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Every time.

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

The wait is over. Cant wait to read this! @lalouverouge.bsky.social

Excuse me what? The RIAA is now funding NCOSE to file bullshit amicus briefs before the Supreme Court?!? That is way more fucked up than even usual RIAA nonsense. Let me explain...

“The case shows how American law enforcement can use ChatGPT prompts to gather data on users suspected of criminal activity.”

The only "tech innovation" I want is in guillotines.

V moving interview from @palumboliu.bsky.social with the youth organizers of South Bay Youth Changemakers! speakingoutofplace.com/2025/10/16/s...

“…that Sora is being used for stalking and harassment will likely not be an edge case, because deepfaking yourself and others into videos is one of its core selling points.” Far from an edge case, it’s the primary use case.

What could go wrong.

Thanks for having me @skipintroyt.bsky.social !

“The memo — in the form of fresh guidelines on how to talk to and evaluate answers from Apple’s upcoming new artificial intelligence model — appeared to have been retooled following Trump’s return to the White House…” The topics include “diversity,” “elections,” and “vaccines.”

*ezra klein guy voice* The problem with the left is that they've lost the willingness to speak reasonably with their opponents, such as this guy I interviewed recently who easily conned me into supporting eugenics

NEW figures show that 61,226 people are currently in ICE detention — the highest number ever in US history. According to ICE data, 70% of these people have no criminal conviction.

To be clear: this is yet another reason why many of these laws are so problematic. If people want to run fediverse instances of any size, the fact that costly age verification requirements could put them in legal jeopardy, is very bad. Regulators make laws as if every website is Facebook.

New: Flock, the ALPR company in thousands of U.S. communities and which ICE taps into, wants to partner with a firm that sells dashcams to ordinary drivers. Nexar gets "trillions" of images a month from the dashcams. Could turn cars into roaming surveillance devices www.404media.co/flock-wants-...

Enabling more third party services could be good, but this law looks like it's just about getting more surveillance of kids, and history tells us that doesn't actually protect their safety, and could do the exact opposite.

Jacob Lew, Biden’s former ambassador to Israel, told the New Yorker that the killing of Palestinian children in Gaza was justified.

“Known as intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition and reconnaissance (Istar) systems, these tools, built by several companies, allow users to track, detain and, in the context of war, kill people at scale with the help of AI.”

"It is acceptable to engage a child in conversations that are romantic or sensual" -Meta's actual, written policy for its AI chatbots

Another insane surveillance story. DACA recipient pulled over in Colorado by police, then let go. Police tell a Signal group that includes dept that collabs with ICE. That dept then logs into an ALPR system from another department. Woman then arrested by ICE therevolutionistgj.org/2025/08/12/g...

NEW: This week, 2 politicians AIPAC spent millions supporting came out against sending weapons to Israel. Germany — Israel’s second largest arms supplier & where someone was even convicted for holding a sign that said “Have we learned nothing from the Holocaust? — said it will stop sending weapons.

Truly the thing that came out of this podcast that has me worried is: how many people are now going to be tricked into handing over sensitive information to a scammer posing as age verification?

Thank you @chefboibex.bsky.social for having me for this week's Sensemaker to talk about the privacy/security impacts of age verification. Esp appreciate the focus on security vulnerability, which will impact ALL of us.

New from 404 Media: we've seen and verified video of a CBP agent wearing Meta's AI glasses during immigration raid in LA. Glasses capable of recording, live-streaming, Meta plans to add facial recognition. Experts deeply concerned about this tech being abused by DHS www.404media.co/a-cbp-agent-...

Wrote down my thoughts on the UK OSA for @novaramedia.com. Many are understandably conflicted between wanting a safer Internet for children and seeing the OSA for what it is. Here's how to think about it from the perspective of child safety and public interest: novaramedia.com/2025/08/07/t...

This is deeply misleading @aljazeera.com Watchdogs are third party entities that keep gov/corps in check. The "internet watchdog" here is an Aus gov agency Besides, proposed detection methods are not technically feasible, a gross privacy violation AND does little to protect kids aje.io/v2t43f

Hidden Water provides support to all those harmed by child sexual abuse. As the Epstein files saturate the headlines, much needed words what we get wrong about CSA: www.newsweek.com/stop-epstein...

