Laurence Dierickx
@ohmyshambles.bsky.social
Researcher in information/disinformation #AI technology with a blend of STS, ethics and journalism studies 🇧🇪 🇳🇴 https://ohmybox.info/about
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New publication alert! From bytes to bylines - A history of AI in journalism practices
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Yann LeCun's new venture is a contrarian bet against large language models www.technologyreview.com/2026/01/22/1...
Yann LeCun’s new venture is a contrarian bet against large language models
In an exclusive interview, the AI pioneer shares his plans for his new Paris-based company, AMI Labs.
www.technologyreview.com
January 23, 2026 at 2:25 PM
Yann LeCun's new venture is a contrarian bet against large language models www.technologyreview.com/2026/01/22/1...
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Student journalism is filling local news gaps. A new map tracks 1,100+ college newspapers across the U.S., and 766 are in or near news deserts. Student media is more than just training for future reporters. It’s essential community coverage.
Learn more: www.editorandpublisher.com/stories/how-...
Learn more: www.editorandpublisher.com/stories/how-...
How student newsrooms are filling America’s local news gaps - Editor and Publisher
As local news outlets disappear across the country, an unexpected network is helping fill the gaps: college newsrooms. In this article, Tandy Lau explores a new national database mapping more than 1,1...
www.editorandpublisher.com
January 21, 2026 at 1:26 AM
Student journalism is filling local news gaps. A new map tracks 1,100+ college newspapers across the U.S., and 766 are in or near news deserts. Student media is more than just training for future reporters. It’s essential community coverage.
Learn more: www.editorandpublisher.com/stories/how-...
Learn more: www.editorandpublisher.com/stories/how-...
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The Claude Constitution shows where Anthropic thinks this is all going. It is a massive document covering many philosophical issues. I think it is worth serious attention beyond the usual AI-adjacent commentators. Other labs should be similarly explicit. www.anthropic.com/constitution
January 21, 2026 at 6:28 PM
The Claude Constitution shows where Anthropic thinks this is all going. It is a massive document covering many philosophical issues. I think it is worth serious attention beyond the usual AI-adjacent commentators. Other labs should be similarly explicit. www.anthropic.com/constitution
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4 𝐎𝐩𝐞𝐧 𝐏𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 (𝐏𝐡𝐝, 𝐏𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐝𝐨𝐜, 𝐅𝐮𝐥𝐥 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐨𝐫) 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐃𝐂!!! 😯🤩
The DDC is expanding its team with *4* new opportunities for researchers passionate about the intersection of AI, media, democracy, & society.
Deadline: 📅 Feb 15 for 3 of these roles!
The Professorship deadline follows in March.🧵👇
The DDC is expanding its team with *4* new opportunities for researchers passionate about the intersection of AI, media, democracy, & society.
Deadline: 📅 Feb 15 for 3 of these roles!
The Professorship deadline follows in March.🧵👇
Postdoc position(s) at The Digital Democracy Centre
Application deadline: February 15th, 2026, 23:59 CET/CEST.
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January 21, 2026 at 12:12 PM
4 𝐎𝐩𝐞𝐧 𝐏𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 (𝐏𝐡𝐝, 𝐏𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐝𝐨𝐜, 𝐅𝐮𝐥𝐥 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐨𝐫) 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐃𝐂!!! 😯🤩
The DDC is expanding its team with *4* new opportunities for researchers passionate about the intersection of AI, media, democracy, & society.
Deadline: 📅 Feb 15 for 3 of these roles!
The Professorship deadline follows in March.🧵👇
The DDC is expanding its team with *4* new opportunities for researchers passionate about the intersection of AI, media, democracy, & society.
Deadline: 📅 Feb 15 for 3 of these roles!
The Professorship deadline follows in March.🧵👇
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As internet conspiracy theories go, this one was exceptionally dumb, reports Ellyn Lapointe. gizmodo.com/no-earth-won...
No, Earth Won’t Lose Gravity for 7 Seconds on August 12, NASA Says
As internet conspiracy theories go, this one was exceptionally dumb.
gizmodo.com
January 21, 2026 at 12:00 PM
As internet conspiracy theories go, this one was exceptionally dumb, reports Ellyn Lapointe. gizmodo.com/no-earth-won...
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Looking for a social science MA programme on Digital Media, AI, and Platforms? Our MA Digital Media and Society @zemki.bsky.social features:
👩💻 Strong research focus
🌎 EN-language, High level of international students (80%)
🌇 Lively city
🤑 No tuition fees
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👩💻 Strong research focus
🌎 EN-language, High level of international students (80%)
🌇 Lively city
🤑 No tuition fees
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M.A. Digital Media and Society – Have a Seat in the Front Row…
YouTube video by ZeMKI Uni Bremen
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January 20, 2026 at 9:10 AM
Looking for a social science MA programme on Digital Media, AI, and Platforms? Our MA Digital Media and Society @zemki.bsky.social features:
👩💻 Strong research focus
🌎 EN-language, High level of international students (80%)
🌇 Lively city
🤑 No tuition fees
www.youtube.com/watch?time_c...
