Does anyone know what "Supported by Claude" means here at @economist.com ?!

Google considers ICE agents to be a vulnerable group in need of protecting but does not consider the immigrants they're hunting down to be vulnerable group www.404media.co/google-has-c...

This plot is from a different, evil world. Oh, wait a minute: this is reality. Publishers making like 38% profit margins.

“The Post has a content partnership with OpenAI.” Check our article instead, which uses conversations not individually chosen for public sharing, actually describes our methods and data, and finds quite different distributions for how people use ChatGPT and personal info disclosed in their chats.

“OpenAI argued its AI models didn’t store/copy specific training data but, rather, reflected what they learned based on the entire training data set. Since the output was generated as a result of user inputs (prompts), it wasn’t the defendants, but the respective user who would be liable for it.”

Switzerland is joining Horizon Europe! We are uniting two research powerhouses. For cutting-edge innovation that will boost our energy security, digital transformation, health and so much more. Today is a good day for science, and for our EU-Switzerland partnership.

SCOOP: China's top 2 gay dating apps, Blued and Finka, became unavailable on app stores over the weekend. Apple confirmed to WIRED that it removed the two apps following "an order from the Cyberspace Administration of China." latest with @lmatsakis.bsky.social

Looking forward to a new colleague at the University of Vienna!:) New post doc position in Political Text Analyses with @chriswratil.bsky.social 👇

Ich habe den Fehler gemacht, die Kommentare unter diesem Artikel zu lesen. Und ich weiss jetzt nicht, ob ich eher traurig oder eher wütend bin oder... Einfach WTF.

A fantastic piece of data journalism. #JournalismMatters💪 "How Elon Musk is Boosting the British Right. For nine months, Sky News' Data and Forensics team has been investigating whether X's algorithm amplifies right-wing and extreme content. It does." news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

I was told there would be flying cars in this future, instead all we get is fascism.

Der Economist Artikel liest sich so, als würde die/der Author(in) ein bissl einer abgehen, beim Gedanken, dass das produktiv eingesetzt wird. archive.ph/7pFbH#select... Das Paper gibt es hier: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Deliver... Liebe dieses Zitat aus dem Paper im Artikel. Schauen wir das Paper an. 🧵

Meta's AI plan is to automatically create personalized advertisements for companies that are different for different users, further siloing people Zuckerberg says advertisers will "be able to give us a business objective and a credit card" and AI will do the rest www.404media.co/the-future-o...

A "frontier" RCT showing college students preferred LLM (ChatGPT-4) and peer feedback to teacher feedback, but teacher feedback most improved performance. I hope they analyze feedback for style. I wonder whether students positively responded to sycophancy in LLM. #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky

Just got this email from Instagram. The drive to adtech was going to be the only way they were actually monetizing any of this.

More in this vein from @eryk.bsky.social mail.cyberneticforests.com/thoughts-on-...

For the Swiss bubble - is there a good analysis of the platform regulation proposal somewhere already? I won't have time/headspace to read the thing myself in detail until Monday evening, but I'd like to read some nice summary/analysis!

90% der Daten sind "intern" oder "geheim", trotzdem setzt die BK voll auf M365. Wie der Kanton Luzern (cc @rahelestermann.bsky.social ) der Bund setzt unbeirrt auf M365. Trotz dem Irren in Washington, D.C. Danke @adfichter.bsky.social fürs dranbleiben. www.republik.ch/2025/10/31/d...

Endlich ist sie da, aber hält sie auch was sie verspricht? Ein erster Einblick in die Vorlage zur #Plattformregulierung. Sie beinhaltet wichtige Fortschritte, bleibt aber bei vielen Risiken und #Suchmaschinen zahm. www.digitale-gesellschaft.ch/2025/10/30/p...

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

As a scholar I rarely offer electoral guidance. But today I do: DO NOT USE AI CHATBOTS AS YOUR VOTE ADVICE APPLICATION AHEAD OF (THE DUTCH) ELECTIONS Full of errors, bias and lack of transparency. @ernesto-deleon.com @favstats.eu @theoaraujo.bsky.social and🙋unpack why algosoc.org/results/1-in...

In a given week, OpenAI estimated that around .07 percent of active ChatGPT users show “possible signs of mental health emergencies related to psychosis or mania” and .15 percent “have conversations that include explicit indicators of potential suicidal planning or intent.”

🎇New package alert @wired.com! This one has been in the works for months. If WIRED was going to tackle AI -- something we cover daily -- we had to go big. So here are 17 different stories about the way AI is changing us, even as the technology itself keeps moving www.wired.com/ai-issue/

Cool paper by @eddieyang.bsky.social, confirming our LLM hacking findings (arxiv.org/abs/2509.08825): ✓ LLMs are brittle data annotators ✓ Downstream conclusions flip frequently: LLM hacking risk is real! ✓ Bias correction methods can help but have trade-offs ✓ Use human expert whenever possible

Can AI simulations of human research participants advance cognitive science? In @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social, @lmesseri.bsky.social & I analyze this vision. We show how “AI Surrogates” entrench practices that limit the generalizability of cognitive science while aspiring to do the opposite. 1/

The Federal Trade Commission received 200 complaints mentioning ChatGPT between November 2022 and August 2025. Several attributed delusions, paranoia, and spiritual crises to the chatbot: www.wired.com/story/ftc-co...

wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...

