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Developing AI business Signal 2d ago
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China’s AI Boyfriend Business Is Taking On a Life of Its Own

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Mark J. Nelson David Colarusso

“did you see this one a few months ago?”

“A story in two acts: - China’s AI Boyfriend Business Is Taking On a Life of Its Own: www.wired.com/story/china-... (2026-01-20) - China bans AI “boyfriends” and “girlfriends” over addiction and birth rate concerns: www.dexerto.com/entertainmen... (2026-07-18)”

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Developing AI field signal Signal 2d ago

AI and Games: A Recent History

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Mark J. Nelson

“On the off chance you want to hear me talk about intersections between games and the history of AI, I'm giving at talk at the Arlington Public Library on August 4. Though it's intended more for a general public audience, and likely won't have too much new f…”

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Established Culture, work & education Development 7d ago
AP automated earnings stories expand

Automated earnings stories multiply | The Associated Press

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Mark J. Nelson

“It's sort of funny that since this announcement has no date on it, you could imagine it being part of recent discourse. AP admits they're using AI to churn out 3000 slop financial articles per quarter! But it's from 2014.”

4 experts discussed this · 5 posts
Dan Greene : I gotta finish this article then write a little epilogue to SPAM about slop
John Herrman: this sounds like me when I try to talk about still working in journalism (functional digital text has been effectively free for as long as I've had a job)
Mark J. Nelson: It's sort of funny that since this announcement has no date on it, you could imagine it being part of recent discourse. AP admits they're using AI to churn out 3000 slop financial articles per quar…
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7 experts · 12 posts · 15d ago
Naomi Saphra Ted Underwood Joanna Bryson Mark J. Nelson Claas Voelcker David Marx Isaiah Bishop
Naomi Saphra: Are students embarrassed by AI cheating? Like, there has always been rare but unstigmatized dishonesty (memorizing a frat’s archive of finals questions) and common but stigmatized (saying you’ve st…
Naomi Saphra: I don’t know exactly what dictates cheating stigma. Ease of observation? Is there something about effort, or the margin of work required to do it honestly? Regardless, AI cheating is way too easy a…
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5 experts · 11 posts · 18d ago
Ted Underwood Mark J. Nelson Mary Branscombe Nafnlaus 🇮🇸 🇺🇦 austegard.com
Ted Underwood: Fascinating op-ed. Starts with the premise that models can’t check their work, then runs into the reality that in 2026, everyone knows this is wrong. Patch: a tiny exception is in “formal or verifi…
Ted Underwood: Actually sympathetic to Tufekci’s conclusion that we shouldn’t expect jobpocalypse, but people have got to stop grounding that belief in the premise that we have some mysterious power only achievab…
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4 experts · 9 posts · 14d ago
Mark J. Nelson Sam Barrett, PhD brennan Singularity's Bounty e/cc
brennan: having a lot of conversations lately with various friends where AI people are complaining about their non-AI coworkers who are doing things slower and worse than could be done e.g. 20 minute tasks …
Mark J. Nelson: I have a friend in a totally normal office job like this, increasingly annoyed that people are doing repetitive tasks in Excel completely manually & missing a row, manually typing in data from rece…
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