Annie Dorsen
@anniedorsen.bsky.social
Director/writer. Maker of algorithmic theater. #MacFellow. And unexpectedly, a lawyer. anniedorsen.com
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AI companies like "our product will convince you to kill yourself, then monetize your spouse's grief with microtransactions while it also sexts with both them and your child. We lose billions of dollars a month btw"
And almost half the US stock market is now inextricably tied up in them.
And almost half the US stock market is now inextricably tied up in them.
November 15, 2025 at 11:41 AM
AI companies like "our product will convince you to kill yourself, then monetize your spouse's grief with microtransactions while it also sexts with both them and your child. We lose billions of dollars a month btw"
And almost half the US stock market is now inextricably tied up in them.
And almost half the US stock market is now inextricably tied up in them.
Artists and writers! It's not too late to get something going for Fall of Freedom, a nation-wide wave of creative resistance taking place on Nov 21 & 22. Over 450 events in 40 states are already planned. See more info here:
Fall of Freedom
Fall of Freedom is an urgent call to the arts community to unite in defiance of authoritarian forces sweeping the nation.
www.falloffreedom.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Artists and writers! It's not too late to get something going for Fall of Freedom, a nation-wide wave of creative resistance taking place on Nov 21 & 22. Over 450 events in 40 states are already planned. See more info here:
What if Mephisto but no soul to begin with and dumb as rocks
Sad to see a mighty cultural institution reduced to this: “Audiences are staying away. Internal sales figures obtained by The New York Times showed ticket sales down by about 50 percent from same period last year…..Dozens of employees, many with decades of experience, have been fired or quit.”
The Kennedy Center Crackup
www.nytimes.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:18 PM
What if Mephisto but no soul to begin with and dumb as rocks
I am so proud this morning and every morning to be working for TJLP.
🚨 BREAKING: We filed SEVEN new lawsuits against OpenAI and Sam Altman in California state courts, alongside Social Media Victims Law Center. The suits allege wrongful death, assisted suicide, involuntary manslaughter, and a variety of product liability, consumer protection, and negligence claims. 🧵
SMVLC and TJLP lawsuits against OpenAI, accuse ChatGPT of emotional manipulation and being a "suicide coach"
Seven new lawsuits from Social Media Victims Law Center and Tech Justice Law Project allege OpenAI’s hurried release of GPT-4o lacked proper testing and safeguards, resulting in a product that isolate...
techjusticelaw.org
November 7, 2025 at 1:24 PM
I am so proud this morning and every morning to be working for TJLP.
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hug your war criminals a little tighter today
November 4, 2025 at 12:11 PM
hug your war criminals a little tighter today
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Again, this precise use case is why these systems exist-to proliferate people’s racist (transphobic, misogynistic…) imaginary at scale. This should not be seen as a “misuse” but rather the product being used exactly as intended.
Racist Influencers Using OpenAI's Sora to Make it Look Like Poor People Are Selling Food Stamps for Cash
Folks looking for evidence of SNAP recipients as welfare queens have no shortage of AI generated schlock to use as justification.
futurism.com
November 2, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Again, this precise use case is why these systems exist-to proliferate people’s racist (transphobic, misogynistic…) imaginary at scale. This should not be seen as a “misuse” but rather the product being used exactly as intended.
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RIP Alison Knowles. Damn. hyperallergic.com/1054017/alis...
Alison Knowles, the First Woman of Fluxus, Dies at 92
“People don’t touch art,” she once said. “That’s one of the problems.”
hyperallergic.com
November 1, 2025 at 3:17 AM
RIP Alison Knowles. Damn. hyperallergic.com/1054017/alis...
FYI performing artists: Manhattan Plaza (subsidized housing for artists in midtown) has opened their waitlist. Offers are for 1 or 2 bdrm apartments capped at 30% of income. Details in the flyer below. Jump on it.
sdcweb.org
October 31, 2025 at 6:31 PM
FYI performing artists: Manhattan Plaza (subsidized housing for artists in midtown) has opened their waitlist. Offers are for 1 or 2 bdrm apartments capped at 30% of income. Details in the flyer below. Jump on it.
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EXCLUSIVE: After Trump took over the Kennedy Center in Feb, he vowed to make it "hot" again. So, how's it doing? @jeremybmerrill.com and I used data from the center's ticketing website to find out. Ticket sales are lowest they've been since the pandemic.
www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
Kennedy Center ticket sales have plummeted since Trump takeover
Nearly nine months into Trump’s oversight, sales for the three largest performance venues are the worst they’ve been since the pandemic, according to a Washington Post analysis.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 31, 2025 at 1:06 PM
EXCLUSIVE: After Trump took over the Kennedy Center in Feb, he vowed to make it "hot" again. So, how's it doing? @jeremybmerrill.com and I used data from the center's ticketing website to find out. Ticket sales are lowest they've been since the pandemic.
www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
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This was just posted by a CBS News producer on their Instagram stories.
October 29, 2025 at 9:44 PM
This was just posted by a CBS News producer on their Instagram stories.
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Yet again, we can't afford to let LLMs become a source of epistemic grounding for society.
Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory
An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC
www.bbc.co.uk
October 24, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Yet again, we can't afford to let LLMs become a source of epistemic grounding for society.
my god
With alt text.
Executive summary: the US killed at least 3 Colombian fishermen who’d put up a distress flag. In Colombian waters
Executive summary: the US killed at least 3 Colombian fishermen who’d put up a distress flag. In Colombian waters
October 19, 2025 at 4:18 PM
my god
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This protest is a reminder that *there are more of us than there are of them*. They could never put this many people on the street. What they are trying to do is institute permanent minority rule, but our values, our culture and our solidarity will prevail.
