Tony Ho Tran
@tonyhotran.bsky.social
The Godfather of AI | Banh Mi Connoisseur | Senior Tech Editor for Slate dot com | Formerly The Daily Beast and Futurism | Local Chicago Man | Iowa Hawkeye | 📧 : tony dot tran at slate dot com
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Appreciated @whstancil.bsky.social going back and forth particularly amid a pretty disgusting harassment campaign that doing the interview could escalated. Thought this analysis of Musk's behavior was worth pulling out slate.com/technology/2...
November 6, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Appreciated @whstancil.bsky.social going back and forth particularly amid a pretty disgusting harassment campaign that doing the interview could escalated. Thought this analysis of Musk's behavior was worth pulling out slate.com/technology/2...
For writers like us, the takeaway: we must stay alert to how our work is licensed, how our words may be repurposed. And for readers: consider that “local history” might now serve corporate AI interests rather than community memory.
slate.com/technology/2...
slate.com/technology/2...
You’ve Seen These Books in Every Gift Shop. You Won’t Guess Who Wants to Buy Them Now.
Arcadia Publishing built its empire on small-town storytellers. Now it wants to sell their words to an A.I. company no one will name.
slate.com
November 3, 2025 at 11:36 PM
For writers like us, the takeaway: we must stay alert to how our work is licensed, how our words may be repurposed. And for readers: consider that “local history” might now serve corporate AI interests rather than community memory.
slate.com/technology/2...
slate.com/technology/2...
It forces us to ask what “training data” really means when it’s taken from grassroots authorship. What happens to history when it becomes fodder for generative engines rather than narrative memory?
slate.com/technology/2...
slate.com/technology/2...
You’ve Seen These Books in Every Gift Shop. You Won’t Guess Who Wants to Buy Them Now.
Arcadia Publishing built its empire on small-town storytellers. Now it wants to sell their words to an A.I. company no one will name.
slate.com
November 3, 2025 at 11:36 PM
It forces us to ask what “training data” really means when it’s taken from grassroots authorship. What happens to history when it becomes fodder for generative engines rather than narrative memory?
slate.com/technology/2...
slate.com/technology/2...