Thank God. This is the biggest ed tech grift. Turnitin steals student writing so it can catch students stealing writing. dailyevergreen.com/195009/news/...

AI does not enhance “efficiency.” AI is a permission structure for a totalizing regime of austerity and labor immiseration.

yes.

Another story where you realise that absolutely no one has any idea how to deal with all the AI papers being cranked out. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Every single time a story like this is reported, we must assume that there are many many more that do not.

AI doesn't replace jobs, it invisibilizes them.

I posted this on instagram last year for Valentine’s Day but it’s only become more obvious so I’m reusing it this year🫠

DOGE allegedly used ChatGPT to identify 1,400 NEH grants it said were DEI. Grants were terminated April 2025, according to a court filing. E.g. Film: 1873 Colfax massacre Film: first female pilots flying for U.S. military in WWII Film: “Untold Story of Jewish Women Slave Labor in the Holocaust"

All of these companies are doing whatever they want, they're barely regulated under the regime to begin with, and what they want is to pollute everywhere, starting with every Black community in the southeast US. ALL of them. This is why we're cussing you out and blocking you for your slop "joy."

Just thinking about these two quotes for no reason whatsoever.

Given that the administration has stopped trying to defend their EO pushing for more segregation, feels like VT powers that be just want to do this

Yep. The market problem writ large is exceptionally true in highered. But it won’t matter — and doesn’t matter — to those in charge right now because the point is to strip the institution.

In _Atlas of AI_, Crawford says, "The affordances of the tools become the horizon of truth" (p. 133). In _Algorithms of Oppression_, Noble says, "We have more data and technology than ever in our daily lives and more social, political, and economic inequality and in justice to go with it" (p. 171).

Also I’m sorry but I don’t think this is Claude developing a personality or ethical values. It is *simulating* those things because that is what humans value and reward. The programmers are falling for their own Clever Hans trick!

"Developers I spoke to said the same incentives that make bots irresistible can stand in the way of reasonable safeguards, making outright abstention the only sure way to stay safe. Some described feeling stuck between protecting users and raising profits."

Disaster capitalism. “We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns…”

I fear that men are about to do what men do. They are about to characterize any sober thinking about power as non-technical and therefore unserious. We have seen this pattern over and over again in tech criticism. Women and people of color repeatedly lead on understanding tech changes.

The thing is "take it seriously" often means "accept that we're creating Skynet," rather than grappling with real, concrete, well-established concerns around bias, deskilling, unemployment (not the same as "replacement"), and ecology.

MA giving chatbot to 40,000 state gov't workers. Hope it works better than the NYC chatbot that told users it was okay to serve rat-nibbled cheese in restaurants. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/12/b...

"Maybe all we do is frustrate," Star said. "Give someone one more day with their daughter or their dad. "But if you lost your dad, or you lost your daughter, you would give anything to have one more day with them. And that’s what we can do.” My latest for Slate

As I’ve been saying, by the end of the year, you can expect that ChatGPT will be selling a product that lets people generate child sexual abuse material on demand. They will then say “oops” about it violating their TOS, and repeat until everyone caves. Because their leadership is largely ex-Meta.

It hurts my heart to see how many people think (demonstrated in their use of generative AI) the only value in writing is producing an end product. I write foremost because the process of writing teaches me a great deal, much of which is never represented in a single word of the final piece.

what makes something "vulnerable to AI" is not the capacity of machines but the credulity of management.

I saw this take before I had to run and teach today, so I've had 4 hrs to build a head of steam about it. Still, I'm gonna try to be nice. All due respect, I expect better from people who have all the resources in the world to research a thing AND a giant megaphone with which to share knowledge. 1/

if AI is so amazing, why can’t its supporters point to one real actual benefit to society it offers?

No one has seriously said LLMs aren’t important or that AI is categorically junk. Some of us have said that there is something bigger than tech. It’s called power — governance, civic norms, etc — & refusal is absolutely part of how we think soberly about that power. Who has it & how they use it.

I don’t really pay attention to charges of doomerism. I don’t know what it means offline. I do know that refusing a version of how the future will unfold forecloses on the power that actually shapes that future. That’s not disavowing that tech changes are happening but they are in now a given.

