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Why Carissa Véliz’s Prophecy Matters More Than AI Itself: Welcome to the Simulacrum
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Why Carissa Véliz’s Prophecy Matters More Than AI Itself: Welcome to the Simulacrum
AI: The Ultimate Booster of the Simulacrum: How generative AI works - not as a truth machine, but as a fortune-teller
https://michaelreuter.org/2026/05/05/why-carissa-velizs-prophecy-matters-more-than-ai-itself-welcome-to-the-simulacrum/
2 months ago
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vali.now
about 12 hours ago
The Hidden Risks of AI Agents in Finance and Real Estate
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The Hidden Risks of AI Agents in Finance and Real Estate - vali.now
The Hidden Risks of MCP-Powered AI Agents in Finance and Real Estate: Why Asset Managers and Fund Operators Need to Act Now
https://vali.now/2026/03/27/the-hidden-risks-of-ai-agents-in-finance-and-real-estate/
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What Lives? A Meta-Analysis of Diverse Opinions on the Definition of Life
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What Lives? A Meta-Analysis of Diverse Opinions on the Definition of Life - Biological Theory
The question of "what is life?" has challenged scientists and philosophers for centuries, producing an array of definitions that reflect both the mystery of its emergence and the diversity of discipli...
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13752-026-00544-9
5 days ago
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vali.now
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Booking Your Holiday? Watch Out for These Sophisticated Travel Scams
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Booking Your Dream Holiday? Watch Out for These Sophisticated Travel Scams in 2026 - vali.now
From fake intermediary sites to AI-generated phishing attacks, these frauds can quickly turn an exciting getaway into a financial disaster.
https://vali.now/2026/04/10/watch-out-for-these-sophisticated-travel-scams/
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vali.now
8 days ago
Cyber Scams in Messenger Apps and Chat Groups
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Cyber Scams in Messenger Apps and Chat Groups - vali.now
Cyber Scams in Messenger Apps and Chat Groups: How Fraudsters Exploit Trust to Steal Savings and Identities
https://vali.now/2026/04/16/cyber-scams-in-messenger-apps-and-chat-groups-how-fraudsters-exploit-trust-to-steal-savings-and-identities/
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vali.now
11 days ago
AI Deepfake Political Ads Raise Concerns Ahead of Midterms
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Watch AI Deepfake Political Ads Raise Concerns Ahead of Midterms - Bloomberg
There is a growing prevalence of AI-generated deepfake political advertisements in the current midterm election cycle, including a deepfake resembling Billie Eilish, and a Texas Senate race ad showing...
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2026-06-27/ai-deepfake-political-ads-raise-concerns-video
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Why big AI labs are hiring so many philosophers
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Why big AI labs are hiring so many philosophers
The technology presents all sorts of thorny problems—a philosopher’s favourite kind
https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2026/06/24/why-big-ai-labs-are-hiring-so-many-philosophers
14 days ago
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vali.now
14 days ago
The Digital Dictatorship Files, a companion series to How to Hack a Modern Dictatorship with AI: The Digital CIA/OSS Sabotage Manual - by
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Dictatorships Don’t Fear AI. They Use It.
Chris Kubecka launches The Digital Dictatorship Files: AI, OSINT, Venezuela, cyberwarfare, drones, IoT, propaganda, and digital authoritarianism.
https://secevangelism.substack.com/p/dictatorships-dont-fear-ai-they-use
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vali.now
15 days ago
Why Flawed Traditional Forensics Demand a New Standard for Digital Image and Video Integrity
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Why Flawed Traditional Forensics Demand a New Standard for Digital Image and Video Integrity - vali.now
Why Flawed Traditional Forensics Demand a New Standard for Digital Image and Video Integrity, such as Deepface and Veritas
https://vali.now/2026/06/25/why-flawed-traditional-forensics-demand-a-new-standard-for-digital-image-and-video-integrity/
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vali.now
15 days ago
Forensic analysis is very useful, but ….
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We've Been Using The Wrong Science In Court For 50 years
YouTube video by Veritasium
https://youtu.be/mvcesPWvUIc
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vali.now
15 days ago
Shufti forecasts 39X more deepfake ID documents attacks this year
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Shufti forecasts 39X more deepfake ID documents attacks this year | Biometric Update
Deepfakes of identity documents are exploding, and there will be 39-times more attacks with deepfaked IDs this year than last.
https://www.biometricupdate.com/202606/shufti-forecasts-39x-more-deepfake-id-documents-attacks-this-year
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vali.now
16 days ago
Dr Maura Hiney on the future of research integrity in Europe
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Interview with Dr Maura Hiney on the future of research integrity in Europe - ESMH
How can we keep our trust on science in a world where research integrity is increasingly challenged? Experts are discussing different paths to ensure the
https://sciencemediahub.eu/2026/06/09/an-interview-with-dr-maura-hiney-on-the-future-of-research-integrity-in-europe/
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vali.now
15 days ago
DeepFake detection systems - Guidance for future benchmarks, evaluation metrics, and responsible deployment practices
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The Competition of Fairness in AI-generated Face Detection: Methods and Results - Machine Intelligence Research
AI-generated facial synthesis (DeepFakes) has rapidly progressed through advanced generative models, producing realistic manipulated media that is increasingly difficult to distinguish from authentic ...