Hab meinen Sitegeist gebeten zu recherchieren, welche Chatbots es auf Österreichs staatlichen Websites es so gibt. Und dann hab ich erm gsagt, "let's break them". Beginnen wir mit einem Kuriosum: es gibt diese Seite: www.verwaltungspreis.gv.at/%C3%96sterre... Darauf ist jeder Scheiss Chatbot 🧵

Reddit’s conversational AI product, Reddit Answers, suggested users who are interested in pain management try heroin and kratom 🔗 www.404media.co/reddit-answe...

⚡️Across Central Europe, politicians used paid social media ads to attack journalists, activists, NGOs. From Hungary to Slovakia, these campaigns spread disinformation and hate, reaching tens of thousands while Meta and Google profit from #SponsoredHate.

Sums up most radicalization of the last twenty years. Liberals who give in to being bonkers

"novel forms of life"?! Hahaha

Oof. Polish border guards caught a 16-year-old Russian kid who walked into Poland from Kaliningrad seeking political asylum. Poland then returned the kid to Russia, where he now faces up to two years in prison for illegal border crossing. (If he's written any anti-war stuff, it might get worse.)

Die heutige Friedensnobelpreisträgerin María Corina Machado widmet ihre Auszeichnung Donald Trump und ist Unterzeichnerin der rechtsradikalen „Carta de Madrid“ (unter anderem zusammen Eduardo Bolsonaro, Marion Maréchal, Giorgia Meloni, Javier Milei und Eduardo Verástegui)…na danke.

Yeah, Pavel at some point clearly adopted all the worst ideas of the Silicon Valley's tech billionaires club despite being a tech billionaire with a very different background. I don't know, maybe he hopes this will make him "truly" one of them (I don't think it will, no).

lol, Pavel Durov pushed a notification to Telegram users around the world, directing them to a blog post he wrote in honor of his own birthday, warning that the "Free Internet" is ending. He moans about Germany, Australia, France, & Britain, and says nothing about authoritarian states t.me/durov/452

Conservative tech lord Thiel said tighter financial regulations “were a sign that a singular world government has begun to emerge that could be taken over by an Antichrist figure who could then use it to exert control over people.” Via WashPost

Yeah Slack I totally wanted to have the threads between me and colleagues discussing research ideas summarised by some crappy AI. Because I can't read 5 messages myself or something.(No, absolutely not, I didn't click anything, how do I turn this off forever?!)

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I think this is genuinely very funny, pls give @cbarrie.bsky.social more likes!

🔥Das Genfer IT-Unternehmen Infomaniak hat Beschwerde eingelegt gegen die Verlängerung der Public Cloud-Rahmenverträge zwischen der Bundeskanzlei und Microsoft und Amazon (2025-2030). www.letemps.ch/cyber/souver...

A new page in the disinformation challenge? With sora (openai) and vibes (meta) we are looking at even lower thresholds for misleading content So far we have learned that neither AI companies nor platforms will step up to meet the challenges when it comes to democracy. www.npr.org/2025/10/03/n...

This whole decision is cowardly and damning. But having “health” on Meta’s no-go list for political or issue ads is especially troubling – and absurd after these last five years... Let’s see how that plays out in practice...

The Sora team has shared how their feed works. It prioritizes content from your network, not strangers like TikTok. It personalizes using your activity, engagement, ChatGPT history, and creator signals like follower count, with some knobs to tune it to your taste if you want to tweak the algorithm

Social media feeds today are optimized for engagement, often leading to misalignment between users' intentions and technology use. In a new paper, we introduce Bonsai, a tool to create feeds based on stated preferences, rather than predicted engagement. arxiv.org/abs/2509.10776

We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...

And since I am in a bit of a rage posting mode, I must say I thoroughly "enjoyed" talking to Google representatives at Trust and Safety conference in Stanford last year who were either under too many NDAs or oblivious their company has been blocking apps in Russia, HK or Belarus. Because who cares.

Yep, just a quick reminder this is nothing new, it's just now this practice has come to the US. Apple and Google have been removing similar and other apps used e.g. by protesters in authoritarian contexts this whole time, a 🧵 of selected cases: Exhibit 1, Hong Kong www.nytimes.com/2019/10/09/t...

lol, Russia's federal censor says Telegram channels with more than 10k readers are legally bound to register with the agency, which requires granting administrative access to a special government-run bot, allowing the authorities to view complete subscribers lists. t.me/rkn_tg/1658

Come work with us 🚨 We are looking for a #postdoc in our @aimediademlab.bsky.social lab. Profile: Comm sci / poli sci/ computational social science. Great team, timely topocs, fabulous city, good conditions. DL 🗓️ November 1 werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...