Luke Brunning

@lukebrunning.bsky.social

Academic philosopher interested in intimate relationships and emotions.

Have just learned a lesson, so for the benefit of others: if you are contacted by a reporter for a media outlet, before you respond to their questions, ask whether they will be writing the piece themselves or whether their AI assistant will be writing it (if that matters to you).

SCOOP: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it. What did we find? It ended up at an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. Yes. This is literally the logo outside the Amazon warehouse door. Read now:

We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility

We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.

404media.co

I don’t think there’s ever been a clearer example of the British media bullying someone, who was so clearly vulnerable, to death so shamelessly in my lifetime for engagement and clicks And now we’ll have to watch the people that did it claim they’re shocked, and horrified Revolting

Why is academia the only industry in which people who know nothing about it yet hate it get to represent it and opine about it in the media? The fossil fuel industry and weapons producers get friendlier coverage in the MSM than universities. It’s wild!

Sonia Sodha@sonia-sodha.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I’ve written for the Times today on what Jason Arday’s rise and fall from grace tells us about the chunks of modern academia that have become places that prize midwitted groupthink, and people parroting idiotic ideologies to remain in with their mates. www.thetimes.com/article/b3e4...