As AI detection and certification systems gain users, can we really know for sure if a text was AI-generated? And does it matter? Read our new article featuring AI detectors, voluntary certifications of human authorship, and provenance tracking. buff.ly/8YNgDzz
A human wrote this – believe me
From metadata to AI detectors, several organisations are aiming to provide evidence of whether a piece of content was AI-generated. It’s not an easy task.
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"Wow." - @technollama.bsky.social
Andres Guadamuz@technollama.bsky.social · 5h agoGEMA v Suno: Another landmark AI copyright case from Germany While a lot of the attention in the AI and copyright space has gone to the hundreds of ongoing cases in the US, courts around the world have been tackling the question of copyright infringement already, with several landmark decisions…
Most Americans think the freedom of speech is eroding (hard to disagree with that) and, more disturbing still, that it will continue to erode over the next decade.
John Sands@iohn.bsky.social · 6h 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. 🧵
A 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. 🧵
Knight Foundation-SSRS Poll: Americans Feel Free Expression is Eroding - Knight Foundation
For more than two decades, Knight Foundation has commissioned research to better understand Americans’ lived experience with the First Amendment and free expression. As the country marks its 250th ann...
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“The exemptions list practically reads like a list of products we know to be made with forced and child labor…”
Trump’s Tariff Exemptions Include Diamonds, Oil and Gas, Copper and Other Items
A new round of tariff carve-outs has raised familiar questions about who should receive the lucrative exceptions, and why.
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Nature did a short piece on our preprint about how LLMs will affect the practice of science; my more detailed thread is below.
Scientists using LLMs will ‘do more, less well’, modelling study predicts
Research suggests that the combination of incentives to publish and the use of large language models will lead to more papers, but they will be less refined.
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Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · 2w ago1. We—@eduede.bsky.social, @mjcrockett.bsky.social, Kevin Gross, and I—have a new preprint on the arXiv today, based on ideas that emerged during an @sfiscience.bsky.social workshop in November 2024: The unintended consequences of large language models as a labor-augmenting technology in science.
Excerpt of my contribution: "One of the most important messages a conference like this can send is: You are not alone. Not alone in wanting to cooperate across old ideological lines. Not alone in looking for fresh inspiration, talent, and ammunition in the battle for liberal principle."
LibCon2026 Is Receiving Rave Reviews
As America marked its 250th, ISMA conference attendees and speakers left energized to defend the liberal democracy it was built on
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The UnPopulist@theunpopulist.net · 2w agoRead what they're saying about us!
When AI can instantly mimic creative work, "it's hard to imagine many current markets for creative human expression surviving," write Thomas W. Malone and Frank Pasquale. Their answer: give creators a "learnright" and make AI companies pay to train.
Copyright Law Wasn’t Built for the AI Era. We Need ‘Learnright.'
In a market-based framework, companies would pay for the creative content used to train their AI systems, write Thomas W. Malone and Frank Pasquale.
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Really interesting new insights in this #PewKnightInitiative report. A cluster analysis reveals civic participation patterns transcend one of the most reliable predictors in social science: partisanship. @knightfoundation.org @pewresearch.org
Pew Research Center@pewresearch.org · 3w agoHow do Americans participate in society? We examined their engagement with news, politics, religion and civic life, and found that U.S. adults sort into four distinct groups based on different patterns of participation. #PewKnightInitiative #CivicEngagement #Politics #News
Exploring the 'Protocols, Not Platforms' paper alongside a curated digest of recent AI crawler policy shifts and developer experiments. protocolsforpublishers.com/protocols-no...
"Build protocols, not platforms"
Exploring the 'Protocols, Not Platforms' paper alongside a curated digest of recent AI crawler policy shifts and developer experiments.
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"A more deliberate and thoughtful way forward is to talk about “AI” systems in terms of what we use systems to do, often specifying input and/or output. That is, talk about functionalities that serve our purposes, rather than “capabilities” of the system" techpolicy.press/we-need-to-t...
We Need to Talk About How We Talk About 'AI'
We share a responsibility to create and use empowering metaphors rather than misleading language, write Emily M. Bender and Nanna Inie.
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Emily M. Bender@emilymbender.bsky.social · last mo.For more on how to talk about tech sold as "AI" in more precise terms: buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...
Yes. 1) Technology determines GDP/wealth. 2) Monetary policy determines unemployment. The lump of labor fallacy illustrates how technological advances lead to greater overall wealth which good government policy can make widely shared.
Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li@sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · last mo.gonna be posting this again
By July 6, the Pennsylvania Evening Post…prints the declaration... Its previous issue had been put to press too early to capture the momentous events. Instead, the July 4, 1776 edition included usual fare. “To be sold,” read one back-page ad. “A NEGRO BOY, about four or five years of age.”
On July 4, 1776, a world-changing Declaration rings out from Philadelphia
Independence becomes reality as word spreads out from Philadelphia.
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Matthew McConaughey - Howdy America 250 Bets still on the table America, yet.
This lawsuit was a cynical, dishonest, and confused effort to punish tech researchers and others for exercising core First Amendment rights. It should have been thrown out a long time ago, but better late than never.
