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“Pangram is a research-first company, not just for our industry-leading AI detection algorithms, but for tracking the risk and prevalence of AI-generated content. Social media is one of the hardest domains to study here — much harder than, say, news articles, research papers, or Amazon reviews. But it’s also one of the most crucial, because …
Dear World: Now is a good time to get off social media that’s going downhill. Where by “downhill” I mean any combination of less useful, less safe, or less fun. It’s time for something better, and by “something better” I mean Mastodon. Which, I’m here to say, offers a better social-media experience than the alternatives. …
404 Media: “A shocking amount of the content that users encounter on popular social media websites is likely AI generated, according to data from a company that detects AI writing. As much as 41 percent of longform written content seen by users on LinkedIn is likely to be fully AI-generated and roughly a third of …
Meta has control over many of the social platforms that people use every day – YouTube. “Since Facebook started in 2004, the company has been fine-tuning how to turn user data from apps like Instagram and WhatsApp into ad revenue. Now Meta’s $1.5 trillion market cap isn’t enough for them, so they’ve been looking for …
Washington Post – no paywall: “Anthropic, Google and Meta have hired computer scientists, neuroscientists and philosophers to study what some in the industry think may become a moral crisis…Although proof of AI consciousness is lacking, many in tech fascinated by the topic are already discussing the moral consequences of finding sentient software. Within decades, there …
Tech Policy: “Political violence is on the rise in the United States. According to a summary of key trends from the Princeton University Bridging Divides Initiative, this rise is reflected across a range of different statistics, from an increase in targeted violence and assassination attempts to an increase in the overall volume of threats and …
DOGE fired NOAA’s climate scientists – they just launched Climate.us – “Keeping trusted climate information up to date and easy to find.. Climate hazards—both natural and human-caused—are a significant threat to public health and safety, to communities and infrastructure, to the economy, and to forests and other natural resources. Americans who don’t understand climate can’t …
Bloomberg – no paywall: “Leaked files reveal the Social Design Agency’s efforts to control the information that underpins search engines and AI chatbots. Russian influence operators called it Project 2026. The plan wasn’t just to spread fabricated stories on social media platforms. It outlined efforts to create an alternative information ecosystem. Leaked documents from a …
Brennan Center: News Deserts Leave Voters Vulnerable to Election Misinformation. “In recent years, the local journalism ecosystem has shrunk dramatically amid the closure and consolidation of small local news outlets and the reduction in local coverage by larger outlets that remain. The absence of locally specific news has rendered many communities news deserts — areas …
Yet another example of government conducted on social media, X, owned by Elon Musk, via a posting by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, with the State Department completely absent. No American diplomats, translators, subject matter experts….just Kushner, Witcoff, Vance….and who else? This is the document posted on the OFAC site. And several notes – this waiver …
Via LLRX – Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, June 20, 2026 – Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly …
The Newsground: “Leaked Russian records obtained by The Newsground show that the founders of a technology company embedded in the White House’s official mobile application continued using sanctioned Russian banks after the 2022 invasion of Ukraine. Following the invasion, its founders continued to travel to Russia, even after one of them complained on Telegram that …
