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Meredith Broussard, PhD
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Critical AI, data journalism, literary nonfiction. Professor at NYU. Author, "More Than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech." meredithbroussard.com

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Meredith Broussard is a data journalism professor at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University. Her research focuses on the role of artificial intelligence in journalism. .. more

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404 Media @404media.co · 3d
This is 404 Media's @jasonkoebler.bsky.social waving at himself through a Flock camera; one of 60 we learned was left exposed to the open internet. Not only could anyone with a link livestream it, but some admin portals were open with no login credentials required.

www.404media.co/flock-expose...

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Leonardo @leonardonclt.bsky.social · 4d
🚨NEW: AI Data Center Gold Rush Driven by Thousands of Newcomers🚨

We analyzed thousands of data center operators. We found that newcomers are driving the AI gold rush - and it could have global economic consequences.

🎁: www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
AI Data Center Gold Rush Driven by Thousands of Newcomers
The growing field of data center developers are catering to the tech industry’s ravenous demand for computing power to build better and more widely adopted AI systems. New faces are behind the mega-ca...
www.bloomberg.com

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Meredith Broussard, PhD @merbroussard.bsky.social · 5d
Lights out for autonomous vehicles
missionlocal.org Mission Local @missionlocal.org · 5d
Waymo has halted service in San Francisco after numerous videos & images showed its autonomous cars snarling traffic during the blackout.

With traffic lights down, Waymos across the city stopped dead in their tracks at intersections.

missionlocal.org/2025/12/sf-w...
Waymo halts service during massive S.F. blackout after causing traffic jams
Waymo stopped its service across San Francisco on Saturday after numerous autonomous vehicles caused traffic jams in the city.
missionlocal.org

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Spencer Hayes @spnkr.bsky.social · 5d
Around half of San Francisco is without power right now and something like 1/3rd of intersections I drove through had waymos stopped in the middle of them making a dangerous situation even worse.

Do not let Waymo into your city.

Reposted by Meredith Broussard, Naomi Klein, Greg Linden

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Mission Local @missionlocal.org · 5d
Waymo has halted service in San Francisco after numerous videos & images showed its autonomous cars snarling traffic during the blackout.

With traffic lights down, Waymos across the city stopped dead in their tracks at intersections.

missionlocal.org/2025/12/sf-w...
Waymo halts service during massive S.F. blackout after causing traffic jams
Waymo stopped its service across San Francisco on Saturday after numerous autonomous vehicles caused traffic jams in the city.
missionlocal.org

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Meredith Broussard, PhD @merbroussard.bsky.social · 5d
Was it time bandits?
w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 5d
The atomic ensemble time scale at the NIST Boulder campus has failed.

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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 5d
Somebody scraped & shared every song on Spotify, with metadata — a boon for research into music and algorithms, but also, inevitably, what the training data is going to be for every AI music company in 2026. annas-archive.li/blog/backing...
Backing up Spotify
We backed up Spotify (metadata and music files). It’s distributed in bulk torrents (~300TB). It’s the world’s first “preservation archive” for music which is fully open (meaning it can easily be mirro...
annas-archive.li

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W @hopefullyeveraf.bsky.social · 5d
Met a 40yo gallery-ist at a party in SF. We spent most of the party talking abt the art world, but mostly what she talked abt was how most of her life now is telling AI “artists” that they are not artists, she won’t sell their “work” in her gallery, & that “prompt writer” isn’t an artistic medium.

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 5d
"Having an AI do it and fail half the time isn't exactly a winning alternative."

www.extremetech.com/computing/mi...
Microsoft Scales Back AI Goals Because Almost Nobody Is Using Copilot
Google's Gemini is on pace to push Copilot into third place.
www.extremetech.com

Reposted by Meredith Broussard, Kathleen Kennedy

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Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 5d
The atomic ensemble time scale at the NIST Boulder campus has failed.

Reposted by Meredith Broussard, Iain Davidson, Hisham Zerriffi , and 2 more

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 5d
Color me shocked.
Doctors Catch Cancer-Diagnosing AI Extracting Patients' Race Data and Being Racist With It
A new study reveals an alarming bias present in four leading AI cancer screening tools, related to race, gender, and age.
futurism.com

Reposted by Meredith Broussard, Shawn Graham, Alan Richardson , and 10 more

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Jon Keegan @jonkeegan.com · 6d
Here's a quilt of Volume 4 of the Epstein document dump. Gives you a 10,000 foot view of the redactions. that's 2,704 docs.
an image quilt of epstein documents

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 7d
We do not have to offer and I believe indeed should not offer any benefit of the doubt: Anything sold as "AI" should be presumed ineffective, exploitative, environmentally ruinous, bigotry-amplifying and otherwise until proven otherwise.

