I enjoy the suggestion that generative AI is a lousy lay

There’s so much I have to say about this, much of which is in my book. But the lack of critical questioning and the last two sentences of this article encapsulate everything wrong with tech journalism: “Like it or not, however, we’re strapped in for the ride. At least Anthropic has a plan”

Honored to join @digitaljournalism.bsky.social’s editorial board and to be in such great company!

✨ New publication by lab member @annaschjoett.bsky.social with @nadjaschaetz.bsky.social! This ethnographic study explores how journalists interface with online courses on AI use in the newsroom, what they learn, and how didactic material may be biased. Read here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

When ChatGPT said that the US capture of Maduro didn't happen, Wired characterized it was "expected behavior." But @aisvarya17.bsky.social and I think AI platforms' failure to activate web search for a breaking news-related query is not expected, it's a product defect. www.cjr.org/tow_center/a...

hey did you see a headline on google? turns out that headline might be an llm hallucination www.theverge.com/tech/865168/...

Maggie Nelson: "For not only do our work and words speak beyond our intentions and controls, but compassion is not necessarily found where we presume it to be, nor is it always what we presume it to be, nor is it experienced or accessed by everyone in the same way..The same might be said of cruelty"

Google traffic to publishers dropped by ONE THIRD in 2025 pressgazette.co.uk/media-audien...

Now published… We Reject the Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence for Reflexive Qualitative Research - Tanisha Jowsey, Virginia Braun, Victoria Clarke, Deborah Lupton, Michelle Fine, 2025 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

How do ChatGPT and Bard respond to homophobic prompts across different cultural and religious contexts? New research reveals a tension between cultural relativism and universal human rights in generative AI: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #AIEthics #GenerativeAI #HumanRights

I’ve been thinking about the intellectual and affective labor involved in reading AI Generated student papers. I’m forecasting a little of the proposal that @cnygren.bsky.social and I advance in a piece that’ll be out soon but here’s where I’ve personally landed (o speak for myself not for us both):

Over a third of Frankfurt's electricity goes to data centers, had no idea Germany was going all-in on AI infrastructure. algorithmwatch.org/en/germany-d...

I’ve been running around asking tech execs and academics if language was the same as intelligence for over a year now - and, well, it isn’t. @benjaminjriley.bsky.social explains how the bubble is built on ignoring cutting-edge research into the science of thought www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

"Every media era gets the fabulists it deserves." This @nickhunebrown.bsky.social piece about journalism grifters in the age of AI slop is fantastic, bonkers & sad on so many levels thelocal.to/investigatin...

Scientists and scholars in AI and its social impacts call on von der Leyen to retract #AIHype statement. @olivia.science @abeba.bsky.social @irisvanrooij.bsky.social @alexhanna.bsky.social @rocher.lc @danmcquillan.bsky.social @robin.berjon.com & many others have signed www.iccl.ie/press-releas...

I use Claude (an AI) to scan my posts for spelling and grammar errors. On the most recent post (about the East Wing, link below), I got a really amazing addendum. www.pbump.net/o/yes-most-a...

Why do fascists dream of electric people?

New paper!! Hermann Wigers and I used OpenAI to generate and analyse 11,800 stories "from" 236 countries: Norwegian stories, Chinese stories, American stories, etc. We found that GPT-4o-mini tells the same story over and over. open-research-europe.ec.europa.eu/articles/5-2...

Everything about this is a tragedy, every level, from cheated freelancers to authors obscured to readers who don’t get served either.

The AfD's AI delusion: How Germany’s far right fantasizes about using AI to replace migrants. Just like JD Vance speech in Munich, the AfD’s electoral program is not just inhumane – it’s completely incoherent. This is not a bug, it's a feature. New column from me in @technologyreview.de

There is a lot of work that detects and debunks AI hype. But what function does AI hype actually serve? Anna Schjøtt and I draw on 8 months of observations at the Associated Press to show how expectations on AI are leveraged to coordinate actors and mobilise resources: tinyurl.com/mwr2b6t3

Some unexpected good news: my paper has been nominated for Digital Journalism’s 2024 Outstanding Article of the Year Award! It contains interviews with journalists whose work I truly admire, so thank you to whoever shortlisted it. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Documentary films by Alex Gibney, Ava DuVernay and Ken Burns, and episodes of PBS’ Frontline, BBC’s Panorama and Vice's HBO series were used to train major AI models without permission. My latest for @niemanlab.org. www.niemanlab.org/2025/01/thou...

There are a LOT of ongoing AI copyright lawsuits in the US right now. We've been keeping track at @wired.com—and, to make things easier on everyone, created this interactive visual guide. It'll be updated w/ any major developments: www.wired.com/story/ai-cop...