@mikevq.bsky.social
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New from @garymarcus.bsky.social and me—
Chatbots are:
1. Bad at providing info during breaking news events
2. Used by many people to find that info anyway
3. Making it harder for journalists to get their material seen online
4. Great vectors for manipulated media and propaganda
Not great!
Chatbots are:
1. Bad at providing info during breaking news events
2. Used by many people to find that info anyway
3. Making it harder for journalists to get their material seen online
4. Great vectors for manipulated media and propaganda
Not great!
@Grok, Did Venezuela ‘Deserve It’?
The information war will be fought through chatbots.
www.theatlantic.com
January 5, 2026 at 8:33 PM
New from @garymarcus.bsky.social and me—
Chatbots are:
1. Bad at providing info during breaking news events
2. Used by many people to find that info anyway
3. Making it harder for journalists to get their material seen online
4. Great vectors for manipulated media and propaganda
Not great!
Chatbots are:
1. Bad at providing info during breaking news events
2. Used by many people to find that info anyway
3. Making it harder for journalists to get their material seen online
4. Great vectors for manipulated media and propaganda
Not great!
Why ChatGPT can’t be trusted with breaking news
open.substack.com/pub/garymarc...
open.substack.com/pub/garymarc...
Why ChatGPT can’t be trusted with breaking news
A new case in point
open.substack.com
January 3, 2026 at 9:43 PM
Why ChatGPT can’t be trusted with breaking news
open.substack.com/pub/garymarc...
open.substack.com/pub/garymarc...
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If anyone has extra time on this holiday weekend, here's a talk where I take folks through this history (of rumor-spreading during crisis events) and connect it to how our information systems, politics, and (increasingly) values have been rewired, reconfigured, and turned on their heads.
A Spotlight on Rumors
YouTube video by UW (University of Washington)
www.youtube.com
December 27, 2025 at 1:36 AM
If anyone has extra time on this holiday weekend, here's a talk where I take folks through this history (of rumor-spreading during crisis events) and connect it to how our information systems, politics, and (increasingly) values have been rewired, reconfigured, and turned on their heads.
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Amazon is making money off AI copies of books - and putting the onus on authors to prove they’ve been plagiarised.
Honestly, just stop buying books from Amazon. Get them from an actual bookshop or order them from a reputable book supplier like bookshop.org
www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
Honestly, just stop buying books from Amazon. Get them from an actual bookshop or order them from a reputable book supplier like bookshop.org
www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
Amazon Is the World's Biggest Online Book Marketplace. It's Filled With AI Knockoffs
Authors say Amazon's knockoff book problem is leaving them frustrated — and making the internet worse in the process.
www.rollingstone.com
December 10, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Amazon is making money off AI copies of books - and putting the onus on authors to prove they’ve been plagiarised.
Honestly, just stop buying books from Amazon. Get them from an actual bookshop or order them from a reputable book supplier like bookshop.org
www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
Honestly, just stop buying books from Amazon. Get them from an actual bookshop or order them from a reputable book supplier like bookshop.org
www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
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Most discussions about “misinformation” treat the problem as if people simply don’t have good enough critical-thinking skills. It sounds intuitive, but it’s not entirely accurate. The problem isn’t just individual ignorance, it’s the structure of the information environment people are placed into.
Finland has emerged as a global leader in countering “fake news”. Here's how they've done it
Teaching when to trust
As fake news accelerates, we need to teach our children how to think critically. Finnish schools are leading the charge
newhumanist.org.uk
December 7, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Most discussions about “misinformation” treat the problem as if people simply don’t have good enough critical-thinking skills. It sounds intuitive, but it’s not entirely accurate. The problem isn’t just individual ignorance, it’s the structure of the information environment people are placed into.
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Thoughtful essay from a professor at Ohio State wondering why in the world universities are promoting tools of cognitive automation.
November 30, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Thoughtful essay from a professor at Ohio State wondering why in the world universities are promoting tools of cognitive automation.
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
With reference to Kuhn and Rorty!
With reference to Kuhn and Rorty!
Is language the same as intelligence? The AI industry desperately needs it to be
The AI boom is based on a fundamental mistake.
www.theverge.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:44 PM
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
With reference to Kuhn and Rorty!
With reference to Kuhn and Rorty!
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You may need to squint to read this. It's worth squinting for.
There could be an interesting debate here (we are both participants in the same @chronicle.com forum). We agree I think on the severity of the threat to education. We disagree perhaps on how materially manifest that threat already is and its ultimate socio-political framing (and consequent remedy).
November 20, 2025 at 2:43 PM
You may need to squint to read this. It's worth squinting for.
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The latest trend in Facebook’s ever downward spiral down the AI slop toilet are AI deportation videos. And the Facebook algorithm is rewarding creators for it. @jasonkoebler.bsky.social reports.
Full story: www.404media.co/ai-generated...
Full story: www.404media.co/ai-generated...
November 17, 2025 at 10:37 PM
The latest trend in Facebook’s ever downward spiral down the AI slop toilet are AI deportation videos. And the Facebook algorithm is rewarding creators for it. @jasonkoebler.bsky.social reports.
Full story: www.404media.co/ai-generated...
Full story: www.404media.co/ai-generated...
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(whispers) guess what AI cannot do to advance science
the philosophy of science tells us that theories are good when they are "fruitful"--when they don't just collate the existing evidence, but point the way to new problems, when they make *novel predictions* which are then later borne out by experiments
November 15, 2025 at 4:35 PM
(whispers) guess what AI cannot do to advance science
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I use Claude (an AI) to scan my posts for spelling and grammar errors. On the most recent post (about the East Wing, link below), I got a really amazing addendum.
www.pbump.net/o/yes-most-a...
www.pbump.net/o/yes-most-a...
October 30, 2025 at 3:03 PM
I use Claude (an AI) to scan my posts for spelling and grammar errors. On the most recent post (about the East Wing, link below), I got a really amazing addendum.
www.pbump.net/o/yes-most-a...
www.pbump.net/o/yes-most-a...
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thank you to @mikesenters.bsky.social for being so succinct and clear about why this latest wave of Trump branded Halo memes feels so horrifying
Trump Admin’s Racist Halo Memes Are ‘A New Level of Dehumanization of Immigrants’
'The White House just marked the end of the console wars; DHS is posting deep fried Halo memes. We are somewhere else entirely.'
www.404media.co
October 28, 2025 at 9:16 PM
thank you to @mikesenters.bsky.social for being so succinct and clear about why this latest wave of Trump branded Halo memes feels so horrifying
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A major front of the current information war: getting your facts, frames, propaganda, disinformation, etc. into the AI systems that create so much of the content we see and are rapidly becoming the de facto “ground truth” of the internet.
"ChatGPT, Gemini, DeepSeek, and Grok are serving users propaganda from Russian-backed media when asked about the invasion of Ukraine, new research finds." www.wired.com/story/chatbo...
Chatbots Are Pushing Sanctioned Russian Propaganda
ChatGPT, Gemini, DeepSeek, and Grok are serving users propaganda from Russian-backed media when asked about the invasion of Ukraine, new research finds.
www.wired.com
October 27, 2025 at 1:26 PM
A major front of the current information war: getting your facts, frames, propaganda, disinformation, etc. into the AI systems that create so much of the content we see and are rapidly becoming the de facto “ground truth” of the internet.
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I made an image of all the art posted by US DOL on X since approximately Labor Day
October 26, 2025 at 1:07 AM
I made an image of all the art posted by US DOL on X since approximately Labor Day
