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Live tension Meta ai data centers taxes Concern & critique · 6 attributable reactions
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Established AI field signal Development 11d ago
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humans reading Microsoft Copilot prompts

Humans Are Reading Copilot Prompts — And They're Horrified

10 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

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Meredith Broussard Olivia Guest 404 Media Joseph Cox Sarah T Roberts, PhD Jason Koebler sorelle Sam Cole +2

“Human contractors are reviewing Copilot users’ prompts and uploaded images, according to internal documents obtained by 404 Media. The contractors are also bombarded with users’ requests for sexual AI images. www.404media.co/humans-readi...”

“Crucially these contractors are not hired to filter out offensive content. They are hired to report whether Copilot successfully made a good AI image. So if the request is, make this person's breasts larger, they have to review based on whether it did or no…”

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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 Policy & governance Development 19d ago
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White House AI accord spelling error

‘President of the Unites States’: White House’s AI accord includes spelling error

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Sarah T Roberts, PhD Karen Gregory

“www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...”

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Sarah T Roberts, PhD: Led by the most superest intelligentiest of them all. What could go wrong when a bunch of mediocre men get together and mutually decide they’re all geniuses. P.S. it’s just military contract grifting.
Karen Gregory: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Primary source theguardian.com ↗
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3 experts · 7 posts · 17h 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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2 experts · 3 posts · 8d ago
Sarah T Roberts, PhD wells
wells: i'm so curious what the chatter about it irl has been, absolutely wild for the ai agent to send this email out exactly while so many people are together in person
Sarah T Roberts, PhD: I’m in a meeting but my channels tell me that people are cackling with laughter/pissed/bemused/thankful for the quick ban. All at once. #AOIR2026
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