after much deliberation and giving AI the benefit of the doubt, Wikipedia editors have had enough of AI slop. New policy bans LLM generated content, periodt www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...

Is it the META and Google losing the court case effect? Whatever it is, please continue 😉 www.reuters.com/business/ope...

This new paper is the death knell for the tired argument that AI models don't memorise their training data. They do. This paper proves it beyond a shadow of a doubt. I wrote up the paper's findings here: dontstealthisblog.substack.com/p/large-lang...

NEW: Will Google's AI hype man kill the BBC? I've written about Matt Brittin because the coverage of his time at Google is shockingly naive. The BBC's next DG is a corporate yes man at a rapacious AI monopoly that preys on journalism in order to destroy it. 1/ www.thenerve.news/p/matt-britt...

No really, I am not kidding when I say that the data broker industry must be destroyed: www.npr.org/2026/03/25/n...

Fines for big-tech companies are a useless enforcement tool because they make so much money it doesn't matter to them and it certainly doesn't deter them from doing harms. We need a complete overhaul in how we regulate big-tech and AI companies. I have a paper on it coming soon!

New paper from @aial.ie! @harshp.com, Dick Blankvoort, Adel Shaaban, @sashamtl.bsky.social & me We analysed 6 GenAI ToS--finding missing info, major power imbalances & user obligations that are impossible to meet without violating the terms arxiv.org/abs/2603.18964 & aial.ie/research/ter... 1/

For some reason "AI is just like watching Netflix" is back in my feeds so I took that as a sign to update my data tracking for Netflix. The company's energy use rose 1% from 2021 to 2024. Compare that to: Google: 71% Nvidia: 88% Meta: 96% Microsoft: 119%

OpenAI Unveil “Final Slogan”

The UK government released its progress report on AI & copyright today. There’s good and bad news. 🧵 1/8

When hype meets reality, or why you shouldn't buy the future tech bros try to sell you...

Meta promised to make all messages across their platforms (including Instagram DMs) end to end encrypted by default. Now they're doing an about face and removing encryption from Instagram DMs, probably because they want to use your messages to train AI and make money. This will get people killed🧵

Who would star in the UK version? My top 4 choices would be Gillian Anderson as sociology/gender studies, Pheobe Waller-Bridge as history senior lecturer, Michaela Cole as reader in Computer Science and Jodie Comer as lecturer in Economics.

Academic representation these days is either college TV shows where professors look like caricatures, or women academics on the verge of a nervous breakdown in the shape of The Chair, After the Hunt, and Vladimir... I am waiting for a UK version of endless strikes, Covid-19, and the impact chase.

"Reality soon set in. The AI quizzes were underwhelming, and the site was soon caught publishing entire AI-generated articles that were sloppy and repetitive" We are seeing over and over again that apparently you can't replace people or creativity with AI... futurism.com/artificial-i...

"In 2024, Fujitsu acknowledged it had a 'moral obligation' to pay financial redress to the victims of Horizon and said it had known the accounting IT system was faulty since the 1990s. However, the company has made no interim payment and has agreed no figure." www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

I met with AI data labelers in Kenya who are organizing their colleagues to fight the brutal working conditions and horrible pay given to the workers at the "bottom of the AI supply chain." They believe the NDAs they've signed are unenforceable so are speaking out: www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...

This is the Society for Hopeful Technologists. Brilliant, kind and thoughtful individuals looking to bring hope back into tech. Join us for updates. societyforhopefultechnologists.org

I'm suing Grammarly over its paid AI feature that presented editing suggestions as if they came from me - and many other writers and journalists - without consent. State law requires consent before someone's name can be used for commercial purposes. www.wired.com/story/gramma...

“Instead of paying humans to join focus groups and complete surveys, Aaru uses thousands of AI agents, or bots, to simulate human responses. It feeds demographic and psychographic information into its models to create human profiles that match clients’ needs…”

"But a Guardian investigation has shown the money isn’t necessarily real... the UK example will raise fears that, without oversight, the value of these investments may simply enrich companies and investors that are largely headquartered in the US" www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

A new hobbyist developed app warns if people nearby may be wearing smart glasses, such as Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses, which stalkers and harassers have repeatedly used to film people without their knowledge or consent. www.404media.co/this-app-war...

🚨 New report from People vs Big Tech: Algorithms on X & TikTok disproportionately push content from far right parties to new users, squeezing out moderate parties. EU & French authorities must enforce the Digital Services Act to protect democracy. peoplevsbig.tech/x-and-tiktok...

this is something we deal with on a daily basis now as reporters. unfortunately I think more and more people are going to find themselves struggling with a friend or family member who is going through "ai psychosis" www.404media.co/ai-psychosis...

