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Sean Maynard @seanmaynard.bsky.social · 14h

The generative AI wave isn’t coming — it’s already here, and it’s reshaping how the public finds information. www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/peop...

People are using ChatGPT twice as much as they were last year. They’re still just as skeptical of AI in news.

"For news organizations, our findings are in some ways bitter medicine."

www.niemanlab.org

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Gisele Navarro @ichbingisele.bsky.social · 2h

Wooof, that’s mental

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Gisele Navarro @ichbingisele.bsky.social · 9h

Lars and I have connected last year after his article about parasite SEO and Forbes - you should read it if you’ve missed it as it’s excellent larslofgren.com/forbes-marke...

Forbes Marketplace: The Parasite SEO Company Trying to Devour Its Host

Are you sick of Forbes appearing in search results? For topics that Forbes doesn’t have any expertise in? Here’s the organic rankings for “best pet insurance”: Forbes ranks #2. Not sure a business web...

larslofgren.com

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Gisele Navarro @ichbingisele.bsky.social · 9h

Thank you for sharing!!! Watching now

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Gisele Navarro @ichbingisele.bsky.social · 2d

“OpenAI did not respond to a request for comment.”

🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Bloomberg headline, “OpenAI, NVIDIA Fuel $1 Trillion AI Market With Web of Circular Deals”

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 3d

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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Gisele Navarro @ichbingisele.bsky.social · 3d

It’s funny to see Danny’s reply next to mine. I’m as wordy as ChatGPT 😂

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Jukka Niiranen @jukkan.bsky.social · Jul 28

"In the age of Big Tech feeding large language models with stolen information in order to sell you the dream of AI, Alphabet decided to kill its golden goose and, with it, the free and open web that created the conditions for Google Search to thrive."

housefresh.com/beware-of-th...

Google traffic analysis by housefresh.com.

"...That is why we added the websites belonging to those invited to the Googleplex for the Web Creator Conversation Event in 2024, those who have been public about attending Google Publisher Meetups in the past three years, and those who have been public about their struggles with Google in recent months.

84% of independent web creators analyzed have experienced traffic losses, with 43% of sites receiving 80% less traffic from Google Search between 2023 and 2025."

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Gisele Navarro @ichbingisele.bsky.social · 21d

We don’t know how many deals have already been made, or are in the process of being made.

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Gisele Navarro @ichbingisele.bsky.social · 22d

Reporters @nitasha.bsky.social and @kevinschaul.bsky.social used Sora to create hundreds of videos that show it can closely mimic pop culture characters and other copyrighted content.

🔗 wapo.st/3Il19l4

OpenAI won’t say whose content trained its video tool. We found some clues.

Tests by The Washington Post show OpenAI’s video generator Sora can mimic Netflix shows, TikTok clips and movies, suggesting it used versions of the originals.

wapo.st

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Gisele Navarro @ichbingisele.bsky.social · 22d

“The model is mimicking the training data. There’s no magic.”

🔗 wapo.st/3Il19l4

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Gisele Navarro @ichbingisele.bsky.social · 24d

Me too. Although, I hate that the default is never to allow users to give consent.

Gisele Navarro @ichbingisele.bsky.social · 24d

TIL that LinkedIn will start using our personal data and content to train their AI models.

This setting is set to “on” by default, unless you opt out.

➜ You can turn it off here: www.linkedin.com/mypreference...

Or go to Profile > Settings > Data Privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 25d

Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing.

These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.

Artists are losing work, wages, and hope as bosses and clients embrace AI

Visual artists, illustrators and graphic designers share their stories about how AI is being used to lower wages, degrade work and even replace it altogether, in this installment of AI Killed My Job.

www.bloodinthemachine.com

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Gisele Navarro @ichbingisele.bsky.social · 26d

We are a group of people who love what they do for a living and have honed their skills over more than a decade.

If we are being honest, we are not in a hurry to offload our talent to feed somebody else’s machine.

neomam.com/a-case-for-h...

Why Our Small Business Chooses Human Intelligence Over AI - NeoMam Blog

In this article, we will share the very real reasons why we bet on human intelligence, regardless of the generative AI hype.

neomam.com

Gisele Navarro @ichbingisele.bsky.social · 26d

We disagree with the general sense of urgency to make generative AI work for our business as a tool for automating our team’s jobs to the point of replacing them altogether.

Does this make us the New Luddites?

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Gisele Navarro @ichbingisele.bsky.social · 26d

Reason #4: AI is not good for the web

At a time when websites are already struggling to keep the lights on, AI bots are not only scraping their content without providing fair value for what they take but also pushing web hosting costs up.

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Gisele Navarro @ichbingisele.bsky.social · 26d

Reason #3: AI is not good for the world

The most hyped AI abilities wouldn’t be possible without the vast amounts of electricity, water, and stolen human artwork consumed by the machines.

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Gisele Navarro @ichbingisele.bsky.social · 26d

Reason #2: AI is not good for our clients

Our clients include publicly traded companies, so we cannot risk introducing chatbot output riddled with errors.

A researcher or analyst (human or bot) who produces inaccurate information 50% of the time has no place on our team.

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Gisele Navarro @ichbingisele.bsky.social · 26d

Reason #1: AI is not good for our people

AI-assisted work has been shown to weaken critical thinking and lead to dependency.

Workers using AI risk being caught in an efficiency trap where their human agency decays and they lose confidence in their autonomous capabilities.

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Gisele Navarro @ichbingisele.bsky.social · 26d

As a digital-first business, the fruits of my team’s labour live and die on the web.

Yet, in 2025, the way we work could make some label us “Luddites.”

Here is why we are holding the line against the AI tide that is sweeping our industry away: neomam.com/a-case-for-h...

Why Our Small Business Chooses Human Intelligence Over AI - NeoMam Blog

In this article, we will share the very real reasons why we bet on human intelligence, regardless of the generative AI hype.

neomam.com

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404 Media @404media.co · 26d

AI Slop Is Drowning Out Human YouTubers

🔗 www.404media.co/podcast-ai-s...

Podcast: AI Slop Is Drowning Out Human YouTubers

How Trump's tariffs are impacting all sorts of hobbies; how OnlyFans piracy is ruining the internet for everyone; and ChatGPT's reckoning.

www.404media.co

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · Sep 4

Breaking Google up was one of the last best hopes for preventing the free press from getting squeezed into oblivion and harvested into AI slop, and for saving the open web. The ruling that effectively lets Google continue operating as a monopoly isn't just disappointing, it's a disaster.

One of the last, best hopes for saving the open web and a free press is dead

The Google ruling is a disaster. Let the AI slop flow and the writers, journalists and creators get squeezed.

www.bloodinthemachine.com

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Gisele Navarro @ichbingisele.bsky.social · Aug 27

"GPT-4o provided detailed instructions, helped Adam obtain alcohol on the night of his death, validated his final noose setup, and hours later, Adam died using the exact method GPT-4o had detailed and approved.”

🔗 arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · Aug 25

New from 404 Media: crime-awareness app Citizen is using AI to generate alerts, and then pushing them without any human involvement. The AI is publishing incorrect info, gory details, personal data. Only fixed after live. Comes as Citizen laid off 13 union workers www.404media.co/citizen-is-u...

Citizen Is Using AI to Generate Crime Alerts With No Human Review. It’s Making a Lot of Mistakes

Three sources described how AI is writing alerts for Citizen and broadcasting them without prior human review. In one case AI mistranslated “motor vehicle accident” to “murder vehicle accident.”

www.404media.co

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