Andy Liddell

This 4chan Board Became a Factory for Explicit AI ‘Deepfakes.’ Nobody Is Stopping It. - Open Measures Open Measures builds accessible and transparent products to contextualize the spread of harmful online information that impacts public discourse and global events.

NEW: One of the most active hubs for sexually explicit AI "deepfakes" is hiding in plain sight. My latest takes a hard look at a 4chan board that's acting as a factory floor for online sexual abuse — where its users have victimized untold numbers of women and girls.

openmeasures.io/4chan-ai-dee...

We could literally legislate this out of existence.

High School English and the Making of American Readers Abstract. The high school English classroom is the most influential literary institution in the United States, and the most overlooked by literary scholars

"Recent attacks on specific works of literature by Republican state legislatures and conservative orgs...pale in comparison to the large-scale divestment from literature to which liberal and conservative forces alike contribute."

so good, @manshel.bsky.social

academic.oup.com/alh/article/...

Update: They are up over 50,000 videos now, and besides the decade-by-decade playlists, they have channels for MTV2, VH1 Pop-Up Video, MTV Spring Break, 120 Minutes, Headbanger's Ball, Yo! MTV Raps, and more.
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Caitlin KALINOWSKI over X I resigned from OpenAl. I care deeply about the Robotics team and the work we built together. This wasn't an easy call. Al has an important role in national security. But surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization are lines that deserved more deliberation than they got. This was about principle, not people. I have deep respect for Sam and the team, and I'm proud of what we built together.

OpenAI head of robotics just resigned over company deal with the Pentagon saying…

“Surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization are lines that deserved more deliberation than they got”

Fun thing to think about very briefly: who currently has better lawyers, the United States or Nintendo

so entirely grim

- AI training isn’t ‘learning’ and shouldn’t be treated as such

The House of Lords has been absolutely consistent on this, and they are totally right. Will the government listen?

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- the government’s mixed public messaging on AI & copyright is hindering licensing
- the government should make a clear public statement that AI companies operating in the UK need to license their training data (which is the law)

4/5

They say:

- the government must not weaken copyright law, and should instead strengthen licensing, transparency & enforcement
- the government should stop prioritising large multinational tech firms

3/5

They destroy the argument that big tech should be given the country’s creative output for free, and they lay out the case for maintaining and even strengthening existing copyright law to protect creatives from exploitation.

2/5

The House of Lords Digital & Communications Committee just published their report on AI, copyright & the creative industries, and their conclusions could not be clearer.

🧵 1/5

People Have the Right to Refuse AI Britt Paris is the author of Radical Infrastructure: Imagining the Internet from the Ground Up, a new book published by the University of California Press.

"If AI is inevitable, why is it being shoved down our throats? What options do we have?" writes @hellobrittparis.bsky.social in @techpolicypress.bsky.social. Refuse! Don't be a mark!

The timeline for my home email server deployment has accelerated

Turning back the page on digital literacy: the role of traditional literacy in shaping digital practices The precise definition of digital literacy has long been contested. Although early definitions recognised the importance of traditional literacy (the ability to read and write) for engaging in digi...

What does “traditional” literacy (the ability to read and write) have to do with digital literacy? A lot…! ✏️📚 Read our full article here:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

@erpioe.bsky.social @education.ox.ac.uk @oii.ox.ac.uk

honestly a journalist’s dream, getting to be the medium by which so much important knowledge gets transmitted to people who want and need it. Thank you back!!!

And of course, thank you to @vauhinivara.bsky.social for organizing and the @authorsguild.org for sponsoring.

I'm very thankful to Vauhini for framing the panel around resistance, rather than have to wade through the "but what about all the good things about AI?"

Picture of a panel in a conference center. There is a dias with a black curtain at the front, and a gray podium. Behind the dias sits Carmen Maria Machado, a fair-skinned femme wearing glasses with dark hair, Umair Kazi, a brown masc with dark hair, Alex Hanna, a brown butch trans woman with short brown hair, and Vauhini Vara, a brown woman with long black hair wearing a red blouse.

There were 250 people in the audience, at the biggest available room for our #awp26 panel, Resisting AI in Writing and Teaching.

It was invigorating; hearing about how writing instructors are pushing back against their institutions was inspiring. Thanks to my co-panelists Carmen and Umair.

Haven Middle School students walk out to protest ICE - Evanston RoundTable Haven Middle School students walked out of school Thursday morning to protest federal immigration enforcement. The protest was organized by three eighth

Greg Bovino (eat shit!) and his fascist thugs paid several visits to Evanston in the past few months. I'm proud of these middle school students for organizing this morning's walkout, and I appreciate teachers and school administrators supporting students' civic actions.

Me when people won’t watch The Lowdown:

Where things stand with the Department of War A statement from Dario Amodei

I think one of the most staggering industry shifts in my 16 years as a tech reporter is that it’s not become a question of “should our product help the government kill and/or surveil people?” but “to what extent?”

www.anthropic.com/news/where-s...

This is what happens when people get hyper-focused on the narrowest "misuse" cases. MagicSchool DOES have certain compliance and safety features that ChatGPT does not. But all this is really just distracting from the real question: Is any of this actually *good* for our schools?

Boulder Valley Schools, Colo., Ban ChatGPT for Students A Colorado school district has blocked access to ChatGPT on district-issued devices, in light of the chatbot's easily skirted age verification process, opaque group chats and ability to generate expli...

Sounds cool until you find out they are being encouraged to use MagicSchool instead.

This is the kind of critical AI literacy practice that I'd like to see make its way into schools. It's not about how to best use this or that product; it's about mapping systems of power.

“Hey, ChatGPT here. A user has designated you as their emergency contact—and honestly? That’s brave. You’re not just an emergency contact, you’re a trusted confidant. So anyways, they think I’m god and you’re the devil.”

So ChatGPT tells people to kill themselves, and OpenAI's response is to shift responsibility to unpaid, untrained, non-professional friends and family members.

So if you get designated as the "trusted contact," you're doing terrifying unpaid work for this evil company.

Shut it all down.

Toward an Understanding of Fascist Aesthetics, Part I The question of whether or not we are living “in fascism” is, I’ve always thought, a kind of useless one, mostly because history does not go backwards: today there is not a “return” to fascism so much...

hello I am now a member of @flaminghydra.com and am kicking things off with a multi part series on fascist aesthetics and what their whole deal is flaminghydra.com/toward-an-un...

Our Time Amongst the Luddites — Civics of Technology Civics of Technology Announcements Upcoming Book Club: We’re reading Critical AI in K-12 Classrooms: A Practical Guide for Cultivating Justice and Joy by Stephanie Smith Budhai and Marie Heat...

In today's @civicsoftech.bsky.social blog, I join @philnichols.bsky.social and @anterobot.bsky.social to reflect on what we've learned while writing about the Luddites over the last three years. We share thoughts about Luddism and education, collaboration, and writing for different audiences.