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Multiple readings Companies Are Using Reddit to Manipulate ChatGPT and Google AI Search Concern & critique · 2 attributable reactions Shared emphasis Generative AI and News Report 2026: From standalone tools to information infrastructure Research & technical analysis · 2 attributable reactions Multiple readings The Pain Axis: LLMs Represent Self-Directed Harm and Act to Relieve It Concern & critique · 2 attributable reactions
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Sandra Wachter René Walter Oxford Internet Institute

“I am thrilled to give a lecture at Oxford's Institute for Ethics in AI & talk about my new paper “Optimising for happiness in EU technology policy to repay public subsidies for AI” Wed 25 Nov 2026, 12:30 - 1:30pm, see you all soon! tinyurl.com/yuxbp2jc full…”

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Established AI field signal Signal 4d ago
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Companies Are Using Reddit to Manipulate ChatGPT and Google AI Search

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404 Media Joanna Bryson Joseph Cox Sarah T Roberts, PhD Christopher Mims Jason Koebler Djamé 🟥 Mél Hogan / The Data Fix +3
3 experts discussed this · 6 posts
Joanna Bryson: So we all knew how to “google bomb” back in the 00s (remember liar -> Tony Blair?) by linking one page from several others. Is there a gemini bomb? how do we do it? (Hard to believe it’s “unintenti…
Lilian Edwards: It's "LLM grooming" now I believe and takes state actor level resources
Joanna Bryson: Have you a Url about that, by chance?
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Primary source 404media.co ↗
Developing Models & releases Resource 1d ago
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Reuters generative AI news report 2026

Generative AI and News Report 2026: From standalone tools to information infrastructure

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Felix M. Simon René Walter
How the network is reacting 2 experts are emphasizing research & technical analysis.
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“Just how fast has conversational/GenAI been adopted? Fast! This chart didn't make it into our research report last week (reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/generative-a...) but nicely illustrates the point.”

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Established Models & releases Signal 5d ago
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The Pain Axis: LLMs Represent Self-Directed Harm and Act to Relieve It

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Chris Paxton Grace Artificial Intelligence Papers rev. howard arson René Walter
3 experts discussed this · 11 posts
Grace: I will register some frustration with Anthropic, who tend to write about “functional emotions” in a way that makes it seems like “functional” is in a tiny font and “emotions” is in a huge one, when…
Grace: I also don’t want to draw strong conclusions about the “realness” of these emotions or sensations, other than to caution that it’s an area where it’s easy to jump to conclusions about the implicati…
Grace: I don’t want to downplay it too much, because I’m honestly not sure if I would’ve predicted it beforehand, but in hindsight it looks pretty expected given the pretraining objective. You should expe…
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Established AI field signal Signal 4d ago
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Fake US thinktank set up and funded by Israel sought to game AI for propaganda

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Joanna Bryson René Walter

“LLM grooming seems common practice by now, done by everyone from the US to China and Isreal and corporations too. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a... state-media-influence-llm.github.io nataliegwinters.substack.com/p/exclusive-... www.404media.co/companies-…”

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Established AI field signal Development 4d ago
China builds AI models American voters

EXCLUSIVE: China Is Building AI Models of American Voters. Why?

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Joanna Bryson René Walter

“LLM grooming seems common practice by now, done by everyone from the US to China and Isreal and corporations too. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a... state-media-influence-llm.github.io nataliegwinters.substack.com/p/exclusive-... www.404media.co/companies-…”

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Established Models & releases Signal 4d ago

State Media Control Influences Large Language Models – State Media & LLMs

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Joanna Bryson René Walter

“LLM grooming seems common practice by now, done by everyone from the US to China and Isreal and corporations too. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a... state-media-influence-llm.github.io nataliegwinters.substack.com/p/exclusive-... www.404media.co/companies-…”

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Established AI business Analysis 5d ago
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Doctorow LLMs real AI fake essay

Pluralistic: LLMs are real, AI is fake (12 Sep 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) René Walter

“When the press reports on a "Black October" of catastrophic, AI-fueled data breaches and hack attacks, they don't mention a generation of policymakers' indifference and hostility to information security: pluralistic.net/2026/09/12/g...”

“I really like this emerging frame here: "the importance of separating LLMs (the technology) from AI (the product and vision of the AI companies)" terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/09/13/h... "LLMs are real, AI is fake." pluralistic.net/2026/09/12/g...”

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