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Meredith Broussard is a data journalism professor at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University. Her research… more

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“…that Sora is being used for stalking and harassment will likely not be an edge case, because deepfaking yourself and others into videos is one of its core selling points.”

Far from an edge case, it’s the primary use case.
Stalker Already Using OpenAI's Sora 2 to Harass Victim
A journalist claims that her stalker used Sora 2, the latest video app from OpenAI, to churn out videos of her.
futurism.com
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This is the first year I have seen multiple students taking notes by hand because they have a deeper understanding of how information is most effectively encoded in their brains. It’s exciting to see!
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Ty!
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I definitely thought about getting printed coursepacks for this semester, but I don’t know where to order them!
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Reposted by: Meredith Broussard, Erich Fromm, Cathy N. Davidson , and 3 more

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I think we’re really going to have to do a lot more of this. A massive deprogramming so that people can read more than ten words at a time without anxiety.

www.thetimes.com/uk/education...?
Universities teaching literature students how to cope with long novels
Critics blame GCSE English for deterring teenagers from the subject, describing the literature syllabus as boring and repetitive
www.thetimes.com
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Shoutout to all the first-year students who left home, grew tiny mustaches, and are debuting them in-person at parents' weekend.
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And don't forget to register for the next webinar in our AI series! We'll be talking legal and ethical issues in AI with @merbroussard.bsky.social and @nickgarcia.bsky.social!

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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Legal and Ethical Issues in AI. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
Join Meredith Broussard and Nick Garcia to learn about the legal and ethical implications of AI in libraries. Data journalist Meredith Broussard is an associate professor at the Arthur L. Carter Jour...
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Reposted by: Meredith Broussard, Fabián Muniesa, Peter Campbell , and 1 more

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King Chunk
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explore.org @explore.org · 7d
Meet your FAT BEAR WEEK 2025 champion.

Chunk the Hunk. The Chunkster. 32 Chunk.

All hail the new king of Brooks River 👑
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Reposted by: Meredith Broussard, Joanna Bryson, Ingo Rohlfing , and 9 more

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A lot of psych is already conducted with online convenience samples & ppl are probably excited about silicon samples bc it would allow them to crank out more studies for even less 💸

How about we reconsider the idea that sciencey science involves collecting own data.
www.science.org/content/arti...
AI-generated ‘participants’ can lead social science experiments astray, study finds
Data produced by “silicon samples” depends on researchers’ exact choice of models, prompts, and settings
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explore.org
Meet your FAT BEAR WEEK 2025 champion.

Chunk the Hunk. The Chunkster. 32 Chunk.

All hail the new king of Brooks River 👑
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by Meredith Broussard

merbroussard.bsky.social
It is... 3d now? Why?

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merbroussard.bsky.social
AI: even more energy-hungry than you imagined. futurism.com/future-socie...
Researchers Just Found Something Extremely Alarming About AI's Power Usage
The carbon footprint of generative AI-based tools that can turn text prompts into videos is far worse than we thought.
futurism.com
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Reposted by: Meredith Broussard, Bessma Momani, Mark Rice , and 1 more

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"Data centers are proliferating in VA and a blind man in [MD] is suddenly contending with sharply higher power bills...It’s an increasingly dramatic ripple effect of the AI boom as energy-hungry data centers...[pull]...households into paying for the digital economy" www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
AI Data Centers Are Sending Power Bills Soaring
Wholesale electricity costs as much as 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers. That’s being passed on to customers.
www.bloomberg.com
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Reposted by: Meredith Broussard, Jennifer A. Richeson, Aaron Sojourner , and 8 more

jasonkoebler.bsky.social
New: ICE has bought a tool that tracks the locations of hundreds of millions of phones globally, updates every single day. Usually harvested from apps and advertising

www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-t...
ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day
Documents show that ICE has gone back on its decision to not use location data remotely harvested from peoples' phones. The database is updated every day with billions of pieces of location data.
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Reposted by: Meredith Broussard, Woodrow Hartzog, Nathan P. Kalmoe

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“.. OpenAI spent more on marketing and equity options for its employees than it made in revenue in the first half of 2025. That single fact sums up where we are in the AI cycle more neatly than anything we could ever write, so we’ll just end there.”

@financialtimes.com
www.ft.com/content/908d...
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Reposted by: Meredith Broussard, Southern Africa

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this is not gonna go down well

www.reuters.com/technology/o...
OpenAI's new Sora video generator to require copyright holders to opt out, WSJ reports
OpenAI is planning to release a new version of its Sora generator that creates videos featuring copyrighted material, unless right holders opt out of having their work appear, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday, citing people familiar with the matter.
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404media.co
New: landlords are demanding potential tenants hand over employer login credentials so a tool can verify their income. We were sent screenshot of the tool, Argyle, downloading much more data than necessary to approve the renter. "Opt-out means no housing" www.404media.co/landlords-de...
Landlords Demand Tenants’ Workplace Logins to Scrape Their Paystubs
Screenshots shared with 404 Media show tenant screening services ApproveShield and Argyle taking much more data than they need. “Opt-out means no housing.”
www.404media.co
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Reposted by: Meredith Broussard, Suresh Venkatasubramanian

hypervisible.blacksky.app
“This worldwide update includes the ability for parents, as well as law enforcement, to receive notifications if a child—in this case, users between the ages of 13 and 18—engages in chatbot conversations about self harm or suicide.”
OpenAI Adds Parental Safety Controls for Teen ChatGPT Users. Here’s What to Expect
OpenAI’s review process for teenage ChatGPT users who are flagged for suicidal ideation includes human moderators. Parents can expect an alert about alarming prompts within hours.
www.wired.com
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Reposted by: Meredith Broussard, Anna O. Law, Christine Kooi , and 3 more

