Andrea L. Guzman, PhD
@teachguz.bsky.social
Scholar. Author. Public Speaker. Educator. Artificial Intelligence + 🤖+ Media. Human-Machine Communication & Human-Computer Interaction. Former journalist. https://andrealguzman.net Latest book: "The SAGE Handbook of Human-Machine Communication"
As a heads-up: every firm's customer service agents are about to be overwhelmed with Dots & Muses negotiating for better deals using voice/chat channels made for humans. Stories of people delegating this sort of work to their agents & saving money are popping up and are going to only go more viral.
I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility
Reading a good Dallas Express piece about shrinking newsrooms and AI--and how AI seems like a fix but isn't. Gasped at the numbers I already knew w/r/t the collapse of the industry. In 2026-to-2026 dollars, decline in ad revenue is from *92B* in 2005 to 9B today. dallasexpress.com/national/as-...
“The Miami Herald will no longer have a Miami beat” is the state of local journalism in a nutshell. Really, really bad.
Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 3w agoGood lord www.poynter.org/business-wor...
Are tech luminaries scaring people about the things they are also building and profiting from? Time to tap the sign- this is also what physicists did during the heyday of nuclear weapons R&D natematias.com/portfolio/20...
Strange Stability: Learning from Scientific Myths of the Nuclear Age
Faculty, Cornell. Founder: CAT Lab
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OpenAI is now facing more than 50 consumer harm and wrongful death lawsuits alleging that extensive use of ChatGPT resulted in psychological harm, physical injury, and even the deaths of users and/or those around them. futurism.com/artificial-i...
OpenAI Is Now Facing Over 50 Consumer Harm and Wrongful Death Lawsuits
OpenAI was hit with 30 new lawsuits overs its alleged role in the Tumbler Ridge school massacre. It now faces over 50 consumer harm lawsuits.
futurism.com
Steinem was one of the most recognizable figures in the modern women’s movement and a longtime journalist who cofounded both New York Magazine and Ms. Magazine.
Feminist Icon Gloria Steinem Dies At 92
Steinem was one of the most recognizable figures in the modern women’s movement and a longtime journalist who cofounded both New York Magazine and Ms. Magazine.
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Someone, I think on here, once pointed out that American eugenic energies switched into advertising and lifestyle choice for much of the 20th c. Anyone have any idea who/what to cite?
Me whenever I'm trying to select what my students will read in my graduate course: #academicsky #commsky
Sheldon Cooper's Enthusiastic 'Yes to All!'
Alt: Sheldon Cooper's Enthusiastic 'Yes to All!' It is a TV character, who is a scientist, enthusiastically saying "yes to all"
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A civilian geography professor was fired from West Point for pushing back after department officials barred faculty from teaching that humans contribute to climate change.
West Point professor fired after pushing back on limitations to teaching climate change, lawsuit says
Adam Kalkstein pushed back after department officials barred faculty from teaching that humans contribute to climate change, the lawsuit says.
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Heartbreaking. She was an example of how a single person could make the world a better place.
Chicago Tribune@chicagotribune.com · last mo.Dolly Parton, music star, actor and beloved figure, has died at 80
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Friends, have you seen the investigation on UK students hiring Kenyans to write their papers & dissertations? I assume it wasn't cross Atlantic news as the media only seems to be interested in laundering eugenics to the mainstream. www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Inside the world of Kenya’s ‘shadow scholars’ paid to write essays for UK students
Highly educated Kenyans working for essay mills ghostwrite academic work that students pass off as their own
theguardian.com
Higher ed folks: If you have used the "Mind Over Misinformation" interactive course from the APA in your class, I would love to hear about your experiences with it. #academicsky digital.apa.org/misinformati...
Mind Over Misinformation
Interactive learning modules to help people recognize and resist misinformation using psychological science.
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We got new research out today y'all--if you study TikTok, buckle up because we found something wilddddd... arxiv.org/abs/2608.09917 (accepted @ ICWSM 2027)
WhichTok? Comparing Three TikTok Data Acquisition Tools
TikTok's global growth has made it a prime platform for both entertainment and political discourse, prompting increased social science research. However, this rapidly evolving research field faces a f...
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How do governments rewire science & the tech industry by threatening scholars? And how can we be more resilient? Writing for @ucs.org, I report on efforts by @thecoalition.bsky.social, @knightcolumbia.org, @acm.org, & @aoir.bsky.social to support researcher rights blog.ucs.org/guest-commen...
Protecting Science from Government Intimidation - Union of Concerned Scientists
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Platforms are finally recognizing that people don’t want to consume AI slop. A growing number of sites and apps now have tools and policies to flag, label, and ban AI-generated content.
The AI Slop Backlash Is Actually Having an Impact
Platforms are finally recognizing that people don’t want to consume AI slop. A growing number of sites and apps now have tools and policies to flag, label, and ban AI-generated content.
wired.com
A major humanitarian crisis is unfolding in a San Juan, Puerto Rico. Hundreds of thousands of people in and around the American city are facing rolling water shutoffs brought on by an historic drought. NBC News’ George Solis reports from a well that locals are using to get their water.
The record didn’t just scratch, it broke in half and the player collapsed. Each word in ff that quote is worse than the next.
Judah Grunstein@judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 2mo ago"I want to touch on what you said: .. the economic challenges facing young people impact men and women. One hundred percent true. But this is the bottom line, and I don’t think we like to admit this: Beyoncé could work at [KFC] and marry Jay-Z. The opposite is not true." I heard the record scratch.
Important wake up call for folks who care about freedom of expression to go beyond the essential work of protecting freedoms to also grow the experience and exercise of those freedoms
John Sands@iohn.bsky.social · 2mo agoA new survey from @knightfoundation.org and @ssrsresearch.bsky.social reveals a disquieting decline in how free Americans feel to use the freedoms protected by the #FirstAmendment without government interference or punishment. 🧵
I started getting followed by some "film festivals" and "writing festivals" and thought "oh, these are cool!" Then I looked a little closer. They're all part of a network that preys on writers, charging us for reviews, and feeding our stuff into slop generators. So I made a list.👋🏻🖕🏻😠
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2mo ago“The AI assistant, which Kinney Drugs named Burt, after its founder, was built by a third-party AI pharmaceutical company, Synerio. In the pharmacy’s terms, Kinney Drugs states that ‘Burt may not be accurate, complete or up-to-date and may be misleading or contain errors and omissions.’”
COLM conference is struggling with theoryslop and slopterpretability papers gregdurrett.github.io/colm2026-blo...
AI submissions at COLM: theoryslop, slopterpretability, and papers in the age of agents
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There is no singularity. Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk. 🤖🙄🙅♀️