October 18, 2025 at 6:16 PM
This protest is a reminder that *there are more of us than there are of them*. They could never put this many people on the street. What they are trying to do is institute permanent minority rule, but our values, our culture and our solidarity will prevail.
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BREAKING from PP
We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens*
The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied:
Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer
More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado
www.propublica.org/article/immi...
by @nicolefoy.bsky.social
We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens*
The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied:
Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer
More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado
www.propublica.org/article/immi...
by @nicolefoy.bsky.social
More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
www.propublica.org
October 16, 2025 at 4:06 PM
BREAKING from PP
We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens*
The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied:
Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer
More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado
www.propublica.org/article/immi...
by @nicolefoy.bsky.social
We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens*
The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied:
Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer
More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado
www.propublica.org/article/immi...
by @nicolefoy.bsky.social
Attention artists, musicians, writers, filmmakers, dancers, illustrators, etc etc etc.!
We're inviting all artists everywhere (in the US) to join this amazing project. Visit falloffreedom.com for info about how to get involved. #FallOfFreedom
We're inviting all artists everywhere (in the US) to join this amazing project. Visit falloffreedom.com for info about how to get involved. #FallOfFreedom
Artists Plan Nationwide Protests Against ‘Authoritarian Forces’
www.nytimes.com
October 15, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Attention artists, musicians, writers, filmmakers, dancers, illustrators, etc etc etc.!
We're inviting all artists everywhere (in the US) to join this amazing project. Visit falloffreedom.com for info about how to get involved. #FallOfFreedom
We're inviting all artists everywhere (in the US) to join this amazing project. Visit falloffreedom.com for info about how to get involved. #FallOfFreedom
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Fascinating.
"Easily missed in the media barrage of burning Waymo cars and heavily armed law enforcement, four of the city’s museums and cultural institutions .... issued a statement condemning the administration."
"Easily missed in the media barrage of burning Waymo cars and heavily armed law enforcement, four of the city’s museums and cultural institutions .... issued a statement condemning the administration."
October 14, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Fascinating.
"Easily missed in the media barrage of burning Waymo cars and heavily armed law enforcement, four of the city’s museums and cultural institutions .... issued a statement condemning the administration."
"Easily missed in the media barrage of burning Waymo cars and heavily armed law enforcement, four of the city’s museums and cultural institutions .... issued a statement condemning the administration."
It does provoke the question why it took 15 years for progressive think tanks to think (tank) this...
This is some of the best political news I've seen in a very long time.
There's a clear a way to end the Citizens United precedent by changing state incorporation laws - and now luminaries in both parties are forcing a vote on it in the 2026 election.
There's a clear a way to end the Citizens United precedent by changing state incorporation laws - and now luminaries in both parties are forcing a vote on it in the 2026 election.
October 13, 2025 at 11:00 PM
It does provoke the question why it took 15 years for progressive think tanks to think (tank) this...
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“Not only is the ratio of AI’s resource rapacity to its productive utility indefensibly and irremediably skewed, AI-made material is itself a waste product: flimsy, shoddy, disposable, a single-use plastic of the mind.” www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...
Large Language Muddle | The Editors
The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...
www.nplusonemag.com
October 7, 2025 at 6:29 PM
“Not only is the ratio of AI’s resource rapacity to its productive utility indefensibly and irremediably skewed, AI-made material is itself a waste product: flimsy, shoddy, disposable, a single-use plastic of the mind.” www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...
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The fact they jumped straight to AI actors modeled after women when, if I’m not mistaken, male actors are a higher labor cost kind of says it all doesn’t it,
Like… it's kind of right there, no?
October 5, 2025 at 12:02 PM
The fact they jumped straight to AI actors modeled after women when, if I’m not mistaken, male actors are a higher labor cost kind of says it all doesn’t it,
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Reminder that the federal government was once the largest employer of Black women in the country.
DOGE fired so many Black women that it massively spiked their unemployment rate.
The government shutdown was already here, just not equally distributed.
DOGE fired so many Black women that it massively spiked their unemployment rate.
The government shutdown was already here, just not equally distributed.
October 1, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Reminder that the federal government was once the largest employer of Black women in the country.
DOGE fired so many Black women that it massively spiked their unemployment rate.
The government shutdown was already here, just not equally distributed.
DOGE fired so many Black women that it massively spiked their unemployment rate.
The government shutdown was already here, just not equally distributed.
Not sure how I missed this, but on Friday we got a nice big win in the @aclu.org 's lawsuit against the NEA -- a permanent block on the agency enforcing Trump's "gender ideology" exec. order.
storage.courtlistener.com
September 23, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Not sure how I missed this, but on Friday we got a nice big win in the @aclu.org 's lawsuit against the NEA -- a permanent block on the agency enforcing Trump's "gender ideology" exec. order.
Personal news! Since I just got my ID and everything, guess it's finally ok to announce that I am the new Guest Curator for Art and Technology at @bambrooklyn.bsky.social. Over the top happy about this.
September 18, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Personal news! Since I just got my ID and everything, guess it's finally ok to announce that I am the new Guest Curator for Art and Technology at @bambrooklyn.bsky.social. Over the top happy about this.
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Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing.
These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.
These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.
Artists are losing work, wages, and hope as bosses and clients embrace AI
Visual artists, illustrators and graphic designers share their stories about how AI is being used to lower wages, degrade work and even replace it altogether, in this installment of AI Killed My Job.
www.bloodinthemachine.com
September 17, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing.
These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.
These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.
Klobuchar at the Senate Judiciary Chatbot Harms hearing: "So your son was continually engaged with a chatbox from Character A1, is that right?"
September 16, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Klobuchar at the Senate Judiciary Chatbot Harms hearing: "So your son was continually engaged with a chatbox from Character A1, is that right?"