👩💻 Strong research focus
🌎 EN-language, High level of international students (80%)
🌇 Lively city
🤑 No tuition fees
www.youtube.com/watch?time_c...
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Just under two weeks to go to apply to join our @copenlu.bsky.social lab as a PhD student or postdoc! ⤵️
#academicjobs #NLProc #XAI #HCI @aicentre.dk
#academicjobs #NLProc #XAI #HCI @aicentre.dk
📢 PhD & postdoc call for start in autumn 2026 📢
Join a new interdisciplinary project on Human-Centered Explainable LLMs @copenlu.bsky.social @aicentre.dk
⏳ 1 Feb 2026
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🗒️ employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=15... (PhD); employment.ku.dk/faculty/?sho... (Postdoc)
Join a new interdisciplinary project on Human-Centered Explainable LLMs @copenlu.bsky.social @aicentre.dk
⏳ 1 Feb 2026
ℹ️ www.copenlu.com/news/funded-...
🗒️ employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=15... (PhD); employment.ku.dk/faculty/?sho... (Postdoc)
January 19, 2026 at 7:16 AM
Just under two weeks to go to apply to join our @copenlu.bsky.social lab as a PhD student or postdoc! ⤵️
#academicjobs #NLProc #XAI #HCI @aicentre.dk
#academicjobs #NLProc #XAI #HCI @aicentre.dk
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Do maps distort our view of the world? ft.trib.al/6QWUx0c #FTEdit
Do maps distort our view of the world?
William Rankin’s ‘Radical Cartography’ makes a powerful case against mainstream mapmaking’s creation of an orderly, objective reality
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January 15, 2026 at 4:49 PM
Do maps distort our view of the world? ft.trib.al/6QWUx0c #FTEdit
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🔗 Read the full report here: www.disinfo.eu/building-a-c...
Building a common operational picture of FIMI
This post outlines how Information Manipulation Sets (IMS) can improve attribution thresholds and countermeasures against Russian-led disinformation campaigns targeting Europe. Drawing on shared defin...
www.disinfo.eu
January 15, 2026 at 10:19 AM
🔗 Read the full report here: www.disinfo.eu/building-a-c...
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Training large language models on narrow tasks can lead to broad misalignment www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Training large language models on narrow tasks can lead to broad misalignment - Nature
Finetuning a large language model on a narrow task of writing insecure code causes a broad range of concerning behaviours unrelated to coding.
www.nature.com
January 15, 2026 at 4:17 PM
Training large language models on narrow tasks can lead to broad misalignment www.nature.com/articles/s41...
How Chinese Agents Posed as American Media www.newsweek.com/how-chinese-...
How Chinese agents posed as American media
Graphika identified over three dozen domains spoofing agencies like 'The Wall Street Journal' to push pro-Beijing narratives.
www.newsweek.com
January 14, 2026 at 10:02 AM
How Chinese Agents Posed as American Media www.newsweek.com/how-chinese-...
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The number one song in Sweden’s Top 50 in Sweden is “Jag vet, du är inte min” (”I know, you’re not mine”) by the singer Jacub.
The problem? Jacub doesn’t exist and the song was created using AI.
The problem? Jacub doesn’t exist and the song was created using AI.
January 14, 2026 at 7:54 AM
The number one song in Sweden’s Top 50 in Sweden is “Jag vet, du är inte min” (”I know, you’re not mine”) by the singer Jacub.
The problem? Jacub doesn’t exist and the song was created using AI.
The problem? Jacub doesn’t exist and the song was created using AI.
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"I used AI chatbots as a source of news for a month, and they were unreliable and erroneous" theconversation.com/i-used-ai-ch...
I used AI chatbots as a source of news for a month, and they were unreliable and erroneous
When we ask for news, we should expect generative AI tools to stick to the facts. But new research shows they don’t.
theconversation.com
January 14, 2026 at 2:17 AM
"I used AI chatbots as a source of news for a month, and they were unreliable and erroneous" theconversation.com/i-used-ai-ch...
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We are hiring a post-doc to study the impact of AI agents on complex social systems in Duke's Society-Centered AI Initiative and/or the Polarization Lab! Apply here:
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/314...
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/314...
January 13, 2026 at 2:01 PM
We are hiring a post-doc to study the impact of AI agents on complex social systems in Duke's Society-Centered AI Initiative and/or the Polarization Lab! Apply here:
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/314...
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/314...
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Penske also sued Google in a separate lawsuit in September, alleging the tech giant AI summaries in search are impacting its traffic and revenue pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/ne...
Who's suing AI and who's signing: NYT and Chicago Tribune sue Perplexity, Meta signs licensing deals
News AI deals revealed: Which publishers are suing and which are signing deal with the tech giants over generative AI.
pressgazette.co.uk
January 13, 2026 at 3:05 PM
Penske also sued Google in a separate lawsuit in September, alleging the tech giant AI summaries in search are impacting its traffic and revenue pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/ne...
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The European Commission’s proposal of €175 billion for Horizon Europe in the next #MFF is encouraging, but must serve as a baseline in the upcoming negotiations. €200 billion would help the programme to truly reach its potential.