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11633-026-1637-x
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vali.now
15 days ago
Is science self-correcting? Not for Cytokine.
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Is science self-correcting? Not in this Elsevier journal.
Around 2014-2015, I screened 20,000 biomedical articles for image duplication in 2014-2015. About 4% of those papers, 782 to be exact, contained inappropriate duplications. Together with my coautho…
https://scienceintegritydigest.com/2026/06/24/is-science-self-correcting-not-in-this-elsevier-journal/
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vali.now
17 days ago
Veritas – Image Integrity for Scientific Research 👉 Book a demo:
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Veritas – Image Integrity for Scientific Research - vali.now
Restore trust in scientific images. Detect manipulation with confidence. Scientific publishing faces a growing crisis of image manipulation and paper mills. Veritas provides fast, device-level forensi...
https://vali.now/veritas-forensic-image-analysis-for-scientific-research/
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A Picture Lies More Than a Thousand Words
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A Picture Lies More Than a Thousand Words
A Picture Lies More Than a Thousand Words: The Threat and Damage of Fake Images and Videos in Our Digital World
https://michaelreuter.org/2026/03/07/a-picture-lies-more-than-a-thousand-words-the-threat-of-fake-images-and-videos-in-our-digital-world/
17 days ago
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"What you want is to be able to roll out the first AGI on a decentralized network spanning fifty different countries and controlled by ten thousand different people."
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'AGI Is Too Important'—Ben Goertzel's Crypto Bet Against OpenAI
SingularityNET founder Ben Goertzel is building AGI on a crypto network and an FET token, arguing open AI beats the closed labs racing to lock it up.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/boazsobrado/2026/06/21/agi-is-too-important-ben-goertzels-crypto-bet-against-openai/
19 days ago
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The New Yorker
20 days ago
Conservatives such as Tucker Carlson have lamented the decline in testosterone among Western men. But the so-called crisis might simply reflect the fact that lots of dads are spending lots of time with their kids.
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Are Dads Getting Better?
Today’s dads are spending more time with their children, leading to changes in their brains and hormones. Does this make them better fathers?
https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/_1bT_Y
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20 days ago
Deepfakes with a twist
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Tesla's self-driving safeguards fooled by $30 doll heads
A cottage industry of plastic figurine heads is helping Chinese Tesla drivers bypass Autopilot's cabin camera monitoring — the latest in a dangerous arms race against safety systems.
https://electrek.co/2026/06/15/chinese-drivers-plastic-heads-fool-tesla-autopilot-camera/
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vali.now
22 days ago
Deepfake celebrity scams are booming. Creators should pay attention
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Deepfake Celebrity Scams and the Risk to Creators
Celebrity deepfake scams are surging. Here's what the trend means for creators, consumers, and online trust.
https://www.bitdefender.com/en-au/blog/hotforsecurity/deepfake-celebrity-scams-are-booming-creators-should-pay-attention
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23 days ago
Naomi Oreskes on scientific integrity and ethical pessimism
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Naomi Oreskes on scientific integrity and ethical pessimism
The science historian talks about scientific integrity and public opinion
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/naomi-oreskes/
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vali.now
23 days ago
Did AI write this article?
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Did AI write this article?
Perish the thought. But we tracked how artificial intelligence is changing five creative fields
https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2026/06/16/did-ai-write-this-article
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vali.now
24 days ago
Deepfake Attacks: Which Industries and Companies Are Most at Risk and Why?
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Deepfake Attacks: Which Industries and Companies Are Most at Risk and Why? - vali.now
Deepfake Attacks - Companies Most At Risk: Certain industries and company profiles are disproportionately targeted.
https://vali.now/2026/01/23/deepfake-attacks-which-industries-and-companies-are-most-at-risk/
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AI refusal: a cultural politics
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AI refusal: a cultural politics - Casey R Lynch, Thomas Dekeyser, 2026
Artificial intelligence (AI) systems are producing and solidifying uneven relations of power and, thus, also altering the stakes, mechanisms, and possibilities ...
