Laurence Dierickx
@ohmyshambles.bsky.social
Researcher in information/disinformation technology with a blend of STS, ethics and journalism studies. https://ohmybox.info/about
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New publication alert! From bytes to bylines - A history of AI in journalism practices
www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...
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Top 3 most-read posts on my blog in 2025:
1️⃣ Rethinking core journalism skills in the age of AI
ohmybox.info/rethinking-c...
2️⃣ AI practices and challenges for journalism in Africa
ohmybox.info/ai-challenge...
3️⃣ Q&A: How social media capture attention
ohmybox.info/qa-how-socia...
1️⃣ Rethinking core journalism skills in the age of AI
ohmybox.info/rethinking-c...
2️⃣ AI practices and challenges for journalism in Africa
ohmybox.info/ai-challenge...
3️⃣ Q&A: How social media capture attention
ohmybox.info/qa-how-socia...
December 29, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Top 3 most-read posts on my blog in 2025:
1️⃣ Rethinking core journalism skills in the age of AI
ohmybox.info/rethinking-c...
2️⃣ AI practices and challenges for journalism in Africa
ohmybox.info/ai-challenge...
3️⃣ Q&A: How social media capture attention
ohmybox.info/qa-how-socia...
1️⃣ Rethinking core journalism skills in the age of AI
ohmybox.info/rethinking-c...
2️⃣ AI practices and challenges for journalism in Africa
ohmybox.info/ai-challenge...
3️⃣ Q&A: How social media capture attention
ohmybox.info/qa-how-socia...
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“We already have general intelligence in humans, and instead of attempting to replicate it artificially, we should focus on amplifying collective intelligence through AI-human feedback loops. The core challenge is not creating autonomous artificial minds but developing dynamic, adaptive systems […]
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December 29, 2025 at 9:21 AM
“We already have general intelligence in humans, and instead of attempting to replicate it artificially, we should focus on amplifying collective intelligence through AI-human feedback loops. The core challenge is not creating autonomous artificial minds but developing dynamic, adaptive systems […]
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Unless scientists no longer write their own articles (which would constitute academic misconduct imho) university students need to be able to write themselves, and thing critically and independently.
That excludes use of the automated plagiarism machine imho. irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2022/12/29/a...
That excludes use of the automated plagiarism machine imho. irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2022/12/29/a...
Against automated plagiarism
Cite as: van Rooij, I. (2022) Against automated plagiarism. I’ve been asked, in various roles1, to give my opinion on the challenges posed by Large Language Models (LLMs)2, also known as R…
irisvanrooijcogsci.com
December 28, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Unless scientists no longer write their own articles (which would constitute academic misconduct imho) university students need to be able to write themselves, and thing critically and independently.
That excludes use of the automated plagiarism machine imho. irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2022/12/29/a...
That excludes use of the automated plagiarism machine imho. irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2022/12/29/a...
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Teenagers are turning to ChatGPT for advice.
But CCDH's research shows that OpenAI's chatbot is exploiting teens' vulnerabilities & betraying them.
Here's what you need to know about our report 👇
https://bit.ly/4p0C4uN
But CCDH's research shows that OpenAI's chatbot is exploiting teens' vulnerabilities & betraying them.
Here's what you need to know about our report 👇
https://bit.ly/4p0C4uN
Is ChatGPT a real or fake friend?
CCDH’s research shows that ChatGPT is betraying vulnerable teenagers by generating dangerous advice. Read our blog to find out more.
counterhate.com
December 28, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Teenagers are turning to ChatGPT for advice.
But CCDH's research shows that OpenAI's chatbot is exploiting teens' vulnerabilities & betraying them.
Here's what you need to know about our report 👇
https://bit.ly/4p0C4uN
But CCDH's research shows that OpenAI's chatbot is exploiting teens' vulnerabilities & betraying them.
Here's what you need to know about our report 👇
https://bit.ly/4p0C4uN
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L'IA générative au service du fascisme www.courrierinternational.com/article/inte...
De nouveaux chatbots très à droite amplifient la guerre du vrai et du faux
Ils s’appellent Grok, Arya ou Enoch : ces agents conversationnels lancés aux États-Unis se présentent comme de meilleures sources que leurs célèbres concurrents...
www.courrierinternational.com
December 28, 2025 at 10:22 AM
L'IA générative au service du fascisme www.courrierinternational.com/article/inte...
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🧵Have you ever heard of LLM-authored books being used as part of an disinformation operation?
Well now you have!
