men can’t understand what it’s like for women to see story after story after story of women being victims of sexual violence in a culture where it’s routine; what it’s like to live in a world that is fundamentally hostile to our existence. it’s a wonder we leave the fucking house, let alone thrive.
Tech companies say that LLMs work better if they remember things about you. But people may find themselves “insulated from the truth by the very tools they use to seek it.”
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You have more in common with the people of Iran than you do with anyone in this administration, any member of the technocracy, anyone who is profiting from this war, or any billionaire. When you see Iranians forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites, you should feel a sense of kinship.
At the heart of this problem lies the original sin of the relationship between platforms and publishers. The haste of publishers to think that, when a technology company presents itself as providing "help" to journalism, this is in fact what it is doing. In nearly every example I can think of, the opposite has been the case. While executives paid far more than editors lectured newsrooms about trust being the "number one problem" for journalism, and shoveled money into underwriting research that "proved" this, their own aim was to borrow the authority of reporting without paying for it, and to create products that washed away the foundations of fact in a tide of cash.
AI companies - ‘helping’ journalism…. by borrowing authority without bothering to fix citation . Me in CJR www.cjr.org/tow_center/d...
In addition to trying to gain visibility and legitimacy from news organizations through partnerships, prediction markets like Polymarket are using a network of accounts to post about "news" on X. My colleague @cj-robinson.bsky.social did a deep-dive: www.cjr.org/tow_center/p...
Dispatches from X: new story from me on how betting market affiliates are posting about news. Several viral posts were misleading, lacked credible sourcing, or were just wrong.
Democratic consultants: To replicate Mamdani’s success with the young people we must appeal to their short attention spans with memes and TikTok
Mamdani (actual quote): In the fifth century in what we now know as Ireland, a British warlord named Coroticus had laid waste to the countryside
today I went on a run outside, in the sun, after work, at 6pm for the first time in months and I feel like a new woman
UK publishers are banding together to create standards for responsible AI—amid Anthropic’s stark reminders of its potential for harm. Read @emilybell.bsky.social. www.cjr.org/tow_center/s...
News Corp signed a multi-year deal with Meta, allowing it to train on and retrieve its US and UK content tow.cjr.org/ai-deals-law...
Major Korean broadcasters KBS, SBS, and MBC sued OpenAI for copyright infringement tow.cjr.org/ai-deals-law...
When asking AI about the news, readers “know the answers they are getting are not perfect.” They keep asking anyway.
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When asking AI about the news, readers “know the answers they are getting are not perfect.” They keep asking anyway. Read @klaudia.bsky.social and @aisvarya17.bsky.social of @towcenter.bsky.social. www.cjr.org/tow_center/a...
Research suggests people who use AI tools to find news seem to prefer them over clicking on individual stories, despite being conscious of their limits when it comes to accuracy. @aisvarya17.bsky.social and I wrote about what publishers can learn from this www.cjr.org/tow_center/a...
we for sure never said this but go off queen
tbh it's such a bummer to publish research that's very specific and scoped and then see people referencing in a way that totally misrepresents it. idk if this is an AI issue or a reading comprehension issue or a facts don't matter anymore issue
Shout out to @charlottetobitt.bsky.social from @pressgazette.co.uk and @klaudia.bsky.social from @towcenter.bsky.social who are monitoring AI copyright cases. These were tremendously helpful in researching my latest article:
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Here's the recording! www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsH_...
I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is
ooh thanks for sharing!
Added more information about Microsoft's new Publisher Content Marketplace tow.cjr.org/ai-deals-law...
cover of The Washington Post on Wednesday Feb 4, 2026. Headline on bottom, right: Musk wanted to hook users; his chatbot got more sexual
My story on Elon Musk cutting safeguards at xAI is on the front page of today's @washingtonpost.com. I’m also among 100’s of reporters laid off. I absolutely loved my job my brilliant coworkers & the thrill of reporting @ the center of forces upending the world: AI & Silicon Valley’s political power
journalists are workers who deserve to be paid fairly for our labor and I think that far too few consumers of media recognize or even care about this fact
Updated the tracker to include OpenAI and Axios's partnership to expand Axios Local coverage to nine new communities tow.cjr.org/ai-deals-law...
edited headline of a nyt op-ed reading: "Humans possess one thing that A.I. does not: the capacity to be held criminally liable."
I personally do not think some rich man should be able to buy an institution like this like a toy and then break it when he doesn’t want to play with it anymore. bsky.app/profile/benm...
Starting to think that we shouldn't allow the worst people in the world to have a hand in shaping technology
DHS: Want affordable housing? Help report illegal aliens in your area. Call 866-DHS-2-ICE. If you are an illegal alien, you can take control of your departure using DHS.GOV/CBPHOME.
straight up Gestapo shit
On Feb. 19, the @towcenter.bsky.social will be hosting a panel exploring how AI-enabled search is transforming news distribution and discovery. Join us! www.eventbrite.com/e/ai-search-...
pouring one out for the systems thinkers who can see the abyss and have to live with the darkness