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14744740261443641
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Geographies of nothingness: towards void-thinking
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Geographies of nothingness: towards void-thinking
Published in Social & Cultural Geography (Vol. 27, No. 5, 2026)
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14649365.2026.2671174
27 days ago
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vali.now
28 days ago
Four senior Chinese academics have been disciplined after blogger and former PhD student Geng Hongwei, flagged data anomalies in their published papers and went viral in the process
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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‘Student Geng’ ignites research-integrity scandal in China after calling out senior academics
Video blogger’s viral accusations of data manipulation in Nature journals have sparked intense debate and speedy institutional investigations.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01902-0
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vali.now
28 days ago
Deepfake food fraud threatens global brands
www.bakeryandsnacks.com/Article/2026...
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Deepfake food fraud threatens global brands
AI-generated food images, fake complaints and deepfakes are creating new fraud, regulatory and reputational risks for global food brands.
https://www.bakeryandsnacks.com/Article/2026/06/12/ai-food-fraud-the-new-threat-facing-global-brands/
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vali.now
28 days ago
Countering synthetic realities: Advances, challenges, and future directions in deepfake image detection
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Countering synthetic realities: Advances, challenges, and future directions in deepfake image detection
The proliferation of deepfake imagery generated through advanced deep learning techniques presents unprecedented challenges to digital media authentic…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772941926000396
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vali.now
29 days ago
The Weaponization of Deepfakes: How AI Is Being Used to Terrorize and Harass Individuals
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The Weaponization of Deepfakes: How AI Is Being Used to Terrorize and Harass Individuals - vali.now
How AI Is Being Used to Weaponize Deepfakes for long-term harassment, impersonation, and psychological abuse.
https://vali.now/2026/03/20/the-weaponization-of-deepfakes-how-ai-is-being-used-to-terrorize-and-harass-individuals/
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vali.now
29 days ago
Booking Your Dream Holiday? Watch Out for These Sophisticated Travel Scams in 2026
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Booking Your Dream Holiday? Watch Out for These Sophisticated Travel Scams in 2026 - vali.now
From fake intermediary sites to AI-generated phishing attacks, these frauds can quickly turn an exciting getaway into a financial disaster.
https://vali.now/2026/04/10/watch-out-for-these-sophisticated-travel-scams/
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Endgame - The State of the Russian Economy (PDF)
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30 days ago
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vali.now
about 1 month ago
How Predators use Marketing Tools, AI & Bad UK Regulations to get into your Kid’s Bedroom - by our advisor
@secevangelism.substack.com
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How Predators use Marketing Tools, AI & Bad UK Regulations to get into your Kid’s Bedroom
The Digital Predator Toolkit "Yellow Bus"
https://secevangelism.substack.com/p/how-predators-use-marketing-tools
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vali.now
about 1 month ago
The Global Deepfake Surge: Why Laws, Platforms, and AI Rules Are Falling Behind
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The Global Deepfake Surge: Why Laws, Platforms, and AI Rules Are Falling Behind - vali.now
The Global Deepfake Surge: Why Laws, Platforms, and AI Rules Are Falling Behind. The real damage comes from “visual coercion.”
https://vali.now/2026/05/06/the-global-deepfake-surge/
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vali.now
about 1 month ago
Senior loses almost $1M in 'increasingly common' deepfake scam
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Senior loses almost $1M in 'increasingly common' deepfake scam
Since 2022, the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre has received reports totalling more than $1.2 billion in losses to investment fraud
https://www.bradfordtoday.ca/local-news/senior-loses-almost-1m-in-increasingly-common-deepfake-scam-12390782
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vali.now
about 1 month ago
Conan O'Brien, deepfake master, wants to stop you from getting pwned
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Conan O'Brien revives his deepfake gag in video series
Probably the funniest corporate training video series ever.
https://mashable.com/tech/conan-obrien-deepfake-video-training
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Humans use a decision threshold that decreases linearly with the proportion of trials remaining, achieving performance remarkably close to the optimal restaurant solution found by Feynman
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PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2509612123
about 1 month ago
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vali.now
about 1 month ago
What’s behind China’s historically high counts of corresponding authors?
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What’s behind China’s historically high counts of corresponding authors?