I am exhausted by AI hype. AI doomerism is 100% more AI hype. A *lot* of harm is being done in the name of AI. If that harm is too hard to keep looking at, then you get this kind of nonsense:

No. What people on the left need to see is journalists informing the public rather than performing press release as a service.

My initial impression of this list is it demonstrates two things: 1. The continued overselling of AI and grandiose wishcasting about what it is/will be capable of doing 2. The wild misunderstanding of what these jobs actually do, by smug techbros who don't care about what they don't know

every single one of these articles.

A point I make in my work on this subject is that we need to reject the insistance that convos abt commercial AI products should be about the tech. Determining whether AI is “conscious” is a Smartwashing exercise in solipcism that distracts from the material conditions of the product’s distribution

Ring is a wildly dangerous company. Always has been. But it has sort of flown under the radar the last couple years as it tried to soften its image. Make no mistake that this is an extremely dangerous surveillance dragnet: www.404media.co/with-ring-am...

This article immediately labels @emilymbender.bsky.social and I as "curmudgeons" because we don't think that the spicy auto complete has a concept of the self.

My god.

The site Realfood.gov uses Elon Musk's Grok chatbot to dispense nutrition information—some of which contradicts the government’s new guidelines. www.wired.com/story/rfk-jr...

This is because a statistical model of word frequency is not a useful tool for modeling the complex interactions of the human body

⚠️ Despite all the hype, chatbots still make terrible doctors. Out today is the largest user study of language models for medical self-diagnosis. We found that chatbots provide inaccurate and inconsistent answers, and that people are better off using online searches or their own judgment.

Tech deployed at the border “includes everything from hyper-visible tethered aerostats — massive blimp-like detection platforms hovering thousands of feet over the desert — to stealthy devices like unattended ground sensors to detect footsteps, and license plate scanners disguised as traffic cones.”

‘In the end, you feel blank’: India’s female workers watching hours of abusive content to train AI

Last night we had 2 ICE agents get out of a car, pepper spray legal observers, shout something to the effect of "I'm fucking ICE motherfucker" and drive away.

Every instance of "AI democratizes the arts, you're classist and ableist and a gatekeeper for trying to stop it" is a slap in the face to the literally centuries of poor, disabled people making art on the margins and a crass lie in service of a machine that strips down and regurgitates dreams

Chatbots offer a magnificent bribe - a fast, frictionless route to information that bypasses the discomfort of learning. In this op-ed, we describe this as a Faustian bargain, in which we trade away what it means to be human & universities trade away their value www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

NEW: Mobile Fortify is not designed to "verify" identity, as DHS claims, and it was only approved after DHS rewrote its privacy review rules, records reviewed by @wired.com show. @dell.bsky.social, @regret.bsky.social & @hudsongiles.bsky.social w/scoops. No paywall. www.wired.com/story/cbp-ic...

It is really infuriating to see how misogyny really does unite men across the sociopolitical spectrum. And, in so far as the Epstein files go, they sort women into two categories: fuckable or irrelevant. When they near a hint of accountability they complain about not being able to make women prey.

A good time to boost Black feminist tech scholars like @wewatchwatchers.bsky.social @poetofcode.bsky.social @timnitgebru.bsky.social , @ruha9.bsky.social & @safiyanoble.bsky.social Check out Netflix doc on surveillance, tech, & race feat. many of these folks: shorturl.at/m5abv

It won't surprise anyone to learn that Data Center lobbying has exploded. www.techpolicy.press/amidst-boom-...

This is a harrowing look at Epstein's connections to academia. It shows how Epstein was able to woo high-profile scholars with witty banter, promises of research funding, and help from a well-connected literary agent, despite not having a degree himself. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

4. I’ve spent some time tracking and attending local populist responses to ai data centers. Despite some critiques from left that it’s all repackaged “nimby bullshit” (as I’ve been told), I have seen organic multiracial coalitions on this issue. Esp. in places with strong environmental racism orgs

Thank you, Victor. I spent a few weeks on this. As usual, it’s always a negotiation with length. So a few other bon mots: 1. The admin has issued DOJ guidance to challenge state laws that would regulate AI www.wired.com/story/ai-sup...