Sriya Sridhar
@sriyasridhar.bsky.social
Back on social media after 7 years (idk why). Teaching law, studying tech regulation, emotional and interactive AI. Trying to do academia. Masters @ Uni of Edinburgh and Fellow @ SNU School of Law. My cat, poetry, film, lit come first. In Chennai, India 🌊
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this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like
August 22, 2025 at 2:20 PM
this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like
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I 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 read, but I could also find other books to add to my unbelievably long reading list instead
August 16, 2025 at 5:10 PM
I 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 read, but I could also find other books to add to my unbelievably long reading list instead
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The Tesla whistleblower and the cost of taking on Elon Musk - podcast
The Tesla whistleblower and the cost of taking on Elon Musk - podcast
Investigative journalist Sönke Iwersen describes his years-long investigation into Tesla, aided by a whistleblower, exposing serious safety concerns over the company’s cars
www.theguardian.com
August 4, 2025 at 3:27 AM
The Tesla whistleblower and the cost of taking on Elon Musk - podcast
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August is Women in Translation Month! Here's my stack!
Most of these books are forthcoming later this year and into early 2026.
Titles are in alt text.
Most of these books are forthcoming later this year and into early 2026.
Titles are in alt text.
August 2, 2025 at 9:12 PM
August is Women in Translation Month! Here's my stack!
Most of these books are forthcoming later this year and into early 2026.
Titles are in alt text.
Most of these books are forthcoming later this year and into early 2026.
Titles are in alt text.
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Google's AI summaries are
- killing traffic to legitimate sites
- producing summaries that can be wrong
- in the long run probably making you a dumbass
www.404media.co/googles-ai-i...
- killing traffic to legitimate sites
- producing summaries that can be wrong
- in the long run probably making you a dumbass
www.404media.co/googles-ai-i...
Google’s AI Is Destroying Search, the Internet, and Your Brain
Google’s AI Overview, which is easy to fool into stating nonsense as fact, is stopping people from finding and supporting small businesses and credible sources.
www.404media.co
July 23, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Google's AI summaries are
- killing traffic to legitimate sites
- producing summaries that can be wrong
- in the long run probably making you a dumbass
www.404media.co/googles-ai-i...
- killing traffic to legitimate sites
- producing summaries that can be wrong
- in the long run probably making you a dumbass
www.404media.co/googles-ai-i...
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stop 👏 anthropomorphizing 👏 the 👏 chatbot 👏
July 20, 2025 at 10:18 PM
stop 👏 anthropomorphizing 👏 the 👏 chatbot 👏
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Yeah man can't imagine why your girlfriend is mad that you made ChatGPT pretend to be a woman that you would use to talk to about your relationship problems
July 13, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Yeah man can't imagine why your girlfriend is mad that you made ChatGPT pretend to be a woman that you would use to talk to about your relationship problems
This is so important
Kids need messy, authentic human friendships to hone their social intelligence. If they opt instead for AI “companions,” Russell Shaw writes, they risk losing opportunities to grow.
AI Will Never Be Your Kid’s ‘Friend’
Chatbots may seem fun, but they rob children of important lessons in how to be human.
bit.ly
July 12, 2025 at 2:02 AM
This is so important
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Does the left need its own antisemitic AI chatbot?
July 9, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Does the left need its own antisemitic AI chatbot?
This is the funniest thing ever
July 9, 2025 at 10:53 AM
This is the funniest thing ever
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AI is deskilling our young people to the extent that they no longer have the ability, or at least resolve, to craft their own *texts.*
The widespread adoption of these technologies is actually a form of child abuse. We are systematically destroying human potential
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
The widespread adoption of these technologies is actually a form of child abuse. We are systematically destroying human potential
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
July 3, 2025 at 2:09 PM
AI is deskilling our young people to the extent that they no longer have the ability, or at least resolve, to craft their own *texts.*
The widespread adoption of these technologies is actually a form of child abuse. We are systematically destroying human potential
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
The widespread adoption of these technologies is actually a form of child abuse. We are systematically destroying human potential
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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seen on fbook this morning
July 2, 2025 at 4:17 PM
seen on fbook this morning
Sabre is nearly 5, but still a baby, always a baby and he knows it
June 30, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Sabre is nearly 5, but still a baby, always a baby and he knows it
I like this energy
It’s cool how pastas get bigger.
June 29, 2025 at 10:42 AM
I like this energy
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Every wedding dress worn by Lauren Sanchez as a character from Game of Thrones.
by Chris Cillizza
by Chris Cillizza
June 28, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Every wedding dress worn by Lauren Sanchez as a character from Game of Thrones.
by Chris Cillizza
by Chris Cillizza
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No one is “replacing” teachers with AI. People are redistributing money to tech companies for AI and replacing permanent salaried workers with contingent, poorly paid ones whose labor is to patch together the system that is being broken by AI.
June 25, 2025 at 1:29 PM
No one is “replacing” teachers with AI. People are redistributing money to tech companies for AI and replacing permanent salaried workers with contingent, poorly paid ones whose labor is to patch together the system that is being broken by AI.
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you can't draw a lot of conclusions from a single race. there are external factors, flawed candidates, the right political climate. but one conclusion you can absolutely draw is that all of the people who tell you that there's only one way things can be are fucking wrong
June 25, 2025 at 2:57 AM
you can't draw a lot of conclusions from a single race. there are external factors, flawed candidates, the right political climate. but one conclusion you can absolutely draw is that all of the people who tell you that there's only one way things can be are fucking wrong
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So happy about Mamdani winning the primary.
June 25, 2025 at 3:08 AM
So happy about Mamdani winning the primary.
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Tech companies only have five ideas: robot slave (actually just human slaves), hallucinatory counter-reality, untaxable money, The Everything App, and Clippy
June 23, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Tech companies only have five ideas: robot slave (actually just human slaves), hallucinatory counter-reality, untaxable money, The Everything App, and Clippy
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I suspect that fact that the vast majority of LLM users don’t seem to have received this (really very simple!) message is because the AI companies have a vested interest in us not understanding it. “ChatGPT is smart, it just makes mistakes sometimes” is much more marketable than the truth.
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 11:36 AM
I suspect that fact that the vast majority of LLM users don’t seem to have received this (really very simple!) message is because the AI companies have a vested interest in us not understanding it. “ChatGPT is smart, it just makes mistakes sometimes” is much more marketable than the truth.
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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
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Amazing: MIT researchers revealed how ChatGPT etc are destroying our brains and booby-trapped the report to expose those who want to use AI to ostensibly summarize the results.
t.co/JXeTALBPds
t.co/JXeTALBPds
June 19, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Amazing: MIT researchers revealed how ChatGPT etc are destroying our brains and booby-trapped the report to expose those who want to use AI to ostensibly summarize the results.
t.co/JXeTALBPds
t.co/JXeTALBPds
Tired from a long day at work. Rest is key
June 19, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Tired from a long day at work. Rest is key
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New research from MIT found that those who used ChatGPT can’t remember any of the content of their essays.
Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process *is* how they learn.
arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...
Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process *is* how they learn.
arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...
June 18, 2025 at 7:32 AM
New research from MIT found that those who used ChatGPT can’t remember any of the content of their essays.
Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process *is* how they learn.
arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...
Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process *is* how they learn.
arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...