From 2016 to 2020, almost one-third of papers by authors in China had multiple corresponding authors — but policy reforms are expected to have dampened the trend.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01623-4
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vali.now
about 1 month ago
The Contagious Interview
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The Contagious Interview - vali.now
The contagious interview is an attack that most never see coming. We'll break the steps in this attack down in an understandable way.
https://vali.now/2025/12/07/the-contagious-interview/
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vali.now
about 1 month ago
Chinese spies use LinkedIn to target UK officials and military staff
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Chinese spies use LinkedIn to target UK officials and military staff
Advertisements for non-existent jobs aim to draw in people with access to classified or sensitive information
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jun/03/chinese-spies-linkedin-uk-officials
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„BTC will reach….“ 🤬 Say and repeat it loud and clear: „Any kind of prediction is never a fact. At best it is an educated guess, but, more often than not, it's a power play in disguise. It's wishful thinking.“ Questions? Learn with
@carissaveliz.bsky.social
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www.amazon.com/Prophecy-Pre...
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Prophecy: Prediction, Power, and the Fight for the Future, from Ancient Oracles to AI
For thousands of years, oracles, seers, and astrologers advised leaders and commoners alike about the future. But predictions are often power plays in disguise, obfuscating accountability and strippin...
https://www.amazon.com/Prophecy-Prediction-Future-Ancient-Oracles/dp/0385550979
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Inside Russia’s system of torture | Documentary
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Inside Russia’s system of torture | Documentary
YouTube video by Kyiv Independent
https://youtu.be/p7Ei6mAf3mQ?is=vx5vrdL6opRzlAJk
about 1 month ago
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vali.now
about 1 month ago
The New Standard: How Serious Institutions and Private Individuals Can Ensure Image and Video Integrity
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The New Standard: How Serious Institutions and Private Individuals Can Ensure Image Integrity and Video Deepfake Protection
https://vali.now/2026/06/01/the-new-standard-how-serious-institutions-and-private-individuals-can-ensure-image-and-video-integrity/
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vali.now
about 1 month ago
„China Aims A.I. at Predicting Who Could Pose a Political Risk“ Predicting…or creatng?
@carissaveliz.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/u...
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China Aims A.I. at Predicting Who Could Pose a Political Risk
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/us/politics/china-ai-predicting-dissent.html
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AI models are being used to predict conflicts (or rather provoke them, since they are speech acts!?)
@carissaveliz.bsky.social
www.economist.com/science-and-...
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AI models are being used to predict conflict
Good data are hard to come by
https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2026/05/13/ai-models-are-being-used-to-predict-conflict
about 2 months ago
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German Wondering
about 2 months ago
A sign of popularity:
#Bsky
being hacked by Russia for propaganda purposes. It will prevail.
#X
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#FB
lost the race many years ago.
add a skeleton here at some point
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„Musk’s ambition to extend “the light of consciousness to the stars” and harness the sun “to power a truth-seeking artificial intelligence” will be tested next month in the largest flotation of all time.“ I‘m wondering what
@carissaveliz.bsky.social
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www.ft.com/content/a59b...
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Inside SpaceX’s audacious IPO plan
Elon Musk’s rockets-to-AI conglomerate lays out its ambitions
https://www.ft.com/content/a59be3cf-eee2-4b10-9c86-b6e4dc0dbbdb?syn-25a6b1a6=1
about 2 months ago
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vali.now
about 2 months ago
AI research papers are getting better, and it’s a big problem for scientists
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
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AI-generated research papers are overwhelming peer review
Journal editors and peer reviewers are being flooded with AI-generated papers that are almost impossible to detect.
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/930522/ai-research-papers-slop-peer-review-problem
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vali.now
about 2 months ago
Widespread use of invalid statistical tests in biomedical machine learning
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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vali.now
about 2 months ago
@elisabethbik.bsky.social
reports from the 2026 World Conference on Research Integrity
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Reporting from the 2026 World Conference on Research Integrity
Early May, I attended the 2026 World Conference on Research Integrity (WCRI) in Vancouver, BC, Canada. This conference is held every two years. In 2024, I went to the WCRI in Athens, Greece, and in…
https://scienceintegritydigest.com/2026/05/20/reporting-from-the-2026-world-conference-on-research-integrity/
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vali.now
about 2 months ago
When Pictures Lie – Real Cases of Image Manipulation That Changed the Course of Science
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When Pictures Lie - Real Cases of Image Manipulation That Changed the Course of Science - vali.now
Real Cases of Image Manipulation That Changed the Course of Science, affecting research directions, funding, and patient hopes for years
https://vali.now/2026/05/15/when-pictures-lie-real-cases-of-image-manipulation-that-changed-the-course-of-science/
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vali.now
about 2 months ago
How much for a fake authorship? Ad database reveals secrets of scientific fraud. An analysis of thousands of paper-mill adverts could help journals to crack down on misconduct
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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How much for a fake authorship? Ad database reveals secrets of scientific fraud
An analysis of thousands of paper-mill adverts could help journals to crack down on misconduct.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01340-y
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