Renee DiResta@noupside.bsky.social · last mo.Today we beat Stephen Miller’s lawsuit mill in court! For 3 years I’ve been a defendant in a case filed by America First Legal on behalf of Gateway Pundit & a random antivaxxer we’d never heard of until she sued us. The plaintiffs claimed we “censored” them. It was a lie. They just lost.
![Case 3:23-cv-00571-TAD-KDM
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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA
MONROE DIVISION
JILL HINES ET AL
VERSUS
ALEX STAMOS ET AL
CASE NO. 3:23-CV-00571
JUDGE TERRY A. DOUGHTY
MAG. JUDGE KAYLA D.
MCCLUSKY
MEMORANDUM RULING
Before the Court is a Renewed Joint Motion to Dismiss for Lack of Subject
Matter and Personal Jurisdiction [Doc. No. 191] filed by Defendants, Alex Stamos,
Renée DiResta, the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, the
Leland Stanford Junior University, Kate Starbird, Graphika, Camille François, the
Atlantic Council, and Graham Brookie (collectively, "Defendants"). Plaintiffs, Jill Hines ("Hines") and Jim Hoft ("Hoft") (collectively, "Plaintiffs"), filed an Opposition
[Doc. No. 207]. Defendants then filed a Reply [Doc. No. 209].
For the reasons set forth, Defendants' Motion is GRANTED.
I. BACKGROUND
This case is before the Court on limited remand to determine jurisdiction.
Hines v. Stamos, 111 F.4th 551 (5th Cir. 2024); see also [Doc. No. 112]. On May 2,](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5bnbgj7gwebt6hhub4pa5c7n/bafkreih6kcz2ednyviypovpsbo3zbyl4xticv54avmgap4e2q6vpdgxyqm)
The satirical site is fighting to officially take over “Infowars.” In the meantime, CEO Ben Collins says the new show will mock “how fucking stupid” conspiratorial brainrot has become.
The Onion’s ‘Infowars’ Parody Is Here. Alex Jones Is Going to Hate It
The satirical site is fighting to officially take over “Infowars.” In the meantime, CEO Ben Collins says the new show will mock “how fucking stupid” conspiratorial brainrot has become.
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Woah. Springer Nature retracted two 1940s papers by Max Planck for alleged copyright violation (lol), and then nixed an editorial about the retractions. www.science.org/content/arti...
Why have papers by one of history’s most famous physicists been retracted?
Springer Nature has removed two studies by Max Planck. A bot may be to blame
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Who should have power over the human knowledge AI systems are built from? @salome.bsky.social proposes reforms to address the concentration of informational power and argues that AI governance must give workers and knowledge producers more control over whether and how their work is used.
The Cylon Problem and Informational Power
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"Right now, in some underfunded lab, a scientist is chasing a question that sounds pointless, and a team somewhere else is a decade into a problem that may take another decade to crack... If we stop making that bet, we will pay for it in cures no one will know to miss."
Tobin L. Smith@scipolguy.bsky.social · 2mo agoThe Science That Turned Lizard Venom Into GLP-1s Is Under Attack www.nytimes.com/2026/06/20/o...
The Trump administration is using export control law to force Anthropic to cut access to its most powerful AI models. @alanrozenshtein.com examines whether the legal authority holds up, and what it means for the future of frontier AI governance.
A Kill Switch for Frontier AI
The government is using export control law to force Anthropic to cut access to its most powerful models. The legal authority is plausible but the facts remain murky.
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The Knight Institute is seeking a staff attorney to join our litigation team for a two-year position based in New York City. The staff attorney will help develop and litigate cutting-edge cases relating to free speech and press freedom. More info: knightcolumbia.org/page/staff_a...
| Knight First Amendment Institute
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Final corrected version now published open-access Jacob T. Levy. 2026. Conceptualizing Academic Freedom. Annual Review Political Science. 29:57-72. www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
Conceptualizing Academic Freedom
Academic freedom is an unusual and complex set of norms and practices. It arises out of the combination of the corporate self-governance of medieval universities and the spirit of disciplinary scienti...
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Mass offerings "are harder to do because you can get anything that you want and a much deeper version of it online” Simon Robinson says at the London launch of #DNR26, featuring debate with @mitalilive.bsky.social, Emily Kent Smith, and Kamal Ahmed reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/we-need...
“We need to rethink what news is” – Our panel on building and keeping audience relationships
A summary of our Digital News Report global launch with Simon Robinson from Reuters, Emily Kent Smith from Goalhanger and Kamal Ahmed from Fortune
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How lucky are we to have shared this earth with someone whose light shone as bright as Dito’s? He was a genius and a genuinely good human whose absence is deeply felt by all of us who were fortunate enough to call him a friend.
Dito van Reigersberg, Avant-Garde and Drag Virtuoso, Dies at 53
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1. Over the last few days I have received a set of queries about my research. The first one I thought was legitimate, and I was planning to answer when the second arrived, and then the third, from the same sender. Viewed together, they’re clearly LLM generated.
How can we better insulate federal funding to universities from political interference? In a new essay, @dorfonlaw.bsky.social proposes new models for distributing research funds outside direct government control to help protect research and academic freedom.
A Nongovernmental Disbursement Structure to Fund Research
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