Andrew Afram

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Grammarly Is Facing a Class Action Lawsuit Over Its AI ‘Expert Review’ Feature The feature, which Grammarly shut down Wednesday, presented editing suggestions as if they came from established authors and academics—without their consent.

I'm suing Grammarly over its paid AI feature that presented editing suggestions as if they came from me - and many other writers and journalists - without consent.

State law requires consent before someone's name can be used for commercial purposes.

www.wired.com/story/gramma...

Seems like a new boycott just dropped. Let's see who ends up being the CostCo to their Target.

Grammarly turned me into an AI editor against my will and I hate it The company tells Platformer it will let experts opt out of the controversial feature — but how different is it than what every other AI company is doing?

Wait, what?! Grammarly made an AI persona of me and all these other journalists?!!!!!

Thank you @caseynewton.bsky.social for shaming them into at least offering a paltry optout— although obviously that is not enough.

www.platformer.news/grammarly-ex...

BREAKING: Sam Altman’s greed and dishonesty are finally catching up to him It’s about time

Breaking: Altmans’ lack of character, which I have been warning about for years, has finally caught up with him:

open.substack.com/pub/garymarc...

don’t forget to destroy your clocks tonight, walk away from your mortgage, just start driving, you’re free

“No stupid rules of engagement”

The trap Anthropic built for itself | TechCrunch Anthropic, OpenAI, Google DeepMind and others have long promised to govern themselves responsibly. Now, in the absence of rules, there's not a lot to protect them.

Anthropic, OpenAI, Google DeepMind and others have long promised to govern themselves responsibly. Now, in the absence of rules, there's not a lot to protect them.

30 seconds to midnight? 15? The Trump administration is literally playing with fire.

Code red for humanity?

I am genuinely frightened.

open.substack.com/pub/garymarc...

Exactly

Can’t believe we are still doing this

404 Media obtained internal police emails showing at least two agencies have bought access to GeoSpy, an AI tool that analyzes architecture, soil, and other features to near instantly geolocate photos. @evystadium.bsky.social has more.

@josephcox.bsky.social scoop: www.404media.co/cops-are-buy...

RFK Jr's Nutrition Chatbot Recommends Best Foods to Insert Into Your Rectum Realfood.gov will happily give you the worst possible advice.

“Ah, a proud assitarian,” the chatbot responds, before listing “Top Assitarian Staples,” which include “Bananas (firm, not overripe; peeled)” as “the gold standard. (Don't do this at home.) www.404media.co/rfk-jrs-nutr...

Google is stifling anti-ICE speech in the workplace as 1,200 employees call on the company to cut ties The search giant has made it harder and riskier to protest its policies. Workers are still fighting back. Plus: A community takes down a data center, QuitGPT, and the 5 worst Super Bowl AI ads.

At Google, speech critical of ICE is censored from the company's internal platform, employees who speak out are served with warnings, and leadership refuses to acknowledge a petition that's now gotten 1,200 employee signatures.

Inside the worker-led push to get ICE out of Google:

Government Loses Hard Drives It Was Supposed to Put ICE Detention Center Footage On A Kafkaesque saga in which the government has failed to produce critical video footage has reached new levels of absurdity.

First they said critical ICE detention footage was "destroyed." Then, lost in a system crash. Then, never recorded.

Now, in the latest court docs, it shows the federal government lost three hard drives it was supposed to put footage on in a case where ICE detainees say they faced inhumane abuse.

How Trump Sees the World: It’s Personal (Gift Article) Historical relationships play little if any role in the second-term worldview of the president, who holds himself as the constant center of global events.

Trump's View Of the World

Even on a global scale, the president's attitudes reflect a fixation on a single subject: himself.

GIFT LINK 🎁
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Marc Benioff 'Jokes' ICE Is Watching Salesforce Employees Who Traveled to the U.S. "Employees are going absolutely apeshit in internal Slack about how completely awful it was."

"Employees are going absolutely apeshit in internal Slack about how completely awful it was."

Google sent personal and financial information of student journalist to ICE | TechCrunch The tech giant handed over the personal information of a journalist and student who attended a pro-Palestinian protest in 2024. This is the latest example of ICE using its controversial subpoena power...

More reports of Gmail turning over email content to ICE are coming out now.
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OpenAI policy exec who opposed chatbot's "adult mode" reportedly fired on discrimination claim | TechCrunch The executive has denied the allegation that she engaged in discrimination.

The executive has denied the allegation that she engaged in discrimination.

Washington Post Begins Laying Off More Than 300 Journalists

I’d like to report a murder. Trying to fix a legacy media company is hard — we all know the economics — but Jeff Bezos just killed the @washingtonpost.com in the most cowardly & inept way possible. He would never entertain others who wanted to fix it too like me www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/b...

Yes, Peter decided that the continued existence of our democracies isn't compatible with his desired level of personal freedom.

An absolute enemy of humanity.

Quilicura, Chile, one of the communities I wrote about in EMPIRE OF AI, has launched a brilliant initiative to inspire more responsible AI prompting. Today, don't use AI; ask the townspeople instead: quili.ai. So heartened to see this creative act of resistance.

Our military budget is not a slush fund for the President to carry out his extreme agenda.

Also true for all electeds who vote to fund ICE

The federal government is gunning people down in the streets, lying about what happened and then preventing any independent investigation of the killings

Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension Superintendent Drew Evans says his team arrived on the scene of the shooting to conduct an independent investigation and "were blocked by federal agents with the Department of Homeland Security."

It's really too bad the United States Congress no longer exists.

Gov. Tim Walz: "Minnesotans are witnessing and we're creating a log of evidence for the future prosecution of ICE agents and officials responsible for this."

Nothing an observer or protestor does or doesn’t do will prevent them from escalating their violence.

well well well look who’s afraid of memes now