#AI #Disinformation
open.substack.com/pub/marcowen...
Well now you have!
#AI #Disinformation
open.substack.com/pub/marcowen...
December 24, 2025 at 10:21 AM
🧵Have you ever heard of LLM-authored books being used as part of an disinformation operation?
Well now you have!
#AI #Disinformation
open.substack.com/pub/marcowen...
Well now you have!
#AI #Disinformation
open.substack.com/pub/marcowen...
Ma recherche sur les LLMs dans le journalisme et le fact-checking s'interroge notamment sur les questions de factualité et de risques d'utilisation. Mais comment définir et baliser ces risques tout au long du processus journalistique et éditorial ? ohmybox.info/ia-generativ...
IA génératives et journalisme : une approche centrée sur les risques
Ils ne peuvent pas être considérés comme fiables, exacts et sans biais, mais les journalistes expérimentent quotidiennement les grands modèles ...
ohmybox.info
December 27, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Ma recherche sur les LLMs dans le journalisme et le fact-checking s'interroge notamment sur les questions de factualité et de risques d'utilisation. Mais comment définir et baliser ces risques tout au long du processus journalistique et éditorial ? ohmybox.info/ia-generativ...
A new entry in my research notebook: AI ethics and journalism: Transparency is not enough ohmybox.info/ai-ethics-an...
AI ethics and journalism: Transparency is not enough
Transparency is a multifaceted term defined as seeing through, revealing the hidden, and making the invisible available and the visible accessible (Ball, ...
ohmybox.info
December 26, 2025 at 5:23 PM
A new entry in my research notebook: AI ethics and journalism: Transparency is not enough ohmybox.info/ai-ethics-an...
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Step 1: GenAI coding contains almost twice as many errors as human coding.
Step 2: Satya Nadella says as much as 30% of Microsoft code is written by AI.
Step 3: Windows 11 is a sluggish, buggy mess.
Step 2: Satya Nadella says as much as 30% of Microsoft code is written by AI.
Step 3: Windows 11 is a sluggish, buggy mess.
AI-generated code contains more bugs and errors than human output
AI-generated code produces 1.7x more issues than human code
www.techradar.com
December 23, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Step 1: GenAI coding contains almost twice as many errors as human coding.
Step 2: Satya Nadella says as much as 30% of Microsoft code is written by AI.
Step 3: Windows 11 is a sluggish, buggy mess.
Step 2: Satya Nadella says as much as 30% of Microsoft code is written by AI.
Step 3: Windows 11 is a sluggish, buggy mess.
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AI Chatbots Are Poisoning Research Archives With Fake Citations
The proliferation of references to fake articles threatens to undermine the legitimacy of institutional research across the board
By Miles Klee […]
The proliferation of references to fake articles threatens to undermine the legitimacy of institutional research across the board
By Miles Klee […]
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December 25, 2025 at 7:24 AM
AI Chatbots Are Poisoning Research Archives With Fake Citations
The proliferation of references to fake articles threatens to undermine the legitimacy of institutional research across the board
By Miles Klee […]
The proliferation of references to fake articles threatens to undermine the legitimacy of institutional research across the board
By Miles Klee […]
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And this is why research on misinformation and disinformation has become so politicized and an existential blood sport, and why the White House now has a new media bias/ "fact-checking" page. www.whitehouse.gov/mediabias/
Media Offenders
Explore the Media Bias Tracker that fact checks and holds Fake News accountable. False claims debunked, Hall of Shame for serial offenders, Leaderboard of networks ranked by Repeated Lies. Stay inform...
www.whitehouse.gov
December 10, 2025 at 6:53 PM
And this is why research on misinformation and disinformation has become so politicized and an existential blood sport, and why the White House now has a new media bias/ "fact-checking" page. www.whitehouse.gov/mediabias/
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Ultimately, the struggle over disinformation is a struggle over power, legitimacy, and narrative control. It goes far beyond fact-checking or content moderation.
"The war on disinformation is a losing battle. How the systems that fight misinformation and disinformation became misconstrued and dismantled." www.theverge.com/features/839...
The disinformation wars are here
How Joe Biden’s administration caved to the right in the battle for truth.
www.theverge.com
December 10, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Ultimately, the struggle over disinformation is a struggle over power, legitimacy, and narrative control. It goes far beyond fact-checking or content moderation.
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Academics and technologists are sounding the alarm about a growing crisis in scholarship as we know it: AI-generated citations of nonexistent papers that have infested real journals. Despite being fake, the sources are widely assumed to be authentic the more they appear in published literature.
AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals
Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.
www.rollingstone.com
December 17, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Academics and technologists are sounding the alarm about a growing crisis in scholarship as we know it: AI-generated citations of nonexistent papers that have infested real journals. Despite being fake, the sources are widely assumed to be authentic the more they appear in published literature.
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NEW: A hacker gained control of 1,100 mobile phones powering covert, AI-generated ads on TikTok. Then, he shared details of the operation with 404 Media.
A look inside how startup Doublespeed, which is backed by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), is creating AI spam pages on TikTok to promote products.
A look inside how startup Doublespeed, which is backed by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), is creating AI spam pages on TikTok to promote products.
Hack Reveals the a16z-Backed Phone Farm Flooding TikTok With AI Influencers
A hacker gained control of a 1,100 mobile phone farm powering covert, AI-generated ads on TikTok.
www.404media.co
December 17, 2025 at 2:22 PM
NEW: A hacker gained control of 1,100 mobile phones powering covert, AI-generated ads on TikTok. Then, he shared details of the operation with 404 Media.
A look inside how startup Doublespeed, which is backed by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), is creating AI spam pages on TikTok to promote products.
A look inside how startup Doublespeed, which is backed by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), is creating AI spam pages on TikTok to promote products.
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Our roundup today features a new piece on our website about how AI undermines digital investigations, data on climate news use by age and imprisoned journalists in China.
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How AI undermines digital investigations
Plus: A European MAGA TV channel | Imprisoned journalists in China | Climate news use by age Journalism Today. 17 Dec 2025 Research | Reporting | Fellowships | Leadership 🗞️ Our top story Blurring the...
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December 17, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Our roundup today features a new piece on our website about how AI undermines digital investigations, data on climate news use by age and imprisoned journalists in China.
Click to read, subscribe and share ⬇️
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🚨 Postdoc in Comparative Politics/Public Opinion (2 years)
We’re hiring a 100% Postdoc at the University of Greifswald.
✨ What makes this job special: Two full years to focus on research (no teaching, no admin overload) embedded into an International Research Training Group
We’re hiring a 100% Postdoc at the University of Greifswald.
✨ What makes this job special: Two full years to focus on research (no teaching, no admin overload) embedded into an International Research Training Group
Postdoctoral Research Associate - International Research Training Group 2560 “Baltic Peripeties" 25/E19
Stellenausschreibung Institut für Politik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft
www.uni-greifswald.de
December 17, 2025 at 9:45 AM
🚨 Postdoc in Comparative Politics/Public Opinion (2 years)
We’re hiring a 100% Postdoc at the University of Greifswald.
✨ What makes this job special: Two full years to focus on research (no teaching, no admin overload) embedded into an International Research Training Group
We’re hiring a 100% Postdoc at the University of Greifswald.
✨ What makes this job special: Two full years to focus on research (no teaching, no admin overload) embedded into an International Research Training Group
How AI-generated prose diverges from human writing and why it matters reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/how-ai-...
How AI-generated prose diverges from human writing and why it matters
Delve, intricate, underscore, commendable. These English words are seeing an uptick in usage. You may also recognise them as hallmarks of ChatGPT’s prose.Over the past couple of years, numerous observ...
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk
December 17, 2025 at 7:55 AM
How AI-generated prose diverges from human writing and why it matters reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/how-ai-...
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Did you know that from tomorrow, Qualtrics is offering synthetic panels (AI-generated participants)?
Follow me down a rabbit hole I'm calling "doing science is tough and I'm so busy, can't we just make up participants?"
Follow me down a rabbit hole I'm calling "doing science is tough and I'm so busy, can't we just make up participants?"
December 16, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Did you know that from tomorrow, Qualtrics is offering synthetic panels (AI-generated participants)?
Follow me down a rabbit hole I'm calling "doing science is tough and I'm so busy, can't we just make up participants?"
Follow me down a rabbit hole I'm calling "doing science is tough and I'm so busy, can't we just make up participants?"
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🔥 What if your next “AI health tip” was totally made up — but sounded 100% credible?
In her article, Vanda Boštíková explores how even advanced #LLMs like #GPT4o, #Gemini15Pro, #Llama3 and #GrokBeta can be manipulated to produce false health-related content.
Read more below 👇
In her article, Vanda Boštíková explores how even advanced #LLMs like #GPT4o, #Gemini15Pro, #Llama3 and #GrokBeta can be manipulated to produce false health-related content.
