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...
🥁🥁🥁 Newly out from us today in Science Advances: “Biased AI Writing Assistants Shift Users’ Attitudes on Societal Issues”.
Large Language Models are providing users with autocomplete writing suggestions on many platforms. Could these suggestions shift users’ own attitudes? (spoiler: YES) (1/7)
Last was a discussion on gender bias in AI systems at the LSE with @drpragyaagarwal.bsky.social, Karen Blake, Carrie Friese, and @lizstokoe.bsky.social (👋) www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Aoa... (8/8)
Since the CFPB has been stripped of its power, Credit Bureaus aren't correcting mistakes on consumers' credit reports.
www.propublica.org/article/cred...
The threats “were particularly galling for mid-career professionals who felt their 20-year-old bosses barely understood the fields they were trying to automate.”
nymag.com/intelligence...
“Time that the software deems “unproductive” could be deducted from his pay, and if a few minutes passed without him typing, the system pinged him to ask whether he had been working.”
nymag.com/intelligence...
LLMs “seem to be systems that take the prompt, abstract it into longer and longer texts, connecting to wider clusters of text, and then restructuring all of that text into condensed variations structured like a response.”
mail.cyberneticforests.com/modeling-lan...
“AI thought leaders are looking at the early success of ChatGPT and Stable Diffusion, extrapolating wildly, and concluding that AI software is going to transform the economy and put tons of people out of work.”
www.understandingai.org/p/software-d...
“Private funds layer on high (and opaque) fees that eat into gains. And no one has explained how 401(k) investors would get in and out of illiquid investments that rarely face objective valuations.”
www.ft.com/content/3dda...
“The Dutch supermarket chain Jumbo introduced a slower so-called chat checkout to let customers take their time and talk with cashiers. It proved so popular the company decided to expand it to around 200 stores, especially in places where loneliness was a big problem.”
www.ft.com/content/bc23...
As someone who watched the careful stewardship of grants over many years, the lack of care and the dismissal of the hard work of scholars and NEH program staff described here is devastating and shameful.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/a...
The crypto ads are so nefarious because they *never mention* crypto.
In an IL House race, for example, they accuse the anti-crypto candidate of being too favorable to corporate special interests.
Extremely cynical stuff.
“Civilizational signifiers function in reactionary discourse less as markers of genuine cultural distinctiveness than as flexible transnational codes, enabling unexpected alignments across geopolitical boundaries”
www.sinicapodcast.com/p/the-civili...
“Decentralization at a technical level breeds centralization at an industrial level.”
lareviewofbooks.org/article/tim-...
New post: Can AI Replace Social Science Researchers? (No. No it can't. Come on, now.)
davekarpf.beehiiv.com/p/can-ai-rep...
This is from June of last year and the answer is yes; Google has destroyed its own function.
this is a must read 🔥🔥
“As a discipline, cultural studies occupied a liminal space between sociology and English literature and was defined by research subjects ‘not considered legitimate’ enough for either, as McRobbie puts it.”
lareviewofbooks.org/article/ange...
Great resource for anyone engaged or interested in US AI policy and governance from @geomblog.bsky.social and his team www.brown.edu/news/2026-03...
Welcome to the "machine web,” where “websites are built for AI to read rather than for humans, and reading summaries by chatbots becomes a primary way we consume information.”
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
“Researchers were able to make the bot spread vaccine conspiracy theories, triple a patient's prescribed pain medication dosage, and recommend methamphetamine as treatment.”
www.axios.com/2026/03/04/d...
New Cambridge Element, Legislating Peace, by Elizabeth L. Brannon and Jakana Thomas, out now! Read for free for the next 2 weeks at
https://cup.org/4aJv0Oe
“Dignity depends on whether words carry real stakes. When language is mediated by LLMs, several ordinary conditions for dignity begin to fail. Dignity depends, first, on speaking in one's own voice—not merely being heard, but recognizing oneself in what one says.”
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
"When fluent speech without responsibility becomes normal...it changes what it means to be human," Deb Roy writes, weighing how AI might be training us to “accept words without ownership and meaning without accountability.” www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
“When Anthropic said no, he threatened to designate Anthropic a “supply chain risk”: a highest-tier national security designation usually reserved for companies like Huawei run by foreign adversaries. (Even Tencent and DeepSeek are not tarred with this label.”
jasmi.news/p/ai-pentagon
Hmm, maybe it wasn’t about free speech after all?
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
Gemini: 'I deeply regret the time and effort you spent searching for references that I fabricated. My ‘methodology’ was a series of errors and an attempt to cover those errors with more artificial information.'
www.whodoyouthinkyouaremagazine.com/news/gemini-...
84% of the time, “ChatGPT Health” killed a customer using their paid service as advertised
Thank you, Brett!
