Data controversies, James Stewart
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2025:
A WordPress plug-in accidentally pushes something to live - the chair of a national institution resigns
OpenAI intentionally release products to a mass market that includes errors, manipulations and stolen material - cool, cool
Is this how it works?
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
A WordPress plug-in accidentally pushes something to live - the chair of a national institution resigns
OpenAI intentionally release products to a mass market that includes errors, manipulations and stolen material - cool, cool
Is this how it works?
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
December 1, 2025 at 6:46 PM
2025:
A WordPress plug-in accidentally pushes something to live - the chair of a national institution resigns
OpenAI intentionally release products to a mass market that includes errors, manipulations and stolen material - cool, cool
Is this how it works?
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
A WordPress plug-in accidentally pushes something to live - the chair of a national institution resigns
OpenAI intentionally release products to a mass market that includes errors, manipulations and stolen material - cool, cool
Is this how it works?
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Manslaughter charges for crappy computer system. That would be an interesting... www.bbc.com/news/article...
Police consider corporate manslaughter charges in Post Office scandal
The move comes as police continue to investigate what has been called the UK's most widespread miscarriage of justice.
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December 1, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Manslaughter charges for crappy computer system. That would be an interesting... www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Situating automated infrastructure: (Dis)continuities, contingencies and spatialities by Weiqiang Lin, Peter Adey, Tina Harris and Dylan Brady. Intro to special section on automated infrastructure. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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December 1, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Situating automated infrastructure: (Dis)continuities, contingencies and spatialities by Weiqiang Lin, Peter Adey, Tina Harris and Dylan Brady. Intro to special section on automated infrastructure. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Germany’s Data Center Boom is Pushing the Power Grid to its Limits - algorithmwatch.org/en/germany-d... "Data centers are using fossil gas in response to energy bottlenecks" awful; germany gets worse and worse... #ai #climatecrisis
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December 1, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Germany’s Data Center Boom is Pushing the Power Grid to its Limits - algorithmwatch.org/en/germany-d... "Data centers are using fossil gas in response to energy bottlenecks" awful; germany gets worse and worse... #ai #climatecrisis
BBC News - 'Rage bait' named Oxford word of the year 2025
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Rage bait named word of the year 2025 by Oxford University Press
The phrase - meaning to get angry scrolling through social media - beats aura farming and biohack to the title.
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November 30, 2025 at 11:01 PM
BBC News - 'Rage bait' named Oxford word of the year 2025
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BBC News - Facebook owner Meta accused of letting AI sellers 'run rampant' - BBC News
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Facebook owner Meta accused of letting AI sellers 'run rampant'
Dozens say they fell victim to companies using images of people who do not exist and false back stories.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 30, 2025 at 11:00 PM
BBC News - Facebook owner Meta accused of letting AI sellers 'run rampant' - BBC News
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The artist whose sound was ripped off records a cover of the AI song! apnews.com/article/walk... @lilianedwards.bsky.social @technollama.bsky.social
AI country hit 'Walk My Walk' built on Blanco Brown's sound sparks questions of attribution, ethics
An AI-generated country song, “Walk My Walk,” recently topped Billboard's country digital song sales chart.
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November 30, 2025 at 8:17 AM
The artist whose sound was ripped off records a cover of the AI song! apnews.com/article/walk... @lilianedwards.bsky.social @technollama.bsky.social
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What makes something data? Some thoughts on that question, and how answers to it help us understand AI hype:
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What makes something data?
This is a question I posted on BlueSky on Friday 11/21/25, inspired by a talk I recently attended about evaluation of “AI” systems. I think…
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November 29, 2025 at 9:55 PM
What makes something data? Some thoughts on that question, and how answers to it help us understand AI hype:
medium.com/@emilymenonb...
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chat are we cooked
November 29, 2025 at 3:42 PM
chat are we cooked
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🚨 New working paper 🚨
Can LLMs with reasoning + web search reliably fact-check political claims?
We evaluated 15 models from OpenAI, Google, Meta, and DeepSeek on 6,000+ PolitiFact claims (2007–2024).
Short answer: Not reliably—unless you give them curated evidence.
arxiv.org/abs/2511.18749
Can LLMs with reasoning + web search reliably fact-check political claims?
We evaluated 15 models from OpenAI, Google, Meta, and DeepSeek on 6,000+ PolitiFact claims (2007–2024).
Short answer: Not reliably—unless you give them curated evidence.
arxiv.org/abs/2511.18749
November 29, 2025 at 10:06 PM
🚨 New working paper 🚨
Can LLMs with reasoning + web search reliably fact-check political claims?
We evaluated 15 models from OpenAI, Google, Meta, and DeepSeek on 6,000+ PolitiFact claims (2007–2024).
Short answer: Not reliably—unless you give them curated evidence.
arxiv.org/abs/2511.18749
Can LLMs with reasoning + web search reliably fact-check political claims?
We evaluated 15 models from OpenAI, Google, Meta, and DeepSeek on 6,000+ PolitiFact claims (2007–2024).
Short answer: Not reliably—unless you give them curated evidence.
arxiv.org/abs/2511.18749
Two Gen Zers turned down millions from Elon Musk to build an AI based on the human brain—and it's outperformed models from OpenAI and Anthropic | Fortune
William Chen and Guan Wang believe they will be the first ones to build artificial general intelligence.
fortune.com
November 29, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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A study by Dayforce shows 87% of executives use AI for work, compared to 57% of managers and just 27% of employees.
I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?
I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?
Execs are embracing AI more than their employees are, new research suggests
Research from HR software company Dayforce suggests that executives are leaning into AI far more than their employees.
www.businessinsider.com
November 28, 2025 at 10:58 AM
A study by Dayforce shows 87% of executives use AI for work, compared to 57% of managers and just 27% of employees.
I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?
I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?