I feel like every single day I need to post a reminder: if you ask an LLM about itself it DOES NOT KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT ITS INNER WORKINGS and WILL NOT TELL YOU ANYTHING ACTUALLY ABOUT ITSELF. It just (as it always does) will make up some plausible sounding answer.

This is not caused primarily by "screen time". It's been caused by the mass eradication of third places for young people in basically every city over the past three decades - and a society that's hostile to the concept of teens socialising in public spaces. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Dealing with law enforcement can be stressful, so it’s important to know your rights before you’re face-to-face with ICE agents. While there’s never any guarantee that law enforcement officers will follow the law, here’s what they can and can’t legally do to you and what you can legally demand. ⬇️

And that’s a wrap on the day! Our workshop keeps growing, and so do our social events. Huge thanks to all the authors, speakers, attendees, and of course, our amazing organisers 👏 The drinks were a blast! #ACL2025NLP

CSAM is something that happens among the young people and among the known people, it's not about a third external predator figure 🤯 Very eye-opening keynote by @katejsim.bsky.social #ACL2025NLP

If you are also sick of computer scientists and have had your fill at ACL, come join us for the workshop today where we have social scientists thinking with us.

The Online Safety Act assumes that all tech, social networks, etc, are run by big tech, raking in profit from illegal advertising. Community-run and funded networks/sites — real non-Big Tech alternatives — are left in the dirt. I have never seen OSA proponents consider their needs or their value.

Tomorrow!

getting my phrenology checked by my laptop camera before I can listen to WAP, a future I always wanted www.404media.co/spotify-uk-a...

Several Reddit communities dedicated to sharing news and media from conflicts around the world now require users in the UK to submit a photo ID or selfie in order to prove they are old enough to view “mature” content. Includes r/IsraelCrimes, r/UkraineWarFootage. www.404media.co/uk-users-nee...

The UK Online Safety Act is a policy of digital abstinence and a pretext for censorship. Before going on @novaramedia.com, I did a quick test: Reddit threads about PUA? Accessible About 🍉? Blocked / www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfl_...

"Airdrops will not reverse the deepening starvation," UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini wrote on X on Saturday. "They are expensive, inefficient & can even kill starving civilians. It is a distraction & screensmoke." www.cbsnews.com/news/israel-...

The people of Gaza face starvation under the joint U.S.-Israeli food distribution system run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.

Israel is starving Palestinians in Gaza. Israel is starving Palestinians in Gaza. Israel is starving Palestinians in Gaza. Israel is starving Palestinians in Gaza. Israel is starving Palestinians in Gaza. Israel is starving Palestinians in Gaza.

New research published by The Lancet finds that economic sanctions imposed by the USA and EU are associated with more than 500,000 deaths per year since 1970, five times more than deaths by war. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Google's AI summaries are - killing traffic to legitimate sites - producing summaries that can be wrong - in the long run probably making you a dumbass www.404media.co/googles-ai-i...

New from me: Stanford HAI just published my policy brief about student-on-student deepfake nude incidents in schools, and what state policymakers can do about them. hai.stanford.edu/policy/addre...

It features interviews w organizers from across the tech value chain, including @alexhanna.bsky.social‬, @krystalkauffman.bsky.social‬, @katejsim.bsky.social‬, @caileangallagher.bsky.social‬ & others working w/ orgs like @techworkerscoalition.org‬, Rideshare Drivers United, & @turkopticon.bsky.

Proofs are in! Notes Toward a Digital Workers’ Inquiry will be published by @commonnotions.bsky.social‬ this fall. It describes/theorizes/circulates experiences of research that feeds into labour organizing within & against digital capitalism. www.commonnotions.org/notes-toward...

I'll be talking about the seduction of CSAM detection and technology. See you in Vienna!

In this op-ed, psychologist Giulia Suro explains how to responsibly navigate wellness trends, and how to know if your consumption of wellness messaging is going too far. ⤵️