California's Stealth Campaign to Kneecap AIOct 29
gavin newsom just signed eight bills that effectively turn ai into the most heavily regulated nascent consumer technology in modern history
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The Billboard Lawyers Coming for AI
if you or a loved one downloaded character.ai, you may be entitled to financial compensation
James Ostrowski
Jun 13, 2025
Today in "cottage industries capitalizing on the rise of AI," James Ostrowski reports on lawyers who claim chatbots are manipulating kids and nudging them toward self-harm. At the center of these cases is Character.ai, an app that enables anyone to create a chatbot "character" and develop a relationship with it — and, in isolated cases, users have hurt themselves and others after encouragement from their bots. Depending on how these cases play out, they could lead to a new code of child safety regulations for the industry.
California's Stealth Campaign to Kneecap AI
AI: White Lives Don't MatterOct 24
when prompted with thousands of hypotheticals, most models massively prefer white men (and ice agents) to suffer more than other groups, and only one model was truly egalitarian
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Wikipedia Declares Trump an AuthoritarianOct 10
a single editor repeatedly inserted the same "authoritarian" framing into multiple wikipedia articles, creating an illusion of consensus and shaping the record that now informs chatgpt and google
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