/fin

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Meredith Broussard, PhD @merbroussard.bsky.social · 8d
I am tired of re-creating my same communities on each new platform

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 9d
"The gaffe occurred because an artificial-intelligence-powered surveillance system used by Lawton Chiles Middle School mistakenly flagged the clarinet as a weapon, according to ZeroEyes, the security company that runs the system and contracts with Lawton Chiles’s school district."
A school locked down after AI flagged a gun. It was a clarinet.
A growing number of schools across the country use AI-powered surveillance to detect guns and contraband, all in the name of making schools safer.
www.washingtonpost.com

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Marsh's Library @marshslibrary.bsky.social · 9d
A break from Christmas content to enjoy this capybara eating a banana. From François Froger's 'A relation of a voyage ...' (London, 1698).
17th century engraving of a capybara under a palm tree eating a banana

Reposted by Shannon Vallor, Meredith Broussard

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 9d
According to a WaPo spokesperson, “This is how products get built and developed in the digital age: ideation, research, design and prototyping, development, and then Beta.”
Washington Post Says It Will Continue AI-Generating Error Filled Podcasts as Its Own Editors Groan in Embarrassment
The Washington Post said it will continue deploying its error riddled, AI-generated podcasts, because "this is how products get built."
futurism.com

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Meredith Broussard, PhD @merbroussard.bsky.social · 9d
Impressive data hoarding!

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Meredith Broussard, PhD @merbroussard.bsky.social · 9d
The only thing worse than bad peer reviews: generative AI peer reviews.
smcgrath.phd Scott McGrath @smcgrath.phd · 9d
🧪 Over half of researchers now use AI for peer review, often violating confidentiality protocols. As third-party tools risk data security, publishers are moving toward closed internal systems to safely integrate AI assistance.
#AcademicSky #PeerReview
More than half of researchers now use AI for peer review — often against guidance
A survey of 1,600 academics found that more than 50% have used artificial-intelligence tools while peer reviewing manuscripts.
www.nature.com

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Meredith Broussard, PhD @merbroussard.bsky.social · 9d
Wait until they hear about Friendster...

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Meredith Broussard, PhD @merbroussard.bsky.social · 9d
There was something written in maybe the 90s estimating that online communities would have a lifespan of 10 years. I’ve been meaning to track down this citation for a while.

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Meredith Broussard, PhD @merbroussard.bsky.social · 9d
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the lifespan of digital communities. People tend to think that social platforms are forever, just like people imagine web pages are forever. They are not! Just as most IRL social groups change or peter out over time, so do online social communities & group chats
hankgreen.bsky.social Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 9d
We've never seen what it's like for a platform the scale of Facebook to go into full-on decline and eventual demise, but we are starting to, and it's not pretty.

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 9d
We've never seen what it's like for a platform the scale of Facebook to go into full-on decline and eventual demise, but we are starting to, and it's not pretty.

Reposted by Meredith Broussard, Juan Ramón

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Scott McGrath @smcgrath.phd · 9d
🧪 Over half of researchers now use AI for peer review, often violating confidentiality protocols. As third-party tools risk data security, publishers are moving toward closed internal systems to safely integrate AI assistance.
#AcademicSky #PeerReview
More than half of researchers now use AI for peer review — often against guidance
A survey of 1,600 academics found that more than 50% have used artificial-intelligence tools while peer reviewing manuscripts.
www.nature.com

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Meredith Broussard, PhD @merbroussard.bsky.social · 9d
What if this take is entirely wrong?
vox.com Vox @vox.com · 10d
America, you have spoken loud and clear: You do not like AI. But what if AI is the way to restart the world’s idea machine?
We’re running out of good ideas. AI might be how we find new ones.
What if the best use of AI is restarting the world’s idea machine?
www.vox.com

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Vox @vox.com · 10d
America, you have spoken loud and clear: You do not like AI. But what if AI is the way to restart the world’s idea machine?
We’re running out of good ideas. AI might be how we find new ones.
What if the best use of AI is restarting the world’s idea machine?
www.vox.com

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 13d
404 Media zine has apparently outsold American Canto. Help continue that trend here:

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Presale: ICE Surveillance Zine
**THIS ITEM WILL SHIP IN MID JANUARY** We are making a print zine about the surveillance tactics used by ICE, and the ways people are resisting this technology. It is 16 pages and printed on a risogra...
404media.myshopify.com

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 13d
When the AI boom began, copywriters were singled out as one of the jobs most vulnerable to AI. Now, three years later, I wanted to hear from workers on the frontlines of the industry, to hear what had actually taken place on the ground.

For many, it was even worse than they'd feared.
"I was forced to use AI until the day I was laid off." Copywriters reveal how AI has decimated their industry
Copywriters were one of the first to have their jobs targeted by AI firms. These are their stories, three years into the AI era.
www.bloodinthemachine.com

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Semafor @semafor.com · 14d
🟡 NEW: The Washington Post’s top standards editor decried “frustrating” errors in its new AI-generated personalized podcasts, whose launch has been met with distress by its journalists.
www.semafor.com/article/12/1...
Exclusive: Washington Post’s AI-generated podcasts rife with errors, fictional quotes
Errors in the Post’s new AI-generated podcasts have frustrated the paper’s journalists.
www.semafor.com

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 14d
In the PSA, “Creepy-looking humans are cast as the voices and faces of real AI chatbots that have allegedly shared dangerous information with young users who engaged with them, like how to harm themselves and hide an eating disorder from their parents.”
Creepy chatbot PSA calls for AI regulation
The ad calls for AI regulation just as Trump says he won't allow states to pass their own laws.
mashable.com