Over the past few weeks @aisvarya17.bsky.social and I have been making some tweaks to the Deals and Disputes tracker we maintain for the @towcenter.bsky.social. The biggest update: you can now filter the deals and lawsuits by country! tow.cjr.org/ai-deals-law...

This is wildly irresponsible of Google - allowing people to create AI generated satellite images. Satellite imagery has always been such a useful and reliable source because it came from reliable sources, but now Google is messing with it at source. www.digitaldigging.org/p/how-to-pla...

How to plant a nuclear plant in Iran

The question is: what on earth is Google doing?

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If you post survey data, news articles, etc. without a link back to the source whenever possible, you are weakening the informational chain of custody and making it harder for other people to confirm that they're seeing accurate information. This holds even if you're mad at whatever it is.

Zach Weinersmith@zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?

Latest updates to @towcenter.bsky.social's Deals & Disputes Tracker: 💰 OpenAI commits additional funding to the American Journalism Project ⚖️ News Corp countersues Brave AI, alleging copyright infringement tow.cjr.org/ai-deals-law...

klaudia jaźwińska@klaudia.bsky.social · last mo.

🤝 Australia's Nine Entertainment entered an agreement with Microsoft that allows Copilot to reference the text of its content during AI searches to contextualize and "ground" outputs. Financial terms are not disclosed. tow.cjr.org/ai-deals-law...

🤝 Australia's Nine Entertainment entered an agreement with Microsoft that allows Copilot to reference the text of its content during AI searches to contextualize and "ground" outputs. Financial terms are not disclosed. tow.cjr.org/ai-deals-law...

klaudia jaźwińska@klaudia.bsky.social · 2mo ago

⚖️ Publishers that own and operate nearly 400 local and regional news outlets across the US sue OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement and removal of copyright management information from their works tow.cjr.org/ai-deals-law...

1. How @klaudia.bsky.social, @aliyabhatia.bsky.social, and Yanick Kemayou are working at the intersection of large language models and marginalization across news, languages, and colonial replications in data extraction. www.themaybe.org/podcast/real...

REAL Resistance: The AI Information Warp

Klaudia Jaźwińska, Aliya Bhatia, and Yanick Kemayou come together to answer: What happens when a small collection of AI companies start colonising the truth?

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Tech companies are making AI the front door to the internet—and it's distorting news, language, and knowledge as we know it. For our first episode of REAL Resistance, @alixdunn.com spoke with @klaudia.bsky.social, @aliyabhatia.bsky.social, and Yanick Kemayou about how AI warps the world’s info.

The argument that we should be preparing students for this workforce - instead of, say, joining with students to organize against AI slop-infused workplaces - is just so ridiculous.

jon christian@jonchristian.net · 2mo ago

NEW: Workers say their bosses are becoming obsessed with AI and essentially turning the entire workplace into an exercise in AI psychosis -- making absurd pivots, communicating only in AI slop, and even asking ChatGPT who to fire futurism.com/artificial-i...

When AI becomes the primary filter for the world’s information, what happens to our news, language, and knowledge? I spoke with @klaudia.bsky.social, @aliyabhatia.bsky.social, and Yanick Kemayou for our first episode of REAL Resistance to find out. Listen to the conversation here:

REAL Resistance: The AI Information Warp

Klaudia Jaźwińska, Aliya Bhatia, and Yanick Kemayou come together to answer: What happens when a small collection of AI companies start colonising the truth?

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Catch the first episode with @klaudia.bsky.social, @aliyabhatia.bsky.social, and Yanick Kemayou here: www.themaybe.org/podcast/real...

REAL Resistance: The AI Information Warp

Klaudia Jaźwińska, Aliya Bhatia, and Yanick Kemayou come together to answer: What happens when a small collection of AI companies start colonising the truth?

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⚖️ Publishers that own and operate nearly 400 local and regional news outlets across the US sue OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement and removal of copyright management information from their works tow.cjr.org/ai-deals-law...

klaudia jaźwińska@klaudia.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Latest additions: ⚖️ Journalists sue Google for allegedly using their voices to train its models 🤝 A Brazilian newspaper that sued OpenAI in 2025 settles + signs an agreement with the company 🤝 The AP will provide US election data to OpenAI thru 2028 ⚖️ CNN sues Perplexity tow.cjr.org/ai-deals-law...

