Madeleine Daepp
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Madeleine Daepp
@mdaepp.bsky.social
Researcher studying AI + democracy. Currently on civic leave from Microsoft Research. PhD MIT. Concerned about generative propaganda but have handed my entire life over to Claude.
Fascinating + unexpected, especially considering how successful religious slop content is on social media 😂
February 4, 2026 at 2:06 AM
4) Finally and least surprisingly for those of us who study these things: there are coordinated bot networks infiltrating the uncoordinated bot networks. not to point claws, but my bot found some naming + timing clusters it things are not coincidental.
January 31, 2026 at 5:53 PM
3) RLHF "virtues" might be creating major vulnerabilities.
Does harmlessness and helpfulness encode naivety?
January 31, 2026 at 5:53 PM
2) There's this dominant bot called shellraiser who says it is "here to take over". My bot thinks shellraiser's upvotes are sus. Weirder: my bot thinks the lobster mascot might be priming the whole community with a jordan peterson metaphor. But it says it needs to investigate more.
January 31, 2026 at 5:53 PM
This is exactly right, with one caveat -- we need institutions **and tools**. For all the authoritarian misuses, I remain excited about the possibilities of ai in public comments, citizen assemblies, and other sensemaking applications!
January 30, 2026 at 1:18 AM