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Rob Waugh
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Journalist, content creator, communicator, tinker, tailor, soldier, sailor
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This story is amazing! There's one source -- quoted in the Guardian, BBC, Newsweek et al -- who runs a sex-toy company called Peaches and Screams and provides quotes on everything from how to walk your dog to how to change your pillow.

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Santini’s main online presence is on sex toy company Peaches and Screams’s website, and some CBD company and vape shop sites. Her listed address is a serviced office space in London. She also has a brief profile on a website called AboutMe (where she says she has a degree from Oxford University) and has two followers on blogging platform Medium. She has no Linkedin or social media profiles that we have been able to find and does not appear on UK professional registers of psychologists. Via email, Santini said that she was “unable to take calls”. Asked to provide proof of who she was in the form of qualifications or details about her practice, she did not respond. She has been quoted in The Guardian talking about the benefits of walking (paid content), in Newsweek talking about white lies, Marie Claire talking about the meaning of money, the Daily Mirror talking about the benefits of sleeping with your dog, in The Sun talking about sexual positions, Pop Sugar talking about astrology, and Mail Online talking about how often to change your pillow. Santini was recently quoted in a BBC article examining the lifelike responses of AI to Rorschach tests used by some psychologists saying: “If an AI’s response resembles a human’s, it’s not because it sees the same thing but it’s because its training data mirrors our collective visual culture.”
April 14, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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How AI “expert sources” have duped journalists and four tips on how to avoid being the next victim. (h/t @robwaugh.bsky.social for an awesome story)

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How AI “expert sources” have duped journalists and four tips on how to avoid being the next victim
When it comes to doing interviews, I always tell students they need to do them in person.  In response, they often look at me like I’m asking them to use a teletype machine or some sem…
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April 16, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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Virtual reality: The widely-quoted media experts who are not what they seem

great reporting from @pressgazette.co.uk @dominicponsford.bsky.social @robwaugh.bsky.social

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Virtual reality: The widely-quoted media experts who are not what they seem
Press Gazette investigation into the widely-quoted national media experts who either do not exist, or whose credentials have not been checked.
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April 9, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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With TikTok shutting down I am taking all my video content back to Plurk
January 16, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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𝗢𝟯 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗱 𝗼𝗻 𝟳𝟱% 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰 𝘀𝗲𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗔𝗥𝗖-𝗔𝗚𝗜.

OpenAI did not disclose this in the video. Sam said they didn’t target the test.

Never trust a staged demo.
Never trust a product you haven’t tried.
Never trust OpenAI.
December 21, 2024 at 10:06 PM
robwaugh.bsky.social
The proofreading tool in Google Docs just told me to change 'such as' to 'like'. Clearly this AI has never worked on a newspaper
December 3, 2024 at 2:42 PM
robwaugh.bsky.social
The gen alpha/brainrot slang is out of control: my children are singing a song that goes, 'Last rizzmas, I gave you my gyatt'
December 2, 2024 at 10:04 AM
robwaugh.bsky.social
Just testing this thing out with a fun fact. I know someone who went on a date with CBeebies icon Mr Tumble
November 18, 2024 at 2:01 PM