oh ma gaaaad

In 2019, an NYC pulmonologist I interviewed for a Univision 41 local TV news segment showed me medical pictures of vapers who had worse lung damage than chain smokers.

"Honestly, it would be better off if they just smoked cigarettes," he told me when the camera stopped rolling.

Paper Finds That Leading AI Chatbots Like ChatGPT and Claude Remain Incredibly Sycophantic, Resulting in Twisted Effects on Users A study found that sycophancy is pervasive among chatbots, and that bots are more likely than human peers to affirm a person's bad behavior.

A new study found that sycophancy is a pervasive function of leading chatbots, which are likely to give users bad/antisocial advice when asked about real-world interpersonal conflicts -- warping users' judgement and promoting dependence.

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can you put in a good word for me

This is just a little joke, of course, because they are always listening

Robots, if you're listening: STOP trying to write my articles and START figuring out how to do my laundry

seeing a lot of moral abandonment and dereliction of duty by people who just wanna stay employed and wondering how much this would be happening if healthcare and insurance could be decoupled from employment

It’s oh so quiet

Update on Angwin v. Superhuman Litigation Since Julia Angwin filed a class action lawsuit over Grammarly’s Expert Review tool on March 11, 2026, Angwin v. Superhuman Platform, Inc., No. 26 Civ. 02005-JGK (S.D.N.Y.), Julia and her counsel at Peter Romer-Friedman Law PLLC have heard from many people who are rightly concerned that their names and identities were used by Grammarly or may have been used for commercial purposes without their consent. We appreciate all the interest and enthusiasm that this case has generated. We want to underscore that the case was filed as a class action lawsuit so that Julia and her lawyers can seek relief for all of the people in the United States whose names or identities used by Grammarly’s Expert Review tool (the Class Members), and in this litigation we plan to ask the Court to certify a nationwide class that includes all of those Class Members. Typically, when a court certifies a class action under Rule 23 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, the class members do not need to do anything to remain in the class, but they are allowed to “opt out” of the class if they don’t want to be a part of it.In the discovery process in this litigation, we will ask Grammarly’s owner, Superhuman, to identify all the people who were included in its Expert Review Tool so that, at the appropriate time, those people can be notified that they are members of the Class. Anyone who thinks they may be a class member of the proposed Class can contact Peter Romer-Friedman Law at info@prf-law.com to make sure we have your contact information, and we are happy to answer any questions that you may have about the case. At this time, however, you do not need to take any action to join the Angwin case to be included as a member of the proposed Class. (At the same time, we recommend against entering into any agreement with Grammarly, as Grammarly might claim that by doing so you’ve waived your rights in this case).

Small update from my attorneys -- you don't need to do anything to be added to the class action. Anyone who was included as an expert in Grammarly Pro will automatically be a member of the class once it is certified by the court.

Updates on the case will be posted here prf-law.com/current-case...

A hoverboard, clothes dryer, and teddy bear with glowing red eyes and vampire teeth. They are standing at a doorway trying to come inside. The text reads: Don't let them in. Search for unsafe products before you buy - SaferProducts.gov.

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Run it under hot water, bang it on the kitchen counter a few times at a very specific angle, then try again

The cheese manufacturer said Nah i'm good

omg

'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. The Data Labelers Association is fighting back.

“It fractured a lot of things for me. My body is like, not functioning at all.” - a double-shift data labeler and sex bot worker in Nairobi / Such important reporting from @jasonkoebler.bsky.social www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...

Hair products laced with cancer-causing chemicals would come with a warning label under new Colorado bill House Bill 1135 builds on a growing body of research showing hair relaxers, straighteners and synthetic hair are associated with higher cancer risks

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tl;dr -- Buy the Daily News: get your news from where the TV guys get theirs.

It's a very good day for accountability at the @cpsc.gov! and for keeping this deadly toy out of the hands of kids and babies.

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Grammarly Is Facing a Class Action Lawsuit Over Its AI ‘Expert Review’ Feature The feature, which Grammarly shut down Wednesday, presented editing suggestions as if they came from established authors and academics—without their consent.

I'm suing Grammarly over its paid AI feature that presented editing suggestions as if they came from me - and many other writers and journalists - without consent.

State law requires consent before someone's name can be used for commercial purposes.

www.wired.com/story/gramma...

I guess we are going to have to find a way to copyright ourselves so that we have the right to demand automatic takedowns of bots that steal our identities…

Grammarly turned me into an AI editor against my will and I hate it The company tells Platformer it will let experts opt out of the controversial feature — but how different is it than what every other AI company is doing?

Wait, what?! Grammarly made an AI persona of me and all these other journalists?!!!!!

Thank you @caseynewton.bsky.social for shaming them into at least offering a paltry optout— although obviously that is not enough.

www.platformer.news/grammarly-ex...

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Join me (and some of the scientific experts at Consumer Reports) on Reddit in a half hour, where we will be discussing the findings of our latest infant formula investigation - Ask Us Anything! www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comme...

When I go out drinking with the other reporters and we start designing the outlet we’d make if someone handed us a check, the two recurring things on the wishlist are more court reporters and a revival of the Arts and Culture section

With our app, you can do deep searches across entities that show up in the data. Here's a way to search for everyone who mentioned these Elon Musk-connected companies in their disclosure forms:

xAI OR "X Corp" OR Twitter OR Tesla OR Neuralink OR "Boring Co"

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NEW: Over the past year, we've been collecting thousands of financial disclosure documents from across the Trump administration. Now we're making them searchable. Look up names, assets, former employers across 1,500+ Trump appointees and 3,000+ ethics documents.

Just found a piss-poor rewrite of this article by an "AI" "reporter" so I'm going to re-up it again.

Because while LLMs can write as poorly as the best of us, only we humans can get the info in the first place.

We Tested 41 Baby Formulas for Lead and Arsenic - Consumer Reports CR tested over 40 baby formulas for heavy metals as well as lead, arsenic, BPA, and other potentially harmful contaminants. Here's what you should know.

And here was last year's story about our first round of testing, and some historical context! www.consumerreports.org/babies-kids/...

We Tested 49 More Baby Formulas for Lead and Arsenic - Consumer Reports Our most recent round of baby formula tests detected contaminants at potentially concerning levels in 26 of the 49 baby formulas we evaluated.

Read more in our new story, out today: www.consumerreports.org/babies-kids/...

It's been a year since the FDA promised to increase oversight over the infant formula industry. “So far, there has been a lot of sound and fury associated with this initiative in the form of declarative press statements, but it hasn’t translated into any meaningful action,” says CR's Brian Ronholm.