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mharrisondupre.bsky.social
Award-winning journalist at Futurism covering AI and its impacts on media, information/the web, and the humans at the center of it all. Send tips (please!) by email to: [email protected] or Signal: mhd.39
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As a onetime WECB music staffer, this sucks. Glad those kids are fighting it.

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NEW: Since 2023, student journalists at Emerson College's student radio station, WECB, have been battling a digital imposter: an AI zombie site using a stolen WECB web domain -- and the station's likeness -- to churn out misinformation-littered AI slop for profit. futurism.com/emerson-coll...

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extremely grim story: scammers snatched the domain for Emerson College's acclaimed student radio station and turned it into a dirge of AI clickbait slop that -- due to the hard work of actual students over the years -- dominated Google News with absolute garbage futurism.com/emerson-coll...

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NEW: Since 2023, student journalists at Emerson College's student radio station, WECB, have been battling a digital imposter: an AI zombie site using a stolen WECB web domain -- and the station's likeness -- to churn out misinformation-littered AI slop for profit. futurism.com/emerson-coll...

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The WSJ reporters who broke the Tesla CEO board search story, after a day of attacks from Elon Musk and his mom, have locked down their X accounts www.wsj.com/business/aut... @emilyglazer.bsky.social @beckpeterson.bsky.social @danamattioli.bsky.social

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As with declaring an end to the "news feed" -- after declaring Facebook goal was to basically replace newspapers -- this is just yet another admission of failure by Zuck, who was quite insistent in 2018 that Meta's true objective was bringing *people together for the betterment of humankind.

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marco rubio morning routine

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"AI companions are designed to be agreeable and pleasing... one striking Character.AI interaction highlighted in the assessment, for example, showed a bot encouraging a user who was exhibiting clear signs of mania to head out alone for a solo camping trip."

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Quick guardrail check on CharacterAI: if the question is "did AI Wario give you a recipe for napalm???" then the answer is yes, AI Wario absolutely did give us a recipe for napalm

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NEW: No one under 18 should be using *any* social AI companions, including CharacterAI, researchers warn in a new risk assessment. Potential risks to kids include bots encouraging destructive behaviors and exacerbating mental health conditions, among others. futurism.com/stanford-no-...

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Fearing that Meta’s chatbots were too boring, Mark Zuckerberg ordered they be given more human-like traits. That rebuke led to a loosening of boundaries -- and the launch of digital companions that Meta knew could produce sex role-play content for children. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/meta...

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And now, a note on Bill Owens who, until this past week, was the executive producer of 60 Minutes. We’ll be back next week with another edition of 60 Minutes.

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I've said this before but this is just an appreciation post for @futurism.com, which has really developed a sort of funny and very likeable techno-critical tone and also features great headlines like this futurism.com/the-byte/tru...

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this is so funny futurism.com/katy-perry-r...

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I’ve been thinking a lot about my experience as someone who was a high-level athlete in a sport, field hockey, that in the US is primarily a women’s sport and has few (if any?) boys’ teams at the middle/high school level -- meaning that everyone, of all genders, always had to play on a girls’ team

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NEW: DOGE is knitting DHS immigration records together with IRS, Social Security, and voting records into a master database, sources tell WIRED. Experts say it could be used for a surveillance tool of unprecedented scope. This is by @makenakelly.bsky.social and @telliotter.bsky.social

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NEW: RFK Jr.'s buddies are claiming that the measles outbreak is the result of a bioweapon attack—and that you can protect yourself by spending hundreds of dollars on purportedly AI-powered supplements. This is by @davidgilbert.bsky.social

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NEW: For a decade, a man battled a severe, life-altering GI illness that doctors struggled to diagnose. In search of answers, he tried something new: he swallowed a high-tech PillCam — which wound up stuck in his intestines for months. You won't believe what it found. futurism.com/neoscope/fil...

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Marco Rubio: censorship of Americans ends today Brendan Carr: report what we tell you or we’ll pull your license

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Thirty-eight of 43 experts cut last month from the boards that review the science and research that happens in laboratories at the National Institutes of Health are female, Black or Hispanic, according to an analysis by the chairs of a dozen of the boards.

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“Consider it the "Magic School Bus" approach, but if Ms. Frizzle had also strapped a live-streaming GoPro to the bus' windshield.”

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