👇👇👇 So yes, this is finally out. We explored how AI chatbots respond to queries that indicate an interest in conspiracy theories – and the results are very mixed. Also, in news that will surprise no-one, Grok is exceptionally terrible, and its “Fun Mode” is spectacularly unfunny. 😫

I'm now recruiting for a crucial post in my team - Curator: Parliamentary Art Collection. A rare chance to work with a wonderful collection in a unique setting. Please do share, and feel free to get in touch with any questions

- No breast cancer check ups under 50 years old. - many doctors gaslight women about perimenopause/ menopause symptoms because they do not know what they are even though more than half of the population experiences them. - making it difficult to get HRT. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

A common argument put forward by British AI boosters is that we *have to* hand the life’s work of the UK’s creatives to AI companies, because other countries are doing so. But they are wrong, for three reasons. 🧵 1/6

The gender pay gap bot was such an amazing initiative which I taught my students as an example of D'Ignazio and Klein's Data Feminism Challege Power principle. Does anyone know what happened to it? Are they on Bluesky? 🤔

The perfect headline doesn’t exi…

New from 404 Media: Proton Mail, the privacy-focused email service, gave authorities data that let the FBI unmask an anonymous 'Stop Cop City' protester. It was payment data linked to the anonymous email account. From that, FBI ID'd them, then tracked their movements www.404media.co/proton-mail-...

Must thread by Ed about AI & copyright. We already had a landmark court case in September 2025 where Anthropic has to pay more than a billion to authors. After last year's #MakeItFair campaign it should be clear this is the way forward for fair & ethical use of works. www.npr.org/2025/09/05/g...

No, BBC, end-to-end encryption isn’t ’controversial privacy tech’, it’s industry standard protection

Having literally surveyed the workers in these industries on this very question…. Wow, no.

If you want to understand how web-cookies and real-time-bidding have been standardised through lobbying you should check out my book Media Distortions (open access) www.peterlang.com/document/106... Governments have been reluctant to regulate this market, and this is an example of why they want it.

The government's own data shows that people think AI is more likely to have a negative impact on discrimination/equality in society. But not to worry, as it seems growth is all that matters. www.gov.uk/government/p...

No mention of the notorious AI Skills Hub 😉 but if you want to understand how problematic it is for UK's democracy then check out our @techpolicypress.bsky.social piece with @taniaduarte.bsky.social, @markwong.bsky.social, @suoman.bsky.social & @timdavies.org.uk www.techpolicy.press/the-real-cos...

Now listening to the Science & Technology committee. Listening to Liz Kendall saying that growth is the main thing driving her department (no surprise). Also apparently ppl should not worry about AI because the workers in these industries know how good they are. parliamentlive.tv/event/index/...

It would mean the lobbying by big US tech firms had succeeded, and the protests of the UK's creatives had been ignored. People's work is not the government's to give away. If you're in the UK and you care about creatives and the creative industries, please write to your MP! /end

🚨 It looks like the UK government is gearing up to upend copyright law in favour of AI companies, legalising the theft of their work. This is despite creatives' huge protests, and despite previous proposals being roundly rejected by the public. Please spread the word. 🧵 1/4

Why I said we need anti-surveillance laws not privacy laws... this isn't ok just because they 'anonymised' the data.

"We don’t have to set the bar this low. We have to remind each other that this isn’t normal for the world, and doesn’t have to be normal for tech". Important post by Anil Dash.

Both Netflix and Paramount are bad for the film industry. But Larry Ellison is bad on another level as he wants to take over CNN, CBS, Tiktok and Warner Brothers all before the USA mid-term elections. Both in tech and media we are seeing more monopolies and all are rooting for right wing politics.

UK MPs launch new inquiry examining technology’s role in education. Just briefly looked at what they intend to look at and it doesn't seem that the involvement of big-tech in education is a concern here but mainly how teachers and students use AI.... 🙄 committees.parliament.uk/committee/20...

The left is not "missing out" on AI. It's winning the argument. Americans worry about AI and dislike tech CEOs. They're mobilizing against data centers. They support regulation, even refusal. Calls for the left to embrace AI are an effort to change the terms of the debate in Silicon Valley's favor.

excited to hear tech companies will now be allowed to build their own power plants for their data centers. i am sure the makers of "the app that tells kids to kill themselves" will responsibly operate coal plants

Just as a reminder OpenAI recently removed the word "safely" from its mission... theconversation.com/openai-has-d...

"We didn't really feel, with the rapid advance of AI, that it made sense for us to make unilateral commitments … if competitors are blazing ahead" So basically a race to the bottom. time.com/7380854/excl...

UNBELIEVABLE! DOJ withheld Epstein files naming Trump in abuse allegations of a minor This is why we sued @democracydefendersfund.org has been fighting in court to get these records & we won’t stop👇 www.democracydefendersfund.org/prs/02.06.26...