The most dangerous thing about AI is not that the machines might one day think. It is that we are being trained, by men with enormous financial gains riding on our acquiescence, to stop thinking for ourselves.

It seems to me that a country in the manic throes of greatness starts compulsively building railroads which is how I know my country in some sort of nightmarish other thing

me at kickoff of every world cup game: oh this is nice to put on in the background, maybe the team with cool jerseys will win me 90 minutes later, literally every time:

love when I’m running late and the train is also late klaudia 🤝 nj transit

journalism is important, and it is accordingly important that the news is not controlled by billionaires.

Dhruv Mehrotra@dmehro.bsky.social · 2mo ago

NEW: Days after WIRED revealed that Meta had embedded an unreleased facial-recognition system in software distributed to more than 50 million users, the company appears to have removed it. www.wired.com/story/meta-r...

Scott Pelley with @lulugn.bsky.social on being told the President had commented on his firing. (I’m not crying, you’re crying etc)

Fantastic @bcmerchant.bsky.social interview on @onthemedia.bsky.social by @micahloewinger.bsky.social, with a shout out to @timnitgebru.blacksky.app.

How Anthropic Became Holier Than Thou | On the Media | WNYC Studios

This week, Anthropic filed for an IPO following a valuation of nearly $1 trillion, which would make it one of the largest IPOs in history. On this week’s On the Media, the company’s m...

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My crankiest old man take is that referring to all art/entertainment/journalism/criticism/comedy/advertising as “content” helped pave the way for broad-ish acceptance of AI slop.

it's such a bummer that i have to care even the smallest amount what jeff bezos or musk or any of these guys think (not just for my job but bc their midlife crisis hobbies seem to be buying and destroying institutions)

While open-protocol tools show some promise in helping publishers take back control over how AI bots access and present their content, technical solutions alone cannot resolve what is a systemic problem. (w/ @aisvarya17.bsky.social for @columjournreview.bsky.social) www.cjr.org/tow_center/a...

AI agents are coming for news. Can publishers reclaim control?

The good news and the bad news about AI agents for journalism.

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AI Agents are coming for news. Can publishers reclaim control? Read Aisvarya Chandrasekar and Klaudia Jaźwińska of @towcenter.bsky.social. www.cjr.org/tow_center/a...

AI agents are coming for news. Can publishers reclaim control?

The good news and the bad news about AI agents for journalism.

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Supreme Court Overturns ‘Right v. Wrong’ https://theonion.com/supreme-court-overturns-right-v-wrong-1819573211/

men can’t understand what it’s like for women to see story after story after story of women being victims of sexual violence in a culture where it’s routine; what it’s like to live in a world that is fundamentally hostile to our existence. it’s a wonder we leave the fucking house, let alone thrive.

Tech companies say that LLMs work better if they remember things about you. But people may find themselves “insulated from the truth by the very tools they use to seek it.” @aisvarya17.bsky.social for Tow and @columjournreview.bsky.social www.cjr.org/tow_center/c...

You have more in common with the people of Iran than you do with anyone in this administration, any member of the technocracy, anyone who is profiting from this war, or any billionaire. When you see Iranians forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites, you should feel a sense of kinship.

AI companies - ‘helping’ journalism…. by borrowing authority without bothering to fix citation . Me in CJR www.cjr.org/tow_center/d...

In addition to trying to gain visibility and legitimacy from news organizations through partnerships, prediction markets like Polymarket are using a network of accounts to post about "news" on X. My colleague @cj-robinson.bsky.social did a deep-dive: www.cjr.org/tow_center/p...

Polymarket affiliates are spreading misinformation on X.

“News” accounts tied to betting markets are filling a demand for breaking news on a platform many journalists have abandoned.

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Dispatches from X: new story from me on how betting market affiliates are posting about news. Several viral posts were misleading, lacked credible sourcing, or were just wrong.

Polymarket affiliates are spreading misinformation on X.

“News” accounts tied to betting markets are filling a demand for breaking news on a platform many journalists have abandoned.

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