI made an explicit decision not to report the user to …”

“www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0...”

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Paris Marx: The shooter’s first account was banned, so made a second and ChatGPT explained how to avoid being banned again. It then proceeded to entertain and give advice on violent scenarios over the followin…
Paris Marx: Just when I think I can’t hate OpenAI and Sam Altman any more, new details come out about how ChatGPT helped a shooter plan one of the worst mass shootings in Canadian history in Tumbler Ridge, BC.…
Paris Marx: I read this story and can’t help think of the breathless coverage media has given these delusional fantasies about superintelligent AI killing humanity in ten years, when companies are releasing to…
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Primary source motherjones.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.

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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Multiple readings

Policy & governance

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Rules, institutions and accountability.

“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 ↗
Developing Agents & robotics Analysis 2d ago
⚡ 87 h early
AI agents personal data privacy essay

Friends don’t let friends feed their data to AI agents

3 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

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Meredith Whittaker Hypervisible Michael Zimmer

““With AI agents, tech companies are letting consumers automate their everyday tasks by extending their omnivorous style of mass surveillance to massive amounts of sensitive data.””

“It's just so unlike Zuckerberg to release a product like this.... Friends don’t let friends feed their data to AI agents www.theverge.com/tech/1011938...”

Primary source theverge.com ↗
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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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