📄Our analysis https://bit.ly/4nxoFL4
📄Our analysis https://bit.ly/4nxoFL4
January 12, 2026 at 8:37 AM
The European Commission’s proposal of €175 billion for Horizon Europe in the next #MFF is encouraging, but must serve as a baseline in the upcoming negotiations. €200 billion would help the programme to truly reach its potential.
📄Our analysis https://bit.ly/4nxoFL4
📄Our analysis https://bit.ly/4nxoFL4
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What is the role of AI in relation to environments? “Saviour” or “destroyer”? Both, but also more, as I here focus on how AI systems can *mediate* and *infiltrate*. This article is part of my “Tools for writing for thinking” project, and was originally handwritten! academic.oup.com/edited-volum...
January 8, 2026 at 6:20 PM
What is the role of AI in relation to environments? “Saviour” or “destroyer”? Both, but also more, as I here focus on how AI systems can *mediate* and *infiltrate*. This article is part of my “Tools for writing for thinking” project, and was originally handwritten! academic.oup.com/edited-volum...
AI is going to reproduce human intelligence. AI will eliminate disease. AI is the single biggest, most important invention in human history. You've likely heard it all—but probably none of these things are true. #AIhype
www.technologyreview.com/supertopic/h...
www.technologyreview.com/supertopic/h...
Hype Correction
An MIT Technology Review series Hype Correction It’s time to reset expectations. AI is going to reproduce human intelligence. AI will eliminate disease. AI is the single biggest, most important inven...
www.technologyreview.com
January 8, 2026 at 4:15 PM
AI is going to reproduce human intelligence. AI will eliminate disease. AI is the single biggest, most important invention in human history. You've likely heard it all—but probably none of these things are true. #AIhype
www.technologyreview.com/supertopic/h...
www.technologyreview.com/supertopic/h...
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always a good time to remember this
💯 "Just because a model correlates with neural and behavioral data, it is not sufficient for us to infer that the model is performing cognition: correlation does not imply cognition." doi.org/10.1007/s421...
On Logical Inference over Brains, Behaviour, and Artificial Neural Networks - Computational Brain & Behavior
In the cognitive, computational, and neuro-sciences, practitioners often reason about what computational models represent or learn, as well as what algorithm is instantiated. The putative goal of such...
doi.org
January 8, 2026 at 10:58 AM
always a good time to remember this
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Nouvelle année, nouveau billet de blog: La qualité des données, un problème systémique en apprentissage automatique (avec quelques explications sur les défis posés par les LLMs) ohmybox.info/la-qualite-d...
La qualité des données, un problème systémique en apprentissage automatique
En apprentissage automatique, la qualité des données conditionne directement la performance et la robustesse des systèmes. Mais s’il est entendu que ...
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January 7, 2026 at 7:39 AM
Nouvelle année, nouveau billet de blog: La qualité des données, un problème systémique en apprentissage automatique (avec quelques explications sur les défis posés par les LLMs) ohmybox.info/la-qualite-d...
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New year, new blog post: Data quality, a systemic problem in machine learning (with some considerations on LLMs) ohmybox.info/data-quality...
Data quality, a systemic problem in machine learning
In machine learning, data quality directly impacts system performance and robustness. While its understood that without quality data, no machine ...
ohmybox.info
January 7, 2026 at 7:38 AM
New year, new blog post: Data quality, a systemic problem in machine learning (with some considerations on LLMs) ohmybox.info/data-quality...
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AI systems monetize attention, shape emotion, and blur the line between suggestion and control, writes Courtney C. Radsch. There is still time to design systems that invite diversity of thought rather than collapse it into averages and subject it to algorithmic manipulation, she writes.
The Battle for Cognitive Liberty in the Age of Corporate AI | TechPolicy.Press
AI systems monetize attention, shape emotion, and blur the line between suggestion and control, writes Courtney C. Radsch.
www.techpolicy.press
January 7, 2026 at 9:50 AM
AI systems monetize attention, shape emotion, and blur the line between suggestion and control, writes Courtney C. Radsch. There is still time to design systems that invite diversity of thought rather than collapse it into averages and subject it to algorithmic manipulation, she writes.
New year, new blog post: Data quality, a systemic problem in machine learning (with some considerations on LLMs) ohmybox.info/data-quality...
Data quality, a systemic problem in machine learning
In machine learning, data quality directly impacts system performance and robustness. While its understood that without quality data, no machine ...
ohmybox.info
January 7, 2026 at 7:38 AM
New year, new blog post: Data quality, a systemic problem in machine learning (with some considerations on LLMs) ohmybox.info/data-quality...
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Amid a big agency push to use AI models in weather prediction, the National Weather Service shared a forecast map riddled with spelling mistakes, non-existent locations and other geographical errors.
‘Whata Bod’: An AI-generated NWS map invented fake towns in Idaho
Amid a big agency push to use AI models in weather prediction, an AI-generated forecast graphic with errors was pulled from NWS sites.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 7, 2026 at 1:30 AM
Amid a big agency push to use AI models in weather prediction, the National Weather Service shared a forecast map riddled with spelling mistakes, non-existent locations and other geographical errors.