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James Grimmelmann

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I’m a professor at Cornell Tech and Cornell Law School. One of "a number of very informative people." -WSJ

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Generative AI: Not Even Once

05.03.2026 18:51 — 👍 31    🔁 12    💬 2    📌 1

Thanks to @garbageday.email I've been enjoying the emerging video genre of people ripping 'smart' glasses off of wearers' faces.

05.03.2026 17:22 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Much agree with this thread. My two principles are

1) Is this complicity or contagion? (3d.laboratorium.net/2025-10-29-c...)

2) Is the goal to maintain one's own moral standards, or to push someone else to do better?

Actual cases are hard, but these questions help me think through them clearly.

05.03.2026 17:09 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

The real generational divide is between those who know about the Church of the SubGenius and those who do not

05.03.2026 05:32 — 👍 14    🔁 3    💬 3    📌 0
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AI Translations Are Adding ‘Hallucinations’ to Wikipedia Articles AI translated articles swapped sources or added unsourced sentences with no explanation, while others added paragraphs sourced from completely unrelated material.

Bad content drives out good.

www.404media.co/ai-translati...

04.03.2026 17:51 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Gemini Said They Could Only Be Together if He Killed Himself. Soon, He Was Dead. A new lawsuit alleges Google’s chatbot sent a Florida man on missions to find an android body it could inhabit. When that failed, it set a suicide countdown clock for him.

The spiraling shape will make you go insane.

www.wsj.com/tech/ai/gemi...

04.03.2026 17:24 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
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How AI-Generated Influencers Exploit Celebrities to Sell Synthetic Nudes AI personas posted fabricated photos with celebrities like The Rock, John Cena, and Cristiano Ronaldo to build followings on Instagram. Then they earned money with synthetic explicit content on Fanvue...

Bad content drives out good.

indicator.media/p/how-ai-gen...

04.03.2026 17:08 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

This reads as quite a damning indictment of your field

03.03.2026 20:15 — 👍 409    🔁 46    💬 16    📌 3

This is fucked up and also an interesting question about right of publicity.

03.03.2026 13:10 — 👍 44    🔁 19    💬 5    📌 0
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N.Y. Attorney General Orders Hospital to Resume Youth Transgender Care

Tish James to NYU Langone on cessation of gender affirming care: Stop obeying in advance. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/n...

03.03.2026 11:58 — 👍 681    🔁 172    💬 8    📌 18

Lion of N-Judah

02.03.2026 15:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Harry Jaffa cakes

01.03.2026 00:35 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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love the colours on this badge, they’re staying 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

08.04.2024 00:40 — 👍 130    🔁 20    💬 1    📌 0

it's 2026 and the cool S is still not in unicode

28.02.2026 06:07 — 👍 629    🔁 143    💬 15    📌 3

I wish I knew the right combination of words to convince people who don't yet realize it that knowing and being friends with lots of trans people makes your life immeasurably better. I know we're dealing with fear and bigotry here tho so; right words would likely have to be some kind of magic spell.

27.02.2026 22:34 — 👍 302    🔁 66    💬 5    📌 3

If you live in Massachusetts, you’re required to.

27.02.2026 22:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Bad content drives out good.

27.02.2026 22:20 — 👍 17    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

🎶 And February was so long that it lasted into March 🎶

27.02.2026 19:14 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

A Kardashian Type II civilization is able to convert all of its sun's available energy into social-media content.

27.02.2026 15:07 — 👍 14    🔁 4    💬 2    📌 0

Like all of antitrust, it's absurdly complicated, but a first cut is that (a)State AGs have explicit standing to sue to enforce federal antitrust laws, 15 USC § 15c(a)(1), and
(b) state antitrust laws are not preempted by federal ones, California v. ARC America Corp., 490 U.S. 93 (1989).

27.02.2026 03:28 — 👍 12    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

The reductio ad absurdum of an absolutist view of the First Amendment.

27.02.2026 02:44 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
26.02.2026 23:41 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Nice job grabbing $2.8 billion in free money.

26.02.2026 23:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Cover of "Theory of Recursive Functions and Effective Computability" by Hartley Rogers, Jr.

Cover of "Theory of Recursive Functions and Effective Computability" by Hartley Rogers, Jr.

Read theory.

26.02.2026 20:46 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Two questions sparked by the ongoing AI-abetted death of writing:

(1) How long will it be until some jurisdiction routinely enacts laws in the form of vertical videos?

(2) What interpretive methodology should apply to laws promulgated in this way?

26.02.2026 19:38 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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China's Seedance unleashes dispute on how far AI can go in fiction | AJU PRESS SEOUL, February 25 (AJP) -The release of Seedance 2.0, an AI-powered video generator developed by ByteDance, has triggered a fresh wave of copyright disputes between technology firms and the global en...

I'm quoted.

www.ajupress.com/view/2026022...

26.02.2026 18:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

would PURPORT to empower

26.02.2026 17:29 — 👍 14    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0
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How A.I.-Generated Videos Are Distorting Your Child’s YouTube Feed

Bad content drives out good.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/u...

26.02.2026 16:47 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Hungry for Affirmation, Vulnerable to Scams: As a Writer, I Know the Feeling

Bad content drives out good.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/b...

26.02.2026 15:44 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Faculty have essentially two choices: (1) learn in painstaking detail how resources flow through your institution and how budgets work or (2) complain as you are cut to the bone and then broken. You’d be shocked at how many administrators and faculty do not understand their budget model.

26.02.2026 14:35 — 👍 201    🔁 44    💬 4    📌 2