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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 6h
!!!! EFF is teaming up with large labor unions to sue the federal government over their social media surveillance of people for their political beliefs. !!!!
Labor Unions, EFF Sue Trump Administration to Stop Ideological Surveillance of Free Speech Online
NEW YORK—The United Automobile Workers (UAW), Communications Workers of America (CWA), and American Federation of Teachers (AFT) filed a lawsuit today against the Departments of State and Homeland Sec...
www.eff.org
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bulaw.bsky.social
Boston University School of Law @bulaw.bsky.social · 11h
"When lawmakers allow privacy nicks to become routine, repeated exposures can acclimate people to being vulnerable and watched in increasingly intimate ways," writes #BULawProf @hartzog.bsky.social and co-authors Evan Selinger and Johanna Gunawan.

Read more ➡️ spr.ly/63321A0bEh
How everyday tech is training us to accept constant surveillance
By ignoring small tech intrusions, society lowers the bar for what counts as privacy.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 11h
www.wsj.com/tech/persona...

Say what, now?
A family member sent me an image of a baby dressed in an elf outfit. My baby. It was adorable—and unnerving. My cousin took a photo from our group chat and uploaded it to Meta AI. While his heart was in the right place, my mind was spinning. What could Meta do with my son’s face? The privacy policy of Meta Platforms says the company can use these images to “improve AIs and related technology.” In the age of AI, I can’t control where my—or my son’s—face ends up. Our likenesses are no longer our own.
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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 22h
It felt like an extremely radical thing to say "you can just not teach them how to use this. i don't even know what it means to teach them AI skills but you can also just not. it might make your students more hireable, honestly."

But this idea that it's a tool whose existence justifies its use?
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marklemley.bsky.social
Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 1d
Ugh

sherwood.news/tech/reading...
Reading an article online? It’s now a coin flip whether it was authored by a human or AI
Not this one, though....
sherwood.news
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hartzog.bsky.social
Woodrow Hartzog @hartzog.bsky.social · 1d
This is, of course, always where it was headed. They will not stop unless lawmakers make them.
emryss.bsky.social
Emrys Schoemaker @emryss.bsky.social · 1d
Of course it will…
Flock’s Gunshot Detection Microphones Will Start Listening For Human Voices
Flock Safety, the police technology company most notable for their extensive network of automated license plate readers spread throughout the United States, is rolling out a new and troub…
www.techdirt.com
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emryss.bsky.social
Emrys Schoemaker @emryss.bsky.social · 1d
Of course it will…
Flock’s Gunshot Detection Microphones Will Start Listening For Human Voices
Flock Safety, the police technology company most notable for their extensive network of automated license plate readers spread throughout the United States, is rolling out a new and troub…
www.techdirt.com
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yaleisp.bsky.social
The Information Society Project at Yale Law School @yaleisp.bsky.social · 1d
Yesterday, Prof. @hartzog.bsky.social (Boston University School of Law) came to speak to us about “Against AI Half Measures.” Thank you for a wonderful presentation at this week’s Law & Tech Talk!
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hartzog.bsky.social
Woodrow Hartzog @hartzog.bsky.social · 2d
AI continues to go just great (existential edition).
eric-reinhart.com
Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 2d
This is an alarming compression of the planetary destruction timeline: with the massive growth of the AI bubble, data centers are expected to consume up to 12% of total US electricity by 2028, up from 4.4% in 2023.
www.cnn.com/2025/10/13/t...
Sora 2 and ChatGPT are consuming so much power that OpenAI just did another 10 gigawatt deal | CNN Business
OpenAI is partnering with Broadcom to design and develop 10 gigawatts of custom AI chips and systems, a massive amount of power that will use as much electricity as a large city. The move further high...
www.cnn.com
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Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 2d
This is an alarming compression of the planetary destruction timeline: with the massive growth of the AI bubble, data centers are expected to consume up to 12% of total US electricity by 2028, up from 4.4% in 2023.
www.cnn.com/2025/10/13/t...
Sora 2 and ChatGPT are consuming so much power that OpenAI just did another 10 gigawatt deal | CNN Business
OpenAI is partnering with Broadcom to design and develop 10 gigawatts of custom AI chips and systems, a massive amount of power that will use as much electricity as a large city. The move further high...
www.cnn.com
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yaleisp.bsky.social
The Information Society Project at Yale Law School @yaleisp.bsky.social · 3d
Join us tomorrow for Prof. @hartzog.bsky.social's (@bostonu.bsky.social Law) talk: "Against AI Half Measures"

Tuesday, October 14, 2025 - 12:10PM-1:30PM - SLB 128

DM for Zoom Details

Cosponsored by YJoLT
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techpolicypress.bsky.social
Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 5d
The increasing use of AI to surveil people’s emotions endangers not only privacy but also personal autonomy—the bedrock of democracy, writes Oznur Uguz. Newly emerging AI laws fail to provide adequate safeguards, she says.
How AI-Powered Emotional Surveillance Can Threaten Personal Autonomy and Democracy | TechPolicy.Press
If we do not regulate emotional AI surveillance now, we might soon have to fake how we feel to protect our privacy, writes Oznur Uguz.
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hypervisible.blacksky.app
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 6d
“Another former OpenAI employee who also was not authorized to speak publicly argued that releasing a deepfake AI social media platform was the right business decision, even if it contributes to the collapse of everyone's shared sense of reality.” 💀
Sora gives deepfakes 'a publicist and a distribution deal.' It could change the internet
OpenAI's new hit app has unleashed a new wave of AI slop across the internet. But what happens when there are no rules over hyper-realistic synthetic videos?
www.npr.org
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Ben Winters @benwinters.bsky.social · 6d
and this too in the same week -- surveillance state getting more surveillanced each day

www.wccbcharlotte.com/2025/10/10/t...
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by Daniel J. Solove — Reposted by Woodrow Hartzog