Read more below 👇
December 16, 2025 at 3:51 PM
🔥 What if your next “AI health tip” was totally made up — but sounded 100% credible?
In her article, Vanda Boštíková explores how even advanced #LLMs like #GPT4o, #Gemini15Pro, #Llama3 and #GrokBeta can be manipulated to produce false health-related content.
Read more below 👇
In her article, Vanda Boštíková explores how even advanced #LLMs like #GPT4o, #Gemini15Pro, #Llama3 and #GrokBeta can be manipulated to produce false health-related content.
Read more below 👇
Vibe coding is the new buzzword, but it raises serious concerns, particularly with regard to security-sensitive applications. See arxiv.org/html/2512.03... and medium.com/@michaelhend...
Is Vibe Coding Safe? Benchmarking Vulnerability of Agent-Generated Code in Real-World Tasks
arxiv.org
December 15, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Vibe coding is the new buzzword, but it raises serious concerns, particularly with regard to security-sensitive applications. See arxiv.org/html/2512.03... and medium.com/@michaelhend...
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How cheap is it to build a bot army? 🤖
Find out using the first global index to track real-time prices for verifying fake accounts on 500 platforms, from TikTok to Amazon 👇
https://bit.ly/44s9QSu
Find out using the first global index to track real-time prices for verifying fake accounts on 500 platforms, from TikTok to Amazon 👇
https://bit.ly/44s9QSu
December 12, 2025 at 9:23 AM
How cheap is it to build a bot army? 🤖
Find out using the first global index to track real-time prices for verifying fake accounts on 500 platforms, from TikTok to Amazon 👇
https://bit.ly/44s9QSu
Find out using the first global index to track real-time prices for verifying fake accounts on 500 platforms, from TikTok to Amazon 👇
https://bit.ly/44s9QSu
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“While the AI industry claims its models can “think,” “reason,” and “learn,” their supposed achievements rest on marketing hype and stolen intellectual labor. In reality, AI erodes academic freedom, weakens critical reading, and subordinates the pursuit of knowledge to corporate interests.”
AI Is Hollowing Out Higher Education
Olivia Guest & Iris van Rooij urge teachers and scholars to reject tools that commodify learning, deskill students, and promote illiteracy.
www.project-syndicate.org
November 15, 2025 at 5:24 PM
“While the AI industry claims its models can “think,” “reason,” and “learn,” their supposed achievements rest on marketing hype and stolen intellectual labor. In reality, AI erodes academic freedom, weakens critical reading, and subordinates the pursuit of knowledge to corporate interests.”
I have just got back from the University of Bucharest, where 21 students from seven EU universities that are part of CIVIS did a one-week training course on disinformation. Read more about the programme "Online fake news and disinformation: recognize and verify": civis.eu/en/learn/civ...
December 14, 2025 at 1:04 PM
I have just got back from the University of Bucharest, where 21 students from seven EU universities that are part of CIVIS did a one-week training course on disinformation. Read more about the programme "Online fake news and disinformation: recognize and verify": civis.eu/en/learn/civ...
I love when colleagues share amazing stories with me! Thanks @olivierklein.bsky.social
They Droned Back - Young journalists expose Russian-linked vessels circling off the Dutch and German coast www.digitaldigging.org/p/they-drone...
They Droned Back - Young journalists expose Russian-linked vessels circling off the Dutch and German coast www.digitaldigging.org/p/they-drone...
They Droned Back
Young journalists expose Russian-linked vessels circling off the Dutch and German coast
www.digitaldigging.org
December 14, 2025 at 12:59 PM
I love when colleagues share amazing stories with me! Thanks @olivierklein.bsky.social
They Droned Back - Young journalists expose Russian-linked vessels circling off the Dutch and German coast www.digitaldigging.org/p/they-drone...
They Droned Back - Young journalists expose Russian-linked vessels circling off the Dutch and German coast www.digitaldigging.org/p/they-drone...
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AI Can Write Your Code. It Can’t Do Your Job.
https://terriblesoftware.org/2025/12/11/ai-can-write-your-code-it-cant-do-your-job
https://terriblesoftware.org/2025/12/11/ai-can-write-your-code-it-cant-do-your-job
December 14, 2025 at 11:33 AM
AI Can Write Your Code. It Can’t Do Your Job.
https://terriblesoftware.org/2025/12/11/ai-can-write-your-code-it-cant-do-your-job
https://terriblesoftware.org/2025/12/11/ai-can-write-your-code-it-cant-do-your-job