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Too much social media gives AI chatbots ‘brain rot’ Large language models fed low-quality data skip steps in their reasoning process.

If only every single critical "AI" researcher had warned about the likelihood of this danger for machine learning-based systems for the past decade or so and if only an acronym like "GIGO" had existed for decades Prior.

Oh If Only 😐

"Too much social media gives AI chatbots ‘brain rot’"

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The week that AI deepfakes hit Europe’s elections Dutch and Irish elections show voters now have to worry if the political content they consume is real.

The 🇳🇱 elections were not the first (or the last) w AI generated images. But the combination of AI content, systematic far-right circulation, and use of chabots for vote advice was a new ‘AI cocktail’.

Comments in @evahartog.bsky.social @pieterhaeck.bsky.social story
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Artificial intelligence and journalism: a race with machines The term Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a somewhat catch-all term that refers to the different possibilities offered by recent technological developments. From machine learning to natural language pr...

It’s always sad to hear a valued independent media outlet will close. @equaltimes.bsky.social will be closing soon. I was honoured to contribute an article on AI and journalism a few years ago. Thanks to the team for all they’ve achieved and best of luck ahead. www.equaltimes.org/artificial-i...

Hundreds of thousands of videos from news publishers like The New York Times and Vox were used to train AI models YouTube channels from major news publishers and creators were in video data sets used by Microsoft, Meta, Snap, Runway AI, and Bytedance.

Hundreds of thousands of videos were taken from some of the most popular news publishers on YouTube and used to train AI video models. That includes The New York Times, ABC News, Al Jazeera, Vox Media, and The Wall Street Journal. My latest @niemanlab.org. www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/hund...

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AI Is Causing a Grim New Twist on the Dunning-Kruger Effect, New Research Finds New research shows how AI tools is making a Dunning-Kruger specimen out of everyone that uses them, no matter how smart.

“‘When it comes to AI, the [Dunning-Kruger effect] vanishes,’ study senior author Robin Welsch, a professor at Aalto University, said in a statement about the work. ‘In fact, what’s really surprising is that higher AI literacy brings more overconfidence.’”

How AI browsers sneak past blockers and paywalls. OpenAI’s Atlas and Perplexity’s Comet present a new challenge for media companies that want to limit AI access.

How AI Browsers Sneak Past Blockers and Paywalls, by Aisvarya Chandrasekar and Klaudia Jaźwińska of the @towcenter.bsky.social. www.cjr.org/analysis/how...

2nd edition of our The AI Shift newsletter is out. The question today: could AI be making us LESS productive? @jburnmurdoch.ft.com www.ft.com/content/2480... At the individual level, it's clear we're not reliable witnesses on this Q. At an organisational level, it gets even more interesting...

Researchers Explore the Use of LLMs for Content Moderation | TechPolicy.Press The subject was a stand-out theme at the Trust and Safety Research Conference, held last month at Stanford, writes Tim Bernard.

Platforms are accelerating the transition to AI for content moderation, laying off trust and safety workers and outsourced moderators in favor of automated systems, writes Tim Bernard. The practice raises a host of questions, some of which are now being studied both in universities and in industry.

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Youtube has announced that all low-res videos (i.e. older ones) are to be automatically AI upscaled to HD.
Creators can opt-out on a per video basis (but the channel may be long abandoned).

When researching props or behind the scenes, old videos are useful, but not if upscaling produces artefacts.

Just like #genAI in general, upscaling means hallucination. It doesn't operate in the realm of factual truth and historical authenticity, but rather produces probable, more or less plausible versions of what could have been. Its application to historical content is a form of destruction of knowledge

AI hallucinates because it’s trained to fake answers it doesn’t know Teaching chatbots to say “I don’t know” could curb hallucinations. It could also break AI’s business model

AI hallucinates because it’s trained to fake answers it doesn’t know www.science.org/content/arti...

""“Even the software I use to review a paper for a scientific journal will ask me if I want an AI summary. While scientific journals have guidelines that virtually prohibit the use of AI when writing a paper, and certainly when reviewing it.”"

YouTube video by Nieuwsuur AI-manipulatie in de politiek: PVV is bepaald niet de enige

AI content has hit Dutch elections, part of a broader trend including Presidential communication in the US.

In the Dutch elections, AI is used by the radical right (including MPs) to boost emotions and attack opponents.

I was interviewed by @nieuwsuur.nl about this

www.youtube.com/shorts/kEGcA...

And here’s a startup offering influencing/propaganda services. Called it ;) www.404media.co/a16z-backed-...

Failings "are systemic, cross-border, and multilingual, and we believe this endangers public trust. When people don’t know what to trust, they end up trusting nothing at all, and that can deter democratic participation", says Jean Philip De Tender, @ebu.ch Media Director and Deputy Director General.

Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory New research coordinated by the EBU and led by the BBC has found that AI assistants routinely distort or misrepresent public service journalism.

Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory www.ebu.ch/news/2025/10...

AI and information disorders: From historical manipulation to algorithmic amplification The manipulation of information dates back to the beginning of human society and has taken many different forms throughout history and across different cultures. While persuasion techniques are not ne...

AI and information disorders: From historical manipulation to algorithmic amplification
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OpenAI’s Sora: When Seeing Should Not Be Believing

OpenAI’s Sora: When Seeing Should Not Be Believing
New text-to-video tool from the leading AI company generates convincing videos advancing false claims 80 percent of the time when prompted to do so, a NewsGuard analysis found
www.newsguardtech.com/special-repo...

Sora d’OpenAI : quand voir ne suffit plus pour croire

Source : www.newsguardtech.com/fr/special-r...

Sora, le nouvel outil de génération de vidéos à partir de texte développé par Open AI, produit des vidéos relayant des affirmations fausses dans 80% des cas lorsqu’on le lui demande, selon une analyse de NewsGuard.

Finally, someone has solved a real problem with AI! No more having to take a paper in the format for a journal that rejected you, and reformat it for a new journal. Well done!! formatmypaper.com

Oui, c'est bien de la vulgarisation philosophique et intellectuelle, axée sur le débat d’idées. Mais ça suppose une certaine maîtrise des bases scientifiques si l'on considère que la philosophie interroge la portée, les limites et à la signification du savoir et de la connaissance scientifique.

Éric Sadin | Semantic Scholar Semantic Scholar profile for Éric Sadin, with 2 highly influential citations and 13 scientific research papers.

Intéressant de consulter son profil sur Semantic Scholar, qui est un bon indicateur de qualité scientifique (il se concentre sur la pertinence des articles plutôt que sur la quantité).
www.semanticscholar.org/author/%C3%8...

Should this paper be published somewhere? ;-)

“Of course, we have to teach our students about AI technologies. Teaching about AI technologies should be just like how we teach ‘no smoking’ or the causal links between lung cancer and smoke; yet, we do not teach students how to roll cigarettes and smoke them.”

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