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Daniel Solove @daniel-solove.bsky.social · 6d
FINAL PUBLISHED VERSION: The Great Scrape: The Clash Between Scraping and Privacy, 113 California L Rev 1521 (2025) with Prof Woodrow Hartzog @hartzog.bsky.social papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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hartzog.bsky.social
Woodrow Hartzog @hartzog.bsky.social · 6d
This was, of course, always where the IoT and facial recognition were headed. They will not stop unless lawmakers make them.
Analysis | Amazon’s Ring plans to scan everyone’s face at the door
For the first time, the company is putting facial recognition into its home security doorbells and video cameras.
www.washingtonpost.com
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evy kwong @evystadium.bsky.social · 7d
hi hello unpaywalled
The WIRED Guide to Protecting Yourself From Government Surveillance
Donald Trump has vowed to deport millions and jail his enemies. To carry out that agenda, his administration will exploit America’s digital surveillance machine. Here are some steps you can take to ev...
www.wired.com
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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 7d
David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)
SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems... SIMON: What? SHAPIRO: ...Or saying... SIMON: You imagine that? SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over. SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level. SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this. SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.
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Woodrow Hartzog @hartzog.bsky.social · 8d
AI destroys institutions.
hypervisible.blacksky.app
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 8d
“One of the negative consequences AI is having on students is that it is hurting their ability to develop meaningful relationships with teachers, the report finds. Half of the students agree that using AI in class makes them feel less connected to their teachers.”
Rising Use of AI in Schools Comes With Big Downsides for Students
A report by the Center for Democracy and Technology looks at teachers' and students' experiences with the technology.
www.edweek.org
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hypervisible.blacksky.app
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 8d
“One of the negative consequences AI is having on students is that it is hurting their ability to develop meaningful relationships with teachers, the report finds. Half of the students agree that using AI in class makes them feel less connected to their teachers.”
Rising Use of AI in Schools Comes With Big Downsides for Students
A report by the Center for Democracy and Technology looks at teachers' and students' experiences with the technology.
www.edweek.org
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lordbusinessman.bsky.social
Lord Businessman II @lordbusinessman.bsky.social · 8d
"no in the future people will cryptographically verify what's true and-" no they will not. People are fucking stupid.
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Shira Ovide @shiraovide.bsky.social · 8d
Sigh. futurism.com/artificial-i...
Amazon Caught Peddling AI Slop Version of Cory Doctorow That's So Ironic That We Have to Go Outside and Stare at the Sky for a Bit
The renowned tech critic's book "Enshittification" hasn't even been out for a full day, and Amazon is already selling AI-generated knockoffs.
futurism.com
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snipe.lol
🇵🇹 snipe, lixo tóxico ⭑⭒⭒⭒⭒ @snipe.lol · 8d
THIS. theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art
A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal
This is a comic about AI art.
theoatmeal.com
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stop motion skeleton @jonchristian.net · 9d
folks, what are we even doing here
In one video, a forklift delivers Hawking’s wheelchair into a WWE-style ring, where he’s immediately knocked to the ground by burly wrestlers. “This shouldn’t even be legal!” exclaims an announcer in the AI-generated clip. In another video, Hawking takes blow after blow to the face from a UFC fighter. “Hawking’s in trouble,” the announcer yells, as the physicist topples out of his wheelchair. In another, Hawking is trampled by a raging bull. In another, he’s attacked by a crocodile that drags him into a muddy river. In yet another, he drops into a skateboarding halfpipe and wipes out badly, smoke pouring from his wheelchair.
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 9d
Good job Sora 2 has watermarks on its videos (people have already made tools that instantly remove the watermark)

www.404media.co/sora-2-water...
Sora 2 Watermark Removers Flood the Web
Bypassing Sora 2's rudimentary safety features is easy and experts worry it'll lead to a new era of scams and disinformation.
www.404media.co
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tepski.tech
Amanda Levendowski Tepski @tepski.tech · 9d
futurism.com/artificial-i...
Stalker Already Using OpenAI's Sora 2 to Harass Victim
A journalist claims that her stalker used Sora 2, the latest video app from OpenAI, to churn out videos of her.
futurism.com
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 10d
Delighted that Cory is having a moment with "Enshittification," because it's an accurate word for what's happening in tech and he's the right person to describe it.

(Gift link)

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/b...
A Powerhouse Writer Found One Word to Change the Debate About Tech
www.nytimes.com
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Mediagazer @mediagazer.com · 12d
About 25% of US adults say they use AI chatbots like ChatGPT for news, and 33% of them say they generally find it difficult to tell what is true and what is not (Pew Research Center)

Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 15d
We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
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