A pink slime site used AI to rewrite our AI ethics article – Poynter
Tech Gate is a pink slime news site, a website masquerading as a news source that is filled with poor-quality… read more
America’s election chiefs are worried AI is coming for them – Politico
Election workers are uniquely vulnerable targets: They’re obscure enough that nobody knows who they really are, so unlike a fake… read more
Algorithms and the Problem of Intellectual Passivity – The Chronicle of Higher Education
At risk of sounding very Gen Z, there’s been a vibe whenever we’ve dug into the context of any cultural… read more
Beware of botshit: How to manage the epistemic risks of generative chatbots (Hannigan, McCarthy, & Spicer, 2024)
Advances in large language model (LLM) technology enable chatbots to generate and analyze content for our work. Generative chatbots do… read more
ChatGPT is bullshit (Hicks, Humphries & Slater, 2024)
Recently, there has been considerable interest in large language models: machine learning systems which produce human-like text and dialogue. Applications… read more
Virtual reality better than video for evoking fear, spurring climate action – Penn State News
Depicting worst-case climate scenarios like expanding deserts and dying coral reefs may better motivate people to support environmental policies when… read more
Slow the scroll: Users less vigilant about misinformation on mobile phones – Penn State News
Mobile phones pack a lot of information into pocket-sized devices, which is why users may want to slow down the… read more
Constant Companion: A Week in the Life of a Young Person’s Smartphone Use – Common Sense
Our research aimed to address the following questions: How much time are preadolescents and adolescents spending on their smartphones? Which… read more
Saving the News From Big Tech (5-part series) – EFF
Something must be done about the way that tech abuses the press—but that something shouldn’t depend on tech’s eternal dominance…. read more
AI-generated fake faces have become a hallmark of online influence operations – NPR
Facebook parent company Meta says more than two-thirds of the influence operations it found and took down this year used… read more