disabilitystor1.bsky.social
I realize many people don’t quite get that not every single professor in every single university teaches computer science and might actually be trained in and invested in teaching other things, like let’s say, history? Or poetry.
Or sociology.
It is not our job to teach students how to use AI.
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matt94250.bsky.social @matt94250.bsky.social · 9d
If you don’t teach your students how to use AI, you’re doing them a huge disservice because they won’t have jobs in the future.
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Reposted by: Meredith Broussard, David Murakami Wood, Woodrow Hartzog

hypervisible.blacksky.app
The guide lists 7 risks “that come from AI governance: discriminatory work assignments, fluctuating wages, loss of worker control, constant surveillance, unreasonable performance evaluations, automated punishment, and non-payment.”
Report Warns That AI Is About to Make Your Boss a Panopticon Overlord
Far from a dystopian fantasy, algorithmic management tech is rapidly expanding across the US and European Union.
futurism.com
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Reposted by: Meredith Broussard, Greg Linden

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"The building rush is effectively a mega-speculative bet that the technology will rapidly improve, transform the economy and start producing steady profits."
Spending on AI Is at Epic Levels. Will It Ever Pay Off?
Tech companies are pouring hundreds of billions into data centers, taking on heavy debt, but current revenue is relatively tiny. Critics warn of a new dot-com bubble.
www.wsj.com
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Reposted by: Meredith Broussard, Jonathan Tummons, Southern Africa

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OpenAI's rapid rush into education has been achieved by habituating users through training programs, institutional lock-ins, strategic marketing partnerships, and third party integrations that together are helping it become infrastructural to teaching and learning. It's going to be hard to get out.
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A.I. Isn’t Magic. Lots of People Are Acting Like It Is. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/o...
Opinion | A.I. Isn’t Magic. Lots of People Are Acting Like It Is.
www.nytimes.com
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The solution to the male lonliness epidemic is getting men to call each other on the phone so they can sell their voices/speech for AI training techcrunch.com/2025/09/24/n...
Neon, the No. 2 social app on the Apple App Store, pays users to record their phone calls and sells data to AI firms | TechCrunch
A new call recording app is gaining traction for offering to pay users for voice data from calls, which is sold to AI companies.
techcrunch.com
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“Cyberselfish“ was an important read for me when I was researching “Artificial Unintelligence”
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 13d
2/ In 2001, Borsook said tech "libertarianism" reflected an adolescent mindset, with a craving for unchecked independence & resistance to constraint.

She warned that tech libertarians wanted an anti-human world that worked more like a computer. From "Cyberselfish," a book based on her 90s writing:
from cyberselfish by paulina borsook: It's an inability to reconcile the demands of being individual with the demands of participating in society, which coincides beautifully with a preference for, and glorification of, being the solo comman- der of one's computer in lieu of any other economically viable be- havior. Computers are so much more rule-based, controllable, fixable, and comprehensible than any human will ever be. As many political schools of thought do, these technolibertarians make a philosophy out of a personality defect.
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*screaming, throwing things*

Cryonics is not a thing. It is not a thing. It is a scam for turning dead people into frozen meat slurry.

But sure, whatever.
Everyone understands that elsewhere, science funding has disappeared, graduate students left hanging, academic departments in existential crisis. It would not seem to be a good time for science in the United States. The students politely acknowledge this reality, but it is not the air they breathe. “It’s like, okay, so if government money is not a reliable source anymore,” says Sanjana, “okay, let’s see how we can actually make this work and make this happen. Academia and industry is intertwined here more than ever. And I actually really like that because I think it’s important to take work that is new and innovative — ” “And translate it,” says Sid. The undergraduates know “four or five” people working for cryonics start-ups.
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Reposted by: Meredith Broussard, Lisa Diedrich

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2/ In 2001, Borsook said tech "libertarianism" reflected an adolescent mindset, with a craving for unchecked independence & resistance to constraint.

She warned that tech libertarians wanted an anti-human world that worked more like a computer. From "Cyberselfish," a book based on her 90s writing:
from cyberselfish by paulina borsook: It's an inability to reconcile the demands of being individual with the demands of participating in society, which coincides beautifully with a preference for, and glorification of, being the solo comman- der of one's computer in lieu of any other economically viable be- havior. Computers are so much more rule-based, controllable, fixable, and comprehensible than any human will ever be. As many political schools of thought do, these technolibertarians make a philosophy out of a personality defect.
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NEW: Newly released data shows CBP has funneled the DNA data of some 2,000 US citizens, including that of children, into the FBI's CODIS database, which is intended for criminal investigations. @dell.bsky.social reports: www.wired.com/story/dhs-ha...
DHS Has Been Collecting US Citizens’ DNA for Years
Newly released data shows Customs and Border Protection funneled the DNA of nearly 2,000 US citizens—some as young as 14—into an FBI crime database, raising alarms about oversight and legality.
www.wired.com
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Reposted by: Meredith Broussard, Rebecca Tushnet

kashhill.bsky.social
A month after my last skeet, the subreddit "My Boyfriend is AI" now has 88,000 members and is the subject of an MIT study that found that "AI companionship emerges unintentionally through functional use rather than deliberate seeking."

arxiv.org/html/2509.11...
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